“It is
better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of
fools.” —Ecclesiastes 7:5
Imagine
first appeared on the Billboard chart on September 18, 1971,
reaching #1 and spending a total of 30 weeks. “Imagine”
was John Lennon's second major release apart from the Beatles. Released on September 9, 1971 (US) and October 8, 1971 (UK), it has remained John's
most commercially successful album. It was recorded primarily in
John's home studio which turned out to be the last time he would ever record
in England.
The first tract on the album, Imagine, would become
Lennon's legacy to a world living in rebellion against God. In the
song, Lennon paints an “unrealistic” picture of life in the minds of his
listeners. He sees a world without Heaven or Hell, without religion. He sees a world without countries,
borders and without war.
Though such a “dream” may seem admirable to
many people, Lennon's dream CLEARLY requires an abandonment of God and His
Word. Sin is ignored. The Bible has divided more people than any other book ever
written. Why is this? It's simply because there is a Heaven and
Hell John. Sin is a reality of life. There is a malicious Devil who works relentlessly to
DECEIVE us (2nd Corinthians 4:4; 11:3). There is a Loving God in
Heaven Who has provided us with a plan of redemption through faith in Jesus
Christ (Acts 10:43). Humanity is sinful (Isaiah 64:6; Romans 3:10,19-23).
No
matter how much we try to fulfill Lennon's dream, it WILL fail because
humans are wicked, dirty, rotten, conniving, lying, stealing, murderous,
hell-bound, sinners! This is exactly what is wrong with
modern psychology.
Whether you believe the Bible or not, you CANNOT deny historical facts. If
history has taught us only one thing, it has taught us that men DON'T learn from
their mistakes. History always repeats itself. The Bible describes the
woeful condition of mankind like no other Book. Who are we to argue
with God?
Here's the lyrics to Lennon's hit song Imagine
(1971):
Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today...
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace...
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world
will live as one
Did you read that? Lennon sang, “Imagine
there's no heaven... it's EASY if you try.” It's easy if you try? Well, not exactly John. You
see Psalm 19:1 proclaims that “The
heavens declare the glory of God...” It would be very difficult to
deny something that is so obvious. In fact, let's look at Romans 1:20
(I'm about to discourage anyone who shares Lennon's dream of a utopian world
without God)...
"For the invisible
things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being
understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead;
so that they are without excuse:" —Romans 1:20
Romans
1:20 plainly warns that no one has an excuse not to acknowledge and
obey God in their life. Certainly, Lennon's message sounds wonderful. Only a
hateful person would want war and bloodshed, which religion often leads to.
However, John Lennon's views are not reality. War is a fact of life, because
sin is a fact of life.
As long as there are lustful, greedy, proud,
murderous, hateful people in the world there will be a necessity to go to
war. It would be great if we were all perfect, and there were no sinners,
and we could all respect and love one another; but that's not the situation
at all.
We are sinners... “As it is written, There is none righteous,
no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh
after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become
unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.”
Sadly, despite the
Vatican's attempt to forgive John's sins, it's too late him.
Lennon's song, Imagine, is nothing more
than a delusional fantasy. Tragically, many people in the world today are
trying to fulfill Lennon's impossible dream. It's the religion of New Age and it's
vehicle is the
New World Order, i.e., the Beast
System of the coming Antichrist. New Age teachings ignore the reality
of sin, the necessity for divine judgment and the justice of being punished
in the fires of Hell. We all deserve to burn in Hell for our own sins. The
root teaching of New Age is that mankind is not sinful, which eliminates the
need for salvation and a Savior. This is not reality. Anyone with a brain
sees the wickedness of mankind. Everyone blames religious people; but it's
mankind as a whole.
Satan is a master deceiver... "For such are
false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles
of Christ. And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an
angel of light" (2nd Corinthians 11:13-14). Satan is a con-artist. When
The Beatles came to America, America's preachers
weren't just angry about the devilish music. They were also concerned about the
worldly philosophies of The Beatles. From Paul McCartney's praise of
Roman Catholicism in the hit song, Let It Be, to George Harrison's praise of Hare
Krishna in his song, My Sweet Lord, The Beatles brought evil to America.
It was in the hit song, Back In The U.S.S.R., that The Beatles
praised Communist Russia. One of Paul McCartney's song was titled, "Let's Do
It In The Road." The Beatles represented everything unholy:
fornication, drug abuse, rebellion, Communism, blasphemy against Jesus
Christ, false religion, and even allegiance to Satan, as I will show you in
a moment.
The Beatles
and Satanism
To no surprise, tract 8 of the album, Imagine, was an obvious personal attack by John Lennon against former
band member, Paul McCartney...
"How Do You Sleep?," a
devastatingly powerful piece of music, was evidence that the battle
between John and Paul had turned very nasty indeed. George Harrison, whose
presence on the cut makes clear where his own sympathies lied, contributes
the most stinging slide guitar work of his career; and John's voice,
around which an unusually hard-assed string section weaves nightmarish
arabesques, has never sounded more menacing. Lennon's vitriolic open
letter goes on to castigate McCartney for living with "straights," for
having married a nag, and for being dead after all.
But whatever
disappointment some fans may have felt at McCartney's recent work, few
enjoyed being witness to the execution. Musically, "How Do You Sleep?" is
brilliant, in that it forces the listener to share John's anger; for that
reason, many of his admirers preferred not to listen. (To drive the point
home, Imagine was packaged with a postcard depicting Lennon
fondling a pig — an unmistakable lampoon of Paul's
Ram cover, on
which McCartney fondles a ram.)
SOURCE:
http://www.superseventies.com/lennon2.html
Here's the lyrics
to the song How Do You Sleep?
Now I'm going to startle you a bit with some
Satanism. Notice again the last part of the quote I just gave to you...
(To drive the point home,
Imagine was packaged with a postcard depicting Lennon fondling
a pig — an unmistakable lampoon of Paul's
Ram cover, on
which McCartney fondles a ram.)
Paul McCartney fondling a Ram on his album
cover? Lennon fondling a pig? We know from the above quote why
John Lennon fondled a pig, but why did Paul McCartney use a RAM on his album
cover? The reason is obvious to anyone familiar with the occult.
"The Goat of
Mendez is the god of the witches. (Mendez is another spelling of Mendes, a
city of ancient Egypt where fertility worship - Baal worship -- was
practiced). Masons admit readily that Baphomet is a pagan fertility god
and, more importantly, that Freemasonry is a fertility cult religion. At any
rate, this mockery of Jesus is a satanic symbol and figures prominently in
Satan worship."—Kerr
Cuhulain (Occult author, police investigator, and friend of witches)
Did you know that the ram
and the goat are synonymous with witchcraft and Satan worship? The
Baphomet or Satanic pentagram is pointed downward to accommodate the outline
of a goat's head.
Some
witches today claim that the goat head is really
supposed to be a ram's
head (which originated with the ram-headed god of Ammon in ancient
times). The photo to the right is Ammon, the Egyptian ram-god,
also identified with the Greek god Zeus. A ram (a non-castrated adult
male sheep), has CURVED horns (as in the center photo above); whereas, as
goat has a beard and STRAIGHT horns (as in the left photo above).
BOTH
symbols are utilized in today's Satanism, occult, and witchcraft circles. The Church of Satan
uses the goat's head on their main webpage. The
pentagram image is
inherent to BOTH the goat and the ram. Whether ram or goat, BOTH
animals are used to depict the works of darkness.
Notice below on Ozzy Osborne's album cover that
he uses the RAM (curved horns). Do you really think it a coincidence
the Paul McCartney placed a RAM on his album cover? Clearly, the music
industry has an infatuation with Satanic symbolism.
Above: The
original 1973 album cover of the Rolling Stones album titled, Goat's Head
Soup. The goat and ram head are greatly revered in Satanism and
witchcraft.
“The goathead is a black
mockery of Jesus' role as the Lamb of God. It is the Satanist's bird at
Jesus.”
(SOURCE: Back To School Special, by Thomas A. Carder;
ChildCare Action
Project: Christian Analysis of American Culture (CAP),
http://www.capalert.com/backtoschool/backtoschool.htm)
The Freemasons worship the goat-headed
Baphomet (pictured below), as their god of enlightenment.
The
Beast sits atop the world. The moons may also suggest that this is the
Prince of Darkness. The moon is also an accurate metaphor for Satan,
masquerading as a 'source of light'
It can only reflect the true light down
upon those living in darkness, and it pales in comparison.
Satan is the god of this sinful world (2nd
Corinthians 4:4) and as such demands allegiance from those who desire fame,
fortune and power. In Luke 4:6 and 7 Satan said to Jesus... "All this
power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto
me; and to whomsoever I will I give it. If thou therefore wilt worship me,
all shall be thine." Although Jesus declined Satan's offer, wicked men
and women have been accepting Satan's offer throughout history, worshipping
the Prince of Darkness. It's simple... if you want to be massively
successful in this sinful world, then you've got to sell your soul to
the Devil. It's no coincidence that our highest politicians are all going
around flashing Satanic hand signs. How do you think they got into power?
The most successful music artists are those
with New Age occult symbols on their labels or connections to witchcraft.
Elton John is one of the most successful entertainers in American history,
and all his music is written by a witch, Bernie Taupin. Patricia (Kennealy) Morrison of
The Doors was a
Wiccan witch! Brain Wilson of The Beach Boys
said in 1966 that he was trying to make "witchcraft music."
John Lennon's song IMAGINE is of the
Devil, rooted in New Age philosophy...
In John Lennon's song "God," at the end of a long
laundry list of things he didn’t hold belief in (Jesus, Kennedy, Buddha,
Elvis, Zimmerman, Beatles), Lennon sang: "I just believe in me (Yoko and me)
and that’s reality." Perhaps it’s time to revise the lyrics (at
least in our minds) and add Lennon to the long list of subjects to
profess disbelief in
and remember the man—the conflicted and contradicting one we see in Imagine and elsewhere—instead of the myth of the holy seer perpetrated
on October 2 and generally in popular culture. Otherwise, pain becomes
separated from pleasure, reality from dream, truth from lies, and Lennon
from legend.
SOURCE:
www.gadflyonline.com/ 11-19-01/music-lennon.html
For someone who claims he didn't believe in
Jesus Christ, Lennon certainly blasphemed the name of Jesus quite often.
John Lennon, in his
book, A Spaniard in the Works, portrays Jesus Christ as, "Jesus El Pifico, a garlic-eating, stinking little yellow, greasy
fascist bastard catholic Spaniard." (A Spaniard in the Works,
p.14)
Here's some of the lyrics from John Lennon's
blasphemous song, Serve Yourself...
You say you found Jesus Christ
He’s the only one
You say you found Buddha
Sitting in the sun
You say you found Mohammed
Facing to the east
You say you found Krishna
Dancing in the seats
Ain't nobody gonna do it for you
Well you may believe in devils
and you may believe in lords
But Christ, you're gonna have to serve yourself and that's all there is to it.
…You got to serve yourself
Ain't nobody gonna do it for you?
You gotta serve yourself
Nobody’s gonna do for you.
Serve Yourself—Lennon
Anthology
John Lennon's dream did come true many
millenniums ago, after the flood. Noah and his wife and his three sons and
their wives were the only ones to survive the flood. All humanity was killed
in the flood. Only eight people survived the flood. There were no borders
when they walked off the ark in Genesis 8. There were no religions. There
was nothing to go to war or fight over. It wasn't even a few chapters later
in the Book of Genesis, and humanity had gone once again into utter
wickedness at the Tower of Babel in Genesis 11. God had to intervene and
segregate mankind, separating them across the face of the earth; changing
their languages and
geographical locations as a safeguard (Acts 17:26-27).
Sadly, John Lennon found out on December 8th, 1980
that SERVING YOURSELF is a sure road to Hell. John did it his way. The Word
of God proclaims adamantly that ONLY through Jesus Christ can anyone be
saved (John 14:6; 2nd
Thessalonians 1:8-9; Acts 4:10-12). God does not have pleasure in the death of
the wicked (Ezekiel 33:11). It is NOT God's will for anyone to perish, but
for all men and women to repent toward God (2nd Peter 3:9). It's
Jesus or Hell. John Lennon went to Hell according to 2nd Thessalonians
1:8-9.
