VOICE OF TRUTH FOR TODAY
In the USA there is something celebrated every October 31 called Halloween. As I’ve grown in my walk with Christ and asked God for His wisdom as a Christ follower, I have concerns. This particular day comes with many people blindly celebrating this with their children while saying, “I just do it for fun.”
Please be cautious.
I had fun too and while doing it, I ignored looking deeper unfortunately. Could it be because I didn’t want to hear the alternative or miss out? Probably.
Halloween is a touchy subject to a lot of us in different ways. But those who are unaware and do not see any of the dangers can quickly be decieved due to its pagan origins. It is associated with the worship of deities – other than God!
The focus theme of the enemy here is to take our eyes of God and celebrate the day and month on themes of darkness, death, and the occult. It is all about the demonic influence permeating everything it can in a specific time frame! Look at ads for movies on TV, soo many demonic, scary, influences. People just buy into it as fun…..for a time, but what does this do to our spirit as a believer? And our kids we suscept to this???
These are issues that should alarm us and make us think twice about what we participate in or allow our children to be part of. Many evil acts happen around this time. We are indirectly teaching our kids that promoting evil or worshipping false gods is ok when the Bible clearly instructs us not to have any part of it. We are to guard our children’s hearts and protect them wherever we can.
I did some investigating before writing this and of course prayed several times through writing this out here. Be assured…. There is a spirit world all around us, watching us and pressing in where we allow it entrance.
“Your hand-to-hand combat is not with human beings, but with the highest principalities and authorities operating in rebellion under the heavenly realms. For they are a powerful class of demon-gods and evil spirits that hold this dark world in bondage.” (Ephesians 6:12)
Halloween stems from the Celtic festival of Samhain, where it was thought spirits could easily cross over into the human world, which is seen as a practice contrary to our belief in Jesus Chist and God our Father and eternity.
The Halloween decorations and costumes involve imagery associated with darkness, like witches, ghosts, and vampires, which no matter how it’s viewed, it highly promotes evil and demonic forces. These forces don’t need to be tempted because they are real and alive already and wanting to devour us and our children and grandchildren together. Why would we even go anywhere near such a thing and tempt a seed planted in our young ones and their innocent minds? I can hardly believe I fell into the “it’s ok, no harm in it” trap!
The Bible clearly guides us in Deuteronomy 12:31 (“You shall not worship the LORD your God in that way”) so shouldn’t we avoid putting these practices of staying far and clear into our “Littles” lives???
I get it, not everyone believes they should avoid Halloween, and many find ways to participate while remaining consistent with their walk with Jesus by non-threatening costumes and focusing on the community aspect of trick-or-treating. It’s a personal conviction of what you feel. I just felt led today as I prayed and felt prompted by God to “share this.” So I am.
Maybe use Halloween as an opportunity to share your reason you don’t participate in identifying with the crowds of followers and then share your faith. It takes courage to do this and stand firm! We are each going to be accountable to God, and dont think He won’t ask you about this one day! He will. Especially what we teach our children and what we are accountable in doing with this so called celebration of Halloween. Our small kids are His children before they are ours. God has entrusted them to us. Please protect their minds which belong to God.
I’d love to hear any comments you feel. ❤️