31/10/2025
THE PENDULUM OF HALLOWEEN.
Today, as we approach Halloween (a day celebrated and notorious for the occult, but often dressed in innocence and ignorance), I consistently find two extreme views by Christians right here in the land of social media - each swinging hard to their own belief.
1. Christian's who celebrate and/or refuse to denounce Halloween as if it's some sort of idol.
2. Christian's who, in some form of fear (often dressed as wisdom), unawares champion this day to the enemy's glory.
Both are extreme ends of the spectrum and need adjustment.
As I pondered this, I was taken to Acts 19 (where you find Paul preaching for 2 years at the School of Tyrannus, in the city of Ephesus). Ephesus at this time had become the epicentre of the dark arts for the known world. A port city of approximately 250,000 people, known for prostitution, sorcery, idol worship, new age practices, witchcraft, occultism, slave trade, commerce, and overall for the temple of Artemis (or Diana to the Romans). In short, Artemis was a principality (a.k.a fallen angel - Acts 19:35) over the city of Ephesus, where she had bewitched the people there, and was worshipped throughout all Asia and the entire world (Acts 19:27).
The alta of the most wicked and perverse demonic agenda was based right here in the city of Ephesus, where Paul just happened to be preaching the gospel of the kingdom with signs and wonders, even the devils (earth-bound/terrestrial evil spirits) there knew him by name (Acts 19:15).
My point is this....the city of Ephesus was continuously 1000 times more demonic than one night a year of Halloween in Western society. Yet there is no record of Paul ever speaking against this principality (confirmed in Acts 19:37). The craftsman who made the idols there actually took it upon themselves out of fear, declaring that their deity would be discredited and robbed of her majesty (because of Paul's kingdom impact).
Paul didn't alter what he was doing due to a day on the calendar (and they would have had plenty of pagan dates to celebrate in an horrific manner)...he just kept consistent with the great command and commission.
At the end of the day, it's all about where our focus lies. The bible says "we wrestle/struggle not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this world’s darkness, and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms." (Ephesians 6:12). The word "wrestle or struggle", here in The Greek is “palé,” meaning to "contend", and the word "against' in the Greek is "pros", which can mean "between, among, pertaining to and with regards to". We are not contending against something, but for something - the contention is for humanity.
If you imagine a soccer (football) match with no ball, then your contest is pointless, as there is nothing to contend over. However, once you add the ball, it now becomes the focus of the wrestle—you are not ignorant of your opponent (enemy), but your primary focus isn’t attacking them, but rather putting that ball through the goals, therefore winning and bringing defeat to the other team. Now think of this in terms of the ball being humanity and/or the earth—both sides are contending for the prize (the enemy's agenda is to kill, steal, and destroy, but God's is that His church would rise and bring heaven to earth—keeping the focus on Him and His children).
Ephesians 2:6 tells us that we are seated with Christ in the heavenly realms—we are not seated beside or below Him but with Him. So to understand where we are seated, we must first know where He is seated. Christ sits at the right hand of the Father—the place of all authority and power—and you are positioned right there with Him; you are bi-locational, walking the earth as a son/daughter and sitting in the highest of heavens. This is a primary key to spiritual warfare, as you have now exchanged a worldview for a kingdom view—you see as He sees.
Spiritual warfare is all about where your focus lies, what you behold and where your gaze resides. For too many, they are focused on what the enemy is doing—their gaze resides on (for lack of better words) the second heaven—the celestial realm in which the fallen angelic beings now reside.
So, should we partake in and celebrate Halloween? Absolutely not. Equally, we should also not entertain fear of this night, but simply continue in being who and whose we are - fulfilling the mandate of kingdom expansion.
By all means, have a worship party, prayer meeting, evangelise on the streets, be salt and light, etc. tonight - though not in reaction to this date, but in the action of already being empowered with the gospel!
1 Thessalonians 5:5
"For you are all children of the light and of the day; we don’t belong to darkness and night."
