Many people celebrate Halloween on October 31, because Halloween is part of their culture. They participate in Halloween activities and decorate their homes with Halloween decorations. The children put on costumes and go trick-and-treating. But what is Halloween? Because although many people, including Christians celebrate Halloween, many don’t know the history of Halloween and the spiritual significance of Halloween. They don’t know what happens in the spiritual realm during Halloween. Ku kituna, they are not aware of the danger of Halloween, but they consider Halloween an innocent feast. Should Christians celebrate Halloween and participate in Halloween activities? What does the Bible say about Halloween? What is the danger of Halloween that many people are not aware of?
What’s the history of Halloween?
The roots of Halloween are found in the ancient Celtic harvest feast ’Samhain’. Samhain marks the end of summer and the beginning of winter. The Celtic calendar marks this day as the beginning of the New Year. Samhain starts from sunset on October 31 until sunset on November 1. In Ireland, Scotland, and the Isles of Man, the people celebrated this ancient pagan harvest feast. During Samhain many pagan rituals took place.
Samhain was also a feast of the dead. The Celts thought, that on that day, the boundary between the visible realm and the spirit realm was so thin, that supernatural beings, sajin, fairies, and the souls of the dead, would visit the earth.
To ease these spirits and the souls of the dead and to ensure that they would leave the people alone, families would place food and drinks for them outside their doors.
What are Jack-O-Lanterns?
They made Jack-O’-Lanterns. A Jack-O’-Lantern is a monstrous carved pumpkins or turnip that function as a lantern. Although the sculpting and carving of vegetables was an ancient custom done by many people groups all over the world, the Jack-O’-Lanterns derive from the Celtic culture and go back to the 19th Century.
The Jack-O’-Lanterns represented the spirits of supernatural beings. They used Jack-O’-Lanterns to ward off evil powers.
On October 31, the people dressed themselves in costumes. They went from door to door, to recite verses and sing songs in exchange for food.
Their costumes were related to death. So that the people disguised and united themselves with the spirits of the dead and the souls of the dead. They became their representatives. When they went from door to door, they collected the offerings (Kadaharan) on behalf of the spirits and souls of the dead.
By taking on the form of spirits and the souls of the dead, they represented the death. Jalan dieu, they thought they would be protected against the spirits and souls of the dead. There was no difference anymore between those, who were alive and those, who were dead.
They became unrecognizable and equal to the dead. Ku kituna, they didn’t have to be afraid, that the spirits and the souls of the dead would recognize them, nor that they would possess them.
What is the meaning of the religious feast Allhallowtide?
Allhallowtide is a three days religious festival, anu asalna tina Samhain (Salametan panén Celtic). Dina mangsa éta 8 Abad, Allhallowtide janten festival resmi. Salila Allhallowtide, jalma-jalma inget kana maot. Nu maot janten hakekat festival ieu.
Sababaraha denominasi Kristen: garéja Katolik Roma, garéja Anglikan, Garéja Lutheran, jeung garéja Methodist, masih ngarayakeun festival agama ieu.
Garéja di Roma ngadopsi loba kabiasaan jeung ritual pagan sarta dilarapkeun ka gareja. Salah sahiji alesanana nyaéta, anu aranjeunna pikir, éta cara pikeun ngarobah pagan ka Christendom.
Alesan sejen naha aya loba pangaruh Celtic di gareja, yén dina mangsa penjajahan Romawi Irlandia, loba Celts dirobah sarta jadi Katolik. Sanajan kitu, aranjeunna henteu ngaleungitkeun kabiasaan sareng ritual pagan.
Aranjeunna janten Katolik tapi tetep salametan Celtic maranéhanana, kabinot, jeung ritual jeung saterusna church became occult.
Hanjakalna, this still happens in our age, when people tobat and accept Jesus Christ as Saviour. People repent, but they don’t remove their old practices, kabinot, behaviors, sareng ritual. They hold on to their culture (Baca ogé: Unggal budaya disappears di Yesus Kristus)
Allhallowtide consists of:
- All Saints Eve (Halloween) – Oktober 31
- All Saints Day (All Hallows) – Nopémber 1
- All Souls Day – Nopémber 2
What is All Saints Eve; Halloween?
On All Saints Eve; Halloween, the dead, mainly the martyrs, are remembered. They also believed, that on All Saints Eve (Halloween), the veil between the visible realm and the hereafter, was so thin, that the deceased souls came to the earth to visit and possess people, just like the Celts believed.
The church in Rome also had Jack-O’-Lanterns, which represented the deceased souls of those who were in an intermediate state or place; purgatory. Those who died in the state of grace were on their way to heaven but had to undergo purification for their unpunished sin. Jadina, they would become holy and could enter heaven.
On‘ All Saints Eve’ they held church services, where they remembered the dead through prayer, incense, and burning candles. After service, they visited cemeteries and placed flowers and burning candles on the graves, in preparation for ‘All Saints Day’
What is All Saints Day or All-Hallows?
On All Saints Day, which is also called All Hallows, the deceased saints and martyrs are remembered and prayed for. Aranjeunna percanten, that there was a strong spiritual connection, between those, who were dead and in heaven and those, who lived on earth.
Sababaraha dinten kapengker, many protestant churches also participate and remember the dead and the deceased members of the church. After church service, they visit cemeteries, where their loved ones are buried.
What is All Souls Day?
On All Souls Day, the people remember all the dead. In many English towns, the practice of ‘souling’ took place. Souling was an event, whereby children and the poor went from door to door, to sing a song or to say a prayer for the residents in exchange for money, apples, soul cake, jsb. The soul cakes represented the souls of the dead.
How did Halloween start in America?
Now you might wonder how Halloween started in America. Due to the large Irish and Scottish immigrant stream during the 19th century and their strong cultural influence, Halloween became part of American culture.
Kiwari, Halloween is the largest commercialized feast in the United States.
What are Halloween events?
On Halloween, many schools, societies, organisasi, perusahaan, taman hiburan, klub, jsb. participate in Halloween and organize Halloween events. Halloween is not only a feast for children but also for adults. Many adults dress up in scary horrifying Halloween costumes and go to (lounge)bar, klub, Halloween parties, jsb., or they organize themed Halloween parties themselves for friends and/or family.
A few Halloween activities are ‘trick or treat’, visiting haunted houses, ghost walking tours, watching horror movies, playing divination games (i.e. ouija board game, Charlie Charlie (kaulinan pensil), Kartu tarot) arwah konsultan, Wicca rituals, bonfires, jsb.
What are traditional Halloween decorations?
Many people are not aware of the danger of Halloween. They decorate their homes and gardens with traditional Halloween decorations and symbols, which represent the dead. Some examples of traditional Halloween decorations are evil pumpkins; ‘Jack-O’-Lanterns, spiderwebs, scarecrows, rorongkong, hantu, bats, vampir, tukang sihir, or other zombie-like creatures in gardens and windows. There are even houses that turn their gardens into cemeteries with traces of (fake) getih.
Many companies, stores, and shopping malls, including Christian companies and stores, take advantage of Halloween. They make effective use of Halloween by turning their merchandise into Halloween-themed merchandise. Because that will increase their revenue. Stores and shopping malls are transformed into scary Halloween-themed stores and malls to attract as many people as possible.
Instead of Christians seeing the spiritual danger of Halloween and withdrawing themselves from this pagan holiday, many so-called Christian stores and suppliers participate in Halloween and open their doors for the death and darkness to enter.
Many are not willing or are afraid to rise and take a stand for Jesus Christ, by abstaining from Halloween and therefore they join the world.
What is trick or treat?
On October 31 after sunset, children get dressed in Halloween costumes. They disguise themselves as pirates, zombie, tukang sihir, tukang sihir, rorongkong, goblog, vampir, Dracula, superheroes (that have occult powers), ucing, jsb. They go In their disguise, representing the dead, from door to door with their lanterns to ‘trick or treat’. In some places, when people don’t participate in Halloween and don’t open the door for the children, they curse their houses.
In the northwestern and middle part of Mexico, they call ‘trick or treat’ ‘calaverita’ which means little skull. The children go from door to door and ask for a little skull (made of sugar or chocolate).
Halloween and ‘trick or treat’ gained popularity through the influence of the American social media and entertainment industry. Many countries worldwide adopted Halloween and trick-or-treat.
What is the spiritual danger of Halloween?
There are many more things to say about Halloween, but one thing is for sure. Halloween is the feast of the dead. Why is Halloween the festival of the dead? Everything revolves around one thing: pupusna. Death is the center of attention and honored and exalted during Halloween.
By decorating homes with evil scary Halloween decorations, jalma-jalma muka panto imahna pikeun maot sareng roh-roh jahat asup.
Barudak, rumaja, jeung (ngora) déwasa ngahijikeun diri jeung maot. Kumaha? Ku nyamar dina karakter, anu aya hubunganana sareng maot sareng dunya gelap gaib. Ku ilubiung dina karya gelap, transmisi spiritual lumangsung.
Sareng éta sanés sadayana! Pikirkeun sagala kagiatan Lebaran éta, kawas pilem horor, hikes horor, maén kaulinan gaib, visiting haunted houses, ngalaksanakeun ritual dimana aranjeunna konsultasi roh, bonfires, jsb.
Bahaya spiritual Lebaran nyaéta, yén nalika anjeun ilubiung dina Lebaran anjeun muka panto pikeun maot sareng roh jahat asup kana kahirupan anjeun.
Henteu janten masalah upami anjeun nyarios yén anjeun Kristen. Lamun anjeun ilubiung dina Lebaran, anjeun asup ka wewengkon Iblis. Iblis bakal asup kana kahirupan anjeun sareng pamustunganana ngancurkeun kahirupan anjeun.
born-again Christians see the spiritual danger of Halloween and don’t participate in Halloween
Kristen Lahir deui, anu leumpang sanggeus Roh jeung teu sanggeus daging, shall never participate in Halloween. Naha henteu? Because born-again Christians are born of God. They discern the spirits and the spiritual realm and see the spiritual danger of Halloween.
Because they see the spiritual danger of Halloween, they’ll never open the door for the death and evil spirits to enter their lives, homes, and the lives of their children. They shall never try to Christianize Halloween in order to participate in the trends and customs of this world. Because they know that you can’t remove the spiritual origin and danger of Halloween.
Born-again Christians stay faithful to Jesus Christ. They stay in Him and represent Life.
They walk in the Light and abstain from the works of darkness; dunya, where the death is king and reigns.
Born-again believers shall never become partakers of demonic powers and play with the death. Because they have been dikirimkeun tina kakawasaan gelap sareng maot.
The death doesn’t reign in their lives anymore. Unless they return to their old kingdom; gelap.
Born-again Christians walk in the Kingdom of God and represent life instead of death. They obey the Word and the Holy Spirit instead of the world. Sanajan ieu hartina, that they will experience resistance and persecution by their families, babaturan, tatangga, kenalan, and/or colleagues.
As soon as you compromise and participate in the customs of this world, nentang kecap Gusti, you’re lost.
There is no grey area. It is either black or white. As soon as you enter the grey area, you’ve already compromised and engaged with the power and works of darkness.
Teaching your children good and evil
If you have children, you should teach your children the difference between good and evil; between the Kingdom of God (Caang) jeung karajaan Iblis (gelap). A child should be informed about the danger of Halloween and taught that ‘trick or treat’ is the work of the devil and not of God.
Emut, a child is never too young to understand. If you do not claim your child(ren) for the Kingdom of God and don’t guide and teach them correctly in the Bible, then the devil will claim your child and teach and guide them by buku barudak, televisi, (sosial) media, kaulinan, jsb.
If a child doesn’t learn from a young age to discern the works of God and the works of the devil, there’s a big chance, that when the child gets older, the child still won’t be able to discern the differences.
The child shall rebel against the Word of God and engage himself or herself with the world; karajaan gelap.
Salaku Kristen dilahirkeun deui, you don’t celebrate Halloween. Nor should you replace Halloween with something else or Christianise Halloween. Y
ou shall abstain from Halloween because you see the spiritual danger of Halloween. The only thing you have to do is to take a stand for Jesus Christ and stay faithful to Him. (Baca ogé: ‘Saos Kristen').
Najan hirup di dunya, Anjeun henteu milik dunya deui. You belong to Jesus Christ. Ngalangkungan regenerasi di Kristus, you have become an enemy to the kingdom of darkness. Ku kituna, you can’t walk in darkness and be a partaker of the works of the darkness. Your task is to expose the works of darkness and bring them into the light. (Baca ogé: Destroying the works of God instead of the works of darkness).
Kedah Kristen ngagungkeun Reformasi salila Lebaran?
Aya jalma, anu nyebutkeun aranjeunna Kristen, nétélakeun mukmin maranéhanana kudu ngagungkeun reformasi salila Lebaran. Tapi ieu omong kosong!
Naha urang Kristen kudu ngagungkeun 'hal’ dina Lebaran? Urang teu kudu inget atawa ngahargaan jalma maot. Ngan ukur hiji jalma anu kedah urang émut sareng hormat. Ngan kudu aya hiji Jalma, Anu kudu terus dina pikiran urang jeung nu Yesus Kristus, Jurusalamet urang jeung Gusti, jeung euweuh batur.
Naon Alkitab nyebutkeun ngeunaan Lebaran jeung bahaya Lebaran?
Naon Alkitab nyebutkeun ngeunaan Lebaran jeung bahaya Lebaran? Sanajan salametan Lebaran jeung bahaya Lebaran teu husus disebutkeun dina Kitab Suci, Alkitab jelas pisan ngeunaan kapir sareng adat sareng ritual pagan.
Kitab Suci nyarios yén urang henteu kedah ngagabung sareng anu henteu palercaya. We should separate ourselves from the practices, Béa cukai, and rituals of unbelievers.
What does the Bible say about pagan customs and rituals?
When you turn to Christ and repent, you should renounce all pagan customs and rituals, that connect you with the devil and his kingdom (gelap).
When the Lord thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeed them, and dwell in their land; Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, nyebutkeun, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise. Thou shalt not do so unto the Lord thy God: for every abomination to the Lord, which he hates, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods. What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it (Dekeriim 12:29-32)
“They followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them”
They rejected His statutes, and His covenant that He made with their fathers, and His testimonies which He testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the Lord had charged them, that they should not do like them. And they left all the commandments of the Lord their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, sarta dijieun grove a, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal. And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, pikeun ngangsonan Anjeunna kana amarah (2 Raja-raja 17:15-17)
Seueur di antarana ogé anu ngagunakeun kasenian panasaran ngahijikeun buku-bukuna, sarta dibeuleum aranjeunna saméméh sakabeh lalaki: sarta aranjeunna diitung harga aranjeunna, sarta kapanggih eta lima puluh rébu pérak (Lalakon 19:19)
Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; sakumaha anu diserat, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand (1 urang Korinta 10:7-8)
What does the Bible say about honoring and remembering the dead?
But I would not have you to be ignorant, baraya, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him (1 Thessalonians 4:13-14)
Paul wrote to the church of the Thessalonians, commanding them, that they shouldn’t mourn about those who were asleep in Christ.
Anjeunna ngawartoskeun aranjeunna, that the unbelievers, who didn’t know Jesus Christ, were mourning and full of sorrow because they didn’t have hope. But just like Jesus died and rose from the dead, so shall God connect those, who fell asleep in Jesus Christ, with Him. (Baca ogé: ‘Dupi anjeun ngadoakeun maot?').
For I have no pleasure in the death of him that died, nyebutkeun Gusti Allah: Dimana kéngingkeun diri, sareng hirup ye (Ezekiel 18:32)
Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him: but weep sore for him that goeth away: for he shall return no more, nor see his native country. (Jeremize 22:10)
God is the God of the living and not of the dead
But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, nyebutkeun, I am the God of Abraham, jeung Allah Ishak, jeung Allah Yakub? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living. (Mateus 22:31-32, Tandaan 12:26:27, Lukas 20:38)
Jesus is the resurrection and the Life
dulur, who accepts Jesus Christ as Saviour and Lord, and repents of his old lifestyle, and walks according to the Word, shall enter Life. The person shall not see death, sabab Yesus; Firman nyebutkeun:
For as the Father raised up the dead, and quickened them; even so the Son quickens whom He will (John 5:21)
Yesus ngadawuh ka manehna, Abdi teh jadian, jeung kahirupan: sing percaya ka Kami, sanajan anjeunna maot, acan anjeunna bakal hirup: and whosoever lives and believes in Me shall never die (John 11:25-26)
Verily verily, Abdi nyarios ka anjeun, if a man keep my saying, anjeunna moal pernah ningali maot (John 8:51)
Let the dead bury the dead
And He said unto another, Tuturkeun abdi. But he said, Gusti, suffer me first to go and bury my father. Yesus nyarios ka anjeunna, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God (Lukas 9:59-60)
When Jesus commanded a person to follow Him, he asked Him, if he could first bury his father. But Jesus commanded him to preach the gospel of the Kingdom and not be occupied with the dead. Yesus ngawartoskeun anjeunna: “Let the dead bury the dead”
The only Person we should remember is Jesus Christ
That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread: And when He had given thanks, He brake it, sarta ngomong, Nyandak, dahar: ieu awak Kami, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of Me. After the same manner also He took the cup, when He had supped, nyebutkeun, This cup is the new testament in My blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of Me. For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord’s death till he come (1 urang Korinta 11:23-26)
Yesus hirup! He rose from the dead! We should honor Him and remember His death, Karya panebusanana, and His resurrection until the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. We shouldn’t honor, exalt, and remember people, including saints. If you do so, then you will honor and exalt the death.
Jesus has defeated His enemy the death
Jesus has defeated death. He took konci maot jeung Kadés, which the devil stole from Adam. But the devil and death still reign on this earth. They have the ability to possess and captivate the lives of people. Because they are not cast into the lake of fire acan.
Musuh anu terakhir anu bakal dirusak nyaéta maot (1 urang Korinta 15:26)
Jeung maot jeung naraka dialungkeun kana lautan seuneu. Ieu maot kadua. Jeung sakur anu teu kapanggih ditulis dina kitab kahirupan ieu dialungkeun kana lautan seuneu (Wahyu 20:14-15)
Jurig, pupus, and Hades know that their final destination is the pool of fire. Tapi nepi ka waktu éta, they try to destroy as many people, by keeping them in the perbudakan dosa, anu ngabalukarkeun maot anu langgeng (Pikeun. Urang Romawi 6:16).
The mission of the devil and his demons is to take as many people with them to their final destination; situ langgeng seuneu.
They will try everything they can, to seduce believers and tempt them to sin. So that they will enter the way of unrighteousness, jalan karuksakan, anu ngabalukarkeun maot anu langgeng.
On Halloween people honor and exalt the death
On Halloween, the people honor and exalt the devil and death. Death is the essence of Halloween. If you ignore the warnings of the Bible and the danger of Halloween and decide to partake in Halloween, you become a partaker of death. Death will become the essence of your life.
You’ll walk in (rohani) darkness and be tormented by fear(s), kaayaan hariwang, pikiran cilaka, melankolis, heaviness, voices in your head, rarasaan kateken, pikiran bunuh, hariwang, parasaan henteu senang, (maot) panyakit, insomnia, amarah anu teu dikendalikan, kekerasan, violent behavior, jsb.
You will be tormented in your soul and your body, by demonic powers. You’ll live under a spiritual heaviness, and be controlled by the evil forces of the kingdom of darkness. That’s the result of the choice you’ve made and ignoring the warnings of the danger of Halloween.
The only Person, Who can help you and deliver you from all demonic powers and the kingdom of darkness, nyaeta Yesus Kristus. Jesus Christ alone has defeated death and has the keys of death and Hades (naraka). Jesus has the highest authority in the heavens and on earth.
The Name of Jesus Christ is above all other names. Therefore call upon the Name of the Lord and be saved. Ask Jesus to come into your heart and repent and let Jesus become your Saviour and your Lord.
'Janten uyah bumi’
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