Episode for Thursday October 24th 2024 - Halloween: The Pagan Holiday

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Chuck Missler

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🗓️ 24 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.
0:02.0	Your future lies in 6640.
0:07.0	66 books by 40 authors, and yet we now discover it's an integrated message system from outside our time domain.
0:17.0	Welcome to 6640, the Ministry Outreach of Koinania House and Koinnea Institute.
0:25.0	Today's Bible teacher is Chuck Missler, connecting the Bible to your life and the world around you.
0:32.0	In today's study, Chuck begins his teaching on Halloween.
0:36.2	Session 1, the Pagan Holiday.
0:46.8	I think most of us are very sensitive to the fact that we are immersed in a pagan culture.
0:54.6	And it's really rather fascinating to look around us.
0:59.2	In fact, it's a startling discovery.
1:01.5	If you start doing a little bit of homework and discovering that how much of our lives,
1:07.5	the labels to our days of the week, our months, go back to Roman and other pagan
1:13.9	traditions. I think most of us that have done any research at all, of course, know that
1:19.6	Christmas is in fact deeply immersed in all kinds of Babylonian and other pagan traditions.
1:26.6	The Christmas tree itself originated from ancient
1:29.8	tree cults. The term druid may surprise you, originally referred to a priest of the oak
1:37.8	cult. And the custom of kissing someone under the mistletoe can be traced back to druid beliefs that
1:46.1	sexual potency and other things reverence for that plant.
1:51.3	Easter, I think most of us probably realized that Ishtar was one of the goddesses of the
2:00.8	Babylonian religion and the golden egg of the goddesses of the Babylonian religion.
2:03.5	And the golden egg of Astarte was a fertility symbol originated in fertility cults.
2:10.6	And if you understand the symbol of the rabbit as a symbol of fertility, you can understand
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