Glenn Beck (46:34)
There have been a handful of times when I have cracked mic open and knew exactly what I was supposed to say with you say to you and talk to you about and it was all the way to the. To my bones. I knew it. This is one of those days. I want to have a conversation with you about war. America is at war within and without and what all of this means and a way for you to view this. We begin in 60 seconds. First, let me tell you about real estate agents like trust.com. one of the one of the insiders Justin wrote in recently said just want to thank you personally for giving me the opportunity to sell my house through real estate agents I trust. We listed it during a really slow time of the year and we were on the market for over 55 days which we kind of expected. But we got an offer last night. We countered with a $5,000 guarantee. They accepted it this morning. We close April 19th. The agent was really knowledgeable, very professional. Thanks again for all your help and thanks to Ken from the Stern team. Thanks for all you do and your show. And, and thanks for the passion, for your craft. You know, there's nothing else I can add. Realestate Agents I trust Dot com. Go there. We'll help you find the right agent that will make it really, really easy. The name says it all. Realestate Agents I trust Dot com. Thanks for writing in, by the way. I want you to take a look at the world that we are standing in right now. A war with Iran that is already drawn in the United States and Israel and starting to separate people. Oil routes are threatened, missiles crossing borders, regional powers trembling, the Vatican pleading for bombs to stop. There is a description of these times at the end of the Bible. It's wars and rumors of wars, and that's the way everything kind of feels right now. You know, you might have heard your father, your grandfather say, there are no atheists in a foxhole. The prospect of war, even one across the world, makes people reach for ancient stories and holy books. Whether you're religious or not, it happens. And there is something unsettling that is going on and something about this war in particular, that makes us think about the ancient world and the beginning of everything, but also the end of everything. You know, whether that's nuclear war or the apocalypse, things that none of us want to think about, we don't want to think about those things. Christians believe that upheaval, apostasy, calamity, a moral collapse are signs of the end, but we don't know when that end is. This has happened over and over again all throughout history. Some Jews look at Israel restored in their land, surrounded by enemies, and asking whether, wow, is history moving to the place where the Messiah, as promised to the Jews, is coming. Muslims, especially with the Shia eschatology, they hear this language of oppression and chaos and deception and war and ask whether, is Trump the Dajjal? Is he the. Is he the Antichrist? They're actually saying that in parts of the Middle east he might be the Antichrist. Is the Mahadi coming? And their own tradition speaks of widespread injustice and the Mahdi being revealed. Jesus comes back, but not as Jesus, as you know, anyway. The deceiver following falling, the Great Satan falling, and history rushing towards a reckoning. So let me talk to you about what's happening here. What do you see happening? The world's great faiths are not suddenly agreeing on every doctrine. They're doing something more haunting than that. They are all staring at the same storm, each from a different tower, each from a different text, each with a different vocabulary. But they're all looking at the horizon and saying in one form or another, this may not be ordinary. Civilizations don't merely collapse from bad economics or failed diplomacy. Sometimes they do. They collapse when they lose any sense that eternity has a claim on them. When nothing is sacred and everything becomes negotiable. And we have been here in the last 25 years. Marriage is negotiable. Truth is negotiable. Whose truth? What truth? Your truth? Children become negotiable. They're not your children. They belong to somebody else. The school, the state. We can do whatever you want because they're not underage. Really? We can adjust their body. How do you know what sex is? Justice is negotiable. Even human life is negotiable. And once people have lost the permanent, they become the perfect prey for the intermediate. And that's where we are right now. And believe it or not, everyone in every land on planet Earth is prey. We are all distracted by notification. We are hypnotized by politics. We are consumed by work. We're buried in debt. We're entertained to death. We're arguing about personalities while the foundations of the world shake beneath our feet. And yet we don't stop and say, what are we really arguing for here? Isn't there something bigger here? The deepest question is not whether this is the end of days. The deepest question is, if it were the end of days, would we even notice? Or are we all too busy scrolling, too busy branding ourselves, too busy chasing comfort, too busy treating the soul like an afterthought? I've been thinking about this a lot over the last few weeks, and it is important that you hear me. If there's even a possibility that this is such a time, then our conversations are absurd. We should be talking less about who won the clip of the day war and more about whether we are right with our maker. Less about endless outrage machine and more about repentance and forgiveness and courage and discipline and empathy and mercy. When's the last time your social media said to you, what kind of man are you becoming? When's the last time you pondered that? What kind of a woman am I becoming? What have I taught through my actions, through the way I live my life? What have I taught my children to worship, comfort, success, identity, tribe or truth? Do they know what truth is? Have I made peace with my neighbor? Have I made peace with my family? Have I told my family what matters most? And am I living my life that way? Have I lived my life as though history is random? Or have I lived my life and am I living my Life today, knowing that one day I will have to answer for the life and for every minute I was given. For over 30 years, I have made a living looking ahead, connecting dots, sometimes seeing patterns before they fully form. And if you've listened to me for any length of time, you know this already. But there's a lot of times I am not right. I'll say it. There are a lot of times I am out and out, wrong things I misunderstood times I moved too fast, times I trusted the wrong sources, filled in the gaps with my own conclusions. That's real and that's all on me. But there is another part of my record that matters. Because when you step back and you look at the Ark, there are moments, if you've been listening to me for a long time, that are hard to ignore. In 1999, I spoke about Osama bin Laden and I said, there will be a major terrorist attack on New York City with blood, bodies and buildings in the streets. Two years later, it happened. In the early 2000s, I warned about our financial system, stressed beyond reason something that could snap and take the world down with it. In 2008, it did. I thought it would lead us to a Great Depression. I was wrong because I didn't see tarp. But when I saw tarp, I said, these interventions, the bailouts, they're going to stabilize thing in the short term. They'll fundamentally change our system and they will delay a deeper reckoning. And that deeper reckoning is still ahead. It's not a victory lap. This is a timeline. I've talked about the ideological movements, the Marxist, anarchist, Islamists forming strange alliances that nobody said could, nobody could say they would ever do. I was crazy for saying it. I warned that they would create chaos in the Middle east and then chaos in Europe, and it would lead to massive migration waves that would test the cohesion of all Western nations. It would come here to America and cause chaos in America. And its plan was to topple the Western world and Western civilization. That was something that was nuts when I first said it. It's not really now, is it? Years ago, I spoke about artificial intelligence in terms that sounded extreme at the time. That we could reach something like AGI around 2030, that it would disrupt not 5 or 10% of our jobs, but something closer to half of our jobs. That put me back then way on the edge of the fringe, lunatic fringe. Now I'm much closer to the center of the conversation. And that wasn't about jobs, that was about losing truth. So how do you reconcile the two Two truths that I have that I'm wrong a lot. And then I have these things that are, like, shocking. Here's the only answer I can give you. I know the difference between when it's when I'm reasoning something out and when something feels placed in front of me. And you can call that intuition, you can call that pattern recognition, you can call that experience. I call it listening to the spirit. I'm not going to force that on you. But I will tell you, I don't take credit for the moments that turned out right because I know they were not engineered or reasoned out by me. I know it and only I know it. So I can't prove that to you. But I have learned the hard way to be very, very careful about telling those two things apart. Because when it's just me, when it's just my analysis, my guess, my conclusion, I hold that loosely. I expect to be challenged. I expect to revise. It's why I say to you all the time in monologues, especially in the last few months, but especially about this war. I don't know, it could. I could be wrong on this. That's me. I'm trying to send you a signal. Whenever you hear me say that, I'm sending you the signal. This is my pattern recognition ability. It is my reason. It is. It's a chance that I am really wrong on this. That's what I'm trying to tell you when I say that. But when it's something else, something that arrives fully formed and also as a weight and a clarity and an urgency, I have learned, do not dismiss or ignore it. And that's what I want to talk to you about today. Give me 60 seconds, come back, clarify things here. You tell you about rapid radios. Ever have the moment when you realize you know something wrong, something went right wrong? 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Rapid radios communication redefine 10 seconds. Station ID glam back is on. I am not going to make a prediction or lay out a timeline or a headline. I today want to pass a warning. I feel more than compelled to share with you. Time matters right now in a way that is hard to explain with any kind of chart or data. The world is not falling apart randomly. There is a direction to it and there is awareness beyond what we can see. I feel compelled to tell you none of this is a surprise to God. None of this is catching him off guard. None of this is outside of his view and neither are you. I believe deeply that people are being called quietly, individually, across different faiths, countries, different lives. Not all with the same words, but with the same pull. You might feel it yourself. A pull to get closer to him, to simplify, to spit yourself out of the system, to return to the basics of how we are supposed to live. And I don't mean go live in a log cabin. I mean the way you're supposed to live in your own home. Because the times ahead are not going to be easy. There is going to be confusion. If you think you're confused now, you won't. You haven't seen anything. And there are going to be voices, loud, convincing voices that will try to pull you off course. And some will sound really righteous. Some, you will agree, listen to everything, but mainly listen to him. Some will sound like they're right for a while. 1% off course is going to make a big difference. They will sound urgent and they will sound like they have all the answers. They don't. I don't. I don't. I was talking with my staff this morning about the state of America and we talked about how it reminds us of the battles in the Bible where the enemy is just consumed with the spirit of confusion. Like a fog over their camp and they just start killing their brothers and their allies instead of who they're supposed to be fighting. They just all turn on each other. That fog has clearly fallen over America and we're watching right now. The left rip itself apart for years and it gobble other parts of the left and now the right is joining in. But beyond politics, we're ripping each other apart in our own families in our marriages. The spirit of confusion has us attacking the people we're supposed to be fighting with, not against. And it is a thick, thick fog, and it's easy to get lost in if you don't have your footing. If you're not grounded in something deeper than what's happening right now, you can and will get lost. Now, let me give you some good news. We make it. We make it. It's going to be fascinating to see how God solves all this, but we make it. However this unfolds, however difficult the road becomes, the story doesn't end in darkness. There is something on the other side that is glorious and worth enduring for. Something better than what anyone has ever known. But getting there requires preparation. Not just in what you store or plan, but in who you are. One of these days, I want to tell you some things about I always know when trouble is coming because I come under attack and my family is under attack now like it's never been. I mean, it's been bad in other times, but. And it's. It's playing on me. You have to get these things cleared up. Your family matters, your faith matters. Your daily choices matter more than any headline. I told my wife yesterday we have to double our work on feeding the hungry. We have to double our work on telling the truth. Leaving your sins, loving your children fiercely, like they're the only thing that matters. Honor your vows. Pray like heaven is real. Read the ancient words again. Stand down from hatred. Step, step away from the lie that politics will save only what repentance can save. And you know what? I hope I'm wrong. And you know, if this is not the beginning of some grand chapter, those are still the right things to do. We all need to live our life as if. You know, the life that we live, as if the Messiah is near, is the life we should live, even if he's not. So don't get distracted. Don't chase every new voice. Don't trust any voice, including mine. Trust the still, small voice. Don't dismiss it. Ever. Do it. Do what he tells you to do. And you know the difference between yours and his. It's usually something you don't want to do. Then do it. But time is short. Strengthen your relationship in God in whatever way you understand.