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Hillsong Pastor Nathan Finochio Says Christians Parents Should Let Kids Celebrate Halloween Because It’s Not Fair That The ‘World Has More Fun’

Hillsong Church pastor Nathan Finochio said that there is nothing wrong with celebrating Halloween, and encourages all parents to let their kids do it.

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He pointed out that while there are still witches, warlocks, and pagans that consider Halloween a high festival, Christians took power away from the dark even ages ago.

Hillsong Church pastor Nathan Finochio has a message for Christian parents across America – let your kids celebrate the Devil’s holiday of Halloween because if you don’t you will teach them that the world has more fun than they do. I kid you not, but buckle up snowflakes, because it gets a lot worse than that.

“For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light: (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;) Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord. And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.” Ephesians 5:8-12 (KJV)

Try your best to contain your anger when reading the article below from Faithwire and their interview with “pastor” Finochio. I say that because his main point of argument is based on things that were done in the early Roman Catholic Church as they merged paganism with Christianity to form the satanic hybrid known as Roman Catholicism. Oh yeah, baby, that’s how the snow blows, Hillsong promoting Catholicism? File that under “old news”, they’ve been doing that for some time now. Click on the graphic below to see for yourself.

“Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.” 2 Timothy 2:3,4 (KJV)

The Church that Jesus shed His own blood for should never engage in things like Halloween that are so heavily associated with the Devil and the works of darkness. If you want to teach your kids real spiritual values, then have them hand out tracts with candy attached and explain to them why witnessing to the lost is something all Christians are commanded to do. And then pray with your kids before and after doing that. Train your kids to be Christian soldiers and not worldly compromisers like Hillsong Church would like them to be.

Hillsong Pastor Explains Why You Should Let Your Child Trick-or-Treat

FROM FAITHWIRE: It’s that time of the year again. Christian parents everywhere enter into a discussion of whether or not to allow their kids to go trick-or-treating. Nathan Finochio, author and pastor at Hillsong Church, is tackling the topic this year, arguing that the word of God allows Christians to redefine everything.

In a story shared to Instagram, Finochio listed out 10 reasons parents should let their children trick or treat:

  1. Don’t instill fear of the world.
  2. Don’t teach them that the world has more fun.
  3. Don’t teach them superstition.
  4. Don’t teach them isolationism.
  5. Don’t teach them a lack of faith.
  6. Teach them common grace – candy is from God and that to the pure all things are pure.
  7. Teach them the redemptive motif – that we reinterpret culture and give it a new meaning.
  8. Teach them that the demonic works by willful agreement, bot accidental consumption.
  9. Teach them in but not of, not out and not of.
  10. Critique loudly what you see as you walk. Make them brave and discerning, not scared and superstitious.

In an interview with Faithwire, Hillsong Church pastor Nathan Finochio pointed out that while there is nothing wrong with celebrating Halloween, it’s the role of a parent to properly teach their children about things like Halloween because spiritual darkness is real and ever-present.

“There is spiritual darkness surrounding everything,” Finchio stated. “Films, books, politics, and yes, even Christian holidays like Christmas and Easter. I think humanity is fascinated with the afterlife, with death, with good and evil. And Halloween is a cultural recognition, a sort of strange negotiation with some of these concepts.”

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He pointed out that while there are still witches, warlocks, and pagans that consider Halloween a high festival, Christians took power away from the dark even ages ago.

“This is their last stand, and we actually took it from them a long time ago,” he argued. “In the British Isles, it is known that churches were already celebrating All Saints on 1 November at the beginning of the 8th century to coincide with or replace the Celtic festival of Samhain.”

“Pope Gregory III made All Saints Day official in 837 by appointing November 1st as the official day,” he added, “but many historians believe it was just to recognize what was happening in Northern Europe (the Germanies and Britain) with respect to reinterpreting a pagan holiday.”

Finochio pointed out that it is also important for parents to teach their children the history of different holidays, and the real evil that takes place in the world.

“Kids don’t learn because parents don’t talk,” he added. “All of life should be a running commentary for the Christian parent.” Finochio explained that a lot of modern Christian holidays fall on or near dates that were once pagan festivals.

“Christianity, rather than shying from the roots of things, baptized the pagan festivals and gave them new meaning,” he added. “This is the Christian tradition with which the angry secular academic world is so incensed at.”

“Jesus wasn’t born in December,” he explained. “The Winter Solstice, a festival held wide across cultures in the Northern Hemisphere, occurred around December 21, the shortest day of the year. It was believed in many pagan traditions that the birth of the next year occurred on the 22nd. And as meats had been slaughtered and cured, and ales had had time to ferment—essentially that winter stores were at their absolute peak in preparation for the coming months—a party was in order.”

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Finochio also pointed out that in general, Christians are good at celebrating “The sweetness and bitterness of life at the exact same time. Seems that the real heresy of the Age is the refusal and theological inability to do both simultaneously,” he stated. “And a heresy is just a truth out of balance.”

“October 31 is ‘All Hallows Eve.’ It’s when the liturgical celebration begins at Vespers that night. This is the Christian tradition. We have the fascination with death a new meaning—an awareness and thankfulness for the great Saints gone before us. The Easter Bunny and chocolate eggs have nothing to do with Easter either, but that’s actually a Lutheran tradition.” READ MORE

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Hundreds Of King James Bibles Have Been Urgently Requested From The State Correctional Institution In Muncy PA And From The Montana State Prison

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SCI Muncy and the Montana State Prison are just a few of the jails and prisons who have reached out this week for King James Bibles and Christians books

The dearth of Bibles available to jails is weighing down hard on chaplains like Chaplain Hanson over at the State Correctional Institution In Muncy, PA, who wrote to us and said “Thank you for this exciting news this morning. We desperately need King James Bibles to give out to the men. I don’t know how many you are able to donate, but if we can get up to two hundred, that will be wonderful.” Remember my Sunday Sermon 2 weeks ago about the coming famine of the word of the Lord? Thank God His word is still available right here, right now, and we are able to send it out. What a blessing!

“Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;” Colossians 1:25 (KJB)

Chaplain Marshall from the Montana State Prison also wrote to us this week, we have supplied them in the past, to let us know they again have a high need for King James Bibles for their inmates. Time was there were dozens of KJV bible-sending ministries for inmates across the country, but in 2026, Bibles Behind Bars is one of the last suppliers of exclusively King James and KJV Spanish Bibles to jail and prisons in America. We have been tasked by God to stand in the gap and send the word out, what an awesome responsibility! But we need your help to keep on doing it.

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NTEB PROPHECY NEWS MIDWEEK UPDATE: Marines See Bigfoot On Base At Quantico And The Deeply Satanic Spirit That’s Working Openly In Minnesota

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US Marines spot Bigfoot on base in Quantico Virginia and the spirit of Satan now operating openly in the streets of Minnesota causing chaos and confusion

We are following some crazy, but true stories for you today that serve to remind us of just where we are on the end times timeline. First, United States Marines in a restricted military training area near the MOUT (Military Operations in Urban Terrain) training town in Quantico, Virginia have come forward with a report that they saw a Bigfoot in wild at night last summer. Then we travel to the state of Minnesota where we see something even more unusual, overt satanism at the highest levels of government that seems to be resulting in chaos, confusion and death in cities like Minneapolis. What on Earth is going on? Glad you asked, today we tell you all about it.

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BLOODBATH: Shakeup At Department Of Homeland Security As Trump Pivots To Show Sympathetic Response On Murder Of Alex Pretti In Minneapolis

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President Trump is backpedaling furiously to stop the bleeding over at the Department of Homeland Security after recent Minneapolis street killings

The Trump administration is scrambling in the aftermath of the Minneapolis killing of Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse, shot by Border Patrol agents during what’s being described as part of Operation Metro Surge. As more video and witness reporting comes out, it has undercut key elements of the early federal narrative, and now the White House is trying to tamp down the fire with personnel moves and softer rhetoric. Trump is in the hot seat, rightly so, and he knows it.

“Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.” Isaiah 1:10 (KJB)

So we get the headlines: Border czar Tom Homan dispatched, Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino reassigned, and even reports of DHS restricting Bovino’s social media access—all the usual “optics management” that Washington does when a story won’t die. But here’s the problem: you can’t PR your way out of a moral collapse. The Trump administration is filled with cosplay poseurs like Pam Bondi, Kash Patel, Dan Bongino (who has failed out), and Kristi Noem who should be removed as quickly as possible. These are drastically unqualified people who are building incompetent departments stocked with poorly-trained people. Properly-trained officers would never have shot and killed those two people.

As I have said many times over the years, I think both ANTIFA and Black Lives Matter are domestic terror organizations, and if that makes you mad, too bad. But as an American who stands on the rule of law, shooting protesters dead in the streets is a bad look, a really bad look, and that has to stop. God forbid we ever normalize that type of behavior as a means of conflict resolution, for if we do, we are done as a nation. Third world countries execute their protestors in the streets, not us.

So Trump realizing that with multiple corpses on his hands, he needs to turn this thing around as quickly as possible. Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino was demoted and is leaving Minnesota. Tom Homan is taking over, reporting directly to Trump. Kristi Noem spent two hours in the Oval Office; her job status is unclear. Trump called Governor Tim Walz and said they’re on “the same wavelength.” A partial government shutdown looms Friday with reports saying that House Republicans can’t pass another DHS funding bill. Trump would do well to go watch the Reagan movie from last year, and learn a little something about how the office of the president should be conducted. I really miss Reagan.

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