The overnight rise to fame and fortune of the Beatles has made them the idols and objects of many
young people all over the world. It is difficult to pinpoint the specific feature which makes them
so attractive, but there can be no doubt that they have captured and express the sentiment of the
younger generation.

In the Saturday Evening Post, Aug. 8-15, 1964, the Beatles’ press agent said,

"It’s incredible, absolutely incredible," says Derek Taylor, the Beatles’ press officer. "Here are
these four boys from Liverpool. They’re rude, they’re profane, they’re vulgar, and they’ve taken
over the world. It’s as if they’d founded a new religion. They’re completely anti-Christ. I mean,,
I’m anti-Christ as well, but they’re so anti-Christ they shock me, which isn’t an easy thing. But
I’m obsessed with them. Isn t everybody? I’m obsessed with their honesty. And the people who
like them most are the people who should be outraged most. In Australia, for example, each time
we’d arrive at an airport, it was as if deGaulle had landed, or better yet, the Messiah. The routes
were lined solid, cripples threw away their sticks, sick people rushed up to the car as if a touch
from one of the boys would make them well again, old women stood watching with their
grandchildren, and as we’d pass by, I could see the look on their faces.

"It was as if some savior had arrived and all these people were happy and relieved, as if things
somehow were going to be better now."

Taylor paused and stuck a cigarette in his mouth. "The only thing left for the Beatles," he said,
"is to go on a healing tour".

Such brazen acclamations but remind the Christian of the words of John, "Even now are there
many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time [hour]" (I John 2:18). The Beatles are
self-confessed antichrists if their press agent be their spokesman in this matter. We are careful to
say, however, that Mr. Taylor’s statement, "I mean, I’m anti-Christ," does not lead us to believe
that he is the Antichrist of Scripture prophecy. This Antichrist will not "regard the God of his
fathers" (showing his Jewish background), "nor the desire of women" (hoping to bear the true
Messiah), "nor regard any god" (Dan. 11:37), but will shew "himself that he is God" (II Thess.
2:4). They do not appear to be anti-Christ in doctrinal teachings, because they have none, so far
as we know. Yet because actions speak louder than words what could be more against the Lord’s
meekness and gentleness, holiness and love, than their "rudeness," "profanity," and "vulgarity"?
No, dear reader, these are simply the most popular antichrists received today on every hand with
an enthusiastic welcome surpassing even that which dignitaries receive.

Mr. Taylor very candidly summed up their position, as it appears to this writer. What better
expresses God’s thoughts of their position than the inspired words of Paul hi Phil. 3:19, "whose
glory is in their shame"? Can there be any doubt that the world is all but ready for the one
speaking great swelling words of vanity? Is it not true that "the whole world lies in the wicked
one" (I John 5:19, J.N.D. Trans.) when it is presently groaning and travailing to bring forth the
Antichrist? Jesus said, when he (the Antichrist) comes in his own name, "him ye will receive"

(John 5:43).

May the Lord open the eyes of all His own to be delivered from "the plague of Beatles" and to
use the repellent of the "whole armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day"
(Eph. 6:13). Be assured that the issue is more than music, but has with it the overtones of unholy
behavior and the undertones of antichrist. Surely "enemies of the cross of Christ" have no
attraction for those cleansed by His precious blood shed there.

May the redeemed of the Lord cleave all the more to Himself and make true melodies of praise
in .our hearts as we wait for the Son of God from heaven. But woe to those who will be swept
away in the clever delusion which will ensnare all but the very elect of that day. Yea, woe to those
who "received not the love of the truth . . . who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in
unrighteousness" (2 Thess. 2:10 and 12). Only the gospel of the grace of God can deliver from
the power of this world’s darkness, and let the light of the glory of God shining in the face of
Jesus Christ be seen by sinners today.