Halloween
What is wrong with Halloween?
A good place to start is with the word "Halloween". The word "Halloween" came from a contraction of "All Hallows Evening". "All Hallows Evening" was later called "Hallows Even", then "Hallow E'en" and finally "Halloween".
"All Hallows Evening" was the beginning of a three day festival called "Allhallowtide". The next day was called "All Saints Day" to remember so-called Saints. The last day was called "All Souls Day" to remember regular people, who called themselves "Christians", who had died.
"All Hallows Evening" was a day of remembrance of all martyrs. Sometime before the universal persecution of Rome, the Children of Truth (those who obey The Father of Truth because they love Him) had developed a tradition of building churches on the site, where a member of their local congregation was killed for their faith. They would then commemorate the day of the death of the martyr each year by meeting together to pray to the Father of Truth (YHVH aka God aka THE LORD) on that day. They would pray to have the strength to follow the example of their local hero.
This left a patchwork of observation dates across congregations, with one congregation observing one day for a local martyr, and the next nearest congregation observing an entirely different date. Once the Roman universal persecution began in 95 AD, many of the local congregations soon began running out of dates. There were simply more martyrs than dates on the calendar.
The problem was somewhat lessened by declaring only certain martyrs to be "Saints", and only observing their dates. Still, many congregations would have too many remembrance dates to be practical. There were also arguments over which martyrs were worthy to be called a "Saint". Finally, there was the problem that sometimes multiple Saints died on the same date, often together.
So, the False Church of Rome established the first of May as All Saints Day to commemorate the death of those deemed to be "Saints" in 610 AD. The evening before, "All Hallows Evening", was to commemorate the death of ordinary martyrs. By this time, people had stopped praying to be faithful like the martyrs, but instead started praying to the Saints.
In 835 AD, All Saints Day was moved to the first of November. This was done, so it would fall on the same day as the Druid holiday called "Samhain". Although the Germans called this holiday by another name, it was the day when they, as well as the Celts, commemorated the dead with pagan customs.
Finally, in 1030 AD, All Souls Day was added after All Saints Day. "All Souls Day" was to remember regular people, who called themselves "Christians", who had died. This day was observed by praying for those who were stuck suffering in Purgatory after death, so they would be admitted into Heaven.
This completed the three day festival of the False Church of Rome called, "Allhallowtide". So, the first thing wrong with Halloween, is that at best, it is a holiday of the False Church of Rome. This entire festival is contrary to the Book of Truth (The Bible).
There is nothing wrong with being inspired by the faithfulness of martyrs. However, these martyrs are part of the Children of Truth, and not their Master (Matthew 23:8-10).
The Children of Truth are to strive to be like their Master (Luke 6:40). The Children of Truth are to strive to be like the Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ) (1 John 4:15-17).
So, instead of praying to be like one of the martyrs, the Children of Truth should be praying to be like the Man of Truth.
People are not to pray to dead people, even if they are declared to be "Saints", for every necromancer (anyone who talks to dead people) is an abomination to the Father of Truth (Deuteronomy 18:11-12). The Man of Truth taught the Children of Truth to pray to the Father of Truth (Matthew 6:6).
The Children of Truth are to pray to the Father of Truth in the name of the Man of Truth (John 16:26-27). They are to thank the Father of Truth for all things in the name of the Man of Truth (Ephesians 5:20).
So, instead of praying to the Children of Truth who have died, the Children of Truth are to pray to the Father of Truth in the name of the Man of Truth.
The Children of Truth are not to pray for people to escape Purgatory after death. It is as useless as being baptized for those who died (1 Corinthians 15:29). No one cannot change the state of someone else after they die (Revelation 22:11).
When people die in their sins, they suffer unending punishment in fire (Mark 9:43-48). Those who suffer in this fire, cannot be removed from this fire, no matter who prays for them (Luke 16:22-26). There is no escape from the Chamber of Horrors.
When people die in the Man of Truth, they go to be with the Man of Truth (2 Corinthians 5:6-8). The Children of Truth will always be with the Man of Truth (Philippians 1:21-23). They are literally better off dead.
So, instead of praying for the dead to be saved, the Children of Truth are to carryout the Great Commission, and tell living people the Good News, so the living can come into the House of Truth.
As bad as this three day festival of the False Church of Rome is, it is only a small part of what is wrong with Halloween.
Many of the customs of Halloween, as celebrated in countries populated by descendants of the Celtic and Germanic people, like the United States, come from the Druid holiday called, "Samhain".
Although, this holiday was not part of Celtic Christianity in its original form, the Druids were successful in getting many of the customs of Samhain infused into celebrations of All Hallows Eve, after the False Church of Rome moved All Saints Day to fall on the same day as Samhain in 835 AD.
In order to explain Samhain, a brief explanation of seasons is in order. There are three different systems for defining the seasons of Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter involved.
Julius Caesar set up the Julian Calendar, that is still commonly used today, with a few adjustments made over the years. On his calendar, the year began on the first of March. (This is why December is literally "tenth month", even though it is the twelfth month on modern calendars.) The reason for this was that the first season of the year for Julius Caesar was Spring. His definition of Spring was Climatic Spring, when the weather became warm enough that life began to spring out of the ground.
The Romans had observed that this came about three weeks before the Spring Equinox, so they set the beginning of Spring to be the first of March, with the Spring Equinox occurring on the the twenty second of March. Each season was broken into three months, to mark the early, mid, and late portion of each season. So Climatic Summer began with June, Climatic Autumn began with September, and Climatic Winter began with December.
So in this system for defining the seasons, the first day of Spring is not the Spring Equinox, as people commonly think. Under the Climatic system developed by the Romans, the Spring Equinox is more properly "the equinox that occurs in the Spring".
This is another system of defining seasons by the position of the Earth relative to the Sun. In this system, Astronomical Spring begins on the Spring Equinox, Astronomical Summer begins on the Summer Solstice, Astronomical Autumn begins on the Autumn Equinox, and Astronomical Winter begins on the Winter Solstice. In the Astronomical system, the year begins with the Winter Solstice.
The Celtic and Germanic people had an entirely different system for defining seasons. They defined seasons by how much sunlight there was each day. In this Solaric system, Solaric Winter began on the midway point between the Autumn Equinox and the Winter Solstice. This is around the sixth of November on modern calendars. The other seasons began on the midway points of the Astronomical Seasons as well. Solaric Spring began around the third of February, Solaric Summer began around the fifth of May, and Solaric Autumn began around the fourth of August.
This system defined Winter as the quarter of the year with least amount of sunlight and Summer as the quarter of the year with the most amount of sunlight. (Climatic seasons lag Solaric seasons by about a month due seasonal lag. Seasonal lag is caused by the time it takes the climate to respond to a change in the amount of sunlight, usually about a month.)
The Celtic and Germanic people marked each day as starting with sunset, so that the day was darkness followed by light. In the same way, the year began with the start of Solaric Winter, so that the year was darkness followed by light.
The first day of each season was marked with a holiday. The first day of Solaric Winter, the beginning of the year, was marked by Samhain. The first day of the other seasons were marked by Imbolc, Beltane, and Lughnasadh.
After the Romans, and then the False Church of Rome, took over the areas where the Celtic and Germanic people lived, there were some adjustments made by both sides to create a single syncretic calendar. This calendar allowed their holidays to be combined into new "Christian" holidays. These new "Christian" holidays went by the names established by the False Church of Rome, but most of the practices of the corresponding Celtic and Germanic holidays were incorporated into their observations. All Saints Day and Samhain were both moved to the first day of November. Most of the practices of Samhain were done during the night time portion, that began at sunset on the last day of October. So, those practices were continued on "All Hallows Evening", better known as Halloween.
(Imbolc was moved to the second of February, and became "Ground Hog Day". Beltane was moved to the first of May, and became "May Day". Lughnasadh was moved to the first day of August, and became "Transfiguration Day" or "Lammas" (a contraction of "Lamb Mass").)
So, most of the customs that people associate with Halloween came from Samhain. In order to understand better what is wrong with Halloween, we need to examine those practices in their original context.
On Samhain, it was believed that it was easier to come in contact with the Aos Si, which are Spirits of Lies (devils aka demons aka unclean spirits aka gods), than any other time of the year. (Some of the Aos Si were also called Fairies, because they appeared in the form of "fair" (beautiful) young women, usually with wings.) These spirits were greatly feared, especially the Horned God. It was also believed that the souls of the dead would return to their homes on this night. (People would set out plates with food for them at the table, and keep a seat open for them by the fireplace.) Lastly, people were concerned, that the dead would seek revenge on this night, for any perceived injustice that they had faced in life.
For these reasons, a number of practices developed for the celebration of Samhain. Most of these practices are commonly carried out on Halloween today. Here are some of these common Halloween practices derived from Samhain, and their original purpose:
1. Decorations and costumes
People dressed up like ghosts, dead people, and the like, to disguise themselves from the souls of the dead. In order to keep the souls of the dead away from their homes, they disguised their yards as graveyards, in the hopes that the souls of the dead will be confused. They often used other emblems of death, like coffins, skeletons, and skulls, to make the scene more convincing.
2. Bonfires
Originally, the Druids would build a wicker man around a human sacrifice on Samhain, and set it on fire to appease the Spirits of Lies known as the Aos Si, especially the Horned God. This practice was banned by the Romans, and then the False Church of Rome, but continued for centuries in remote areas.
Later, the practice was changed to setting fires where the bones of the recently departed were burned. They would gather around these bone fires for protection from the vengeful souls of the dead, and the Aos Si. The words "bone fire" was later contracted to form the word "bonfire", which people still gather around on Halloween to this day.
3. Jack-o-lanterns
Carved turnip lanterns were originally used to ward off the Spirits of Lies known as the Aos Si.
After the False Church of Rome recast Samhain as All Hallows Eve, these carved turnip lanterns came to remind people to pray for the release of their loved ones from Purgatory. The faces of these carved turnip lanterns were carved to show the torment that those in Purgatory were experiencing, until someone arranged for them to be released.
These carved turnip lanterns were much later called "Jack-o-lanterns". This name came from a myth about a thief named Jack, who was forced to wander the Earth at night after death, with an ember from Hell in a carved out turnip as his lantern. So, these carved out turnip lanterns first became known as "Lanterns of Jack", or "Jack-o-lanterns" in 1837 AD. Jack-o-lanterns were first brought over to the United States by Irish immigrants around that time. The first known case of one being carved from pumpkin was in 1866 AD.
4. Trick or Treat
Food was also set as offerings for the Spirits of Lies known as the Aos Si, and as refreshments for the souls of the dead. Originally, Druids in their hooded outfits that hid their face, would collect and eat these offerings, because it was believed that these Druids were possessed by these spirits and souls on Samhain.
If the Druids were not pleased with the offering for some reason, they would paint a hexagram (a six-pointed star in a circle) in blood, sometimes human, on the door of the house. This was supposed to mark the house as cursed. This was known as putting a hex on a house.
When a hex was put on a house, it meant that the Aos Si, and the vengeful souls of the dead, would bring wrath upon it. One of the inhabitants would usually die that night, supposedly from the curse, but usually it from was poison, or an "accident" carried out by the Druids.
Sometimes, the Druids would mark an individual person with a hexagram in blood on their chest. This was supposed marked them as cursed in the same manner. This was known as putting a hex on someone.
When a hex was put on a person, they usually did not live until morning, unless they managed to escape. One reason was that their neighbors would hunt them down and kill them, often by stoning, to appease the Aos Si, and the vengeful souls of the dead. This sacrifice was thought to protect the community from the wrath of these spirits and souls on Samhain, especially the Horned God.
After the False Church of Rome recast Samhain as All Hallows Eve, this practice of putting out food to appease the Aos Si, and the vengeful souls of the dead, and putting hexes on houses and people, were replaced with new customs derived from the old customs.
Instead of food being placed outside of each house to be consumed by hooded Druids, people wearing disguises to conceal their identity, would go from house to house to eat soul cakes, carrying turnip Jack-o-lanterns. Those who ate the soul cakes, would then pray for the souls of those dear to the owner of the house, who were in Purgatory. Those who did this were known as guisers or soulers.
Any house that did not offer soul cakes to the guisers or soulers, was subject to dreadful pranks, that replaced putting a hex on a house or person. These pranks were typically annoying, like having their outhouse tipped on its door when occupied. Sometimes the pranks were damaging to property, but not harmful to people, like setting an unoccupied outhouse on fire. These pranks were attested to as an old practice on All Hallows Eve among the Scots and Irish in 1780 AD.
By 1895 AD, guisers had expanded from praying for the souls in Purgatory in exchange for soul cakes, to accepting treats and money, in exchange for NOT carrying out a Halloween prank on the occupants.
Like Jack-o-lanterns, another wave of immigrants from Ireland brought this form of extortion to North America.
The first known case of guisers in North America were children in Canada in 1911 AD. The first known instance of guisers asking for treats in North America was in 1915 AD. The first known case of guisers in the United States was in Chicago in 1920 AD. This practice of guisers demanding treats and money to NOT carry out a Halloween prank, was first called "Trick or Treat" in Canada in 1927 AD.
This term did not appear in the United States until 1934 AD. It was not well known in America, until a major publication wrote about it in 1939 AD.
It was then popularized throughout America by candy makers in California. Of course, an entire industry for creating Halloween costumes also emerged, mostly in cities with large populations of newly arrived Irish immigrants. Halloween then became the commercialized holiday that many people know it as today.
5. Halloween Games
The Celtic and Germanic tribes used hazel nuts in games of divining a good match between unmarried men and women on Samhain. They believe that the Spirits of Lies known as the Aos Si, would show them, whether or a match was good, through the roasting of hazelnuts. One person would grab two hazelnuts. They would then name one after themselves, and the other after their desired spouse. They would then lay both nuts next to each other on the edge of a fire pit to roast. If one of the nuts moved away from the other one as it roasted, then it was taken as a sign from these spirits that the match was a bad match. However, if the nuts remained still until they were roasted, then it was a sign from these spirits that it was a good match.
Then the Romans introduced the apple tree to Celtic Lands, as a symbol of Pomona, the goddess of fruit trees. They also introduced various games involving apples to the Celtic and Germanic tribes that they conquered. These games were also meant to give signs from Pomona, about who to marry. These apple games were soon incorporated into Samhain celebration for the same reasons as hazelnut games.
The most popular of these apple games was bobbing for apples. The first unmarried person to bite into an apple and remove it from the tub with their teeth, had been selected the Aos Si to get married next.
Another variation involved biting an apple suspended on a stick with a candle on the other end. The first to bite the apple had been selected to get married. However, anyone who got hot wax from the candle on their face, was thought to have been marked by the Aos Si to remain single for the next year.
People would also peel an apple into one long peeling, and toss the peeling over their shoulder. They would then look at the shape of the apple peeling to see if appeared to form a letter. If it did, then this was thought to be a message from the Aos Si, revealing the first letter of the name of their future spouse. There were similar games involving dropping egg whites into boiling water, or molten lead into cold water.
The introduction of glass and mirrors by the Romans brought about scrying on Samhain, as another means to determine a future husband. Unmarried women were told, that if they sat and stared into a mirror on Samhain night, then the Aos Si would show them their future husbands in the mirror. However, if the Aos Si showed them a skull instead, then they were being shown that they would die before marriage.
Long before the Romans came, the Celtic and Germanic people would place stones, each representing the person who laid it, in the shape of a ring in the pit, where the wicker man was burned on Samhain night. The next morning, they would check to see if any of the stones had moved from their original position. If a stone had moved, they believed that the Aos Si had shown them, that the person who laid the stone would die before the next Samhain.
After the wicker man was outlawed, they did the same in the bonfire that was burned.
There were many other similar divination games played on Samhain. These were often games of chance, like hiding objects in a cake, and giving guests pieces of the cake. The object that the person found in their slice of cake, was supposed to convey a message the Aos Si about their future.
Another variation was the cake walk, where small cakes containing the objects were given to players, based on which square they were standing on when the game ended. The players walked from stone to stone in a circle until a predetermined event occurred, like the wind blowing out a candle. This was event was a sign from the Aos Si, that the players were aligned with future events.
Some of these games, like apple bobbing and cake walks, remain popular today at Halloween parties. However, at modern Halloween parties, there are often other games and events for consulting with the Aos Si, and the souls of the dead, in a more direct way.
6. Witches, Wizards, Seances, and Ouija Boards
Among the Celtic and Germanic people, witches were originally women, who were allegedly sexually involved with the Horned God. They would often meet together naked in a secluded place in the woods to give themselves over as a group to the Horned God. The Horned God would allegedly come to them in form of men. These men were called wizards or warlocks.
The children that were born to these witches and wizards, were often sacrificed to the Horned God. The women would also eat them as part of a marriage supper that they were sharing the wizards, who were possessed with the spirit of the Horned God. They also were known to do the same with orphans that they captured. They would drink their blood as well.
So, they were said to be "married" to the Horned God. They did this to gain secret knowledge and power. Among these powers were supposedly the ability to fly from place to place on brooms, and to cast spells.
People would pay witches to curse other people, usually with a spell of some sort. Sometimes, people would seek them out to cure them of various ailments. In all cases, there was always some sort of process that the witch, and sometimes the people seeking their help, had to go through to get the desired results.
Often this process involved eating things that crawled on the ground, like toads and spiders, cooked into potions in a large caldron, along with shedding human blood.
Witches and wizards were often hated and feared, but they were allowed to continue because of the services that they provided. They were believed to be able to communicate with both the Spirits of Lies known as the Aos Si, and the souls of the dead.
In fact, on Samhain, it was believed that witches and wizards could allow the souls of the dead to take over their bodies, so that people could speak with those who had died. In like manner, it was believed that the Aos Si could also take over their bodies, so that they could speak through them to tell people their future. Since they could act as a communication conduit for the souls of the dead, and the Aos Si, they came to be called "mediums".
Once the Romans brought an end to the "marriage" of witches to the Horned God, witches and wizards became known for being familiar with the Aos Si.
These witches and wizards were not possessed by these spirits most of the time, but rather these spirits were thought to possess the black cats, bats, rats, crows, and similar creatures that they kept as pets. These pets were called the familiar of the witch or wizard, on account of the familiar spirit that possessed the animals.
After the Romans introduced glass, these mediums also began using crystal balls for scrying. They would see visions given to them by the Aos Si, whenever they stared into a crystal ball. The vision might involve the future, or provide guidance for an important decision.
Witches and wizards also had procedures for contacting the souls of the dead, including seances. In a seance, they led people in creating an atmosphere that was supposedly welcoming to the souls of the dead. The souls of the dead would supposedly then speak through the leader of the seance, and sometimes through other participants.
Witches and wizards would also receive messages from both the Aos Si, and the souls of the dead, using a "talking board", that was similar to a Ouija board.
After the False Church of Rome merged Samhain into All Hallows Eve, the witches and wizards, who had went into hiding, would say that they got their messages and visions as a result of praying to the "Saints". This allowed them to continue their ancient practices in a new way.
In all cases, Samhain was seen as the optimum time to communicate with both the Aos Si, and the souls of the dead.
Many of these same practices are still carried out today as part of some Halloween parties.
7. Halloween foods
Before the Romans came, roasted hazelnuts, honey, wheat kernels, and small cakes were the primary foods associated with Samhain. All of these things were offered to the Spirits of Lies known as the Aos Si, in some manner.
The hazelnuts and wheat kernels were roasted at the edge of the fire pit where the wicker man was burned as a sacrifice to the Aos Si, especially the Horned God. The honey was often heated at the edged of this fire pit and hardened into a candy similar to toffee. The small cakes were likewise baked in the fire that consumed the wicker man.
Hazelnuts were thought to be the means for the Aos Si to impart wisdom to the eaters on Samhain. Roasted wheat kernels were shared with the souls of the dead on Samhain, by eating some of the wheat kernels, and leaving the rest out for the souls of the dead. The small cakes were usually made with ground wheat kernels, hazelnuts, and honey. The small cakes were used to foretell the future on Samhain.
After the Romans introduced the apple tree, apples were added. Due to the connection with Pomona, apples were thought to connect people to the Aos Si, and the souls of the dead, on Samhain. Apples candied by being placed in heated honey, became part of Samhain.
Also, bonfires replaced the fires where the wicker man was burned, as the means of cooking the traditional foods of Samhain.
Also, as the Romans brought an end to cannibalism among witches and wizards, sweet treats in the shape of human body parts appeared. Drinks that resembled blood in color were added as well, to remember the blood that the witches and wizards drank in toasts to the Horned God.
After the False Church of Rome brought an end to witches, treats were added that looked like spiders, worms, and the like, that the witches had used in making their potions.
After the False Church of Rome created All Hallows Eve, the small cakes of Samhain became soul cakes.
After sugar was introduced during the Crusades, the honey was replaced with molasses, and the new hard candy hardened at the bonfires, became known as bonfire toffee. Also, full sized Halloween cakes, decorated with symbols of death like graveyards and skulls, were added. These Halloween cakes were made to remind people that the Aos Si, and the souls of the dead, were among them on Halloween.
Soon, cinnamon was added to the melted sugar that the apples were dipped in, to create cinnamon apples. These cinnamon apples were bright red, as a reminder of the blood that was shed in sacrifices for Samhain.
The spread of foods from the New World, and the introduction of Halloween to North America, brought more changes to the Halloween menu.
After Jack-o-lanterns began to be made from pumpkins, instead of turnips, roasted pumpkin seeds were added. Also, pop-corn allowed caramel corn to became another food made with a roasted grain kernel and melted sugar, that had largely replaced honey.
Roasted sweet corn (maize) replaced roasted wheat kernels. Peanuts also became a popular alternative to hazelnuts. Apples were wrapped in caramel and rolled in peanuts. This was similar to the apples being candied in honey at a bonfire, and then coated with hazelnuts.
Then the California candy industry started creating candies, shaped like things associated with Halloween, like Jack-o-lanterns. After the California candy industry succeeded in popularizing Halloween across the United States, then other candies, like chocolate bars, began being marketed in Halloween themed packaging and shapes.
8. The Horned God
The Horned God basically was man-like from the waist down and goat-like from the waist up. The Horned God was considered the opposite of Woden (called Odin by the Norse), the Spirit of Lies that is the inspiration for Santa Claus.
The Horned God was greatly feared by the Celtic and Germanic peoples, because they believed that the Horned God had the power of death. The Horned God did not just have the power to bring death to an individual, but to bring death through famine, drought, and disease to the entire community.
The Celtic and Germanic peoples were in bondage to Druids, witches and wizards, through their fear of the Horned God. They believed that the Horned God had to be appeased on Samhain night.
If a young virgin girl was selected to become "married" to the Horned God, but refused to do so, then she was tied to a stone table and stabbed through the heart. Any man, who was perceived as having dishonored the Horned God in some way, was burned to death in the wicker man. Most of the human sacrifices made on Samhain night, whether by burning someone alive in the wicker man, stabbing them through the heart on a stone table, or stoning them to death, were sacrifices to the Horned God.
The community made these sacrifices on Samhain night, because it did not want the Horned God to blame them for any slight. Samhain was the night when the Horned God was to be appeased and celebrated.
The Horned God was considered the father of all of the Spirits of Lies known as the Aos Si. The Horned God was basically what they called the Father of Lies (HaShatan aka Satan Aka The Devil). In fact, most pictures of the Father of Lies found in the lands of Celts and Germans today, were inspired by ancient descriptions of the Horned God.
Samhain was created to honor and worship the Father of Lies, in the form of the Horned God.
In like manner today, the Father of Lies is honored on Halloween by people exalting his work of bringing death. As Halloween has spread across America, many other emblems of death and the Horned God, from other cultures have been added to Halloween.
Along side the ghosts and skeletons, there has been added mummies, vampires, zombies, ghouls, and other undead creatures. Witches and wizards have been joined by witch doctors, fortune tellers, shamans, and psychics in contacting Spirits of Lies. Druids have been joined by undertakers, executioners, axe murders, serial killers, and cannibals. Yards decorated as graveyards are accompanied by houses decorated as the scenes of the most gruesome murders, as well as torture chambers. Jack-o-lanterns have been joined by emblems of the Horned God, like pentagrams (an upside down five point star in a circle).
Halloween is a celebration of death and the Father of Lies.
When these facts about Halloween are examined in the light of the Book of Truth, it becomes very apparent what is wrong with Halloween.
Halloween is wrong because its practices are reflections of the practices of Samhain. Samhain was wrong for so many reasons.
Samhain was wrong because it was created by the Druids.
People are not to determine the times based on observations of the sun, moon, and stars (Leviticus 19:26). People are not to allow observers of times, like the Druids, to set times for them to carry out evil (Deuteronomy 18:12-14).
Samhain was wrong because people pretended to live among the tombs.
The Children of Lies (those who disobey the Father of Truth because they do not love Him) dwell among the graves, and eat vile things cooked in caldrons (Isaiah 65:2-4). They use tombs for decorations, and honor graveyards (Matthew 23:27-31).
Those possessed by the Spirits of Lies live among the tombs (Matthew 8:28). Living among the tombs is a sign of being possessed by a Spirit of Lies without restraint (Mark 5:2-4).
Turning your dwelling place into a graveyard, is like going into the wilderness to make an offering of human blood to the Spirits of Lies (Mark 5:5-9). Living in a graveyard, is like meeting with Spirits of Lies naked in a secluded place in the woods (Luke 8:27).
Samhain was wrong because people sacrificed other people in fires, and burned the bones of the dead in fires.
People are not to sacrifice people in fires to a horned god like Molech (Leviticus 18:21). (Molech had the head of a bull and the body of a man.) Burning the bones of the dead in a fire, is a sign of judgment that belongs to the Father of Truth alone (Amos 2:1-3).
Samhain was wrong because it used enchantments, like Jack-o-lanterns, to ward off evil spirits and the souls of the dead.
People are not to use enchantments of any kind, including Jack-o-lanterns (2 Kings 17:17).
Samhain was wrong because it used extortion of the worst kind.
The Father of Truth plainly does not want people using extortion, like the Druids threatening to put a hex on anyone, who did not give them what they wanted (1 Corinthians 6:9-10).
Samhain was wrong because it used games of divination.
People are not to use divination of any kind (Deuteronomy 18:10).
Samhain was wrong because of witches and wizards.
People are to destroy the secluded places in the woods where witches and wizards are "married" to the Horned God in acts of harlotry (Exodus 34:12-16). The Father of Truth is against witches and wizards for slaying their own children as sacrifices to the Horned God, which were conceived in the marriage bed of the Horned God (Isaiah 57:5-7).
People are not to make sacrifices to Spirits of Lies, like the Aos Si (Leviticus 17:7). They are not to make sacrifices to Spirits of Lies, like the Horned God (Deuteronomy 32:16-17). The are not to sacrifice their own children to Spirits of Lies, like the Aos Si and the Horned God, because this will bring the wrath of the Father of Truth upon them (Psalm 106:37-40).
People are to have no regard for people with familiar spirits, nor seek after the services of wizards (Leviticus 19:31). Those who do so, become enemies of the Father of Truth (Leviticus 20:6).
People suffer, when witches are allowed to live (Exodus 22:18). People are to stone to death, those with familiar spirits, as well as wizards (Leviticus 20:27).
People are not to allow witches, wizards, people who talk to familiar spirits, or people who talk to the souls of the dead, to live among them (Deuteronomy 18:10-11). Those who do these things, are provoking the Father of Truth to anger (2 Kings 21:6). Those who do these things, are committing great evil in His eyes (2 Chronicles 33:6).
The Father of Truth will destroy all witchcraft (Micah 5:12). Those involved in witchcraft will not live in His kingdom (Galatians 5:19-21).
Samhain was wrong because of the food.
Food is not to be given for the dead (Deuteronomy 26:12-14).
People are not to drink blood when they eat meat (Genesis 9:4). The blood is to be poured out on the ground like water (Deuteronomy 12:16).
People are not to drink potions made from vile things in secret (Isaiah 66:17).
People are not to eat things offered to the Spirits of Lies, like the Aos Si (Acts 15:29). They are to not eat these things, nor drink blood (Acts 21:25). They are not to have a feast with Spirits of Lies like the Aos Si (1 Corinthians 10:20-21).
Samhain was wrong because it celebrated the Father of Lies and death.
People are not to worship the Father of Lies (Matthew 4:8-10). The Horned God is a form that the Father of Lies took on (2 Corinthians 11:14).
The Children of Lies love death (Proverbs 8:36). Their walking in the ways of the Father of Lies will bring them death (Proverbs 11:19). Death is the work of the Father of Lies (Hebrews 2:14).
Death came upon people from sin (Romans 5:12). Sin came from the Father of Lies (1 John 3:8).
Halloween is wrong because it is a reflection of Samhain.
The Children of Truth are no longer part of the wickedness celebrated by Halloween (1 Corinthians 6:9-11). These wicked things of the past have passed away, and they are to live a new life (2 Corinthians 5:17). It is not right for them to keep a holiday, which has been set up to remind them of the practices, that they have been called to forsake and forget (Philippians 3:13-15).
The Man of Truth came down from Heaven and overcame the darkness (John 1:1-5). The Father of Truth sent him to deliver people from the darkness (Colossians 1:12-13). The Father of Truth has called the Children of Truth out of darkness and into His marvelous light (1 Peter 2:9)!
The Children of Truth have left off walking in darkness to walk in the light (Isaiah 9:2). The Man of Truth has led them out of darkness into light (Matthew 4:16-17). The Man of Truth has taken them out of the darkness, to free them from the power of the Father of Lies (Acts 26:18). They have cast off the works of darkness to live in the light (Romans 13:12-14).
The Children of Truth no longer have anything to do with the darkness, that comes from the Father of Lies (2 Corinthians 6:14-16). They no longer live in their former darkness (Ephesians 5:6-8). They no longer have anything to do with the shameful things, which are done secretly in darkness (Ephesians 5:11-12).
The Children of Lies continue to walk in the darkness, while the Children of Truth walk in the light (John 3:19-21).
The Father of Truth sent the Man of Truth to go into the grave to conquer it (Isaiah 53:8-10). He was placed in a tomb after dying on a cross (Matthew 27:58-60). He came out of that grave victorious over death (Matthew 28:5-9)!
Death could not hold the Man of Truth captive (Acts 2:22-24)! He died to destroy death, so the Children of Truth could be free from the Father of Lies, who enslaved them through the power of death (Hebrews 2:14-15)!
The Children of Truth began having victory over the grave, right after the Man of Truth came out of the grave (Matthew 27:52-53).
The Father of Truth will break the power of the grave over the Children of Truth (Psalm 49:14-15). The Father of Truth has promised that death will be swallowed up in victory (Isaiah 25:8-9). The Father of Truth has promised to ransom the Children of Truth from the grave, and redeem them from the power of death (Hosea 13:14). The Children of Truth will rise again to everlasting life, when death is swallowed up in victory, and the grave has no more victory (1 Corinthians 15:52-55).
The Law of Truth (Law of Truth) will keep the Children of Truth from death (Proverbs 13:14). The fear of the Father of Truth will keep them from death (Proverbs 14:26-27).
The Father of Truth will deliver the soul of the Children of Truth from death, and keep them alive in times of famine (Psalm 33:18-19). He will deliver them from death, and will not allow them to go hungry (Proverbs 10:2-3).
The Children of Truth have passed from death to life (John 5:24).
Those delivered by the Man of Truth from the Spirits of Lies, are to no longer act like they live among the tombs (Mark 5:15-16). Those who are no longer possessed by Spirits of Lies, are to show everyone that their dwelling place is not a graveyard (Luke 8:35-36).
The Children of Truth should not make any space in their lives to the Father of Lies (Ephesians 4:27).
So, the Children of Truth should not be observing a sugar coated rehearsal of the wickedness of Samhain. They have no business being part of a memorial to the sick and twisted practices of Samhain. The last thing they should be celebrating is a holiday honoring the Father of Lies.
They should not act like they are the living dead, who do not know the Father of Truth. They should no longer to act like they are enslaved by the monster within, which causes people to do terrible things. They should no longer to be wearing a costume, pretending to be part of the Children of Lies.
They should be like Saint Patrick, and have nothing to do with anything that came from the Druids. They should recognize that Halloween is like Ash Wednesday. They should follow the example of The Mensch Who Killed Christmas, when it comes to Halloween. They should observe the Feasts of Truth instead, like those who wish each other "Happy Firstfruits!".
They should show people that they are the real deal. They should let people know, that the friendly ghost that they are familiar with, is the Spirit of Truth (Ruach HaQodesh aka The Holy Spirit aka The Holy Ghost). They should be helping people to escape the Chamber of Horrors, that awaits those who remain in the darkness.
They need to tell people, to come into the House of Truth, and demonstrate that they have been given power over the Spirits of Lies, like the Aos Si (Mark 16:15-18). They need to tell people, that the Man of Truth has been victorious of death and the grave (Romans 1:1-4). They need to tell people, to surrender their lives to the Man of Truth, because they believe that His Father gave him victory over death (Romans 10:9). They need to tell people, that the Father of Lies has no power over those, who come into the House of Truth (James 4:7)!
Come into the House of Truth!
A good place to start is with the word "Halloween". The word "Halloween" came from a contraction of "All Hallows Evening". "All Hallows Evening" was later called "Hallows Even", then "Hallow E'en" and finally "Halloween".
"All Hallows Evening" was the beginning of a three day festival called "Allhallowtide". The next day was called "All Saints Day" to remember so-called Saints. The last day was called "All Souls Day" to remember regular people, who called themselves "Christians", who had died.
"All Hallows Evening" was a day of remembrance of all martyrs. Sometime before the universal persecution of Rome, the Children of Truth (those who obey The Father of Truth because they love Him) had developed a tradition of building churches on the site, where a member of their local congregation was killed for their faith. They would then commemorate the day of the death of the martyr each year by meeting together to pray to the Father of Truth (YHVH aka God aka THE LORD) on that day. They would pray to have the strength to follow the example of their local hero.
This left a patchwork of observation dates across congregations, with one congregation observing one day for a local martyr, and the next nearest congregation observing an entirely different date. Once the Roman universal persecution began in 95 AD, many of the local congregations soon began running out of dates. There were simply more martyrs than dates on the calendar.
The problem was somewhat lessened by declaring only certain martyrs to be "Saints", and only observing their dates. Still, many congregations would have too many remembrance dates to be practical. There were also arguments over which martyrs were worthy to be called a "Saint". Finally, there was the problem that sometimes multiple Saints died on the same date, often together.
So, the False Church of Rome established the first of May as All Saints Day to commemorate the death of those deemed to be "Saints" in 610 AD. The evening before, "All Hallows Evening", was to commemorate the death of ordinary martyrs. By this time, people had stopped praying to be faithful like the martyrs, but instead started praying to the Saints.
In 835 AD, All Saints Day was moved to the first of November. This was done, so it would fall on the same day as the Druid holiday called "Samhain". Although the Germans called this holiday by another name, it was the day when they, as well as the Celts, commemorated the dead with pagan customs.
Finally, in 1030 AD, All Souls Day was added after All Saints Day. "All Souls Day" was to remember regular people, who called themselves "Christians", who had died. This day was observed by praying for those who were stuck suffering in Purgatory after death, so they would be admitted into Heaven.
This completed the three day festival of the False Church of Rome called, "Allhallowtide". So, the first thing wrong with Halloween, is that at best, it is a holiday of the False Church of Rome. This entire festival is contrary to the Book of Truth (The Bible).
There is nothing wrong with being inspired by the faithfulness of martyrs. However, these martyrs are part of the Children of Truth, and not their Master (Matthew 23:8-10).
The Children of Truth are to strive to be like their Master (Luke 6:40). The Children of Truth are to strive to be like the Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ) (1 John 4:15-17).
So, instead of praying to be like one of the martyrs, the Children of Truth should be praying to be like the Man of Truth.
People are not to pray to dead people, even if they are declared to be "Saints", for every necromancer (anyone who talks to dead people) is an abomination to the Father of Truth (Deuteronomy 18:11-12). The Man of Truth taught the Children of Truth to pray to the Father of Truth (Matthew 6:6).
The Children of Truth are to pray to the Father of Truth in the name of the Man of Truth (John 16:26-27). They are to thank the Father of Truth for all things in the name of the Man of Truth (Ephesians 5:20).
So, instead of praying to the Children of Truth who have died, the Children of Truth are to pray to the Father of Truth in the name of the Man of Truth.
The Children of Truth are not to pray for people to escape Purgatory after death. It is as useless as being baptized for those who died (1 Corinthians 15:29). No one cannot change the state of someone else after they die (Revelation 22:11).
When people die in their sins, they suffer unending punishment in fire (Mark 9:43-48). Those who suffer in this fire, cannot be removed from this fire, no matter who prays for them (Luke 16:22-26). There is no escape from the Chamber of Horrors.
When people die in the Man of Truth, they go to be with the Man of Truth (2 Corinthians 5:6-8). The Children of Truth will always be with the Man of Truth (Philippians 1:21-23). They are literally better off dead.
So, instead of praying for the dead to be saved, the Children of Truth are to carryout the Great Commission, and tell living people the Good News, so the living can come into the House of Truth.
As bad as this three day festival of the False Church of Rome is, it is only a small part of what is wrong with Halloween.
Many of the customs of Halloween, as celebrated in countries populated by descendants of the Celtic and Germanic people, like the United States, come from the Druid holiday called, "Samhain".
Although, this holiday was not part of Celtic Christianity in its original form, the Druids were successful in getting many of the customs of Samhain infused into celebrations of All Hallows Eve, after the False Church of Rome moved All Saints Day to fall on the same day as Samhain in 835 AD.
In order to explain Samhain, a brief explanation of seasons is in order. There are three different systems for defining the seasons of Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter involved.
Julius Caesar set up the Julian Calendar, that is still commonly used today, with a few adjustments made over the years. On his calendar, the year began on the first of March. (This is why December is literally "tenth month", even though it is the twelfth month on modern calendars.) The reason for this was that the first season of the year for Julius Caesar was Spring. His definition of Spring was Climatic Spring, when the weather became warm enough that life began to spring out of the ground.
The Romans had observed that this came about three weeks before the Spring Equinox, so they set the beginning of Spring to be the first of March, with the Spring Equinox occurring on the the twenty second of March. Each season was broken into three months, to mark the early, mid, and late portion of each season. So Climatic Summer began with June, Climatic Autumn began with September, and Climatic Winter began with December.
So in this system for defining the seasons, the first day of Spring is not the Spring Equinox, as people commonly think. Under the Climatic system developed by the Romans, the Spring Equinox is more properly "the equinox that occurs in the Spring".
This is another system of defining seasons by the position of the Earth relative to the Sun. In this system, Astronomical Spring begins on the Spring Equinox, Astronomical Summer begins on the Summer Solstice, Astronomical Autumn begins on the Autumn Equinox, and Astronomical Winter begins on the Winter Solstice. In the Astronomical system, the year begins with the Winter Solstice.
The Celtic and Germanic people had an entirely different system for defining seasons. They defined seasons by how much sunlight there was each day. In this Solaric system, Solaric Winter began on the midway point between the Autumn Equinox and the Winter Solstice. This is around the sixth of November on modern calendars. The other seasons began on the midway points of the Astronomical Seasons as well. Solaric Spring began around the third of February, Solaric Summer began around the fifth of May, and Solaric Autumn began around the fourth of August.
This system defined Winter as the quarter of the year with least amount of sunlight and Summer as the quarter of the year with the most amount of sunlight. (Climatic seasons lag Solaric seasons by about a month due seasonal lag. Seasonal lag is caused by the time it takes the climate to respond to a change in the amount of sunlight, usually about a month.)
The Celtic and Germanic people marked each day as starting with sunset, so that the day was darkness followed by light. In the same way, the year began with the start of Solaric Winter, so that the year was darkness followed by light.
The first day of each season was marked with a holiday. The first day of Solaric Winter, the beginning of the year, was marked by Samhain. The first day of the other seasons were marked by Imbolc, Beltane, and Lughnasadh.
After the Romans, and then the False Church of Rome, took over the areas where the Celtic and Germanic people lived, there were some adjustments made by both sides to create a single syncretic calendar. This calendar allowed their holidays to be combined into new "Christian" holidays. These new "Christian" holidays went by the names established by the False Church of Rome, but most of the practices of the corresponding Celtic and Germanic holidays were incorporated into their observations. All Saints Day and Samhain were both moved to the first day of November. Most of the practices of Samhain were done during the night time portion, that began at sunset on the last day of October. So, those practices were continued on "All Hallows Evening", better known as Halloween.
(Imbolc was moved to the second of February, and became "Ground Hog Day". Beltane was moved to the first of May, and became "May Day". Lughnasadh was moved to the first day of August, and became "Transfiguration Day" or "Lammas" (a contraction of "Lamb Mass").)
So, most of the customs that people associate with Halloween came from Samhain. In order to understand better what is wrong with Halloween, we need to examine those practices in their original context.
On Samhain, it was believed that it was easier to come in contact with the Aos Si, which are Spirits of Lies (devils aka demons aka unclean spirits aka gods), than any other time of the year. (Some of the Aos Si were also called Fairies, because they appeared in the form of "fair" (beautiful) young women, usually with wings.) These spirits were greatly feared, especially the Horned God. It was also believed that the souls of the dead would return to their homes on this night. (People would set out plates with food for them at the table, and keep a seat open for them by the fireplace.) Lastly, people were concerned, that the dead would seek revenge on this night, for any perceived injustice that they had faced in life.
For these reasons, a number of practices developed for the celebration of Samhain. Most of these practices are commonly carried out on Halloween today. Here are some of these common Halloween practices derived from Samhain, and their original purpose:
1. Decorations and costumes
People dressed up like ghosts, dead people, and the like, to disguise themselves from the souls of the dead. In order to keep the souls of the dead away from their homes, they disguised their yards as graveyards, in the hopes that the souls of the dead will be confused. They often used other emblems of death, like coffins, skeletons, and skulls, to make the scene more convincing.
2. Bonfires
Originally, the Druids would build a wicker man around a human sacrifice on Samhain, and set it on fire to appease the Spirits of Lies known as the Aos Si, especially the Horned God. This practice was banned by the Romans, and then the False Church of Rome, but continued for centuries in remote areas.
Later, the practice was changed to setting fires where the bones of the recently departed were burned. They would gather around these bone fires for protection from the vengeful souls of the dead, and the Aos Si. The words "bone fire" was later contracted to form the word "bonfire", which people still gather around on Halloween to this day.
3. Jack-o-lanterns
Carved turnip lanterns were originally used to ward off the Spirits of Lies known as the Aos Si.
After the False Church of Rome recast Samhain as All Hallows Eve, these carved turnip lanterns came to remind people to pray for the release of their loved ones from Purgatory. The faces of these carved turnip lanterns were carved to show the torment that those in Purgatory were experiencing, until someone arranged for them to be released.
These carved turnip lanterns were much later called "Jack-o-lanterns". This name came from a myth about a thief named Jack, who was forced to wander the Earth at night after death, with an ember from Hell in a carved out turnip as his lantern. So, these carved out turnip lanterns first became known as "Lanterns of Jack", or "Jack-o-lanterns" in 1837 AD. Jack-o-lanterns were first brought over to the United States by Irish immigrants around that time. The first known case of one being carved from pumpkin was in 1866 AD.
4. Trick or Treat
Food was also set as offerings for the Spirits of Lies known as the Aos Si, and as refreshments for the souls of the dead. Originally, Druids in their hooded outfits that hid their face, would collect and eat these offerings, because it was believed that these Druids were possessed by these spirits and souls on Samhain.
If the Druids were not pleased with the offering for some reason, they would paint a hexagram (a six-pointed star in a circle) in blood, sometimes human, on the door of the house. This was supposed to mark the house as cursed. This was known as putting a hex on a house.
When a hex was put on a house, it meant that the Aos Si, and the vengeful souls of the dead, would bring wrath upon it. One of the inhabitants would usually die that night, supposedly from the curse, but usually it from was poison, or an "accident" carried out by the Druids.
Sometimes, the Druids would mark an individual person with a hexagram in blood on their chest. This was supposed marked them as cursed in the same manner. This was known as putting a hex on someone.
When a hex was put on a person, they usually did not live until morning, unless they managed to escape. One reason was that their neighbors would hunt them down and kill them, often by stoning, to appease the Aos Si, and the vengeful souls of the dead. This sacrifice was thought to protect the community from the wrath of these spirits and souls on Samhain, especially the Horned God.
After the False Church of Rome recast Samhain as All Hallows Eve, this practice of putting out food to appease the Aos Si, and the vengeful souls of the dead, and putting hexes on houses and people, were replaced with new customs derived from the old customs.
Instead of food being placed outside of each house to be consumed by hooded Druids, people wearing disguises to conceal their identity, would go from house to house to eat soul cakes, carrying turnip Jack-o-lanterns. Those who ate the soul cakes, would then pray for the souls of those dear to the owner of the house, who were in Purgatory. Those who did this were known as guisers or soulers.
Any house that did not offer soul cakes to the guisers or soulers, was subject to dreadful pranks, that replaced putting a hex on a house or person. These pranks were typically annoying, like having their outhouse tipped on its door when occupied. Sometimes the pranks were damaging to property, but not harmful to people, like setting an unoccupied outhouse on fire. These pranks were attested to as an old practice on All Hallows Eve among the Scots and Irish in 1780 AD.
By 1895 AD, guisers had expanded from praying for the souls in Purgatory in exchange for soul cakes, to accepting treats and money, in exchange for NOT carrying out a Halloween prank on the occupants.
Like Jack-o-lanterns, another wave of immigrants from Ireland brought this form of extortion to North America.
The first known case of guisers in North America were children in Canada in 1911 AD. The first known instance of guisers asking for treats in North America was in 1915 AD. The first known case of guisers in the United States was in Chicago in 1920 AD. This practice of guisers demanding treats and money to NOT carry out a Halloween prank, was first called "Trick or Treat" in Canada in 1927 AD.
This term did not appear in the United States until 1934 AD. It was not well known in America, until a major publication wrote about it in 1939 AD.
It was then popularized throughout America by candy makers in California. Of course, an entire industry for creating Halloween costumes also emerged, mostly in cities with large populations of newly arrived Irish immigrants. Halloween then became the commercialized holiday that many people know it as today.
5. Halloween Games
The Celtic and Germanic tribes used hazel nuts in games of divining a good match between unmarried men and women on Samhain. They believe that the Spirits of Lies known as the Aos Si, would show them, whether or a match was good, through the roasting of hazelnuts. One person would grab two hazelnuts. They would then name one after themselves, and the other after their desired spouse. They would then lay both nuts next to each other on the edge of a fire pit to roast. If one of the nuts moved away from the other one as it roasted, then it was taken as a sign from these spirits that the match was a bad match. However, if the nuts remained still until they were roasted, then it was a sign from these spirits that it was a good match.
Then the Romans introduced the apple tree to Celtic Lands, as a symbol of Pomona, the goddess of fruit trees. They also introduced various games involving apples to the Celtic and Germanic tribes that they conquered. These games were also meant to give signs from Pomona, about who to marry. These apple games were soon incorporated into Samhain celebration for the same reasons as hazelnut games.
The most popular of these apple games was bobbing for apples. The first unmarried person to bite into an apple and remove it from the tub with their teeth, had been selected the Aos Si to get married next.
Another variation involved biting an apple suspended on a stick with a candle on the other end. The first to bite the apple had been selected to get married. However, anyone who got hot wax from the candle on their face, was thought to have been marked by the Aos Si to remain single for the next year.
People would also peel an apple into one long peeling, and toss the peeling over their shoulder. They would then look at the shape of the apple peeling to see if appeared to form a letter. If it did, then this was thought to be a message from the Aos Si, revealing the first letter of the name of their future spouse. There were similar games involving dropping egg whites into boiling water, or molten lead into cold water.
The introduction of glass and mirrors by the Romans brought about scrying on Samhain, as another means to determine a future husband. Unmarried women were told, that if they sat and stared into a mirror on Samhain night, then the Aos Si would show them their future husbands in the mirror. However, if the Aos Si showed them a skull instead, then they were being shown that they would die before marriage.
Long before the Romans came, the Celtic and Germanic people would place stones, each representing the person who laid it, in the shape of a ring in the pit, where the wicker man was burned on Samhain night. The next morning, they would check to see if any of the stones had moved from their original position. If a stone had moved, they believed that the Aos Si had shown them, that the person who laid the stone would die before the next Samhain.
After the wicker man was outlawed, they did the same in the bonfire that was burned.
There were many other similar divination games played on Samhain. These were often games of chance, like hiding objects in a cake, and giving guests pieces of the cake. The object that the person found in their slice of cake, was supposed to convey a message the Aos Si about their future.
Another variation was the cake walk, where small cakes containing the objects were given to players, based on which square they were standing on when the game ended. The players walked from stone to stone in a circle until a predetermined event occurred, like the wind blowing out a candle. This was event was a sign from the Aos Si, that the players were aligned with future events.
Some of these games, like apple bobbing and cake walks, remain popular today at Halloween parties. However, at modern Halloween parties, there are often other games and events for consulting with the Aos Si, and the souls of the dead, in a more direct way.
6. Witches, Wizards, Seances, and Ouija Boards
Among the Celtic and Germanic people, witches were originally women, who were allegedly sexually involved with the Horned God. They would often meet together naked in a secluded place in the woods to give themselves over as a group to the Horned God. The Horned God would allegedly come to them in form of men. These men were called wizards or warlocks.
The children that were born to these witches and wizards, were often sacrificed to the Horned God. The women would also eat them as part of a marriage supper that they were sharing the wizards, who were possessed with the spirit of the Horned God. They also were known to do the same with orphans that they captured. They would drink their blood as well.
So, they were said to be "married" to the Horned God. They did this to gain secret knowledge and power. Among these powers were supposedly the ability to fly from place to place on brooms, and to cast spells.
People would pay witches to curse other people, usually with a spell of some sort. Sometimes, people would seek them out to cure them of various ailments. In all cases, there was always some sort of process that the witch, and sometimes the people seeking their help, had to go through to get the desired results.
Often this process involved eating things that crawled on the ground, like toads and spiders, cooked into potions in a large caldron, along with shedding human blood.
Witches and wizards were often hated and feared, but they were allowed to continue because of the services that they provided. They were believed to be able to communicate with both the Spirits of Lies known as the Aos Si, and the souls of the dead.
In fact, on Samhain, it was believed that witches and wizards could allow the souls of the dead to take over their bodies, so that people could speak with those who had died. In like manner, it was believed that the Aos Si could also take over their bodies, so that they could speak through them to tell people their future. Since they could act as a communication conduit for the souls of the dead, and the Aos Si, they came to be called "mediums".
Once the Romans brought an end to the "marriage" of witches to the Horned God, witches and wizards became known for being familiar with the Aos Si.
These witches and wizards were not possessed by these spirits most of the time, but rather these spirits were thought to possess the black cats, bats, rats, crows, and similar creatures that they kept as pets. These pets were called the familiar of the witch or wizard, on account of the familiar spirit that possessed the animals.
After the Romans introduced glass, these mediums also began using crystal balls for scrying. They would see visions given to them by the Aos Si, whenever they stared into a crystal ball. The vision might involve the future, or provide guidance for an important decision.
Witches and wizards also had procedures for contacting the souls of the dead, including seances. In a seance, they led people in creating an atmosphere that was supposedly welcoming to the souls of the dead. The souls of the dead would supposedly then speak through the leader of the seance, and sometimes through other participants.
Witches and wizards would also receive messages from both the Aos Si, and the souls of the dead, using a "talking board", that was similar to a Ouija board.
After the False Church of Rome merged Samhain into All Hallows Eve, the witches and wizards, who had went into hiding, would say that they got their messages and visions as a result of praying to the "Saints". This allowed them to continue their ancient practices in a new way.
In all cases, Samhain was seen as the optimum time to communicate with both the Aos Si, and the souls of the dead.
Many of these same practices are still carried out today as part of some Halloween parties.
7. Halloween foods
Before the Romans came, roasted hazelnuts, honey, wheat kernels, and small cakes were the primary foods associated with Samhain. All of these things were offered to the Spirits of Lies known as the Aos Si, in some manner.
The hazelnuts and wheat kernels were roasted at the edge of the fire pit where the wicker man was burned as a sacrifice to the Aos Si, especially the Horned God. The honey was often heated at the edged of this fire pit and hardened into a candy similar to toffee. The small cakes were likewise baked in the fire that consumed the wicker man.
Hazelnuts were thought to be the means for the Aos Si to impart wisdom to the eaters on Samhain. Roasted wheat kernels were shared with the souls of the dead on Samhain, by eating some of the wheat kernels, and leaving the rest out for the souls of the dead. The small cakes were usually made with ground wheat kernels, hazelnuts, and honey. The small cakes were used to foretell the future on Samhain.
After the Romans introduced the apple tree, apples were added. Due to the connection with Pomona, apples were thought to connect people to the Aos Si, and the souls of the dead, on Samhain. Apples candied by being placed in heated honey, became part of Samhain.
Also, bonfires replaced the fires where the wicker man was burned, as the means of cooking the traditional foods of Samhain.
Also, as the Romans brought an end to cannibalism among witches and wizards, sweet treats in the shape of human body parts appeared. Drinks that resembled blood in color were added as well, to remember the blood that the witches and wizards drank in toasts to the Horned God.
After the False Church of Rome brought an end to witches, treats were added that looked like spiders, worms, and the like, that the witches had used in making their potions.
After the False Church of Rome created All Hallows Eve, the small cakes of Samhain became soul cakes.
After sugar was introduced during the Crusades, the honey was replaced with molasses, and the new hard candy hardened at the bonfires, became known as bonfire toffee. Also, full sized Halloween cakes, decorated with symbols of death like graveyards and skulls, were added. These Halloween cakes were made to remind people that the Aos Si, and the souls of the dead, were among them on Halloween.
Soon, cinnamon was added to the melted sugar that the apples were dipped in, to create cinnamon apples. These cinnamon apples were bright red, as a reminder of the blood that was shed in sacrifices for Samhain.
The spread of foods from the New World, and the introduction of Halloween to North America, brought more changes to the Halloween menu.
After Jack-o-lanterns began to be made from pumpkins, instead of turnips, roasted pumpkin seeds were added. Also, pop-corn allowed caramel corn to became another food made with a roasted grain kernel and melted sugar, that had largely replaced honey.
Roasted sweet corn (maize) replaced roasted wheat kernels. Peanuts also became a popular alternative to hazelnuts. Apples were wrapped in caramel and rolled in peanuts. This was similar to the apples being candied in honey at a bonfire, and then coated with hazelnuts.
Then the California candy industry started creating candies, shaped like things associated with Halloween, like Jack-o-lanterns. After the California candy industry succeeded in popularizing Halloween across the United States, then other candies, like chocolate bars, began being marketed in Halloween themed packaging and shapes.
8. The Horned God
The Horned God basically was man-like from the waist down and goat-like from the waist up. The Horned God was considered the opposite of Woden (called Odin by the Norse), the Spirit of Lies that is the inspiration for Santa Claus.
The Horned God was greatly feared by the Celtic and Germanic peoples, because they believed that the Horned God had the power of death. The Horned God did not just have the power to bring death to an individual, but to bring death through famine, drought, and disease to the entire community.
The Celtic and Germanic peoples were in bondage to Druids, witches and wizards, through their fear of the Horned God. They believed that the Horned God had to be appeased on Samhain night.
If a young virgin girl was selected to become "married" to the Horned God, but refused to do so, then she was tied to a stone table and stabbed through the heart. Any man, who was perceived as having dishonored the Horned God in some way, was burned to death in the wicker man. Most of the human sacrifices made on Samhain night, whether by burning someone alive in the wicker man, stabbing them through the heart on a stone table, or stoning them to death, were sacrifices to the Horned God.
The community made these sacrifices on Samhain night, because it did not want the Horned God to blame them for any slight. Samhain was the night when the Horned God was to be appeased and celebrated.
The Horned God was considered the father of all of the Spirits of Lies known as the Aos Si. The Horned God was basically what they called the Father of Lies (HaShatan aka Satan Aka The Devil). In fact, most pictures of the Father of Lies found in the lands of Celts and Germans today, were inspired by ancient descriptions of the Horned God.
Samhain was created to honor and worship the Father of Lies, in the form of the Horned God.
In like manner today, the Father of Lies is honored on Halloween by people exalting his work of bringing death. As Halloween has spread across America, many other emblems of death and the Horned God, from other cultures have been added to Halloween.
Along side the ghosts and skeletons, there has been added mummies, vampires, zombies, ghouls, and other undead creatures. Witches and wizards have been joined by witch doctors, fortune tellers, shamans, and psychics in contacting Spirits of Lies. Druids have been joined by undertakers, executioners, axe murders, serial killers, and cannibals. Yards decorated as graveyards are accompanied by houses decorated as the scenes of the most gruesome murders, as well as torture chambers. Jack-o-lanterns have been joined by emblems of the Horned God, like pentagrams (an upside down five point star in a circle).
Halloween is a celebration of death and the Father of Lies.
When these facts about Halloween are examined in the light of the Book of Truth, it becomes very apparent what is wrong with Halloween.
Halloween is wrong because its practices are reflections of the practices of Samhain. Samhain was wrong for so many reasons.
Samhain was wrong because it was created by the Druids.
People are not to determine the times based on observations of the sun, moon, and stars (Leviticus 19:26). People are not to allow observers of times, like the Druids, to set times for them to carry out evil (Deuteronomy 18:12-14).
Samhain was wrong because people pretended to live among the tombs.
The Children of Lies (those who disobey the Father of Truth because they do not love Him) dwell among the graves, and eat vile things cooked in caldrons (Isaiah 65:2-4). They use tombs for decorations, and honor graveyards (Matthew 23:27-31).
Those possessed by the Spirits of Lies live among the tombs (Matthew 8:28). Living among the tombs is a sign of being possessed by a Spirit of Lies without restraint (Mark 5:2-4).
Turning your dwelling place into a graveyard, is like going into the wilderness to make an offering of human blood to the Spirits of Lies (Mark 5:5-9). Living in a graveyard, is like meeting with Spirits of Lies naked in a secluded place in the woods (Luke 8:27).
Samhain was wrong because people sacrificed other people in fires, and burned the bones of the dead in fires.
People are not to sacrifice people in fires to a horned god like Molech (Leviticus 18:21). (Molech had the head of a bull and the body of a man.) Burning the bones of the dead in a fire, is a sign of judgment that belongs to the Father of Truth alone (Amos 2:1-3).
Samhain was wrong because it used enchantments, like Jack-o-lanterns, to ward off evil spirits and the souls of the dead.
People are not to use enchantments of any kind, including Jack-o-lanterns (2 Kings 17:17).
Samhain was wrong because it used extortion of the worst kind.
The Father of Truth plainly does not want people using extortion, like the Druids threatening to put a hex on anyone, who did not give them what they wanted (1 Corinthians 6:9-10).
Samhain was wrong because it used games of divination.
People are not to use divination of any kind (Deuteronomy 18:10).
Samhain was wrong because of witches and wizards.
People are to destroy the secluded places in the woods where witches and wizards are "married" to the Horned God in acts of harlotry (Exodus 34:12-16). The Father of Truth is against witches and wizards for slaying their own children as sacrifices to the Horned God, which were conceived in the marriage bed of the Horned God (Isaiah 57:5-7).
People are not to make sacrifices to Spirits of Lies, like the Aos Si (Leviticus 17:7). They are not to make sacrifices to Spirits of Lies, like the Horned God (Deuteronomy 32:16-17). The are not to sacrifice their own children to Spirits of Lies, like the Aos Si and the Horned God, because this will bring the wrath of the Father of Truth upon them (Psalm 106:37-40).
People are to have no regard for people with familiar spirits, nor seek after the services of wizards (Leviticus 19:31). Those who do so, become enemies of the Father of Truth (Leviticus 20:6).
People suffer, when witches are allowed to live (Exodus 22:18). People are to stone to death, those with familiar spirits, as well as wizards (Leviticus 20:27).
People are not to allow witches, wizards, people who talk to familiar spirits, or people who talk to the souls of the dead, to live among them (Deuteronomy 18:10-11). Those who do these things, are provoking the Father of Truth to anger (2 Kings 21:6). Those who do these things, are committing great evil in His eyes (2 Chronicles 33:6).
The Father of Truth will destroy all witchcraft (Micah 5:12). Those involved in witchcraft will not live in His kingdom (Galatians 5:19-21).
Samhain was wrong because of the food.
Food is not to be given for the dead (Deuteronomy 26:12-14).
People are not to drink blood when they eat meat (Genesis 9:4). The blood is to be poured out on the ground like water (Deuteronomy 12:16).
People are not to drink potions made from vile things in secret (Isaiah 66:17).
People are not to eat things offered to the Spirits of Lies, like the Aos Si (Acts 15:29). They are to not eat these things, nor drink blood (Acts 21:25). They are not to have a feast with Spirits of Lies like the Aos Si (1 Corinthians 10:20-21).
Samhain was wrong because it celebrated the Father of Lies and death.
People are not to worship the Father of Lies (Matthew 4:8-10). The Horned God is a form that the Father of Lies took on (2 Corinthians 11:14).
The Children of Lies love death (Proverbs 8:36). Their walking in the ways of the Father of Lies will bring them death (Proverbs 11:19). Death is the work of the Father of Lies (Hebrews 2:14).
Death came upon people from sin (Romans 5:12). Sin came from the Father of Lies (1 John 3:8).
Halloween is wrong because it is a reflection of Samhain.
The Children of Truth are no longer part of the wickedness celebrated by Halloween (1 Corinthians 6:9-11). These wicked things of the past have passed away, and they are to live a new life (2 Corinthians 5:17). It is not right for them to keep a holiday, which has been set up to remind them of the practices, that they have been called to forsake and forget (Philippians 3:13-15).
The Man of Truth came down from Heaven and overcame the darkness (John 1:1-5). The Father of Truth sent him to deliver people from the darkness (Colossians 1:12-13). The Father of Truth has called the Children of Truth out of darkness and into His marvelous light (1 Peter 2:9)!
The Children of Truth have left off walking in darkness to walk in the light (Isaiah 9:2). The Man of Truth has led them out of darkness into light (Matthew 4:16-17). The Man of Truth has taken them out of the darkness, to free them from the power of the Father of Lies (Acts 26:18). They have cast off the works of darkness to live in the light (Romans 13:12-14).
The Children of Truth no longer have anything to do with the darkness, that comes from the Father of Lies (2 Corinthians 6:14-16). They no longer live in their former darkness (Ephesians 5:6-8). They no longer have anything to do with the shameful things, which are done secretly in darkness (Ephesians 5:11-12).
The Children of Lies continue to walk in the darkness, while the Children of Truth walk in the light (John 3:19-21).
The Father of Truth sent the Man of Truth to go into the grave to conquer it (Isaiah 53:8-10). He was placed in a tomb after dying on a cross (Matthew 27:58-60). He came out of that grave victorious over death (Matthew 28:5-9)!
Death could not hold the Man of Truth captive (Acts 2:22-24)! He died to destroy death, so the Children of Truth could be free from the Father of Lies, who enslaved them through the power of death (Hebrews 2:14-15)!
The Children of Truth began having victory over the grave, right after the Man of Truth came out of the grave (Matthew 27:52-53).
The Father of Truth will break the power of the grave over the Children of Truth (Psalm 49:14-15). The Father of Truth has promised that death will be swallowed up in victory (Isaiah 25:8-9). The Father of Truth has promised to ransom the Children of Truth from the grave, and redeem them from the power of death (Hosea 13:14). The Children of Truth will rise again to everlasting life, when death is swallowed up in victory, and the grave has no more victory (1 Corinthians 15:52-55).
The Law of Truth (Law of Truth) will keep the Children of Truth from death (Proverbs 13:14). The fear of the Father of Truth will keep them from death (Proverbs 14:26-27).
The Father of Truth will deliver the soul of the Children of Truth from death, and keep them alive in times of famine (Psalm 33:18-19). He will deliver them from death, and will not allow them to go hungry (Proverbs 10:2-3).
The Children of Truth have passed from death to life (John 5:24).
Those delivered by the Man of Truth from the Spirits of Lies, are to no longer act like they live among the tombs (Mark 5:15-16). Those who are no longer possessed by Spirits of Lies, are to show everyone that their dwelling place is not a graveyard (Luke 8:35-36).
The Children of Truth should not make any space in their lives to the Father of Lies (Ephesians 4:27).
So, the Children of Truth should not be observing a sugar coated rehearsal of the wickedness of Samhain. They have no business being part of a memorial to the sick and twisted practices of Samhain. The last thing they should be celebrating is a holiday honoring the Father of Lies.
They should not act like they are the living dead, who do not know the Father of Truth. They should no longer to act like they are enslaved by the monster within, which causes people to do terrible things. They should no longer to be wearing a costume, pretending to be part of the Children of Lies.
They should be like Saint Patrick, and have nothing to do with anything that came from the Druids. They should recognize that Halloween is like Ash Wednesday. They should follow the example of The Mensch Who Killed Christmas, when it comes to Halloween. They should observe the Feasts of Truth instead, like those who wish each other "Happy Firstfruits!".
They should show people that they are the real deal. They should let people know, that the friendly ghost that they are familiar with, is the Spirit of Truth (Ruach HaQodesh aka The Holy Spirit aka The Holy Ghost). They should be helping people to escape the Chamber of Horrors, that awaits those who remain in the darkness.
They need to tell people, to come into the House of Truth, and demonstrate that they have been given power over the Spirits of Lies, like the Aos Si (Mark 16:15-18). They need to tell people, that the Man of Truth has been victorious of death and the grave (Romans 1:1-4). They need to tell people, to surrender their lives to the Man of Truth, because they believe that His Father gave him victory over death (Romans 10:9). They need to tell people, that the Father of Lies has no power over those, who come into the House of Truth (James 4:7)!
Come into the House of Truth!
Labels: Demons, Devils, Druids, False Church Of Rome, Ghosts, Halloween, Satan, The Devil, Witches, Wizards
posted by The House Of Truth @ October 30, 2017
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