“There are those who rebel against the light, who do not know its ways or stay in its paths” (Job 24:13).
I guess if it’s okay for my Christian friends to post their dark and evil Halloween pictures on Facebook and other places, it must be okay for me to wonder why they took part in the holiday at all. It just doesn’t compute in ‘my renewed mind’ how one can say they believe in the resurrection of the dead because Jesus rose from the dead and then dress like dead people, zombies, skeletons.
“Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will” (Romans 12:2).
It makes no sense that anyone would want to redeem this wicked, lawless, holiday for Christ. I just can’t wrap my brain around how anyone who claims to be a Christian justifies honoring a holiday that Jesus would never have done or condoned because of its darkness. Jesus called us “out of the darkness into His glorious light” (1 Peter 2:9).
Do Christians even shudder at the thought of demons they play with and dress like? They must have forgotten that Jesus cast demons out of people who knew what it was like to be possessed.
“You believe that “God is one”? Good for you! The demons believe it too — the thought makes them shudder with fear!” (James 2:13).
“So he traveled throughout Galilee, preaching in their synagogues and driving out demons” (Mark 1:39).
God used Halloween to set me free from demonic things in my life by showing me demons hanging on people who were ‘harmlessly’ dressed up and unknowingly partying with their possessor on Halloween. It was the most eye-opening moment in my life and changed my spiritual direction drastically. Unfortunately, the gift of discerning spirits isn’t one of the more tolerated gifts in the Body of Christ because so many who are supposed to be holy to the Lord have embraced the world and rationalize their behavior with the world.
You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God” (James 4:4).
Whether or not a Christian realizes it, they will stand before God one day and give an account of their lives. They will have to explain to the King of Kings why they celebrated a holiday that mocked the Father and Creator of Life and His Son who died to bring them life (Romans 14:10).
Kirk Cameron. He is a man who has embraced the world and the things of the world, and then teaches others to do the same with arrogance and ignorance. He has become a spokesman for idolatry and is far removed from the will and purpose of God. He doesn’t know the Scriptures; he twists them as the Adversary did in the wilderness. More importantly, He doesn’t know the God of the Bible except how he has divined Him to be with some ‘feel good about yourself message.’ I can honestly say, “I wouldn’t want to be in his shoes on judgement day.”
I pray for those Christians I know who embrace the death celebration and its trappings through Halloween. The burden on my soul and spirit becomes so great during this time of year. It’s exhausting and draining because I can literally see the evil. Each year my prayer list gets longer because there is a great falling away. Those who didn’t take part in the darkness just a few years ago are doing so now. This year my prayers included an entire local church. I hope that someday each person who I prayed for comes to understand the darkness they have embraced and how the Light of the World continues to shine in the darkness calling them out.
A friend posted a Scripture from Revelation 22:11-12 and it seems appropriate to conclude my post-Halloween thoughts.
“Whoever keeps acting wickedly, let him go on acting wickedly; whoever is filthy, let him go on being made filthy. “Also, whoever is righteous, let him go on doing what is righteous; and whoever is holy, let him go on being made holy.” “Pay attention!” [says Yeshua,] “I am coming soon, and my rewards are with me to give to each person according to what he has done.”
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