imagine...

Some readers may recall that the following quote of John Lennon of the Beatles that was printed in an interview by reporter Maureen Cleave in the London Evening Standard on March 4, 1966:

"Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first—rock 'n' roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me."

This caused quite an uproar but I wonder if, at that time, the Beatles across the UK society might have been more popular than Jesus. And just how popular is Jesus today in the UK? I don't know, but the way so many people in the U.S. today are wanting to get rid of Jesus out of the public arena, do they perhaps believe that they or the leaders they put their trust in are more popular than Jesus? And do they agree with the Beetle's song, "Imagine" that said:

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.

The tragedy is that John Lennon was murdered in December of 1980 and at some point, he will know that there is both a heaven and a hell and will also know which one he is in or not in.

It doesn't matter if the Beatles were more popular than Jesus in their heyday. Jesus remains forever and will always have the last say for both time and eternity. Furthermore, when here on earth, Jesus promised that he would come again and take all his true believers to be with him in Heaven forever.

He said, "Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me. In my Father's house [Heaven]are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am" - John 14:1-3.

Men will come and go. False Christs and false prophets will come and go, even heaven and earth as we now know them will pass away, but the Word of God—including God's promises—will remain forever - Matthew 24:35