‘Wars and rumors of wars’: Glenn Beck warns this could be the end of days — but are we too distracted to see it?

The ongoing war between Israel, the United States, and Iran has Christians, Jews, and Muslims all asking the same question: Are we witnessing the end of days?

“There is a description of these times at the end of the Bible. It's ‘wars and rumors of wars,”’ says Glenn Beck, “and that's the way everything kind of feels right now.”

Christians, he explains, witness the “upheaval, apostasy, calamity, [and] moral collapse” and wonder if Jesus is getting ready to return; Jews see “Israel restored in their land, surrounded by enemies” and anticipate the coming of their promised Messiah; Muslims “hear this language of oppression and chaos and deception and war and ask whether is Trump the Dajjal” — the evil one who will hasten the Mahdi’s return.

“What’s happening here?” Glenn asks.

“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.”

And yet at the same time, we live in an age of distraction.

“We are all distracted by notifications. 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,” says Glenn.

“The deepest question,” he says, “is not whether this is the end of days. The deepest question is: If it were the end of days, would we even notice?”

Glenn fears that the majority of people are “too busy scrolling, too busy branding [themselves], too busy chasing comfort, too busy treating the soul like an afterthought” to even notice the potential stakes of what’s going on around us.

“I've been thinking about this a lot over the last few weeks, and it is important that you hear me,” he says.

“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.”

Glenn acknowledges that over the past 30 years of his media career, he has been “looking ahead,” “connecting dots,” “seeing patterns,” and making predictions about what’s on the horizon. Some of these hypotheses were “not right,” he confesses, but others have been scarily accurate.

From 9/11 and the 2008 financial crisis to the peculiar alliance of Islamists, Marxists, and anarchists to “topple the Western world” and the AI takeover, Glenn has hit the nail on the head with many of his predictions.

He credits this prescience largely to the Holy Spirit.

“I don't take credit for the moments that turned out right because I know they were not engineered or reasoned out by me,” he says.

Right now, in light of the chaos in the Middle East and the moral decay all around us, Glenn has another message he believes was given to him “fully formed” with “a weight and a clarity and an urgency” that can only be spiritual.

“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,” he says.

A time is coming, he warns, that will be marked by intense hardship and deep confusion. “If you're not grounded in something deeper than what's happening right now, you can and will get lost,” he says.

The good news is that no matter how “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,” says Glenn.

“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 away from the lie that politics will save only what repentance can save,” he pleads.

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