Should Christians Celebrate Halloween?

Should Christians celebrate Halloween? Hi, my name is John Humenik. Welcome to my channel. I'm so excited you're here. I'm sure by now you've probably seen tons of different shorts, videos, maybe reels talking about how Christians should or should not be celebrating Halloween. I'm sure you've got your own opinions and own experiences, and I bet without a doubt you've got family members and friends giving you their opinion on what you should be doing with you and your children, whether that you wanna give out candy or go out for trick-or-treating. So I wanna talk about a couple things, a little bit of background to give you an understanding why I believe Christians should not participate in Halloween in any way, shape, or form. And I don't wanna do it from a religious perspective, and I don't even wanna do it from a, you know, even legalistically when you think about it, because this can be a touchy subject for people, especially with people that have kids. And we have children, and we had to go through this experience ourselves. And I wanna walk you through gently things that we did and the excitement we brought to our family through it all, to the point now where our kids have no concern for Halloween. They'd rather do other stuff with us on this day. So from a background perspective, Halloween has a steeped history in pagan rituals. Actually, what happened was, is All Saints' Day, which is a day that the Catholic Church established on November 1st, was the day that they celebrated past saints. And the reality is, is unfortunately this— that in and of itself is actually a demonic holiday. They're celebrating people from a heart of worship and rather than from a perspective of, hey, those people lived a godly life. Now, you may be thinking otherwise, especially if you're a Catholic, but I want you to stick around for the rest of this video because this is gonna unlock what Satan really did. 'Cause what Satan did is he took a religious stance and he then tempted the Catholic Church to put in a holiday that God didn't ordain. It's nowhere in the Bible. In fact, God doesn't ever talk about honoring any man or woman of God once they've gone to heaven. Even Moses, they— God took and hid his body so they couldn't find it and worship it. So think about it from that perspective. So All Saints' Day in and of itself has its roots in the demonic without people even realizing it. And so what, what Satan did is he rose up this religious section on November 1st, and then from the other side, from the secular side, he said, hey, let's go ahead and do another holiday the day before that is what would be considered the antithesis of that. And so what he did is he created 2 days, not just one, but 2 days in which he could operate in power in the world. And thus Halloween is born. And it— there's so many different aspects of Halloween that I could cover in this video, but you're better off Googling it and researching all the pagan aspects that's behind it. Because what you see in Halloween is all about darkness. It's all about being scared, even to the point where trick-or-treating is done at night in the darkness. And people will say, well, that's just to show off the lights. Well, no, that is done because it's a transition from light to The essence of Halloween is to honor the things that are actually evil in this world and give them some level of authority in our life. Now, you may or not believe all the things that happened with zodiacs and astrology and all these other things, but the reality is, is the moment you put on a costume to pretend you are something that you're not, you're actually shifting your identity again. Don't get religious or legalistic on me, and I'm not saying. But when a child puts on a Superman costume, that they turn into Superman. No, I'm not saying that. But what it means is, is in the spiritual world, there are laws in the courts of heaven in which you come into agreement with things, whether you like it or not. It's amazing. It's even to the point where you even like a post that you just like for the reason of it. But now you're coming into agreement with it. This gives the devil legal access to your life, to your children, and all these things. Again, this may. Sound far-fetched. This may sound completely insane to some people. It's true. I've seen it happen, and there is no other way to explain it. Because what you're doing is, is you're yoking yourself to a demonic entity that is not Jesus Christ. And so what you're doing is, is you're coming into agreement with something that isn't holy, and then the attributes of that unholy entity will get imbued onto you, whether you recognize that or not. And it isn't— again, it doesn't mean they take over your personality. Doesn't mean they take over your But what it does is it opens the opportunity for sin, because that's the thing the devil wants you to do, is he wants those moments in your Christian walk to veer off the path that God has for you. And it doesn't have to be complicated. All it has to do is be a little bit. And that's what Halloween introduced. Halloween introduced the opportunity to pretend to be something else in order to be able to do something cool. Now, if you look at it from an adult perspective and look at all the adult parties that occur with Halloween, Now you can get into all forms of sexual immorality, filth, drunkenness, and all kinds of other stuff. It's incredible. It's one of the few holidays, probably outside of the 4th of July, where people are openly walking with liquor in their hands all throughout their neighborhoods with their kids. And we live down here in the South, and we have golf carts everywhere, so we got people driving around their kids drunk on the alcohol from place to place. This is a secular thing. And so When you start to understand the roots and all the things that happen is, is that what Satan is trying to do— again, don't hear what you think I'm saying, but hear the truth— what Satan is trying to do is take your identity and shift it a little bit, move it off the center. That's all he has to do. He doesn't have you to put on a mermaid and become a mermaid spirit. That's not what I'm trying to say. What I'm saying is, is that you come into agreement with some of the things That the mermaid represents. It moves you off your center and just pulls you a little bit, a little bit at a time. This is why you'll know that when people say you're not going to celebrate Halloween, there's so much trouble with it. That's how you know that this is sourced in a demonic, because the demons want you to do the things that they want you to do, because now they'll be able to do more things in their life to manipulate you going forward. And believe it or not, this is the truth. And in fact, What most people don't realize is this is the night where witchcraft, magic, dark arts, sorcery, and so much more is at its peak. Because what you have is all the witches and warlocks that are out in the world going out there and trying to cast spells to try to generate more power in the kingdom of darkness. And if you don't realize this, go back to the Olympics that happened in Paris. And for the time of this video, that was only a few months ago, but you may watch this video in future years. And what you start to see is, is that there was so much junk that was cast into the spiritual atmosphere at that time that it went about and wrecked a lot of Christian lives because they weren't prepared for the spiritual warfare on their life. Halloween does that on a year-to-year basis because it becomes a bedrock in which they're trying to operate. They're trying to own the last quarter of the year that God says in his scriptures he wants to bless and bless abundantly. Because actually, that's the thing what people don't recognize is God wants it to be a hard charge. Well, again, again, in the context of our current calendar a hard charge into the new year. But in the Israel calendar, what you have is, is you have this situation where this is the beginning of the year for the Israelites. So what you don't understand, because we're on a different calendar, is Halloween represents a way to wreck the Israeli calendar from the get-go. That's what, that's what the demonic is trying to do. So this is kind of the background in the context of Halloween, a lot of things that most people don't recognize or even know. And there's a lot more, and you can do some research on it. But how do you move forward as a Christian? There's going to be a couple areas that I want to encourage you, and it's something that we did personally that really was powerful, that was really effective in our family. And so I'm going to talk specifically from experience because it was amazing. Now, when we stopped celebrating Halloween, one of the things that we did is we said, okay, we're no longer going to give out candy and we're no longer going to participate in trick-or-treating. Now, you may be in a state where like, look, I still want to give out candy and I want to bless the children. Great. Not going to say anything against that. Really, the reality is is that you can bless them through that way, and that's a pretty cool thing to do. But having your kids take in candy—this can be a thing that people don't recognize—can be very dangerous. When I was growing up, the fear was that the world tried to put in is like they were saying, "Well, there's glass in the candy," that people were injecting poison or all kinds of junk into drugs into the candy, and you had to check the candy. And it grew up as a joke for the adults because guess what? They were eating the candy that they liked and giving the kids. The difference. And so we really— I never really experienced any of that, but I heard people talk about it, which I believe most of that stuff was false. But here's the thing that can be true that's undetectable. If you live in a community where there's a witch or a warlock, guess what's happening? They are literally cursing the candy that your children are ingesting. And I can assure you right now, if you've not seen spiritual cancer occur in your life, let me tell you something. The only way to get rid of spiritual cancer, it's not through any form of medicine or any of the other things that the treatments that's done to get rid of cancer. It's only through prayer and the power of the Holy Spirit and declaring your healing. So this is the thing that really got me was as I was like, oh wow, hold on. I can actually have my kids go out in a community and then someone could be cursing the candy either directly or indirectly because even if they're not cursing it directly, but they themselves are a curse, everything they handle can become a problem. And so you're gonna say, well, the religious will say, Well, that nothing, you know, no weapon formed against me shall prosper. Every tongue that rises itself shall be refuted. You know, the devil can't touch my life, therefore he can't influence it. But the reality is, is the devil still has power. And that doesn't mean the weapon isn't formed. It may not prosper, but now the devil is going to wreck part of your life because guess what? You're now being disobedient to God 'cause you're allowing your kid to ingest things that they're not supposed to ingest. And so while they may not die of cancer, guess what happens? You may suffer through them being disobedient. being rebellious and all these other things. So if you start to recognize an attitude shift from when your kids before Halloween and after, you're gonna bet that there was something tainted in the batch of candy that they got. And again, I'm not trying to be religious, I'm not trying to be legalistic, but I'm just trying to make you aware. Because when we stopped doing this, what we did is we then made the activities on Halloween tons of fun. And I remember the first year that we did this, my son was so happy that we did the things on Halloween that he told all his friends about it and he remembers it it even to this day that it was one of the greatest days of his life. Because what we did is we turned it into this amazing family event, and we just let the kids pick the things that they wanted to do, go where they wanted to go, do the things they wanted to do, and just let them have fun, let them be kids. And it was incredible, and it, it just left a mark, a stamp on my heart. I'm like, wow, there's something here about this, because that's how the Christian family is supposed to operate. We're supposed to do things together. We're supposed to do things in excitement and enjoy and in fun, and it's not meant to be in the dark. It's not meant to be dressed up and pretending to be something that we're not, but rather going out and being who we are. Another aspect that I would encourage you to do is— guess what? There's a lot of people out on Halloween. What a better time, and then maybe in the entire year, to evangelize for Jesus Christ. If you have that street preacher anointing, if you have that evangelistic anointing in your bones, guess what happens? You can go out there and preach the gospel. You can go out there and speak into the darkness and drive out all the demonic aspects that are occurring in your life and in your community and push it out. You can bless the children. You can bless the parents. This— the thing about it is, is what people don't realize is there are going to be people in this world that will never read a Bible. There are going to be people in this world that never go to church. There are going to be people that never say a prayer, never even get exposed to it. But yet God's put eternity in the heart of every person. And they know just by looking at creation, God is God. That's the reality. That's Romans chapter 1. And so no one has an excuse when they stand before the Father whether or not they should have accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. It's impossible. Even before Jesus came, there was a path to salvation, and Abraham emulated that in an amazing way. And so you're going to see an opportunity as a Christian to be the light to the world That has never been there before, first person. They may have never seen a godly person in their life. They may have never seen a holy person. They may have never seen a Bible verse that they really received outside of seeing the billboards of John 3:16 as they're driving past on the highway. You have an opportunity with your family to minister to people and to talk to them about the Lord Jesus Christ on the streets while they're walking about, because guess what? But people are just walking. They're not necessarily racing to get anywhere particular. You have an opportunity to minister to them in a powerful, powerful way. This is the— one of the greatest opportunities for evangelism in the entire year because there's so many people out and about and in a close proximity to your house. So you can know them, you can talk to them, you can encourage them. And the best way that I can encourage people who may not necessarily have the evangelistic anointing on their lives, the best way to do it is truly just to share your testimony. Because every single Christian is ordained and anointed to preach the gospel, to share the Great Commission with everyone. And so as you're part of this process, one of the things that you can do is just share your testimony, just like I did, where I said, hey, look, we stopped celebrating Halloween last year. We did some cool things with our kids and they loved it. And even this year, they're looking forward to doing same or similar things and just doing some cool things. And that will print them on something that will then shift them a little bit in the atmosphere from the darkness to the light. That is a powerful thing that you can do. And the other aspect that you can do on Halloween, which I think is really important, is pray for people. And you don't have to be bold and in front of them or even in their face, but you can just pray for them from your house. You can pray for them from your car as you're driving. You can pray for them from a seat that you're seated in because God allows those people to come into your territory. That's the reality, is everywhere you set your foot belongs to you. So when people cross your territory, they can be blessed by you, and you can pray for them, you can intercede them. You can ask the Holy Spirit, hey, why is that person limping? Is there something I can intercede for them? Hey, that person I see is drinking a little bit too much. How can I intercede for them? Hey, I see that one kid who's always behind and everyone else is running in front of them? Can I pray for them? It gives you an opportunity to intercede for them at that moment in a way that you may not understand the ramifications and impact on their life. There's so many different things that I have done that God has shown me later that has just rippled in the spiritual world, that has just transformed people's lives just by simple prayer. It's simple, and it's— you could do simple declarations, you can do all kinds of things. You could worship, you could cultivate an atmosphere of praise and thanksgiving so every time a person walks through, they can experience the presence of God. Because guess what? God inhabits the praises of his people. So if you cultivate a culture, an atmosphere, a place of worship and praise and thanksgiving in and around your house, people are going to walk through that. And I'm going to assure you, it's the difference between walking through a cold room and walking through a warm If you've ever been to a church that's Spirit-filled, on fire, the atmosphere is different. The heaviness that people carry into that atmosphere gets dumped off. It's like bricks being just ripped out of their backpack. That's the aspect of the Christian that can do in Halloween. These are 3 simple things that we talked about that can really change the lives of the people around you in a huge way, in, in ways, again, you may not understand. God talks about this in Ephesians chapter 3, verses 20. The power that's in you is so much greater so much greater than you can even understand or comprehend, that the things that you do, you may not ever, ever grasp. But when they come into being and their effect, it really does change people's lives in just an amazing way. So I'd encourage you today to prayerfully consider all those different things that God wants you to do on this Halloween. What can you do differently? How can you move forward? How can you participate, whether you have a family or you And allow God to minister to you on this day the way he wants you to move forward in boldness and clarity so that you can be a beacon to others and show them the path that leads to Christ. And so thank you for watching this video. If you found this content edifying, I prayerfully consider you becoming a partner in our Patreon site, and that's in the description below. And if you if you can't see it, you can go to Patreon, search my name John Humenik there. You can become a partner, and partners get a free ebook whenever they join up with us from a perspective of our ministry. And you are then supporting the gospel that is going out and taking the gospel of the good Jesus Christ to the world in a powerful and amazing way. God bless.