Why Christians Must Not Celebrate Halloween or Harvest Night
By Teresa Morin, Touch of God Int’l Ministries of Healing and Deliverance
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Introduction: The Lie of “Harmless Fun”
Every October, Christians around the world face the same question: “Is Halloween really that bad?” Some say, “It’s just candy and costumes — my child is dressing as a princess, not a demon.” But before you shrug it off as harmless, consider this: Halloween is not a game. It has deep occult roots and spiritual consequences for those who participate.
The Bible warns,
“Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.” — Ephesians 5:11
What many believers call “fun” is actually fellowship with the kingdom of darkness.
1. The Dark Roots of Halloween
Halloween began in ancient Celtic paganism — Samhain — a night when the dead were believed to walk among the living. Rituals, animal, and even human sacrifices were made to appease demonic entities.
Today, it remains the most important day on the satanic calendar. Former satanists confirm that this night is used for rituals, curses, and blood sacrifices worldwide.
As ex-Satanist John Ramirez testified:
“I spent 25 years in Satanism. I had a demonic wedding on Halloween. I used to prepare for weeks to curse regions, destroy lives, and dedicate souls to the devil on that night. Why would Christians want to celebrate the devil’s high holiday?”
That chilling statement should stop every believer in their tracks.
Halloween was not celebrated in the United States until the mid-1800’s. The Irish flooded New York in 1845-46 fleeing the Potato Famine. They brought with them old Druid Holidays called Samhain, (pronouced (Sowen), Celtic holiday which marks the end of summer. It was important to celebrate the living and the dead that came together, the spirits of the underworld. The Druids were the pagan priests of the Celts. They were idolaters, occult practitioners and witches. Their holiday was known as the Lord of Death.
This pagan god was shown as a ghostly, skeleton holding a sickle in his hand. He later came to be known as “The Grim Reaper.”
Deuteronomy 12:31 You must not worship the LORD your God in their way, because in
worshiping their gods, they do all kinds of detestable things the LORD hates. They even burn
their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifice to their gods.
2. The Spiritual Atmosphere of Death
Halloween glorifies everything Christ came to defeat — death, fear, darkness, and witchcraft.
The Lord said in John 10:10,
“The thief comes only to steal, kill, and destroy.” John 10:10
When you decorate your home with tombstones, skeletons, and ghosts, you are aligning with a spirit of death. You may think it’s pretend, but in the spiritual realm, symbols are invitations.
As another former occult practitioner explained:
“If even one home in a neighborhood celebrates Halloween, that entire area becomes a hotspot for demonic activity that night.”
That means your street, your neighborhood, and your children are exposed to spiritual portals opened through this dark celebration.
The Celtics worshipped, The Lord of Death called together the wicked souls that within the past twelve months had been condemned to inhabit the bodies of animals in punishment for their evil deeds. This demon god then allowed them to return to their former homes to visit the living.
To appease the Lord of Death and keep the spirits from harming the people, Druid priests led the people in worship ceremonies in which horses, cats, black sheep, oxen, human beings and other offerings were rounded up, stuffed into wicker cages and then burned to death.
Druid ceremonies mainly centered on sacrifice by shooting to death by arrows, or by impaling, and the burning of human and animal victims. “They deemed it indeed a duty to cover their altars with the blood of captives and to consult their deities through human entrails.” The consecrate a human being to death, drive a dagger into his belly, above the abdomen, and draw conclusions about events to come from the squirming of the victim and the spurting of his blood. They believed the immortal gods can only be appeased, and man’s life redeemed, by offering up human sacrifice.
The Druid priests and Celtic people would gather together on these pagan worship days either in a grove of trees, or in a stone circle. There are many stone circles in the British Isles and in Western Europe. Stonehength most famous.
The pagan worship rituals of the Druids originated, it turns out that they go all the way back to the time of Nimrod. Many of Halloween’s customs are derived from the ancient Baal Festivals from the taking of omens from the struggles of victims in the fires of druidic sacrifices. The worship of Bel (Moloch) and Astarte was very early introduced into Britain along with the Druids, the priests of the groves.
