A priest and a man light candles next to a nativity scene decorated to honor the victims in Gaza and asking for peace, displayed in Manger Square, adjacent to the Church of the Nativity, in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, Friday, Dec. 23, 2023. Bethlehem is having a subdued Christmas after officials in Jesus’ traditional birthplace decided to forgo celebrations due to the Israel-Hamas war. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

The holidays.

Everyone can see it, hear it, know it, even smell it. Demonic evil and wickedness are making its final big assault on human beings, and most willingly, easily comply and bow to The Enemy. Making excuses for what it is they are truly doing.

I’m old enough — this all has transpired in one lifetime, not over yet, as I’m only 72 years old and still alive in this realm, thanks to God — I’m old enough to remember that the demonic, Satanic, pagan holiday known as Halloween was celebrated on ONE NIGHT, not so long ago, as also mentioned below. And it was only celebrated by children. Adults sending their children out to collect bags of candy.

For quite some time now, it hasn’t only been expanding the timeframe. It has been about an insatiable appetite to expand the wickedness, the sin, the evil that demonic celebration is all about, only about. Adults now have hedonistic parties. Orgies. Women, young girls now costume themselves as wanton sexual pleasure beings.

Sex is great. One of the greatest parts of human life. Created by God. To be experienced between a man and a woman, who are also husband and wife. I realize in this age, to write that appears naive, anachronistic, fuddy-duddy. But that’s the way it is if we’re to obey God our Creator. Sex is wonderful, an amazing pleasure — to only be experienced between a man and a woman who also happen to be married. TO EACH OTHER. 

Halloween has become a months long celebration of the demonic, the Satanic, of pure evil, as there is nothing of God, of righteousness in it.

Christmas has been hijacked by Satan, and the people of the world are his willing servants.

Easter is no different. Most churches even have Easter egg hunts now and celebrate what ought to be solely about the Passover and what occurred on the weekend of the LORD’s illegal arrest, trial, and horrific abuse leading up to His being nailed to the tree of shame, to die, to then on the third day walk out of the tomb.

Now churches believe in the Easter bunny, practice the pagan rituals os Ishtar, and push the word of God to secondary attention. Got to make the children happy. Can’t teach them well, correctly now, can we?

Not in these times.

Not in a time such as this.

As wickedness, unrighteousness, lawlessness, sin, and evil increase to levels worldwide heretofore unheard of. Like the days of Noah. Only now, more people everywhere around the world, with technology never before known.

How can anyone, no matter who, no matter what they believe in, or don’t, not see, not hear, not smell the stench of this?

Deluded and loving their delusion.

Loving the lies.

Hating God.

Hating Jesus.

Hating the Holy Spirit.

Hating the inerrant, infallible, unchangeable, eternal, living, and active word of God. So many professing faith but living lives of their own personal interpretations, living within unsound doctrines fed to them by ravenous wolves tickling their itching ears.

Everybody serves somebody. Most serve Satan. Plain and simple, though they adamantly refuse to acknowledge this in their blindness.

As Robert Zimmerman, a.k.a. Bob Dylan, wrote and sang, “Everybody serves somebody, it may be the Lord, it may be the devil, but everybody serves somebody.”

And there are only two altars in this life to bow down to.

Either the altar and throne of God, and His Son, the LORD Jesus Christ. Leading to eternal life. Heaven. With God, with Jesus, with the Holy Spirit, with the prophets, apostles, and all those faithful, obedient souls loving the LORD and living accordingly.

Or the atar of the world, made in the image of Satan. Pleasure and self are packaged and wrapped so invitingly that only leads to the Second Death. Eternal death — though aware. In hell. Forever.

Those are the only two directions, paths, destinations for every person who has ever lived, who is now alive, who is yet to be born.

Read on, listen on…

Ken Pullen, Monday, September 8th, 2025

Bold and Blunt: Halloween in August? Taking back the holidays

GraceAnna Castleberry joins Cheryl Chumley

Friday, September 5, 2025

By Cheryl K. Chumley

Reprinted from The Washington Times

AUDIO

Once upon a time in America, Christmas was celebrated even in public schools as the birth of Jesus, and Halloween was at best a one-day affair — a few cupcakes in class followed by trick-or-treating at night.

Now? Halloween starts in August.

Stores everywhere are hawking their Halloween wares, and meanwhile, Christmas has been downgraded on most public school calendars as “holiday break” or “winter break.”

Christmas is offensive.

Halloween — a time of celebrating demons and spirits and the dead — is embraced.

And even during the Christmas season, it’s easy to fall into the trap of commercialism and forget the real reason for the season.

GraceAnna Castleberry talks about her creation, a devotion and game called “Manger in Danger.” It’s made to counter the popular, and far more secular, “Elf on a Shelf.”

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