It is not by accident that the constitutional challenge of the Obeah law in Jamaica would be a fixed focus of the nation at this time. The case started last month, but has been pushed back to November, straddling October, when all hell tends to break loose in the dark world globally.
Satan is not easy, and he and his minions are working overtime to enforce wickedness in the world.
In Jamaica, those who insist that Obeah must be legalised will see the celebration of Halloween, this October, as ready-made help for their arguments. Coming directly from the pit of hell, Halloween has been packaged and sold to generations as a normal and acceptable form of entertainment and culture, even in the presence of God.
In this season, usually sound minds are reduced to ghosts and ghouls, engaging in magic, witchcraft and wizardry, and tricking or treating for sweets during the dark festivities. In recent years, families, businesses, and communities in Jamaica have latched on to the madness.
Many have bought into the Halloween lunacy, counting the millions to be earned from the gore, bloodshed, death, massacre, lust, promiscuity, and perversion that are paraded in the streets.
In the eyes of some governments and businesses, money justifies all things. And Halloween festivities provide major boosts for economies and much-needed distraction from the challenges of life for populations.
Place the blame for this global insanity at the feet of the Celts, who established a festival they called Samhain, a time when they believed that the ghosts of the dead returned to earth causing trouble, damaging crops and decimating profits.
They thought that demonic spirits provided Celtic priests with insights into the future. These goons claimed that during the turning of the year, between the end of harvest and the beginning of winter, the veil between the temporal and spiritual worlds grew thin, and the living are free to communicate with the dead.
During this period, all sorts of sacrifices to the devil are made, believing he could be bribed into protecting future crops and incomes.
Just as Obeah is the amalgamation of some African customs with new world magic, the Celts integrated their Indo-European heritage and Asian beliefs with popular occult practices. This brand of wickedness was later adopted by many other nations on the European continent and spread across the pond to the Americas.
Many Protestant churches, especially in Europe and the Americas, also adopted Halloween and rebranded it to disguise its unrighteous origins under the banner All Hallows’ Eve. According to the church, led by the Catholics in 1517, this Satan-created festival was to be seen as the vigil of All Saints’ Day.
Since the tomfoolery was supposed to safeguard the harvest, leading nations and international conglomerates pegged their fiscal year to October, coinciding with the Celtic belief to appease the dead to protect profits.
The nations, companies, and agencies that are deeply rooted in the Celtic madness called Halloween continue to believe that the devil’s mass rally can boost their personal fortunes and strengthen their financial bottom line, even if it demands blood.
This position has the support of economists, who argue that increased spending around Halloween generally leads to higher gross domestic product (GDP), helping to jump-start economic activity and lead to potential job growth.
It is not surprising that the main proponent of the Satanic birthday celebration in the western region is the United States. The U.S. government’s fiscal year begins on Oct. 1 and ends on Sept. 30 the following year. This secular nation is heavily invested in demonism, witchcraft, and the promotion of lust and perversion. Nearly every October, the U.S. faces a crisis as Republicans and Democrats in the congress battle over budget, seldom agreeing before a complete shutdown.
The United Nations, which was established on October 24, 1945, intensified its efforts last October to push through major agreements to enforce its one-world rulership over cyber relations, health care, and global security. Some 179 nations have handed over their sovereignty to this organisation, which pretends that it has power to ensure peace, security, and protection from God’s certain judgement.
Many signature milestones in the Holy Scriptures also happen in October. Yom Kippur and Sukkot, two of God’s important feast days, are in this month. That Satan would choose October to mimic, mock, and enmesh the signal religious rites should not be shocking to anyone with their eyes open.
Having gone through the feast of atonement and repentance, Sukkot is a celebration of God’s grace and faithfulness to His people as they traversed the wilderness.
Satan has been trying his best to take credit for God’s creation and goodness from the beginning of time. He and his minions have systematically rolled out plans and programmes to derail or to devour whomever is available in their maddening rush to populate hell. Samhain, Halloween, and Obeah are just other names for the same mission.
Social media is littered with those pushing wizardry and witchcraft, especially aimed at enticing our children.
Obeah in Jamaica may be light years away from where the Celts and their disciples have gone, but the move to legalise this unrighteous practice now is an indication that its prevalence is escalating.
So, even as the world readies to celebrate death and darkness, the fierce Obeah debate rages.
Satan is determined to take Jamaica, and he is getting much help from sections of academia and members of the upper echelons of the society, including elements of government and the legal fraternity.
It is well-known that witchcraft pays homage to the powerless dead and brings curses and destruction to nations, but an unrighteous government will push to have it legalised for the money and popularity behind it.
Jamaica must resist. A righteous government is coming. This is not it.