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Halloween
Posted: Monday, October 31, 2011 by Morgan inIf you've read my blog, you may remember a post I made on Halloween last year. I make no apologies for what follows.
I hadn't really thought much about Halloween until a few weeks ago when I talked with one of my friends about the spiritual realm. Then I thought about it again and it's been in the back of my mind ever since. I read an article in the school newspaper today about Halloween and the part it plays at George Fox. The article I read was in favor of the celebration of Halloween. There was another one, presumably against the celebration of Halloween, but I didn't get the chance to read it. I remember the last lines of the article I read very clearly:
Yes I am a Christian.Yes I celebrate Halloween.No I do not worship Satan.
The author of this article may be truthful in those three statements, but I must say I strongly disagree with that sentiment.
Halloween may be fun for the kids in middle-class suburban neighborhoods who get to dress up like their favorite superhero and get candy from the neighbors. It may be fun for Nestle and Hersheys and Mars who get to sell craploads of candy.
It's definitely not fun for the thousands of black cats that go missing every year.
It's definitely not fun for the girls who were raised to be breeders for human sacrifices.
It's definitely not fun for the homeless people who become victims of occult rituals.
It's definitely not fun for the children who are buried alive as part of their psychological conditioning.
It sure as hell is fun for demons.
I don't mean to be gruesome or inappropriate. I mean to be real. I mean to be honest. I mean to be truthful. This stuff is not something I'm just making up. I have a hard time taking part in celebrating, no matter how innocuously or innocently, a night that also celebrates Satan. It's hard for me to participate in any way in making light of a day on which any of that stuff happens. God placed two victims of the occult in the lives of my parents soon after they were married. My parents were essentially the only light in the lives of these people. They've participated in more spiritual warfare than I ever care to experience, and they've seen and heard some incredibly real and disturbing things, some that they still won't talk about.
I believe that Satan has perverted this night and claimed it for his own. Spiritual warfare is real. It's not something to mess around with at all. I want nothing to do with a day that has come to celebrate something so blatantly wicked.
Here's the good news. God wins in the end. Jesus comes back in absolute victory. Satan and death are vanquished once and for all. A new heaven and a new earth are ushered in and an eternity of perfection comes into existence. I'm just going to post the same verse I did last year because it's so powerful. Revelation 19:11-16
Then I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse! The one sitting on it is calledFaithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war. His eyes are like a flame of fire, and on his head are many diadems, and he has a name written that no one knows but himself. He is clothed in a robe dipped in blood, and the name by which he is called is The Word of God. And the armies of heaven, arrayed in fine linen, white and pure, were following him on white horses. From his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and he will rule them with a rod of iron. He will tread the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty. On his robe and on his thigh he has a name written, King of kings and Lord of lords.
Thank you for your blog. Celebrating Halloween is something every Christian should contemplate more deeply. The fact that it is a controversial issue reveals the superficial condition of the church in our day and age. One does not need to look far to understand that Halloween's foundation is darkness, but as you revealed in your "definitely not fun" list, Halloween is the New Year celebration of the occult when they engage, world-wide, in horrific practices that the average person cannot believe or accept as real in our civilized society.
God removed His hand of provision & protection from Israel and sent them into captivity because they mixed pagan traditions with their worship of God. Do we really think He will tolerate our mirror-image behavior? 2 Kings 17:33-41 says, "They worshipped the Lord, but they also served their own gods in accordance with the customs of the nations from which they had been brought...To this day they persist in their former practices. Even while these people were worshiping the Lord, they were serving their idols. To this day their children and grandchildren continue to do as their fathers did."
Some might say that you are blowing this out of proportion, lighten up, we're just having fun--we aren't worshiping Satan, jeeze! I wonder how that argument would be received by Jesus.
May we not be misled. God is a jealous God. Let us not make him jealous with our detestable idols (Dt 32:16) and cause Him to reject us (Dt 32:19) for we have been rescued from the dominion of darkness and brought into the kingdom of the Son God loves. (Col 1:13) And this was done at a great cost. Praise God!