Pope Gregory moved All Saint's Day to November 1 in the 8th century. this made the 31st of October All Hallows eve. For many centuries Christians had celebrated with a feast commemorating the saints being martyred. This was to include the entire church according to Pop Gregory IV. This holiday has many different things attached to the holiday pagan things mostly.
This holiday has no biblical significance. The Bible does not talk about this holiday. Nowhere in the bible are we to have a day of mourning and to pray for the dead. 21 And another of the disciples said to Him, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.” 22 But Jesus said to him, “Follow Me, and let the dead bury their own dead.” If you look at the verses above Jesus says let the dead bury their own dead. So, we are not even supposed to bury our dead according to Jesus. That is what I am getting from these verses. In the Old Testament in Leviticus 21:11 it says, nor shall he approach any dead person, nor defile himself even for his father or his mother. We are not even to approach a dead man, it goes on to talk about if we do, we will be unclean and have to be cleansed to be made right again.
There is nothing that says the spirits come back to life in this world or any other place. There is no Bible verse that says that or anything that resembles that kind of language. the only one who is coming back is Jesus. But he is not a spirit or anything else of that nature He Is God alone. The Bible does not say much about spirits and dead people. It says in the book Isaiah that the dead will not live, spirits will not rise then in the same chapter it says the dead will live and the spirits will rise. (This is talked about in Chapter 26 of Isaiah).
So, with all being said what does the bible say about Halloween? We know that there is no biblical significance, but it does have Christian history associated with it. We will talk and discuss tomorrow what the bible says about this holiday then move on to ways to reach people on this holiday.
All Bible verses taken from the NASB
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