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POSTED
01 OCTOBER, 2003
A
Messianic Perspective of Halloween
by
J.K. McKee
editor@tnnonline.net
By mid-to-late Summer, you can now go to
your local store while grocery shopping and see it advertised.
You can now buy your decorations and costumes for this holiday
much earlier than ever before. The advertising and marketing
involved for this holiday is beyond that of what Christmas was
in the past. Halloween has become a very formidable holiday, a
huge money maker for confectioners and the entertainment
industry alike. It has also been responsible for many people
being introduced to the occult and considering witchcraft and
spiritism as legitimate forms of one’s expression of
faith—perhaps even allowed by God and encouraged by the Church.
Of all the
holidays that are celebrated in the United States, Halloween
happens to be one that many evangelical Christians have spoken
out against because of its strong connections to the occult, and
indeed to Satanism. This is to be commended. But this
does not include all Christians.
Many of us
who are Messianic were once part of the conservative Christian
community. It might be more easily said that we are even
more
conservative now, then when we were involved in mainstream
Christianity. Not only do we not celebrate Halloween, but we do
not even celebrate Christmas or Easter. Instead, we keep the
Biblical holidays of Leviticus 23 that our Heavenly Father
ordained for His people.
But why do we
not celebrate Christmas or Easter? Are they not supposed to be
commemorative of the birth of the Messiah and His resurrection?
What is so non-Biblical about His birth or His resurrection?
There is nothing non-Biblical about His birth or resurrection.
Yet perhaps the key for those who do not understand why we do
not celebrate these two seemingly “good” holidays, is a proper
handling as to why we should not celebrate Halloween. Certainly
if our purpose is to be in compliance with God’s Word, then why
do we not celebrate Halloween?
J.K. McKee
(B.A., University of Oklahoma; M.A., Asbury
Theological Seminary) is the editor of TNN
Online (www.tnnonline.net) and is a Messianic
apologist.
He is a 2009 recipient of the Zondervan Biblical
Languages Award for Greek.
He
is author of
numerous books, dealing with a wide range of
topics that are important for today’s
Messianic Believers. He has also written many articles on
theological issues,
and is presently focusing his attention on Messianic commentaries
of various books of the Bible.
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