Anton LaVey, the late founder of the Church of Satan, once said he took joy in believers taking part in the tradition of Halloween. “I am glad that Christian parents let their children worship the devil at least one night out of the year,” he said. “Welcome to Halloween.”
Halloween isn’t just about costumes and candy – there’s a much darker reality.
Charlene Aaron from CBN News interviews a young woman who has a message that we would do well to heed.
Jenny Weaver shares her testimony of faith despite growing up in an abusive home and delving into witchcraft as a young woman. One night while in jail, Jenny whispered a prayer and surrendered her life to Jesus Christ. Now, Jenny warns believers to be on guard as witchcraft and the occult are on the rise and it’s infecting Christians and the church.
13 minutes.
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Another young woman, whose name I will keep private, also just gave a shocking warning. She wrote:
“I debated even posting this, but I couldn’t get away from it.
I was looking on the book aisle in Walmart in hopes to find something interesting, and I happened to look over to my left, which was the Kid’s Halloween Book section and I saw this.
I’m appalled at the evil boldness of Disney, and at the world for promoting this agenda to children.
A few things in the book:
The vow of the Red Witch is given as a script.
“The Stitched Mouth Spell”
“The Crippling Spell”
There’s 2 categories that describe hexes of bitterness to cast and latch onto people.
There’s an incantation to raise the dead.
There’s cauldron, spell, and séance preparation.
EDIT: I feel the need to clarify something. I don’t believe the spells in this book are going to give a child the ability to “do magic”. No, I don’t think the author put real incantations from a grimoire into a childrens book.
The point I’m trying to convey is this:
The author paralleled this book with some very real concepts, and targeted CHILDREN with it. The intentions were to whet the curiosity of a younger audience, establish a foundation, and to open a door.
A bit of my testimony, I spent 4 terrible and dark years in various forms of witchcraft before I was delivered. Not wicca, not New Age, and we weren’t “all about love”. The people I knew HATED the things of God.
It was horrific to see these references in a childrens book. The things that were in it actually gripped my spirit. Some of the things in this book aren’t jokes at all, they’re real. In no way am I glorifying the enemy, but whoever wrote this book pulled from viable sources. Some of the things were foolish, but some of it was VERY real.
A few months ago I had a dream from God, and I saw a few kids playing around a pond. It seemed like a normal, and friendly day. It appeared that this family was taking their kids on a picnic.
All of a sudden, I saw a figure come out of the pond, grab this little girl by the hand, and lead her into the water.
I quickly followed after to try and get her, but as soon as I dove in, I saw that it wasn’t a shallow pond.
Underneath the pond was a kingdom that looked like a pyramid, and these figures were leading thousands of kids by the hand, and they were taking them inside of this temple.
Halloween and witchcraft may look playful and harmless on the surface, but I have to warn you- there’s a kingdom underneath the façade.
There’s something moving behind these agendas and if you’re not careful, something will grab your child by the hand and lead them somewhere that’s beyond your reach.”
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Please take these reminders seriously. For the name of Christ and for our families!
Let’s Pray Together:
Dear Father, parenting is hard. We all wish you could just write out an easy equation and tell us what to say yes and what to say no to. We are all of one same heart, we all love our children. We just ask that you would guide each of us as we make decisions for our families. Guide us, speak your truth and encourage us along the road. We ask that you would protect the hearts, minds, souls, and bodies of our children. Might you put your full armor upon each of them right now as we pray. We live in a very unpredictable world and we know that our children are not our own, so help us as parents to find that healthy balance between trusting you with our children and doing the job you assigned to us in choosing us as parents. And keep us all from evil, we pray, in Jesus’ name. Amen.
“Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.” ~Ephesians 5:11
“But you, O man [or woman] of God, flee from these things and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness. Fight the good fight of faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called…” ~1 Timothy 6:11-12
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Cris Dorval
Jacque this entire post, the beautiful woman who gave her testimony and warnings, combined with your testimony and wise counsel is spot on and so needed!! I’m sorry grateful God delivered you! And He is using you so mightily for His Kingdom. 🙏🙏🙏
Caroline
Thank God this lady came to Christ! Glory to God.
Might I just add a thought, though? All Saint’s Day and All Hallow’s Day (and therefore All Hallow’s Eve —Hallowe’en) have been holy days in the Christian church for centuries.
Just because some terrible people corrupted them, due to the devil’s influence, doesn’t make the day wicked, in itself.
Our family is very conservative Lutheran, and it’s been on our church calendar forever, to observe All Saint’s Day. But we won’t do it by dressing up as witches or demons. We will do it by remembering the Great Cloud of Martyrs/Witnesses who came before us, as per Hebrews 11. They set an example of living in holiness, so we remember them as fellow Christians that we want to emulate.
That’s all it is, in OUR family, and other families we know. Sometimes still called by the old name: Halloween (although usually we refer to All Saint’s Day). But that doesn’t make it devil worship AT ALL, for us.
However, sadly, the devil has attempted to misappropriate the day, and he’s made most people only think of evil. How sad!
I just wanted to point out that if anyone says they are celebrating Halloween, that perhaps they’re doing it in a truly Christian manner.
Sadly, though, I admit that most don’t.
Perhaps we could become a greater presence, as a light shining in the darkness, making it known that it’s not a day that we have to cower in our homes, and pretend the day is irredeemable?
Jacqueline
Hi, Caroline,
I sure appreciate what you shared here. I was raised in the M.S Lutheran Church and we celebrated All Saint’s Day as well, but we never called it Halloween… In many families, it almost became 2 distinct celebrations, sort of like a split personality for some. Thankfully, we only dressed up for a few years and my parents and the other parents never made it into a big deal, so we passed by practically unscathed, but that was in the 50s and 60s.
I pray what Jenny Weaver said will help some to consider the open door it presents to the evil one.
Ephesians 5: 15-17 says it best: “Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.”
Blessings,
Jacqueline
Caroline
Oh, cool! We are LCMS too.
Yes, it’s a very old term to call it anything reminiscing the word Halloween, and to be really clear, they’re two separate days, that follow each other, one day apart. And almost nobody knows about the first one anymore, because they’ve been sort of lumped together into All Saint’s Day. But our family REALLY LOVES CHURCH HISTORY.
Anyway, as I said, I absolutely recognize that lost people celebrating Halloween aren’t thinking of Christ or his followers in any way, so the warning is very valid.
I just wanted to throw it out there that it wasn’t always that way.
It’s really sad that the ugliness seems to get worse with every year. I’m increasingly creeped out by decorations, and I just don’t understand the appeal of the dark side.
Lord have mercy on us all.
Laurie
I can’t see how letting your children dress up and collect candy is equal to devil worship. Most kids have no idea about satanic worship, they are merely having fun and getting sweet treats. The greatest threat to this world is false, dead religion and its accursed gospels that always include a work of some sort.
I used to attend a Lutheran church when I played the religious card. Then, after God brought me to a right understanding via the Holy Spirit and the new birth, I recognized the works based teachings of that denomination. As soon as I read the beliefs of the Missouri synod based Lutheran church, by God’s grace I discerned much error. Here’s what they claim, “Jesus Christ, the Son, who became human to suffer and die for the sins of all human beings and to rise to life again in the ultimate victory over death and Satan; and the Holy Spirit, who creates faith through God’s Word and Sacraments”. Christ did not die for everyone. “I lay down my life for my SHEEP”. These are the words of the Lord Himself. From Matthew 20:28 “just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for *many.*” Yet, dead religion despises this truth and opts for an all inclusive false Jesus. Any brand of religion that claims Christ died for all is false. Dead religion loves this ‘universal’ salvation because it makes salvation hinge on what the sinner does, which eliminates ‘by GRACE are ye saved’ – Ephesians 2:8,9. Many think it’s nitpicking to bring this to light, but in reality it is the difference between truth and error, saved or deceived. It’s exactly why Christ the Lord said this in Matt. 24:4 -, “See to it that no one deceives you.”
It goes on to say this, “and the Holy Spirit, who creates faith through God’s Word and Sacraments”. The Holy Spirit does not create faith through the ‘sacraments’. He gives faith to the elect, the sheep via the new birth. This is a supernatural work and does not come about by what you do, what ‘sacraments’ you partake of [ john3 ]. That’s a works based lie that all dead religion holds to – works. This is how the true sheep know what is false, when a ‘religious’ person or organization says things like this, it proves they are not ‘born again’ by God.
Here’s how they attempt to reason their universal views with biblical election – “From the standpoint of human reason, the scriptural teachings that God has objectively justified (objective justification) the whole world through the redemptive work of Jesus Christ and wants all people to be saved through faith in Him (subjective justification), and that He elected by grace from eternity those who are saved, cannot be resolved.” They contradict their own beliefs in claiming Christ died for all, then claiming He elected by grace those who are saved – this is religious doublespeak. ALL dead religion does this because they cannot discern truth. Nowhere does the bible teach God objectively justified the whole world through Christ, their claiming this proves they have no understanding of what being ‘justified’ means. From Romans 8:30 – “Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.” God never justifies then stops there, leaving it up to the sinner to further the process. Even though they claim to believe in the doctrine of election, their belief statement proves they are clueless.
From their statement of belief, “But as earnestly as we maintain that there is an election of grace, or a predestination to salvation, so decidedly do we teach, on the other hand, that there is no election of wrath, or predestination to damnation. Scripture plainly reveals the truth that the love of God for the world of lost sinners is universal, that is, that it embraces all men without exception, that Christ has fully reconciled all men unto God, and that God earnestly desires to bring all men to faith, to preserve them therein, and thus to save them, as Scripture testifies, 1 Tim. 2:4: “God will have all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.”
First of all, they deny that God has determined some for eternal damnation, per Romans 9:22 – What if God, intending to show His wrath and make His power known, bore with great patience the vessels of His wrath, prepared for destruction?” From Proverbs 16:4 – The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.” Notice this from 1 Thessalonians 5:9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ”. There are some God has not already appointed to wrath, His elect. All the rest are ‘appointed to wrath’.
Let’s look at one more verse from Jude – For there are certain men crept in unawares, **who were before of old ordained to this condemnation**, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.” These ungodly men were ordained for condemnation in time past. There was never a chance, a possibility they could be saved. Christ never died for those who are ordained for destruction.
As for 1 Timothy 2:4, “God will have all men to be saved” – you have to keep scripture in context, and bear in mind verses like ‘I lay down my life for my sheep’ and ‘to give His life as a ransom for *many.*’ in mind. The word all in 1 timothy 2:4 comes from the Greek word ‘pas’, it means ‘as many as, any, every’. Since we already established Christ did not die for ‘all’, we have to keep that same thinking here. God desires ‘every’ kind of sinner to be saved, meaning from all walks of life. The best description is found in Revelation 5:9 – “Worthy are You to take the scroll and open its seals, because You were slain, and by Your blood You purchased for God **those from every tribe and tongue and people and nation**.
This is the ‘all men’ Paul was speaking of in 1 Timothy 2:4, sinners plucked out of the masses from every kind of ethnic background, from every part of the world, from every walk of life.
God ‘desires’, that does not mean He hopes sinners ‘respond’ or ‘do something’ to get saved. The KJV translates this verse truer to the original, ‘Who *will have* all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.’ Will have means ‘to determine, choose, it’s a verb in the active voice in Greek grammar. That means the subject, ‘God’, is the one who performs the action. That alone nullifies ALL dead religion views concerning the sinners’ involvement in the process.
There are many more errors in the doctrine of the LCMS. Dead religion always twists the word of God, they have to in order to make it fit their false beliefs. They have to because they are not born from above. Those who are deceived by false religion, its doctrine, its practices do so because God has ordained it.They are traveling down the broad road that leads to destruction, spending all their earthly lives believing lies, practicing dead religious works, thinking heaven awaits. They do not discover they were deceived until death snatches them away. Then the horrors of outer darkness overtake them. All this is what God has ordained for them.
The claim “love of God for the world of lost sinners is universal” is a lie. God does NOT love ‘all’. “Jacob I loved, Esau I hated”. That verse alone is proof enough, but there’s more. The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity. Psalm 5:5
“And then will I profess unto them, **I never knew you**: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.” Never means ‘not at ANY time, never at all’. There was never a time God ‘loved’ these workers of iniquity, which includes ALL who practice and are deceived by dead religion. The universal love lie is based on John 3:16, which is pulled from its context and misinterpreted. When Christ told Nicodemus ‘for God so loved the world, He gave His only Begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life’, He was NOT talking about every person ever born. Nicodemus was a religious Jew, they thought God was a God of the Jews only. Christ corrects that, saying God loves ‘the world’. This world is referencing to both Jew AND Gentile. God’s love was an action, it was evident by what He did, He ‘gave’ His Son. Remember Christ died only for His sheep. The translation ‘whosoever’ is faulty, that’s not what John said. The actual words are ‘pas ho pisteuon’, which translates ‘all the believing’. These are the ones God gave His Son for, these are the ones who will never perish, who have eternal life. It includes every sinner from all walks of life that have been elected unto life.
Jacqueline
Laurie, you spent a lot of time writing that! The nugget you are trying to convey boils down to this: “When Christ told Nicodemus ‘for God so loved the world, He gave His only Begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life’, He was NOT talking about every person ever born.” I agree!
Somehow you misread something. Of course, John 3:16 is true, He died for the whole world, but not everyone will bow the knee to Jesus Christ.
You are speaking of one single church’s doctrinal statement. Don’t assume all are the same.
I am worshiping in a non-denominational bible-teaching church, and No one there things EVERYONE will be saved! Of course, many will continue to deny Christ… that is why it is written,
“Therefore repent; or else I am coming to you quickly, and I will make war against them with the sword of My mouth.” ~Revelation 2:16
“For there will be no future for the evil man; The lamp of the wicked will be put out.” ~Proverbs 24: 20
From this post: https://deeprootsathome.com/scriptures-future-of-those-who-oppose-vs-trust-god/
We are encouraged not to become jealous of the temporary prosperity of the wicked. God-opposers may burn brightly for a little while, but from God’s perspective, those who oppose Him are storing up wrath for disobeying His commandments and laws. Their supposed prosperity comes at an eternal price tag. In the end their future will be terrible- not blessed.
Cris Dorval
Hi Laurie,
Would it be ok if I ask, what do you mean when you say this? ” The greatest threat to this world is false, dead religion and its accursed gospels that always include a work of some sort.”
As I’ve grown up in the Lord, I’ve gone from head knowledge to heart connection with God. When you said “accursed gospels”, I won’t lie, my heart panged as though someone pinched me. Jesus’s life is the most beautiful love story of God for humanity I’ve ever seen. I agree that if we are doing things without love for Jesus and knowing Him personally, then it may be “nice” but it’s meaningless in terms of salvation. But then again, can any of us work our way to heaven? “For by grace ye are saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift from God, not of works, lest any man should boast.” Eph 2:8-9 I only point this out for one reason…no one works their way to heaven. So how will we get there? Does God have his favorite? That’s like asking a parent who their favorite child is. A loving parent loves them all special, yet equally. Is God not more than a loving human parent?
Deuteronomy 10:17 gives us the principle that God is impartial.
For the LORD your God is the God of gods and the Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God who does not show partiality nor take a bribe. He executes justice for the orphan and the widow, and shows His love for the alien by giving him food and clothing. Deuteronomy 10.17 (NASB)
My personal belief, based on Holy Scripture, is that Jesus’s death is enough for everyone. And God has NEVER wanted to lose one, not ONE! However, Free Will is of such high importance to God, who is LOVE, that He would allow us to choose to die forever in hell, though it truly breaks His heart. I do not believe there is one human on this planet that God doesn’t love, and doesn’t want in heaven. I believe from EVERYTHING that I’ve read, is He is Eager, yes Passionate about saving anyone who will come. I get this from Hebrews 7:25 that says “Therefore He is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.” There is so many verses in the Bible of God pleading for us! If he could save Manasseh, or the demoniacs, he certainly can save you or me.
I guess in closing, I have to agree on one thing. Dead religion without Jesus lighting our hearts with His love and Spirit is no different than seeing the Jewish rulers in Jesus’s day seeking to kill Him. But as you must know because you know you Bible, the wheat and tares are mingled together. We are not saved by what we do, but WHO we Know, and WHO we know will consequently change what we do. As we get closer to Jesus, and have the Holy Spirit living within our hearts, and we ask Him to help us to discern evil, He most certainly will. What once seemed fun and wonderful will suddenly become repulsive to us. I have more than once prayed for Jesus to take the veil off from my eyes to show me really what’s going on, and He is SO faithful to do it!
Trust me when I say, there’s enough candy and opportunities to dress up in costumes any other day of the year, that skipping one in honor of God is certainly a reasonable service.
Cris Dorval
Laurie,
This morning I stumbled across Ezekiel 18. My heart popped when I realized how pertinent this chapter is to what we’ve been discussing. I hope you have the time to read it, and hope it encourages you so much! I especially noticed vs. 21-23, which speaks of what God wants for us.
Remember, Ezekiel is Old Testament, so Jesus isn’t mentioned in this, but the plan was already in place for Jesus to take on Himself the wages of sin, which is death.
The only thing we must do to receive that is by asking Him to do it! Asking Him to be our Savior. Written in Numbers 21, In Moses’s time, when the snakes came out and bit the children of Israel, God made a remedy by asking Moses to make a bronze serpent and put it on a staff/pole and anyone who looked on that after they were bitten would be healed. They just had to look.
Most people know John 3:16, but they don’t know the two verses preceding it that Jesus said before he said the other. This is what is says : “14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
Honestly, this is the best news possible for this world! I’m a whosoever, you’re a whosoever, anyone is a whosoever! Praise Jesus!
Laurie, I really hope this blesses you today! It’s only meant for blessing, nothing more.
Suzannah Mattocks
Satan is a masterful deceiver. We must be as wise as serpants and as innocent as doves as Christ instructed us. Please be careful in the area of homeopathy. Homeopathy has direct connections to the occult and demonic forces. I have a testimony surrounding this and how the Holy Spirit opened my eyes. I thank Him every day for His kindness to me. Please seek the Holy Spirit in this matter and dig a bit deeper. Occult means hidden from view.
Jacqueline
Suzannah, please provide the ‘direct connections to the occult and demonic forces’. Even if you provide something, I certainly don’t believe everything I read or the human source.
What if the Holy Spirit (contrary to your experience) has clearly led someone to use his plants and minerals in homeopathic form and they give the Lord all the glory (as we do)?
Many Christians have inadvertently relinquished their right to God’s good gift of natural health, a gift that encourages the body to do what He designed it to do. In fact, God gave us our immune system as a gracious tool, and the plants He gave us at Creation are designed to complement and nurture it.
We often trust in the Internet, in doctors, in influencers, in pharmaceutical companies, in immunizations, in chemo, and even in created things—gifts intended for our good, but used in a sinful way. Some of us even put an idolatrous trust in essential oils! Any good thing can become an idol if we’re not careful!
God is the ultimate Provider. In Genesis 22:14, He is called Jehovah Jireh, which is Hebrew for “the Lord will provide.” He is also called Jehovah Rapha, which means God is our healer. When we sing the doxology, we “praise God from whom all blessings flow.” In James 1:17 we’re reminded that “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights.”
We need to stop living like we believe that God’s good gifts to us belong to mystics (yes, there were many and there still are). Praise God for what He has given us; live like you believe in God’s graciousness; study and learn how to make His gifts useful for yourself and your family (physically and emotionally). And glorify Him by using them with a thankful heart to strengthen and edify His people, and to further the Gospel.
If Christians would do this, the world would stop associating God’s natural gifts with mysticism, and they would begin to see the power, provision, and graciousness of a loving and creative God. Choose to be part of the solution, rather than part of the problem.
Always listen to the Lord. If He told me to stop using the few homeopathics we use, I would.
Sending peace,
Jacque
Caroline
Suzanne, I’ve heard that, about homeopathy. I haven’t formed a complete decision about it, yet, but that’s interesting. Healing evil with evil. (Like with like.) But I’ve also heard it compared to the snake on a pole, that Moses was instructed to erect.
I don’t know. But it’s interesting to ponder, and wise to try to be aware…