OBSERV'ED, pp. s as z.
1. Noticed by the eye or the mind.
2.
Kept religiously; celebrated; practiced.
TIME, n.
TIME, n. [L.tempus; tempora, the falls
of the head, also tempest, &c. See Tempest. Time is primarily equivalent to
season; to the Gr.wpa in its original sense, opportunity, occasion, a fall, an
event, that which comes.]
1. A particular portion or part of duration, whether past, present or future.
The time was; the time has been; the time is; the time will be.
Lost time is never found again.
God, who at sundry times, and in divers manners, spoke in time past to the
fathers by the prophets. Heb.1.
2. A proper time; a season.
There is a time to every purpose. Eccles.3.
The time of figs was not yet. Mark 11.
WITCHCRAFT, [witch and craft.]
WITCHCRAFT, [witch and craft.]
1. The practices of
witches; sorcery; enchantments; intercourse with
the devil.
2. Power more than natural.
He hath a witchcraft over the king ins tongue
Halloween's origins date back to the ancient Celtic festival
of Samhain (pronounced
sow-in). The Celts, who lived 2,000 years ago in the area that is now
Ireland, the United Kingdom, and northern France, celebrated their new
year on November 1. This day marked the end of summer and the harvest
and the beginning of the dark, cold winter, a time of year that was
often associated with human death. Celts believed that on the night
before the new year, the boundary between the worlds of the living and
the dead became blurred.
On the night of October 31, they celebrated
Samhain,
when it was believed that the ghosts of the dead
returned to earth. In addition to
causing trouble and damaging crops, Celts thought that the presence of the
otherworldly spirits made it easier for the Druids, or Celtic priests,
to make predictions about the future. For a people entirely dependent on
the volatile natural world, these prophecies were an important source of
comfort and direction during the long, dark winter. To commemorate the
event, Druids built huge sacred bonfires,
where the people gathered to burn crops and animals as sacrifices to the
Celtic deities.
During the celebration, the Celts wore costumes, typically consisting of animal heads
and skins, and attempted to tell
each other's fortunes. When the celebration was over,
they re-lit their hearth fires, which they had extinguished earlier that
evening, from the sacred bonfire to help protect them during the coming
winter.
We see Halloween came from a holiday called
Samhaim. That Samhaim was celebrated the night of October 31.
That people dressed in costumes and sacrificed animals to a God other
than our God.
While today I'm sure dressing up in costumes and getting candy does not
make a person evil. We should remember that the Holy Spirit says in the
Bible in 2Chronicles 33:6
that this activity provoked God to anger. We need to also remember that
God commands us to Abstain from All Appearance of Evil. We need to not
be part of the Worlds Pagan Festivals
Halloween Links
Halloween: A Celebration of Evil
The
Halloween Deception
The
Watchman Expositor: Halloween - Harmless Fun or Pagan Ritual?
Halloween
Halloween, its
origins and customs.
The Dark
Side Of Halloween
Halloween
Quiz
Halloween and Christians
Halloween Is Evil
Halloween Sermons
Halloween - James Knox
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