During a recent message, Amanda Grace of Ark of Grace Ministries issued a sobering warning about the spiritual roots of Halloween, explaining that the holiday is a mockery of biblical truth and a reverse engineering of God’s Word by the enemy.
“There is a thread within the Word of God that represents putting on a costume or a covering in order to deceive for a blessing,” Grace said. “From the beginning in the Garden of Eden, there was a deception that was perpetrated.”
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She began by tracing this spiritual pattern back to Genesis. When Adam and Eve sinned, “a covering—animal skins—were put over them, having to do with the deception because they could no longer be as their original design. It was a costume. It was a covering.”
Grace explained that the same pattern appears again in the story of Jacob and Esau.
“In Genesis 27:15, Rebekah took her elder son Esau’s best clothes and put them on Jacob,” she said. “The mother dressed up her son in a costume to go out and deceive the father for a blessing.”
Drawing a parallel to Halloween, Grace observed, “Parents are the ones who dress their children predominantly up in costumes, who then send them out in that costume to parade as someone else in order that they may receive a blessing or a treat—which is candy.”
She pointed to other biblical examples, such as Tamar dressing as a prostitute in Genesis 38 to deceive Judah and Rahab covering the Israelite spies to deceive the king of Jericho.
But the most profound spiritual parallel which this trickery is meant to distract from, as Grace points out, is the covering we receive through the blood of Jesus Christ.
“We are under a covering before Almighty God of the blood of Jesus Christ,” Grace declared. “We are covered under the garment of Christ to receive the blessing we did not deserve because we are sinners, and by nature, the human nature is a deceiver.”
Grace warned that Satan cannot create anything original.
“The enemy cannot create,” she said. “He can only take and manipulate what already exists. Halloween and costumes are a gross manipulation of the warning in the Word of God.”
The phrase “trick or treat,” she explained, encapsulates this deception.
“‘Trick’ is the deception,” she noted. “The thread in the Word of God is that deception would bring a treat or blessing. But really, deception brings destruction.”
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Ultimately, she said, Halloween is “a mockery of the Word of God” meant to “worship the deceiver and the father of lies.”
“The enemy has tricked parents and their children into celebrating the deception—the very deception that in the garden, the trick of the serpent, made Eve believe that by eating that fruit she would receive a treat and be like God,” Grace warned.
Halloween may appear harmless, a fun tradition for children, but beneath the costumes and candy lies a deeper deception—a counterfeit of the truths God designed to bring blessing and life. As the enemy twists God’s Word for his own gain, believers are reminded that only through Christ’s covering can we walk in truth and receive the blessings meant for us.
Abby Trivett is a writer and editor for Charisma Media and has a passion for sharing the gospel through the written word. She holds two degrees from Regent University, a B.A. in Communication with a concentration in Journalism and a Master of Arts in Journalism. She is the author of the upcoming book, The Power of Suddenly: Discover How God Can Change Everything in a Moment.
