Death Fakes a Holiday“And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.” (Ephesians 5:11) October 31 is well known to us as Halloween. Less well known is on October 31, 1517 a German monk named Martin Luther nailed his famous 95 theses on the Roman Catholic church door at Wittenberg to launch the Protestant Reformation and usher in the doctrine of salvation by grace, not by works. October 31 is also Reformation Day, the day the Church of God was reformed and transformed. The devil, however, has masked this important day in church history with his Halloween with sinister costumes, eerie music, diabolical decorations, ghoulish goodies, and devilicious entertainment. The devil not only makes a holiday, he fakes one and it’s about time that the devil takes a holiday and literally go to hell. The Druids living in the British Isles and France more than 2000 years ago celebrated the Fire Festival to mark the Celtic new year. They believed on that night the barrier between the natural and the supernatural was lifted, and the spirits of the dead were able to move freely among human beings. In the seventh century Roman Catholic missionaries converted the Celtics. Pope Gregory IV in 835 moved the Feast of All Saints from spring to November 1 to replace the observance of the Fire Festival. All Saints Day honored believers who had died, and the night before became known as All Hallow’s Eve, or Halloween. The pagan practices and beliefs of the Druids are still alive and well and this was how Halloween became known as a witch’s holiday, the devil’s holiday or holiday of death. America is getting more pagan and occultic each day with the Halloween and vampire horror movies, the Blair Witch project, heavy metal bands, TV shows like Bewitched, Witchblade, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Sabrina the Teenage Witch and Harry Potter. While Halloween appears to be a childish way to laugh at death, we must not be naive about the dangers of worshipping the devil’s holiday. We believers should praise, worship and honor God on Reformation Day, do not go to Halloween parties or allow our children to go trick or treat because the devil is ALL trick and NO treat. Furthermore, God hates every false way and this includes Halloween (Psalm 119:104), Halloween honors the devil and his demons, Halloween glorifies death and God is not the cause of death (Romans 5:12) and at Halloween many unknowingly sin through celebrations which do not honor God at all.Copyright © 2002 Eddy Ministries. All rights reserved. Subscribe/Unsubscribe:
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