The choice of the organized church to preserve Halloween as a memorial is the primary reason it exists today. Its purpose seems to be to remind us of those who have gone: martyrs of the faith, & honored loved ones. At derision, commemoration ceased but observation remained - we abandoned heritage and were left with death.
Who now will save us from this death: this bondage of decay we are left to embrace? It is too long to wait for the sky to open, the God-King to return in Glory! His Glory is poured out openly, from the barring of the Garden, to the law that He gave, to the subjugation of the nations one upon another until finally in flesh God Himself was slain - to rise again!
Before the earth was created God chose to delight to save, and these hardships, this death imposed upon us was that the Delight of His Will might be fulfilled: that He might _save_. This is our heritage. This is the story we should tell our children at hallow's eve: That God Himself is who we Hallow, that no demon exists nor hell can stand before our King's glory. It is He who saved us, not we ourselves, and to Him our lives must honour, and every morning to Him our hearts should bow.
~JLB
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