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be doing or are we tempting the devil, playing his games...I ask you to think about this because the devil is VERY REAL and the devil (Satan) is not playing games. He wants to distract us from anything and everything that will draw us closer to our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, into a close relationship with GOD. He wants us to fall and not get up again. He wants us to turn away from God. Satan (the devil) wants to take every one of us down with him that he possibly can and if he can trick us into believing that Halloween is no more than a harmless distraction, a holiday for children, a fun day of pretend then we have let him win, win us away from the Lord, AND worst of all we are encouraging our children to believe and participate in something so awful it can destroy their lives forever, for all eternity. (This sounds like a pretty harsh statement but think about it.) Do you want your children playing the devil's game even if it is only pretend, just for fun? After all, what is wrong with a little fun, right? It is only for one night out of the year, what real harm can it do? It is just kid stuff. Is it really or have we been conned into believing that?

'Though many of us probably do not realize it or even give it a second thought, the day we celebrate as Halloween is the outgrowth of a pagan holiday. Halloween is the variation of the ancient Celtic festival "Samhain" (pronounced sow-wan). Samhain is the New Year's festival of the Celtic culture and begins on the evening before November first (October 31st, the day we celebrate Halloween). It is a festive harvest celebration that marked the death of the old year and the birth of a new year.

This festival was first believed to be celebrated somewhere around 5 BC. The word Samhain, translated from the Celtic language means all hallowtide or night to make holy...the celebration began in the evening of October 31st and was celebrated for three days, October 31st being the "Feast of the Dead", signaling the close of the harvest season and the beginning of winter or the season of dark, the dark time of the year when the sun doesn't shine very much, the weather is cold, food is scarce and life becomes a serious hardship. It was a night of sacrificial worship to their gods...let me emphasis...their gods...are not GOD...our Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ or the Holy Spirit...these were pagan gods and had absolutely nothing to do with the GOD of the Hebrews or with Christianity, the one true God.

The Celts believed that

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