Take heed of the Bible warning against pagan practices:
Deuteronomy 18:9-14 Avoid Wicked Customs
9 “When you come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominations of those nations. 10 There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, 11 or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead. 12 For all who do these things are an abomination to the Lord, and because of these abominations the Lord your God drives them out from before you. 13 You shall be blameless before the Lord your God. 14 For these nations which you will dispossess listened to soothsayers and diviners; but as for you, the Lord your God has not appointed such for you.
1 Samuel 15:22-23
22 So Samuel said:
1 Samuel 15:22-23
22 So Samuel said:
“Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices,
As in obeying the voice of the Lord?
Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice,
And to heed than the fat of rams.
23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft,
And stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry.
Because you have rejected the word of the Lord,
He also has rejected you from being king.”
As in obeying the voice of the Lord?
Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice,
And to heed than the fat of rams.
23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft,
And stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry.
Because you have rejected the word of the Lord,
He also has rejected you from being king.”
2 Kings 17:16-18 (NKJV)
16 So they left all the commandments of the Lord their God, made for themselves a molded image and two calves, made a wooden image and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served Baal. 17 And
they caused their sons and daughters to pass through the fire,
practiced witchcraft and soothsaying, and sold themselves to do evil in
the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger. 18 Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel, and removed them from His sight; there was none left but the tribe of Judah alone.
2 Chronicles 33 (NKJV)
Manasseh Reigns in Judah
33 Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. 2 But he did evil in the sight of the Lord, according to the abominations of the nations whom the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel...
5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord. 6 Also
he caused his sons to pass through the fire in the Valley of the Son of
Hinnom; he practiced soothsaying, used witchcraft and sorcery, and
consulted mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger. 7 He even set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the house of God...9 So Manasseh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to do more evil than the nations whom the Lord had destroyed before the children of Israel.
Jeremiah 7 17 Do you not see what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? 18 The children gather wood, the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead dough, to make cakes for the queen of heaven; and they pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke Me to anger. 19 Do they provoke Me to anger?” says the Lord. “Do they not provoke themselves, to the shame of their own faces?”…
Jeremiah 7 17 Do you not see what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? 18 The children gather wood, the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead dough, to make cakes for the queen of heaven; and they pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke Me to anger. 19 Do they provoke Me to anger?” says the Lord. “Do they not provoke themselves, to the shame of their own faces?”…
30 For the children of Judah have done evil in My
sight,” says the Lord. “They have set their abominations in the house
which is called by My name, to pollute it. 31 And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is
in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their
daughters in the fire, which I did not command, nor did it come into My
heart. 32 “Therefore behold, the days are coming,” says the
Lord, “when it will no more be called Tophet, or the Valley of the Son
of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter; for they will bury in Tophet
until there is no room…34 Then I will cause to cease from the
cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem the voice of mirth
and the voice of gladness…
Revelation 6: 8 So I looked, and behold, an ashy pale horse [black and blue as if made so by bruising], and its rider’s name was Death, and Hades (the realm of the dead) followed him closely. And they were given authority and power over a fourth part of the earth to kill with the sword and with famine and with plague (pestilence, disease) and with wild beasts of the earth.
Revelation 6: 8 So I looked, and behold, an ashy pale horse [black and blue as if made so by bruising], and its rider’s name was Death, and Hades (the realm of the dead) followed him closely. And they were given authority and power over a fourth part of the earth to kill with the sword and with famine and with plague (pestilence, disease) and with wild beasts of the earth.
______________________________spirit of death
Halloween
History: Gaelic and Welsh influence
Today’s Halloween customs are thought to have been influenced by folk
customs and beliefs from the Celtic-speaking countries, some of which
have pagan roots…those associated with religions that were Irish before
Christianity arrived”. Historian Nicholas Rogers, exploring the origins
of Halloween, notes that while “some folklorists have detected its
origins in the Roman feast of Pomona, the goddess of fruits and seeds,
or in the festival of the dead called Parentalia, …
the above is quoted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween
Read the following article:
Article by Kimberly Daniels based on her many years of ministering to people involved in the occult. Excerpts: “The
key word in discussing Halloween is “dedicated.” It is dedicated to
darkness and is an accursed season. During Halloween, time-released
curses are always loosed. A time-released curse is a period that has
been set aside to release demonic activity and to ensnare souls in great
measure. You may ask, “Doesn’t God have more power than the devil?”
Yes, but He has given that power to us. If we do not walk in it, we will
become the devil’s prey. Witchcraft works through dirty hearts and
wrong spirits.”
