Was The Beatles' fame due to John Lennon's pact with Satan?
Opinion
Did John Lennon sell his soul to the Devil?
By Brandi Fisher : May 20, 2009
The amazingly rapid rise to fame of The Beatles in the 1960s may have been because John Lennon sold his soul to the Devil, the author of a new book claims.
In The Lennon Prophecy, author Joseph Niezgoda claims that Beatle John Lennon, who was obsessed with the occult and wanted to be more famous than Elvis Presley, told his friend Tony Sheridan that he had made a pact with Satan.
The book's author tries to pinpoint exactly when
Lennon made this pact, and believes it was 20 years to the month
before Mark David Chapman killed Lennon violently in New York with
four shots in the back on the Monday night of December 8, 1980.
Twenty years earlier, on Tuesday December 27, 1960, the Beatles performed at the Town Hall Ball Room in Litherland, England. Of this event Niezgoda says, “… following this single night's performance, the Beatles never looked back. Each of the Beatles remembers this night as the turning point in their careers.”
The Beatles quickly shot to fame when they started playing at Liverpool's Cavern Club, and then moved to Germany, where they amassed even more excited fans.
Although Lennon had long mocked Christianity, it was at this time that Lennon exhibited increasing anti-Christian behavior. He drew mocking pictures of Jesus, wrote anti-Christian comments, and hung an effigy of Christ from his balcony to taunt a group of nuns, while throwing condoms filled with water at them. The original drummer with The Beatles, Pete Best, also witnessed such behavior and wrote in his own book that Lennon once urinated on another group of nuns from his balcony.
His song Imagine has lyrics that begin, “Imagine there's no Heaven, It's easy if you try. No hell below us, Above us only sky”.
If the account of John Lennon selling his soul is true, he was not the first or the last to try this. There are other accounts in history of people selling their soul to the Devil.
Lest anyone reading this gets the idea that they too can have wealth and riches for 20 years by selling their soul to Satan, consider this.
If you are not saved and on your way to Heaven, Satan generally couldn't care less about you, because he already knows you are on your way to Hell without giving you anything. It would be a rare circumstance indeed that he would give you the time of day. And even if he promised you something, the Bible exposes him as the Father of Lies and a murderer from the beginning (John 8:44). He will double-cross you and arrange for your death rather than do anything for you.
Lennon's killer, Mark David Chapman, claimed that he (Chapman) was full of demons, which were exorcized from him while he was serving his murder sentence in Attica State Prison.
Unfortunately, there will always be suckers for Satan who will erroneously trust him to feed their greed. But he has shown since the days of Adam and Eve that he cannot be trusted. And while John Lennon once claimed that The Beatles were bigger than Jesus Christ, Lennon is now permanently dead, while Christ rose from the dead to show He can offer us eternal life and a better place in Heaven with Him.
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