[WICCANS, PAGANS and HALLOWEEN: What Every Christian Should Know]

So, here we are again.

That dreaded holiday to born-again believers – Halloween.  Should we, or should we not participate?

First, let’s look at the origins of Halloween:

Wiccans love Halloween. So, I thought I would go to a Wiccan website to get the real scoop on Halloween, or as the Wiccans call it – Samhain.

FROM PAGANWICCAN.ABOUT.COM  (Please don’t go to this website. It is so satanic. Just read what is posted in this article to be informed about Halloween and Wicca.)

Paganism/Wicca Expert

What is Samhain?:

Samhain is known by most folks as Halloween, but for many modern Pagans, it’s considered a Sabbat to honor the ancestors who came before us, marking the dark time of the year. It’s a good time to contact the spirit world with a séance because it’s the time when the veil between this world and the next is at its thinnest.

So, the veil is thinnest between our world and the next? I guess that means that demonic activity is at its highest. 

Pagan Wheel of the Year

Religious scholars agree that the word Samhain (pronounced “sow-en”) comes from the Gaelic “Samhuin,” but they’re divided on whether it means the end or beginning of summer. After all, when summer is ending here on earth, it’s just beginning in the Underworld. Samhain actually refers to the daylight portion of the holiday, on November 1st.

 “After all, when summer is ending here on earth, it’s just beginning in the Underworld.”  That sounds demonic, doesn’t it?

Around the eighth century or so, the Catholic Church decided to use November 1st as All Saints Day. This was actually a pretty smart move on their part – the local pagans were already celebrating that day anyway, so it made sense to use it as a church holiday.

Oh, did it make sense for the Catholic Church to adopt this pagan holiday?  I suppose so, if the Catholic Church leaders are pagans.

All Saints’ became the festival to honor any saint who didn’t already have a day of his or her own. The mass which was said on All Saints’ was called Allhallowmas – the mass of all those who are hallowed. The night before naturally became known as All Hallows Eve, and eventually morphed into what we call Halloween.

Wouldn’t it be incredible if the Catholic leaders actually picked up a BIBLE and read it?

Honoring the Ancestors:

For some of us, Samhain is when we honor our ancestors who came before us. If you’ve ever done genealogy research, or if you’ve had a loved one die in the past year, this is the perfect night to celebrate their memory.

If we’re fortunate, they will return to communicate with us from beyond the veil and offer advice, protection and guidance for the upcoming year.

“Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God” (Leviticus 19:31).

Samhain Rituals:

Try one — or all — of these rituals to celebrate Samhain and welcome the new year. (DO NOT TRY THEM!!!)

Celebrating the End of the Harvest
Samhain Ritual for Animals
Honoring the Ancestors
Hold a Seance at Samhain
Host a Dumb Supper
Honor the God and Goddess at Samhain
Celebrating the Cycle of Life and Death
Ancestor Meditation

Oh, by the way, Halloween is the witches’ “New Year.”  And a Dumb Supper is one where they invite the dead to dine with them.

I think that most of us know that the little children going door to door, trick-or-treating, have absolutely no idea about the origins of this holiday. I would say that most of their parents probably do not know about the evils they are actually celebrating. But those of us who are born-again believers in Jesus Christ, and read our Bibles, SHOULD know that Halloween is the most evil day of the year.

We should not be afraid of Halloween, nor fear the evil spirits that are most likely roaming about in droves upon the earth. But should we give in to our secular culture and actually celebrate it? What does that say to our children about our beliefs? What does it say to our neighbors who know that we are Christians?

“I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world” (John 17:14-16).

What then should we do on Halloween? I can only tell you what my husband and I have done. We carve a large Cross into a pumpkin with a candle inside. When the children approach our doorstep, they immediately see the Cross. We have candy for them, but we also have Christian tracts for children. The kids have come to expect them!

Here is a great source for the children’s tracts:

Living Waters store

For the older children (teenagers), we hand out Kristin Tracts. See them here:

KRISTIN TRACTS

Last year, a younger sibling of a teenager got hold of a Kristin tract. He came back to us (we sit outside). First, he said that he liked our Cross in our pumpkin. Then he showed me the Kristin tract that his sister had given to him. He said to me, “She died.” I was able to tell this little guy that Kristin did die, but that she loved the Lord Jesus Christ with all of her heart – and that when she died, Jesus took her right to heaven to be with Him forever. A HUGE smile came over the little boy’s face.

We are in this world, but certainly we are not of it.  We are here to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ. What an opportunity to share with people who come right up to your door!

For the past few years, Tim and I have kept the lights off in our home and have not given out candy and tracts on Halloween. We are very conflicted about this. We are praying that the Lord would show us what to do. I truly miss giving out the tracts. I wonder how many children and teens were impacted by the tracts when we did give them out.

I pray that the Lord would show us clearly what to do!

Here is another piece by Dale Vernon on this subject:

Dale Vernon expands on HALLOWEEN:

Blessings in Jesus

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MARANATHA!

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(An Open Letter to Emmanuel Macron: HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN? Perhaps This Will Refresh Your Memory)

This article was written 10 years ago after the horrific massacre of almost 100 young people while they danced and sang with a death metal rock band in Paris:

“The world was shocked at the horror of that night in Paris, when almost 100 young people were gunned down by Islamic terrorists in the Bataclan Concert Hall in Paris. The Eagles of Death Metal were performing that night.”

Before you read this article, please understand that I wept as I watched the horror unfold in Paris. I am praying for all who lost family members. I am also praying for those who are in hospitals that they will recover. This article is written in hopes that the readers of it will understand that EVIL has gripped our world. God is grieved and is waiting for people to turn to Him to be saved. Time is short.

” Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things? And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time. For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way. And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming. The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness” (2 Thessalonians 2:5-12).

I want to take you back to a time when things in this world were vastly different than they are today.  It was certainly not a perfect time – it is never perfect on this earth because of sin. But it was a time when people’s hearts were not as hardened. Many people attended church. We know that “attending” church does not mean that those people were all born again, but at least there was an effort to draw closer to God. Those who delved into witchcraft were stigmatized and avoided by most of society.

But things have changed so rapidly.  Those of us who love the Lord Jesus are stigmatized as being extreme – not normal, and a detriment to society.  We are being watched by our own government and labeled as extremists and anti-government radicals.

What has become the norm?  Sadly, Hollywood has set the standard of normalcy, and it is appalling. It is now culturally acceptable to outwardly express love for the devil. We see so many celebrities making the sign of the horns of the devil with their hands. Impressionable young people are drawn into this – I think that many of them don’t actually realize what they are doing, yet they mimic what they see. Good has become evil, and evil good.

“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” (Isaiah 5:20)

“And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold” (Matthew 24:12).

PARIS

The world was shocked at the horror of that night in Paris, when almost 100 young people were gunned down by Islamic terrorists in the Bataclan Concert Hall in Paris. The Eagles of Death Metal were performing that night.

The song, which had begun right when the terrorists began their merciless killing spree, was called “Kiss the Devil” – one of the crowd’s favorite songs by the rock band. Here are the lyrics:

Who’ll love the Devil?
Who’ll sing his song?
Who will love the Devil and his song?

I’ll love the Devil
I’ll sing his song
I will love the Devil and his song

Who’ll love the Devil?
Who’ll kiss his tongue?
Who will kiss the Devil on his tongue?

I’ll love the Devil
I’ll kiss his tongue
I will kiss the Devil on his tongue

Who’ll love the Devil?
Who’ll sing his song?
I will love the Devil and his song

Here is a picture of the crowd of adoring fans, just minutes before most lay dead on the concert hall floor:

Notice that many of the young people were proudly holding up the sign of the devil with their hands. They danced with the devil that night – laughing and showing their solidarity with EVIL. And then PURE evil entered the hall and shot them one by one.

There were most likely very few, if any, Christians in the Bataclan that night. So, dancing with the devil brought these young people face to face with Satan.

STRONG DELUSION

“And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness” (2 Thessalonians 10-12).

The young people who perished that night in Paris believed not the truth. They did not receive the love of the truth, sent by God, that they might be saved. So God sent them Strong Delusion so that they would believe the lie of Satan. And so they did. And so they died – so horrifically. I am sure that Jesus wept over these lost ones.

God wants NONE to perish. He sent his precious Son, Jesus Christ, to pay the sin debt of all who dwell on the earth. God wants people to be reconciled to Him, and the death and resurrection of Jesus made that possible. But the only thing He asks is that we repent and believe. Those who perished in the concert hall in Paris will never get that chance. The devil is pleased – SO pleased.

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved” (John 3:16-17).

So, Mr. Macron – are YOU dancing with the devil? It certainly seems that you are. You are siding with Islamists and turning against the Apple of God’s Eye!

GOD HELP YOU, EMMANUEL MACRON!

HOW TO BE SAVED

Turn to Jesus. Do it now. No one is promised another day, or another minute.

MARANATHA

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