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HALLOWEEN AND THE BIBLE<\/strong>
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\u201cTest all things; hold fast to what is good. Abstain from every form of evil.\u201d 1 Thessalonians 5:21 \u2013 22<\/p>\n

A Celebration of Evil<\/strong> : Halloween is a religious day, but it is not Christian. Tom Sanguinet, a former high priest in Wicca has said: \u201cThe modern holiday that we call Halloween has its origins in the full moon closest to November 1, the witches\u2019 new year. It is a time when the spirits (demons) are supposed to be at their peak power and revisiting planet earth\u2026 Halloween is purely and absolutely evil, and there is nothing we ever have, or will do, that would make it acceptable to the Lord Jesus.\u201d
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\nDay of Death:<\/strong> Halloween has strong roots in paganism and witchcraft. It began as the Druid festival of Samhain. The Celts considered November 1st the day of death, because, in the Northern hemisphere, this was the beginning of winter, the leaves were falling, it was getting darker earlier, and temperatures were dropping. They believed that their sun god was losing strength and Samhain, the lord of death, was overpowering the sun god. The druids also taught that on 31 October, on the eve of the feast, Samhain assembled the spirits of all who had died during the previous year to return to their former home to visit the living.<\/p>\n

Human and Animal Sacrifices<\/strong> : On Halloween, for thousands of years, druid priests have conducted diabolical worship ceremonies in which cats, horses, sheep, oxen, human beings and other offerings were rounded up, stuffed into wicca cages and burned to death. These human and animal sacrifices were apparently required to appease Samhain and keep the spirits from harming them.<\/p>\n

Trick or Treat:<\/strong> To obtain these sacrifices, druid priests 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 threatened and cursed. This is the origin of \u201ctrick or treat.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jack-O-Lantern:<\/strong> The Jack-O-Lantern has its origin in the candle-lit pumpkin or skull, which served as a signal to mark those farms and homes that supported the druids\u2019 religion, and thus were seeking the \u201ctreat\u201d when the terror of Halloween began. The World Book Encyclopedia says: \u201cThe apparently harmless lighted pumpkin face of the Jack-O-Lantern is an ancient symbol of a damned soul.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dance of Death:<\/strong> While people and animals were screaming in agony, being burnt to death, the druids and their followers would dress in costumes made of animal skins and heads. They would dance, chant and jump through the flames in the hope of warding off evil spirits.<\/p>\n

House of Horrors:<\/strong> One of the popular heroes of Halloween, Count Dracula, was also a real person. Dracula lived from 1431 to 1476. During his six year reign, Count Dracula massacred over 100,000 men, women and children in the most hideous ways. He devised a plan to rid his country of the burden of beggars, the handicapped, the sick and the aged by inviting them to a feast at one of his palaces. He fed them well and got them drunk. Then he asked them: \u201cDo you want to be without cares, lacking nothing in the world?\u201d When his guests yelled: \u201cYes!\u201d Dracula ordered the palace boarded up and set on fire. No one escaped this original \u201chouse of horror.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Word of God:<\/strong> \u201cWhen you come into the land, which the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominations of those nations. There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead. For all who do these things are an abomination to the Lord, and because of these abominations the Lord your God drives them out from before you. You shall be blameless before the Lord your God, for these nations which you will dispossess, listened to soothsayers and diviners; but as for you the Lord your God has not appointed such for you.\u201d Deuteronomy 18:9 \u2013 14 \u201c\u2026 teach my people the difference between the holy and the unholy, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.\u201d Ezekiel 34:23<\/p>\n

\u201cMy people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you from being priests for Me; because you have forgotten the Law of your God, I will also forget your children.\u201d Hosea 4:6<\/p>\n

\u201cTrain up a child in the way he should go, then when he is old he will not depart from it.\u201d Proverbs 22:6<\/p>\n

\u201cThat whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to sin, it would be better for him if a millstone was hung around his neck, and he were drowned in the depths of the sea. Woe to the world because of offenses! For offenses must come, but woe to that man by whom the offense comes!\u201d Matthew 18: 6 \u2013 7<\/p>\n

\u201cLet love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good.\u201d Romans 12:9<\/p>\n

\u201cTherefore, let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the Armour of Light.\u201d Romans 13:12<\/p>\n

\u201cYou cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; you cannot partake of the Lord\u2019s Table and of the table of demons.\u201d 1 Corinthians 10:21<\/p>\n

\u201cDo not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? What communion has light with darkness? And what accord has Christ with Belial? For what part has a believer with an unbeliever? And what agreement has the temple of God with idols?\u2026
\nTherefore, come out from among them and be separate says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean and I will receive you.\u201d 2 Corinthians 6:14 \u2013 17<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness but rather expose them.\u201d Ephesians 5:11<\/p>\n

\u201cFinally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy \u2013 meditate on these things.\u201d Philippians 4:8<\/p>\n

\u201cNow the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the Faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, speaking lies and hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron.\u201d 1 Timothy 4:1 \u2013 2<\/p>\n

\u201cTherefore, submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.\u201d James 4:7<\/p>\n

\u201cPure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.\u201d James 1:27<\/p>\n

\u201cBeloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. He who does good is of God, but he who does evil has not seen God.\u201d 3 John 11<\/p>\n

\u201cFinally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. Put on the whole Armour of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore, take up the whole Armour of God, that you may be able to stand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the Breastplate of Righteousness, and having shod your feet with the preparation of the Gospel of Peace. Above all, taking the Shield of Faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. And take the Helmet of Salvation, and the Sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God; praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints.\u201d Ephesians 6:10 \u2013 18.<\/p>\n

Information provided by Past’s Bertus & Marouda de Jager from Marouda Conferences in Pretoria. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n