Problem 1: The Bible condemns the lust of the flesh and sensuality (Rom. 6:6; Gal. 5:16–21; 1 John 2:16). Yet this love song is filled with sensual expressions and sexual overtures (cf. 1:2; 2:5; 3:1; 4:5).
Problem: In this text, Solomon encourages a young person to “walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes.” But this flies in the face of other Scriptures that urge them to seek not after “your own heart and your own eyes” (Num. 15:39).
Problem: Taken at face value, Solomon seems to be claiming that the dead have no more knowledge of anything. He wrote here, “the dead know nothing.” Likewise, the psalmist said, “in death there is no remembrance” (Ps. 6:5). But, this seems to contradict the many passages that speak of souls being conscious after death (e.g., 2 Sam. 12:23; 2 Cor. 5:8; Rev. 6:9). Continue reading →
Problem: According to this verse, “the sinner does evil a hundred times, and his days are prolonged” (cf. Job 21:7). Yet elsewhere the Bible says, “the years of the wicked will be shortened” (Prov. 10:27; cf. Ecc. 8:13).
Problem: Jesus commanded His followers to be “perfect just as your Father in heaven is perfect” (Matt. 5:48). God said, “You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy” (Lev. 11:45). But, Solomon instructs us not to be “overly righteous” (Ecc. 7:16). How can someone be too righteous? Surely one cannot be too just or too loving?
Problem: The Bible teaches that the soul survives death (Phil. 1:23; 2 Cor. 5:8; Rev. 6:9). But, Ecclesiastes insists that “all go to one place: all are from the dust, and all return to dust” (v. 20). Hence, “man has no advantage over beasts, for all is vanity” (Ecclesiastes 3:19).
Historian Nicholas Rogers claims “Halloween is currently the second most important party night in North America. In terms of its retail potential, it is second only to Christmas; it brings in $3.2 billion in America. This commercialism fortifies its significance as a time of public license, a custom-designed opportunity to have a blast. Regardless of its spiritual complications, Halloween is big business.”
Oct. 30 is National Candy Corn Day. More than 35 million pounds of candy corn will be produced this year. That equates to nearly nine billion pieces, that is enough to circle the moon nearly four times if laid end-to-end. The National Retail Federation says the average consumer will spend about $43.57 on Halloween related items.
Over 96% of children will go out trick or treating. About 82 percent of Americans over 55 years old plan to hand out candy. Some 54 percent of Americans aged 18-24 plan to wear a costume.
Halloween imagery tends to involve death, magic, or mythical monsters. Common Halloween costumes include ghosts, witches, vampires, haunted houses, zombies, mummies, skeletons, werewolves and demons. Halloween has always been a celebration of death and evil.
While the courts remove all theistic references from America’s public square, the void is being filled with a pervasive fascination with evil, paganism and new forms of occultism.
Just look at the plethera of good quality films that come out this time of year: My Soul to Take; Hereafter; Paranormal Activity II; Saw VII; Let Me In (vampire); Night of the Demons; The Last Exorcism; etc..
Americans seem fascinated with evil, the occult, dark spiritual forces, violence, blood and guts, torture. A quick parousel of todays tv shows, cartoons, movies, video games, novels, games, and toys will emphatically prove this to be true. The Devil is made out to be a “cool dude” and ghosts and goblins are “funny and goofy”. If it’s odd, strange, bizarre, scary, or downright evil, then it is popular. No wonder Halloween is a favorite time of year for kids to old alike.
Tom Sanguinet, a former high priest in Wicca has said: “The modern holiday that we call Halloween has its origins in the full moon closest to November 1, the witches’ new year. It is a time when the spirits (demons) are supposed to be at their peak power and revisiting planet earth.”
“The two most frequent ways children are introduced into the occult are through rock music and Halloween. I was introduced to the occult at a Halloween party. Tragically, more an more children are being introduced to the occult by teachers in the public schools. And unfortunately, Halloween is one of the two Holidays that public schools celebrate. They choose Halloween (and Valentine’s Day) because supposedly there is no “religious” significance. How wrong they are about Halloween. To be sure, there is no Christian significance to Halloween but it is obviously a religious day.
Halloween is purely and absolutely evil, and there is nothing we ever have, or will do, that would make it acceptable to the Lord Jesus.”
The Devil is extatic at our trivializing of evil and he is going to be sure to take full advantage of this. It is interesting to note that Anton LeVey, the head of the Satanic Church, said that he was glad that Christian parents let their children worship the devil at least one night out of the year!
A former Satanist told of his experience growing up in a Satanic coven where he recalls his childhood of fear and sexual abuse. At age 11, he participated in a Hallowe’en ceremony in which a young girl was sacrificed on an altar and her blood was shared by adult participants.
Hallowe’en is the most common night of the year when these sacrifices are performed. Do you really want to be roaming the dark streets with the like of these potentially wandering about also….?!
The ancient history of Halloween
The word “Halloween” comes from “Hallow” (holy) and “een” (evening). It is far from being a holy evening!
In ancient times, before Christ’s birth, the eve of October 31st was a very sacred day. It was the last day of the Celtic year and was considered a high holy day by the Druids. These Druids were the learned priestly class of the Celtic religion and believed in reincarnation and that evil humans would be reborn as animals. On October 31st, the eve of the New Year, there would be a feast to honor the lord of the dead (a feast to the dying sun), Samhaine. Samhaine would gather all these transmigrated souls together and then free them to go to Druid Heaven, having been considered “atoned”. The Celtics would try to appease Samhain on this eve to give maybe a “lighter sentence” to their loved ones who might die in the coming year by offering sacrifices, prayers, and gifts to this lord of death.
This ‘sacred day’, where the netherworld’s veil is said to be at its thinnest, is when spooks, goblins, demons, ghosts, ogres, poltergeists, witches, faries, and the like, were most likely to be out and about. It was a dreadful time in the Celtic villages, but in later years, witches and the like found it to be the most delightful time of year. In fact, of the 8 witches sabbats each year, October 31st eve is the most holy. For most children in America, Hallowe’en is a very delightful time of year. Satan has once again tricked and treated our innocent young ones!
Matt 22:32 I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
Halloween is rooted in honoring Samhaine. Samhaine is the lord of the dead….i.e. Satan. God has nothing to do with this; it is opposite Him.
The most evil practice on Samhaine was by the black-cloaked Druids who would bear torches and go door to door to select humans for their New Year’s sacrifice to the lord of the dead. In return for the human sacrifice, the Druids would leave on the doorstep a hollowed turnip with candle light shining through the carved face. This is a blatant satanic counterfeit for the Biblical Passover! Later, in other countries, homes would place these carved turnips on their doorsteps themselves, in hopes of causing the wandering spirits to leave them alone on Samhaine. Those selected for sacrifice (usually innocent children) would then be taken to an area for the Celtic ceremony, they would be then thrown into a “bonefire” and then the Druid priests would appease the lord of death and be better able to foretell the future for the village. This human sacrifice practice was done until 61 A.D. when it was outlawed by the Roman government. The Druids had been locking their human sacrificees in “wicker cages” and then would set them afire, thus roasting the victims alive! They then changed their practice to placing black cats and other various small animals into these cages and then burn them. Cats were typically used because of the conviction that these animals were “familiars” of witches.
Deut 18:9-14 When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee. Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God. For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath not suffered thee so to do.
God doesn’t want you to have your children ‘pretend’ to use divination, to be a witch, to be a wizard, etc.; He doesn’t want them to pretend to be involved with the occult. Anything that is favorably associated with the occult is an abomination to the Lord. I am fairly confident that Halloween, as practiced today in America, is an abomination to the Lord!
All Saints’ or All Hallows’ Day is November 1, which according to Catholic tradition starts at sundown on the evening before. This is a festival for the dead, it was made into a celebration of all the known and unknown saints and martyrs of the Catholic Church by Pope Boniface IV in the seventh century. They decided to put it on a day which was already widely celebrated, a special harvest festival to the pagan god of fruits and nuts, Pomona, November 1st. Halloween gets its name from this Catholic holiday: it is a Hallowed evening, because it precedes All Hallows’ Day. Thus: Hallow’en.
The Catholics repeatedly assigned their religious holy days to coincide with popular pagan festival days. Our “Holydays” today in America reek of paganism! Christ-Mass and Easter (Astarte)!
Protestants have continued the celebration of Halloween in part because “it was on this day in 1517, that Martin Luther posted his epoch-making ninety-five theses on the door of the castle church at Wittenberg” which started the Protestant Reformation. “He chose Halloween night because he knew that the townsfolk would be coming to the church that night.”
American history of Halloween
Our Christian forefathers well knew of Halloween’s evil pagan root, and initially banned celebrating Halloween in America. However, in 1845, Halloween began being officially celebrated in this country when multiplied thousands of Irish emigrants flooded into New York because of the Irish Potato Famine, bringing with them their beloved custom of Halloween. Due to America’s infestation with Roman Catholicism, it has blossomed into almost a national pasttime, for Roman Catholicism has made a fine art of mixing pagan religious practices with that of Christianity.
Jer 10:2 Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
How did you and your children ever begin observing these customs of Halloween?
You learned the way of the heathen from dear Mommy and Daddy (or granny and grumpy). Do you really want to keep teaching this to your dear children, grandchildren? But, so many will say: “It’s just harmless fun.”
“Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.” (Galatians 4:8).
It’s somewhat understandable for the heathen who know not God to do service to devils and the like; but, not the blood-bought child of God!
Occult symbolisms
‘A little evil here, a little there; what’s the big hub-bub about?….It’s not like we are going to be possessed with devils!’
Rom 16:19 …but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil.
Costumes and masks: The wearing of masks and costumes originated from the ancient Celtics. They would gather around their bonfires to offer their crops, animals, and sometimes themselves as sacrifices to their gods. Often they would wear the skins and heads of these animals and while doing so would tell the fortunes of their friends and neighbors for the coming year. October 31st was the one day of the year where the help of the devil was actively sought in these pursuits.
Pumpkin: The Jack-o-lantern is the festival light for Halloween and is the ancient symbol of a damned soul. Originally the Irish would carve out turnips or beets as lanterns as representations of the souls of the dead or goblins freed from the dead. When the Irish emigrated to America they could not find many turnips to carve into Jack O’Lanterns but they did find an abundance of pumpkins. Pumpkins seemed to be a suitable substitute for the turnips and pumpkins have been an essential part of Halloween celebrations ever since. Pumpkins were cut with faces representing demons and was originally intended to frighten away evil spirits.
Trick-or-Treating: In ancient times, Druid priests would go from house to house on this evening demanding contributions to their demonic worship celebration; to ward off evil spirits that were given liberty on this day to roam the earth. If they didn’t give something, they might be the ‘contribution’ themselves! Later, as the common folk adopted the practice, groups of poor farmers would go house to house begging for food for the village’s festivities that night in order to honor their ancient gods; good luck was promised to the donors, but threats were made to the selfish. Later, candy became the favorite ‘gift’ as more and more of younger town folk participated in this pagan custom. These ancient pagan traditions continue today as youngsters, masquerading as ghosts, skeletons and demons go “trick-or-treating” – begging in a sense for food while promising to refrain from evil deeds.
Many today will say they give out candy to just be nice to the neighborhood kids. The Devil greatly appreciates your enthusiastic participation in his most favorite holyday.
1 Cor 10:31 Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
It’s time to be weened of evil…
Ween yourself and your children off of Hell and Halloween! Rid yourself of any attachment to it, once and for all.
Have you been ‘Halloweened’?!…
It is a bizarre time of year for sure, in that it seems to be the only acceptable time of the year for godly, separatist, fundamental, Christians to participate in the elements of the occult and the devil. Can any Christian give any scriptural – or even logical – reason for participation in, or approval of, that which is unmistakably associated with paganism, devil-worship, and witchcraft?
2 Kings 23:24 Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD.
Perform the words of the Bible and put away from you the Halloween abomination. Put away the costumes; put away the carved pumkins on the front porch; put away going to haunted houses; put away going to Halloween parties; put away handing out candy; put away letting your young impressionable ones to go out trick or treating; put away watching the spooky Halloween movies; put away all abominations that the wicked pagans do, and have done for millennia!
Dt. 12:30-32 Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, “how did these nations serve their gods? Even so will I do likewise.” Thou shalt not do so unto the Lord thy God: for every abomination to the Lord, which He hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods. What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.
Don’t be snared in following how the pagan nations used to serve their devil gods! Don’t follow their demonic practices. Follow the commands of God; don’t cut corners with God; don’t involve yourself with pagan, evil things here and there; a little occultism here, a little occultism there; a little horror movie here, a little there; a little dark-themed Lord of the Rings or Star Trek here, a little there!…
Isa 5:20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Woe unto them that say Halloween is good and fun. Woe unto them that think that Halloween is ok for kids. Woe unto them that call putting spooky looking pumkins and bats on their front porch ‘cool and funny’. Woe unto them that call “buying $30 worth of candy and joyfully giving it out to the cute little ‘goblins’ that come to their door ‘trick or treating’” a special time of the year!
What should we do on All Hallows’ Eve?
Leave our lovely homes because we don’t want to be bothered by the trick-or-treaters?
Hide in our homes and pretend that no-one is home?
Hand out candy to all the trick-or-treaters?
Hand out candy and tracts to them?
Prov 22:3 A prudent man foreseeth the evil , and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.
Be prudent and hide yourself from the evils of Halloween. Whatever ‘hiding’ might mean to you….
Ro 12:9 Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
Problem: Some have argued against a physical resurrection on the grounds that the scattered fragments of decomposed corpses cannot be reassembled, since some become plants, or others are eaten by animals or even cannibals. Yet, the Bible declares that all bodies will “come forth” from the “graves” (John 5:28–29).
Problem: Solomon seems to claim here that there is no difference between the death of humans and animals. “One thing befalls them: as one dies, so dies the other.” Yet Solomon asserts later that, unlike animals, when a human dies, “the spirit will return to God who gave it” (Ecc. 12:7). How can this conflict be explained?
It’s amazing to discover in what ways the sacrifice of The Passover Lamb is parallel to the crucifixion of Jesus. The Lamb that was slain during the dark times in Egypt marked the beginning of The Exodus, which delivered the Israelites from slavery. The sacrifice of THE Lamb, Jesus, delivered us from our sins. Check out the twelve amazing comparisons below: