Can We Celebrate Halloween?

This article might ruffle a few feathers, but my hope is that whoever reads it does so with a heart open to whatever the Holy Spirit might be speaking through it. If you have been convicted lately to study this topic further, may this information help you draw a line in a society where all the lines are being blurred.

I used to be frustrated by those who brought up the "dark histories" of holidays as I thought the past shouldn't matter as long as the intentions were right. And what if we are using these holidays to bring people to Christ too? Aren't we glorifying God by doing so? I dismissed the arguments against this for years. It was only after I started to understand the difference between man’s traditions and God’s, that I revisited the subject and realized I needed to change my views. It's not easy to do that at all, and you receive harsh backlash, because tradition is a holy grail to all whether or not it has any scriptural backing. We don't like to be told there's something wrong with what we're doing.

I want to begin by first laying down a foundation using the following verses. Read them carefully, please, and mark how serious these things are in God’s eyes.

Leviticus 20:2-8 “Say to the people of Israel, Any one of the people of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stones. I myself will set my face against that man and will cut him off from among his people, because he has given one of his children to Molech, to make my sanctuary unclean and to profane my holy name. And if the people of the land do at all close their eyes to that man when he gives one of his children to Molech, and do not put him to death, then I will set my face against that man and against his clan and will cut them off from among their people, him and all who follow him in whoring after Molech. If a person turns to mediums and necromancers, whoring after them, I will set my face against that person and will cut him off from among his people. Consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, for I am the Lord your God. Keep my statutes and do them; I am the Lord who sanctifies you. 

Deuteronomy 18:10-14 There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer or a charmer or a medium or a necromancer or one who inquires of the dead, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord. And because of these abominations the Lord your God is driving them out before you. You shall be blameless before the Lord your God, for these nations, which you are about to dispossess, listen to fortune-tellers and to diviners. But as for you, the Lord your God has not allowed you to do this. 

Leviticus 17:10,11 “If any one of the house of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn among them eats any blood, I will set my face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from among his people. For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it for you on the altar to make atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that makes atonement by the life."

Understanding that once those who unrepentantly practiced all these abominations were put to death or else ostracized, picture now parents dressing their children in the very trappings of these sentenced people, laughing, joking, and making light of darkness, of blood, of sorcery, and of demonic powers. Is it any wonder why so many children are disturbed, anxious, and oppressed these days?

I think we can all acknowledge that Halloween is a celebration of death, trickery/deception, and sorcery. Christians have softened the more disturbing elements of this holiday by creating traditions like “trunk or treat”, but is poison wrapped in sugar any less poisonous? Why should our traditions be built off satanic ones? Does God create holy things using evil? No matter how innocent some of us may believe the traditions of today's Halloween are, by partaking in rituals that are piggybacking off ones used in Satanic practice, we are joining in on the world’s rebellion against God’s warnings. We cannot dabble our feet in fire and remain unharmed. I think it is so important to note that all the holidays of the world, especially the ones rebranded by Catholicism, were at one time (and in some places still are) celebrated with the death of both adults and children. Satan is fixated on death. Death was brought into the world by disobeying God, so why would any reborn believer want to go back to acknowledging the very curse they were redeemed from?

Halloween isn’t the only holiday with a dark past related to death, and to drive home just how saturated in the occult our society is, I want to mention the other holidays. Halloween is bedecked in candy and games to make it appear innocent, but turn your eyes now to the beautiful lights, family time, gifts, and delicacies experienced during Christmas. Surely there is no death and darkness that these lovely things are hiding...

If you study the history of Christmas traditions or the characters behind Santa Claus and his elves, sadly, you’ll find they have all the exact same origins as Halloween does. We’ve been told it all originated from a man called Nicolas who did good deeds around this time, but Christmas traditions were around way before Nicolos was. It is no coincidence that all these Catholic holidays fall on the same days as Satanic ones and use many of the same rituals. This is why so many are starting to forsake Christmas lately. Not because the day itself is evil, but because they are discovering the meaning behind all these harmless-seeming old traditions.

Christmas Eve and Christmas Day are among the highest holy days in Satanic practice and have been for thousands of years. Their observers honor these days with blood sacrifices. Why do you think the color red is associated with Christmas? They used to sing songs to drown out the cries of the infants who were sacrificed, which eventually morphed into people singing carols. Kissing under the mistletoe, bringing holly, ivy, and live trees into the home, offering gifts (sacrifices) under green trees – all these things were at one time done in honor of the gods. People would also have orgies on these high days so that they would conceive and bear children in time for the child sacrifices that occurred during the fall equinox. You have to ask yourself, is it really harmless to practice the symbols of the rituals just because you would never dream of doing the actual rituals themselves?

Easter is another high holy day in ancient Satanism. Ever wonder where the practice of painting eggs and eating ham came from? According to Babylonian legend, after Shem killed Nimrod, Nimrod ascended to become the sun god, and his rays miraculously impregnated Semiramis (see how Satan mocks God by creating a “virgin-birth” thousands of years before the true prophecy would be fulfilled through Mary). Tammuz her son, regarded as the son of the sun god, was born on the winter solstice (Christmas season). Tammuz later died in a hunting accident, being killed by a wild boar, and his followers mourned him for 40 days, which eventually became the practice of Lent. After Semiramis's death, she was said to have been reborn as the spring fertility goddess, known as Easter (Ashtarte). Legend says she emerged from a giant egg in the Euphrates River and turned a bird into an egg-laying rabbit. The priests of Easter would engage in fertility rituals and later sacrificed the children, using their blood to paint Easter eggs. The 40 days of mourning for Tammuz marked the beginning of the Easter fertility season, culminating in a feast where the wild boar that killed Tammuz was eaten as ham on Easter Sunday.

Ezekiel 8:13,14 He said also to me, “You will see still greater abominations that they commit.” Then he brought me to the entrance of the north gate of the house of the Lord, and behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz. 

So you see, these traditions are ancient. Catholicism merely took them and renamed them. Early pagans who converted to Christianity continued to eat ham on Easter Sunday, and they dyed eggs red to symbolize the blood of Jesus. Shouldn’t we be offended by the mixing of pagan rituals with holiness? It is joining in on Satan's mockery of God. When the Catholics claim that their faith is older than even Christianity, they are right. Their religion goes back to the Tower of Babel and Nimrod along with the queen of heaven, Tammuz’s mother, or in Catholic doctrine, Mary.

Jeremiah 7:17,18 Do you not see what they are doing in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? The children gather wood, the fathers kindle fire, and the women knead dough, to make cakes for the queen of heaven. And they pour out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke me to anger. 

Jeremiah 10:2-4 Thus says the Lord: “Learn not the way of the nations, nor be dismayed at the signs of the heavens because the nations are dismayed at them, for the customs of the peoples are vanity. A tree from the forest is cut down and worked with an axe by the hands of a craftsman. They decorate it with silver and gold; they fasten it with hammer and nails so that it cannot move.

In the apostle Paul’s day, there were many heathen converts to the Hebraic faith, and although this was a wonderful fulfillment of the prophecy that God would through Abraham’s offspring join many nations to Himself, it also brought with it many problems. The nations did not want to give up their traditions. They continued to observe their pagan holidays, and it corrupted Christianity very early on.

Galatians 4:8-11 Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to those that by nature are not gods. But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more? You observe days and months and seasons and years! I am afraid I may have labored over you in vain. 

God is not against tradition. Tradition is something instinctual within human nature to help us remember the things that are important and dear to us. This is why God gave His people many traditions in His law, to help us remember what is good and holy. For those who are loathe to give up Halloween, Christmas, and Easter because of the precious memories they hold, there is a solution, and that is to take up God’s holy days. Forsake the heathen ones.

I am sorry to have had to share such hard things. I actually avoid digging too deep into the historical records because of how disturbing it can be, but some knowledge of it is necessary if we want to understand why we practice certain rituals. For anyone who is struggling with the things that I’ve shared here and believes that we can take pagan days and make them holy or “claim them for God”, God actually says in His Word that we are not to do this. We are not to use their traditions and meld them with what is sacred and set apart. That is mixing clean with unclean, light with darkness.

Isaiah 5:20 Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

Ezekiel 22:26 Her priests have done violence to my law and have profaned my holy things. They have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they taught the difference between the unclean and the clean, and they have disregarded my Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.

Deuteronomy 12:29-31 “When the Lord your God cuts off before you the nations whom you go in to dispossess, and you dispossess them and dwell in their land, take care that you be not ensnared to follow them, after they have been destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire about their gods, saying, ‘How did these nations serve their gods?—that I also may do the same.’ You shall not worship the Lord your God in that way, for every abominable thing that the Lord hates they have done for their gods, for they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods. 

2 Corinthians 6:16-18 What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, “I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome you, and I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.” 

1 Corinthians 10:18-22 Consider the people of Israel: are not those who eat the sacrifices participants in the altar? What do I imply then? That food offered to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything? No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons. You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons. Shall we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he? 

Romans 12:1,2 I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. 

I want to encourage anyone who has been convicted over the deeper meaning of society’s holidays to go and study the Seven Holy Days of God. Many people believe they are Jewish holy days, but actually, God’s word tells us that He made them for everyone who would join himself to the House of Israel through Jesus Christ. Each holy day or feast points to Christ and either the finished work that He did or else the work that He has yet to do. I will briefly introduce the feasts and their meanings to you here, and hopefully that will whet your appetite to dig deeper!

Passover – Jesus died on Passover day, becoming the Passover lamb that takes away the sin of the people.

Feast of Unleavened Bread – During this feast, Jesus, wholly sinless, took on the sin (leaven) of the world. He was cast out like the leaven was to be and put in the grave. Jesus is the unleavened Bread of Life.

Feast of Firstfruits – Jesus rose from the dead on this day and became the first fruit of the resurrection.

Pentecost – On this day Moses gave Israel the law and Jesus sent the Holy Spirit to His followers.

Feast of Trumpets – This feast has not been fulfilled yet; however, it is very likely that Jesus’ birth was around this time (His First Coming), and many Christians believe that His Second Coming will be on this feast day after the blast of the last trumpet.

Day of Atonement – This day too has yet to be fulfilled. On this day all the righteous and unrighteous will be judged, and Jesus’ atonement will cover the righteous.

Feast of Tabernacles – This feast will be fulfilled during Jesus’ millennial reign (see Zachariah 14). It is the marriage feast of the Lamb when He will tabernacle among us.

Revelation 21:3,4 And I heard a great voice out of Heaven, saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God with men! And He will tabernacle with them, and they will be His people, and God Himself will be with them as their God. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes. And death shall be no longer, nor mourning, nor outcry, nor will there be pain anymore; for the first things passed away.”