The Ten Commandments E-book study by Trent Brandt, writer of the Christian Letter found at www.christianezine.org |
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The Ten Commandments E-book study by Trent Brandt, writer of the Christian Letter found at www.christianezine.org |
Halloween Let's put our ideas aside and really look at what Halloween is by examining it's practices, tradition, and possible good points. Halloween is not rooted in scripture, well, not God's scripture anyway. Some Satanists and some groups like witchcraft do observe it as one of their holy days. Not all of them, but many of them. There are thousands of Covens and satanic groups known to exist in the U.S. however, it is unknown how many have kept their rituals and sacrifices secret. After all, they look and act just like normal people and do not advertise. Satanists are almost as blind as Christians in some instances. In my research I found that most Satan worshipers don't believe in Satan. They are more humanists than anything. It reminded me of Christians who don't believe in Christ's words when He speaks of Satan and hell. That is some of them...the ones who are truly into witchcraft and Satanism, though, sacrifice children, rape, recruit children, and do things that would not be allowed in horror films. I've heard parents say that if anything scary like that happened, their child would tell them. Sadly, this is not true. If a five-year-old boy is forced to witness a real execution and told that if he does not follow Satan, or if he tells anyone, mommy will be next...I guarantee that you'll never find out. Halloween, in this perspective, is indeed evil. Many Christians do see Halloween as a pagan, Celtic, or a satanic holiday. Many more will say, "As long as I don't celebrate the same way they do then I'm fine. If my children dress as demons or if I give into those who are then we are indeed celebrating Halloween wrongly. But I will celebrate Halloween justly. I'll hand out tracts. After all, more tracts are handed out on Halloween than any other time of year and it sure is easy to do. Or maybe I'll go to the church's celebration tonight. I'll just use Halloween for good purposes." Well, do we try this with other celebrations, like orgies? Then why would we do this on Halloween? Witnessing can be done everyday and should be. We should not need a holiday like Halloween to do good things like pray, go to church, or witness to kids. Christians should avoid practicing Halloween but not in a way that we appear evil ourselves. Calmly, and humbly, say that you believe in God's word and care not to partake. We'll be reading His Word very shortly. Then there are the traditionalists. Allowing their children to dress up and go door to door demanding candy. It may not be satanic, but it certainly is unintelligent. The main excuse of celebrating this day is for reasons of candy. Simple, use the money you'd spend on gas, flashlights, costumes, jack O lanterns, the likes, and go out and buy some fine candies. Just don't eat too many. :) However, concerning the phrase, "trick or treat," what they are really saying is, "Give us what we want, or we will trick you." The trick usually involves vandalism, and sometimes, much more. Black cats, spiders, bats, and strange people, are indeed God's creation so please do not hate them because of Halloween. This goes against everything that Jesus taught about loving our enemies found in Matthew 5:43-48. Sometimes Christians end up acting more like Satan, than pagans do. I've read so much on the subject of where Halloween came from and found, to no surprise, nothing but contradictions. So let's just look at the Word, see what it says about Halloween, and save some time. "Consider the people of Israel: Do not those who eat the sacrifices participate in the altar? Do I mean then that a sacrifice offered to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything? No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God, and I do not want you to be participants with demons. 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. Are we trying to arouse the Lord's jealousy? Are we stronger than He?" (1st Corinthians 10:18-22) "But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your forefathers served beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD." (Joshua 24:15) "They cried out to the LORD and said, `We have sinned; we have forsaken the LORD and served the Baals and the Ashtoreths. But now deliver us from the hands of our enemies, and we will serve you.' (1st Samuel 12:10) "The LORD your God will cut off before you the nations you are about to invade and dispossess. But when you have driven them out and settled in their land, and after they have been destroyed before you, be careful not to be ensnared by inquiring about their gods, saying, "How do these nations serve their gods? We will do the same." You must not worship the LORD your God in their way, because in worshiping their gods, they do all kinds of detestable things the LORD hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods. See that you do all I command you; do not add to it or take away from it." (Deuteronomy 12:29-32) Are we to imitate demonic practices or Yehoshuah (Jesus) the Messiah? Oh, how much we hurt Christ's heart when we chose carelessly. Christians! You must discern good from evil and make a decision that glorifies God. What would that be? The answers are the most overlooked and greatest blessings ever given. Pray. Minister. Love. © trent@kci.net |
