Episode for Monday October 28th 2024 - Halloween: The Pagan Holiday

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Chuck Missler

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🗓️ 28 October 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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The celebration of the pagan festival of Halloween is now a multi-billion dollar merchandiser's market. Fifty percent of Americans will decorate for Halloween (compared to over 80% for Christmas). It is now the third most popular party activity, after the Superbowl and New Year's Eve. This is always a difficult time for Christians, especially those with children. It is also a dangerous time for some, since many of the seemingly "harmless" involvements associated with Halloween can also be "entries" for the occult, and can prove very tragic for the unwary. There is only one true God (Isa 44:6, 8: 46:9). Thus, only one true religion. Scripture declares "all gods of the nations are idols" (Ps 96:5). All false religion and idolatry is by definition involved in demon worship - whether or not the participants recognize it (Acts 26:18). Hence Paul's concern. The spiritual power and reality behind idols involves demons (I Cor 10:20, Ps 106:37). The Bible tells us to shun occultic practices. This series will help you understand the Pagan background to the modern Halloween traditions practiced today. Originally Recorded 1996 First Video Release: 2022 © Koinonia House Inc. 2022

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0:00.0	66-60. Your future lies in 6640. Sixty-six-six-books by 40 authors, and yet we now discover it's an integrated message system from outside our time domain.
0:17.5	Welcome to 6640, the ministry outreach of Koinania House and Koinania Institute.
0:24.6	Today's Bible teacher is Chuck Missler, connecting the Bible to your life and the world around you.
0:31.6	In today's study, Chuck completes his teaching on Halloween.
0:35.6	Session 1, the Pagan Holiday.
0:47.3	Isaiah in many passages says there's only one true God.
0:51.3	Isaiah 44, 6, 8, 46, 9, a lot of passages. Don't have to chase those down right now. But actually there's only one true God. Isaiah 44, 6, 8, 46, 9, a lot of passages. Don't have to chase those down
0:56.0	right now. But actually there's only one true religion. And the scripture in Psalm 696
1:02.0	5 and elsewhere declares that the gods of the nations are idols. And we also elsewhere discover
1:09.0	that the spiritual power and the reality behind the idols
1:13.0	themselves involves demons. Let's take a look at a... Well, first of all, let's turn
1:23.2	to 1 Timothy chapter 4. Paul says to Timothy in his first letter, now the spirit speaketh
1:32.6	expressly that in the latter times, notice that emphasis, in the latter times, some shall
1:38.1	depart from the faith giving heed to seducing spirits and the doctrines of demons. Speaking lies and hypocrisy, giving their
1:50.2	conscience, having their conscience seared with a hot iron, forbidding to marry, commanding
1:55.1	to abstain from certain foods, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving
1:59.8	by them who believe and know the truth."
2:02.9	Doctrines of demons? Strange term. Strange term. Where do you find doctrines of demons?
2:12.9	Well very quickly, go to any Christian, go to any bookstore, not Christian, go to any
2:19.1	secular bookstore. And one of the largest sections in that bookstore, because they're
2:26.0	trying to serve a market, they're going to scratch where people are itching, but one of
2:30.1	the most highest volume turnover areas in a broadly based bookstore is New Age.
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