Psalm 18:1 I will love thee, O Lord, my strength.
On Halloween why do kids dress up as super heroes? We put on Christ because we love Him and He is our strength.
2 The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
A buckler is a guy who helps you put on the armor. Why do people love haunted houses on Halloween? Do they think these dead monsters will scare away all their enemies? Jesus is our fortress, He is our High tower, He is the one we will trust to defeat the powers of hell.
3 I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.
Trick or treat is where people impersonate the souls of the dead to receive offerings on their behalf. The superheroes depict Nephilim. Skeletons, and zombies depict the dead. If they dress up as a witch or wizard they are getting offerings on behalf of witches and wizards.
4 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
This is what happens on Halloween. You are compassed about with this, it is a flood of ungodly men.
5 The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.
It is quite sick what you see on this night, it seems hell has been released to surround you with their sorrows. Also it is a snare. Christians don't want to seem holier than thou, do you condemn these kids having fun and getting candy? Some say you should participate, greet the kids with some message from the Lord. I am quite open to this if the Lord would give me a message, but I fear it would simply come across as a bitter Christian telling them they will go to hell. The entire "trick or treat" is an implied threat. Give us candy or we will damage your house in the future. Satan is not stupid, he is not sending kids to your house to hear the gospel. So my feeling on this is you must follow the Lord's leading. If the Lord leads you to greet the kids with the word of God and a prayer, then amen. But if you participate you will be giving offerings to these ones.
6 In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.
To me this is the proper response to Halloween, lift up our prayers to God. You want to make Satan pay the price for this? Call a three hour prayer meeting from 6-9 on Halloween night to lift up our cries to God in the heavens.
7 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.
We are in the image and likeness of God. If we get wroth, then so does He. If something is taking place on earth that makes you wroth, it is under the sovereignty of God and is there for us to make our petitions known to Him and to invite Him to earth to respond. Halloween invites all the demons to earth, so we should meet them pound for pound and invite God to earth on October 30th.
8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it. 9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet. 10 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind. 11 He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
This is not Halloween night, this must be prior to that night. It is scary if you are under his feet. It is scary if you have built your entire life with wood, hay and stubble. This is the second judgement referred to in Noah's time, the judgement by fire.
12 At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.
This sounds like the judgement that fell in the days of Lot.
13 The Lord also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.
Thundered in the heavens, this sounds like the trumpet blast saying here comes the king.
14 Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.
No one is out trick or treating on this night.
15 Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O Lord, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.
The dead in Christ rise first! What a rebuke to all those who rejected the gospel, the mockers and the scoffers.
16 He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.
This is the rapture!
17 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.
If you are a Christian and you don't realize the world hates you then you have been mesmerized and are still asleep. This will wake you up.
18 They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the Lord was my stay.
When you are being tried by the monkey trials they prevent you from defending yourself.
19 He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me. 20 The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me. 21 For I have kept the ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
The Lord knows the truth. The Lord is the judge, not these show trials. The Lord allows those to demonstrate that you have kept the ways of the Lord and you do not wickedly depart like people in the world paying bribes, etc.
22 For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.
Everyone must be tested in this way. If your life is not a clear testimony that this is true then it is a mercy to go through the tribulation where you can clear up any confusion.
23 I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity.
They want to provoke a response. They are like Job's wife telling him to curse God and die.
24 Therefore hath the Lord recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
Repent, confess, pray for forgiveness, apply the blood of Christ to your sins to wash them away.
On Halloween why do kids dress up as super heroes? We put on Christ because we love Him and He is our strength.
2 The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
A buckler is a guy who helps you put on the armor. Why do people love haunted houses on Halloween? Do they think these dead monsters will scare away all their enemies? Jesus is our fortress, He is our High tower, He is the one we will trust to defeat the powers of hell.
3 I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.
Trick or treat is where people impersonate the souls of the dead to receive offerings on their behalf. The superheroes depict Nephilim. Skeletons, and zombies depict the dead. If they dress up as a witch or wizard they are getting offerings on behalf of witches and wizards.
4 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
This is what happens on Halloween. You are compassed about with this, it is a flood of ungodly men.
5 The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.
It is quite sick what you see on this night, it seems hell has been released to surround you with their sorrows. Also it is a snare. Christians don't want to seem holier than thou, do you condemn these kids having fun and getting candy? Some say you should participate, greet the kids with some message from the Lord. I am quite open to this if the Lord would give me a message, but I fear it would simply come across as a bitter Christian telling them they will go to hell. The entire "trick or treat" is an implied threat. Give us candy or we will damage your house in the future. Satan is not stupid, he is not sending kids to your house to hear the gospel. So my feeling on this is you must follow the Lord's leading. If the Lord leads you to greet the kids with the word of God and a prayer, then amen. But if you participate you will be giving offerings to these ones.
6 In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.
To me this is the proper response to Halloween, lift up our prayers to God. You want to make Satan pay the price for this? Call a three hour prayer meeting from 6-9 on Halloween night to lift up our cries to God in the heavens.
7 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.
We are in the image and likeness of God. If we get wroth, then so does He. If something is taking place on earth that makes you wroth, it is under the sovereignty of God and is there for us to make our petitions known to Him and to invite Him to earth to respond. Halloween invites all the demons to earth, so we should meet them pound for pound and invite God to earth on October 30th.
8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it. 9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet. 10 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind. 11 He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
This is not Halloween night, this must be prior to that night. It is scary if you are under his feet. It is scary if you have built your entire life with wood, hay and stubble. This is the second judgement referred to in Noah's time, the judgement by fire.
12 At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.
This sounds like the judgement that fell in the days of Lot.
13 The Lord also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.
Thundered in the heavens, this sounds like the trumpet blast saying here comes the king.
14 Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.
No one is out trick or treating on this night.
15 Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O Lord, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.
The dead in Christ rise first! What a rebuke to all those who rejected the gospel, the mockers and the scoffers.
16 He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.
This is the rapture!
17 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.
If you are a Christian and you don't realize the world hates you then you have been mesmerized and are still asleep. This will wake you up.
18 They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the Lord was my stay.
When you are being tried by the monkey trials they prevent you from defending yourself.
19 He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me. 20 The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me. 21 For I have kept the ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
The Lord knows the truth. The Lord is the judge, not these show trials. The Lord allows those to demonstrate that you have kept the ways of the Lord and you do not wickedly depart like people in the world paying bribes, etc.
22 For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.
Everyone must be tested in this way. If your life is not a clear testimony that this is true then it is a mercy to go through the tribulation where you can clear up any confusion.
23 I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity.
They want to provoke a response. They are like Job's wife telling him to curse God and die.
24 Therefore hath the Lord recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
Repent, confess, pray for forgiveness, apply the blood of Christ to your sins to wash them away.