We are fast approaching a very controversial holiday, Halloween. Do you celebrate Halloween? Do you allow your children to do so? If so, can you validate why it’s okay? If you don’t, can you show where you’re told not to in the Bible?
These are questions we need to answer here folks. You got to know why you believe what you do. You must base your faith on serious thought, not just passing considerations. Remember the man who built his house on a rock and withstood the storm, while the man who built on the sand had his house wash away. Jesus spoke this parable in Luke 6:48.
This is important. You must justify your beliefs. You must be willing to study and prove your thoughts even to yourself.
We should always do our intellectual legwork. Now, if someone says to you ‘the Bible says’ and they don’t offer a verse listing, then ask for it. That’s your legwork. Find it yourself if they don’t have it. Verify it. Read it yourself. See what God says to you on it. I try to list all I come across Biblically if I am using more than just personal opinion. And I try to remember to say it’s just my take, my opinion, if that’s what I’m saying.
But we have to be willing to crack our Bibles open for ourselves sometimes. Your preacher probably gives you verse listings, I try to give them as well, most anyone that talks Bible should. Because just because someone says it’s in there doesn’t mean it is. For example ‘hate the sin but love the sinner’ is nowhere to be found in the Bible. For reference I used several translations, including the American Standard and the King James.
Bible study should not be second hand. Don’t let someone tell you that they heard from someone else that a saying was in the Bible. They should have had checked it, and you should too.
As Frank and others have reported, there are FEMA camps sitting empty all over this nation, nearly 600 of them from my understanding, with no apparent intended residents. End times or not, I think us Christians are going to oftentimes end up on the wrong side of the razor-wire fence.
We will not be allowed our Bibles I’m sure, and as you’ve heard on Salvation Revelation, ministers are being taught to preach on Romans 13. We will not be allowed the Word of God to refute the authority of the government. Only good governments are granted the right to be obeyed. Also we will be denied the Book and will not be allowed to argue that the government is the Beast, or the Harlot, or any other evil entity featured in the Book of Revelation, and therefore by nature not relevant to Romans 13.Why all this introduction material on fact-checking before the Halloween information? Because it’s important to understand that much has been said about the holiday that might not have a basis beyond opinion. Some have said that things are Biblical that are not, and even vice versa. We have to be willing to think, pray, and read to find the answers about if we should celebrate this holiday, or allow our children to.
But what are the origins of Halloween? This is an often debated subject. There’s the popular story of All Saints Day and all that, but most sources, pagan, occult, and Christian alike all seem to agree that Halloween originally traced to Druidism practiced by the Celtic culture.
The practice introduced October 31st as the date, along with ghosts, pumpkin like turnips, and witches casting spells. The holiday was celebrating the end of fall and the harvest and was a signal of the New Year which started on November 1st in the Celtic calendar. Samhain, lord of the dead, was given burnt offerings of food and animals asking for blessings and protections in the coming year. It was believed that the barriers between the physical world and the spiritual weakened, allowing spirits of the dead to roam, and posses animals. The spirits were considered dangerous and had to be warded against. That was considered to be the beginnings of jack-o-lanterns, with turnips of some sort being carved with scary faces. I think the idea is similar to that of the gargoyle, to scare away evil by being more evil looking. That would fit jack-o-lanterns now days, wouldn’t it?
This was the beginnings of ghosts, food, and fortune telling around the festival held at the end of October, according to many. Also of note were bonfires in the festival, which too were used to ward off evil spirits along with the sacrifice to Samhain, lord of the dead.
But what about All Saint’s Day or All Soul’s Day? Those two days fall on November 1st and November 2nd respectively. There have been many pagan practices that have made their way into Church practices, such as dates and traditions, two quick examples are the date of Christmas and the decoration of the Christmas tree. Now, the idea is that the Church came to include the practices of the pagans in the area in their accepted traditions. We see that even today. There are many that would deny evil, decry the appearance of evil, and then run a haunted house, complete with blood stained fake zombies and skeletons. But because the traditions of the people around us call for these things, some churches accept them. The Church of the past is no different.
Their justification, the manner they allowed for the Celtic tradition of what eventually became Halloween, was All Saints and All Souls Days which came into being in the 800’s A.D. with the latter coming 200 years later. This way they could redirect the focus a bit before, and immediately after. They could focus on hyping All Saints instead of denying the evil aspects of Halloween.
This practice, this new church holiday even helped evolved some of the Halloween practices of today. People would leave food out for their ancestors, or a lantern burning in their windows to lead the spirits of the dead home. The pagan influence in this church holy day seems to overpower the church doctrine nearly immediately.
I do not see how masquerading pagan practices as Christian makes it acceptable.
Now let’s look at the origins of trick-or-treat. There is some disagreement on when this practice started, but most of my sources agree that it was either Celtic or Irish in nature. It is commonly known that people went house to house demanding either food for the Celtic Samhain festival, or if the later accounts are to be believed, just for fun. If the treat was not given, then property damage or curses would be cast on the home. Fairies or other fantasy creatures would then be blamed.
Also other cultures participated in this practice around All Saints/Souls Day. In England, the poor would go begging for ‘soul cakes’ on All Saint’s Eve. In Spain, they bribed evil spirits by putting cakes and nuts on the graves of the deceased. In Belgium, children would stand in front of their homes and beg for money to buy cakes, feeling that for every cake they ate, it would relieve the suffering of one soul. Most of this is common knowledge. It still is extortion however.
Let’s take time to take a deeper look into the jack-o-lantern, and discuss its history. The later Irish myth came to tell the story of “Stingy Jack”. Jack invited the Devil to have a drink with him. But he was stingy, so he attempted to cheat the Devil into paying for the drinks. So he convinced the Devil to become a coin he could use to pay for the drinks, and once he did so, Jack put the coin in his pocket next to a silver cross, effectively keeping the Devil from retaking his original form.
Jack eventually released the Devil, on the condition he would not bother Jack for a year, nor would he claim Jack’s soul if Jack died in that year. At the end of that year, Jack again spoke with the Devil, and tricked him yet again. This time Jack had the Devil climb a tree for a piece of fruit. While the Devil was up in the tree, Jack carved the sign of the Cross on the tree so the Devil could not get down. Jack forced another protection promise from the Devil, no trouble, no soul taking on death, this time for ten years.
Not long after, Jack dies. God, obviously, doesn’t want Jack in Heaven. The Devil, realizing the opportunity in the situation, decides to keep his promise to Jack too, and not claim his soul for Hell. Instead the Devil gives Jack a single coal from the fires of Hell and sends Jack to wander the Earth forever. Jack puts the coal in a turnip with holes in it, using it as a lantern. Hence it was literally called Jack’s Lantern, or jack-o-lanterns.
There are some variations, like the Devil tempting Jack, and only the tree thing happening, but that’s not the point. The basic point of it is that it’s a story of a damned soul. And the story of the ‘damned soul’ doesn’t present a very good moral to our children.
Now the colorings of Halloween, which are black, orange, and possibly red. Where could these things come from? Well think about this: many of the Halloween principles are rooted in Celtic traditions, and one of the practices to ward away evil spirits before the New Year was bonfires. Now a bonfire burning at night, think of what you would see. You would see the black night, the orange and red flames. There’s your colors.
Now who do we know that enjoys darkness and fire? Ah, yes, bad old Satan. And the costumes came also from this bonfire practice, for the Celts would wear masks resembling animals, and pelts while they would dance around and jump through the fire.
Another obvious reference is the fact the color black is used to represent death. Not the color black, but the lack of light, devoid, darkness more than anything. Black doesn’t seem to me to really cover what the color can represent. But black is of death, funerals, sadness, evil, anguish, and pain, that’s why it’s so popular in rock music.
Let’s move on to other symbols. What is one of the more popular costumes, subject of Halloween release movies, and popular October books? I’m thinking Vampires. You can see Vampires everywhere as costumes every year. There are Vampire movies nearly every year as well. 30 Days of Night is about to be released this year, for example. And every October brings about a resurgence of Bram Stoker’s literary original.
Now the bat inspires fear and worries of evil because they are like a bird, and with their black appearance, lends them some occult credibility, and the fact they are not actually birds at all, but something else. Of course, we know this is a ‘rodent’ but bats still seemed mysterious to many even not that long ago. Then you couple in their ability to magically see in pitch blackness, and you have one creepy creature. And then reports come in on a bat in South America that actually feeds on blood! So we’ve got a blood sucking, magic sight demon bird, yeah, that’s pretty much from the Devil.
Of course we know now that bats are just regular animals. There is one species that does feed on blood, the vampire bat, but only one. But we know that they have sonar, and they are not demons.
But they are intimidating, sure. And educational levels are pretty new, in our part of the world, at least. America’s educational standards have shot through the roof in just the past hundred years. So it wasn’t that long ago when many things were a bit mysterious.
So when you couple a little knowledge with a lot of creativity, sometimes in the past you get a great deal of out there theories. Vampires apparently entered via the creative method. But there was another inspiration. When you mix up bats that suck blood with a man that spills blood by atrocities, it’s easy to see where the link comes from. Let’s look at the real world Count.
And I mean Count as in Count Dracul. The Dragon. The Devilish one. Right on daddy-o, Vlad Tepes III, also known as Vlad Dracula the Impaler.
Vlad the Impaler was a ruler in the mid 1400’s in an area of modern day Romania. He fought off and maintained fairly independent from the Ottoman Empire, the primary power of the time in the region.
He was very famously known for supposedly inspiring the character ‘Dracula’ in Bram Stoker’s book. He is also very famous for being very cruel and vindictive in his punishments for injustice, including some seriously twisted executions, if they actually occurred and are not just myth and legend.
Many Romanians living in and around the modern day areas Vlad ruled feel that he was a just prince that fought against the oppression and expansionistic Turks, and they look on him with some admiration, if I understand it correctly.
The one thing that is clear is that Vlad was very stern in his punishments for lawlessness. It could be argued that he had to be to counter the anarchy that had ruled his kingdom since the death of his grandfather. This region was highly turbulent in this period anyway, with Vlad dealing with both the Hungarian and Ottoman forces.
Vlad began life as prince, via his mother likely, though there are some disputes to her exact identity. At the age of 5, his father Vlad Dracul II initiated Vlad into the Order of the Dragon, and that is where the ‘Dracul’ comes from, and of course is what ‘dracul’ means, dragon.
Vlad’s father was under threat of invasion by the Turks, as Vlad would be later in life himself, and his father decided to declare himself a vassal to avoid invasion. He sent his two younger sons, Vlad and the youngest Radu the Handsome to the Sultan as basically hostages.
This messed with Vlad, as he felt his father betrayed the Order of the Dragon by not fighting the Sultan. Vlad was often beaten by the Turks for his rude behavior and obvious contempt for his ‘masters’. He also developed a hatred for his brother Radu, likely because Radu did what the Turks wanted. He had a near blood feud with Mehmed, a prince who would be Sultan.
Well, with a touch of time, Vlad’s father, Vlad the II, is assassinated, and an invasion is quickly mounted by the Ottoman Empire. Vlad’s older brother is already dead, and cannot take the throne of their father because Hunyadi, a political enemy, has used hot irons to burn out his eyes and then bury him alive.
The Sultan is able to take the throne before Hunyadi arrives. Vlad is placed on the throne as a puppet. Less than a year later, Hunyadi attacks and forces Vlad to flee into exile. He flees to an uncle, who a bit later is killed. Death follows this guy eh? Then he takes a gamble and goes to Hungary right to Hunyadi, the man that killed his father and buried his brother alive for the throne he was seeking. But he impressed Hunyadi with his intimate knowledge of all things Ottoman due to his time in captivity there, and because his hatred of the newly seated Sultan, Mehmed, was stronger than his hatred for his father’s killer apparently. Hunyadi realized that Vlad’s information was invaluable since the Ottomans were a very real, and very dangerous threat. No advantage could be passed up.
With the bad blood buried, Vlad is one again in power, and is quickly brought back to candidacy to be the ruler of his rightful land. With a military campaign, the main rule of the Impaler began.
The point of all that was a bit of background so you see that the area that Vlad ruled was extremely volatile. We see that the area is overrun repeatedly by different factions, even different factions of the same side.
Vlad mainly focused on retaining his power. He did so by attacking the boyars, the wealthy land owning nobles, both physically and economically. The key positions in the Prince’s Council, which was usually reserved for the greatest nobles was handed to obscure people, but ones loyal to Vlad. Another problem was the connection between the nobility and the Saxon, independent cities in Transylvania.
He might have been from Transylvania, but Vlad raided and pillaged the area repeatedly throughout his reign, especially when he saw a threat.
The other main threat he dealt with was lawlessness. After all the insanity we’ve listed here, things were in a bad way. So Vlad was said to have laid down some very cruel laws. As already noted, some think them to have been harsh, but just. Vlad did seem to prefer the method of impaling people for it was a very painful death, and likely a very good deterrent.
From the various accounts and programs I’ve seen on him, it is said that during Vlad’s rule, after he had reestablished order, you could leave a bag of gold in the middle of the street overnight, and it would be there the next morning. People were so scared of Vlad’s justice they would not dare touch anything.
Now, this is our vampire, our King Dracul, or might I say, Count Dracula. He once became angry at an insult, either real or imagined, leveled at him by some dignitaries so he had their hats nailed to their heads. He was also rumored to impale children, even babies, through their mother’s chests. The impalings were even done with thought and precision. Not only were they torturous and painful, sometimes taking days for the victim to die, they were set up in circles or other geometric shapes, with the height of the pole indicating the rank of the impaled person.
Two fairly famous impalings were the ones at Sibiu and Brasov, which rumors state 10,000 were impaled at the former, and 30,000 at the latter.
Vlad did not limit himself to impalings either. He also used placing nails in heads, cutting off limbs, blinding, strangulation, burning, cutting off nose and ears, mutilating the sexual organs, especially on women, scalping (which was pulling the skin off the face of a living, alert person in this period of history), skinning, and boiling alive. Pretty impressive in a very disgusting kind of way eh? I mean, that’s enough to turn anyone’s stomach.
So I guess that Vlad fits the vampire set, doesn’t he? That’s some hardcore torture we’re talking here. If you’ve ever sent little Suzie or Johnny out the door with a cape and plastic fangs, did you know where it came from? Did you realize the vampire was inspired by Stoker’s Dracula (likely you did), but which was inspired by a Middle Ages Romanian king who left a trail of blood in his wake like none other? Is this the images you want your kid immersed in? Is this just reading ‘too much’ into things? Would you say the same about an upside down cross? How about a pentagram? You would likely say no, those things are not just symbols, most would say those have meaning no matter if you are ignorant of them or not.
The Devil is in the details.
Do I even have to go too deeply into the witch thing? I don’t imagine so, since it’s pretty obvious. Modern witches are not old crones, but are normal people like you and me, but are of pagan faiths. Wiccans and other pagans sometimes call themselves witches. There are others that claim the name as well, but it is most commonly used by the pagan community in their practice of ‘white’ magic.
I don’t think magic is real as in the matter they claim. I think maybe in some Satanic form, but doubtful. Satan might be able to affect things on Earth via demons, mainly in an evil manner. My reasoning comes from the idea of possession and the havoc possessed people can create, and the pigs that ran off the cliff. I guess Satan could get a demon or group of demons to do something similar. Satan can change to an angel of light, and it’s said he can deceive by great signs and wonders, although they are frauds, so I think he can either make things happen or make them appear to happen.
Now what about the actual witch? Exodus 22:18 ‘Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.’ Hardcore eh? But an obvious condemnation of witches. Deuteronomy 18:10 ‘There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch.’
The last verse says no predicting the future, no ‘observer of the times’ i.e. astrologers it would seem to me, no one that commands demons, as is the definition of an enchanter, or a witch, a general practitioner of magic.
Another common symbol of Halloween is the skeleton, both the bones and skulls. This of course appears evil, no matter the time or setting. It is intended to be a sign of death, whether it is a skull and crossbones on a bottle of poison or on the Jolly Rogers.
Yama, a being that a few sources claim is a Buddhist Lord of Death, though I cannot find anything in my main literature in that religion about him, features 3 bulging eyes on a red face/background and capped with 5 skulls. This being, no matter what religion is attributed to him, is clearly a Lord of evil and death. I have found, however, a reference to Mara, the chief tempter of the dead in one version of Hell held by some Buddhists.
Kali, either considered a Hindu goddess, or an Avatar of Brahman, features a necklace of skulls below blood stained teeth and tongue. Bones have always been used to symbolize death. Now how many of us have sent or seen little kids in skeleton costumes? How many have hung or seen skeletons hanging from trees? Proud of the calling card of death eh?
Now you say to me, Joe, man, it’s all good fun right? Wrong. Let’s take a second to see what God says about this whole taking on the appearance of evil thing. I imagine no one would argue that a skeleton isn’t the appearance of evil, and if so, what about emulating ole Vlad? Or hanging out a jack-o-lantern like the damned soul in the myth?
1Thessalonians 5:22 ‘Abstain from all appearance of evil.’ Well that pretty much covers it doesn’t it? Let’s keep looking, shall we? Ephesians 5:11 ‘And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.’ Works of darkness would cover the appearance of witches and other dark characters, skeletons, ghosts, vampires, zombies, etcetera. Instead we are told to reprove them, to reject them. So do so. Let’s tell them what they can do with their lanterns of the damned, skulls of death, and the like.
We also see people using things like cats and spiders as symbols during this time of year. Bats are also used, but we’ve already covered them. Cats have been considered spiritually aware for ages and ages, even the Egyptians considered the cat to be a sacred animal. Cats have been considered vessels for demons by some, and familiars for humans by others. Either way, cats have often had occult significance to many groups. There are too many to go over the reasoning for each. A quick example that some might agree with can be found in the movie ‘Constantine’ Keanu Reeves, the titular character who is able to enter Hell at will and fights demons on Earth, tells another character that cats are ‘half in’ meaning they are halfway to Hell by nature. Of course Christians disagree, but many cultures have felt cats were creatures inherently evil, or at least powerful spiritually.
Spiders carry a bit of a dualistic meaning, possibly. Spider’s webs are usually circular in nature, as in the circle of life and all things possibly. This would make the spider a symbolic representation of God, as the weaver of the threads of life. The other meaning is clear, the spider resides in dark places, where there is little life, abandoned places, and they are scary and inspire fear in many. They are known for venom and danger, such as the Black Widow and other poisonous species. They trap their prey and hold them, like a form of torture before killing them, often in a gruesome manner like using a poison that liquefies the victim’s innards which the spider drinks. This is a science thing we know now but this is a hugely scary thing that is now common knowledge, making the spider an even more prominent emblem of fear.
These things are used to decorate homes, schools, and sadly even some churches during this time of the year, and what do they all represent? Fear. Is this a Godly thing to convey? I think not. Jesus said love to me, not fear. Jesus loves me, not hates me. So why would fear mongering make sense? And yes, trying to scare people would literally be fear mongering, as a monger is a trader or dealer in something, in this case fear.
This is not of our faith! This is not for our kids folks.
Let’s throw down the Bible verses and get some more backup against the presentation of evil that is happening.
Leviticus 10:10 ‘And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean.’ We are to know the difference between holy and unholy. I’m pretty sure that skeletons are unholy. You’d scream if you actually saw a real one, so why is it okay to hang a plastic one in your yard? Skulls in your house? Eww. Severed hands? That’s real nice, very classy there. Let’s promote dismemberment! That’s got to be kosher right…guess not.
Proverbs 22:6 ‘Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.’ There’s some good advice just for life. But if we teach our kids that ‘oh, there are times that dismembered bodies are perfectly fine and women’s so-called ‘costumes’ that would make a porn star blush are normal fare, what does that say? Think that might have something to do with the whole declining morals thing we’re seeing? We’ll get into that in an episode or two. It also likely relates to the greatest lie, that Satan does not exist. If evil is good one night a year, is it really that bad? YES! And it’s not good that night either!
Matthew 18:6 ‘But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.’ Now this might not be obvious, but according to our good friend Webster, offend also means ‘To draw to evil, or hinder in obedience; to cause to sin or neglect duty.’ This means that to cause a child to sin is bad enough that it is better that some seriously bad stuff should have happened to you. It could be said by encouraging the darker practices of Halloween could be offending children. And the millstone referred here is the one used by horses and donkeys to operate, not the handheld models. This is basically the difference between a rolling pin in your kitchen and those things they have at factories that nearly look like steam rollers on the roads. We’re talking like thousand pound millstones here. In other words, insta-drown.
Romans 12:9 ‘Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.’ Dissimulation means to false or hypocritical. Clearly we are told to loathe the evil and hold tight to the good.
Romans 13:12 ‘The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.’ Cast off the evil and darkness and take on the armor of light. That armor would be the word of God, not the working of the Devil. Throw away your skeletons, your jack-o-lanterns, your ghouls and goblins and put out your crosses and prayers.
1Corinthians 10:21 ‘Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord’s table, and of the table of devils.’ The Bible tells you right here, make a choice. You have to choose, you cannot do both. We as Christians are not allowed the option of tasting from both the evil of Halloween and the holiness of God. One or the other, that’s how it is.
3John (1):11 ‘Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God.’ Do not follow the ways of the evil, but the good! We are encouraged to follow the path of light. And there is no darker path in our society than Halloween. Well, in normal life, no matter what age you are, or what income level, or even area. The young, the old, the wealthy and the poor all celebrate all over the place.
I see all around me the acceptance of this evil holiday as nothing. It is a celebration of evil and no one seems to care! How can this be? I do not understand. Many churches in my area do not protest any more either. They hold their ‘harvest festivals’ and the like, but they do not protest.
I don’t care any for those events either, but I cannot offhand find fault in them either, those non-Halloween church well, Halloween parties. If they do not allow evil costumes, and they do not use unacceptable decorations, nor the practice of extortion, and focus the event on a religious slant, okay I guess. I’ve yet to attend one because I’m just not really keen on being out at all on Halloween if I can help it. If your church does a counter festival, then it’s likely fine and cool, I’m just not a fan of fighting parties with parties I guess. Then again, at least some groups are trying to find an answer, and I admit they are doing far better than I, since I’ve got nothing.
I’m just really creeped out by Halloween in general you know? It’s a celebration of evil that even Christians will go nuts over. I’ve never seen as many skulls, blood, bats, skeletons, grim reapers, axes, or ghosts before in my life as I’ve seen in many professed Christians houses! The appearance of evil should be avoided! Why is it all of a sudden okay for a few weeks to present such evil and then fade it back into the background the rest of the year? It’s even hypocritical on top of it. No wonder our world seems to be falling apart at the seams.
You know the funny thing? Moms will stand out and scream about a video game with violence in it, and that may be all well and fine, but you let October come round, and either her child, herself, or her home will likely be decorated up to resemble the same violence she was decrying. And it’s basically the same. One is graphical on a screen, the other is plastic. Maybe the plastic isn’t as interactive, though I find that highly debatable. I can pick up a fake axe and chase my sister around with it. I’ve got to get her to agree to play to do that in the game.
No matter, basically you are setting a situation where one could appear to be a hypocrite by decrying the very thing they support around Halloween. What kind of mixed signal is that? “Honey, never ever murder and dismember people, okay? Alright dear, go outside and put this plastic bloody severed arm under the stairs in a way where it looks like it’s trying to grab you as you come on the porch, that’s my boy!”
That is a very important issue actually. The making light of the deadly seriousness of darkness and Satanic overtones in the holiday, as if making it cute and commercialized makes it less evil. Of course this isn’t true at all. Evil stains can only be removed by HolyBloodBlaster, available from Jesus Christ right by you. Money, cute costumes, nothing else can take the evil out of Halloween.
This is all just a ploy by the Devil actually to get you to lower your guard while he sinks his evil claws into you. And yes, us Christians are targets. Huge targets to be exact. He cannot take our souls because they belong to Jesus, but he can use us to destroy the souls of others. If we act the fool and promote evil and do not show Jesus in our lives, then others will not take Christ seriously and we contribute to the damnation rate. And the damnation rate is rising my friends.
Many people think it’s just all good, clean fun to let their kids dress up as vampires and devils and the likes. That’s not evil, that’s just kids. What would you say if you saw an undead Anton LaVey (the founder of the Church of Satan) leading a sex magic orgy ritual in your living room while your kids gnawed on the arms of a pair of impaled people in the kitchen? What if the dog was chewing on a skull instead of a baseball? I’m sure we’d all agree this would be a mindblowingly evil setup. We would all flip our lids, either pass out, run away, or start wailing on people. It wouldn’t be pretty.
But we send our kids out as zombies, devils, sexy kittens, vampires, gimmick killed (the ole arrow through the head gag), skeletons, or other evil apparitions?
We all agree that undead satanic priests are bad news, and that kids are in no manner anything like the undead. My point is the Bible tells us to avoid the appearance of evil, as well as the evil itself. So yeah, the appearance of evil is forbidden too. That should serve to blow some costume ideas, or should have prevented them to ever have existed in the first place.
And what do we have when we move beyond the children? And I mean beyond the all too obvious pedophiles and general purpose evildoers. We have both teens and adults wearing things that are basically not there. I have seen teen parties, both in my teen years and as my daughters are beginning to come of age that, seriously, you would have more clothes on if you wore just your underwear. The sexy kitten, the nurse, the bunny, it all basically comes to showing as much breast as possible, cutting the legs up as high as you can, and getting as close to a g-string as the law allows.
It’s just a sex thing, and is blatantly so. The adults are not much better, oftentimes in my experience, but there are reasonable people out there. Teens though, are more slanted to being sexual. The holiday of Halloween is just a good excuse for girls to go around nearly nude, and if they don’t, it’s a good excuse for boys to demand they do.
So for the younger ones, and the parents that tend to decorate for them, we have a great deal of evil being tossed around in the spirit of ‘good fun’. And the weirdest thing is, you’d expect to hear things like ‘it’s not like they’re throwing around severed body parts’ and immediately after begin tossing around bloody arms that crawls around. Then for the teens and some adults they are shying away from the evil shadings of the holiday and focus more on the sexual aspects of the situation.
So either we have evil or we have sex, neither is really something that is acceptable. This holiday is not of Christianity. We are to avoid the appearance of evil. We are to avoid the temptations of premarital sex and adultery as well. We are not to associate with evil. We are not to appear as a witch or anything like that. Vampires are bloody in history, and in myth as well. Ghosts, undead, skeletons, all these things are evil, and are declared unholy in the Bible.
The Bible also tells us to know the good from the evil. You know the difference, you don’t need anyone to tell you. If you celebrate this holiday with full force, then you likely full well have felt the wobble in your soul. Maybe you’ve pushed it away, saying your parents and grandparents celebrated, but still, ask yourself, is this something Jesus would do if He were here? I’m pretty sure He would not dress up as a ghost and take off, nor any other costume either.
You know this. God is telling you this. Let it go. It’s an evil practice, the Bible tells us so, God tells our souls so, its obvious all around us. Take your kids to a church, one that does not partake in any of the evil of Halloween at all. But do not allow pressure from society to make you fold or cave.
Just because everyone else celebrates Halloween doesn’t mean you should. Do not allow the Devil to use social pressure and peer pressure to make you do something you should not do. Many other people allow themselves to fall into evil, that doesn’t mean we should do it as well.
And how are you going to feel when it comes out that at your teen daughter who you allowed to go to the party because of your own peer pressure dressed up as that half naked nurse had sex or sexual contact with a boy because of peer pressure? Preach you will, but in your heart you will know you have no right. We must stand against our own peer pressures and be an example to our kids.
Walk in the light my friends. You are likely all Christians listening to this, and if you’re not, it’s the way to be friend. Accept Jesus and He will save your soul. Us Christians have to walk in the light. It is commanded of us by our Lord.
Let us shine the light of Christ into the darkness of the Pagan Halloween.
Before I leave you, there is one last thing I would like to impart. A secretary in Puerto Rico’s Department of Justice complained about ‘pagan’ Halloween decorations that offended her Pentecostal Christian beliefs, and she claims she was retaliated against for this complaint. She took this battle to court. The court rejected her rights to complain about the decorations, but did allow her to continue the legal investigation into the retaliation claim for her filing an EEOC claim. The court, amazingly, responded the following when speaking on the nature of Halloween:
“Halloween decorations, like valentines, Easter bunnies, and egg hunts are all secular displays and activities that neither convey religious messages nor constitute religious symbols. Halloween lost its religious and superstitious overtones long ago. It has become instead a commercial holiday enjoyed by communities in its many forms of entertainment.”
Easter is still highly religious, no matter how much the Devil tries to commercialize it. Valentines always was secular, all about marketing, sex and selling gifts. Halloween is deeply based in Paganism, and I know personally Wiccans still practice a ritual on Halloween night. You guys come over, we’ll go down the road and watch them if you want.
Mind blowing, isn’t it? 2Corinthians 6:14-6:15 ‘Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?’
Do not join with unbelievers, there is no reason for fellowship or hanging out together there. What reason does the light have to be with the darkness? The good with the evil? What course does Jesus have with Satan?
Until next time, God bless my friends.

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