Halloween

What do we really know about Halloween? Is it just a fun day of the year that we can get all dressed up like monsters and have a little bit of fun? Should we allow our children to participate in this event by dressing them up and chauffeuring them door to door for candy and other treats? Is there a deeper meaning to what most of us celebrate each year on October 31? How did Halloween begin anyway?

Halloween was originally known as all hallows eve. It was started around the year 200 bc and continued until roughly 200 ad. This was a Celtic practice from the British Isle in France. This group of people practiced a religion known as Druidism. These Druids included the Celtic priests and shamans. They would study and practice witchcraft, magic, and necromancy. Necromancy is the practice of communicating with the dead, with purposes of predicting the future. Samhain was known as “the feast of the dead” and it was practiced on October 31. This date is also known as all hallows eve, it was the day before their new year.

On this day, the town’s people believed that they must appease the evil spirits by giving them offerings. They believed that on this day the veil between the living and the dead were dropped, allowing spirits to walk the earth. Giant bonfires were lit to help guide these spirits to the world of the living. Animals, crops, and humans were thrown into the fire as sacrifices to these spirits. The townspeople would leave out their offerings of food so that the evil spirits would not play tricks on them, or harm them in any way. They would also wear disguises in order to fool the spirits into thinking they too were evil spirits so they might not harm them.

The druids also required human sacrifices for these spirits. They would go door to door asking for virgins, also known as innocent blood. If the home owners refused to give up their child, the druids would paint a hexagram on the door. This hexagram was used as a sign for the evil spirits. All homes with this sign would be attacked by the evil spirits. They would terrorize all living in the home and this sometimes resulted in death.

Bobbing for apples?

The Romans held a festival called Feralia during the end of October. This festival was in honor of their goddess Pomona, known as the apple queen. The people would throw apples over their shoulders to help decide marital partners.  Roman Catholics took control of the Celtics and changed the name of this three day festival to Halloween or all hallows eve, or all saints day. When the Romans took control of the Celts, they combine both festivals. Bobbing for apples was a result of this combined festival. Unfortunately, as with many other pagan traditions such as Christmas and Easter, the Romans kept this tradition, but simply changed several of the names in order to call it good.

Halloween is full of pagan practices. There really isn’t anything that should be considered innocent fun when dealing with this celebration. Allister Crowley, an English occultist known for developing what Christians would call satanic worship, said that he loved, “that Christians allow their children to worship satan one night every year.” Anton Levey, a follower of Crowley, wrote in his book, “The Satanic Bible,” “After one’s own birthday, the two major satanic holidays are walpurgisnacht night and Halloween.”  Walpurgis Night is the English translation of Walpurgisnacht, the German name for the night of 30 April, so called because it is the eve of the feast day of Saint Walpurga, an 8th-century abbess in Germany. As we can see, Satanists believe Halloween is one of the biggest holidays of the year.

3 John 1:11

Beloved, 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.

                Halloween is chalked full of evil. We see devils, witches, ghosts and death. Being associated with this satanic holiday seems to go directly against what God has told us to do.

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.”

                We should not be Christianizing pagan holidays. We should be abstaining from them altogether. Pagan evil spirit worship is just that. What we are doing on Halloween is exactly the same as what the ancient pagans did; we just changed the name and called it good. Believing that we are not doing this same practice for the same purposes does not mean that we are not doing it. Practicing these pagan rituals under the assumption that they are now okay because it doesn’t mean the same thing is simply a lie we were led to believe from Satan. God does not want us doing this, for ANY reason.  He hates all things that deal with the worship of other gods.

So I ask you, is this really something you want to teach your children to participate in?