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From the Bible:

Four great animals came up from the sea, diverse one from another.

These great animals, which are four, are four kings, who shall arise out of the earth. They will come from the east, west, north, and south, and will sit down in God ’s Kingdom.

“I will strengthen them in Yahweh; and they will walk up and down in his name,” says Yahweh. “Out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of those who make merry; and I will multiply them and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them and they shall not be small.

“They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean. Then the eyes of the blind will be opened, and the ears of the deaf will be unstopped.

“They will be for a sign and for a wonder to you and your offspring – forever.”  

Let them praise Yahweh’s name, for he commanded, and they were created. As for their appearance, the four of them had one likeness, like a wheel within a wheel. They had hair like women’s hair, and their teeth were like those of lions.

They had breast-plates which seemed to be made of steel; and the noise caused by their wings was like that of a vast number of horses and chariots hurrying into battle.

The first creature was like a lion, and the second creature like a calf, and the third creature had a face like a man, and the fourth was like a flying eagle.

They are joined to one another. They stick together, so that they can’t be pulled apart. Each one went straight forward: where the spirit was to go, they went; they didn’t turn when they went.

And all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink.  For they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.

Yahweh is their strength. He is a stronghold of salvation to his anointed. They change the night into day, saying “The light is near” in the presence of darkness.

This is the plan that is determined for the whole earth. This is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations. For three things the earth tremble, and under four, it can’t bear up

Pineapple Records said
Way back in the summer of 2013, I created (under my previous handle, “Funny Paper”) a topic here based on this strange book that’s out there (also a website) that has some interesting, albeit weird, exegesis of Beatles songs — and of the Beatles as a cultural phenomenon — as a kind of spiritual force, or divine revelation (and the Beatles themselves as “Messengers” of it):

https://www.beatlesbible.com/f…..dd/#p78069

I still find that strange book’s thesis interesting and through-provoking.  There is a sense where the Beatles almost “exploded” and morphed so radically into a cultural force (with messages of love and soon thereafter, through John’s and George’s evolution particularly, more esoteric spirituality of sorts); and it often almost seems like individual Beatles didn’t fully realize what was happening to them, and through them…

I found http://www.thetruthcontest.com to be interesting as well. Especially the chapter on the Beatles as prophets, of course. http://www.whollyscripture.com kind of takes this idea and expands upon it. That is where the Bible verses that I quoted come from. 

“The Beatles were a kind of a religion.” – John Lennon  

“We [The Beatles] just happened to become leaders of whatever cosmic thing was going on. We came to symbolize the start of a whole new way of thinking.”

– Paul McCartney  

“The more I go into this spiritual thing, the more I realize that we- the Beatles- aren’t doing it, but that something else is doing it.” – George Harrison  

“We were honest with each other and we were honest about the music. The music was positive. It was positive in love. They did write – we all wrote – about other things, but the basic Beatles message was Love.” – Ringo Starr