CELEBRATE LIFE NOT DEATH

Thursday 31 October

Take no part in and have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds and enterprises of darkness, but instead [let your lives be so in contrast as to] expose and reprove and convict them. For it is a shame even to speak of or mention the things that [such people] practice in secret. Ephesians 5:11-12 (AMPC)

It’s that time of year again where many stop to celebrate Halloween. There are many views about the origins of Halloween but the general gist of it is people communicating with their dead relatives during the festival of Samhain because the veil between the living and the dead was supposedly at its thinnest on that day. This is where the concept of haunting is said to have come from.

In ancient times the Celts wore frightening costumes to make the evil spirits think that they were also evil spirits, so they would leave them alone. It has been said that the Catholic Church even tried to Christianise it by having it on All hallows Eve which was the night before All Saints Day. That didn’t seem to work out too well.

Whether you subscribe to any of these facts, one thing is for sure. Halloween is a celebration of death and not life. You only have to look at the costumes that people wear to realise that. When you listen to the multiple eye witness accounts of those who have come out of the occult, they all claim that it is a time of great wickedness with child sacrifices and an increase of heinous satanic rituals. Why would they all say the same thing if it wasn’t true?

Like most things that get hijacked by Satan, it seems to get darker and darker every year. The more gruesome the costume the better. The gorier, the more attention people can get. This morbid fascination with evil has heightened over time as gradualism has taken its toll on the sensibilities and morality of the masses. All in the name of fun and candy.

Some believe that if they get their kids to dress up like a superhero or an angel that is somehow negates the power of association of what Halloween stands for. If your child was sacrificed in the name of Satan and someone else was taking their child around in dressed up with a fake blood-soaked outfit looking like death, how would you feel about it?

Why does it seem like there are so many Christians, who are the light of the world, so hell bent on associating with darkness? It is a blatant glamourisation of evil. There is a perspective that Christians should participate in the festivities so as to have an impact for good. Rather than fellowship with the darkness, the Body of Christ should pray for those who celebrate Halloween rather than join in on something that represents darkness whichever way you look at it.

Believers are to walk in the light not creep around in the dark. We should be celebrating life not death. The world doesn’t know any better. I hope you do.

APPLICATION

Blessed is the man who walks not after the counsel of the ungodly, Nor stands in the path of sinners, Nor sits in the seat of the scornful.

Psalm 1:1 (NIV)