Redeeming The Time: Halloween

Halloween, when properly understood, is only a pagan festival if the thoughts & intents of its celebrants are directed via their own intentions (James 1:14 - 15) at/toward one or more pagan pseudodeities &/or the demons & the Demonic Realm.   It is, in fact, an extension/outworking of Purim, not merely on the basis that traditions like wearing costumes & the distribution & consumption of candy are outwardly similar, but because there is corresponding quasi-historical/literary rationale for both.  Contrary to the claims of the legalism class, a redemptive-historical administration & observance of All Hallow’s Eve is a great big act of inductive & intuitive prophecy that answers any number of pagan festivals like Samhain & the Day Of the Dead.  Esther provides the rationale for Purim.      The story of Esther takes place during the time of the Jews Exile in the days when Media-Persia ruled an empire that stretched from India to...
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Philippians 3:12 - 14

Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

This Is The Way! 

O LORD, Hear Our Prayer(s)!

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