Written by: Damien Powell
The Holy Days of our Father YHWH and His Son YESHUA, that all believers in Him should be celebrating ended on the 21st, but now all of Satan’s days are beginning! Every wonder why Satan’s holidays begin when it’s cold, when the trees, and flowers begin to die? But YHWH’s begins in the spring when life is beginning again? That’s because Satan is darkness and death. The world has embraced the darkness and chooses to participate in these days of spiritually sacrificing to demons. Whether believers realize it or not it is Satan aka Ba’al that is being worshipped all over the earth on these pagan days. Especially those who profess the Name of YESHUA! Wake up my fellow brothers and sisters and come out of Babylon! In this blog I will discuss why it’s wrong and give some background on Halloween and what it represents.
The Satanist love this day because they say the veil between the living and the dead is at its thinnest on Halloween and they believe they can now demon possess you with their chants, spells, sorcery, demonic altars. (That picture of Ba’al) is who is being worshipped, let it not be you.
Numbers 25:1-4
“And Yisra’el dwelt in Shittim, and the people began to whore with the daughters of Moab, and they invited the people to the slaughtering’s of their mighty ones, and the people ate and bowed down to their mighty ones. Thus Yisra’el was joined to Ba’al Pe’or, and the displeasure of YHWH burned against Yisra’el. And YHWH said to Moses, “Take all the leaders of the people and hang them up before YHWH, before the sun, so that the burning displeasure of YHWH turns away from Yisra’el.” And Moses said to the judges of Yisra’el, “Each one of you slay his men who were joined to Ba’al Pe’or.”
Ba’al is a representation of Satan, he is the one who the children of Yisra’el worshipped more than any deity in Scripture, which provoked YHWH to anger. Ba’al (sun deity and Easter (Ishtar) are the ones who are being worshipped on all of these pagan days and they want your children to join in too. That’s how Satan hooks the world because people feel like they are depriving their children of fun.
Celebrating these pagan days is not for YHWH no matter how you disguise it or change the name to a harvest festival. YHWH told Moses to hang those people who joined in with this demon, so that means that you are hanging yourself in the spiritual realm and committing a spiritual death by joining yourself to Satan on these days.
Psalms 23:5
“You spread before me a table in the face of my enemies; You have anointed my head with oil; My cup runs over.”
Isaiah 65:11
“But you are those who forsake YHWH, who forget My holy mountain, who prepare a table for Gad, and who fill a drink offering for Meni.”
So as always we see the good that YHWH does for us, but instead of walking with His Son YESHUA and obeying His commands, most forsake Him and turn their backs on all the goodness He has provided. He prepares a table for us while luke-warm believers choose to prepare a table for the enemy. What is wrong with this picture?
We have been warned!
Leviticus 18:26-30
“But you, you shall guard My Laws and My Right-Rulings, and not do any of these abominations, the native nor stranger who sojourns among you, because the men of the land who were before you have done all these abominations, and thus the land became defiled, ‘So let not the land vomit you out for defiling it, as it vomited out the nations that were before you. For whoever does any of these abominations, those being who do them shall be cut off from among their people. And you shall guard My Charge, so as not to do any of these abominable practices which were done before you, so as not to defile yourselves by them. I am YHWH your Elohim.”
Deuteronomy 12:2-4
“Completely destroy all the places where the nations which you are dispossessing served their mighty ones, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree. And you shall break down their altars, and destroy their pillars, and burn their Asherim (sacred tree or pole) with fire. And you shall cut down the carved images of their mighty ones and shall destroy their name out of that place. Do not do so to YHWH your Elohim.”
Jeremiah 10:2-4
“Thus said YHWH, “Do not learn the way of the gentiles, and do not be frightened by the signs of the heavens, for the gentiles are frightened by them. For the prescribed customs of these peoples are worthless, for one cuts a tree from the forest, work for the hands of a craftsman with a cutting tool.” The x-mas tree that was just described in the previous Scripture, the sacred tree or pole.
Lamentations 5:15-16
“The joy of our heart has ceased, our dancing has turned mourning. The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!”
Amos 5:21
“I have hated, I have despised your festivals, and I am not pleased with your assemblies.” You guessed it! Halloween is one of these festivals that He despises and He is not pleased with it; therefore, you cannot be doing it for Him.
YESHUA is Light and Halloween is darkness and death!
John 1:4-5
“In Him was Life, and the Life was the Light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.”
John 3:19-20
“And this is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their works were wicked. For everyone practicing evil hates the Light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.” Men love the darkness rather than the light which would explain why they celebrate Halloween which is pure darkness. But YESHUA is the Light which is the Torah, but men hate that Light (Torah) and choose to say it’s done away with. Proverbs 6:23
“For the Command is a lamp, And the Torah a light.”
John 8:12
“Therefore YESHUA spoke to them again, saying, “I am the Light of the world. He who follows Me shall by no means walk in darkness, but possess the light of life.” Yet so many followers of YESHUA choose to walk in darkness on this highly satanic day and not be convicted.
John 12:35-36
“YESHUA, therefore, said to them, “Yet a little while the Light is with you. Walk while you have the Light, lest darkness overtake you. And he who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going. While you have the Light, believe in the Light, so that you become sons of Light.”
Mathew 6:22
“The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good, all your body shall be enlightened. But if your eye is evil, all your body shall be darkened. If, then, the light that is within you is darkness, how great is that darkness.” If you are participating in evil activities like Halloween and then going to church, then the light within you that you thought was light has become darkness. You cannot know YESHUA and walk in darkness.
Psalms 106:20
“Thus they changed My esteem into the form of an ox that eats grass.”
That is exactly what the world and the church has done by bringing darkness where light is supposed to be. They changed the esteem of YHWH into pumpkins, ghosts, dressing up as the dead, and trying to change who He is The ELOHIM of Light not darkness.
The Deception of Satan!
Satan is the master counterfeiter and scripture states that Satan wants to be like YHWH. Isaiah 14:14 says:
“I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.”
With that said YHWH has His (Holy Days) for His people and Satan has his (holidays) for his people or those who are lost or have been deceived. Another example is YHWH has His Shabbat as Satan has his sabbat. And sabbat is defined as a seasonal festival, observed by pagans and a gathering of witches. What follower of YESHUA wants to be a part of a pagan gathering of witches?
October 31st is a very popular holiday known as Halloween a (sabbat) where adults and children dress up in costumes and go door to door asking for candy. Others go to costume parties to celebrate and bob for apples. “Oh it’s not for me, it’s for the children!” Is the common excuse; however, the adults are to show the children which way to go! But, is that holiday harmless? Is it acceptable for a believer or even the church to celebrate this day? Or to celebrate it under a disguised name of a Harvest or Fall Festival?
YESHUA tells us in Mark 12:26-27:
“Now about the dead rising have you not read in the book of Moses, in the account of the bush, how Elohim said to him, I am the Elohim of Abraham, the Elohim of Isaac, and the Elohim of Jacob? He is not the Elohim of the dead, but of the living. You are badly mistaken!”
Luke 24:4-5
“And it came to be, as they were perplexed about this, that see, two men stood by them in glittering garments. And becoming frightened and bowing their faces to the earth, these said to them, “Why do you seek the living among the dead?” YESHUA rose from the dead and is alive, so why is the church allowing the dead to enter into their buildings when YESHUA is alive and not dead. He defeated death so no follower of His should be basking in the darkness. YESHUA died so we can live!
Isaiah 8:19
“And when they say to you, “Seek those who are mediums and wizards, who whisper and mutter.” should not a people seek their Elohim? Should they seek the dead on behalf of the living?”
YESHUA has just told us that our Father YHWH Elohim is Elohim of the living and not the dead, so we need to ask ourselves if He would approve of us dressing up as the dead and glorifying and celebrating death. Halloween is more sinister than people think just looking at the surface of the holiday, which solely equates to just having a good time and letting the children enjoy themselves. What we don’t realize as followers of the Messiah YESHUA is that when we participate in this day we are recreating pagan rituals on a day human sacrifices occurred and the highest amount of demonic activity happened and continues to happen. Also, when put on these masks and costumes we take on the spirit of whatever that being is or was. Below is some background information on this pagan day:
· Halloween literally means the evening before Hallows Day or All Saints Day, which is one of the witches sabbats a pagan gathering of witches.
· “Hallowed” means holy or greatly revered and respected, so, Satan has made this is an evil holy day for himself known as “HALLOWeen.”
· All Saints Day was instituted by the Roman Catholic Church on November 1st the day after Halloween to celebrate the dead, dressing up as saints, angels, and devils and having a huge parade and bon fires.
· They practice witchcraft on Halloween and cast spells against Churches and believers. Satan loves it when believers celebrate his demonic sabbat.
· The Druids would knock on people’s doors and say “trick or treat” and the person inside the house knew that they wanted a human sacrifice for the night. If the owner of the house gave them a human sacrifice, the druids would leave a jack-o-lantern on their doorsteps (filled with human fat) to scare off all the spirits they would be conjuring up during the night. And even that was a deception because the Jack-0-lantern is a demon of the rivers named “Oshun” which does the opposite of what the Druids said, it bring demons into your house, giving Satan an entrance way into your homes.
· If they did not cooperate they would take them to a cauldron that had been boiling all day full of apple cider and tell them if they could grab an apple out of the cauldron with their teeth then they would let them go, but if they could not then they would be beheaded on the spot. This is where “bobbing for apples comes from.”
· Because the Druids believed that demons, witches, and evil spirits roamed the earth on this night and that demons played pranks and tricks on human beings, the only way they could protect themselves was to dress up as a demon or a creature to escape persecution. By disguising themselves the demon or witch would not recognize them or think they were joining in with them that night. This is where the dressing up of costumes originates from.
· Putting on costumes changes your identity which opens you up for attacks because you are not “you” anymore. Satan wants us to change our identities so we become confused and not serve our full purpose in YESHUA our Messiah. He made Adam and Eve question their purpose in the garden although they were already immortal. He challenged YESHUA by saying “If you really are the Son of Elohim then turn these stone into bread”. So if we change who we are willingly, then this is a perfect chance for him to enter.
1 Corinthians 10:20-21 says:
“No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to Elohim, and I do not want you to be participants with demons. You cannot drink the cup of YHWH and the cup of demons too; you cannot have a part in both YHWH’s table and the tables of demons.”
Have no part with Satan, we must be set-apart!
YHWH has called us believers to be set apart and to come out of the world, yet we keep pulling ourselves right back in it. That is called self-assimilation meaning we want to conform with the pagan nations around us the same way a disobedient Israel did.
Making matters worse the church is participating in these abominable holidays under the guise of the Fall Festival or Fall harvest. Interesting how the world does not want to celebrate YHWH’s TRUE Harvest Sukkot, The Feast of Tabernacles, or The Feast of in-gathering, but rather replace it with a demonic disguise of harvest festival! These festivals are always held around Halloween, children are invited to attend in a costume, and the children receive candy for playing games! What’s the difference? There isn’t a difference one is called Halloween and the other is a Fall Festival.
To put it simply we have a choice to make and we cannot justify our actions just because we want to have a “good time” or saying “it’s for the children” We as believers cannot say that we are serving Elohim when we participate and join at the table with His enemy, which is anything demonic. All we are doing is justifying our actions and recreating pagan rituals filled with evil and death. The church is doing the exact same activities as those who participate in Halloween right inside the church. We have been deceived into thinking that this is innocent and Satan is laughing.
It’s like how some Jews put up a Chanukah bush for the holidays and say it’s not a Christmas tree. When in actuality it represents the exact same thing with a different name. It doesn’t change what it stands for, does it? Job 14:4
“Who brings the clean out of the unclean? No one!”
Ezekiel 22:26
“Her priests (kohenim) have done violence to My Torah and they profane My holy matters. They have not distinguished between the holy and profane, nor have they made known between the unclean and the clean. And they have hidden their eyes from My Sabbaths, and I am profaned in their midst.” It happened then and it’s happening now, the priests are calling the unclean clean and they have hidden their faces from YHWH’s Sabbaths and say we can now go on the first day of the week.
Proverbs 13:19
“But to turn away from evil is an abomination to fools.” Powerful words by Solomon; he is saying that those who do wicked and evil cannot even fathom the thought to do what is right. Let that not be any of you my fellow brothers and sisters in YESHUA!
Let us not be lost or deceived, but let us gain understanding of what these holidays truly mean because everything has a history and a meaning. We are either for Elohim or against Him.
James 4:4
“Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with Elohim? Whoever therefore intends to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of Elohim.”
Luke 11:23
“He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with me scatters.”
Let us all stand up and be like Joshua saying in Joshua 24:15
“And if it seems evil in your eyes to serve YHWH, choose for yourselves this day whom you are going to serve, whether the mighty ones which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the mighty ones of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But I and my house, we serve YHWH.” HalleluYAH!
I pray that this has been a blessing to you and please share this with anyone who needs to hear this, or is unaware. Let us stand up and fight for the Elohim of Yisra’el in truth! Ah-main!