Halloween’s origin

        The truth about

            Halloween 

I found these days that Christian don’t really question them self on what they are actually doing, I am not saying I am different but if there is a celebration that never got me it’s Halloween. Most parents don’t want their kids to watch horror movies cause kids will do nightmare, I mean, did you look at the Halloween disguise, they are walking nightmare. But this isn’t the reason why we should not celebrate this holiday. I will demonstrate you that when you celebrate Halloween you actually worshiping and giving offering to a false God. 

             Halloween origin

I will tell you where Halloween come from. Halloween goes back to a Celts holiday name Samhain. The Celts new year was celebrated November 1st, this day marked the end of summer and the harvest and the beginning of the dark, cold winter, a time of year that was often associated with human death. Celts marked Samhain as the most significant of the four quarterly fire festivals, taking place at the midpoint between the fall equinox and the winter solstice. During this time of year, hearth fires in family homes were left to burn out while the harvest was gathered, hearth fire was considered a protection for family, some ritual and prayer accompanied the hearth fire. Celts believed that on the night before the new year, the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead became blurred. On the night of October 31 they celebrated Samhain, when it was believed that the ghosts of the dead returned to earth. 

Like us, Celts had priest who were doing sacrifice to their God, they were called druids. The night of October 31st was believed to be a good night to talk to those spirit and get information about the future and many other things. To commemorate the event, Druids built huge sacred bonfires, where the people gathered to burn crops and animals as sacrifices to the Celtic deities. During the celebration, the Celts wore costumes, typically consisting of animal heads and skins, and attempted to tell each other’s fortunes, those costumes were also thought as scaring the bad spirit away. After the celebration, Celts were bringing a flame from the bonfires to relight their hearth. Does that reminds you of something!!! I know people doesn’t burn crops or animals but still doing that bonfires and gather around it.

In that night Celts believed that fairies were kidnapping people, they were disguising themselves in monster of their mythology so the fairies would not recognize them and not kidnapped them. As the Middle Ages progressed, so did the celebrations of the fire festivals. Bonfires known as Samghnagans, which were more personal Samhain fires nearer the farms, became a tradition, purportedly to protect families from fairies and witches. Carved turnips called Jack-O-lantern began to appear, attached by strings to sticks and embedded with coal. Later Irish tradition switched to PUMPKIN.

           Jack o’lantern

The practice originated from an Irish myth about a man nicknamed “Stingy Jack.” According to the story, Stingy Jack invited the Devil to have a drink with him. True to his name, Stingy Jack didn’t want to pay for his drink, so he convinced the Devil to turn himself into a coin that Jack could use to buy their drinks. Once the Devil did so, Jack decided to keep the money and put it into his pocket next to a silver cross, which prevented the Devil from changing back into his original form. 

Jack eventually freed the Devil, under the condition that he would not bother Jack for one year and that, should Jack die, he would not claim his soul. The next year, Jack again tricked the Devil into climbing into a tree to pick a piece of fruit. While he was up in the tree, Jack carved a sign of the cross into the tree’s bark so that the Devil could not come down until the Devil promised Jack not to bother him for ten more years.

Soon after, Jack died. As the legend goes, God would not allow such an unsavory figure into heaven. The Devil, upset by the trick Jack had played on him and keeping his word not to claim his soul, would not allow Jack into hell. He sent Jack off into the dark night with only a burning coal to light his way. Jack put the coal into a carved-out turnip and has been roaming the Earth with ever since. The Irish began to refer to this ghostly figure as “Jack of the Lantern,” and then, simply “Jack O’Lantern.”

In Ireland and Scotland, people began to make their own versions of Jack’s lanterns by carving scary faces into turnips or potatoes and placing them into windows or near doors to frighten away Stingy Jack and other wandering evil spirits. In England, large beets are used. Immigrants from these countries brought the jack-o’-lantern tradition with them when they came to the United States. They soon found that pumpkins, a fruit native to America, make perfect jack-o’-lanterns.

People would think it isn’t that bad, it’s just a legend. Yeah, but you are using this legend to protect yourselves from demon instead of the name of JESUS. Yes you are replacing the name of JESUS with a Jack O’Lantern. Basically you are protecting yourselves from demon with a demon, make total sense. Isn’t Jesus that said: Mat 12:26 If Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself; how then will his kingdom stand? Don’t be a foul, that night is a demoniac night, cause we call for it with all those satanic traditions, worse is we don’t realize it. The Devil is sneaky and he found a way to make Christians worship another god, and those demonic Jack O’Lantern won’t protect you. 

            Trick or threatening 

This tradition come also from the Celts during their celebration of Samhain. On this night, the Celts believed that their dead ancestors returned as ghostly spirits to revisit the Earth. To honor them, revelers were gathering a feast of food from the people that were given as a gift to the spirits. They did that so they would get a good year, protection and good harvests. If you were not giving offered than the gods would get mad and “trick” you instead. Yes, the Candy you give away actually represents the offering to the false God. 

        Halloween incorporation 

On May 13, 609 A.D., Pope Boniface IV dedicated the Pantheon in Rome in honor of all Christian martyrs, and the Catholic feast of All Martyrs Day was established in the Western church. Pope Gregory III later expanded the festival to include all saints as well as all martyrs, and moved the observance from May 13 to November 1.

By the 9th century, the influence of Christianity had spread into Celtic lands, where it gradually blended with and supplanted older Celtic rites. In 1000 A.D., the church made November 2 All Souls’ Day, a day to honor the dead. It’s widely believed today that the church was attempting to replace the Celtic festival of the dead with a related, church-sanctioned holiday.

All Souls’ Day was celebrated similarly to Samhain, with big bonfires, parades and dressing up in costumes as saints, angels and devils. The All Saints’ Day celebration was also called All-hallows or All-hallowmas (from Middle English Alholowmesse meaning All Saints’ Day) and the night before it, the traditional night of Samhain in the Celtic religion, began to be called All-Hallows Eve and, eventually, Halloween

In another words, the Catholic church corrupted one of their celebration with a pagan celebration of dead to assimilate them. They change the date and make the celebration to look like the pagan celebration. 

IT REALLY FEELS LIKE SOMEONE IS TRYING TO TRICK US. 

Thanks for reading and bless you!!!

DEU 5-7: You shall have no other gods before me

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