CHAPTER THREE:
History of Halloween:
Modern Day Baal *Devil* Worship!
Halloween,
as we know it today, is a combination of many pagan customs from different
lands, blended throughout the years, into an American ‘Holiday’ celebrated by
pagans and many Christians. It is a grouping of several elements. These include
preoccupation with death (communion with dead ancestors, honoring the dead,
skeletons, ghosts, coffins, zombies, vampires, murderers, and horror shows),
demons, divination, animal and human sacrifices, eerie music and sounds, tricks
and treats, costumes, bonfires, parties, witches, Jack-o-lanterns, fear,
haunted houses, werewolves, monsters, owls, bats, and spooky black cats.
Halloween is a blending of three traditions: the Celtic festival of the dead (Samhain) combined with sun worship (Taman, another name for Baal), a Roman harvest celebration of a goddess called Pamona (goddess of fruits), and customs of the early Catholic Church. I will talk about all three of these traditions. Its practices started way back in the Old Testament days. In this chapter I will start in 1100 BC in the Old Testament, and take you through history into present times. We will go from the Old Testament days, to the Celtic’s Samhain and Taman traditions that started a few hundred years before Yahushuwa. Then we will go to the Roman harvest celebrations of Pamona that took place in the first century AD and carried on into the customs of the early church. We will move on up through history to when Halloween and witchcraft practices came to America. Then I will talk about witchcraft and satanism specifically, because they are where Halloween and occult activities came from.
OLD
TESTAMENT DAYS
(They worshiped the
sun god in Israel, and many still do today!)
The
Bible talks about Baal worship throughout the Old Testament, and occasionally
in the New Testament. It says that the Israelites worshiped Baal, and that
Yahuwah was against it.
Judges
2:11-15
(between
1100-1000 BC) “And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of Yahuwah,
and served Baalim: And they forsook Yahuwah Yahuwah of their fathers, which
brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of
the people that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and
provoked Yahuwah to anger. And they forsook Yahuwah, and served Baal and
Ashtaroth. And the anger of Yahuwah was hot against Israel, and he
delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them, and he sold them
into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could not any longer
stand before their enemies. Whithersoever they went out, the hand of Yahuwah
was against them for evil, as Yahuwah had said, and as Yahuwah had sworn unto
them: and they were greatly distressed.”
Yahuwah did not take
this idolatry lightly!
Judges
6:25-26
(between
1100-1000 BC) “And it came to pass the same night, that Yahuwah said unto him,
Take thy father’s young bullock, even the second bullock of seven years old,
and throw down the altar of Baal that thy father hath, and cut down the grove
that is by it: And build an altar unto Yahuwah thy God upon the top of this
rock, in the ordered place, and take the second bullock, and offer a burnt
sacrifice with the wood of the grove which thou shalt cut down.”
Yahuwah instructed Gideon to tear down the groves and build alters to worship Him instead. The first of the Ten Commandments says we should have no other Gods before Him.
1 Kings 16:31-33 (between 871-852 BC) says that Ahab married Jezebel and served her god, Baal, and worshiped him. He built an altar for Baal in Samaria, made a grove, and did more to provoke Yahuwah to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him.
Then, in 1 Kings 18:21, Elijah told Ahab to gather all Israel, all four-hundred-fifty prophets of Baal, and the prophets of the groves four-hundred, to mount Carmel. Ahab did this, and Elijah came and said, “How long halt ye between two opinions? If Yahuwah be God, follow him: but if Baal [be God], then follow him....” The people did not answer him. Elijah instructed them to get two bullocks, choose one for themselves, cut it in pieces, lay it on wood, and put no fire under it. He said that he would dress the other bullock, lay it on wood, and put no fire under it. Then he said “And call ye on the name of your gods, and I will call on the name of Yahuwah: and the God that answereth by fire, let him be God.” The people agreed to this.
Elijah let the prophets of Baal go first. They prepared the bullock and called on the name of Baal from morning until noon, but nothing happened. They leaped upon the altar. At noon, Elijah mocked them and told them to cry aloud in case Baal was busy or sleeping and needed to be awakened. They cried aloud, and cut themselves with knives and lancets, until their blood gushed out. It was time for the evening sacrifice, and still they got no answer from Baal. Then Elijah had them come near him, and he repaired the broken altar of Yahuwah. He put in the wood, cut up the bullock, laid it on the wood, and had the people pour twelve barrels of water on the meat and the wood until it ran down into the trench around the altar. He prayed to Yahuwah to let the people know that He is Yahuwah. Then the fire of Yahuwah fell and consumed the sacrifice, the wood, the stones, the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench. When all the people saw it, they fell on their faces and admitted that the Yahuwah is God. Then Elijah had all the prophets of Baal slain.
2
Kings 10:18-30 (between
842-814 BC) tells the story of when Jehu destroyed the worshipers of Baal. Note
here that Elijah had ALL the prophets of Baal slain, during the time that Ahab
reined, yet the people began worshiping this demon god again. Jehu told the
people “Ahab served Baal a little; but Jehu shall serve him much,” and fooled
them into thinking he was going to serve Baal by doing a great sacrifice. He
called together all the prophets of Baal, all his servants, and all his priests
in a solemn assembly. Ahab made sure that no one who served Yahuwah was there,
just worshipers of Baal. Then he had them all slain with the sword. They burned
the images from the house of Baal, and the house itself, and made it a draught
house. Verse 28 says “Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.” Verse 30 says
“And Yahuwah said unto Jehu, Because thou hast done well in executing that
which is right in mine eyes, and hast done unto the house of Ahab according to
all that was in mine heart, thy children of the fourth generation shall sit on
the throne of Israel.” Yahuwah approved what Jehu did.
However,
in verse 31 it says “But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of Yahuwah God of
Israel with all his heart: for he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, which
made Israel to sin.” Look what happens in 2 Kings 17:16-22, which
took place around the same time:
“And
they left all the commandments of Yahuwah their God, and made them molten
images, even two calves, and made a grove, 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 Yahuwah, to provoke him to anger.
Therefore Yahuwah was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his
sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only. Also Judah kept not the
commandments of Yahuwah their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which
they made. And Yahuwah rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and
delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his
sight. For he rent Israel from the house of David; and they made Jeroboam the
son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drave Israel from following Yahuwah, and made
them sin a great sin. For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of
Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from them.”
Throughout the book
of Kings, you can read about the people returning to Baal worship, someone
ridding the land of Baal worshipers, and the people returning to Baal worship
AGAIN and AGAIN!
Hezekiah
ruled from 727-698 BC. He was a man who loved Yahuwah and destroyed heathen
altars, but when he died, his son, Manasseh, reigned in his stead. He reigned
sixty-seven years, from 698-642 BC, beginning when he was twelve.
2
Kings 21:2-12
“And
he did that which was evil in the sight of Yahuwah, after the abominations of
the heathen, whom Yahuwah cast out before the children of Israel. For he built
up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared
up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped
all the host of heaven, and served them. And he built altars in the house of
Yahuwah, of which Yahuwah said, In Jerusalem will I put my name. And he built
altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of Yahuwah.
And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used
enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much
wickedness in the sight of Yahuwah, to provoke him to anger. And he set a
graven image of the grove that he had made in the house, of which Yahuwah said
to David, and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have
chosen out of all tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever: Neither will I
make the feet of Israel move any more out of the land which I gave their fathers;
only if they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them,
and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them. But they
hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations
whom Yahuwah destroyed before the children of Israel. And Yahuwah spake by his
servants the prophets, saying, Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these
abominations, and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, which
were before him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols: Therefore thus
saith Yahuwah God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing such evil upon Jerusalem and
Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle.”
In
2 Kings 22 Josiah was eight years old when he began his reign as king,
in 639 BC, and he ruled thirty-one years in Jerusalem. He walked in all the
ways of David his father, and stood firmly, refusing to turn aside to the right
or to the left. Hilkiah found the book of the law in the house of Yahuwah, and
gave it to the scribe, Shaphan. When Shaphan read it to the king, the king tore
his clothes and wept when he realized they had not been living according to the
book of the law and that Yahuwah was very angry. Because of Josiah’s tender
heart and humbleness, Yahuwah told him through a prophetess that he would die
in peace, and his eyes would not see all the evil Yahuwah would bring on that
place.
The
king made a covenant between the people and Yahuwah to walk after Him, keep His
commandments, testimonies and statutes with all their heart and soul, to
perform the words of His covenant written in the book. All the people stood to
the covenant.
“And
the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second
order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of Yahuwah
all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the
host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron,
and carried the ashes of them unto Bethel. And he put down the idolatrous
priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high
places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them
also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the
planets, and to all the host of heaven. And he brought out the grove from
the house of Yahuwah, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it
at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder
thereof upon the graves of the children of the people. And he brake down the
houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of Yahuwah, where the women
wove hangings for the grove. And he brought all the priests out of the cities
of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense,
from Geba to Beersheba, and brake down the high places of the gates that were
in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were
on a man’s left hand at the gate of the city. Nevertheless the priests of the
high places came not up to the altar of Yahuwah in Jerusalem, but they did eat
of the unleavened bread among their brethren. And he defiled Topheth, which is
in thevalley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or
his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech. And he took away the
horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of
the house of Yahuwah, by the chamber of Nathanmelech the chamberlain, which was
in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire. And the altars
that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had
made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of
Yahuwah, did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and cast the
dust of them into the brook Kidron. And the high places that were before
Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon
the king of Israel had builded for Ashtaroth the abomination of the Zidonians,
and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination
of the children of Ammon, did the king defile. And he brake in pieces the
images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.
Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the
son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high
place he brake down, and burned the high place, and stamped it small to powder,
and burned the grove. And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres
that were there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the
sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the
word of Yahuwah which the man of Yahuwah proclaimed, who proclaimed these
words.”
The
god Molech was a stone idol with an animal head. It had outstretched arms where
they laid their babies or children, over a cauldron of fire. The children
either fell in the fire, or were slowly roasted over it. Below is a
picture of Molech from “The Story of the Bible” by Charles Foster, 1884.
Pagans sacrificing a baby to Molech
2 Kings 23:24-25 “Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of Yahuwah. And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to Yahuwah with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there any like him.”
Jeremiah 11:12-14 “Then shall the cities of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem go, and cry unto the gods unto whom they offer incense: but they shall not save them at all in the time of their trouble. For according to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have ye set up altars to that shameful thing, even altars to burn incense unto Baal. Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up a cry or prayer for them: for I will not hear them in the time that they cry unto me for their trouble.”
Jeremiah 12:15-17 “And it shall come to pass, after that I have plucked them out I will return, and have compassion on them, and will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land. And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, Yahuwah liveth; as they taught my people to swear by Baal; then shall they be built in the midst of my people. But if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation, saith Yahuwah.”
Jeremiah
19:3-9
“And
say, Hear ye the word of Yahuwah, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants of
Jerusalem; Thus saith Yahuwah the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I
will bring evil upon this place, the which whosoever heareth, his ears shall
tingle. Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have
burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have
known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of
innocents; They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons
with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake
it, neither came it into my mind: Therefore, behold, the days come, saith
Yahuwah, that this place shall no more be called Tophet, nor The valley of the
son of Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter. And I will make void the counsel of
Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword
before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and their
carcases will I give to be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts
of the earth. And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one
that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues
thereof. And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of
their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the
siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives,
shall straiten them.”
Jeremiah
32:35-40
“And
they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son
of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire
unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that
they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin. And now therefore thus
saith Yahuwah, the God of Israel, concerning this city, whereof ye say, It
shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by
the famine, and by the pestilence; Behold, I will gather them out of all
countries, whither I have driven them in mine anger, and in my fury, and in
great wrath; and I will bring them again unto this place, and I will cause them
to dwell safely: And they shall be my people, and I will be their God: And I
will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the
good of them, and of their children after them: And I will make an everlasting
covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I
will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.”
Romans
11:4
“But
what saith the answer of Yahuwah unto him? I have reserved to myself seven
thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.”
These
verses show us that people worshiped Baal throughout the Old Testament days! It
is this worship of Baal and other gods that kindled Yahuwah’s jealousy and fury
toward Israel, His beloved people. Some people think Yahuwah is a harsh mean
God, but look what these evil people were doing! Roasting their babies over
fires, having orgies, worshipping demon gods (who were the entities that
required these sacrifices and sins) – and it amazes me that Yah even gave these
kinds of people a second chance! They were pure evil! But He is so merciful
that He didn’t normally destroy them (which I would have done if I were God).
So, when He DID destroy whole groups of people, or had His soldiers do this, I
wouldn’t be too quick to say He is a mean God!
This
idolatry (worship of pagan – demon - gods is why Yahuwah ‘divorced’ Israel for
unfaithfulness in Jeremiah 3:8
“And
I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I
had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister
Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.”
Yahuwah
sent them out of their land and into Babylon. He will not tolerate the worship
of any other god but Him. It is not because He is insecure and jealous as we
think of the term jealousy. It is because those other gods are pure evil and He
is purely good, and His people must remain pure in order to remain His people
(which gives them His protection, love, provision, eternal life in the future,
etc.)
Even in Israel, in these Old Testament days, they sacrificed human beings (their sons and daughters), sacrificed horses to the sun god, and practiced divination, magic and sorcery. The ‘practices’ of Halloween began hundreds of years before Yahushuwa was born, and they were an abomination to Yahuwah.
Most
of the worship of these false gods was done to get blessings for their crops so
they would be successful. They did not trust the true God, but believed that if
they sacrificed to these gods they would be pleased and give them better crops
for their food. They believed they could reach ‘god’ through nature. The
Israelites even went into the pagan temples and engaged in sexual orgies with
the temple prostitutes trying to please the gods and increase fertility in
their land.
When
we worship Yahuwah, we have a very intimate relationship with Him. Although
this relationship is not sexual, the sexual intercourse that a husband has with
his wife is the closest comparison we have to the kind of intimacy we are supposed
to have with Yahuwah. So, it is no surprise that so many pagans use sex orgies
in their worship services to their demon gods, because the devil perverts
everything of Yahuwah that he possibly can.
In
“Theology of the Old Testament” it says: “This association of the natural with
the divine was not to be despised; but it was very easy, under the influence of
the Baal religion, for association to become amalgamation of the two spheres,
and for men to imagine that they could lay hold on Yahuwah in the processes of
Nature and so become one with him. In this attitude were rooted the orgiastic
practices of the agricultural cults; and the tendency was strengthened by the
ancient magical belief that by mimicking the natural processes, from the giving
of light and water right through to the hieros gamos, new vitality could
be given to the mysterious forces of life.”2
Modern
witchcraft practitioners still follow this false belief. They believe that they
can become one with Yahuwah through nature. Nature is not evil. After all,
Yahuwah created it. But we are not supposed to worship nature or abuse it. The
Celts thought there was divinity in all of nature, including the sky, rocks,
vegetation, animals, waters, etc. Some
of their gods were part animal and part human in appearance. Others were a
mixture of several different animals.
Romans 1:21-32 RNV “because, when they learned to know Yahuwah, they did not magnify Him as Eloah (God), neither gave thanks, but became foolish in their thoughts, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools and changed the splendor of the uncorrupted Eloah into an image made like corruptible man, and birds, and four-footed animals, and reptiles. Therefore Yahuwah also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves, who exchanged the truth of Yahuwah for the lie, and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amein. Through this Yahuwah gave them up unto passions of dishonor. For not only their females exchanged the natural use into that besides nature, not only likewise also the males, leaving the natural use of the female, burned in their longing unto one another, males with males working unseemliness, and receiving in themselves the recompense of their error which was necessary. And even as they did not like to retain Yahuwah in their knowledge, Yahuwah gave them over to a rejected mind, to do those things that are not fitting, filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, malice, full of envy, murder, contentions, guile, malignity. They are whisperers, backbiters, haters of Yahuwah, violent, proud, braggarts, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, undiscerning, untrustworthy, irreconcilable, unforgiving, unmerciful, who knowing the righteous deed of Yahuwah, because those who practice such things are deserving of death, not only do it but also approve of the practice.”
SAMHAIN
AND TAMAN CELEBRATIONS
The
Celts seem to have originated in about 200 or 300 BC. They lived in Germany,
the British Isles, France (Gaul), Spain, Italy, Greece, and Asia Minor. Asia
Minor got the name Galatia, the place of the Gauls, from the Celts. Priests
called ‘Druids’ ruled it. They came from the ancient Indo-Europeans, as did the
Romans and Greeks. They worshiped many of the same gods as the Israelites,
Romans and Greeks, but often under different names. In The Two Babylons,
by Alexander Hislop, it says that Bel worship was introduced into Britain along
with the Druids (The May first festival is called Beltane). Some gods that the
Druids worshiped were:
1. Mercury- god of
commerce, messenger god
2. Apollo- god of music, poetry, prophecy medicine, a pastoral and agricultural god, later a sun god
3. Mars- a war god
4. Jupiter- god of
light, lightening, thunder, and rain
5. Minerva- goddess
of wisdom, arts, and trades
6. Dispater- god of
the netherworld
7. Samhain or Saman- lord of the dead and judge of departed spirits (Saman is also another title for Buddha, who the Irish consider lord of death)
8. Baal- the sun god, god of fertility. Taman, Molech, Nimrod, Bel, Beelzebul (lord of the flies), and Beelzeboul (prince of the demons) are other names for Baal. (Satan is really the proper name for all of these gods. They are the same.)
The Celts were doing
all the same things that the rebellious Israelites did. People worshiped Baal
and other demonic pagan gods all over the world!
The
word ‘Druid’ is from words in Greek and Celtic, which refer to oak trees and
worship. Druid also means ‘wise man, sorcerer or witch’. They were also known
as ‘shape shifters’ (those with the ability to change form). They and their
deities did this shape shifting frequently, changing themselves into animal
forms.
Druid at Stonehenge grove, carrying mistletoe and sickle. From Anitquities of England and Wales, by
Francis Grose, vol. IV, 1773-87
Druid
priests worshiped in groves, under oak trees. They used oak leaves and
mistletoe in their services. The Stonehenge is another Druidic place of
worship, located in England. Druidism was also a branch of sun worship.
In
ruling over the Celtic people, these priests appeared to have four main
functions. One was to look after public and private sacrifice. Secondly, they
were the ones who knew and passed on the traditions and tribal knowledge.
Thirdly, they administered justice, as they saw it, based on their
learning and law. Fourthly, they supervised religious ceremonies and
sacrifices, including animal and human sacrifices. They practiced divination,
and acted as advisors to the chief on lucky or unlucky days, and instructed
young tribal warriors. To try to confuse the enemy, they practiced magic.
People believed they were philosophers and theologians with divine attributes,
and that they could talk with the gods.
They claimed to know the will of the gods, and appeared to be very wise, yet at the same time they were extremely blood thirsty. Tacitus said this about the British Druids: “They deemed it indeed a duty to cover their altars with the blood of captives and to consult the deities through human entrails.”3
The
pagan holiday now known as Halloween began over two-thousand years ago in the
British Isles. The Celts main god was Samhain, the god of death and judge of
departed spirits. October thirty-first was the Celt’s New Year's Eve, and
Samhain’s special night. They believed that he came to earth that night,
followed by the souls of people who had died in the previous year. Throughout
the year the wicked souls had been confined in the bodies of lower animals. Now
their sins were supposedly paid for, so they could go to the ‘Druid heaven’.
They
also worshiped the sun god named Taman (Baal), and believed he gave them the
sun. On November first, they celebrated Taman to please and worship the sun
god. They thanked the sun god for their crops that they had stored for the
winter. The Druids built bonfires in the Irish hills, in an attempt to fuel the
sun so it would not go away. They believed that the sun was weak this time of
year, because the days were shorter and the nights longer, and were afraid it
would leave and never return. Bonfires were supposed to give it strength for
the cold dark winter. They thought an evil power was pushing the sun away from
them, and that this brought death to all the plants and trees. They believed
that the winter season actually belonged to the evil spirits.
Druids are still alive and well today. Here is a group of them in 2010. And below that a group celebrating the pagan summer solstice in 2021. They may not do sacrifices anymore, but they are still active in their 'craft'.
On October thirty-first, the ancient Druids made huge bonfires and sacrificed animals and humans to placate Samhain. The human victims were sometimes wives and children from the tribe, but were usually criminals or slaves.
“The human sacrifices would be gathered up, and then lined up as the Druids would throw apples into the cauldrons and give the humans a chance to pull the apples out with their teeth (the cauldrons were boiling hot) for a chance for freedom. Some went for the chance and could be burned with permanent damage to their eyes, ears, throat, etc.; while others did not. Those who did not get the apple on the first try were beheaded immediately, while those who avoided the challenge would be sacrificed in a fiery death. They were taken to a “wicker man” with various wicker cages inside of it and placed inside of it (just like the film with Nicolas Cage). The wicker man would be lit on fire as a sacrifice to the gods, drawing us back yet again to the Nimrod and Semiramis connection. It should also be noted that the annual Burning Man celebration is a reenactment of this ceremony.” From Halloween: Illuminati Symbols, Sacrifices, Souls and the Meaning of Samhain by Isaac Weishaupt, October 26, 2017
“A wicker man was purportedly a large wicker statue in which the druids (priests of Celtic paganism) sacrificed humans and other animals by burning. The main evidence for this practice is a sentence by Roman general Julius Caesar in his Commentary on the Gallic War (1st century BC), which modern scholarship has linked to an earlier Greek writer, Poseidonius”
“The British horror film The Wicker Man (1973) brought the wicker man into popular culture. In recent times, a wicker man (without human or non-human animal sacrifices) has been burned at some neopagan ceremonies, and festivals such as Burning Man. It has also been referenced in music and art.” From Wikipedia
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Authorities turned over murderers to the Druids for sacrifices. Sometimes they killed them before they burned them, by shooting them with arrows or driving stakes through their temples, but they were frequently burned alive.
Some living sacrifices were held captive in cages made of wicker and thatch. The cages looked like giants or huge animals. Julius Caesar, who lived from about 102? BC to 44 BC, described these huge wickerwork figures, called Kolosson, whose limbs were filled with living people or animals. The Druids set them on fire and roasted the victims alive. Horses were sacred to the sun god and were sacrificed in the bonfires. They also sacrificed live cats and people in the fires, and practiced divination (predicted the future) by watching the entrails and movements of the animals or people as they died.
Nimrod, the king (or horned one), represented the devouring fire of human sacrifice, and the father of the Babylonian god, Kronos. He was the great child devourer.
Children, especially infants, were sacrificed to him more than adults. He devoured his children when they were born. Nimrod represents this same god, called Molech, Baal, or Taman. The Phoenicians sacrificed their children to Kronos or Saturn, more names for the same god. The Carthaginians sacrificed two hundred children to him at one time. It is believed that the Druids did this same practice. When the ‘fruit of the body’, the children, were given for a sin offering, the priest ate of the offering. Cahna-Bal (Priest of Baal) means a devourer of human flesh. In The Religion of the Ancient Celts, by J. A. MacCulloch it says the Irish ate their enemies, and ate the flesh and drank the blood of children among the Galatian Celts. The Old Testament book of Micah talks about pagans eating people:
Micah
3:2-4
“Who
hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and
their flesh from off their bones; Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay
their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces,
as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron. Then shall they cry unto
Yahuwah, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at
that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.”
ROMAN
HARVEST CELEBRATION- PAMONA
The
ghoulish costumes and parades, bonfires, and spirit magic associated with
Halloween came from Taman and Samhain rituals. But some of the other elements,
such as romance, and divination with nuts and apple lore, came from another
part of the world, and were blended into the Celtic rituals. The Roman soldiers
conquered the land of the Celts in 43 BC and the Romans’ mythological beliefs
merged with the Druids’ Samhain practices.
One
of these was the Roman festival of Pamona, celebrated on November first. Pamona
was the goddess of orchards and harvest. The Romans offered apples to her in
the fall to thank her for not harming the crops. They believed that the apple
was the symbol of love and fertility. They celebrated with nuts, apples and
other orchard fruits. The Romans ruled the Celts for four-hundred years. By the
first century AD, they spread throughout Europe and the British Isles, living
among the Celts. Their cultures and lifestyles merged. As it turned out, many
different divination Halloween games were practiced in England, Ireland and
Scotland. They used nuts and apples to predict their future spouses. They now
had a night dedicated to the dead, and a night of divination and romance,
combined into one.
CUSTOMS OF THE EARLY CHURCH
Yahushuwa
the Messiah was born in 3 BC, started his ministry at age thirty, and died and
was resurrected when he was thirty-three years old. In the first to fourth
centuries AD, Christianity spread throughout the Roman empire and beyond. Even
after the birth, death and resurrection of Yahushuwa, man was still repeating
the cycle of building groves to worship idols, and destroying the groves,
building them again, and destroying them again! What a sorry state man is in
that he continues to do this even today! Even though it was again suppressed,
the old rite survived in other forms for centuries. They still burned the cats,
believing that they were the familiars of witches, or witches that had
transformed into cats. Horses were sacrificed in Britain as late as 400 AD.
The
Roman Emperor Constantine, who ruled from 310-337 AD, pretended to be
sympathetic toward Christianity. He claims to have seen a flaming cross in the
sky as the sign by which he would conquer the battle at the Milvian Bridge near
Rome, in 312 AD. He adapted the cross and won the battle. Constantine legalized
Christianity, but he incorporated all kinds of pagan rituals into it and was
not a true believer. Constantine let the heathens combine their Samhain day
with All Saints Day. He did much evil to the true faith, which I won’t go into
at this time.
It
says in Celtic Heritage, by Rees, Alwynn and Brinley, that Saint
Patrick, in the fifth century AD, and Saint David, in the sixth century AD,
contested the Druids. They showed that their power through Yahushuwa the
Messiah could stop the fires of the Druids. This showed the evil powers that
worked in the Druids.
Instead
of abolishing the Samhain and Taman celebrations, the church leaders blended
them into their new Christian rites. Pope Gregory I, who lived from 540-604 AD,
did not destroy the temples of the idols. Instead, he wanted the people to
exchange their worship of devils for worshiping the true God, so they could
still celebrate and keep the outward pleasure, but receive joy instead of fear.
In the Old Testament, Yahuwah always told the people to destroy the pagan
temples and artifacts, because they were a cursed thing. Pope Gregory I let
them keep the cursed things to worship Yahuwah in. The villagers continued to
placate local spirits and try to strengthen fertility by magical rites. Even
witchcraft was tolerated by the priests, long after the church had triumphed.
The priests did not approve of black or white magic, but they did not stop it
either. The villagers who practiced witchcraft saw no conflict with
Christianity. This is true in our day as well. Many believers practice
witchcraft and do not even realize it or know that what they are doing is
wrong.
On
May thirteenth, 610 AD, Pope Boniface IV dedicated the Roman temple, the
Pantheon, to Saint Mary and the martyrs. Thus, All Saints Day was originally
celebrated in May and not on November first. In the eight century, Pope Gregory
III reestablished the celebration on November first, to honor the saints of
Saint Peter’s Church. It is celebrated on November first, because it follows
the day that the pagans already associate with the dead. Thousands of believers
were martyred for their beliefs, and there are also many so-called ‘saints’
from the Catholic church. Since there are not enough days in the year to
dedicate a special day for each of these, Pope Gregory IV picked one day to
honor them all. This is called All Saint’s Day, and was also known as ‘All
Hallows’, making the night before ‘All Hallows Eve’, which became ‘Hallowe,en’
and then ‘Halloween’.
The priests thought that instead of worshiping and sacrificing to demons, the people could now honor the saints by praying for them. People made little pastries and breads called ‘soul cakes’ to offer in exchange for blessings for the dead. This was to replace leaving out food and wine to appease the spirits. They gave the cakes to poor people, and in return, the poor people would pray for the departed loved ones of those who made the cakes. This enabled everyone to have food to eat that night.
Eventually,
it turned into an activity that resembles trick-or-treating. Young men and boys
went from door to door singing ‘souling songs’ and asking for money or other
types of food instead of cakes. They wore costumes of saints, angels, and
devils, to honor the Christian saints. Here is where they incorporated their
Christian rites with what they thought were harmless pagan folk ideas. Now they
could dress up on Halloween and feel that it was acceptable to the church. They
still had the bonfires, also. These were lit to keep the devil away.
The
church was largely responsible for bringing this pagan celebration into modern
times. Instead of abolishing the pagan ceremonies, it incorporated them into
Christianity. It brought the whole package into every new land it conquered.
The ‘holiday’ became an important annual celebration and spread throughout
Europe, picking up new traditions from each country.
In
the ninth century another celebration was added to the rest. It was All Souls
Day, on November second. Amalarius declared this Catholic commemoration of the
dead. All Souls Day is for people who were not saints, and did not suffer
martyrdom, but died in the faith in the previous year. They believed that these
people could be helped through a journey through purgatory if the living
believers prayed for them.
Purgatory
was taught in the Roman Catholic and Anglo Catholic churches. It is the false belief
that there is a state after death in which a soul destined for Heaven is kept.
There he is purged of all un-repented sin. The feast of intercession for the
souls of the dead was practically universal by the end of the thirteenth
century.
In
993 AD, All Soul’s Day was placed in the books of the church. This was based on
a directive found in the Apocrypha, 2 Maccabees, XII, 46: “And the noble Judas
exhorted the people to keep themselves free from sin, after having seen what
their own eyes what had happened because of the sin of those who had fallen. He
also took a collection, amounting to two-thousand silver drachmas, each man
contributing, and sent it to Jerusalem, to provide a sin offering, acting very
finely and properly and taking account of the resurrections. For if he had not
expected that those who had fallen would rise again, it would have been
superfluous and foolish to pray for the dead; wherefore was through regard for
the splendid reward destined for those who fall asleep in godliness, it was a
holy and pious thought. Therefore he made atonement for the dead, so that they
might be set free from their sin.”
The
Apocrypha is not part of the Christian Bible, although the Catholics have
incorporated it into their Bible. It is not canon, and does not meet the
criteria to be included in Scripture. When the Bible was put together, the Jews
collected all the writings, including the Apocrypha, and chose the thirty-nine
books of the Old Testament. They studied all of them for about ten years,
deciding which books were authentic and which were not. Some stories in the
Apocrypha were not true, but were made up. The author of some of them were not
identified, and these could not be counted as Scriptures.
There
is also a folk version of the belief in purgatory. Legend has it that a pilgrim
was shipwrecked on an island while attempting to return from the Holy land. He
met a hermit who claimed that he heard the groans of tormented souls coming
from a huge flaming gorge. When the pilgrim returned home, he told the abbot
about this, and the abbot appointed November second, as a day to pray for these
tormented souls. In 1000 AD, Pope Silvester II approved the feast day, and from
the eleventh to the fourteenth century, All Souls Day spread throughout Europe.
The
Catholic church leaders believed that repentance and confession were not
enough. They believed that a sinner had to perform acts of penitence. The
sinner had to be purged of the sin in purgatory if he did not perform the
necessary acts of penitence before he died. Buying indulgences was an act of
giving money to the priests, and in return they would agree to pray for the
buyer’s dead loved ones who were in purgatory. They sold indulgences originally
as a way to raise money to build churches. Greedy leaders abused the system.
People who could not afford the indulgences were left to believe that their
loved ones would suffer in purgatory because they did not have enough money to
buy them.
This
whole concept of purgatory and indulgences goes against the idea of salvation
by grace alone and not works. No one who ever lived or ever will live can pay a
price to be purged of his sins. Only Yahushuwa was qualified to pay that price,
and because of what He did two-thousand years ago on the cross, we can be
cleansed by His blood and forgiven of ALL our past sins if we repent while we
are still alive. If we sin after receiving Him as our personal Lord and Savior,
we need simply to ask Him to forgive us, and turn away from that sin. It is a
good thing to perform acts of penitence, because that helps people see that we
are really sorry for our sins and willing to admit that we have done wrong.
Faith without action is dead. It is very important to live in a way that is
pleasing to Yahuwah. But the point I want to make is that our acts, deeds or
money will not buy us or our loved one's forgiveness.
Frederick
the wise collected over five-thousand relics from saints and stored them in the
Catholic church, called the Church of All Saints. These relics included a lock
of St. Elizabeth’s hair, part of St. Euphemia’s head, a tooth of St. Beatrice
and so forth. People did homages to these ‘sacred’ objects, especially on the
eve before All Saints Day, Halloween.
On
October thirty-first, 1517, Martin Luther began the reformation when he posted
his hand written ninety-five theses on the church door at Wittenberg. The
theses attacked the practice of purchasing indulgences. The church doors served
as community bulletin boards. He posted it on Halloween night because this was
a night when most of the people would come to church. Martin Luther and John
Calvin helped people develop a new concept of their relationship with Yahuwah.
They rejected worshiping Yahuwah with the symbols and icons of the Catholic
church, and learned to develop a direct and personal relationship with Him, and
worship Him with faith and good deeds, as the Bible teaches.
They learned to get their guidance from the
Bible instead of the Pope. The church separated into the Catholics and the
Protestants throughout Western Europe. There were over two-hundred years of
battles between the Catholics and the Lutherans and Calvinists. They abandoned
many of the practices of the Catholic church, including All Hallows Day and All
Hallows Eve.
During
these times witches, warlocks, and sorcerers renounced adherence to any
religion except witchcraft. They pledged alliance to satan and opposed the
church. Witchcraft was always around, but now they clashed with the Christian
church. Witchcraft was more popular than Christianity in the tenth century,
according to King Edgar.
Witches
are always associated with Halloween. I do not think that anyone who has a
Halloween party would even consider leaving out the witch decorations,
including the witches’ black cats and bats. Halloween is a witches’ and satanists’
holiday.
Witches
perverted the Christian rites. They celebrated the ancient sacred days, and the
evil Halloween, which became a very important day to them. They mocked the
church by gathering together and doing unholy demonic rituals, such as the
Black Mass. Witches perverted the divine worship of Yahuwah with obscenity, by
using a nude woman’s body for an altar. They met in covens of twelve people,
and satan or a demon was there as the thirteenth person. (This is where the
superstition of thirteen being an unlucky number comes from.) They did this to
pervert the idea of the twelve disciples and Yahushuwa.
Black
Mass celebrants hung a crucifix upside down, sang hymns and recited prayers
backwards. They used black candles. When they used the words ‘God’ or ‘Jesus’
they abused or ‘spit upon it’. They used water or blood instead of wine, and a
turnip or flesh instead of bread. They denounced ‘Jesus’ as a ‘coward god’ and
‘do nothing king’ who is cursed like the pig. Some called Him the “nefarious
foul-mouthed Jew.” Yahushuwa is still looked upon, by these kinds of people, as
the foul impostor who denies people satan’s pleasures and condemns them to a
life of piety. They would prefer Yahushuwa to vanish into the void of an empty
heaven, because they believe He is false and evil.
Many
people thought the Christian services were too boring and turned to the
‘excitement and ecstasy’ of the witches’ sabbaths. Their two most important
sabbath days were April thirtieth and October thirty-first. On the first Monday
after their sabbaths, people could find out where the witches lived by standing
on a hill overlooking the town and seeing where the smoke rose from the morning
fires. They said the smoke coming out of the witches’ chimneys traveled against
the wind. This sounds ridiculous, but it may have really happened sometimes. A
couple of friends of mine once drove past a known satanist’s house, in
Michigan, and saw all kinds of smoke and strange lightening hovering above the
house. It did not look at all normal or natural; it looked eerie. These were
supernatural occurrences that happened because of the demonic power present.
The
witches made effigies, or dolls (like voodoo dolls), out of waxed wood. An
effigy represented a person whom they wanted to harm. They tried to include
some of the victim’s hair, nail pieces, or even articles of clothing to make it
more effective. They held the doll over a fire and let the heat melt or distort
part of it. The human it represented would be afflicted in their body in the
same place where the doll’s body was melted. Sometimes that body part would
waste away or become diseased. This was their main way of injuring an enemy.
They also stuck pins in the dolls and the person felt great pain in the
corresponding part of their body. Maybe this is why Yahuwah said not to suffer
a witch to live. They were murdering people with their practices.
Many
witches became midwives so they could try to curse the newborn children by
pledging them to satan before they could be baptized. A believer parent who
knew the Word of Yahuwah could break the curse easily and dedicate their
children to Yahuwah, and cast any demons out of them. But many believers do not
know much about the Word of Yahuwah and do not know how to use it. The midwives
also killed children before or during their birth so they could get the ‘fat of
un-baptized babies’ that they used in their sorcery.
The
devil wanted the witches to have many children so they could outnumber and
overpower the believers. Many mothers dedicated their babies to satan when they
were born, a perversion of believers dedicating their babies to the Lord. They
taught their young children their occult religion from the beginning. Because
of this, many witches’ children got tortured and burned with their parents
during the witch hunts. No, I don’t condone any of this torturing that took
place.
Between
1450 and 1750 the great witch hunts took place. During this time more than
one-hundred-thousand people were put to death in witch trials. The Christians
persecuted many witches, and accused many innocent people of witchcraft as well
and tortured and killed them, based on the Scripture “Thou shalt not suffer a
witch to live” in Exodus 22:18, instead of trying to lead them to
salvation and deliverance. Yahuwah destroyed many people in the Old Testament
days because they were so wicked, but He never instructed His people to torture
them.
The
so-called Christians did not try to get these wicked people saved; they just annihilated
them. Pope Innocent VIII said in 1484 that he had supervised the execution of
more than nine-hundred witches and warlocks. He certainly was not 'innocent'!
When
they wanted to find out if someone was a witch, they tortured them. In one
test, they stripped them naked, sat them down and stuck pins in them to find
the place that was insensitive to feeling and did not bleed. This was supposed
to be where the devil put his seal on them. Smart victims would cry each time a
pin went in, whether they felt it or not. Matthew Hopkins invented an
instrument in which sometimes the pin went in and sometimes it did not. If
someone screamed when the pin did not go in, that person was believed to be
just as guilty as if she had screamed when it did.
In
another test they tied their thumbs to their toes with a long cord. They put
them in the pond and someone on the other side pulled them across with the
cord. Water was considered ‘pure’ and was believed to reject an evil
un-baptized person. This meant that witches were not supposed to sink. If they
floated, they were considered a witch. They usually did because the cord they
were tied with was full of air. If they sank but did not drown, they still were
suspected witches. They were considered innocent if they sank and drowned!
Those who lived were usually tortured into a confession.
Some
methods of torture that were used on witches were the thumbscrew, Spanish Boot,
gresillon, stratpado, rack, the witch chair, and sleep deprivation. The Spanish
Boot shattered the shin bone. The gresillon smashed the finger tips and toes.
The stratpado was a pulley the suddenly jerked the body in midair. The witch
chair had heated spikes. Of all these, sleep deprivation worked the best.
After
three years of Hopkins’ tests, the people finally revolted against them. Previously,
anyone who challenged Hopkins was accused of witchcraft and tortured.
Eventually, they seized him, accused him of being a wizard and put him in the
water. He did not sink. They hung him in 1677. Then, in 1692, many people in
Salem were killed because authorities believed they were witches. Several of
them were probably not witches.
People
still celebrated Halloween in Scotland, Ireland, Whales, and parts of England,
but many people gave it up for Guy Fawkes Day, which was only five days after
Halloween. In the seventeenth century, Guy Fawkes along with a fanatic Catholic
leader named Robert Catesby, and Thomas Winter, plotted to bomb the
Protestant-sympathetic House of Lords on November 5, 1605, when parliament met.
They were caught at the last minute when one of them warned a relative not to
be at the meeting that day. Officials arrested Guy Fawkes as he entered the
cellar of the House of Lords, where they stored the gunpowder. The others were
seized also, and all of them were executed. On this day the English Protestants
celebrated the triumph of ‘Protestants over Catholics’.
Again,
the traditions were mixed. On Guy Fawkes Day they had big bonfires, carried
lanterns made of hallowed out turnips carved with evil faces, did pranks,
dressed in costumes, and begged for coal to burn effigies of Guy Fawkes. This
burning of effigies is much like the witchcraft practice of making voodoo dolls
and sticking pins through them to harm the person that the doll represented,
except Fawkes was already dead. The Catholics burned some Protestant martyrs at
the stake, so many Protestants hated the Catholics. Many Protestants also
burned effigies of the Pope, and it was known as Pope’s Night as well as Guy
Fawkes Day.
HALLOWEEN COMES TO AMERICA
Just
before the original colonies settled in America in the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries, there were these forms of the Halloween tradition: The
Catholic church’s ‘All Hallows’ celebrations in Europe, the pagan folk customs
in the British Isles, and the English Protestant’s ‘Guy Fawkes Day’
celebrations. The colonists all brought aspects of these customs to America.
Even the Puritans who did not want anything to do with Halloween or All Saints
Day practiced witchcraft and divination.
Pennsylvania
Germans put horseshoes and broomsticks across their doors to keep witches out,
or shot silver bullets into effigies of witches. (The former is a pagan copy of
putting the blood of the lamb on the door post to keep the spirit of death out
during the Passover, when Yahuwah passed over the homes of the children of
Israel in Egypt and killed the Egyptians’ first born children.) It was said
that if a witch wanted to gain entry of any house, all she had to do was to
make a witch candle and hold it to the door, and the lock would fly open. Witch
candles were made from the fat of an un-baptized baby, hair from the head of a
hanged man, a finger grave robbed from a murderer, and a few other things.
The witches did sacrifices during their sabbaths. They danced and had orgies. They made an ointment by taking the fat of young children, seething it with water, reserving what remains at the bottom of the brazen vessel. Then, they mixed soot, Eleoselinum, Aconite, bat blood, Belladonna, and other things, and rubbed this ‘Ungent’ on their bodies until they felt very hot and looked red. They joined fat or oil with it to cause it to pierce inwards so it was more effective. Supposedly, this made them able to fly to their sabbaths if they were far away.
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The drugs they used produced vascular excitement and hallucinations. One ingredient caused confusion, one accelerated their heart rate, and one made their feet numb and they felt like they were flying. In initiation ceremonies in England they blindfolded them, smeared this Ungent on them and put them on a broom. Brooms are still used in modern witch ceremonies. Ringing church bells were used as a defense against flying witches.
Although
most people believe the witches only ‘thought’ they flew to the sabbaths,
because the drugs made them feel like they were flying, it is possible that
some of them really transported supernaturally by the power of demons. This is
another perversion of something Yahuwah does. Yahuwah sometimes transports
people to different locations by the power of His Holy Spirit. The devil does
this by using his own power.
Someone
I used to know said he was supernaturally transported by the power of the Holy
Spirit, to save his life. He fell asleep at the wheel of his car one night and
awoke as he was just about to drive into a pole at high speed. He did not have
time to turn or stop, but he called on the Lord and suddenly he was standing in
his church. His car was parked outside. He did not know how he got there.
According to his watch it was only a few seconds after the ‘almost accident’ and
he could not have driven to the church. The angels picked him up and put him
there and put his car outside!
This kind of supernatural occurrence happened to Philip in Acts 8:39-40:
“And
when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of Yahuwah caught away
Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more: and he went on his way rejoicing. But
Philip was found at Azotus: and passing through he preached in all the
cities, till he came to Caesarea.”
When witches made the
potions to supposedly make them fly, the devil ‘may’ have perverted this display of
Yahuwah’s power and caused them to fly or move supernaturally from one place to
another.
Other potions that witches used were made of Mandrake, poppy, Belladonna, Foxglove, Henbane, Deadly Nightshade and Indian Hemp. The most powerful was Mandrake. When they made wine from its root, it produced deep sleep and lurid dreams.
They also ate potions made of bat wings and entrails, snakes, animal saliva and intestines, and other things that they cooked in cauldrons.
After
the American Revolution in 1776, the people had October thirty-first play
parties in public buildings rather than churches. People stayed up late
dancing, practicing divination with apples and nuts, playing games and telling
stories. People did different things in different places. Some different names
for this night were Snap Apple Night, Nut Crack Night Party, Eve of All
Hallows. Halloween was not established in America yet, but these celebrations
were the precursors to it. Halloween became established as an American
celebration at the turn of the nineteenth century.
Nearly
7.4 million people came to America from other countries between 1820 and 1870.
Famine in Ireland drove thousands of Irish to America. Each of them brought
their occult traditions and blended them in with American traditions. The
traditions of the Irish, English, German and Scottish-Irish had the strongest
impact on America’s Halloween. The Spanish Catholics from Mexico, and the
Africans, brought many magic beliefs and voodoo magic to America.
The stock market crashed on October twenty-ninth, just two days before Halloween, in 1929, and began the Great Depression. The things that brought it on started long before Halloween. But I believe that the increase of occult powers during this important satanic holiday season contributed to the stock market crashing when it did. It happened because of the concentrated demonic prayers and curses being offered at this time. Hitler benefitted from all of this, and he was involved in satanism. I believe the devil had a plan to bring him into power; a plan that started with the crashing of the stock market, and ended with the murders of more than six-million people (mostly Jews, Yahuwah’s beloved people), and a world war.
By
1933, there were sixteen-million people unemployed. That was one-third of the
labor force. Europe felt the effects from this and the whole thing contributed
to Adolph Hitler rising up as leader in Germany. Hitler took control over Germany in 1933. The
Secret Service was the organization that protected him. It was composed of Nazi
officers. Their leaders were satanists. Hitler used the satanic peace symbol on
his Nazi death notices and on the gravestones of Secret Service Nazi officers.
Besides all of the people he had murdered, many others died in his
concentration camps from malnutrition, mistreatment and disease. He was also
the one responsible for starting World War II.
Walpurgisnacht
is on April thirtieth. This is one of the three most important days to satanists.
It was on this day, in 1945, that Hitler and his wife supposedly committed
suicide. This was the day after they married. He is known by many to have been
an ‘Antichrist’, and one of the vilest men who ever lived.
By
the twentieth century, Halloween was very popular. Americans picked up on the
trick-or-treating in the 1950's. In the 1960 and 70's, some people started reporting
finding drugs in their children’s candy. On Halloween in 1974 Timothy O’Brien,
an eight-year-old, died of cyanide poisoning. His father said he got the poison
in Halloween candy from a house that was found by police to be empty that
night. The father was convicted of murder and got the death penalty. He had
taken out a twenty-thousand-dollar life insurance policy on both of his
children, and then put cyanide in their candy. The police got the daughter’s
candy before she ate it.
Americans
were afraid, and developed many safety tips to protect children from incidents
such as eating candy filled with poison, drugs, razor blades or glass, or
getting mugged by older children. Some areas even banned trick-or-treating.
At
this point you may be thinking “So . . . that is all in the past. What does it
have to do with today?” In Chapter Five, we will look at modern Halloween in
more detail, and how occult activities that were practiced in the past are
still practiced today. We will look at Halloween activities, and at year-round
activities that are similar to the Halloween ones, or that relate to them.
September 21st-22nd: Autumn Equinox
“The autumn equinox marks the beginning of the thinning of the
veil separating the spirit world from the physical (with the thinnest night on
Samhain, Oct 31), which allows demonic spirits to pass through. It is the day
when the hours of daylight and darkness are equal, and in the pagan world this
holiday is called Mabon. It’s also referred to as the Harvest Festival, or the
Feast of the Ingathering. It’s the pagan version of Thanksgiving and sharing of
food. The worship of gods and goddesses occurs in order to keep their blessings
during the cold winter months ahead. It’s also the midpoint between Lughnasa
and Samhain. A human sacrifice is desired for the gods and goddesses in order
to protect the people from the winter.
Harvest festivals are held annually on this seemingly innocuous
date.”
From: illuminatiwatcher.com 2013 Occult Holiday
October 31st-November 1st: Halloween
“Samhain, (aka All Hallows Eve, aka Halloween), is a three day
fire festival in which sacrifices were given to fires for the sun god. Samhain
is a festival for the dead, as Beltaine is a festival for the living. There are
a slew of traditions that occur during this festival of Samhain from Oct 29-31st,
with the culmination on Halloween night. Samhain is the Celtic lord of the dead
and is considered a stag god. A stag god in the occult is always a reference to
the ancient male god Nimrod. He was depicted with one horn, or multiple horns
appearing as antlers like Moloch:”
From: illuminatiwatcher.com 2013 Occult Holiday
Now that we have followed the history of Halloween practices from the Old Testament days to present times, I will tell you about the witches and satanists. When you understand these, you will have a better understanding of the other things written about in this book.
Halloween Soup - Cover & Footnotes & Endnotes
Halloween Soup - The Devil's Year-Round Recipe for Oppression - DON'T EAT IT! - by Jennifer Lang
Chapter Two B - The Beautiful Mansion
Chapter Three - History of Halloween
Chapter Four - Witchcraft and Satanism
Chapter Five part 1 of 2 - Halloween and Occult Activities
Chapter Five part 2 of 2 - Halloween and Occult Activities
Chapter Six - What About the Other Holidays? Are They Occult Too?
Chapter Seven - Yahuwah's Feast Days
Chapter Nine - How to Get Set Free From the Effects of Halloween and the Occult
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