Halloween is still a few weeks away, but creepy creatures have been lurking in storefront windows for a couple weeks now. If you ask me, the obnoxious attempt to shove “the dead” in our face for an entire month is pretty dramatic and yet, strategic, of the enemy.
He takes full advantage of the “acknowledged, accepted, and celebrated” holiday around the Nation. Why protect the innocence of a child when every year you’re given an entire month — resistance-free — to flood innocent minds with images of the dead and demonic?
And that’s exactly what Satan does.
About four years ago I met a mom through Facebook. She had been following my posts for a couple of months when she reached out to me and told me she had a sensitive subject she wanted to talk to me about.
It was October.
When we got together, she proceeded to tell me something had happened to her precious little 10-month-old boy. He wasn’t the same anymore. His smile had faded and the happy, playful child she knew was suddenly gone.
I asked her what she thought happened?
What she told me next sent shivers down my spine.
She had taken her mom with her and her son into a Spirit store. You know, the store that resurfaces every year for Halloween, but for some reason in different empty buildings each year?
My friend said they were all looking for costumes when her mom hid a “red-eyed demonic zombie-baby that screeched” behind her back. The grandmother walked over to my friend’s son and suddenly whipped out the zombie baby and put it right in front of her grandson’s face.
The boy screamed and tried to climb into his mom’s arms, shaking. The grandmother thought the horrific gesture was funny and left to put the zombie baby back. However, that moment changed the child’s life forever.
The mom continued to tell me that after the moment in the Halloween store, she would wake up in the middle of the night with her son in the Pack-N-Play next to her bed and notice her son’s eyes staring straight to the ceiling. She told me, “his eyes looked glazed and I would have to shake his leg and pick him up and yell to try to get him to snap out of it.”
She also told me she took him grocery shopping one time and while he was seated in the grocery cart being his happy self, his head immediately dropped as if it lost all strength and he hit his head on the handle. However, instead of crying, he raised his head slowly and again, his eyes were glazed over.
I shared everything I knew at the time with this mom about the demonic realm and advised her if she didn’t take this situation seriously, this demonic encounter her son had would worsen as he got older.
I remember her telling me she rather believe it was just a phase he was going through and rejected my invitation to pray and rebuke the demon from the child. I fell on my knees bawling and made war for that child through my tears. In faith, I believe my prayers were not in vain and that the demon was bound in the Name of Jesus.
Nevertheless, the entire situation has stayed with me to this day.
Halloween is not innocent. The celebration of the “dead” in any form or fashion will have some serious repercussions on a believer’s faith. If you want to dig into the origins of Hallow’s Eve, I encourage you to.
But for the purpose of this post, I want to address Halloween and Trick or Treat separately.
Halloween is, like I said, a celebration of the dead. By participating in festivities where homes or people are decorated with things representing the dead — tombstones, zombies, grim reapers, demons, witches, ghosts, blood, etc — is to embrace the celebration of “death” and open yourself up to the millions (yes, millions) of curses, incantations, spells, oppression, and evil spirits being released on that day by actual Witches and Warlocks (male witches).
We are Christians. We walk in the Light as He is in the Light. Darkness has no place with those who are in the Light. Celebrating a holiday that celebrates death and darkness is unfit for a believer in Christ.
Now for Trick-or-Treat.
In my family, we do not celebrate Halloween— we don’t even call it Halloween anymore. We say “Trick or Treat Day!” And yes, we go Trick-or-Treating. In fact, I’ve spent so much time with the Lord this season over Halloween. I encourage you to take what I present to you back to the Lord yourself.
So why do we do Trick-or-Treating? Isn’t Trick-or-Treating celebrating Halloween? To me, it can be if you want it to be, but if you want to view it as a fun opportunity for kids to express their imagination and collect candy, it can be that, too.
Again, we walk in the Light as He is in the Light.
Do I allow my children to dress in anything “dead” related? Absolutely not. Just like the movies I monitor for my children, we are responsible for protecting the innocence and purity of our kids against ungodly aspects of Halloween that dishonor our Father in Heaven.
Do I allow my children to walk on the property of “dead decorated” homes? Another big No. In fact, I try to drive through the neighborhood myself days before so I can be aware of which streets to avoid.
Do I pass out candy? You better believe it!! I want every child to love coming to my (safe and Jesus-filled) home and to look forward to my house every year!
But here’s what it boils down to. Everything stems from your heart.
When you are pure, all things are pure. (Titus 1:15)
When you are not pure, your heart will condemn you.
“I the LORD search the heart and examine the mind, to reward each person according to their conduct, according to what their deeds deserve.”
Jeremiah 17:10
So, before you deck out in Halloween attire and get pumped to celebrate a holiday specifically recognized as “The Day(s) of the Dead”, it will be wise to approach the Lord in reverence and consider — Are you celebrating Halloween because that’s what everyone else is doing and you are being ignorant of the Cross? Are you decorating your homes in darkness when you are living in the Light? Are you allowing your children to dress in costumes or images that will compromise their innocence and purity before God?
If your children are grown or you’ve participated in the dark realms of Halloween in the past (like I have, especially during college), then it will be wise to approach the Lord in humility, in repentance, and receive His grace over your sin for celebrating a Holiday that opposes Him.
I hope this post gives you a lot to think about. It’s time we believers resist “Hallow’s Eve” and instead of participating in the “dead”, we send lighting bolts of Heavenly Fire down to the deepest darkness on earth– shattering the fortresses of the enemy.
I’m ready for every demon to dread Halloween every year because the Saints make it more painful for them through worshipping Jesus than they can make it for us and our children by worshipping Satan.
Be blessed, friends!