Why I No Longer Celebrate Halloween

Why I No Longer Celebrate Halloween 

By Liz King

    Halloween is soon upon us.  The visions of ghost and ghouls, witches, Jack-o-lanterns, skeletons, graves, and zombies decorate everything from inside homes, lawns, and stores.  Costume shops advertise costumes with children posed with knives and blood pouring from their eyes or mouths or dressed as witches and zombies.  It is a holiday celebrated by witches, warlocks, and Christians.  We easily walk our children through neighborhoods surrounded by things portraying death and the realms of darkness yelling trick or treat as people dressed as witches to Freddy Krueger hand out candy to children as parents joyfully look on. To many it is just an innocent holiday where we dress up and get candy.

    I too was one who loved Halloween.  I spent months preparing the ultimate costume.   I joyfully embraced it. it was just pretend, right?  I decorated my house in everything to witches, jack-o-lanterns, bats, spiders, and ghosts.  I saw it just as a dress up day.  It was fun.  I celebrated it until I started drawing closer to God.  He began changing my heart towards the holiday and began showing me the darkness of it.  October 31 is a day created by God and is ultimately his, but the demonic realm has perverted.     

    Halloween is considered the holiest day to those who practice witchcraft and those who also worship Satan.  I find it interesting that it falls a month after the holiest day of God Yom Kippur also known as day of atonement.  Halloween is considered a day when the veil of the spiritual realm is the thinnest.  It is also a day where spells are cast, even when some participate in sacrifices.  This is not a blog to condemn those who do witchcraft or practice the dark arts because Jesus loves them and died for them.   It is the acts that are condemning.  To God it is an act of rebellion against him because they are worshiping the demonic and not worshipping him.  Many choose this day to get married because of its spiritual significance.  Halloween is considered a holy day, not a holiday.  It is about fear, death, and darkness.  If it is not, why do movies and everything deal with it.  Anton LaVey was the man who wrote the satanic bible and was head of the church of Satan. He is famously quoted saying, "I'm glad that Christian parents let their children worship the devil at least one night out of the year." ~ Anton LaVey, Founder of the Church of Satan. If people who serve the enemy are happy about it then what does that mean for the demonic realm and the heavenly realm?

    As I started growing close to God, I started hearing' "What does light have to do with darkness" 1 Corinthians 6:14-15 14 "Don’t team up with those who are unbelievers. How can righteousness be a partner with wickedness? How can light live with darkness? 15 What harmony can there be between Christ and the devil."  As I pondered this, I began looking through my house and the decorations I had celebrating the holiday.  They were things that God hated the Bible says he abhorred it.  Witchcraft, divination, familiar spirits, death, and it only glorifies what caused and causes man to be separated from God.   God hates death, not only physical but spiritual death.  Death was something the serpent caused in the Garden of Eden. Why do we as Christians celebrate and come into agreement by partaking in things that breaks God's heart, and he hates?  He then had me research everything to bats, spiders, jack-o-lanterns, and other things.  I realized I was entertaining evil and glorifying it and coming into agreement with what God hated.  I threw it all away.  

    I used to dabble in witchcraft.  I participated in covens, participated in summoning circles, cast spells, played with Ouija boards.  If it is an innocent holiday, why does this holiday glorify all of this?  Would we as Christians lead our children into a summoning circle?  Would you allow them to be around Satanists celebrating their dark lord and set them right in the middle of their ritual?  Would you celebrate what demons celebrate?  Why do we walk our children naively through it every Halloween with their spiritual defenses down, teaching them these things are acceptable?  God does have the ultimate power and authority, but he also does not want us to compromise our spirit and our children's.  We cannot walk in agreement.  We need to be in prayer this day.  This is also a very dark day for police because many deal with the death and human and animal sacrifice during Halloween.  We need to be fighting in prayer and spreading the message of Jesus during this day.  As Christians we do not need to dress up as things that God hates like witches, or ghosts which are actually demons known as familiar spirits.  We should not celebrate and glorify death and darkness.  We need to be the light in the darkness.  Do not come in agreement with it and walk your kids into it either.  We cannot compromise our spirit and our Childrens. Do not teach them to celebrate the things God hates. Research the reasons why certain things are done on Halloween.  ask questions why did they dress up?   It was to confuse demonic entities. Is dress up bad? No, but what is the reasoning on Halloween.  Why do we yell Trick or Treat?

    Having a harvest fest or a Christian alternative is cool but don't dress up as thing God hates or glorify the darkness.  Share the gospel and be the light of Jesus and celebrate life, not darkness.  If we are truly his, we need to be willing to seek what he thinks of it.  This is what God has shown me and I have been mocked by many because of it, but I cannot compromise and come into agreement with the darkness.  I'd rather be the light and share the light and walk in the light.  So, seek God's feelings on this.  Do a Christian alternative without compromising you or your Children's spirit.  The thing that has kind of helped me is by asking the question would Jesus entertain it? Can I see Jesus doing it and would it bring him joy.  Does it bring glory to Jesus or does it bring glory to the darkness.