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It’s that time again. It’s the autumn.
The leaves are turning colors. They’re falling. It’s getting a little colder. And there’s this holiday again.
What is it with this holiday? Uh, skeletons.
A skeleton. A horse skeleton. A skeleton riding a horse skeleton. A dog skeleton. That’s sad. What’s that about?
A ghost, of course. And spiders, of course. I hate spiders.
What is it about this holiday? Something is not healthy about it. What is it? Okay. What is this all about?
What is Halloween? Is it a fun, nice holiday? Is it satanic?
Should Christians—should people of God—be celebrating it, taking part in it? And what should you do?
Halloween, Christians, Satan. We’re going to open up the mystery of Halloween and what you need to know.
Now, just for starters, think about it.
We’ve got a holiday that focuses on darkness, evil, witches, the occult, monsters, death, graveyards, skeletons, ghosts, spirits.
And you’re supposed to say, “Well, that’s just the kind of thing I’d like my child to have a part in. Evil, witchcraft, spirits, death, graveyards, the living dead. That’s just what I’ve been looking for for my child.”
And what are the children supposed to do? They dress up—often as evil things, often as dead things or ghosts—and they go door to door to the houses of strangers.
What a great idea. Little children and strangers. This great combination.
And at night—going out to strangers at night. And what do we tell the children to do? We say “trick or treat.”
What does that mean? Well, if you don’t give us a treat, we’re going to pull a trick on you. We’re going to do some damage.
Now, there’s a name for that. That’s called extortion.
So, your children are to dress up as evil creatures, go to the houses of strangers, and threaten extortion on them.
What a wholesome holiday this is—teaching your children valuable lessons on how to extort strangers.
And for what? To get candy. Sweets.
So you get home with a bag of candies—we can remember this—and hopefully nothing in there that some twisted person put in that they shouldn’t have.
And then you pig out on the sweets and set yourself up to get diabetes.
And if that’s not bad enough, it’s also connected—it added in a mischief element: vandalism, throwing eggs at cars, wrapping toilet paper around the trees of neighbors, and more.
I mean, not that I—before I knew the Lord—not that I ever did things like that. But this is what happens now.
Now, let’s sum it up.
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You’re sending your children out to celebrate a holiday that focuses on evil, darkness, witches, spirits, death—to likely dress up as evil creatures, go to the houses of strangers, commit extortion or vandalism, and then get diabetes.
We’re producing a generation of diabetic extortionists. What a great holiday this is!
And for your children! And you’re thinking, why didn’t I think of this?
This is Jonathan Cahn.
Imagine it’s a world of insects, and the insects celebrate a holiday.
It’s a holiday of dead insects. They celebrate crushed insects. They’re celebrating decapitated insects, insect skulls, insects’ exoskeletons.
What would that mean? It would mean that you had some real sick bugs—bugs who need therapy.
It would mean that there was something seriously wrong.
Well, that’s Halloween. That’s what we’re doing.
Celebrating dead people, dead bodies, skulls, skeletons. It means there’s something wrong.
Now, we’re going to open up the mystery of Halloween—really what it’s about and what we need to know.
Okay, first, quickly—is it possible that there are avatars of the gods or spirits on the earth right now?
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All right. I have a memory of being a little kid—maybe five years old—and I was with a little girl, maybe also five years old, the daughter of my parents’ friends, and her little brother who was maybe three years old.
And our parents sent us out in the neighborhood to go trick-or-treating on our own.
And they said, “Remember to keep an eye on the little boy.” And I’m thinking, well, who’s keeping an eye on us?
But that was a different America.
In fact, what’s happened to Halloween is kind of a sign of what’s happened to America.
In the late—actually throughout the 1960s—America spent around a total of one to three hundred million dollars a year on costumes and masks.
Now that’s all America. Today, Halloween is a thirteen-billion-dollar industry. It has exploded.
It used to be when you thought of holiday decorations at a house or a lawn, you thought of Christmas—maybe a little Easter—but basically Christmas.
But today, purchases of Halloween decorations are now at fifty percent of Christmas.
Fifty percent! I’m seeing Halloween skeletons all over at Home Depot.
And it’s not the little paper skeletons we might remember. These are massive—six feet, eight feet, ten feet, fifteen feet, twenty feet skeletons—many of them bigger than Christmas trees.
So on one hand, America has been taking the Christ out of Christmas—Jesus, Messiah, Yeshua—out of Christmas, God out of Christmas to secularize it… while America has been increasingly turning to Halloween, the dark holiday, and not taking out the darkness of it but actually getting darker and darker and darker.
Could that be a sign of the darkening of America?
See, when you turn away from God, the gods come in. The spirits come in.
And Halloween is about the gods coming in—or the spirits coming in.
See, when you turn away from God, the pagan takes the place.
And Halloween is the most pagan major holiday we have.
How do we know?
Well, let’s talk about it.
What Is Halloween?
Halloween—strange name for the holiday, because “hallow” means holy. Hallow, as in “hallowed be Thy name.”
So it’s holy. It’s called “holy evening”—“Hallin.” “In” is a form of saying “evening,” so it’s the holy evening or evening of the holy.
It’s linked to All Saints’ Day. And there’s part of it that supposedly is celebrating the saints—as in dead saints, though.
And even that appears to have come from a pagan holiday—a Roman holiday celebrating the dead.
But Halloween is most rooted in the Gaelic lands—as in Ireland, Celtic Scotland—as in the pagan Celtic cultures.
Halloween marked the beginning of the darker half of the year.
At the time, it was seen as a time when the division between this world and the spirit world opened up—so the spirits come into the world and are physically active.
What spirits? Spirits of the dead come in. Spirits of the ancient pagan gods. The demonic spirits.
And so to appease the spirits—people were afraid of them—they would give offerings like sacrifices.
Like giving an offering to God, they would give offerings of food and drink—as in treats.
Or trick-or-treat.
The practice of Halloween also involved, for ages, the practice of divination—divining, as in the occult. Fires were lit to give protective powers.
Part of Halloween’s ancient origin was the practice called “guising”—coming in disguise—or “mumming,” it was called.
People would go house to house in costumes disguised as spirits or souls of the dead.
It was also linked to a practice called “souling”—and they would recite pagan-like verses.
For coming as the dead spirits, they would be given food so that misfortune—or trick—wouldn’t come to the house.
So they’d give an offering—a treat.
That’s where it comes from. Trick or treat.
Having your children dress up—it comes from dressing up as spirits, ghosts, gods, demons—going house to house requiring treats, offerings to the gods or spirits to not bring harm to the house.
Trick or treat.
So it’s not an accident. Halloween is linked to the dead to this day, because that’s its root.
It’s not a departure. That’s the root of it—a pagan holiday about the dead spirits.
The Bible says that behind the gods are what’s called in Hebrew the shadim.
Shadim—in Greek, becomes daimonia, which means demonic spirits.
Spirits behind the gods were spirits.
And it says: have nothing to do with these things.
Now—how did this get to America?
When the Irish and Scottish immigrants came to America, they brought with them Halloween.
So to my Irish and Scottish brothers and sisters—we’ve got to have a talk.
We’ve got to have a sit-down, in love.
We’ve got to have a talk about this. Look at what has happened.
And beyond the pagan roots is the satanic realm.
Halloween is also linked to satanic worship.
It’s a holiday for witches and Satanists alike.
It’s been called one of the four great witches’ Sabbaths—the great Sabbaths of the witches.
A witches’ Sabbath.
It’s been called the second most important day on the satanic calendar.
On Halloween, spells are cast, ceremonies are observed, dark and black magic is practiced. Rituals are performed involving blood and sexuality and demons.
This is not a healthy holiday.
What Should Christians Do Regarding Halloween?
What should believers do?
What should you do?
What should be our stance regarding Halloween?
Should believers take part in it—or even a little bit?
Should believers take part in it—or even a little bit?
Well, ask yourself a question. Imagine Halloween never existed and suddenly it was created today.
So, they come up with a new holiday linked to dead spirits and demons and dressing up based on the original practice of appearing as a demon or a spirit or a dead person.
You probably wouldn’t say, “Hey, that sounds like a great idea! Let’s go for it.”
And if you’re a Christian and you’re seeking to follow God, what do you do with Halloween?
First, two extremes—or sins.
The first is the sin of having to do with evil—joining yourself to darkness or the appearance of evil, the Bible says.
The second is the sin of judging others that you believe are joined to sin and may not be, or to darkness and may not be.
The first is the sin of the pagan world or the apostate. The second is the sin of the Pharisee.
Do we want to avoid both?
Should you have any part in Halloween?
Well, everything I just said points to the fact that Halloween is deeply associated with darkness by its origins, its imagery, its themes, its practices, or the practices that have become associated with it.
But even the original ones—all those things—would argue against a believer taking part in this.
We are told to have nothing to do with the things of darkness and avoid even the appearance of evil.
Halloween has a lot to do with darkness and the appearance of evil.
Now, there’s another side to it.
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Does the fact that a certain day is associated with pagan origins or practices mean that it always has to be evil?
Not necessarily.
There are pagan associations with the celebration of Christmas. And there are believers who, because of that, don’t want anything to do with Christmas—and that is their right.
Paul said, “If one believer holds one day above the rest, let him do so to the Lord. If another holds all days the same, let them do so to the Lord. Do not judge each other—you are each one a servant of God.”
If a believer doesn’t want to take part in Christmas because of the pagan associations with December 25th, and they do so to glorify God—then let them. Don’t judge them.
You don’t know their heart. God does.
And if a believer wants to celebrate Christmas because of the birth of Messiah and they do so to glorify the Lord—let them.
You don’t know their heart. It’s their God they serve.
So because a day or holiday might have pagan associations doesn’t mean that that day is necessarily evil.
Not necessarily.
It can be.
See, if you hold to that, then you can’t do anything on any day.
Because, for instance, Monday is named after the moon—the worship of the moon. Tuesday after a Germanic god. Wednesday after another Germanic or Teutonic god—Woden. Thursday, Friday, Saturday, all named after pagan deities.
Sunday after the sun.
So just because there are pagan associations to a day doesn’t mean that doing anything on that day is paganism. Otherwise, you’d have to lock yourself in your room, pull down the shades, and hope it all goes away.
However—having said that—Halloween is in its own category.
Christmas may have some pagan associations, but they are certainly not central to what Christmas is about, which is the birth of Messiah.
But Halloween—what exactly is it about?
What does it stand for?
It stands for darkness and witchcraft and death.
That’s not extra or added—that’s the heart of it.
That makes it harder to have any part in it.
Now, as children, we dressed up—and I didn’t know the Lord at the time—but we dressed up, we got candy.
That’s what we were thinking about.
And God looks at the heart.
On the other hand, let’s say you lived in Bible times in ancient Israel, and there’s a holiday for Baal.
All the Baal worshipers are worshiping him and sacrificing to a bull-headed god.
They offer sacrifices. They even offer children.
They dress up in pagan costumes. They dance around fires.
Now let’s say you’re not into worshiping Baal, but you like fun. You want parties.
So you don’t sacrifice animals or children—but you have your children dress up in bull-headed costumes and light up a bull-headed lamp at night.
You go through the motions, but you don’t do the actual sacrifices.
Does any child of God really have any business doing that—especially knowing what it’s about?
I would say no.
I’m not judging the heart, and there are undoubtedly Christians who don’t know the connections.
But to follow a pagan holiday—to do what is done that’s actually linked to the pagan parts of it—that’s hitting too close to the darkness.
Even if you don’t do it for the same reason, do you think God would have been pleased to see His ancient people go through the motions of Baal worship?
Not really doing the sacrifices, but mimicking the rituals?
I don’t think so.
So the first option is: have nothing to do with it.
At the same time, don’t become a Pharisee and judge anyone who does.
Pray for them.
Should we sit in our houses on Halloween and pull down the shades, hoping it goes away?
Well, you could do that.
But remember something, too: October 31st, on the other hand, is not sinful.
October 31st is a day that God made—just as He did all days.
The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof.
It’s like people who say, “You cannot worship God on Sunday because Sunday has pagan origins.”
Really?
So then when is worshiping God a sin?
Never.
How Christians Can Redeem Halloween
So is there another option for believers?
There is—and that is to redeem it.
There are churches that have alternatives—harvest festivals or other events—so the children will have something to do to keep them out of that other stuff.
An activity that has to do with God.
Now there will be those who judge that and say, “Well, you’re doing it because of Halloween.”
Well, if you’re bringing the darkness of Halloween, that’s one thing. But if you’re bringing the light of God into darkness—great.
If you’re having an event for God, about God, to God—God bless you.
I can see Paul doing that very thing.
I can see Paul saying, “You know what? The pagan world’s going to worship these gods. You know what? We’re going to have our own celebration to the one true God, and we’re going to invite our pagan neighbors to come and celebrate God on that day.”
Paul said he would use all things by all means that he might save some for God.
There are believers who hand out tracts on Halloween—great.
There are children who don’t do trick-or-treat—they do “tracts or treat,” or both.
There are children who dress up as biblical characters and share the gospel.
We are not to have anything to do with the darkness.
So don’t have anything to do with the darkness of Halloween—but use the day to glorify God.
However you do it, more power to you. Redeem it.
This year Halloween falls on Friday.
At Beth Israel—the congregation I lead in Wayne, New Jersey—one of our main services is on Friday night.
So we’re going to have an anti-Halloween service.
No tricks—but a treat.
The Word and the worship and the power of God and the gospel.
And you know, the one Spirit we’re getting into is the Holy Spirit—the Spirit of the living God.
What you do this Halloween—or any Halloween—you glorify God.
If you glorify God by having nothing to do with it, more power to you.
If you glorify God by redeeming it and having an event, bringing light into it, and doing it for God—more power to you.
God bless you as you do.
And remember—don’t judge the others.
I’m going to give you a word from the Lord in a moment—but quickly before that, to find the avatars of the spirits that are in the world right now—even on the American political stage—could there be avatars of spirits or ancient gods?
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Get it for people in your life as well.
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Closing Word
Put on the full armor of God so you’ll be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil.
Our struggle isn’t against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, the powers, the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the high places.
Take up the full armor of God, my friend, so that you’ll be able to resist on the evil day—and having done all, to stand firm.
Until next time, this is Jonathan Cahn saying, “Be strong in the Lord, my friend, and in the power of His might.”
And happy anti-Halloween day. Shalom.
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