Fifty Years After Woodstock - A Biblical Perspective

The Fifty-year anniversary of the Woodstock Music Festival is at hand and millions are joyfully celebrating this upcoming anniversary! Events were being planned with the top pop musical artist of today for Woodstock 50 in August of 2019, but just of late this event was canceled! In light of this cancelation, promoters are now saying that Americans should reflect and remember the "spirit" of Woodstock which is "peace and love", or is it (1 John 4:1-10)? The original Woodstock Festival took place on August 16, 1969, and its spirit has been promoted, glorified, glamorized, sensationalized and etched into the very fabric of our American pop culture, politics, consciousness and youth culture for the last fifty years. There is none more powerful a vessel to be used by Satan than the "sex, drugs, and rock n roll" spirit to appeal to man's fallen and base nature; and to get them to become base, lawless, subjective and violent (Rom. 1:18-32; 3:9-20, 1 Cor. 15:33, Gal. 5:17-21, Eph 2:1-2, Jude 1:10).

The original Woodstock Festival which took place on August 16, 1969, and its spirit, has been promoted, glorified, glamorized, sensationalized and etched into the very fabric of our American pop culture, politics, consciousness and youth culture for the last fifty years.

The EXPONENTIAL growth of LAWLESSNESS since 1969 If we could look at a panoramic view of America from 1969 unto the world of today (2019), we would be absolutely EXPONENTIALLY horrified on how far we as an American people have EXPONENTIALLY drifted as a nation into the realms of EXPONENTIAL lawlessness with its EXPONENTIAL fruit thereof (Psalm 11:3, 82:5, Hosea 4:6, Rom. 1:18-32, Gal. 6:7, 2 Tim. 3:1-6, 2 Thess. 2:10-12)! The mediums of today possess the EXPONENTIAL capacity for outreach, and for Satan to take his war on Almighty God's RIGHTEOUSNESS and his promotion of lawlessness into every nook and cranny of this world, and into America's post-Judeo/Christian society. It is by these mediums that this world over the last 50 years has EXPONENTIALLY deteriorated and the harvest now ripe for Satan's demonic tool the antichrist to wage their final rebellion against their ETERNAL RIGHTEOUS Creator (Dan. 2; 7; 12:4, 2 Thess. 3-12, Rev. 13, 16).

If we could look at a panoramic view of America from 1969 unto the world of today (2019), we would be absolutely EXPONENTIALLY horrified on how far we as an American people have EXPONENTIALLY drifted as a nation into the realms of EXPONENTIAL lawlessness with its EXPONENTIAL fruit thereof!

The lawless seeds planted at the Woodstock Music Festival in 1969 were a defining point in this nation's history against the "Establishment” and America’s core Judean/ Christian values. The icon which is most recognized as the symbol of Woodstock is the upside-down broken cross (aka. the "peace symbol"). That symbol is found everywhere today in America and throughout the world. This symbol has many meanings by many people; however many individuals have identified this symbol to be an upside-down broken cross and an icon for the overthrow of Judeo/Christianity. What is very apparent is that the heart of the "Woodstock spirit" was a revolution against Judeo/Christianity and its culture here in America; and that secularism, mysticism, moral relativism and lawless were to fill its vacuum when eradicated.

What is very apparent is that the heart of the "Woodstock spirit" was a revolution from Judeo/Christianity; and that secularism, mysticism, moral relativism and lawless were to fill its vacuum when eradicated.

The Marxist medium at Woodstock was the brown acid of the radical Left’s agenda, whose goons in the reprobate (godless) music industry, Hollywood and media have used to steadily and incrementally attack the crucial boundaries of morality over the past 50 years. In the EXPONENTIAL HORRIFIC wake of Woodstock, the 60's and the EXPONENTIAl aid of the super-advanced technological mediums of this day; the lawless and political philosophies of Marx, Crowley, the Frankfort School, Alinsky and Nietzsche are now mainstream here in America and WOE to any who seek to overturn and override the new American ideology of "Do as thou wilt is the sum of the law".

These ideals and vices were the necessary ingredients used by Satan for the eradicating and removal of common sense, rational thought and creating the susceptibility for demonic hypnosis.

Woodstock was basically a money-making scheme at first by promoters but then took on a whole different mind of its own and spirit to follow. The spirit and mindset of Woodstock was a huge protest against America’s Judean/ Christian heritage and society/ government (i.e., “the Establishment”) in the name of "Peace". This movement sought to establish an alternative reality of “secular peace, love and joy” through the use of cultural relativism (non-absolutes), sexual immorality, hard-core drugs, lawlessness, and music genres. Any lawless ingredients such as these CAN ONLY produce violence, hatred, division, social tyranny, strife, murder, licentiousness, elegance, subjectivism as past history has shown us (Gen. 6, Job. 15:20-24, Psalm 119:165, Isa. 5:20; 32:17; 48:21-22; 57:20-2, Jer. 7:23-28; 18:11-12; Rom. 1:18-32; Gal. 5:19-21, 2 , Tim 3:1-6; Jude 1:10). These ideals and vices were the necessary ingredients used by Satan for the eradicating and removal of common sense, rational thought and creating the susceptibility for demonic hypnosis (2 Cor. 4:3-4, Rev. 9:20-21). Drugs and immorality are always the means for bringing one to a base state and opening of one's mind to the demonic influence and ideas of Satan's anti-God agenda and rebellion. This demonic game plan has successfully created the delusional utopian folly and the base (lewd) culture and society that now has ravished our land and exist today.

Dear friends, the words and fruits of "peace, love, joy, and harmony", when it was used incorrectly as by the Woodstock generation; could never provide what these so desperately sought after. For Fifty years later who in their right mind would say that it has in 2019! But the stadiums and social mediums of America are EXPONENTIALLY abundant as the sands of the seas; full of Satan's utopian kool-aid drinkers ready and willing to believe and receive the greatest lie of all (2 Thess. 2:3-12, Rev. 13)! Oh, the ETERNALLY devastating delusion of self-seeking lawlessness and the reprobate mindset that rejects Almighty God our ETERNAL Creator and His ETERNAL RIGHTEOUS accountability (John 3:16-21, Acts 4:12; 17:22-34, Rom. 1:18-32; 3:23; 10-2-4)! The Woodstock mindset was nothing more than an altered reality based on lawlessness. A delusion and a fairy tale that can NEVER be! The redefining of moral absolutes CAN NEVER change REALITY and ABSOLUTE TRUTH, no matter how many billions of people one may gather together or rally to their cause. The same principle can be applied to Almighty God our ETERNAL RIGHTEOUS Creator! Almighty God can NEVER be other than He has ALWAYS has been and is (Ex. 3:14, Num. 23:19, Psalm 90:2, Mal. 3:6, John 6:35; 8:12, 58; 10:7, 11; 11:25; 14:3; Heb. 13:8, James 1:17, Rev. 22:13). He IS RIGHTEOUS, He IS Holy, He IS Just, He IS ETERNALLY ABSOLUTE and He IS God!

The Woodstock mindset was nothing more than an altered reality based on lawlessness. A delusion and a fairy tale that can NEVER be! The redefining of moral absolutes CAN NEVER change REALITY and ABSOLUTE TRUTH, no matter how many billions of people one may gather together or rally to their cause. The same principle can be applied to Almighty God our ETERNAL RIGHTEOUS Creator!

How can anything good precede from anarchy and a delusional reality; which seeks only to destroy and override ETERNAL RIGHTEOUSNESS, REALITY, and TRUTH? (Romans 1:18-32)

Almighty God’s Word states: "Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!" (Isaiah 5:20)

"For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness" (Romans 1:18).

"And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness" (2 Thess. 2:10-12).

In the ever redefining and “doublespeak” society of today, the Lord Jesus Christ described to all - who had an ear to hear - how to discern between TRUTH and error, RIGHTEOUSNESS and lawlessness, SANCTIFICATION and sacrilegiousness and Heaven and Hell

"For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ ( John 1:17).

Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh" (James 3:12).

"Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad; for the tree is known by its fruit" (Matt 12:33).

Dear friends, in light of the EXPONENTIAL darkness and demonic deception which fills our present-day; because of the outright rejection of Divine Light, DO NOT be deceived by the redefining of ETERNAL spiritual and moral absolutes by the god of this world (Matt. 24:3-4; John 8:44, Eph. 2:1-2, 2 Thess. 2:3-12, 1 John 4:1, 2 John 6-7, Rev. 14:9-11; 20:11-15; 22:11-15). The use of euphemistic alternative terms - no matter how many people back them - is insanity with ETERNAL Death before them. Push them aside and reject them with All your being and follow hard after the ETERNAL RIGHTEOUS and TRUE One, The Lord Jesus Christ! Dear friends, place your sole trust in Almighty God and His NEVER-CHANGING Word! Then you will have TRUE ETERNAL PEACE and TRUE ETERNAL HOPE and JOY in these days of absolute uncertainty. Place your trust in Christ today! You will NEVER be the same!

Sure, there were some drugs and losers but no one was murdered, at least one baby was born, and many folks had a good time.

Is there evil in a soul that condones some drugs? Scripture has much to say about the evil in drug cultures. I think drug cultures probably start where there were some drugs.

“I was 17 at the time and sorry I missed it.”

I had just turned 17 . My friend and I hitched rides from eastern CT to the festival . I lied to my parents telling them we had a ride . We’d ordered tickets but ended up not needing them as it has become an “ open festival “ before we arrived late Friday afternoon .

“To get back to the warning that I received. You may take it with however many grains of salt that you wish. That the brown acid that is circulating around us isn’t too good. It is suggested that you stay away from that. Of course it’s your own trip. So be my guest, but please be advised that there is a warning on that one, ok?”

Believe it or not , I neither dropped acid nor smoked pot the whole three days we were there . My buddy did drift off for about half a day and did some acid , though . How he ever found me again in the midst of 500,000 people remains one of the great mysteries of our times . I went for the music , and The Who were my main impetus .

There was a lot of drug use and leftism in Bethel, NY those 3 days that lives on in colleges and other areas that we are still trying to quash. But compare the totality of those days with the carnage at Woodstock 99 and any contemporary gathering of 100,000+ leftists nowadays. Woodstock is not something that was pure deadweight loss.

In a weird sort of way, Woodstock probably says more about the positive morals of the hippies' parents than the mud pie crowd would prefer to acknowledge. Having a quarter of a million people without a lot of food and water etc and virtually no police presence, but yet there were no major crimes reported sounds more like kids remembered the Golden Rule vs sex and drugs and rock and roll. In turn, the fires and riots of Woodstock 99 probably says more about the morals of the GenXers parents (many of whom were Boomers...) than the kids themselves.

Thank you for echoing my thoughts...Woodstock was a reaction to "'Nam fatigue" - hardly an apt target for what amounts to a religious screed.

Sorry to hear that my friend, thanks for sharing that, will pray for her if she is still alive. Jesus delivers!

Matt. 11:28-30

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