Halloween is the time of the year when we, dress our kids up in neat little costumes; decorate our houses in spooky decor; buy a boat load if candy to pass out. Or maybe you’re the socialite of your neighborhood. So you throw a Halloween party. A night filled with innocent fun and laughter. But it's not as innocent as you think. Halloween is filled with evil practices.
Wait, before you click the X and walk off saying I am over exaggerating and overreacting. Let me explain a few things and give you a few facts.
As innocent as it may seem, Halloween is filled with evil practices like idolatry, witchcraft and satanism. All of which, God has commanded; us (The Christian); not to take part in these activities.
God say idolatry is the same as hating Him. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, Exodus 20:5
Witchcraft, sorcery, psychics, fortune-telling, etc… all of these things are detestable to God. And anyone who does them is detestable to God. When you enter the land the LORD your God is giving you, do not learn to imitate the detestable ways of the nations there. Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft, or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead. Anyone who does these things is detestable to the LORD, and because of these detestable practices the LORD your God will drive out those nations before you. Deuteronomy 18:9-12
Jeremiah 10:2 This is what the LORD says: "Do not learn the ways of the nations or be terrified by signs in the sky, though the nations are terrified by them. God does not want us behaving like the world does. He tells us not to learn and take up the ways of the world around us.
We cannot get entangled with the practices and activates and things of this world. 2 Corinthians 6:14-16 (MSG) Don't become partners with those who reject God. How can you make a partnership out of right and wrong? That's not partnership; that's war. Is light best friends with dark? Does Christ go strolling with the Devil? Do trust and mistrust hold hands? Who would think of setting up pagan idols in God's holy Temple? But that is exactly what we are, each of us a temple in whom God lives. God himself put it this way: "I'll live in them, move into them; I'll be their God and they'll be my people.
God doesn't want us to copy the world. We are to be the a light in darkness, not copiers of dark things. 3 John 1:11(NIV) Dear friend, do not imitate what is evil but what is good. Anyone who does what is good is from God. Anyone who does what is evil has not seen God.
Halloween is not the innocent, American Pie, Valentine’s Day, Department store sales tactic holiday you think it is. And it is not a new concept. The retailers did not create Halloween, although they have taken advantage of it to make more money. Halloween has been around for thousands of years. During Old Testament times, the Druids of Western Europe practiced idolatry by offering prayers and sacrifices and gifts to their false god of the dead. Hoping to appease him and buy a lightened or exonerate the punishment of those who died during the currently ending year. They would offer their prayers, sacrifices and gifts on the night before their new year’s day, which happens to be; October 31 on our calendar (Halloween day). During the middle ages the Catholic Church instead acknowledging it for the evil it is; embraced it by adding its own wrinkle. Changing the name to All Saints day and renaming the practice of offering prayers, sacrifices and gifts to relieve the suffering of the dead, calling them penances. And today, all of the all of the idolatry, witchcraft and satanic practices of Halloween are still being unknowingly practiced and have been almost completely adopted into our culture. It's been publicized, mediatized and politicized into correctness and acceptability. Halloween my seem innocent enough to you on the surface, but it is against everything that Christianity stands for. But, maybe you’re thinking; "Well I don't believe in all that ghost and goblins stuffy anyways. I just want to have fun or I just want my kids to have fun." Sometime just wanting to have fun can have serious consequences. Or maybe you’re thinking, but everybody is doing it. There may even be some churches you know of, who have decided to participate by having parties. But the truth of the matter is; God says we are to stay away from and not take part in such things as: first and foremost idolatry, worshiping other false gods; secondly witchcraft and sorcery; and we are absolutely not to be associating with demonic and satanic activities. Yes, everyone maybe doing, but there is a minority and small group who remain loyal to God Romans 11:4-5. Instead of saying everyone is doing it, Get on the minority board and say everybody else is doing it.
Joshua 24:15 (NIV) But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your forefathers served beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD."
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