Halloween EQUALS Christians and their Kids against the Anointing Of Christ?
…“associated with high human death tolls”
Hey, my Christian brothers & Sisters, with all due respect, can you give your heads a shake? Seriously!
Christian, again– means; little anointed ones. That’s us, Christians named after Jesus, “The Anointed One.” Death, occult, ghosts ghouls and goblins??? These are against Christ, Anti-Christ, Against the Anointing, Anti-Anointing!!!
Are you serious? Nothing makes me more ashamed of my family in Christ then to see parents willingly being ignorant of the meanings and importance that the impact of their support of a death spirit, an ANTI-CHRIST | PRO-WORLDLINESS spirit will have on their children as they grow up, beleiving there is nothing wrong with this holiday.
You dress em up, and take em out? Why? Because the world is doing it? For pity sake, buy them some candy! On ANOTHER DAY than this! Teach your children to stand up for right! Take them through-out the year and dress them up like bunnies and birdies and other cute things, then make it a photo day or celebrate the fun with them just because you like to see them smile and laugh.
You wait to do it at halloween? And you make a grevious error my friend! You greive the Holy Spirit and you MAKE NO DIFFERENCE IN A WORLD GONE MAD THAT WORSHIPS THE OCCULT AND DEATH, MURDER & VIOLENCE!!!
Sadder even to think the cost you receive for compromising? Laying down your faith to appease this world? A wretched fistful of chocholate or candy! Shame on every one of you!!! Even Judas got 30 peices of silver for his betrayal of the Master.
Still think I am over-reacting, Pray, then Please read the following… Then Pray some more!
WESTERN KY (10/30/11)—Halloween is America’s second largest commercial holiday, raking in an estimated $6.9 billion in sales each year, yet the celebration itself has come a long way since its beginnings around 2 centuries ago.
This particular time of year was often associated with high human death tolls as well. In fact, many in the Celtic culture believed that on the night before the New Year, the threshold separating the world of the living and the world of the dead became harder to distinguish. It was on this night-the night of October 31st- that they celebrated the aforementioned Samhain, during which it was believed that the ghosts of the dead returned to the earth. In addition to causing general mayhem and destroying crops, Celts believed that the presence of the ghostly spirits in the human world made it easier for the Celtic priests (Druids) to make predictions about the future.
To commemorate the event, Druids built huge sacred bonfires, where the people gathered to burn crops and animals as sacrifices to the Celtic deities. It was also during this celebration that the Celts wore pagan costumes, which many times included the donning of both animal heads and skins. It was also during this celebration that the Celts attempted to tell each other’s fortunes. When the celebration came to an end, hearth fires were re-lit in order to help protect their health during the coming winter. However, by A.D. 43, the Romans had taken control over much of the Celtic territories. During the nearly four hundred years that they ruled the Celtic lands, two festivals of Roman inception were fused with the traditional Celtic celebration of Samhain.
The first of the Roman celebrations to become infused with Celt tradition was Feralia, which was normally celebrated in late October when the Romans commemorated the passing of the dead. The second was a day to honor Pomona, the Roman goddess of fruit and trees. The symbol of Pomona is the apple and the incorporation of this celebration into Samhain could explain the more “modern” Halloween tradition of “bobbing” for apples. By the 800s, the influence of Christian religion had extended across the Roman/Celtic lands, and during seventh century, Pope Boniface IV named November 1st as “All Saints’ Day” (a time to honor saints and martyrs).
As most historians agree, the pope was more than likely trying to substitute the Celtic festival of the dead with a related, but church-sanctioned holiday. The religion-oriented celebration was sometimes called “All-hallows” or “All-hallowmas” as well (possibly derived from Middle English “Alholowmesse” meaning “All Saints’ Day”). In addition, the night before the festivity-originally the night of Samhain-began to be called “All-hallows Eve,” which eventually evolved into the moniker we know today: Halloween. Following this time period (around A.D. 1000) the Catholic Church also went on to title November 2nd as “All Souls’ Day,” which paid homage to the memory of the dead. Celebrated in a manner similar to the Celt’s Samhain, the memorial festival included the lighting of large bonfires, parades, and dressing up in costumes such as saints, angels, and devils. Together, the three celebrations, the eve of All Saints’, All Saints’, and All Souls’, were called Hallowmas.
Later on, European immigrants came to America, bringing with them their varied Halloween customs. However, as a result of the rigid Protestant and/or Puritanical belief systems that dominated early New England culture, the celebration of Halloween in colonial times was extremely limited in these particular regions. The celebration was much more accepted in Maryland and the southern colonies, though, and as the beliefs and traditions of different European groups, as well as forms of misunderstood Native Indian beliefs concerning life after death, meshed together, a uniquely American version of Halloween began to surface.
Interestingly enough, some of the first Americanized celebrations included “play parties” and/or public events held to commemorate the harvest, during which neighbors would share stories of the dead, tell each other’s fortunes, dance, and sing together.
Then, in the second half of the nineteenth century, a massive wave of new immigrants swept into the country. Of these new arrivals-with special regards to the millions of Irish families attempting to escape Ireland’s potato famine of 1846-many helped to make Halloween a nationally celebrated event.
With a heavy influence from Irish and English customs, many Americans began to dress up in costumes and go house to house asking for food or money, a practice that eventually became today’s “trick-or-treat” tradition. Additionally, Young women believed that they could divine the name or appearance of their future husband on Halloween by doing tricks with yarn, apple parings, or mirrors.
However, in the late 1800s, Halloween began to focus more on community-oriented and/or neighborly values. At the turn of the century, Halloween parties for both children and adults became the most popular way to celebrate the day. Parties focused on games, foods of the season, and festive costumes. Parents were also encouraged by newspapers and community leaders to take anything “frightening” or “grotesque” out of Halloween celebrations. In fact, it was mostly because of their efforts that Halloween lost most of its superstitious and religious overtones by the beginning of the twentieth century.
As a result, by the 1920s and 1930s, Halloween was an almost wholly secular event. Yet, in the face of strong efforts from many schools and communities to keep the holiday “clean” and “happy,” vandalism began to plague Halloween celebrations in many communities during this time. By the 1950s, though, town leaders all over the nation had successfully limited vandalism and Halloween became a holiday geared toward our country’s youth. Due to the high numbers of young children during the fifties baby boom, parties moved from town halls into the classroom or home, where they could be more easily accommodated. Between 1920 and 1950, the centuries-old practice of trick-or-treating was also revived. At its base, trick-or-treating was a relatively inexpensive way for an entire community to share the Halloween celebration, and, in theory, families could also prevent “tricks” from being played on them by providing the neighborhood children with small treats.
From all of these changes and mergers of tradition through time and cultures, a distinctly American tradition was born, and it has continued to grow into today. From massive bowls of candy, to high-end costumes, all the way to the thrill of being frightened in haunted houses, the American Halloween has now trumped other holidays in terms of related sales revenue, such as Thanksgiving and Easter, and has also come to be one of our strongest community-oriented celebrations.
Luke Short
SurfKY News
Some information provided by The History Channel (www.history.com)
HOLLOWEEN’S OCCULT CONNECTION
An Important Exerpt To Round out the truth about this Modern Demonic Holiday:
Read the full Article the following excerpt was taken from here: http://www.believersweb.org/view.cfm?ID=614
Probably the best documentation as to whether modern day witches actually celebrate Halloween comes from their own testimony. When asked “Does anyone today celebrate Samhain (Halloween) as a religious Holiday?” a major witches’ organization responded, “Yes, many followers of various pagan religions, such as Druids and Wiccans (witches), observe this day as a religious festival. They view it as a memorial day for their dead friends similar to the national holiday of Memorial Day in May. It is still a night to practice various forms of divination concerning future events. Also, it is a time to…initiate new projects.” (from Cult Watch Response, October 1988, Vol. 1, No. 1).
Witches and Satanists love Halloween. They get a lot of media coverage around that time of year. It’s good P.R. (public relations) for them. That coverage usually portrays them in a favorable light. In addition, it generates interest in “the craft” and is good for recruitment purposes. As Craig Hawkins put it, “…with increasing vigor, witchcraft is coming `out of the broom closet.’ Many witches are actively seeking public understanding and acceptance.” (quote from an article in Christian Research Journal; Winter/Spring 90 entitled “The Modern World of Witchcraft” by Craig S. Hawkins.)
Despite the public relations campaign to “sell” the public on the “virtues” of witchcraft, modern day witches and Satanists still worship demon gods & goddesses, practice bizarre & immoral sexual rituals, and certain groups offer animal and human sacrifices.
Noted New Age Researcher Texe Marrs said this about the activities of witches on Halloween. “…our own research confirms that on this unholy night [Halloween], witches’ covens meet, drink, dance, spit out curses and spells, conjure up spirits, engage in sexual orgies, induct new members, and offer up animal and human sacrifices. (Witches have become expert at covering up these sacrifices by use of cremation ovens and the use of privately owned land preserves for disposal of bodies in deeply dug graves.)” He goes on to say, “Somewhere in America in the week prior to this coming Halloween, children will be kidnapped by witches and become statistics as `missing children.’ …While chances of your children being snatched may be remote, never the less we believe caution and good judgment is in order.”
Jack Roper, occult researcher with C.A.R.I.S. (Christian Apologetics: Research & Information Service) says “…the time of the year where you have the highest rate of Satanic ritual crimes is Halloween.”
Jack also said, “Around Halloween, one of the things you see are graveyard desecrations.” Self-styled Satanists use human bones in their rituals. Graveyard vandalism is a common Halloween occurrence.
Read the full Article the preceeding excerpt was taken from here: http://www.believersweb.org/view.cfm?ID=614
In closing: Now, remember this:
If only we make our children feel like there is nothing wrong with this event, we open the doors to invite them to be lured into experimentation; even if the wiccan and new agers disguise it in the form of being crazy and random or having a crazy time at parties. The danger for anyone who allows this in their lives is real.
GOD WILL HAVE NO OTHER gODS BEFORE HIM.
Are you ready to repent??? If you really are, then pick up the phone and call a pastor or brother or sister you fought with about this and called religeous because you wanted to let your children in on the chance to grab some candy and apologise to them and STOP COMPROMISING TO MAKE THE WORLD HAPPY! Better yet, keep your spirit right, keep your spirit | the spirit of your family, safe, protect your soul, take a stand against this extreme unrighteousness.
Christians observing halloween? That’s absolutely ludicrous!
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