Every October, culture treats Halloween as just another holiday—“a good thing… equal to Christmas, Easter, Valentine’s Day,” as Kathryn Krick noted in a recent livestream message. Stores overflow with decorations, homes light up with eerie displays and schools host costume parties. To the world, “it’s seen as a normal thing… as a fun thing.”
However, as Krick boldly declares, “The truth is, it is not. It is dark. It is evil. It is rooted in darkness. It is rooted in evil.”
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The origins of Halloween reveal just how far it is from the light of Christ. The Celts once believed that on Oct. 31 “the veil between the spiritual world and the earthly world was the thinnest,” allowing “demons and spirits to come from the spiritual world into the natural world.” Out of fear, they dressed as ghosts and witches, “so that they could try to blend in.”
“Even just knowing the origin of it as a believer,” Krick warns, “that should put a distaste in your mouth.” Because any attempt to protect ourselves apart from Jesus—whether through costumes, sage, crystals or dream catchers—“is opening up a door to the enemy.”
These practices, no matter how popular or harmless they appear, are rooted in deception. “The devil uses witches and warlocks as vessels of him… he takes the laws in the spiritual realm that God has set up and he twists them and uses them in his kingdom,” Krick states.
Scripture draws a sharp line between light and darkness. As 1 Thessalonians 5:5 declares, “You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness.” Krick notes, “…we need to be totally full of light.”
For the believer, this means refusing to participate in anything that glorifies darkness, fear or death. “We should never be putting images on our houses, on our bodies and causing people to look at images of fear, darkness and the devil,” she says. “You’re literally being a vessel of the devil when you’re doing those things.”
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Ultimately, Krick’s call is clear: “We are sons of light and sons of day… That must be 365 days of the year.” This Oct. 31, let’s choose light over darkness, truth over deception and Christ over culture.
Prepared by Charisma Media Staff.
