God’s people have absolutely no business participating in Halloween or anything related to, associated with, or of any similitude to Halloween. Yes, that includes Allhallowtide, All Saints Day, All Souls Day, All Hallows, All Hallow’s Eve, Trunk or Treat, Costume with A Message, and the deceptively innocuous Harvest Festival.
Side note – Crops are harvested year-round. Why choose to celebrate harvest time in conjunction with Halloween? You want to know how to honor God for harvests that He gives? He tells us right in Exodus 23:14-17.
Stop playing. Halloween is nothing to fool with. If you claim to be a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ and you persist with your Halloween celebrations, you do so to your own detriment. You are opening yourself and your bloodline up to demonic intrusion.
Isaiah 5:20 says “Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!”
Before you head out to join the masquerade, here’s the skinny on Halloween from Satanists themselves.
According to the church of Satan: Satanists “See this holiday (Halloween) as the night when the mundane folk try to reach down inside and touch the “darkness” which for Satanists is a daily mode of existence… Halloween is a time for celebrating monster films, wearing costumes of a macabre nature, and evoking the thrill of “fun fear.” Children (of all ages) can indulge their fantasies by donning costumes that allow for intense role-playing and the release of their “demonic cores,” the parts of their personalities often hidden from their friends, co-workers and families.” (1)
Anton LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan proclaimed that Halloween was one of the more important holidays of the year for Satanists. (1)
According to The Satanic Temple: “Halloween is the holiday to celebrate indulgence and embrace the darkness and its aesthetic.” (2)
In an essay about Halloween, Magistra Blanche Barton said this of the dark holiday: “Halloween is traditionally a time when the obscure portal into the realms of darkness, death and the supernatural is thrown open.” (3)
“Satanists should celebrate Halloween and appreciate the magical benefits that this holiday offers. We are moving towards the darkness during this holiday, and this shift is welcome. The veil between the physical and the spiritual is at its thinnest point compared to the rest of the year. It is the perfect time to explore inner darkness.” (3)
Here’s some abductive reasoning: If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck; it’s a duck.
The Catholic Church’s stance on Halloween: “While some people have connected Halloween to earlier pagan celebrations of the new year, Halloween actually has significant Catholic roots. The name itself comes from All Hallow’s Eve – that is, the Vigil of All Saints’ Day, when Catholics remember those who have gone before us to enter our heavenly home. Immediately afterwards, on November 2, the Church commemorates all the faithful departed still detained in Purgatory, and prays in suffrage for them.” (4)
PS: The mere notion of Purgatory is a demonic diversion from truth. There is no state or place of purification after death; as conjured up by Roman Catholicism. The remission of sins (purification) is the immediate result of consciously asking God to forgive you of your sin and the acceptance that Jesus Christ, God’s one and only perfect (sinless) Son assumed the punishment for your sin when He was executed in proxy for you and me. See 1 John 2 and any/all of the Gospels – Matthew, Mark, Luke, John along with many other books of the Bible, which the proponents of Purgatory clearly do not believe.
So Family, despite the norms and forays of culture, we have NO business participating in Halloween or any similitude of this diabolical high day. And get this – If you make up excuses as to why you should, could, or may participate in Halloween, you are an idolater. Idolatry is anything you love more than your obedience to God.
Come out from among them.
2 Corinthians 6:17, 18 – Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you. And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
Romans 12:2 – Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but be a new and different person with a fresh newness in all you do and think. Then you will learn from your own experience how his ways will really satisfy you.
Ephesians 5:11 – Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.
Ephesians 5:11 – And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.
1 John 1:5 – This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all.
1 John 1:6 – If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.
2 Corinthians 6:14b – 15a And what communion has light with darkness? And what accord has Christ with Belial?
2 Corinthians 6:17 – Therefore “Come out from among them And be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, And I will receive you.”
Psalms 1:1 – Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers.
By way of this missive I emphatically admonish you to renounce and denounce any and all wicked celebrations and follow only in the way of Truth.
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
In the words of Dap Dunlap, “WAKE UP!”
Do your own research:
- The Church of Satan Website / holidays
- The Satanic Temple website
- The Spiritual Satanist website / Satanic holidays
- https://www.vaticannews.va/en/church/news/2019-10/the-catholic-roots-of-halloween-the-vigil-of-all-saints-day.html
https://www.churchpop.com/triduum-death-forgotten-season-allhallowtide/