Whether or not people should celebrate Halloween can be a very controversial topic. Some celebrate Halloween simply by dressing up in a costume and having fun, seeing it as innocent and harmless. Others are equally convinced that Halloween is a satanic holiday established to worship evil spirits and promote darkness and wickedness. Halloween, no matter how commercialized, has almost completely pagan origins. In ancient Britain and Ireland, the Celtic Festival of Samhain was observed on October 31, at the end of summer…. The souls of the dead were supposed to revisit their homes on this day and the autumnal festival acquired sinister significance, with ghosts, witches, goblins, black cats, fairies and demons of all kinds said to be roaming about. It was the time to placate the supernatural powers controlling the processes of nature. In addition, Halloween was thought to be the most favorable time for divinations concerning marriage, luck, health, and death. It was the only day on which the help of the devil was invoked for such purposes. As innocent as it may seem to some, it is not something to be taken lightly. Some tend to have various ways to celebrate or not to celebrate Halloween. For some, it means having an “alternative” Harvest Party. For others, it is staying away from the ghosts, witches, goblins, etc., and wearing innocuous costumes, e.g., little princesses, clowns, cowboys, super-heroes, etc. Some choose not to do anything, electing to lock themselves in the house with the lights off. Scripture does not speak at all about Halloween, but it does give us some principles on which we can make a decision. In Old Testament/Torah, witchcraft was a crime punishable by death (Exodus 22:18; Leviticus 19:31; 20:6, 27). The New Testament teaching about the occult is clear. Acts 8:9-24, the story of Simon, shows that occultism and faith dont mix. The account of Elymas the sorcerer in Acts 13:6-11 reveals that sorcery is violently opposed to believers. Paul called Elymas a child of the devil, an enemy of righteousness and a perverter of the ways of Elohim. In Acts 16, at Philippi, a fortune-telling girl lost her demon powers when the evil spirit was cast out by Paul. The interesting matter here is that Paul refused to allow even good statements to come from a demon-influenced person. Acts 19 shows new converts who have abruptly broken with their former occultism by confessing, showing their evil deeds, bringing their magic paraphernalia, and burning it before everyone (Acts 19:19). There is no place for halloween in the life of a believer in our Elohim (god)
Posted on: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 22:23:21 +0000
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