Sermon Notes of Pastor Mark Downey
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From Jer. 5:23 to the end of the chapter we read, "this people has a stubborn and rebellious heart. They do not say in their heart, 'let us now fear the Lord'. For wicked men are found among my people . They spread nets, they lay traps, they catch men… their houses are full of deceit… they have become great and rich. They are fat, they deal in false evidence… Shall I not punish these people? Declares the Lord… there is a shameful and horrible thing in the country! The preachers preach falsehood, and the priests trick with their hands, and My people love to have it so, what can be done viler than that?"
As I was driving along the other day, in a mid-October autumn with leaves changing color, I passed a church reader board that said, "Pumpkin Party - Oct. 31." It is with a heavy heart that I bring you today's message, removing the mask that Halloween itself wears. I am dumbfounded that our once great Christian nation has become the dark side of the jewnited States of America. All sorts of judeo-Christian churches are trying to put their spin on this one day of the year. Other churches however, reject and avoid Halloween altogether. The latter seems to be the exception rather than the rule. From a secular standpoint it is even worse.
Indifference and defiance towards Almighty God is epidemic. All things sacred and holy are blasphemed continually by an ignorant and processed herd of mind controlled zombies, who have been in the brine of deception for so long that they're pickled to satanic perfection. It is virtually impossible to crack the antichrist nut of Christmas; one would think that we have an easier time tearing down the evil altars and idols of Halloween.
Halloween is not what it used to be when I was a youngster growing up in the 'leave it to Beaver' 50's. It has become progressively darker and viler. Fifty years ago the Ten Commandments were not being removed from government buildings and sodomy was not a protected lifestyle by law. What happens to our race and culture when we let them get away with such things? The things people said, when I was a lad, that could never happen in our country are now happening.
These are strange days because we have allowed the stranger's god to become politically correct. We've been conditioned to accept the Baals and alien religions. In ancient Israel, if an African Negro got within a couple blocks of the temple, they would have been killed. Not in our neighborhood! We are within inches today of reaching a point of no return, when White men have lost all concept of hallowed ground.
I don't think King Boy George was kidding when he said, "You can fool some of the people all of the time and those are the ones that we must concentrate on." There would be no Halloween or any other pagan celebrations in this country if we had Christian leaders who executed God's Law. "But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost; in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ… should shine unto them" (II Cor. 4:3-4). No Christian can serve two masters. If you try to mix Halloween with Christianity, you become double minded or spiritually schizophrenic.
The custom of Halloween is traced back to the Druid festival of the dead, which borrowed from the ancient Baal practices in Babylon. Alexander Hislop in his classic book, The Two Babylons says, "The god whom the Druids worshipped was Baal… they offered human sacrifices… and made their children pass through the fire to Molech… in sacrifice. Further… the priests of Nimrod (who was negro) were prepared to eat of the human sacrifices… thus Cahna-Bal (Cahn means a priest)." Cahn is borrowed from the Canaanite or Canaan. From these we get the word cannibal. By the way, the jewish name Cohen means priest also.
Very seldom will researchers dare make the connection of pagan rituals to the big Halloween book called the Babylonian Talmud. Both satanic pagans and mongrel Edomite jews joined in the rebellion of Nimrod, making war upon the faithful White Christians throughout history.
This celebration of the dead honored the god of the dead. The Druids believed that the spirits of the dead demanded concessions by giving them a type of worship or offering. This is the game that 'tick or treat' plays today. Samhain, the Druid god of the dead, known today as the Grim Reaper, would call together all the wicked souls who had died with the past year. There may be some witch out there that may be reading this message saying, "This guy doesn't know what he's talking about." But I know exactly what you witches are sow-een. "Be not deceived; God is not mocked; for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap" (Gal. 6:7). Speaking of reapers:"The Son of man (Jesus Christ) shall send forth His messengers, and they shall gather out of His Kingdom all things that offended and them which do iniquity. And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth" (Mt. 13 parable of the wheat and tares).
The catholics in their usual style of changing the names of something to protect the guilty, tried to replace paganism with All Saints Day as a substitute, but to no avail. Although the external forms of pagan worship disappeared, the belief in these deities did not, finding expression during the Middle Ages in the open practice of witchcraft, which is presently enjoying a revival in Europe and here in the USA. There's even a revised Christian Identity book that has Stonehenge on its cover. It's a place where neo-pagans venerate the ancient sacrifices; where over 900 skeletal remains have been discovered in and around Stonehenge.
One of the basic tenets of witchcraft is to control the will of another by the use of fear. Halloween was banned in the US until 1845, when the poor superstitious Irish escaped the Potato Famine in Ireland and brought the Druid holiday with them. Something once forbidden has now insidiously become part of our culture. But, "God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind" (II Tim 1:7). We are promised that "perfect love casteth out fear" (I John 4:18). What is perfect love? It is keeping and executing the letter and spirit of God's commandments.
There are no socially redeeming values to Halloween. All the trappings surrounding it are to honor false gods. You cannot honor the high holy day of the pagan occult without this one thing. The singular feature of Halloween is the witch, symbolic of rebellion towards God, gross immorality and the depths of sin. And what is God's perfect love for such a person? Exodus 22:18 says, "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live." If they are allowed to live, then there really isn't much love for those who would be destroyed by them. Much like our society's reluctance to obey God's Law concerning the homosexual and their deathly spread of disease.
Even in the military, a practicing witch won permission to take Halloween and seven other days off as 'religious holidays'. Witches and Satanists have a perfect love for Halloween. They get lots of jewsmedia coverage around this time of year. It's good PR. TV shows portray them favorably. It generates interest in 'the craft' and is good for recruiting impressionable teeny boppers. Let's face it, witchcraft is coming out of the broom closet. They just want to be accepted as your good Aquarian neighbors. They want their beliefs recognized as a legitimate religion.
It's basically a program of The Protocols, which is most diabolical behind the mask. A holiday with such occult influence is the shocking and shameful evidence that our Beulah land has become bewitched by spirits of darkness. One of the witch's brew now being planned is an interactive Halloween ritual on the internet and will be teaching Wiccan ceremony, how to make an altar, how to cast spells and other such abominations. The interest in witchcraft has never been higher with the first two Harry Potter movies grossing over two billion dollars. In the G-rated animated movie "Fantasia" there's a nice sorcerer named "Yensid", which is Disney spelled backwards. Teen slut Britney Spears recently appeared on MTV wearing a tank top with the words "page six six six."
The non-stop subliminal witchcraft is accelerating because the spineless, effeminate perverts behind the church pulpits of America know nothing about the enemies of God and how to identify them, how to fight them and how to rid them from the land. God views witches, wizards, sorcerers, devil worshippers, magicians, astrologers et al as evil. The Bible says, "Ye that love the Lord, hate evil" (Ps. 97:10). Hate the damn witches, don't fear them. The antichrist will portray our view as intolerant, akin to racism or homophobia and to that element of our society I say, "Get used to it, we're marching forward." Remember Slick Willie saying, "We will not tolerate intolerance"? Well, we see through your mask of hypocrisy.
"When you enter the country which the Lord thy God has given you (like America) you shall not learn to imitate the depravities of those heathen" (Deut. 18:9). Indeed, early White Christian Americans did not succumb to pagan abominations, because they love their God and their own kind. They clearly understood I Thes. 5:22, "abstain from all appearance of evil." "And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them (and that's just what I'm doing). For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret" (Eph. 5:11-12). That's why I haven't gotten into any great detail about pagan practices. Suffice it to say this anecdote about a 4th grade teacher who did a poll of her nine year olds on what they would like to do most to celebrate Halloween. 80% of these children expressed the wish to 'kill somebody'. Where do young fragile minds get such ideas? Do they get it from Christian Identity 'hate groups'? They've probably never heard of us. The answer is simple. Halloween is inculcated in our youth at a very early stage in life, whereby the annual event grants deference to mutilation, blood, guts and gore. The repulsive becomes fun. Fun for the unsuspecting, gullible and mischievous that is. It breaks down the inhibitions and reservations towards cold blooded murder and malicious violence.
We have a new department of Homeland Security to wage a war on terrorism and yet we have a national pagan holiday on the calendar which glorifies terror. Incredibly, we still hear professing Christians proclaim, "Dressing up the kids in costumes, playing trick or treat, carving jack-o-lanterns, displaying ghosts and skeletons doesn't mean anything pagan or occultic to me." With this kind of attitude they should be able to drink rat poison because they choose not to believe it would lead to a quick demise. Why then, do they think they can avoid spiritual harm by ignoring God's spiritual warnings?
"You adulterous people, don't you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God" (James 4:4-5). I hate the sins of Halloween and I hate the sinners that rationalize it. The evil architects and promoters of this holiday deliberately make light jest of their own misconduct and God's Law at the same time, and give others the impression that they're just fun loving folks. However, when the mask is removed, they are God's enemies, deserving of His judgment.
This is one night of the year that law enforcement dreads more than any other. Merry pranksters run interference for more serious crimes. When men forget God, God forgets them. We're familiar with Hosea 4:6, "My people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge", but rarely do we heed the rest of the verse, "seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children." Halloween is a time for predators of children. The dirty little secret as to why jews have been purged from dozens of nations over the span of centuries is because of kidnapping and child ritual murder. It's what jews call "the blood libel". However, there's a preponderance of documentation dealing with occult blood sacrifices and jewish complicity.
The word occult comes from the Latin meaning secret, hidden or esoteric (understood only by a small private group) knowledge or practices. The Bible says, "there is nothing hid, which shall not be manifested; neither was any thing kept secret, but that it should come to light" (Mark 4:22). Ironically, WalMart sells a book called "Halloween: Behind the Mask (what every Christian parent should know)." But, it's not in the section that sells masks and costumes or bags of Halloween sugar.
So, men and brethren, what are we to do? Have some sort of Christian counterpart to Halloween on October 31? I don't think so. Forget the parties. Withdraw from the trappings. Treat it as just another day. Turn off your porch light so little demons don't come knocking on you door. You might want to make a mental note of which neighbors and businesses decorate in the orange/black. This is to identify those who are hooked on the satanic and whether inadvertently or intentionally are aiding and abetting the antichrist enemies of America. Christ's command is to "come out from among them, and be ye separate… and touch not the unclean thing" (II Cor. 6:17). Your home and your church should be hallowed ground for blessings, not a breeding ground for curses. It is your duty to discriminate and to be intolerant. I implore every true Christian to knuckle down in imprecatory and then rise up in a quickening of judgment.
In Corinth, meat was sold that had been sacrificed to idols and Paul said in I Cor. 10:23 that "everything is permissible". After all, he didn't believe the pagan gods really existed. Some judeos argue that Christians can dress up in costumes and just have a 'pumpkin party', because we belong to Christ and don't really emulate the traditions of the ancient Celts. But Paul didn't stop on his dissertation of freedom and liberty to do things. He added, "Not everything is beneficial" or edifying. In this light we need to discern the fruits of Halloween.
What may not hurt us may hurt others. What we do should not become a stumbling block to the weak, the blind or the vulnerable, such as children or anybody else that isn't mature enough in Jesus Christ or has not put on the whole armor of God (Ephesians 6). We are God's battle ax and weapons of war, not the Grim Reaper's sickle and temptations of the world. With us will God break in pieces the world of the occult paganism and with us will He destroy the kingdoms of darkness.
Meat is just meat and a pumpkin is just a pumpkin. The problem is turning something good into something evil and calling something evil good. Let us now fear the Lord our God and nothing else. To hell with Halloween.