The Druid celebration of the New Year would begin on October 31st. Their belief system, which had no Scriptural basis, promoted the idea that on the night of October 31st, the "spirits" of all people who had died in the past year, would actually be alive and allowed to come among those who are living, and roam the earth...for this night only.
On October 31st, the Druid Religion thought that on this very night a "mystic veil" that separated those living from those who had died...was opened...for this night only. As a result, the "spirits of the dead" were allowed to roam the earth in order to find a living body to possess and not be sent to the Underworld...namely Hell.
The Celts that were alive on this night were quite frightened of these spirits who roamed the earth, and would masquerade themselves to look similar to what these roaming spirits might have looked like...or at least what they thought they looked like. So, they would disguise themselves as demons, jack-o-lanterns, evil looking faces, ghosts, etc. to convince these "roaming spirits" they were one of them.
The Druids went to the extremes to protect themselves from the roaming spirits that were out to take possession of a living body. Druid practices on this night included vile rituals and the act of human sacrifice. Basically, the night of Samhaim was an attempt to make a terrifying covenant with death...with hell itself...and with the Evil One....namely Satan.
Human sacrifices recorded to this event usually involved the firstborn child being offered as a sacrifice. Then, it was followed by the participants drinking the victim's blood, and partaking of eating their flesh...all of this resulting from fear of not only Death itself...but going to the evil Underworld...Hell ...being totally under the control of the Lord of the Darkness.
Vile rituals included having sexual intercourse openly on this night...including with their own mothers and sisters.
It is apparent to me that if the Druids had a Halloween parade on this night, the Grand Marshall would be "Death".
NOTES
1. It is thought by some the word "Halloween", derived in part from the word "hallow", which means holy and to be honored, was Satan's attempt to take this word from the Lord's Prayer in Matthew 6:9, "...Hallow be Thy Name" and apply this...to himself.
2.Halloween in modern day in the U.S. according to retail sales, is the 2nd highest holiday consumers spend on celebrating this event.
3. Martin Luther posted his "95 thesis"....his objection to the Church's policies in general on Christianity...on October 31st, 1517.
Halloween for me always reminds me of the Sacred Scripture in Hebrews...Hebrews 2:14-15. Here is a Gleaning I have of those two particular verses:
" Since we are His people, children made up of flesh and blood, it would seem logical that our Savior, the Lord Jesus Himself, took on and became flesh and blood like us...in fact...He became one of us!...in order that we might be rescued from Death.
And did He ever!...take on Death!
You see, when Death and Christ Jesus had their "confrontation", Jesus embraced Death...in a stronghold he has yet to forget! Then, Christ simply "manhandled" Death and stripped him of all his power over us.
Christ Jesus took Death...right into Himself...destroyed the Evil One's power through Death, and freed each one of us...every single one of us...who have been cowering through this life...scared to death...of Death."
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