SHOULD CHRISTIANS CELEBRATE HALLOWEEN?
Every year, hundreds of millions of people throughout the world celebrate Halloween. During this celebration, children put on costumes, walk through neighborhoods, knock on doors, and speak the words “Trick or Treat” expecting to receive candy or some even money. But where did this tradition start and what is the meaning behind it. Is it ok for Christians to celebrate or participate in this practice.
The answer is absolutely NOT.
Many churches sponsor Trunk or Treat, Halloween parties for children, complete with costumes, games and apple-bobbing contests. Adults attend glitzy Halloween costume parties, dances and balls, most of them oblivious to the fact that this night celebrates death.
Christian holidays incorporate traditions with roots in pagan celebrations, particularly those around seasonal changes like the winter solstice and spring equinox, to facilitate early Christian conversion. Examples include the adoption of trees and gift-giving for Christmas from winter solstice traditions, and the association of Easter with a pagan spring festival honoring fertility. The church often adapted pagan customs to make Christianity more appealing to converts from pagan backgrounds. Halloween has been rejected as demonic and pagan, absorbed into Christian ritual, and accepted unthinkingly as harmless fun. From even a little research you find this is the farthest thing from the truth.
Obvious and well
known Pagan holidays celebrated in the Church
- Christmas:
The date for Christmas, December 25th, and traditions such as evergreen trees, lights, and feasting, influenced by Roman Saturnalia and Germanic Yule festivals celebrating the winter solstice.
- Easter:
The holiday shares origins with ancient spring festivals honoring fertility and rebirth, like the one for the goddess Eostre. The use of Easter eggs and bunnies are also linked to these earlier pagan practices.
- Halloween:
The name itself, “All Hallows’ Eve,” is the night before the Christian observance of All Saints’ Day, but it also carries connections to the pagan festival of Samhain, which marked the beginning of winter and the agricultural new year.
To attract pagans to Christianity, the early church incorporated familiar traditions, symbols, and dates from existing pagan festivals, creating an easier transition for converts.
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Satanic Ritual Agenda
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Matthew 15:3
“But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?”
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Colossians 2:8
“Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the TRADITION OF MEN, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.”
Hosea 4:6
“My people are destroyed for lack of KNOWLEDGE: because thou hast rejected KNOWLEDGE, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.”
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2 Corinthians6:14–16
“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? And what agreement hath the temple of God with IDOLS? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.”
1 Corinthians10:20–21
“But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to DEVILS, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with DEVILS. 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.”
1 Timothy4:1–2
“Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and DOCTRINES of DEVILS; speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;”
PAGAN TRADITIONS
Many pagan holidays were already tied to the agricultural year and seasonal changes, such as the solstices and equinoxes, which provided natural anchor points for Christian celebrations.
Jeremiah 10:2–5
“Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the HEATHEN, and be not dismayed at the SIGNS OF HEAVEN; for the heathen are dismayed at them. For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a ( Christmas ) TREE out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. They deck it with SILVER and with GOLD; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.”
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Pagans celebrate a variety of holidays, depending on their tradition. Many holidays are linked to agricultural cycles and originate in pre-Christian religions. Pagans look to these ancient religions for inspiration, but also adapt their celebrations to the climate and culture in which they currently live.
Wheel of the Year, a framework of celebrations that comes from Wicca.
The eight Wiccan holidays are called sabbats and include the WINTER and SUMMER solstices, the SPING and FALL equinoxes, and the four midpoints between them. This ritual calendar is based on old Anglo-Saxon and Celtic traditions.
There are Eight nights of human sacrifice on the Illuminati calendar. All tied to the Druid / Pagan festivals.
Winter Solstice
Dec 21 – YULE
Feb. 1 – IMBOLG
Spring Equinox
Mar 21 – OSTARA
May 1 – BELTAINE
Summer Solstice
Jun 21 – LITHA
Aug I – LUGHNASADID
Autumnal Equinox
Sept 21 – MABON
Nov 1 – Samhain
The winter solstice, known as Yule, is celebrated around December 21, the time of year when the nights are longest and the days shortest. The solstice is also the inception of the light that will grow as days lengthen once again. Some Pagans stay up the entire night to greet the returning light, described by some as the birth of the Sun God. Now Christians celebrate this as Christmas.
The spring equinox, which takes place around March 21, is named for the Germanic goddess Ostara and celebrates the balance between the light and the dark. Easter being between March 22 and April 25th you can see how they infused this custom into the church with the eggs, bunnies, etc.
The summer solstice, called Litha, is the inverse of the winter solstice. This day of the longest light, June 21, is often celebrated with all-night vigils and bonfires, and it is the crest of the summer and the forerunner of the harvest. Litha was integrated into the Catholic Church and eventually overshadowed by the Christian Feast of St. John the Baptist.
The fall equinox, called Mabon, takes place on or around September 21, again a day of balancing of dark and light. In many traditions, the autumn equinox is a harvest festival. Mabon is often called “Pagan Thanksgiving” or “Witches’ Thanksgiving” because it shares the themes of harvest, abundance, and giving thanks for the bounty of the earth, much like the harvest-themed Thanksgiving holiday. Celebrated around the autumnal equinox, Mabon is a harvest festival for modern Pagans and Wiccans, marked by feasting on seasonal foods, reflecting on the past year’s blessings, and preparing for the coming winter.
Evenly spaced between these are the four other festival days. Imbolc is celebrated on or near February 2, a day dedicated to Brighid, the Irish triple Goddess of smith-craft, poetry, and healing. Christianity adapted this celebration into Candlemas. Candlemas is a Christian feast day that coincides with the ancient Roman festival of Lupercalia, a celebration of purification and fertility held in mid-February. Christian tradition incorporated elements from Lupercalia and other pre-Christian festivals to form Candlemas, the Feast of the Purification of the Virgin Mary, which involves the blessing of candles and symbolizes Christ as the “Light of the World”. Both events center around the symbolism of light and purification, with Lupercalia using torches and Candlemas blessing candles.
The springtime / early summer festival of Beltane occurs around the first of May. In celebrating the generative energy of the season, Pagans also honor the energy of sexuality and the fruitfulness of union. Many Pagans celebrate Beltane with a maypole dance, a ritual in which participants perform a simple, circular dance while holding strands of ribbon attached to a central pole. Following the maypole dance, there is feasting, and baskets of flowers are sometimes exchanged. Beltane, a pre-Christian Celtic festival, was partly Christianized by being absorbed and adapted into Christian celebrations like the Feast of St. Walpurga ( Walpurgisnacht ) on May Eve or St. Philip and St. James’ Day.
On the first of August is the summer harvest festival, Lughnasad, also known as Lammas. Those who practice Irish traditions often honor the god Lugh at this holiday, as well as his mother Tailltu, whose funeral games were traditionally held at this time. Wiccans often celebrate it as the wake of the Sun King. In a common Wiccan myth, the Sun King comes into being at the winter solstice, achieves union with the Goddess at Beltane, and dies at the summer solstice so that the wheel of life can continue. This late summer harvest festival is his wake, at which fruits of the harvest will be honored and shared. The pagan Celtic festival of Lughnasadh was Christianized and is now known as Lammas, a harvest festival celebrated on August 1st that focuses on the blessing of the first harvest loaf and other agricultural first fruits. While Lughnasadh honored the Celtic god Lugh, Lammas focuses on the Christian practice of bringing the first bread of the season to church for blessing, though some older customs and traditions were retained and woven into the new Christian observance.
Samhain is observed on the eve of November first. This holiday marks the beginning of winter and the new agricultural cycle. Samhain and the eve of Samhain were widely observed even after the Christianization of the British Isles. Christian observance of All Saints Day on November 1 and All Hallows Eve (Halloween) on October 31 created a new context for this popular observance. Samhain is believed to be the night when the living can most easily communicate with the dead (especially family members and ancestors). The beginning of winter, the time of death and decay in the wheel of the year, is said to be when the veil between the worlds of the living and the dead is the most permeable. The masks and images of ghosts and spirits that abound in popular celebrations of Halloween derive from the ancient belief that the dead can manifest in the material world on this night. Meditative trance-journeys to communicate with ancestors or deceased family and friends are part of many Samhain rituals. Some Pagans also honor their ancestors with a “dumb supper,” a feast eaten in silence with a full plate and an empty chair left open for the beloved dead.
While Samhain evolved over time into All Hallows’ Eve, and now Halloween, there are some that celebrate the festival’s ancient origin in its own right. Thanks to the rise of paganism and witchcraft in the mid-20th century, there was a renewed interest in Samhain.
Samhain is a short time between summer and winter, light and dark, life and death.
Basically, any god associated with death, magic, mischief, or monsters will be celebrated on this night!
Celts believed the veil between the living and the dead thinned on Samhain ( October 31st ), allowing spirits to cross over. To ward off malevolent spirits and predict the future, Celts lit sacred bonfires, wore costumes of animal heads and skins, and made offerings. These pagan traditions blended with early Christian practices, eventually evolving into the Halloween celebrations of today, which retain some of the original mystical and spiritual connections.
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The earliest detailed records of Druids date to the 1st century BC, their origins are much older, possibly pre-dating the Celts.
The Celts, an ancient Indo-European people, reached the height of their influence and territorial expansion during the 4th century BC, extending across the length of Europe from Britain to Asia Minor. From the 3rd century BC onward their history is one of decline and disintegration, and with Julius Caesar’s conquest of Gaul ( 58–51 BC ) Celtic independence came to an end on the European continent. The Druids held significant influence in pre-Roman Celtic society.
The Druids had connections with ancient pagan Baal worship. This should be obvious by the etymology of the term Druid, which means, literally, oak – wise. They were members of a Celtic religious order of priests, soothsayers, judges, poets, etc., in Britain, Ireland, and France. Many of their practices are proven to have come from ancient pagan idolatry and witchcraft.
The Druids, as Caesar described them, were exempt from war and instead spent their time studying divination, astrology, philosophy, and medicine. The Druids were educated by their own; in fact, Caesar wrote that they specifically didn’t want their “doctrines to be divulged among the masses of the people.”
The Druids in Britain, Ireland, Wales, Scotland, France, Germany and other Celtic countries observed the end of summer by making sacrifices to Samhain. The Celts considered November 1st as being the day of death because the leaves were falling, it was getting darker sooner and temperatures were dropping. They believed Muck Olla, their sun god was losing strength and Samhain, lord of death, was overpowering him. Further, they believed that on October 31st Samhain assembled the spirits of all who had died during the previous year.
These spirits had been confined to inhabit animals’ bodies for the past year, as punishment for their evil deeds. They were allowed to return to their former home to visit the living on the eve Oct. 31 of the Feast of Samhain. Druid priests led the people in diabolical worship ceremonies in which horses, cats, black sheep, oxen, human beings and other offerings were rounded up, stuffed into wicker cages and burned to death. This was done to appease Samhain and keep spirits from harming them.
Druid priests and people would go from house to house asking for fatted calves, black sheep, and human beings. Those who gave were promised prosperity and those who refused to give were cursed and threatened.
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The sheet put over dead people is commonly called a shroud or a winding sheet. Now used as a costume among children across the world.
“All Hallowed Eve,” or Halloween, was nearly absent in America during the first few hundred years of settlement. Just as Christmas was banned in America until 1837 because of its Pagan roots. Adhering to the Word of God, the English Puritans in America ( a strict Protestant sect ) rejected Halloween as a Catholic and pagan holiday. Over two hundred years later, the Irish potato famine of the 1840s brought thousands of Irish immigrants to America, who in turn brought the Halloween custom with them. At that time Halloween was regarded as a night of fear-and wise men, respectful of hobgoblins and wandering demons, stayed indoors.
In the late 1800s, there was a move in America to mold Halloween into a holiday more about community and neighborly get-togethers than about ghosts, pranks and witchcraft. At the turn of the century, Halloween parties for both children and adults became the most common way to celebrate the day. Parties focused on games, foods of the season and festive costumes.
Parents were encouraged by newspapers and community leaders to take anything “frightening” or “grotesque” out of Halloween celebrations. Because of these efforts, Halloween lost most of its superstitious and religious overtones by the beginning of the 20th century.
HALLOWEEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN A CELEBRATION OF DEATH
Through Halloween is diluted somewhat there is obviously nothing about the day that honors God.
Anton La Vey, the founder of the Church of Satan, said: “I am glad that Christian parents let their children worship the devil at least one night out of the year. Welcome to Halloween.”
Horror movies have been made to make murder, demons, and evil appear normal.
Provocative costumes, worn by women every Halloween, creating lust and debauchery.
Costumes originated with these terrible Druid death rites also. As people and animals were screeching in agony while being burned to death the observers would dress in costumes made of animal skins and heads. They would dance, chant and jump through the flames in hope warding off the evil spirits.
Colossians 3:5–6
“Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and COVETOUSNESS, which is IDOLATRY: for which things’ sake the WRATH OF GOD cometh on the children of DISOBEDIENCE:”
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Micah 5:12–14
“and I will cut off WITCHCRAFTS out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers: thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy standing images out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thine hands. And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thy cities.”
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The history of trick-or-treating stems from Samhain when people left food for wandering spirits and wore disguises to ward off evil. This evolved into medieval Christian practices like “souling,” where poor people begged for “soul cakes” in exchange for prayers for the dead. Later, the Scottish / Irish custom of “guising,” where children performed tricks for treats, combined with German-American “belsnickeling,” where costumed participants were rewarded for their antics. The phrase “Trick or Treat” and the modern, candy-focused tradition solidified in America in the early 20th century.
By the 1920s and 1930s, Halloween had become a secular but community-centered holiday, with parades and town-wide Halloween parties as the featured entertainment. Despite the best efforts of many schools and communities, vandalism began to plague some celebrations in many communities during this time. Trick or Treat turned into vandalism and giving of candy was started in a sense to protect their homes from the vandals.
“Trick or Treat” is a reenactment of the Druidic practices. The candy has replaced the human sacrifices of old, but it is still an appeasement of those deceptive evil spirits. The traditional response to those who do not treat is to have a trick played on them. When you give out Halloween candy, you are, in essence providing a sacrifice to false gods. You are participating in idolatry” says the former high priest of Wicca, Tom Sanguinet.
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The Lemuralia or Lemuria was an annual event in the religion of ancient Rome, during which the Romans performed rites to exorcise any of the restless dead from their homes. These unwholesome spectres, the lemures or larvae were propitiated with chants and offerings of black beans.
The Catholic Church turned Lemuria into All Saints Day in 609 AD
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They moved the date to November first to make it seem less pagan, called it All Hallows day, hence Hallows Eve or Even was born the day prior which is where we get Halloween. Then they went a step further and added the 2nd of November to be All Saints Day or even All Souls Day for the Christians.
In the West in 609 or 610 AD, Pope Boniface IV consecrated the Pantheon in Rome to the Blessed Virgin and all the martyrs. This established an annual feast in Rome on May 1st. In the 8th century, Pope Gregory III moved the date to November 1 and broadened the festival to include all saints as well as all martyrs. Finally, in 837 AD Pope Gregory IV extended the celebration of the feast day from Rome to the entire western church.
All Souls’ Day was celebrated similarly to Samhain, with big bonfires, parades and dressing up in costumes as saints, angels and DEVILS. The All Saints’ Day celebration was also called All-hallows or All-hallowmas ( meaning All Saints’ Day ) and the night before it, the traditional night of Samhain in the Celtic religion, began to be called All-Hallows Eve and, eventually, Halloween.
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According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, purgatory is “a place or condition of temporal punishment for those who, departing this life in God’s grace, are not entirely free from venial faults, or have not fully paid the satisfaction due to their transgressions.” In other words, in Catholic theology purgatory is the place where a Christian’s soul goes after death to be cleansed of the sins that had not been fully paid for during life. Is the doctrine of purgatory in agreement with the Bible? Absolutely NOT! They think they are praying for the dead but are praying to the dead.
A devotion in Celtic lands was the reciting of “Black Vespers”, or Vespers of the Dead, at the parish church on the vigil, followed by a trip to the cemetery to pray for the dead. In Britain, hymns would be sung at charnel houses as if the bones were beseeching the living for prayers, and a folk belief was current there that the souls of the dead were freed from Purgatory on this day and allowed to visit their homes and participate at Mass.
From the Catholic catechism:
III. The Final Purification, or Purgatory, All who die in God’s grace and friendship, but still imperfectly purified, are indeed assured of their eternal salvation; but after death they undergo purification, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven. The Church gives the name PURGATORY to this final purification of the elect, which is entirely different from the punishment of the damned. The Church formulated HER doctrine of faith on PURGATORY especially at the Councils of Florence and Trent. The tradition of the Church, by reference to certain texts of Scripture, speaks of a cleansing fire: As for certain lesser faults, we must believe that, before the Final Judgment, there is a purifying fire. He who is truth says that whoever utters blasphemy against the Holy Spirit will be pardoned neither in this age nor in the age to come. From this sentence we understand that certain offenses can be forgiven in this age, but certain others in the age to come. This teaching is also based on the practice of prayer for the dead, already mentioned in Sacred Scripture: “Therefore Judas Maccabeus made atonement for the dead, that they might be delivered from their sin.” From the beginning the Church has honored the memory of the dead and offered prayers in suffrage for them, above all the Eucharistic sacrifice, so that, thus purified, they may attain the beatific vision of God. The Church also commends almsgiving, indulgences, and works of penance undertaken on behalf of the dead: Let us help and commemorate them. If Job’s sons were purified by their father’s sacrifice, why would we doubt that our offerings for the dead bring them some consolation? Let us not hesitate to help those who have died and to offer our prayers for them.
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Before pumpkins, the Irish carved Jack O’ lanterns from turnips. Here is a historic example from the collection of the Irish National folklife museum in Turlough, Co Mayo, Ireland.
In the book Occult Conceit the author says on page 190, “The candlelit pumpkin or skull served as a signal to mark those farms and homes that were sympathetic to the Satanists and thus deserving of mercy when the terror (“Trick or Treat”) of the night began.” Further, an old edition of The World Book Encyclopedia says “The apparently harmless lighted pumpkin face of the Jack-O-Lantern is an ancient symbol of a damned soul.”
Stingy Jack O’Lantern, also known as Jack the Smith, Drunk Jack, Flaky Jack, Jack-o’-lantern and Pumpkin Jack, is a mythical character sometimes associated with All Hallows Eve while also acting as the mascot of the holiday. The “jack-o’-lantern” may be derived from the character.
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The fiery origins of bobbing for apples instead of boiling oil, some early English versions of the game included other hot substances:
- Fire and hot wax: An early version involved hanging apples from a string on a plank and using fire and hot wax.
- Avoiding injury: Players would try to bite the apple while it was still attached, but if they failed, they could be doused with hot candle wax. This led to many facial injuries and burns.
- Shift to water: Over time, the game evolved to use a basin of water, making it the safer version known today.
Ancient origins in courting rituals
The tradition’s roots trace further back than these dangerous versions. It originated from a courting ritual and the Roman festival of Pomona, the goddess of agriculture.
- Predicting romance: Single women would bob for apples representing potential suitors. A quick bite meant a strong romance was destined, while a long struggle or multiple tries indicated a fading or doomed relationship.
- Fusing traditions: When the Romans conquered Britain around 43 AD, their festival honoring Pomona merged with similar Celtic harvest traditions, like the festival of Samhain.
Bobbing for apples goes back to Roman love-divination and courting ritual, tied to a festival for the goddess Pomona, later blending with Celtic Samhain traditions and brought to America by immigrants. The practice evolved from predicting romantic fate through apple-biting into a safer, water-based game and eventually became a popular, nostalgic Halloween tradition.
Ancient Celts burned huge bonfires into the night and tied apples to evergreen branches…
Later this was turned into Snap-Apple Night.
Snap-Apple Night (1833), painted by Daniel Maclise, shows people playing divination games on 31 October in Ireland
In Ireland, “snap apple” was more popular than apple bobbing. This variation of the game typically sees players lunging teeth-first at apples suspended from strings rather than having them thrashing around in buckets of water.
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Dia de los Muertos is a blend of ancient Indigenous Mexican and Central American traditions, such as the Aztec festival honoring the dead, combined with Catholic observances like All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day.
Mictecacihuatl is the Aztec goddess of death and ruler of the underworld, Mictlan, alongside her husband Mictlantecuhtli. Often depicted as a skeletal figure with a skull-like face and flayed skin, her duties include watching over the bones of the dead and presiding over the Day of the Dead ( Dia de los Muertos ) traditions, which are an important part of modern Mexican culture.
Matthew 8:22
“But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the DEAD bury their DEAD.”
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Samhain in other Cultures
Judeado-Christian
Halloween, All Saints Day.
- Ancient Hebrew month of Marcheswan corresponds to the time period that the Sunit in Scorpio, the sign of death
Celtic/ Druidical
Samhain
- Associated with legend of Avalen, the kingdom of the Dead
Anglo-Saxons, Dutch, Swedes
- November was called “Blood month.”
Egypt
Slaying of Osiris, lord of the Dead
- Slaying of Osiris and sealing into celler occurred on the 17 day of the month of Hathor, which coincides approx with late Oct early Now
Assyria
Month of Arahsamns
- Remembering the soul of the dead late Oct early Nov
Persia
Mordred-month
- Day of the dead in early Nov. the month of the angel of death
Peru
T’anta Wawa
- Carrying a corpse, placing it on graves. A sweet bread made in the shape of a bundled baby, symbolizing the deceased.
Polynesia
Feast of Ancestors, honoring of dead
- New year commenced in eary Nov. Flowers, food placed on graves
Mexico
“Day of the Dead.”
- Observed on Nov 17
India
Festival of Outga
- New year commenced in Early Nov. with festival of the Dead
Mayans
Tzontemoc: Counterpart to Lucifer
- Aboriginal people painted themselves as skeletons
Normalized through movies
Isaiah 8:19
“And when they say to you, Inquire of the mediums and the necromancers who chirp and mutter, should not a people inquire of their God? Should they inquire of the dead on behalf of the living?”
Leviticus 19:31
“Do not turn to mediums or necromancers; do not seek them out, and so make yourselves unclean by them: I am the Lord your God.”
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Necromancy is the practice
of magically communicating with or raising the dead, usually to obtain information about the future or to summon spirits and influence events. The term comes from the Greek words for “DEAD” and “DIVINATION” and is often considered a form of black magic or sorcery.
Cristian Ouija Board
Deuteronomy 18:10–19
“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, or a CHARMER, or a consulter with FAMILIAR SPIRITS, or a wizard, or a necromancer. For all that do these things are an ABOMINATION unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee. Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God. For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of TIMES, and unto DIVINERS: but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath not suffered thee so to do. The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken; according to all that thou desiredst of the LORD thy God in HOREB in the DAY of the ASSEMBLY, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not. And the LORD said unto me, They have well spoken that which they have spoken. I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put MY WORDS in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto MY WORDS which he shall speak in MY NAME, I will require it of him.”
Isaiah 42:6–7
“I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a COVENANT of the people, for a light of the Gentiles; to open the BLIND EYES, to bring out the PRISONERS from the PRISON, and them that sit in DARKNESS out of the PRISON HOUSE”
Leviticus 19:26
“Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use ENCHANTMENT, nor observe TIMES.”
Galatians 5:19–21
“Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, WITCHCRAFT, hatred, variance, EMULATIONS, wrath, strife, SEDITIONS, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.”
1 Samuel15:22–23
“Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, As in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, And to hearken than the fat of rams. For REBELLION is as the
SIN of WITCHCRAFT, And stubbornness is as INIQUITY and IDOLATRY. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, He hath also rejected thee.”
Revelation 21:7–8
“He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. But the fearful, and UNBELIEVING, and the ABOMINABLE, and MURDERS, and WHOREMONGERS, and SORCERERS, and IDOLATERS, and all LIARS, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the SECOND DEATH.”
Revelation 22:14–15
“Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. For without are DOGS, and SORCERERS, and WHOREMONGERS, and MURDERERS, and IDOLATERS, and whosoever loveth and maketh a LIE.”
Choose LIFE, not DEATH
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It is obvious that Halloween is a pagan day rooted in the worst kind of pagan rituals and worship. Every bit of this festival goes directly against what the Bible teaches. It is Satanic at its core.
1 Peter5:8
“Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:”
1 Thessalonians5:19–22
“Quench not the Spirit. Despise not prophesyings. Prove all things; hold fast that which is GOOD. Abstain from all appearance of EVIL.”
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