HALLOWEEN IS A PAGAN CELEBRATION OF DEATH THAT CHRISTIANS SHOULD AVOID.

Halloween's roots in witchcraft and Druidic paganism are undeniable. When we examine the history of Halloween, one thing we discover very quickly is that it is based on the ancient pagan religion of the Celtics in Northern Ireland and their celebration of the festival of the dead, known as Samhain.

In Northern Ireland, a class of ruthless priests known as Druids ruled Northern Ireland through occult terror and human sacrifice for centuries. According to Ronald Hutton in The Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain, 'Samhain' referred to Celtic Halloween customs until the 19th century (Hutton, Ronald, The Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain, New York: Oxford University Press, 1996, p. 369)

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Today, Ireland celebrates Halloween with fireworks displays and is the only nation on earth that recognizes Halloween as a national holiday. Children in Ireland are given a week off from school to observe it.

FESTIVAL OF THE DEAD

Halloween, as we know it today, is a modernized version of the Druidic festival of the dead. The powerful Druid priests were considered kings of the occult practitioners, and were known to worship evil spirits and sacrifice humans to their demon gods!

The Celts celebrated the day of the dead in anticipation of the dark and cold winter months. Samhain Eve marked the special time of year when the Druids taught that demons, souls, and gods were released into the world to bring blessing or wreak havoc and destruction on unsuspecting souls.

The Encyclopedia Britannica states:

“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 autumn festival acquired a sinister significance, with ghosts, witches, goblins, black cats, fairies, and demons of all kinds said to be about. It was a time to placate the supernatural powers that controlled the processes of nature. In addition, Halloween was considered the most favorable time for divinations concerning marriage, luck, health, and death. It was the only day on which the devil’s help was invoked for such purposes.” ” (Encyclopedia Britannica, 2005, “Halloween”)

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Today, Halloween is a truly occult holiday for many Celtic neo-pagans, witches, and Satanists. Many who are involved in the black arts and the trade in spiritualism view Halloween as a religious holiday and are aware that it is rooted in the occult. (Hutton, Ronald, The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles: Their Nature and Legacy, Oxford: Blackwell, 1991, pp. 327–341)

A WITCH’S VIEW...

Witch and Wiccan high priestess Doreen Valiente, author of “The Witches’ Rune” and helped write a significant amount of the occult content that is central to modern Wicca, has stated that Halloween is a special holiday for witches.

Valiente helped formulate modern Wicca (known as Gardnerian Wicca) after it was first created by Satanist Gerald Gardner, who was also a disciple of Satanist Aleister Crowley and a member of Crowley's Satanic organization known as the O.T.O. Unbeknownst to most Wiccans, Gardner subsumed many of Crowley's Satanic teachings into ceremonial "magick" in Wicca and used a variation of Crowley's Satanic maxim "Do what thou wilt" for the Wiccan Rede (i.e., harm none, do what thou wilt).

Wiccan High Priestess Valiente said of Halloween:

"Halloween is one of the four Great Witches' Sabbats that everyone has heard of. To witches, Halloween is a serious occasion, though joyfully celebrated. It is the old Celtic eve of Samhain. ”

A SALEM WITCH SAYS...

Sharon Graham, who fancies herself as a high priestess of the Salem witches, and who was accused of a feud with other witches for intimidating a witness by allegedly placing a raccoon’s head on the doors of Angelica of the Angels and the Treasure Chest of the Goddess, said of Halloween:

“Salem (Massachusetts) is a mecca, especially around Samhain. It’s our holiday, our New Year, and a lot of witches come here from all over the world.”

Halloween is considered a Satanic holiday by many self-confessed Satanists, and for obvious reasons, as it is a day where demons, witches, and devils are glorified. The First Grand Church of Lucifer in Houston, Texas chose Halloween as the perfect day to officially open its doors to the public. (Source)

ANTON LAVEY, AUTHOR OF THE SATANIC BIBLE, SAYS THIS...

According to Anton LaVey, who founded the Church of Satan in 1966 and authored The Satanic Bible in 1969, Halloween is the third highest day on the Satanic calendar for Satanists. LaVey wrote in The Satanic Bible:

“After his own birthday, the two major Satanic holidays are Walpurgisnacht (May 1) and Halloween.” (LaVey, Anton Szandor, The Satanic Bible, 1969, p. 96)

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The official website of the Church of Satan states on its FAQ page that Halloween is a time when the masses “reach inside and touch the ‘darkness’ that for [us] Satanists is a daily mode of existence,” as they can freely “play their cards right in costume, wearing clothing that allows for intense role-playing and the release of their demonic core.” (Source)

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Halloween is steadily gaining ground on Christmas as America’s favorite holiday.

In 2014, the National Retail Federation’s annual consumer spending survey revealed that Americans spent an estimated $7.4 billion to celebrate Halloween. $2.8 billion went to costumes ($1.1 billion for children's costumes and $1.4 billion for adults). Another $2 billion was spent on demonic decorations and the rest on candy.

THE BIBLE SAYS...

“For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil” (1 John 3:8b).

“He has rescued us from the domain of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins” (Colossians 1:13-14).

When we came to Christ we were delivered “from darkness to light and from the domain of Satan to God” (Acts 26:18), so should we go back to Satan's kingdom and celebrate after we have been delivered? As Christians, we are warned not to participate in the celebration of evil, but rather to expose it:

“Do not participate in the fruitless acts of darkness, but rather expose them” (Ephesians 5:11).

Instead of dressing up as devils, witches, and demons, we are to “abstain from every appearance of evil” (1 Thessalonians 5:22).

We are told in 3 John 1:11, “Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good.

“This is what the Lord says: ‘Do not learn the way of the nations…’”

As Christians, we should be repelled by a holiday that celebrates the things our God and Creator calls abominations. We should be repelled to the point that we do not replace it as well!

Deuteronomy 18:9-14 is the Bible passage that most directly addresses the customs of Halloween. Notice how the Lord warns that He drove out those who had inhabited the Promised Land for engaging in such practices and warned His people that He would do the same to them if they imitated their practices:

“When you come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not learn to imitate 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 divination, or one who practices sorcery, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, or one who casts spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead. For anyone who does these things is an abomination to the Lord; and because of these abominations the Lord your God will drive them out before you. You shall be blameless before the Lord your God. For those nations which you dispossess, let them listen to those who practice sorcery and those who practice divination; But as for you, the Lord your God has not permitted you to do so” (Deuteronomy 18:9-14).

We see above one of the most comprehensive lists of activities upon which Halloween was established that can be found anywhere in the Bible, and the practitioners of them are labeled “detestable.”

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These habits are, in fact, the very reason why the pagan nations were driven from the Promised Land.

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