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I AM AN 80 YEAR OLD MALE, BORN AGAIN, CHRISTIAN WITH A LOVE FOR JESUS. I DO NOT GET OUT MUCH ANYMORE BUT FIND THAT TELLING PEOPLE ABOUT THE LOVE JESUS HAS FOR THEM IS NOT ONLY WHAT WE ARE SUPPOSED TO DO BUT SOMETHING THAT THE WORLD NEEDS.
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"DO YOU KNOW WHAT HALLOWEEN IS ALL ABOUT?" BY DAVID MCMILLEN
I TRY TO WRITE SOMETHING ABOUT HALLOWEEN EVERY YEAR TO LET PEOPLE KNOW WHAT THE LORD THINKS ABOUT SOME OF THE THINGS ASSOCIATED WITH IT. TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE HISTORY TO SHOW HOW HALLOWEEN CAME TO BE, IT ORIGINATED WITH "THE CELTIC FESTIVAL OF SAMHAIN" WHERE THEY WOULD BUILD BONFIRES AND WEAR COSTUMES TO WARD OFF GHOSTS.
IN THE EIGHTH CENTURY, THE POPE DESIGNATED NOVEMBER 1ST AS A TIME TO HONOR ALL SAINTS. SOON "ALL SAINTS DAY" BEGIN TO INCORPORATE SOME OF THE SAMHAIN TRADITIONS. THE EVENING BEFORE WAS KNOW AS "ALL HALLOWS EVE". IT WAS ALSO A TIME ASSOCIATED WITH HUMAN DEATH. THE CELTS BELIEVED THAT ON THAT NIGHT THE BOUNDARY BETWEEN THE WORLDS OF THE LIVING AND THE DEAD BECAME BLURRED AND THE GHOSTS OF THE DEAD WOULD RETURN TO THE EARTH. I AM LISTING BELOW SOME OF THE THINGS ASSOCIATED WITH HALLOWEEN, WITH SCRIPTURE REFERENCES, SO YOU CAN GO TO YOUR BIBLE AND READ ALL ABOUT EACH ONE.
GHOSTS
LEVITICUS 19:31 Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God.
WITCHES
EXODUS 22:18 Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.
VAMPIRES
LEVITICUS 7:26-27 Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings. Whatsoever soul it be that eateth any manner of blood, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.
WIZARDS
DEUTERONOMY 18:10-12 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch. Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord: and because of these abominations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee.
NOW THE BIG QUESTION IS, SHOULD A CHRISTIAN CELEBRATE HALLOWEEN? I WILL GIVE YOU TWO TRAINS OF THOUGHT ON THIS AND YOU CAN PRAY ABOUT IT AND HOPEFULLY WILL OBEY THE LORD IN WHATEVER HE TELLS YOU. AS A CHRISTIAN WE ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE INVOLVED WITH THE OCCULT, WITCHCRAFT, DEMONISM OR THINGS LIKE THAT. IF WE DO, I BELIEVE WE ARE CONTRADICTING GOD'S WORD. IF YOUR HALLOWEEN IS CENTERED AROUND THESE THINGS, I WOULD SAY HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH IT.
ON THE OTHER HAND, IS IT WRONG TO DRESS YOUR CHILDREN IN SOME CUTE COSTUME, NOTHING DEMONIC, AND LET THEM GO DOOR TO DOOR SAYING "TRICK OR TREAT?" YOU WILL HAVE TO CHOOSE WHAT YOU FEEL IS RIGHT.
I WAS NEVER COMFORTABLE WITH CELEBRATING IT BECAUSE EVERYTHING YOU SEE IS ABOUT THESE THINGS. DRESSING ONE OF YOUR CHILDREN UP IN SOMETHING THAT REPRESENTS SOMETHING THAT THE BIBLE SPEAKS UNKINDLY TOWARD REALLY BOTHERED ME. WE USED TO HAVE "PRAISE THE LORD" PARTIES ON HALLOWEEN NIGHT AT THE CHURCH WHERE WE WOULD SOMETIMES BRING COVERED DISHES AND PLAY GAMES WITH THE CHILDREN; BUT NO COSTUMES. WE WOULD SING PRAISES TO THE LORD AND JUST HAVE A WONDERFUL TIME. THIS IS JUST AN IDEA IF SOMEONE IS LOOKING FOR AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE TRADITIONAL HALLOWEEN PARTY. ALL THE KIDS WOULD GO HOME WITH A BAG OF CANDY AND WE KNEW OUR CANDY WAS SAFE. WITH THE NUTS OUT THERE THESE DAYS, WHY TAKE A CHANGE ON THE LIVES OF OUR CHILDREN.
THIS IS SOMETHING I FELT THE LORD WANTED ME TO WRITE ABOUT AND I HOPE IT HELP SOME OF YOU TO UNDERSTAND THE IN'S AND OUT'S OF HALLOWEEN.
GOD BLESS YOU ALL.
