Caution, Halloween Ahead!

Let me be upfront and come right out and say I don’t like Halloween. I never did.  And I regret my participation in it, however small, all those years ago. But I’ve come to dislike it more with every passing year. 

I remember when my children were young and our “Halloween decorations” consisted of a smiling pumpkin either drawn on or cut out of a real one, and a few cute pictures of kittens pasted on the windows.  That was it!  Now there are talking witches, ghouls of all kinds, skeletons that look real, and all manner of ugly, evil looking figures. 

Their costumes were different too: hobos were popular, so were princesses, dogs, tin men.  All tame compared to the costumes of today that evoke pure horror.

Did you know that Halloween is the second most lucrative holiday for retailers?  Coming in only second to Christmas? And every year the decorations appear earlier on shelves, and are darker and uglier.

But why should I be surprised? When it’s one of the most important days on the Satanic calendar. Originally a Druid celebration, Satanists have instituted it as a day to celebrate death.  They offer animal sacrifices and sometimes human ones, as well. Shocking, but true.

Oh, I know.  The vast majority of those who celebrate Halloween aren’t Satanist.  But the Bible says that we will “know them by their fruits,” and we could be spreading these “fruits” without meaning to.

And what exactly are the fruits of Halloween? Generally speaking? Well, it’s a time many dabble in the occult for “laughs” and do things expressly forbidden by the Bible like participate in séances, get their fortunes told, try their hand at the Ouija board. Other “fruits” are darkness, fear, dread, oppression, just to name a few. And if God is light, should we help create darkness? If He is joy and peace, should we be spreading fear and dread?  If He is freedom, should we be celebrating oppression? 2 Corinthians 6:14 says, “What fellowship has righteousness with unrighteousness: and what communion has light with darkness?”

On the other hand, we are not to fear Halloween, no matter how important it is to Satan.  After all, that day, and every day, is “the day the Lord has made.” And that day, though not the way it is celebrated, is good because God has made it.  But when it comes, when October 31^st rolls around, remember we are called to be light. And what better time to shine than when it’s dark?

Until next week,

Sylvia