SAINT CROSS HAS COME
Drawing:Satoshi Furui
Christmas is known as the holiday celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ. Christmas is not only a commemoration of the birth of Jesus of Nazareth but also a celebration of the beginning of the three-year "second life" of Jesus Christ. This second life began when the Holy Spirit, described by David as "my Lord who sits at the right hand of the Lord" and referred to in the Book of Revelation as "the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David," descended upon Jesus of Nazareth.
There is a fable that Santa Claus comes to deliver presents on Christmas Eve. It is beginning to appear that the name Santa Claus may have been a play on the name "Saint Cross," which means "Saint of the Cross." If so, then Santa Claus is a metaphor for "Jesus Christ," the Holy Spirit who descended upon Jesus of Nazareth, his fairy-tale nickname, so to speak.
It was none other than Jesus of Nazareth who first received the gospel from the Holy Spirit, who is also likened to Santa Claus. The beginning of "the Gospel according to John" described that time in this way.
(1:1)
In the beginning was the Word.
The Word was with God.
The Word was God.
This one was with God in the beginning.
Everything came about through him.
(From the New Testament III, John, translated by the New Testament Translation Committee / Iwanami Shoten, p3)
(From Satoshi Furui, "Apocalypse Digest" (ICONOPLANT).
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