The Bible tells us the Antichrist will use music to rally the
masses and you got to figure an ideal playlist would surely include The Beatles’
“All You Need is Love.”
This Hippie Anthem everybody to this day seems to know by
heart, at least partially, was first performed on The Beatles’
"Our
World" project in 1967, recognized as the first worldwide TV special and broadcast
in 24 countries.
“The concept of the song was born out of a request to bring a
song that was going to be understood by people of all nations,” explains the
website Songfacts. “The writing began in late May of 1967, with John and Paul
working on separate songs. It was decided that John's ‘All You Need Is Love’ was
the better choice because of its easy to understand message of love and peace.
The song was easy to play, the words easy to remember and it encompassed the
feeling of the world's youth during that period.
“ ‘All You Need Is Love’ was a popular saying in the '60s
anti-war movement. The song was released in the middle of the Summer of Love
(1967). It was a big part of the vibe.
“John Lennon wrote this as a continuation of the idea he was
trying to express in his 1965 song "The
Word." John was fascinated by how slogans effect the masses and
was trying to capture the same essence as songs like ‘We Shall Overcome.’ He once
stated, ‘I like slogans. I like advertising. I love the telly.’ In a 1971
interview about his song ‘Power To The People,’ he was asked if that song was
propaganda. He said, ‘Sure. So was ‘All You Need Is Love.' I'm a revolutionary
artist. My art is dedicated to change."
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The website goes on to inform that George Harrison referenced
the song in his lyrics to the 1981 song "All
Those Years Ago" with the line, "But you point the way to
the truth when you say 'All you need is love.'" The song was a tribute to
John Lennon following his murder in 1980.
Once, when Lennon’s son Sean was asked to name his favorite
lyric of his dad’s music, he answered: "My list of favorite things changes
from day to day. I like when my dad said:
'There's nothing you can know that
isn't known/ Nothing you can see that isn't shown/ Nowhere you can go that
isn't where you're meant to be.' It seems to be a good representation of the
sort of enlightenment that came out of the '60s."
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While New Agers borrow Eastern religions’ belief
that "all is One" and that love is just a different form of the One
essence in the universe that everyone and everything, including God, is a part
of, the Bible makes it clear that “God is love; and he
that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.” (I John 4:16)
In his Sunday morning radio show yesterday on Chicago’s WYLL
1160, Richard Jordan (shorewoodbiblechurch.org) relayed how he had recently heard
a popular preacher-personality incorrectly tell his audience, “God is love, so
where love is, God is.”
Jordan said, “Listen, the verse doesn’t say love is God; it says,
‘God is love.’ Just because somebody loves somebody doesn’t make them God and
doesn’t mean God is there. God is only where His people are.”
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In defining God’s love as it is in truth, Jordan continued, “God’s
love will never let you down; it’s not going to disappoint you. You can’t go so
far away where you can’t find God’s love. God’s love will never let you go;
it’s not going to abandon you. You can’t sin far enough, you can’t fight hard
enough. God’s love will hold you.
“God’s love won’t let you go, but it also won’t let you off.
Sometime people say, ‘Well, you know, love covers a multitude of sins, so let’s
just sweep it under the rug.’ God doesn’t do that. The Bible says, ‘Open rebuke
is better than secret love,’ and God’s love will honestly, squarely, justly,
lovingly deal with your failure. In other words, it will deal with the
problems.
“Now, the uniqueness of the God of the Bible is that ‘God is
love’ and that’s not true of ANY other religion on the face of the earth. If
you look at other religions, almost all of their gods are angry. If you ask a
Muslim about their god, they’ll tell you he’s merciful, but they’ll never tell
you he’s a loving god.
“Only the God of the Bible can identify Himself as a God who
is a God of love, and the reason for that has to do with the godhead in the
Bible being described as a trinity, meaning one god in three persons. That
means there’s one essence and being of humanity and yet different individuals
who possess humanity.
“Jesus Christ is the manifest person of the godhead; He’s the
spokesman for the godhead. He’s the member of the godhead through whom God
speaks and reveals Himself.
"If you’re ever going to know the God of heaven, the
God of the Bible, the Creator of the universe, you’re going to know Him through
His revelation of Himself in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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As Jordan explained, it’s crucial to understand that God would
not truly be a God of love if there were only one person in the godhead, "because
then who’s He going to love?!
"There would only be Himself to love. That would
not be a God of love you could trust, because the only person He has to love is
Himself.
“You say, ‘Well, He has a creation to love.’ No, no. You’re
saying He’s dependant on having a creation in order to love, so love wouldn’t
be a part of His essence, it would be something He learned to do after He
created man or creation—angels, man, you.
"The God of the Bible says, ‘I don’t
need anybody; I am who I am. I AM love.’ "
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