"The Halloween Deception" RESCUE RADIO with Marjorie Cole

0:24 Rescue radio, because there's a war for your soul. Yes, Father God, indeed, the war is ongoing and ferocious and deep and multifaceted, Lord, but you are God and you are in control of all things. So we praise you and thank you, and we declare that your kingdom come. Your righteousness, your will be done on earth, in and through your people, as it's being done and declared in heaven, that your people will repent and turn towards you and embrace the truth of the revelation of your love and your freedom. And I thank you, Jesus, for dying on the cross for us. You defeated the enemy. You drove the stake in his heart with the cross. You defeated him, hell and death. And you resurrected and brought back to life our hope, our salvation, our destiny, our purpose.

1:10 You've redeemed us out of the grip of the terrible one. And thank you for giving us power over all the power of the enemy that nothing shall by any means hurt us, reminding us that we do not have to walk in fear or in homage to the enemy. Father God, I pray that today you'd give us eyes to see and ears to hear and a heart to turn from our wicked ways if we have that being exposed in us by the Holy Spirit to turn from those practices and things that are not only an abomination but incredibly destructive in our own personal lives. I thank you, Lord, for giving us truth through your word. I thank you that your word is wisdom and counsel. I thank you for divine protection, especially at this season, this time of the year when the enemy is out in full force to romance those who are and seduce those who are intrigued by evil, evil, Father God.

2:01 I pray that you'd protect your people, all of your people, that they will know the truth and walk in freedom and that no witchcraft, no curses, no words, no ploys of the enemy will be able to bring forth any shame, trouble, or reproach in the lives of your people, our people, and that there will be protection over us, over the work of our hands, the fruit of our labors are coming and going, that we will be walking in the safety and the protection and provision of the Most High God. Amen. Amen, amen, amen. Hey, hey, hey, we got to talk about Halloween. Well, Halloween is approaching. It is right on top of us. As a matter of fact, by the end of this week, you'll have gone through it. Been on top of us for a while. But you know, for the believer in Jesus Christ, there is absolutely nothing, nothing, no argument you can make, no rationalizing to justify participation in this very obviously demonic celebration or festival.

2:55 You know, if you go back to looking at the beginning, the origins of something, you can tell, you know, from the root, you can get the fruit pretty much figured out. And so the Celtics were, you know, the Irish and the Scottish back in the day. They had this festival called Soeene, which was, you know, operated or celebrated on the last day of summer, which was October 31st for them. And then November 1st was the first day of their new year. And so they had all kinds of superstitions and festivals and situations where they had to kind of secure the new year, get safely through the winter. So they were doing a lot of these witchcraft practices, making deals with the devil, so to speak, to secure their winter safety and also celebrate the harvest.

3:42 And so the belief was that this was the time of year when the. Spirit world is manifested more often. The line between the world of the earth and the world of the spirits and the departed dead was very close together. Yeah, that's absolutely correct. They believed that these ghosts of the dead would return onto the earth on that night, and so they were protecting themselves from that and also placating and trying to get through this treacherous time. So, it was really a festival, if you can call it a festival.

4:22 Celebrating, if you can really celebrate, fear and human death. And, of course, the brokers of this festival were the Druids, the Celtic priests, who would set up various activities, including bonfires, and they'd all encourage people to wear costumes to hide themselves from the ghosts or whatever, and ward off those ghosts. Well, so, you know, if you're talking about the Druids, the Druids were like, they were the priests, they were the judges, they were the philosophers, they were the religious leaders. The mediators. They were quite wealthy people, and they were the ones who basically, they had the power to put curses on people if they were not part of the festival rules.

5:09 They could make you— Or throughout the whole year. I mean, really, they had the power. They could make you a social outcast if you were not involved in their particular philosophies, trends, religions, sacrifices. They were involved, too, at times with human sacrifice. But they were people that had power. Yeah, given to them. Power over the people. Yeah, and so the people were afraid of them. And so at this time of the year now, we're coming into the place of it's—. Time to know what you have in store for the winter. Do you have enough potatoes? Do you have enough squash and turnips? And because the Druids were basically not farmers and not peasants, they didn't feel they could, you know, lower themselves to that.

5:53 They didn't have to pay taxes. They didn't have a store. Yeah. They didn't have to be in the military. They were the religious elite of the day. And so they were honored and they also were lazy. And so the peasants worked to get their crops gathered about this time of the year. And so the Druids are looking around and their shells are pretty much bare. So I think one of the main activities of the Druids was to put a threat or intimidate the peasants by threatening to put curses on them, tricks on them, if they didn't treat them with abundant sharing of their vegetables. So this was really a kind of an in-gathering through this intimidation the Druids would.

6:35 Get trick or treat is actually where that got started. You know, either you treat me or I'm going to put a curse on you is basically what they're saying. Another part of this, too, is that the people would set out food and stuff outside the villages, outside their little farms or garden plots, supposedly to pacify the spirit. Yeah. And you see that in many countries of the world today. You see it in India where people set out food. Yeah, a lot of superstitions. For their gods. Yeah. It's really a confusion and foolishness on how we deal with the dead. And because people are kind of, there's a lot of mystery around where do they go and what happens to the dead and where are my dead relatives?

7:19 Satan uses all of that curiosity and concern to bring them to places of doing things that are contrary to what God says. And the Druids taught and believed that if once a person dies, their soul goes to another person. To another person? Yeah. Their soul goes from one body, one person to another. Well, that's kind of actually partially true because a lot of times when people die, the spirit or the demons actually— Familiar spirit. The familiar spirits of their dead relatives will try to find someone else to go into that is most familiar or similar to the one or closest to the one who passed away, someone who's still alive. And so a lot of times you'll notice if you ask the question, when did this thing get worse, whatever this thing is that you're working to get rid of?

8:05 It usually goes back to a place where there was a death in the family, a death of a near-loved one, and that spirit is trying to get into you and take up residence in you. And you say, well, wow, that's pretty crazy, and that can't happen because I'm a believer. Well, anything can happen. Just because you're a believer doesn't make you immune to what Satan is doing, especially if you're ignorant of it. So that's why God gave us power to resist the devil. But anyway, back to the Catholics. Back in those days, the Catholics were incorporating some of their festivals into kind of merging these together, the Halloween with the All Saints, All Souls Day, November 1st. And that was kind of their way of honoring the dead, honoring the dead saints and their spirits and their memories and things.

8:49 And so, yeah, so there was a lot of this pagan incorporation with the activities, the costumes, even bobbing for apples. All these things go back—that was a way of divination back in the day—. To incorporate fear and promote paganism. Paganism is not a new thing. It's a very old thing. And there's nothing, you know, it's really an outburst of what God forbade, forbid the people to do in the books of Leviticus, for example, and Deuteronomy. And what had happened is in the beginning when God said, thou shalt have no other gods before me, Satan kept creeping in with his fear and superstitions and tricks and promotions and seductions to draw the people away from God and from worshiping the one true God.

9:39 And so all of the nations, except for Israel at that time that was following Abraham and Moses, that the people were brought back constantly into this place of superstition and fear. Idolatry, paganism, placating the demons, making deals with the devil. And so, yeah, go ahead, Jerry. Yeah, in Deuteronomy 18, beginning with verse 9, God says to the people of Israel, when you come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominations of those nations. An abomination is something very detestable to God. Mm-hmm. There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, that would be human sacrifices, or one who practices witchcraft or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens or a sorcerer.

10:32 We could say a sorcerer now is part of the sorcery thing is being a drug dealer. But anyway. It's just true. Or one who conjures spells or a medium or a spiritist or one who calls up the dead. Those would be like psychics and things like that. For all who do these things are an abomination to the Lord. And because of these abominations, the Lord your God drives them out from before you. You shall be blameless before the Lord your God for these nations which you will dispossess. Listen to soothsayers and diviners. But as for you, the Lord your God has not appointed you for such.

11:13 Right. So it's idolatry. It's placating, conversing with, seeking the counsel of the devil and his demons. And this is idolatry. It's also adultery because your loyalties towards the Lord God are being compromised. But anyway, so in the past, it was about participating, creating this as a day of celebration to celebrate fear and horror and human death and famine and darkness and human sacrifices and things made offered to demons. We do not understand how important this day is to Satan. This is a day of in-gathering for him. People who participate naively in all, whatever you do to participate in anything is in agreement with that thing.

12:01 Whether you're dressing up in costumes, going trick-or-treating, having a Halloween party, you know, decorating your house with these kinds of things or your lawn, all of these things are acts of agreement with the spirits behind this, which are death and darkness and demons. Let's look at some of the specifics here. What about the origin of the jack-o'-lantern, what we call the jack-o'-lantern? In Ireland, Scotland, there was a tradition of a man named Stingy Jack. All right. He played, he's a guy who supposedly played tricks on the devil, and when he died, he, He was not led into heaven. He was not into hell, but he was destined to kind of roam the earth.

12:45 And all the devil gave him was a coal, just a piece of coal. And apparently what supposedly this guy did is he lit the coal, and he made kind of a lantern out of a turnip, carved out a turnip, and put that coal in there. And he is that burning coal. And he has, the tradition is that he has roamed the earth ever since. Well, the only thing that roams the earth, the only thing that ever roams the earth and doesn't go heaven or hell to heaven or hell are the demonic spirits. And so they have all kinds of fables, fantasies, and fairy tales that they hook people in. How could you ever believe this?

13:25 How could you even ascribe to this foolishness and with a sound of mind? It's myth and fable. And mystery. And mystery and it's all superstition is a big word superstition and it's all based on fear and death absolutely contact with demons yeah and and so and they they made what we later on they made, You know, pumpkins were more readily available than turnips, so they made these gross faces on these pumpkins, supposedly to scare off those spirits. And I think what they— Supposedly to scare off Stingy Jack and whatever— Demons. Spirits. Demons were roaming around. You know, it's all based on fear and fear and more fear.

14:10 And, you know, with the massive effort of the enemy on the part of hell to really draw in the naive, the unsuspecting, and I call them the fringe believers, who join in these satanic festivals. Parties, dress up, under the guise of fun or fantasy or harmless activities. People, especially children, are being introduced to these demonic activities like it's great, it's full of fun and sweet treats. And so what Satan is really doing, he's seeing that dark, wicked, cold, terrifying experiences that the early peasants had in the Irish and Scottish communities. He's reintroducing that pagan ritual of fear and death, but he's guising it.

14:53 Again, what she does, he's doing a makeover, you know, and we dress up our pets in Halloween costumes. I guess I hear there's $700 million worth of money. Of costumes purchased for pets. This year. Yeah, it was, I don't know, this year or last year. Yeah, well, this is what. $700 million. On pet costumes for Halloween. So it's a moneymaker as well. And another thing, too, is you just see houses decorated. You never used to see houses decorated for Halloween. But there's, you go by, you know, we used to go look at the Christmas lights, when I was a kid in different towns looking. And now you can go see the Halloween lights, the oranges and whatever.

15:37 But people don't realize this now eat naive, and it is not harmless. It is not harmless. It is very dangerous because when you're entering into this kind of an agreement, you're opening up your family, the doors of your home, your finances, your life, your health. You're opening up everything to the dark side. And you know what? A lot of people just don't get it because they think, well, it is calling on evil spirits. In the early days, it was for fertility and fruitfulness of harvest and protection. And they were making deals with the devil. And today, we are also continuing to make deals with the devil. Every time you listen to fear or submit to fear or, oh, no, or what if, and it's up to me, and that's the basic line under witchcraft, it's up to me, I got to do it myself.

16:24 So anytime you submit to those ideas which come through your mind put there by the enemy who tempts you, you are entering into a temptation to make a deal to look to the devil for help, protection, and use his resources properly. You know, you can't make a deal with the devil ever and win. You cannot because he's treacherous, deceptive, and he's a liar. And people just don't get the danger of all of these things. Oh, you make too much of the devil. Oh, he's nothing. And he makes himself look fun, fantastic, intriguing, alluring, because he's working with our enchantments.

17:07 We've already been, for the most part, enchanted by the God of this world and are sleeping. And so this is just another way he pulls us into more agreement with him, unsuspectingly. Again, looking at some of the roots, there's different pagan roots for the trick-or-treating practice. There was a group called the Mummers. It was called Mumming, M-U-M-M-I-N-G. And what would happen right before the day of Samhain, back in the day, people would come dress up in costumes and go door to door and sing songs to the dead. So actually what they're doing is singing to a familiar spirit. Calling the dead. Singing, yeah, singing to the demons.

17:50 And then they say, okay, we'll come to your house with a costume. We'll sing to the dead. you're honoring your dead relatives. And we're going to sing songs. And then they would play pranks on them if they didn't get the food. Or the treat. Or the treat. And then they would blame the pranks and the tricks on the fairies. Now fairies, how much? Fairy gardens and fairy tales. How much have we got? We got fairy tales. Fairies were demon spirits that they, you know. They took a different form. They worshipped a different form.

18:31 Gremlins, leprechauns, all of these things, gargoyles. They're all of the same class. They're all of the dark side. And another thing, too, is what they would do is they would have dumb suppers. Where nobody's, people would eat their meal in silence in order to honor the dead. They were focusing on the dead spirits. So basically, they're opening themselves up to familiar spirits. Inviting, yeah. They're inviting familiar spirits. To come into their. To come into their lives, into their families. Well, this, and you know what? Satan is using grief and sorrow and loss. You love your loved ones. You want to see what they're doing, where they're at. You know, the Bible says, it is appointed to man once to die and then the judgment and absent from the body present with the Lord.

19:17 The true body, soul, and spirit of your loved one is if they've loved the Lord, they're with the Lord, and they're not going to come back here. And these ghosts that we try to protect ourselves from are the apparitions of demon spirits. When Jesus was walking on the water, for example, the disciples, they knew about all this stuff. They say, it's a ghost. And Jesus said, no, it's not a ghost, it's me. And so they had these kinds of thoughts and fears as well. So this is a human fear. Where did my people go? And how do I honor them? And how do I reconnect with them? And will I ever see them again? The only way you're going to see them again is to live for God and get to heaven and meet them there.

19:59 So anyway, and I think, too, the trick-or-treating thing, not only the mummers, but also the people who, like I said earlier, the peasants, I should say, which were pagans as well and fearful. Were forced to give up their vegetables to the druids, or the druids would put curses on them. So it's trick or treat. You give me the treat, or I'll put this curse on you. And people don't, these are the transactions we're making with the devil all the time. Some of them are really obvious, and some are very subtle. But whenever you listen to the liar, you're making a deal, you're using his solutions to the problem, and you're using his power to solve the problem, you are entering into, you know, coming under his control.

20:41 Because if you buy your electricity from that power company, you're going to have to pay the bill to that power company, and that would be the devil. So Halloween is just another part of Satan's effort to saturate society with his lies. And you just think of, not to get off on a major tangent here or anything, but you think of children's books. Sometime, I don't know if you've been to an elementary school book fair lately. But probably 80% of it is... Spells, superstition, witchcraft. Well, you know, even talking about books, how about the children's fairy tales, you know, Grimm's fairy tales. Grimm's fairy tales. How about Mother Goose? How about Aesop's Fables?

21:23 They're all, if you read them, if you read those to your children. How about Disney? Yeah. They've been saturating with witchcraft and spells for... Yeah, yeah, yeah, we know. And so if you're exposing your children to these things, how are you raising them up in the fear and admonition of the Lord when you expose them to all these things? And not show them that this is contrary to God? Okay, I'm going to throw you a very practical question here. Okay. All right? So, here you have, you know, Krishna, kids, Christian families, and the kids are thinking, okay, we're not going to participate in Halloween, but all these kids are going trick-or-treat and they're getting candy and they're having fun and they're having parties and everything like that.

22:07 What do we get to do? You know what I'm saying? So what has happened with a lot of churches, they have, for example, Easter egg hunts, which is a pagan festival. We're celebrating that in many, many churches. What does that have to do with the resurrection of Jesus Christ? And also, you know, Halloween costumes. Well, it's dressed up in Bible character costumes. Or saints. I'm as Elijah or, you know, Mary, the mother of Jesus or something. How do we, what's a good way to deal with this? Because the pressure's on. You know, the little kids think, oh, they're in, you know, a Christian kid, they're in a public school and all the Halloween stuff going on.

22:48 Their friends are going out trick-or-treating. Yeah, it's very much celebrated. It's not forbidden like Christmases or Christ— Talk about that. How should parents handle that? Well, there's no ban on Merry Christmas. I mean, there is a ban on Merry Christmas, but there's no ban on Happy Halloween. How should we deal with it? Well, I think sit down and read some of the Bible to the children and say, this is what God says and this is what happens. As a matter of fact, you know, and even these substituting harvest festivals, you can have a Thanksgiving festival. I think that's a good idea. It's called Thanksgiving. And you can praise God for the abundant harvest, for His faithfulness throughout the year. You can teach them how to rejoice in the Lord. But in Leviticus, we know there's some scary scriptures in there that talk about things that God hates that are abundant. Why does He hate them?

23:34 Is He a killjoy? No, because these are so dangerous for His children. He says, you shall not, in Leviticus 19, 26, starting there, you shall not eat anything with blood, nor shall you practice divination or sussing. Even eating things, blood is sacred. The life of the flesh is in the blood. That's why God did not allow them to eat the blood of the meat, even, that they were using for food. And he says in chapter 20, verse 6, he says of Leviticus, he says, And the person who turns after mediums or goes in or looks towards or consults, turns after mediums and familiar spirits to prostitute himself with them, I will set my face against that person and cut him off from his people.

24:25 Sanctify yourselves, therefore, and be holy, for I, the Lord, get your God, am holy. So all of this stuff is unholy and prostitute. God sees it as prostitution. He sees it as betrayal. He sees it as going after another woman, so to speak. And that other woman is the powers offered by Satan to circumvent seeking God and holiness. He's giving us a shortcut to getting our needs met, which he always does, and then he catches us in the end. He says in verse 26, You shall be holy to me, for I, the Lord, am holy, and I have separated you from the peoples, or you could say from the pagans, that you should be mine. A man or a woman who is a medium, or that means a go-between between the dead and the living, a spiritist or a psychic or a fortune teller, all who have or who has a familiar spirit or who has familiar spirits shall surely be put to death, and they shall stone them with stones, their blood shall be upon them. In other words, you can kill them without being guilty.

25:31 So God was wanting to rid the land of, and he had to be aware that his people were the only people who did not practice all of these occultic traditions. And all the occult, which means hidden knowledge, which of course is coming from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, all occultic practices are hidden, and they draw people in through need, through curiosity, through desiring an answer to some issue or some problem. And so there's the prostitution, the pollution of this nation, of this earth is beyond calculating. We cannot be holy for I'm holy. Where's holiness?

26:15 Where's holiness? We talk about making ourselves great again and all these things and draining the swamp. But the swamp is something that is so incredibly deep, it goes back to Lucifer. And Lucifer is still the head honcho in the swamp. And the only way the swamp is going to be drained is if the people of God will truly follow the Lord God and become holy and disdain and hold back and cleanse themselves. Speaking of cleansing, there's a lot of things in our houses, in our lives that we wear, that we participate in, that we put on our shelves, that we don't understand are also accursed objects that participate in and allow the enemy access into our lives. So that's why we need not only to not celebrate some of these horrible, vile things.

26:59 Unholy days, but we also need to cleanse our houses from things that will attract, say, and I call them landing strips for the devil. You bring in these accursed objects. You don't know they're accursed, and the enemy, the demon, comes in and says, oh, there's something I can sit on. So he sits on it for a while and waits until he can set up calamity or chaos or conflict in your living room or cause a fight or cause the house to burn down or whatever he wants to do. So, you know, be aware that there is a battle between the clean and the unclean, the holy and the unholy. And I just want to kind of share this very powerful story in 2 Kings chapter 23, where a young king named Josiah, who had come from a long line of very idolatrous, wicked kings, he was the grandson, the great-grandson of some of the most vile and bloody kings who practiced all of the things against God that they weren't supposed to.

27:54 But when he came to power, he was young, but in his 18th year, so he's probably in his, I don't know, maybe mid-20s, early 30s, I suppose, when he got to this place, maybe mid-30s. They found the book of the law hidden in the temple. One of the priests brought it to him and showed it to him, and he was so shocked with what had happened and how they had degenerated. He tore his garments, and God said, I see that. You're upset with this, and that made God... So the king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the Lord to follow the Lord and keep his commandments and testimonies. This is 2 Kings 23.3. And then we go on into hearing what he did.

28:35 So he told the people, he says, Bring out of the temple of the Lord all the articles that were made for Baal, or Baal, for Ashtaroth, and for all the hosts of heaven, and burn them outside Jerusalem in the fields, and carry their ashes to Bethel. They removed the idolatrous priests, who the other kings had put in ordained, who burned incense on the high places, which were always idolatrous places, in the cities around Jerusalem to burn incense to Baal, to the sun, the moon, the constellations, and the hosts of heaven. He brought out the wooden images from the house of the Lord right there, Where the Ark of the Tabernacle, the Ark of the Covenant was, they have wood. Right there in church. Right. They have wood. They have this wooden image. They have, they burned incense to this thing. He ground up those ashes.

29:22 And the women, he tore down the ritual booths where perverted persons were in the house of the Lord, where the women were weaving tapestries for the wooden idols. And he brought, this is how involved, it's right in the temple. These people have their booths. They're weaving vile things to the devil. And he defiled the high places where the priests had burned the incense. He broke down the high places and he cleansed. And there was a place called the Valley of Hinnom where they would offer their children. The degeneration had happened to the point where the children of Israel, their kids, were offering their sons for the salvation of their souls.

30:03 They were burning them, killing them to make restitution or make a petition for the sin of their souls. Can you believe how vile, perverted, perverted means twisted, this had degenerated to in that the people of God are doing this? And you know what? Right after him, right after Josiah, God says, I'll keep it okay as long as you're alive, but when after you are dead, I'm going to pull down this thing. And exactly that happened after Josiah died. His sons, a couple of them tried to take over and reign. One was taken off into captivity in Babylon. The other one was killed. And the Babylonians came after them. And, you know, that's where they got locked up in the captivity.

30:46 And some of them, you know, I mean, they never got back home. Well, yeah, it was a thorough reformation. Well, God had to allow the enemy to take them away because they had agreed with him. Right, but what Josiah was doing, he was seeing all these things. Pagan practices, and he was playing hardball with it. He said, you know, this has got to go. This has got to go. And the thing is, too, we talk about draining the swamp. Marjorie, the swamp is inside us. That's true enough. The swamp is within us. And so all of this, this— That's what needs to be drained by the grace and power of Jesus. Yeah. This Josiah event, which is in 2 Kings 23. Happened before or in congruent activity with the pagans who were over in the other parts of the world didn't have the gospel, didn't have the commandments, didn't have the revelation of God, were practicing all this witchcraft and Halloween things.

31:41 And so, really, people, I'm serious. For the sake of your safety, your own eternal salvation, your children, your reform, repent, confess the sin as I have been sucked into the lies of the enemy, take and cleanse your house, Cleanse your mind. Do not, for the sake of your own soul, for the sake of your children, for the sake of your death. You know, wonder why your children are rebellious and go do drugs and create crazy things. Because we have taught them from little on, reading those fairy tales, those horrible stories, not teaching them faith and love in Jesus, but all this other wicked stuff. That's why we have the enemy carrying them away, breaking our lives, breaking our health.

32:24 And yet, we don't go to the root of it. the root of it is where we came into an agreement with something that looks so fun and so innocent. Not saying Halloween is the only way we make an agreement with the devil, but it is one pretty obvious way. Ephesians 5, verse 8, Paul is writing to believers in the city of Ephesus, which was a strongly pagan community. He says, For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light, for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth, finding out what is acceptable to the Lord. That means finding out what is unacceptable to the Lord as well. And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.

33:09 King James says, Reprove them, for it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret. Right. But all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light, for whatever makes manifest is light. Therefore, he says, awake you who sleep, arise from the dead, and Christ will give you life. So if you have these problems going on in your life, in your health, your children. They're rebellious. Well, rebellion is one of the characteristics of witchcraft. Rebelling against God. So all of these things have a root. And if you're serious about following God and cleansing your lives, this might be a very first place to start. One place we see this happening is in Acts chapter 19, beginning with verse 18, and many who had believed came confessing and telling their deeds.

33:57 And many of those who had practiced magic brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all, and they counted up the value of them, and it totaled 50,000 pieces of silver. So the word of the Lord grew mightily and prevailed. It's estimated that people in the United States this year will spend $13.1 billion on Halloween. Forgive us, Lord God, for these abominations. And so it's time. Father, forgive us. Start with us. Yes, yes, cleanse us. To make that reference. Holy Spirit, point out. Point out. Cleanse our lives. Yes. Cleanse our hearts. Cleanse our homes. Point out to us, Lord God, where we need to cleanse our houses, our hearts, our lives, and cut off these activities that have allowed Satan such free access into every part of us, Lord God.

34:49 Forgive us, Lord. And we also forgive the people, the fringe believers who don't know, haven't been taught, whatever, mistaught. We forgive them for inviting these demon spirits into their homes, into their lives, into their children, into their families, into their hearts and bodies. We forgive them, Father. We forgive this nation for following demons and for rejecting the counsel of the one true God. We forgive them, Lord, and we ask now that you, through this repentance and confession, that you would have mercy upon us before we go into captivity. That you would cleanse us, Lord God, especially individuals who are kind of on the fringe, that you would reveal yourself to them, that you are a God of goodness and righteousness, peace, truth, and love.

35:34 And this is not something that is promoted at all by your holiness. Forgive us, Lord God, and cause us to change, turn around, repent, and come back to you, Father God, before it is too late, like Josiah did. And Lord, help us. This is so bad. This is so evil. If you don't help us see it, Lord God, we will be swallowed up by this vile, vile work of darkness, Father. Forgive our people who've gone before us, who've practiced also these Halloween traditions and participate in these things. Forgive us, Lord God. Cleanse us, Lord, and cause these things to deceive them for what they really are, vile abominations to the holiness of God. Thank you, Lord.

36:19 Amen. Amen. Well, we have a couple of things we want to offer you today in terms of books, spiritual warfare, and how deliverance can change your life. Yeah. It's a very good expose on demons, darkness, territorial spirits, deliverance. And even, you know, wholehearted believers need deliverance. Absolutely. Sometimes we think deliverance is for those that have just given themselves over to every form of wickedness possible, and they need to get the demons out. Well, it's the same thing. Deliverance is for everybody. Even Paul. Paul said, who will deliver me? Paul said he needed deliverance.

37:01 So if Paul needed deliverance and he got deliverance through Jesus Christ, who are we to say anything less? Right, so we encourage you, go to either liferecovery.com or you can get the books on Amazon. So be blessed and be safe in Jesus and know that you are loved by him. Amen.