CHRISTIANS AND HALLOWEEN
In modern times
it has become a custom to let children dress up as monsters, vampires or other
kind of sinister creature, and go from door to door asking for money or any
present under the saying of “Trick or Treat”, in the public celebration called ‘Halloween’
on the 31st of October, every year.
Since children
are the main protagonists of this celebration, it is generally accepted as
being an inoffensive festival, and to oppose to it, brings general condemnation
from the vast majority who follow this festival.
WHAT IS
HALLOWEEN
The modern
celebration of Halloween is the revival of the pagan Celtic celebration of ‘Samhain’,
where the ancient pagan Druids will commend the coming of the dark northern
European Winter to the care of their pagan gods, through chants, drinking,
orgies, and the practice of magic and spiritism. (1)
When Christianity
arrived in northern Europe, it tried to change this satanic custom by establishing
the celebration of the ‘Evening of All Saints’ Day, on the 31st of
October, day of the pagan celebration, before the actual Christian day of All
Saints celebration on the 1st of November. The new ‘Christian’
festival of ‘All Hallows Eve’, was adopted, and is where the word ‘Halloween’
derives from. (2)
ORIGEN OF THE PUMPKIN
Later in
history, the pagan Irish tradition of a man called ‘Jack’ who made a pact with
Satan, and who later became a vagrant condemned soul that carried a carved pumpkin
with candle inside to see where he was going through the world, became adopted
into the Halloween celebration. However, the custom to carve pumpkins and set them
up with candles inside, pre-dates this story, bringing us to the pagan Druids, who
represented the souls of their dead into these artefacts who were invoked to
share with them in their celebration. (3)
MODERN
HALLOWEEN
In the 18th
century, in the United States, with the rebirth of paganism, groups who try to eradicate
Christianity from society, revived this old pagan festival and added more
magical, and darker meaning into it, turning it into a proper satanic festival.
Children were
offered to Satan, and were encouraged to dress up as monsters, vampires, witches
and warlocks, or any other satanic figure, even adopting new evil characters
like ‘Chucky’ or ‘Anabelle’, the demon possessed toys of the horror movies with
the same names, in order to familiarize small children with the entities of Hell.
The offer of ‘Trick
or Treat’ was told to be said, which in reality is an ancient magical spell
that Irish witches used to say asking for presents for their Samhain festival
under the threat of casting a curse if you refuse. (4)
During these
celebrations, all satanic covens meet up and offer animals, food and even human
sacrifices to Satan, promoting the decay of the world.
WHY TRUE CHRISTIANS
REFUSE HALLOWEEN
Being Halloween from
the very beginning a satanic festival, Christians cannot possibly be part of it,
or support it in any way.
The Children of
God are not allowed to share in any demonic celebration, but instead to worship
the true God from Heaven through Lord JESUS CHRIST, who destroyed the powers of
Satan.
“You cannot
drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot have a part in
both the Lord’s table and the table of demons.”
1Corinthians
10:21
True Christians
do not ‘adopt’ pagan festivals into Christianity. There is no point of convergence.
And for this reason, Christians also reject the Mexican festivity of the death,
or the Inca pagan festival of ‘Inti Raimi’ and all other forms of syncretism.
We are call to
destroy the kingdom of Satan, with power and message of Christ, and not come
into compromises with it of any kind. We are called to announce the Kingdom of
Christ against this satanic celebration.
During
Halloween, Christians should be in their churches, or worshipping God in their
homes, teaching their children to love our Heavenly Father, and showing them
the path of justice and light, instead of teaching them to accept darkness as
normal, or being dancing and drinking with other adults as pagans do.
When pagan
children come knocking on our doors, we open and speak to them about Jesus, the
light of the world instead of giving in to the evil behind it all.
“The night
is nearly over; the day has drawn near. So let us lay aside the deeds of
darkness and put on the armor of light.”
Romans 13:12
Omar Flores.
(1) Time, December edition, 2019
(2) Walter A. Elwell, Evangelical Dictionary of
Theology, 2001.
(3) Ronald Hutton, The Stations of The Sun: A
History of the Ritual Year in Britain, 1996.
(4) Nicholas Rogers, Halloween, From Pagan Ritual
to Party Night, 2003.
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