Notice this from an ex-Satanist that is now a nominal Christian ──
Halloween is devil’s holiday and Christians shouldn’t celebrate it, ex-Satanist turned evangelist saysPublished October 30, 2019Evangelist John Ramirez spent much of his early life with strong ties to the devil--he drank animal blood, conducted sacrifices, was baptized with the devil and got married in a demonic wedding on Halloween. …“I wonder why people celebrate Halloween these days,” the 55-year-old told Fox News. “Because in essence, I know what Halloween is about. I was in witchcraft for 25 years...selling my soul to the devil, I was a general for the devil...as a warlock.”He added: “Have you ever heard a Satanist say, ‘I can't wait for Good Friday to go to church with you?’ So, why would the Christians say, ‘I can't wait for Halloween to say I want to dress up’...It's cheating on God, really.”Ramirez, who grew up in the Bronx, was part of a Satanist church from when he was 8 years old to 35 years old. …Ramirez said he threw away thousands of dollars’ worth of witchcraft materials in the closet -- including human bones, cemetery dirt, etc. -- and “I left one daddy that I could see, to another that I couldn't see.” …“The power of Satan is limited. It's a hoax,” he concluded. “And the power of Jesus is limitless and it brings you to a place of knowing your purpose and destiny of who you really are created to be.”
Certainly, while many are aware of the true origin of Halloween, many are not aware
that the very practice of a person's birthday came from Satanism.
Birthdays are considered one of the three most important holidays to Satan
worshipers. The two others are ── Walpurgis Night and Halloween.
While not all Satanists share the same beliefs, most do celebrate birthdays. And,
those who practice astrology also consider birthdays of great importance.
God’s living word – the Holy Bible – doesn’t actually encourage the celebration of
a person's date of birth. Instead, His word tends to speak in a more negative light of
such a practice (cf. Matthew 14:6-11; Jeremiah 20:14-18).
Yet, despite all of that, the very practice and celebration of what can be called a
birthday celebration was not practiced by early Christians of the Way. Nor has any
true Christian ever celebrated what is now called Halloween.
The first-century Jewish historian, Flavius Josephus, wrote ──
26. Nay, indeed, the law does not permit us to make festivals at the births of our children, and thereby afford occasion of drinking to excess; but it ordains that the very beginning of our education should be immediately directed to sobriety. It also commands us to bring those children up in learning, and to exercise them in the laws, and make them acquainted with the acts of their predecessors, in order to their imitation of them, and that they might be nourished up in the laws from their infancy, and might neither transgress them, nor have any pretense for their ignorance of them. 1
Now… although there is no specific command against the celebration of a person's
birthday within God’s living word, there are astrological implications of the
celebration of birthdays, i.e., pagan practices such as astrology are specifically
prohibited in God’s law.
The LORD our God condemns the practice that is associated with astrology ──
“’ You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels; Let now the astrologers, the
stargazers, And the monthly prognosticators Stand up and save you From what shall
come upon you. 14) Behold, they shall be as stubble, The fire shall burn them; They
shall not deliver themselves From the power of the flame; …’” – Isaiah 47:13, 14.
Astrology is the “interpretation” of an assumed influence the stars (and planets) exert
on human destiny. According to astrology, the sign you were born under, Aquarius,
Pisces, Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, or
Capricorn, impacts your destiny. This is a false belief. The LORD our God forbids
it ──
“’ There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter
pass through the fire, or one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who
interprets omens, or a sorcerer, 11) or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a
spiritist, or one who calls up the dead. 12) For all who do these things are an
abomination to the LORD, and because of these abominations the LORD your God
drives them out from before you.’” – Deuteronomy 18:10-12.
Sadly, like so many practices associated with paganism, the children of Israel desired
to celebrate and follow the abominations of all those other nations. Essentially,
birthdays became celebrated because of the Mother Church’s ── meaning, the
Roman Catholic Church ── compromise with pagan practices, such as Mithraism.
And so, beginning around the fourth century, after paganism was intermingled with
Roman society and the Nativity of the baby Jesus began to be celebrated publicly, some Catholic Romans of the upper classes began to celebrate birthdays. Do you
celebrate birthdays? □
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