The upcoming Halloween celebration dates back to the Druids, who used the holiday for various Pagan religious practices including Human sacrifice. There is nothing Christian about it.

Yet there is one interesting story about the Halloween celebration which illustrates how the Pagans tried to appropriate the stars into their religions. It is the story of the Jack-O’-Lantern, that pumpkin with a face carved out and a candle inside. This seemingly benign decoration represents a much more gruesome picture from the rituals of past ages: A frightful severed head. And the picture comes straight from the Star Bible, even though the real meaning is very different.

The “Jack-O’-Lantern” in the sky is the Star Algol (“Evil Spirit”). It is part of the constellation Perseus, (the Breaker) which is a picture of Christ who breaks open a way for us (Micah 2:13) and breaks open the seals in Revelation 5. Algol pictures the severed evil head of the nations, the Anti-Christ, whose head is cut off from the Nations when Christ returns (Rev 19:20). So the frightful Jack-O’-Lantern is really a picture of the return and triumph of Christ.

The Star Algol would have been near the Zenith point on Halloween after midnight in Druid times three thousand years ago. Now it can be seen at Zemth closer to 11:00 pm. It is also an interesting object because it is a variable star decreasing in brightness about every 69 hours, with the nearest visible minimum at about 5:00 AM on November 4.

During the first week of November the planet Venus appears in the morning sky after disappearing from the western sky into the sun on October 26. The planet represents Christ, the Bright Morning Star (Revelation 22:16) and will be visible in the early morning during the minimum of Algol on November 4.

So tonight find the Halloween Star Algol and tell someone about the ultimate fate of