John Lennon was killed on December 8, 1980

In Liverpool, the day of his death was already December 9—the number he obsessively believed governed his life.

Chilling? Coincidence?
Or something woven far earlier?

“Legend has it there are specific places in northwestern England where people can go to sell their soul to the devil on Rose Lane, spanning the railway tracks leading to and from Mossley Hill station [in Liverpool, England, birthplace of the Beatles], has been associated with satanic soul exchanges.

“According to the story, in December 1960, John Lennon, aged twenty, having heard the weird tales of the ‘Devil’s Bridge,’ became obsessed with the idea of selling his soul to Beelzebub in return for fame and fortune. It was his desire to become a bigger music idol than Elvis Presley, who had ironically been accused of being in league with the devil and playing the fiend’s music—rock and roll.

“Lennon sneaked out of his home at 251 Menlove Avenue, where he was living with his Aunt Mimi, and walked just over a mile through the December snow to the bridge of destiny, arriving there just before midnight.

We don’t write this to condemn Lennon.
The mercy of God extends farther than any pit we can dig.

What matters is the lesson for our time

He was killed at the Dakota apartments in Manhattan, where he lived and where a creepy, evil-limned movie, Rosemary’s Baby, was filmed. IT WAS PRECISELY TWENTY YEARS AFTER THE ALLEGED PACT.

His assassin heard “voices” directing him to kill Lennon, who himself was greatly interested (with wife Yoko, who would later call herself a witch) in the occult and psychics.

the story arises most sharply in a manuscript attributed to Fred Seaman, Lennon’s close assistant in his final years.
Hardly a sensationalist, Seaman described Lennon as a man who:

• Believed he had been “helped” by spiritual forces

• Spoke openly of past “bargains”

• Feared some sort of spiritual payback

• What is confirmed—not rumor, but fact—is Lennon’s deep fascination with the mystical and occult:

  • His admiration for Aleister Crowley (Crowley’s face famously appears on the Sgt. Pepper cover)

  • His participation in numerology, especially the number 9

  • His following of Gurdjieff teachings

  • His involvement—willing or passive—in Yoko Ono’s ritualistic “art” ceremonies

  • His belief in external “forces” guiding his creativity

  • Believers often point to Lennon’s disturbing “Lost Weekend” years (1973–75), during which he described:

    • Seeing visions

    • Hearing things

    • Feeling “taken over”

    • Being driven by impulses he could not explain

    • Acting “like a demon,” in his own words

    This is the type of testimony deliverance ministers hear from those dealing with spiritual oppression.

    Lennon himself said: “Something took me over.”

  • His admission: “I’m just a medium.”

  A medium?