H a l l o w e e n

       I saw this ridiculous meme today. I added the cancellation circle...

This meme is such wacky religious bullcrap! When families go out 'Trick-or-treating,' they're just having innocent fun, regardless of what paranoid religious retards say. Although it is true that the origins of Halloween are unquestionably Satanic (just like half of everything else in society), people do not celebrate the holiday as such in the United States. I know some people will strongly disagree with me on this topic, but it wouldn't be the first time I am sure. I loved Trick-or-treating as a kid, and I didn't throw tomatoes at anyone's house who didn't answer the door (i.e., there was no mean trick returned if I didn't get a treat).

Neither do Americans worship Babylonian decorated trees at Christmas time (Jeremiah 10:1). It's just a tree, unless you bow down to worship it, which I don't recommend.

Nor do Americans worship Ēostre, the fertility goddess on Easter. It's just fun for the children; coloring and hunting for Easter Eggs.

I am sick and tired of legalists badgering and demonizing everyone for partaking of our traditional American culture during the holidays. In fact, no one is inviting demons into their home by carving pumpkins, coloring Easter eggs or decorating a Christmas tree. So, unless you are a pagan who has a problem with worshipping idols, I say go ahead and enjoy the holidays!

My religious nutcase boss many years ago, freaked out over these crazy things, while strutting around listening to his so-called “Christian rock music,” which is far more spiritually harmful than having fun on Halloween! He told me one day at work that if his church ever gives out pumpkins for Halloween to draw kids to church, he'd quit immediately. What a religious hypocrite! If a local church can give away pumpkins to kids, to encourage them to come learn about Jesus, then I see no harm in that. I am all for using church promotions.

That being said, I think Christian people need to be informed about the dark origin of certain American holidays, but as long as we don't celebrate them in their original sinful design, it's not a sin. As an illustration, I take prescription pain drugs for relentless chronic neck pain, which are potentially lethal if misused. But I have always taken the drugs responsibly, as directed by my doctor. Sadly, many people in the United States are abusive with substances (primarily drugs and alcohol), which is why suffering patients like me cannot obtain an adequate amount of pain medications. It's not fair, but there's nothing I can do about it, except complain. I digress.

I humbly think it's perfectly okay for families to have fun with Santa Claus, just so long as you don't mislead children to think he is real. Kids need to know the truth that Jesus is real, but Santa is not. It is disturbing how upset religious people become over these trifle matters, while neer sharing the Gospel with a single soul. How about paying your bills on time? How about keeping your word? How about returning something that you borrowed but never returned?
I feel sorry for people who've been so brainwashed by religion, that they think it is evil to display pumpkins on Halloween. I love pumpkins, and pumpkin pie! Amen! To eat his own, these are my thoughts.

Churches everywhere are letting the Gospel (the truth) slip away. Today's corrupt Bible colleges like Pensacola Christian College and Bob Jones University are primarily to blame, for sending out theologically incompetent graduates to ruin the churches. They're letting the inspired Word of God slip away, and instead adopting corrupt perversions of God's Word. The consequential results have been devastating.

The free grace Gospel has few friends today. Satan is so clever and subtle that he has billions of heathen hellbound churchgoers convinced that faith must include and/or produce works to be valid. Satan is a beautiful liar! God's curse is upon evil institutions like Pensacola Christian College and their ungodly FOUR DIFFERENT PLANS OF SALAVTION! These people are as unloving and hateful toward outsiders as they are theologically incompetent. As Morgan Freeman says in the 2014 blockbuster movie, 'Transcendence'... “RUN FROM THIS PLACE!”

There are far worse things for us to be concerned about nowadays than people just having fun on the holidays. To each his own. Granted, I wouldn't allow my child to dress up like a witch or a demon, but there are plenty of fun costumes that they can innocently wear. If you don't believe in celebrating certain holidays, then good for you, don't do it. But I don't think anyone should condemn others who do. Some of the biggest religious nutcases I've ever met, made a big fuss over celebrating the traditional holidays of our American culture. I humbly see no harm in it as a Christian.

That all being said, the following information below was written by Tracy at Jesus-is-Lord.com. I sincerely appreciate her opinion and want my web visitors to understand the Satanic origin of our American holidays. But with that in mind, I also do not think it is sinful for parents and their kids to have fun on these holidays. Like everything else, we must exercise discretion.

As a related issue, I love some of the music of The Beach Boys (i.e., Wouldn't It Be Nice), and some by The Beatles (i.e., 'Til There Was You), and The Eagles (i.e., New Kid In Town). Are those bands Christian? No. Are they pleasing to God? No. But I also don't think all of their songs are sinful to listen to. Some of them are, because some songs glorify immoral sex, like “Let's Do It In The Street” by The Beatles (a song clearly intended to upset religious people).

Make your own decisions. When our children were kids we took them out Trick-or-treating every year and we all had a fun time. We'd still do it again. To each their own.

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       Kindly said, the following warning about celebrating Halloween was written by Tracy, author of Jesus-is-Lord.com, and I respect her opinion. That being said, I humbly disagree with her that families who enjoy the holidays (in this case Halloween) are drawing near to witches and demons, and are displeasing the Lord. It sounds good in a sermon, but it's simply not fair to accuse normal families of such evil things just for going out Trick-or-treating. So read this article and take it with a grain of common sense folks. —David J. Stewart

But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress,
the seed of the adulterer and the whore. ~Isaiah 57:3
 

 INTRODUCTION

This introduction is particularly for the professed Christian reader who "celebrates" Halloween / HELLoween. The one who dresses their ignorant child like a devil, or a werewolf or a fairy witch or a magic-working purple dinosaur named Barney. Do you think this is GOOD in the sight of God?

Perhaps you've never stopped to think about God's reaction to horror houses and creep shows and tarot card readers and witches. Perhaps you think Cinderella's fairy godmother is a "good witch". Maybe the "Wizard" of Oz is your favorite movie. Maybe in the old days you watched, "The Ghost and Mrs. (Somebody)." That's necromancy--intercourse with the dead. Necromancer is a Bible word (e.g., Deut. 18:11). I used to be very ignorant of all righteousness. When I was of the world, I probably watched more occult than most people. May I counsel you to shake the fuzz out of your head? What we often call "nostalgia" are the remnants of sorceries that have been worked on us. If you claim to know Christ will you stop to consider WHAT GOD THINKS?

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.

20:6 And THE SOUL THAT TURNETH AFTER such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.

2 Chronicles 33:6 And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and DEALT WITH a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, TO PROVOKE HIM TO ANGER.

Are you angry that these scriptures are before thee? Will you "celebrate" Satan's holiday anyway? If so, your rebellion fits right in with Halloween.

1 Samuel 15:23 For REBELLION is as the sin of WITCHCRAFT, and STUBBORNNESS is as INIQUITY AND IDOLATRY. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.

Sorcerers will go to the lake of fire. Do you allow your children to watch occultic "family" movies and videos? Do you let them read such books? You are selling your own child into the hand of the devil.

Revelation 21:8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

The rebellious may say, "But we are not practicing witchcraft," -- I wouldn't be so sure of that, but I won't argue with you because THE BIBLE SAYS DO NOT EVEN LEARN THE WAYS OF THE HEATHEN--

Jeremiah 10:2 Thus saith the LORD, LEARN NOT THE WAY of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.

The latter part of the above verse speaks to astrology ("astrologer" is a Bible word as are "magician", "stargazers", "monthly prognosticators", etc.). People who claim to the know the Lord (and their children) call 900 numbers, get palms read, etc. They seek unto them that have familiar spirits and unto wizards that peep and that mutter (ref Is 8:19) INSTEAD of living righteously and seeking after God. By their fruits ye shall know them.

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WHERE DID HALLOWEEN COME FROM?

Where Did Halloween Come From?

What is Halloween really all about?

Have you ever asked yourself, "Who in the world ever thought of the idea of walking around in weird costumes, trick or treating, and/or putting a carved-out pumpkin in your window?"

You will agree with me that Halloween is really one of the strangest days of the year, is it not? Perhaps you wonder how the celebration of such a day ever got started. In this pamphlet I would like to answer this question for you!

Where and when did Halloween customs originate?

The many customs we have today in relation to Halloween have their origins in the religious practices of the Romans and the Druids, therefore dating back many centuries. The Romans worshiped various gods and on October 31, a special feast was held in honor of Pomona, goddess of the fruit trees. Later, the Druids, an ancient order of Celtic priests in Britain, made this feast an even more extensive celebration by also honoring Samhain, lord of the dead. This was normally done on November 1 and it was therefore decided to conveniently honor both Pomona and Samhain on October 31 and November 1.

These Druids believed that on the night before November 1 (October 31) Samhain called together wicked souls or spirits which had been condemned to live in the bodies of animals during the year which had just transpired. Since they were afraid of these spirits, they chose October 31 as a day to sacrifice to their gods, hoping they would protect them. They really believed that on this day they were surrounded by strange spirits, ghosts, witches, fairies, and elves, who came out to hurt them. In addition to this, they also believed that cats were holy animals, as they considered them to represent people who lived formerly, and as punishment for evil deeds were reincarnated as a cat. All this explains why witches, ghosts, and cats are a part of Halloween today.

The custom of trick-or-treating and the use of "jack-o'-lanterns" comes from Ireland. Hundreds of years ago, Irish farmers went from house to house, begging for food, in the name of their ancient gods, to be used at the village Halloween celebration. They would promise good luck to those who gave them good, and made threats to those who refused to give. They simply told the people, "You treat me, or else I will trick you!"

The apparently harmless lightened pumpkin face or "jack-o'-lantern" actually is an old Irish symbol of damned soul. A man named Jack was supposed to be able unable to enter heaven due to his miserliness, and unable to enter hell because he had played practice jokes on the devil. As a result, he was condemned to wander over the earth with his lantern until judgment day (i.e., the end of the world). The Irish were so afraid that they would receive an identical plight, that they began to hollow out pumpkins and place lighted candles inside to scare away evil spirits from their home.

When did the modern Halloween celebration begin?

During the Middle Ages (about 600 years ago), the Roman Catholic Church at that time, decided to make the change-over from pagan religion to Christianity a bit easier, and therefore allowed the new converts to maintain some of their pagan feasts. It was agreed, however, that from now on they would be celebrated as "Christian" feasts.

So instead of praying to their heathen gods, they would now pray to, and remember the deaths of saints. For this reason the church decided to call November 1 the "Day of All Saints," and the mass to be celebrated on that day "Alhallowmass."

In consequence of this, the evening prior to this day was named, "All Hallowed Evening" which subsequently was abbreviated as "Halloween." In spite of this effort to make October 31 a "holy evening," all the old customs continued to be practiced, and made this evening anything BUT a holy evening!

Halloween today.

You would have to agree with me that also today Halloween is most definitely not a holy evening!! This annual event is far from the harmless, innocent tradition it is promoted to be. Many dread this "holy" evening as they think what could happen to them, their property, and/or their children! Consistent with its historical roots, this evening is characterized by fear, and frequently arouses dormant fears in many. The fear generated by this event is symbolic of the fear which plagues so many in our modern, morally bankrupt world. It is a gripping fear for an unknown and very threatening future, a fear caused by a gnawing inner emptiness.

An alternative for October 31

For many in this land, this day stands for the very opposite of fear!! On this day in 1517, a German monk and professor of theology, Dr. Martin Luther, courageously published the simple, straightforward truth of the Bible. God's Word, which he has rediscovered after a long and intense spiritual struggle. God used the truth of his own Word to give Luther the inner peace he had so desperately longed for. The Bible pointed him the way to God Himself, and when he found God through Jesus Christ, he found this peace which passes all understanding! He himself stated that it was as if he entered Paradise itself.

As a result of his courageous act on October 31, 1517, the Bible came into the hands of the common people again, and many, who as he, were deeply troubled by sin and it's consequences, found peace with God as well!

It was God himself, Who used Martin Luther to bring His message of deliverance into the hands and hearts of sinners, in order to bring them back to Himself, and give then TRUE peace!! It is therefore with deep gratitude to God that we wish commemorate October 31, as it reminds us of God's gracious and mighty deeds nearly five centuries ago.

It is the Word of God, and its precious truth, rediscover by Martin Luther, which still gives true peace to many today. In the Bible ALONE will you find the ONLY answer to the deep yearning of your heart. ONLY when God becomes your God through Jesus Christ, you will find rest at last and you will answer to the true purpose of human existence, namely, to honor, serve, and enjoy our Creator!!

Is the God of heaven and earth YOUR God? If not, seek Him TODAY, while He still may be found!!

God, manifested in Jesus Christ, invited you Himself in His Word. Turn to the gospel of Matthew and read chapter 11:28,

"Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden and I will give you rest!"

Those who insist on seeking inner peace without being reconciled to God through Jesus Christ, will have to endure eternal misery without God. God does not desire the eternal misery of man and therefore He also extends this invitation in Ezekiel 33:11,

"As I live, saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked (i.e. Sinner) but that the wicked turn from his way and live! Turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways: for why will ye die?"

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CLOSING COMMENT FROM WEB SERVANT OF JESUS-IS-SAVIOR.COM

Now, as I kindly said earlier, I do not fully agree with Pastor Missler that born again Christians who celebrate the fun stuff on Halloween are somehow praising the Devil. I have only shared this important information, so that you can be informed about the true origins of Halloween and decide for yourself how to approach the matter. I fully understand that this is a highly controversial issue for some Christians, and that's okay. But I personally don't have a problem with carving pumpkins, eating Taffy Apples and taking the kids out Trick-or-treating just to have family fun. —David J. Stewart

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