Thank you for the historical insight, and going through all of the new-age and occultist activities that Christians can ignorantly get involved in! Our pastor teaches us about these things too! Amen.
I praise God my son grew up doing Hallelujah Nights back in the 90’s. We did it ON the 31st, and our children invited friends. We had salvations every year, and it added whole families to the Lord. We really as a church made it the the best with good candy & all our children just had a ball. We turned it into a night to praise God and bless our children! No dark or demonic ANYTHING & no Trick or treating. It saddens me to see too many churches trying to have it both ways - a Fall festival of some sort on a nite other than the 31st. But what happens? Many church kids go to the Fall festival, but then also go Trick or Treating on Halloween Night. Praise God for He makes sure we know the TRUTH. Let’s get this out everywhere so our friends, family especially the Christians we know truly understand this because most pastors never go into this that deeply!
Thanks, Rick. Our neighborhood Bible Time group is going to have an alternative "Hallelujah" party next week to celebrate the goodness of God with a great SuperBook DVD, pizza, and fun, concluding with light "RocketCopters" that give a simple, no harm, "lightshow" to declare "God is Light and in Him, there is no darkness at all!" 1 John 1:5. Thank You!
Modern Halloween as we know it today is just that - a modernly invented ‘holiday’ combining elements of an earlier American tradition called “Hell Night”, along with a healthy dose of good old “Hollywood” thrown in for good measure. Virtually _all_ American customs associated with Halloween originated right around the 1920’s - 1930’s or so. While there are some vestigial elements from pre-Christian religions in some of the customs (the "apple" traditions - bobbing for apples for example, but that's from the Romans, not the Celts) , the modern costumes, the blood, the gore, the reveling in death and destruction, the candy, even ‘trick or treat’ itself, dates no earlier than 1900’s America. In short, it’s a relatively new phenomenon and represents a mix of cultures, capitalism, and accommodation. Many people seem to associate modern Halloween with three things: The old Celtic New Year’s celebration of Samhain (in asserting that most of Halloween’s customs can be traced to Samhain celebrations); Satanism (asserting that Halloween’s origins are Satanic as evidenced by the many Satanists who use this day to promote their beliefs); and All Saints Day (asserting that the early church established the holiday to “Christianize” Samhain). Upon a more critical examination however, these associations fall more into the categories of wishful thinking and urban legend than actual historical fact. It's simply not a holiday that has close ties to the ancient past, nor does it have some ‘pagan’ antecedent, nor is a continuation of several ancient customs, as some would have one believe. Perhaps the most difficult aspect of researching the various origins, traditions, and, ‘assumed truths’ about Halloween, is sifting through all the data and separating historical _fact_ from historical ‘myth’, ‘(urban) legend’, and fiction. What we find, is that the origin of most Halloween traditions/beliefs comes from latter (historical fiction), rather than the former (historical fact). All three holidays, Halloween, All Saint’s Day, and Samhain share a common date and perhaps a “feeling”, but that’s really about it. Indeed, so much of Halloween “feels” Pagan that attempts to connect those things to ancient Samhain simply “feels right”. Contrary to what some would have one believe, the Bible does not say _anything_ about Halloween - passages are typically cherry-picked, often completely out of context, and applied to a preconceived notion about Halloween based more on myths, legends, outright nonsense, and misconceived assumptions, than actual historical fact. When one participates in Halloween, one is not participating in ‘evil’ or ‘death’ per se; rather one of the points of the modern holiday is to mock these things. I think that’s a major point many people seem to completely miss or not quite understand. In a way, it’s remotely akin to the Medieval “Feast of Fools”. From a Christian viewpoint, it can be said that death is mocked, because Christ conquered death. On another philosophical/psychological level, it allows people to explore their “darker side/psyche”, if you will. A time to explore a side of themselves they would not normally expose or perhaps even consider. It’s a part of being human. A time to play on a few of the basic/core fears of man - fear of the dark, and fear of death - the aspects of these fears that people just don’t like to think about are now exposed for all to ‘see’ and ‘experience’. A sort of annual self-check to make sure that part of our humanity is still there, so to speak. In the end, most people realize it for what it is. Samhain/Halloween is to some people a very spiritual and magickal time of the year; for some it’s a time of fun and candy, perhaps a way to celebrate Fall in general. Still for others, perhaps a time to contemplate their own mortality since the modern holiday mocks death. Some perhaps are not quite sure what to make of it and prefer to steer clear of it, but however you wish to celebrate it….or not - Halloween is only ‘evil’ if one chooses to make it so.
HALLOWEEN is exactly what the Bible says it is - it is demonic and witches, warlocks and high level occultists that get set FREE and now follow Jesus WILL ALL TELL YOU THAT. We are not ignorant of satan’s devices.
@@MTknitter22 That’s a typical conservative Christian view - ‘influenced’ (to put it nicely) by all the misinformation about this holiday, preached as if it were absolute truth. There are zero references to Halloween in the Bible - passages such as those in Deuteronomy are typically cherry-picked, completely out of context, and applied to a preconceived notion about Halloween based more on myths, legends, complete untruths and misinformation than actual historical fact.
if God forbids something he ALWAYS does so for our benefit, not our detriment
Thank you for the historical insight, and going through all of the new-age and occultist activities that Christians can ignorantly get involved in! Our pastor teaches us about these things too! Amen.
Thank you Pastor Renner! God bless you!
I praise God my son grew up doing Hallelujah Nights back in the 90’s. We did it ON the 31st, and our children invited friends. We had salvations every year, and it added whole families to the Lord. We really as a church made it the the best with good candy & all our children just had a ball. We turned it into a night to praise God and bless our children! No dark or demonic ANYTHING & no Trick or treating. It saddens me to see too many churches trying to have it both ways - a Fall festival of some sort on a nite other than the 31st. But what happens? Many church kids go to the Fall festival, but then also go Trick or Treating on Halloween Night. Praise God for He makes sure we know the TRUTH. Let’s get this out everywhere so our friends, family especially the Christians we know truly understand this because most pastors never go into this that deeply!
Very Good teaching! and lots of information on the event.
Wow, thank you so much for this powerful message. I needed to hear this today🙌
Thanks, Rick. Our neighborhood Bible Time group is going to have an alternative "Hallelujah" party next week to celebrate the goodness of God with a great SuperBook DVD, pizza, and fun, concluding with light "RocketCopters" that give a simple, no harm, "lightshow" to declare "God is Light and in Him, there is no darkness at all!" 1 John 1:5. Thank You!
Modern Halloween as we know it today is just that - a modernly invented ‘holiday’ combining elements of an earlier American tradition called “Hell Night”, along with a healthy dose of good old “Hollywood” thrown in for good measure. Virtually _all_ American customs associated with Halloween originated right around the 1920’s - 1930’s or so. While there are some vestigial elements from pre-Christian religions in some of the customs (the "apple" traditions - bobbing for apples for example, but that's from the Romans, not the Celts) , the modern costumes, the blood, the gore, the reveling in death and destruction, the candy, even ‘trick or treat’ itself, dates no earlier than 1900’s America. In short, it’s a relatively new phenomenon and represents a mix of cultures, capitalism, and accommodation.
Many people seem to associate modern Halloween with three things: The old Celtic New Year’s celebration of Samhain (in asserting that most of Halloween’s customs can be traced to Samhain celebrations); Satanism (asserting that Halloween’s origins are Satanic as evidenced by the many Satanists who use this day to promote their beliefs); and All Saints Day (asserting that the early church established the holiday to “Christianize” Samhain). Upon a more critical examination however, these associations fall more into the categories of wishful thinking and urban legend than actual historical fact.
It's simply not a holiday that has close ties to the ancient past, nor does it have some ‘pagan’ antecedent, nor is a continuation of several ancient customs, as some would have one believe.
Perhaps the most difficult aspect of researching the various origins, traditions, and, ‘assumed truths’ about Halloween, is sifting through all the data and separating historical _fact_ from historical ‘myth’, ‘(urban) legend’, and fiction. What we find, is that the origin of most Halloween traditions/beliefs comes from latter (historical fiction), rather than the former (historical fact).
All three holidays, Halloween, All Saint’s Day, and Samhain share a common date and perhaps a “feeling”, but that’s really about it. Indeed, so much of Halloween “feels” Pagan that attempts to connect those things to ancient Samhain simply “feels right”.
Contrary to what some would have one believe, the Bible does not say _anything_ about Halloween - passages are typically cherry-picked, often completely out of context, and applied to a preconceived notion about Halloween based more on myths, legends, outright nonsense, and misconceived assumptions, than actual historical fact.
When one participates in Halloween, one is not participating in ‘evil’ or ‘death’ per se; rather one of the points of the modern holiday is to mock these things. I think that’s a major point many people seem to completely miss or not quite understand. In a way, it’s remotely akin to the Medieval “Feast of Fools”. From a Christian viewpoint, it can be said that death is mocked, because Christ conquered death.
On another philosophical/psychological level, it allows people to explore their “darker side/psyche”, if you will. A time to explore a side of themselves they would not normally expose or perhaps even consider. It’s a part of being human. A time to play on a few of the basic/core fears of man - fear of the dark, and fear of death - the aspects of these fears that people just don’t like to think about are now exposed for all to ‘see’ and ‘experience’. A sort of annual self-check to make sure that part of our humanity is still there, so to speak. In the end, most people realize it for what it is.
Samhain/Halloween is to some people a very spiritual and magickal time of the year; for some it’s a time of fun and candy, perhaps a way to celebrate Fall in general. Still for others, perhaps a time to contemplate their own mortality since the modern holiday mocks death. Some perhaps are not quite sure what to make of it and prefer to steer clear of it, but however you wish to celebrate it….or not - Halloween is only ‘evil’ if one chooses to make it so.
HALLOWEEN is exactly what the Bible says it is - it is demonic and witches, warlocks and high level occultists that get set FREE and now follow Jesus WILL ALL TELL YOU THAT. We are not ignorant of satan’s devices.
@@MTknitter22
That’s a typical conservative Christian view - ‘influenced’ (to put it nicely) by all the misinformation about this holiday, preached as if it were absolute truth.
There are zero references to Halloween in the Bible - passages such as those in Deuteronomy are typically cherry-picked, completely out of context, and applied to a preconceived notion about Halloween based more on myths, legends, complete untruths and misinformation than actual historical fact.
Whatever the history, it is very dark and demons, witches and gore should never be a part of a Christian's life.