RADIOMay 11, 2023

Glenn's POWERFUL view on life & God: ‘My world was about to change’

In this clip, Glenn reflects on hardships in his personal life, and he explains how they’re shaping the way he views God’s love, his role for this show, and what YOU should do to spiritually prepare for what’s coming next. He explains the ways in which children are suffering now more than ever — thanks to certain social media apps — and he urges parents to do what they can to protect them from those evils. Glenn reminds us that his difficulties aren’t unique, and that millions of parents are grappling with similar challenges. Plus, he encourages us all to remember that Jesus’ love is eternal for ALL…even gun owners, despite what former Sen. Claire McCaskill may say.

Transcript

Below is a rush transcript that may contain errors

GLENN: Let me address something personally here just for a couple of seconds, and then we're going to go into the crazy news.

About four weeks ago, I think I've mentioned to you, maybe six weeks ago. I mentioned to you that I had a -- I had a feeling in prayer one day. That -- in fact, the words came to me, your whole life is about to change. Everything is about to change. I need you to rededicate yourself and come to me every day for the next two weeks.

So I would go to our temple every day for two weeks. And pray and meditate and serve.

And I didn't get an answer, per se, on what that meant.

For a long time, I thought, maybe it's -- gosh, maybe he's just testing me.

Will you actually do what I say?

And so I did. And then I told you, that I started to feel very, very optimistic, about our situation. And that I was possibly being released from what I believe has been a calling, that I've been honored to be called to serve. But I have not enjoyed it, per se. Of being a watchman on the tower. And warning people.

Here's what's coming. And I feel as though, there's the possibility that those days are over for me in this way. I'm still going to be warning you. But I -- it was a very heavy burden for me to go, am I missing anything?

What do I need to tell you?

I feel as though what I need to tell you now, is not a warning. It's an invitation.

All those who have really been able to hear. I think most people have made their choices.

And others will choose differently as we go. Some will fall away. Some will join.

But the mass in this audience has heard. And I believe you're the most prepared people on planet earth right now. I don't think there's anyone.

Well, maybe the Soros family. That is more prepared for whatever comes our way next.

And my invitation to you is believe in yourself.

Know who God is. And know what your relationship to God is. And if you have wrongs in your life, write them. And understand that you are a child of a loving and forgiving God.

He -- he is watching us, just the way we watch our children, when they make huge mistakes. And you're like, oh.

You didn't have to do that. And now some things are going to -- repercussions are going to happen.

And -- but I'm with you.

There is one kind of love, unconditional love, that I think is proveable to all of us.

And that is the love of our children.

When you have a child, it's different than even your marriage.

You can say it's unconditional.

But it's really not. Your spouse can do some things. That you're like, okay.

You've crossed a line there.

But when our kids do something, they're still our kids. Because we see in them, who they could have been and who they still can be, if they just get past all of this stuff. That's the way God looks at us. And he's just waiting for us, to turn back to him. I had a different understanding about how my life is about to change, and I -- I am glad is to, it only lasted a night. But I had a -- we've had suicidal ideation in my family with my children. And it went past an idea on Monday night. And my world was about to change. The good news is: My child is healthy. And I don't think any permanent damage. And safe in a hospital. And we'll leave it at that.

The reason why I tell you this is, I know I'm not alone. They're -- she was in a children's hospital, and in this children's hospital, there were three can I see. She's just turned 17. She was the oldest on the floor.

And they are treating children for suicide, at the age of eight. Something is going on. And I believe I know what it is. It's what's being taught in schools. How our schools are behaving. How our children are so lost. They're attacking each other unlike anything I've ever seen. Sex is just no big deal.

When you and I both know, it is a very big deal. In my lifetime, childhood, and I've always said this as a joke. But I think it's actually kind of true.

The rest of your life is just trying to recover from childhood. You know. And in little things.

It doesn't even have to be a bad thing. Like my mom used to always say, anyone want gum?

And we didn't have a lot of men. And so she would take the wriggly spearmint gun. And she would cut it in half. And she would give half of it to my sister. And half of it to me. So now, I always have either three cubes or sticks of gum. Always.

I don't need three. I just have so overcompensated, and I've done that my whole life. You know, and we all have that one way or another.

Something that we're trying to -- just marked us.

Imagine the marks that are being left our children today. And it is intentional.

And it is coming from school and social media. TikTok, Instagram, they are the worst. They are the worst.

Not Instagram. It's -- what's the other one? It's the one that I don't have. The kids nowadays they have --

STU: Snapchat.

GLENN: Snapchat. Snapchat and TikTok. The worst.

Get your kids off of them. Take away, if you haven't given your kids a phone yet, mine needed them when they turned, what?

Fifteen. Because they had to go to school. They had to have a phone. They had to have devices. I should have pulled them from the school at that point. And just said, no. You know what, you're not going. But I didn't. And they've changed because of social media.

It is dangerous, and it is killing our kids. Quite honestly, it's taken everything in me, to not just pack up my entire house and move away to a very small town. And live in a house that has no access to internet.

If you can do that, you should. I do think you should. Live in a small town.

But your problems are going to follow you, because they're everywhere. But you need to do what you need to do, to protect your family. Don't send your kids to college.

What are you sending your kids to college for, honestly? Unless they want to be a doctor. But to find themselves? Oh, I'll help you find yourself. I'll not spend $50,000 or more, to help you find yourself. Because I know what you'll find. The exact opposite of everything that your mother and I have tried to teach you. And just tried. Prayed. Struggled.

Stayed awake every night. How do we make sure we plant this value or virtue deep inside of them?

That's what you'll find when you go to college. The opposite of that. And the people that we've prayed to make sure our kids never meet, we'll be paying their salary.

We know what's happening in our schools. And we still have our kids in schools. Some people just cannot do it.

But there are other options.

You've got to get your kids out of these schools. We're in an emergency situation.

Now, know that I'm a dead, that has just gone through a year of hell. And the last three days, have been the hardest of my entire life.

But I believe all of these things to be true. Something is going on. And we just won't name the evil. Okay. So let's do that.

Number one, it's Satan. Evil is playing a huge role in the world today. Period.

And in the name of Jesus Christ, you are dismissed! Two, social media. What is happening with social media, is just the beginning. You now couple it with AI, and your kids don't stand a chance. Three, what's being taught in schools.

They are lies! Four, the lies of the media and Hollywood.

You have to be in the world, but not of the world.

We need God, now more than any other time possibly in American history. Except for the Civil War. And the American Revolution.

But that's where we're at.

Like-minded people have got to start coming together, and helping each other. You know, I heard something. Do we have -- do we have from yesterday? Cut one. McCaskill. Claire McCaskill, talking about Jesus.

This -- this clip is amazing. Listen to this.

VOICE: One of my who can't understand children had his first communion over the weekend. And I listened to the homily at that service, and I was reminded about what a peaceful man Jesus was.

And I listened to that elected representatives. And they always want to say, oh, let's not make it political. After there's a slaughter of innocence. But this is in its essence, political.

And I will tell you this, I believe very firmly, that Jesus would be shocked, at what our country is allowing to happen.

There is no way that he would embrace everyone walking around with weapons of war.

GLENN: Stop. First of all, I don't speak for Jesus. So I don't know.

Second of all, I don't think Jesus will be shocked by anything.

I think he's got it.

The last thing is the most important thing we need to learn.

I don't think Jesus would embrace all gun owners.

Well, Jesus wouldn't take the guns from them. Jesus would embrace everyone. Even the most vile of vile.

Jesus would embrace. Because every single one of us are a son or daughter of the Almighty God. All of us.

He doesn't want us to win over the other side. He wants all of his children to return to him.

And you don't get that by calling people names, by putting your finger down them, and rubbing their face in it.

I don't care which side is doing it. That's not -- vengeance is his.

Ours is to love and support one another, and correct things that are eternally wrong and eternally true, to stand up for those things.

In the next few weeks, I'm going to go over some things that I found in history, that I was not aware of in any shape or form. I had no idea.

And my God Almighty, we are repeating history, almost exactly. And there is one last step to that history. Those historic events. One last step. And it is the one that will save us or destroy us.

And I will be telling you about it, in the coming weeks, as we finish doing all of our homework on it.

But I will tell you, it's not too late.

God is very aware of everything.

And he is our only prayer and salvation.

And he wants to help. All of his children. But we must be more like Christ, not his policemen.

Shocking train video: Passengers wait while woman bleeds out

Surveillance footage of the murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte, NC, reveals that the other passengers on the train took a long time to help her. Glenn, Stu, and Jason debate whether they were right or wrong to do so.

Transcript

Below is a rush transcript that may contain errors

GLENN: You know, I'm -- I'm torn on how I feel about the people on the train.

Because my first instinct is, they did nothing! They did nothing! Then my -- well, sit down and, you know -- you know, you're going to be judged. So be careful on judging others.

What would I have done? What would I want my wife to do in that situation?

STU: Yeah. Are those two different questions, by the way.

GLENN: Yeah, they are.

STU: I think they go far apart from each other. What would I want myself to do. I mean, it's tough to put yourself in a situation. It's very easy to watch a video on the internet and talk about your heroism. Everybody can do that very easily on Twitter. And everybody is.

You know, when you're in a vehicle that doesn't have an exit with a guy who just murdered somebody in front of you, and has a dripping blood off of a knife that's standing 10 feet away from you, 15 feet away from you.

There's probably a different standard there, that we should all kind of consider. And maybe give a little grace to what I saw at least was a woman, sitting across the -- the -- the aisle.

I think there is a difference there. But when you talk about that question. Those two questions are definitive.

You know, I know what I would want myself to do. I would hope I would act in a way that didn't completely embarrass myself afterward.

But I also think, when I'm thinking of my wife. My advice to my wife would not be to jump into the middle of that situation at all costs. She might do that anyway. She actually is a heck of a lot stronger than I am.

But she might do it anyway.

GLENN: How pathetic, but how true.

STU: Yes. But that would not be my advice to her.

GLENN: Uh-huh.

STU: Now, maybe once the guy has certainly -- is out of the area. And you don't think the moment you step into that situation. He will turn around and kill you too. Then, of course, obviously. Anything you can do to step in.

Not that there was much anyone on the train could do.

I mean, I don't think there was an outcome change, no matter what anyone on that train did.

Unfortunately.

But would I want her to step in?

Of course. If she felt she was safe, yes.

Think about, you said, your wife. Think about your daughter. Your daughter is on that train, just watching someone else getting murdered like that. Would you advise your daughter to jump into a situation like that?

That girl sitting across the aisle was somebody's daughter. I don't know, man.

JASON: I would. You know, as a dad, would I advise.

Hmm. No.

As a human being, would I hope that my daughter or my wife or that I would get up and at least comfort that woman while she's dying on the floor of a train?

Yeah.

I would hope that my daughter, my son, that I would -- and, you know, I have more confidence in my son or daughter or my wife doing something courageous more than I would.

But, you know, I think I have a more realistic picture of myself than anybody else.

And I'm not sure that -- I'm not sure what I would do in that situation. I know what I would hope I would do. But I also know what I fear I would do. But I would have hoped that I would have gotten up and at least tried to help her. You know, help her up off the floor. At least be there with her, as she's seeing her life, you know, spill out in under a minute.

And that's it other thing we have to keep in mind. This all happened so rapidly.

A minute is -- will seem like a very long period of time in that situation. But it's a very short period of time in real life.

STU: Yeah. You watch the video, Glenn. You know, I don't need the video to -- to change my -- my position on this.

But at his seem like there was a -- someone who did get there, eventually, to help, right? I saw someone seemingly trying to put pressure on her neck.

GLENN: Yeah. And tried to give her CPR.

STU: You know, no hope at that point. How long of a time period would you say that was?

Do you know off the top of your head?

GLENN: I don't know. I don't know. I know that we watched the video that I saw. I haven't seen past 30 seconds after she --

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: -- is down. And, you know, for 30 seconds nothing is happening. You know, that is -- that is not a very long period of time.

STU: Right.

GLENN: In reality.

STU: And especially, I saw the pace he was walking. He certainly can't be -- you know, he may have left the actual train car by 30 seconds to a minute. But he wasn't that far away. Like he was still in visual.

He could still turn around and look and see what's going on at that point. So certainly still a threat is my point. He has not, like, left the area. This is not that type of situation.

You know, I -- look, as you point out, I think if I could be super duper sexist for a moment here, sort of my dividing line might just be men and women.

You know, I don't know if it's that a -- you're not supposed to say that, I suppose these days. But, like, there is a difference there. If I'm a man, you know, I would be -- I would want my son to jump in on that, I suppose. I don't know if he could do anything about it. But you would expect at least a grown man to be able to go in there and do something about it. A woman, you know, I don't know.

Maybe I'm -- I hope --

GLENN: Here's the thing I -- here's the thing that I -- that causes me to say, no. You should have jumped in.

And that is, you know, you've already killed one person on the train. So you've proven that you're a killer. And anybody who would have screamed and got up and was with her, she's dying. She's dying. Get him. Get him.

Then the whole train is responsible for stopping that guy. You know. And if you don't stop him, after he's killed one person, if you're not all as members of that train, if you're not stopping him, you know, the person at the side of that girl would be the least likely to be killed. It would be the ones that are standing you up and trying to stop him from getting back to your daughter or your wife or you.

JASON: There was a -- speaking of men and women and their roles in this. There was a video circling social media yesterday. In Sweden. There was a group of officials up on a stage. And one of the main. I think it was health official woman collapses on stage. Completely passes out.

All the men kind of look away. Or I don't know if they're looking away. Or pretending that they didn't know what was going on. There was another woman standing directly behind the woman passed out.

Immediately springs into action. Jumps on top. Grabs her pant leg. Grabs her shoulder. Spins her over and starts providing care.

What did she have that the other guys did not? Or women?

She was a sheepdog. There is a -- this is my issue. And I completely agree with Stu. I completely agree with you. There's some people that do not respond this way. My issue is the proportion of sheepdogs versus people that don't really know how to act. That is diminishing in western society. And American society.

We see it all the time in these critical actions. I mean, circumstances.

There are men and women, and it's actually a meme. That fantasize about hoards of people coming to attack their home and family. And they sit there and say, I've got it. You guys go. I'm staying behind, while I smoke my cigarette and wait for the hoards to come, because I will sacrifice myself. There are men and women that fantasize of block my highway. Go ahead. Block my highway. I'm going to do something about it. They fantasize about someone holding up -- not a liquor store. A convenience store or something. Because they will step in and do something. My issue now is that proportion of sheepdogs in society is disappearing. Just on statistical fact, there should be one within that train car, and there were none.

STU: Yeah. I mean --

JASON: They did not respond.

STU: We see what happens when they do, with Daniel Penny. Our society tries to vilify them and crush their existence. Now, there weren't that many people on that train. Right?

At least on that car. At least it's limited. I only saw three or four people there, there may have been more. I agree with you, though. Like, you see what happens when we actually do have a really recent example of someone doing exactly what Jason wants and what I would want a guy to do. Especially a marine to step up and stop this from happening. And the man was dragged by our legal system to a position where he nearly had to spend the rest of his life in prison.

I mean, I -- it's insanity. Thankfully, they came to their senses on that one.

GLENN: Well, the difference between that one and this one though is that the guy was threatening. This one, he killed somebody.

STU: Yeah. Right. Well, but -- I think -- but it's the opposite way. The debate with Penny, was should he have recognize that had this person might have just been crazy and not done anything?

Maybe. He hadn't actually acted yet. He was just saying things.

GLENN: Yeah. Well --

STU: He didn't wind up stabbing someone. This is a situation where these people have already seen what this man will do to you, even when you don't do anything to try to stop him. So if this woman, who is, again, looks to be an average American woman.

Across the aisle. Steps in and tries to do something. This guy could easily turn around and just make another pile of dead bodies next to the one that already exists.

And, you know, whether that is an optimal solution for our society, I don't know that that's helpful.

In that situation.

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Max Lucado on Overcoming Grief in Dark Times | The Glenn Beck Podcast | Ep 266

Disclaimer: This episode was filmed prior to the assassination of Charlie Kirk. But Glenn believes Max's message is needed now more than ever.
The political world is divided, constantly at war with itself. In many ways, our own lives are not much different. Why do we constantly focus on the negative? Why are we in pain? Where is God amid our anxiety and fear? Why can’t we ever seem to change? Pastor Max Lucado has found the solution: Stop thinking like that! It may seem easier said than done, but Max joins Glenn Beck to unpack the three tools he describes in his new book, “Tame Your Thoughts,” that make it easy for us to reset the way we think back to God’s factory settings. In this much-needed conversation, Max and Glenn tackle everything from feeling doubt as a parent to facing unfair hardships to ... UFOs?! Plus, Max shares what he recently got tattooed on his arm.

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Are Demonic Forces to Blame for Charlie Kirk, Minnesota & Charlotte Killings?

This week has seen some of the most heinous actions in recent memory. Glenn has been discussing the growth of evil in our society, and with the assassination of civil rights leader Charlie Kirk, the recent transgender shooter who took the lives of two children at a Catholic school, and the murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska, how can we make sense of all this evil? On today's Friday Exclusive, Glenn speaks with BlazeTV host of "Strange Encounters" Rick Burgess to discuss the demon-possessed transgender shooter and the horrific assassination of Charlie Kirk. Rick breaks down the reality of demon possession and how individuals wind up possessed. Rick and Glenn also discuss the dangers of the grotesque things we see online and in movies, TV shows, and video games on a daily basis. Rick warns that when we allow our minds to be altered by substances like drugs or alcohol, it opens a door for the enemy to take control. A supernatural war is waging in our society, and it’s a Christian’s job to fight this war. Glenn and Rick remind Christians of what their first citizenship is.