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It's been a long time, but the wait is over. That's a bad man. That's a bad man. Know it. That's a bad man.
It's time to man up with Satan's nightmare, Natchia Koloff.
Well, I want to welcome you back to another episode of It's Time to Man Up, and this one's especially fun for me because it's actually Halloween today, which stirs a lot of different. Controversy around the world, especially in the Christian community, and I have no stranger to the show back with me today. Of course, I'm referring to none other than the knowledgeable, highly educated Christian car guy himself, Robbie Dillmore. Robbie, welcome back! What a great topic, because I know it.
A lot of people have a lot of questions when it comes to Halloween, and you know, so I'm excited to see where you're taking us on. Yeah, well, I thought you know I'm a history guy, right?
So I thought, well, let me let's discuss some of the some of the supposed history of it, kind of the where it originated, perhaps, kind of that sort of thing. Fast forward to today's world, how it relates to the again to the Christian. Community, because you know, different communities have different perspectives.
Some, some, some celebrate it in different ways. We'll talk about that.
Some completely, I think, don't celebrate it. And you know, we we talk about that too. Of course, this is very. I just was reminded by you prior to. Coming on air, that your birthday is Halloween Eve, October thirtieth.
Yeah, it's kind of interesting that All Hallows Eve, my birthday is the eve of All Hallows Eve. Which, which for those who maybe don't know, all right, so Halloween. Is also known as All Hallows Eve or or All Saints Eve, which has some interesting roots to it too, right? But how?
So how did how did that?
So how did that? Give us a couple stories on how that impacted you growing up.
So I can't tell you the number of people that think my birthday's on Halloween, which is always wonderful. I would get so many phone calls and stuff because they'd forget. But the other thing is that I, you know, my mom always had birthday parties every year, and you know, so you could just count on the witches and the bats, and you know, that was just part of my, you know, just the way I experienced my birthday all my whole life is is is that it was a Halloween birthday, and so I very much. You know, it's just crazy that here's this thing that has to do with fear, has to do with darkness, but yet we're people of the light, and and we stand in the light, and so it's a fascinating controversy. Yeah, well, and and and all that.
No, yeah, because there have been obviously over the years. I'm personally not a fan of them. I'm I've never understood. I've never understood people who pay to go get scared at a movie. That's just me.
Well, wait a minute. I'm gonna I'm gonna challenge you there.
Okay, you were the Russian nightmare.
Well, yeah, nobody was scarier than the ring than the Russian nightmare.
Okay, but people didn't pay me to scare them. They paid paid they paid to see me get beat up back in those days. I got you.
So, so there is a difference.
Some of those movies, I'm telling, especially the Halloween movies. Oh man, which I won't even name any. We don't even need to. A plenty of the viewers and listeners probably can rattle off a half a dozen off the top of their head. But no, I just I'm telling you.
I just never understand. I'm like, why would I pay to go sit in a movie theater and and have the bajiji scared out of me? You know, for I just and again, that's just me. That's just me.
But I know lots of people love it. They love the scary movies, right? And and certainly Halloween has its share of them, doesn't it? Oh, it's it's it's actually horrific for me, and I. I just don't understand it either.
Never have, but I do know I have dear friends, dear Christian friends, that they probably put more money into the Halloween decorations than anything else they do all year long. I mean, that they just, that it—that's what trips their trigger. Yeah. Speaking of which, just just around the corner from my home, there's there's a house sits on the corner right by this stop sign, and I can't. I can't like I don't know the cost of some of those ginormous blowups and stuff.
But they got to have probably fifteen ginormous blowups and and cobwebs and and all kinds of in a little tiny yard. I mean, it's it's overwhelmed with stuff. It actually looks kind of weird. But but I'm like, how many thousands, or at least hundreds of dollars, have these people spent on that for this one time of the year? I I don't know.
I guess some could say the same thing about other holidays too, though, right? Right, and I even for me to call it a holiday, which comes from the word holy day, like what, you know.
However, the roots of it are actually quite Christian. Yeah, I've I've no, you know, Kush. I love history, right?
So I did love try to do little little research, you know, and. Because thirty first October is what today is, what we're discussing and talking about, and observed in many countries, and in in Western Christianity, there's different again different views and perspectives of it.
Some say it began as an observance of All Hollow Tide. Have you ever heard of that? That description, All Hollow All Hollow Tide. Yes, I have. It was pointing back to the fact that the first of November is All Saints' Day, and what I always understood was that again, the Catholic Church, Episcopal, etc.
They were they were trying to create a day for all their saints because they had so many holidays they were they couldn't put them together, and they felt like the spooks would gather together to come up against all these saints on the day before. Yeah. So yeah, like like we're talking. Of course, you're referring to what what I guess we would turn to liturgical day of the year dedicated to remembering. You know what you said.
All the saints, all the martyrs, all the faithful that have departed from from this life, right? Exactly. And and so Halloween has morphed into, or you might say, become a In a sense, for for I've got a lot of people again going back to holiday, a celebration of of horror, the irony, right? A celebration of horror.
So I don't know. I mean, it's it's a it's kind of a a fast. It has I think fascinating history to it, and there's a lot of, of course, a lot of different traditions here. And being the educated man you are, you probably already know this, but maybe some of our listeners or viewers don't. Traditions, Halloween traditions, it is said, have been influenced by Celtic harvest festivals, particularly the Gaelic, Gaelic, excuse me, Gaelic festivals.
And I'm probably going to butcher this, Sam Hain. I don't know if I'm saying that name right. Which which theory?
Some theories for the suggest that that that has been Christianized as All Hallows Day, along with its Eve, by the by the church itself. And yet, many of these roots go back to Ireland and Scotland. And do you know any other countries besides those two where there might be some perhaps more history to this? You know, I I actually don't, especially when it comes to Gaelic. You know, but but you know, those are the people that, you know, essentially kidnapped Saint Patrick.
And I once when I visited Ireland, you know, apparently, you know, those people were really, really, really bad news. You know, pagans of the worst order, and fascinatingly. Part of what I understand, if you look at Saint Patrick's cross, there's a circle in the middle of it, and he put that circle there to try to show them how the cross overcame. These gods, so they they had a moon god, and that circle was an indication of that. And so, in a way, it was an amalgamation, like you said, a Christianized way of doing that.
But in Saint Patrick's time, what he was trying to do was show them that oh, it's good thing that you're spiritual, but let's get the spirits right. Let's let's put the cross ahead of everything else, and. You know, clearly historically, as you know, those monks that came out of Ireland after Saint Patrick again, the whole world was Catholic at that point in time. There was no Protestant church. Those monks were responsible for you know a gigantic return to Christ across the the continent.
And so, you know, it's it's a tough call, but you know that obviously. There is a spiritual aspect, and in this world today, there are so many people that don't believe there is.
So here you have a holiday that clearly is attached to the supernatural idea on the wrong side of the equation.
However, it's still supernatural, and so you know perhaps that gives us an angle to witness. Yeah, for sure. In fact, not going to do any kind of a deep dive into the other side of it, but. But that said, you know there are are are plenty, plenty of people, especially especially within the Christian community, who see it as a a very a very dark day. Of course, a lot of different stories out there of of the darker side and what they do on that day and some of their rituals and and those sorts of things in terms of.
Trying to fight against, as you said, the kingdom of light. You know, so it it does in a way kind of illustrate, in one sense, the the the clarity behind the difference between the kingdom of darkness, Satan, the devil, and the kingdom of light. Certainly, there is a contrast there with that, and in many people's eyes, and. And you could you could potentially go down a real rabbit hole with all that, right? I know, I know, and it's so much controversy that you know.
As a pastor, I can assure you, people come to me, Robbie. Should I not send my kids out trick or treating? Like, you know, what what do I do with that? And you know, what a great opportunity when you really think about it. As an invitation to go to God with your questions, like, yeah, you know, help Him.
Work that. Help your pastor show you some passages, and I can show people passages that have to do with the kingdom of darkness versus the kingdom of light. And and the the issue is, one of the huge issues is fear. Right. Or what should we fear, and what should we not fear?
And we should be able to see.
Okay, we fear the Lord, so there's no reason really to have this other fear over here, or one angle to it. You know.
Well, you bring up another interesting point because you are again, you wear multiple hats. For those who don't know, Robbie has an amazing show called The Christian Car Car Guy on. On Truth Radio Network, you see the banner behind him there. For those who might be watching online, and in addition to that, masculine journey and a host of other syndicated nationwide, worldwide shows that he hosts. But he also pastors a church, and so I can imagine.
Yeah, you would have some of your parishioners coming to you. What, what, what should we or shouldn't we? Should we celebrate it or shouldn't we? Which brings up another interesting. Point two: Some churches clearly don't don't celebrate it; won't celebrate it.
Other churches look and go, "Wow, let's give an alternative." So instead of trick or treat, we'll do the famous trunk or treat. Right? I guess they fill up all kinds of trunks, automobile trunks, with candy for the kids. and And what what's your your perspective on that? Your take on that as a as a pastor?
As a pastor, I can honestly say, and for those, I hope I'm not offending anybody, but I. Last year we did one of the biggest events, most successful events we had was a trunk or treat, and the reason was is that, you know, we had this modified Ford that you've seen and whatever, and people had we gave rides in it, and you know we had all the stuff we had, you know, skeletons and cobwebs and and all you know and people dressed up and all that stuff happened, but you know there were more families. Coming in, getting a chance to pray with them, getting a chance to get them to know that there is a church there in Kildie, et cetera, et cetera. That you know, from my standpoint, you know, we rubbed elbows with a lot of young families, some of which began to come to church there, and some of which. Found out that you know that there was a really great place, and so God used it.
In my view, to you know to bring the people into the church and the fellowship of the people that were there in during the event and and the excitement that their kids had and all that seemed like it was great fun, and I saw good fruit again. With the idea overarching of that is we're not doing this in any way to do But we're we're having fun because what we really fear is God. We don't fear these spooks and these other things. Clearly, they're spiritual warfare and all those other things that you got to talk about if you're going to bring it up. But again, it's a it's an opportunity to to engage what really is going on in the community.
Yeah. So it is.
So in yes, in your purview and many others that I know, many other pastors and friends that I know in ministry, view it as an opportunity, and giving that as a quote alternative to the to the celebration of traditional Halloween as an alternative, be able to come into a setting, at least you know a church setting. I'm reminded of. Of some dear friends up in Dumfries, Virginia. Of course, Pastor Gary Crowthers. You know Pastor Gary.
Oh yeah. And his son-in-law Brad, who pastors the church up there, Montclair Tabernacle, there in Dumfries, for years and years and years.
Now they, I don't know how many years they did this, but they have a ginormous property. And Robbie, they would set up this whole. You know, not not like a haunted house, but it was outdoors, on their property. This whole little—I don't even—I'm at a loss of words. What you would call it?
You know, journey, journey through the. But at the end, at the end, every single individual, every single family, every single person, all had to sit, you know, wait in a tent at the end and hear the gospel message. And the the difference between the kingdom of darkness and the kingdom of light, and so they got a full explanation of what they had just experienced. And Robbie, they would have like like no kidding, they would have they've had tens of thousands of people from their community go through that year after year after year after year. And what an opportunity to expose the gospel to people that might not.
Otherwise, even come to church, right? Because they're into the whole haunted house thing, and they hear about this this this opportunity, and they go. and How many of those people end up in the kingdom because of of that outreach and that alternative, right? Yeah, and and you know, it is. But I I totally respect those people who say, no, I want no connection with that, and I get that, and I understand where they're coming from.
I don't. I'm not. This is just as kind of where I've fallen. I mean, I have to admit that, you know, I one year I can remember all too well. I I was a serial killer.
I took a big knife and I put it through a box of cereal, and I walked away. And you know, it's you. And I just had the best time with that. People go, "What is that? I'm a serial killer." And you know, it's just an opportunity to have fun.
I, you know, and yeah. But well, I know, I know that this is, in some people's case, you know, a really charged thing. Of you don't want to be associated with the world, you don't want to make that a big part of what you're doing. And but by the same token, you know, I I totally respect and I certainly love you know Gary and and what he's done up there. It's it's amazing.
I mean, from my perspective. You meet people where they are, and that's what Saint Patrick himself was doing. Clearly, I mean, if anybody knew the Druids and those characters, it was Saint Patrick. Like, but he went right into the heart of them, and and you know he understood because he'd been there, done that.
Well, and and to your point, out of respect for for those who just do not celebrate it in any way, shape, or form, we we totally. Totally respect that, and and I think you hit the nail on the head, Robbie, when you said, you know, somebody comes to you, go well, take take it before the Lord, and and at the end of the day, you know, if you go before the Lord with it, and He says, don't do it, well then, my encouragement to you would be, don't do it. But if you have a peace about it and And and feel it's okay because you because you're participating for the the right reasons. Let's just say, well then by all means. But you you brought up something else too, which is interesting.
What you dressed up as.
So it is it is proposed that the Irish and the Scottish immigrants brought many of the Halloween customs as well as costumes. Over here to to the the great nation of America, and then and then of course it spread to other countries by the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Speaking of costumes, again, I know there's some who say, "Well, we'll celebrate, but we're not going to dress our kid up as a witch." We're not going to dress our kid up as a skeleton or whatever. You know, they can they can be Ariel, right, from one of the Disney movies, or something. Or and so, and even some of the churches, they're they're like, hey, you can dress your kids up, bring them in costumes, but we we prefer you don't dress them up as this, that, or the other.
And it's still fun for the kids, right, to be able to be able to you know dress up in their favorite little Disney character or something like that, right? Oh, I, I. I love that, and I and I love the people that you know consider. Do you really want your kid to identify as some kind of monster, or do you want them to identify as a superhero of some kind? You know, you know, obviously.
Or I shouldn't say obviously the the character Superman himself was designed by a couple Jewish boys as the Messiah, and the original red S that was on his chest was actually the Hebrew letters Adi for the righteous one. Wow!
So the whole character himself is Jesus, right? And so when you think about what a superhero is. In the ring, or I mean, that's we're trying to walk as Jesus was walking. He he he is Superman. I mean, he really is.
That's funny. I I've I've got a Koloff shirt. I I wish I put it on today, Robbie, with with with the S on my chest. There, the Superman logo. You know, for our Koloff tour this year, we're doing a in honor of Ivan Koloff.
We're doing the next couple of years. We're doing a Koloff tour. And some of the other guys that wrestled as as his nephews, so it's funny you bring up Superman, but well, and of course you know centered around around Halloween or you know costume parties, right?
So a lot of people have fun with that, just with costume parties or carving pumpkins, and and I remember doing that. I I saw that you can carve turnips. You ever carved a turnip, Robbie? I've never carved a turnip. Never have you know.
I had a member something really cool. I just thought this was absolutely beautiful. I did not know that October was. Baby loss awareness month, or something along those lines, of people that lost a baby, and apparently there's a tradition along those lines where they do a white pumpkin, and she she had lost a baby tragically in pregnancy, and she had done this white pumpkin. Actually, got one of the little kids in her in our church to put his little feet prints on the on the pumpkin, and it it meant a It really touched her to be able to do something to honor the child that that that that had passed, and so, you know, I you know that's a good way to take something that could be used for evil, but using it for really, really a great purpose for a way for people to work through their grief in the loss of a child.
Yeah. So, and again, I go. You know, as we begin to wind down our show for for today, you know, just whatever your perspective is on on on Halloween, you know, my encouragement, and I'm sure you would say the same, Robbie. It's just to, you know, just at the end of the day, take it for the Lord, see where He leads you on it. If He leads you to have fun with it, especially if you have kids and You know some of the different games and churches set up games and apple bobbing and Robert.
Did you know they call it duking in Scotland? Apple bobbing. No, I did not. That was called duking, duking in Scotland. I was I was duking when I was three or four years old because every Halloween party I ever went, that was especially in the fifties and sixties.
We did a lot of duking. I wasn't duking, but but I've done some dunking before. That's for sure. But and that's it. Have you ever tried to do that?
You ever tried to bob for an apple out of out of curiosity? Yeah, when my mouth was a little bitty, like I'm talking about four or five years old. I was bobbing for apples because that was something my mom always did. Is we're gonna did you ever get one? Did you ever get one?
Yeah, but I was hoping they'd throw some crab apples in there so my mouth would fit.
Well, I don't. I don't know. I can maybe get my mouth on one. I don't know. I guess a little, a little, a little.
You can actually hold a fork between your teeth and try to drive the fork into the apple. That seems like that'd be even harder. But I wish I knew that. Anyway, well, we just—I just want to have this this special show today, and and I hope I hope today you can, whatever your perspective, I hope you can enjoy today. If your church is offering an alternative, go be a part of that, support that.
If God leads you to do that, and and. Just take it all all in perspective, in the right perspective. Robin, you mentioned your your church. Just tell our listeners real quick where your church is located and how they, where they can find you. Yeah, we are Amazing Grace Church of Ramseur, North Carolina.
And so, if you look at Amazing Grace Church Ramseur, that's our website, and all the information's there. Easy enough. Amazing Grace in Ramseur.
So check that out, and be sure if you if you don't have the Truth Radio app on your phone, get that because you're going to get tons of podcasts and access to Robbie's show, the Christian Car Guy, and and so many other amazing shows. And I just thank you, Robbie. Robbie doing. Robbie's one of my favorite guys on the planet. That become one of my my best friends, and can't thank you enough for being a part of the show today, Robbie.
I feel exactly the same way. What an honor it is to be on again with you, Nikita, and what a fun show to do. Yes, sure.
Well. And just keep your eyes and ears open for the future, as we do. We do other holiday specials and and just celebrations. I want to encourage you as well. If you haven't done it, go over to the also the alternative show Q and A with Koloff, questions and answers.
If you're not familiar with that one, that one's fun. I give people the opportunity to ask me different questions, and so we want to encourage you to consider going over there. Uh, checking that out and help us spread the word. Uh, the show is being downloaded and aired around the world and many, many over well over a hundred different countries. Um, just appreciate your loyal support to these shows, and and I can't wait to can't wait to see what what God has for us all next.
So, oh, what a day! Thank you, Halloween, Robbie. Amen. Amen. Amen.
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