All Hallows Eve - Don't Believe the LIE

Better known to all as "Halloween." This is undoubtedly the most evil of the known and celebrated holidays and it's entire roots are grounded firmly in the occult! This is not a night that one should mess around with because it's Satan's day....and night! I know this subject will not bode well with those who mistakenly think there is nothing wrong with Christians "celebrating" Halloween, especially if they don't dress their kids in "evil" costumes. Whether the costumes are dark and insidious or all fluff and puff, makes no difference. It's what those costumes REPRESENT and I invite you to do a little homework and research on the origins of the costume before making your way into the night begging for candy, door to door! Let me just say that masks and costumes carry a long history in the occult and demon possession. Masks are contacts to the spirit world to invite the spirit to "possess" them. This is just a hint of what you will find and I assure you, it will be utterly shocking at what you will learn!  Halloween begins well over 2,000 years ago in the British Isles. Here, we find the holiday stripped to its most essential element: a night when Celtic tribes communed with the spirits of the ancestral dead. The first indicator that this holiday is not of the Lord and will NOT please Him, or honor Him, in any way! And goes against His very teachings......1 Thessalonians 5:22 tells us to "Abstain from every form of evil."

Halloween can be traced directly back to Samhain,
the ancient Celtic harvest festival honoring the Lord
of the Dead. The Druids celebrated two special nights of the year: Beltane and Samhain. Beltane took place on May 1 and marked the birth of summer. Samhain occurred on November 1 and signified the death of summer. Samhain, a night celebrating death and hell, was the Druids most important ritual. It was a terrifying night of human sacrifices. And it was the original Halloween. These grand and glorious pagan celebrations were assimilated by the Catholic church. Rather than extinguish old customs, the church leaders provided Christian versions of them: from the Middles Ages on, All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day replaced the ancient Celtic celebrations of the dead. (Bannatyne, Lesley Pratt, Halloween: An American Holiday, an American History, Facts on File, Inc., New York, 1990 p. x) The Catholic festival of All Saints Day was also known as All Hallows Day, with the word "hallow" replacing "saints." The day before All Hallows Day (October 31) was recognized as All Hallows Eve. Eventually, All Hallows Eve became Hallows Eve; hallow’even; hallow’en and ultimately today’s Halloween.The Druid festival of Samhain was a celebration of death. Strutting its hellish death images of skulls, skeletons, ghosts, demons, devils and incarnate evil – today’s Halloween glorifies Death!

The Devil glorifies death. Hebrews 2:14 says, ". . . that through death He [Jesus] might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;" Proverbs 8:36 says all they that hate the Lord ". . . love death." Revelation 6:8 says the rider of the antichrist’s pale horse, ". . . and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him." While Halloween masquerades as childish fun and games, it’s serious business in the occult world. Witchcraft, Wicca, Satanism and paganism believe, on the night of Halloween, devils and spirits are unleashed. They perform their most hideous and potent rituals on the night of Halloween. Now does this sound like an evening of fun and innocence to you? Hardly! God IS Light and nothing good comes from the darkness of this night!A perverse and blasphemous twist to Halloween concerns the name "Halloween." The word "hallow" means "holy, sanctify or consecrate." The popular Lord’s Prayer in Matthew 6:9 begins with, ". . . Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. . ." The label "hallow" belongs to God the Father—Hallowed be thy name. Halloween was a night sacrificing young children to the worship of Baal. It is no accident that the name of history’s most hellish night, glorifying "death and hell," wears God the Father’s holy name of "hallow." The blasphemous name of "Halloween" clearly bears the fingerprints of Lucifer as found in Isaiah 14:12, ". . . I will be like the most High." 

Let's just take a moment to look at a few of the symbols of this horrid holiday and gain further knowledge on the evil and sinister meaning behind those "innocent" traditions: Bat - "One of the animal shapes commonly used by these demons (or "familiars," as they are often called) was the bat. Bats and their blood were also used in the casting of spells (especially those of black magick) and the brewing of potions." (Dunwich, Gerina. The Pagan Book of Halloween, p. 29) Owl - "On Halloween night, demons in the form of owls were said to have traveled with Witches and their cats . . . some were even believed to be Witches in disguise. . . " (Dunwich, Gerina. The Pagan Book of Halloween, p. 43) Interestingly, however, the owl was called the strix by the Romans, which means "witch." Skull - An interesting symbol, the skull . . . It is prominent in Witchcraft and Demon worship as a celebration of death. and finally, the most sinister of all is the Jack-O-Lantern. It arrives from the Druid’s ghastly reverence of the severed human head! They proudly decorated their houses and temples with bloody severed heads. Carved and illuminated by a candle, they are symbolic of death and the spirit world. I could go on, but Satan isn't worth my time!

My intentions are to educate those who are unknowingly participating in something as evil as this night! It's to show each one that Satan is the ruler of this earth and he will tell the most unforgiving lies to make anyone "unawares" believe this is just some fun for the kids to dress up and get candy. Behind every lie is a hint of the truth! This, my friend, is Satan's truth. This is who he is and how he operates. The spirit world is REAL. The demonic rituals are real. These are the things you will be enabling, celebrating and participating in if you still choose to dress up and go trick or treating. But don't say you didn't know! Instead of participating in this night, or seeking an "alternative" celebration at your local church like a Fall Festival, which is the SAME celebration with a different name, put on the full armor of God and defeat Satan! Don't open a door to the occult because if it's opened even just a little and a spirit enters in, torment will surely ensue. Use this Halloween as an opportunity to labor for the Lord Jesus Christ and fight against what He has forbidden! Matthew 9:37 says, ".....The harvest is truly plenteous but the laborers are few." And in Jude 1:23, "And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire." 

Don't believe this wicked LIE! Run to the shelter of the Lord's loving arms! He's waiting for you there....wherever you are, there He is!