The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program ｜ Guest： Jeremiah Johnston ｜ 4⧸3⧸26

00:00:00.000 Well, what a great program today. You've got a great, great show just ahead of you.

00:00:06.540 I start with fraud in California. It is bad in California, and it's everywhere,

00:00:13.560 red states and blue states. I'm convinced of it, and we need somebody to track it down

00:00:18.460 without a team jersey. Let's get to the end of this fraud. I'll outline just what we found

00:00:25.700 recently in California, and you'll see what's coming. It will be very freeing and very helpful

00:00:31.200 when we put these people in jail. Also, pushing back on the atheists that got my Artemis post, 0.79

00:00:37.180 a community note. God is not great. It's man that's great. Really? We'll talk about that.

00:00:42.900 And Jeremiah Johnston is with us to talk about the archaeological evidence of Jesus Christ and

00:00:49.680 the resurrection on this good friday and easter weekend all that and so much more he is risen

00:00:56.220 here's the podcast i want you to think about something for just a minute something that most

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00:02:44.120 let's get to work you're listening to the best of the blend back program so you know that mural

00:02:59.740 up in uh in rhode island i just want to touch on this quickly i've got to get it off my desk

00:03:05.200 it's been bothering me for the last couple of days there's a mural of the woman that was killed

00:03:09.900 on the train remember she was stabbed violently on the train died um and nobody did anything about

00:03:17.880 it well an artist decided he's going to paint a mural on the side of a building and it's beautiful

00:03:22.820 beautiful mural up on the side of a building in uh Rhode Island well the mayor is all upset about

00:03:29.080 it and they're shutting it down and they don't want it anywhere in their city and he said quote

00:03:33.360 this has not brought us closer together as a community in fact it's been quite divisive

00:03:38.040 and a little bit ugly wait a picture of a woman who came here from ukraine legally and was stabbed

00:03:50.020 by a madman and you don't want justice for that that's not something worth remembering what what

00:03:57.420 about all the george floyd murals that were everywhere everywhere how about blm on the

00:04:04.040 streets of the Capitol. That's okay, but this isn't. He went on to say, this is a movement

00:04:13.240 that was funded by some right-wing billionaires. Unlike the left-wing billionaires, can we stop

00:04:21.600 playing this game? Please, can we stop playing this game of my team, your team?

00:04:27.940 We have to agree on fundamental principles of right and wrong. Let me give you one. And because

00:04:33.500 Because America, and quite honestly, me too, there's a story out by Christopher Rufo that

00:04:37.460 is in our show prep today.

00:04:39.520 If you don't get my stack of show prep, you need to get it every day.

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00:04:44.080 Just go to glenbeck.com, sign up for the free email newsletter.

00:04:47.080 You'll get it every morning, and it has all the news that I look at every day and I think

00:04:50.840 are important, and we cover, I mean, just we scratch the surface of it, but it'll give

00:04:55.840 you an in-depth understanding of the news you need to know about.

00:04:59.440 There's a story in there from Christopher Rufo about corruption in California.

00:05:06.500 And quite honestly, I looked at it.

00:05:08.760 I have the attention span of a goldfish and maybe even a mentally deficient goldfish with ADD.

00:05:17.640 This story is very long.

00:05:19.940 And exposing corruption, massive corruption, is really hard if you're trying to explain it to a bunch of goldfish.

00:05:30.900 So most people will just tune it out.

00:05:33.260 They won't because too many numbers, too many programs, it's really complicated.

00:05:36.680 So I spent some time this morning trying to figure out how can I explain this to you and give you a good deep dive on it.

00:05:44.400 But because if I can't explain it, if we can't make this understandable to the average person, then, you know, it's hiding there in plain sight and everybody will shrug their shoulders.

00:05:56.320 So here's what Christopher Rufo and his colleagues at the City Journal have been digging into.

00:06:02.940 And this is not isolated waste, but it is, again, a pattern.

00:06:07.520 Remember, AI, artificial intelligence, it doesn't think.

00:06:12.920 All it does, because this is intelligence, it recognizes patterns.

00:06:18.560 So look for patterns.

00:06:21.600 If everything, no, I'm sorry.

00:06:23.580 If a portion of what they have documented here is accurate, it is staggering.

00:06:30.000 So let me make it really simple.

00:06:31.960 First, let me give you the scale.

00:06:34.040 This is according to interviews with officials, audits, and public records that are reviewed in the report.

00:06:41.060 California may have lost as much as $180 billion to fraud and improper payments across multiple state programs.

00:06:49.760 Now, what I just said, I'm going to come back, and that probably didn't shock you at all. 0.96

00:06:54.820 But when I go through this, I'm coming back to that number, and I think you'll go, holy crap.

00:07:02.520 Now, this is an important distinction and something that most people on either side won't do.

00:07:08.920 This number is an estimate.

00:07:10.840 It's built from multiple sources, and it is not a single confirmed audit line.

00:07:17.540 But even the confirmed numbers underneath it are enormous.

00:07:23.300 Let me just start with what's been confirmed.

00:07:25.220 Start with unemployment.

00:07:26.020 during covid california alone rapidly expanded unemployment payments what rufo is now reporting

00:07:36.140 based on state admissions and audits is that roughly 20 billion dollars of that was confirmed

00:07:43.480 as fraud and 55 billion of that was classified as improper payments overall

00:07:51.180 So let me just take the $55 billion, not even the $20 billion, just the $55 billion.

00:07:57.600 How big is that?

00:08:00.120 If you spent $1 million every day, it would take you 150 years to spend $55 billion.

00:08:10.500 That is more than the entire annual budget of many U.S. states.

00:08:15.580 You could build dozens and dozens, I'm sorry, hundreds of high schools and dozens and dozens of major hospitals with $55 billion.

00:08:26.880 You could fund tens of thousands, armies of teachers, police officers, and nurses, and you could fund it for years.

00:08:35.440 55 billion dollars equals about 150 dollars taken stolen from every man woman and child in america

00:08:47.460 not taxpayers every single person in america for a family of four that's somebody coming into your

00:08:55.340 house the average american has 500 saved in the bank account 500 is the average cushion

00:09:02.140 This is this one program, one program in one blue state stealing $600 from every family of four.

00:09:14.640 $55 billion, if you stacked it in $1 bills, a million dollars is four inches high.

00:09:21.920 A billion stacked in $1 bills is 358 feet.

00:09:26.680 That's taller than the Statue of Liberty.

00:09:28.740 how big is a stack of one dollar bills at 55 billion it would stretch 3.7 miles into the sky

00:09:39.440 that's how much money this one program in one state has paid out in fraud

00:09:48.060 that is something we should be able to see from a distance but because these numbers are so big

00:09:53.620 and it's going to get even worse it people will people won't understand it

00:09:58.740 I mean, the fraud is unbelievable. Payments were sent in the name of prisoners, including death row inmates, international fraud rings, filing claims from overseas, criminals bragging about it online. We saw it. This is not speculation. This is all documented. That's one. Then comes health care, Medi-Cal.

00:10:23.440 Here are the things that are confirmed fraud, and then estimates and warnings.

00:10:34.500 Experts cited in the reporting suggest fraud rates could range from 15% to 25% of total spending, which applied over time could mean tens of billions of dollars lost.

00:10:48.340 Again, this is not a confirmed total. You then have welfare and homelessness spending. California has spent roughly $24 billion on homeless programs. What Rufo's team documents now, specific criminal cases, including nonprofit leaders siphoning millions of dollars, developers accused of misusing public housing funds, fraud rings exploiting food assistance systems.

00:11:15.800 How bad of a person do you need to be to take food out of people's mouths that are hungry and take it for yourself?

00:11:22.620 And here's the key point.

00:11:24.440 Auditors have said in multiple cases, they couldn't fully track the outcomes or spending effectiveness.

00:11:31.720 Not they didn't like it.

00:11:33.960 They couldn't track it.

00:11:36.560 So what's the pattern?

00:11:39.780 What Rufo is arguing in this report now, very directly, is this.

00:11:44.260 This is not bad luck. This isn't just a few bad actors. This isn't just, well, it was COVID. This is an entire system where oversight was weak to begin with, safeguards were removed, or people told to ignore, and massive amounts of money pushed out quickly.

00:12:05.640 this this is an environment where fraud isn't just possible it's inevitable and they knew it

00:12:13.900 now to be fair i'll again do something that nobody else will do to be fair newsom has come

00:12:20.820 out and said fraud happened everywhere during covid and i'm sure it did emergency speed requires

00:12:27.140 rapid payments but what i want to ask you is was that a bug in the system or was that a feature

00:12:34.500 How much was actually lost? Not just in California, in the red states as well. How much is still being lost? Where were the systems? Where were they?

00:12:48.600 if all of this feels abstract let me bring it down to one single case there's another story

00:12:57.200 in today's show prep comes from san francisco it's a woman whose job was to defend human rights 1.00

00:13:02.800 and oversee taxpayer funded programs human rights all we keep hearing about are human rights

00:13:09.880 make sure that it's justice and fairness right she's now facing 17 felony charges 1.00

00:13:17.160 including conflict of interest perjury and misappropriation of public funds

00:13:23.800 prosecutors are alleging now that Cheryl Davis who helped manage tens of millions of dollars 0.95

00:13:30.380 not from the state but from the city the city the dreamkeeper initiative diverted money meant for

00:13:38.320 vulnerable communities and it went right directly into her bank account everybody in the city of

00:13:45.160 San Francisco should be enraged. How much money do you pay in taxes? How come things aren't

00:13:51.780 getting better in my city? Well, this is why. Let me give you the facts. Nonprofit tied to her

00:13:58.960 received $3.5 million in city funds intended to help homeless children. The money, according to

00:14:07.560 the prosecutors, redirected through organizations all connected to her. In fact, her son allegedly

00:14:13.360 received $140,000 deposited into an account she controlled. A co-conspirator ran another

00:14:21.800 nonprofit that's accused of helping facilitate the scheme. And this wasn't uncovered by routine

00:14:29.460 oversight. This one came from a whistleblower. Thank God for whistleblowers. And it went on

00:14:37.540 long enough that investigators had to execute more than 50 search warrants and over 18 months

00:14:43.980 just to piece it together. These are all allegations. They'll be tested in court. I

00:14:51.580 want to remind you that her attorney is denying any wrongdoing, but prosecutors are clear. These

00:14:57.620 are not routine charges. And here is why this matters. This was not a back office clerk,

00:15:04.120 And this isn't isolated. This and the other programs were done by people who were entrusted

00:15:10.660 with public money, public trust, and a mission rooted in justice. And when people hear billions

00:15:17.540 lost, it feels distant. Corruption doesn't start at $55 billion. And when you hear $55 billion,

00:15:26.700 Remember, the average American has $500 saved as a cushion.

00:15:33.540 They stole from your family and every family of four in one state on one program, $600.

00:15:43.760 One program, one gatekeeper, one decision to look the other way or worse.

00:15:51.480 Multiply that across systems with weak oversight.

00:15:54.540 multiply it not just from san francisco but cities all through california then multiply it

00:16:00.540 for all of the blue states then add in all of the red states you think this is just a blue

00:16:06.260 state problem this is going to hit red states as well the numbers are going to be astronomical

00:16:12.040 and if we don't fix this that's how the whole thing goes apart one small abuse at a time

00:16:20.640 until it's not small anymore.

00:16:22.800 But let me give you some good news.

00:16:25.060 I believe the president put J.D. Vance in charge of this

00:16:30.120 because J.D. Vance's whole career is going to depend on the end.

00:16:37.220 Did you find anything and did you put them in jail?

00:16:40.660 And I will tell you, if J.D. Vance is smart,

00:16:44.280 He will simultaneously do a red state as he does a blue state.

00:16:50.940 And he shows we're talking justice, not political payback.

00:16:55.740 We are talking this is the American money.

00:16:58.840 This is the American taxpayer.

00:17:01.040 This is about our very survival.

00:17:04.020 When you are stretched so thin, you have a hard time making money, enough money to buy your food for your kids at the grocery store.

00:17:12.560 i don't care who did it they're going to jail and i think you're going to see that

00:17:19.200 i think you're going to actually see interest on action on this one because it is in the best

00:17:26.340 interest of a guy who's very very sharp and wants to be the next president of the united states

00:17:31.940 this is the best of the glenn beck program and we really want to thank you for listening

00:17:38.780 All right. Let me take you quickly to Jason, who's going to give us an update on what is happening with the shutdown.

00:17:46.620 I believe it's an F-15. What do you have confirmed and where are we, Jason?

00:17:51.280 So I don't think we've confirmed F-15, but that's what they think is what happens.

00:17:55.260 And it's going to be hard to it's going to be hard to weed through some of the propaganda and the false information coming from Iranian state media.

00:18:02.420 So I'm not even going to talk about some of the things that they have said.

00:18:05.380 i'm just going to update on what has been supposedly confirmed so u.s officials to multiple

00:18:11.740 different mainstream media outlets now most of them are reporting the same thing that a fighter

00:18:15.820 jet was indeed shot down they say shot down so not mechanical failure or anything like that but

00:18:21.000 shot down in southern iran and a search and rescue mission is currently underway we've seen a few

00:18:27.540 different videos from just people on the ground that has have gotten out of some of this search

00:18:32.700 rescue happening a couple of uh helicopters that are being refueled over the air uh in southern

00:18:37.440 iran so that's really all we know at the moment and our prayers are very much laser directed on

00:18:43.980 what's going on this is so bad remember when this this happened just over i think it was kuwait a

00:18:49.100 couple of months ago and our pilots were being approached by kuwaitis and you could see there 1.00

00:18:53.900 was like oh dear god what am i in for and thank god they were friendlies hopefully these are

00:18:58.340 friendlies that will approach them if they're approached or will get them out of there.

00:19:02.540 This is really important.

00:19:04.160 Stay on your knees and pray, because this one could change everything.

00:19:08.040 All right.

00:19:08.320 Thank you, Jason.

00:19:08.960 Keep us up to speed.

00:19:09.740 Let me talk to you here and introduce you to the Prestonwood Baptist Church apologetics

00:19:15.780 pastor.

00:19:16.920 He is the president of the Christian Thinker Society, and he has been doing research on

00:19:22.720 the death and resurrection of Christ and looking for the actual evidence of it, not just faith,

00:19:31.020 but is there evidence of there? And I've gone with him to Turin in Italy, and we were with the

00:19:37.200 Shroud of Turin, and it is unbelievable what science is now telling us. Jeremiah, I wanted

00:19:43.280 to bring you on and talk to you a bit about, I think it's not a coincidence, but there is

00:19:50.880 something happening i believe around this date this time we are expecting to know more about a

00:19:57.440 comet that might be seen in the sky beginning on sunday um but also artemis is there any link to

00:20:05.200 the dates of yes go ahead it's fascinating glenn and i'm so glad that you're capturing this for

00:20:13.080 the audience and i what i want you to know is we have the exact date that jesus died by roman

00:20:19.980 crucifixion it's the best established fact of the ancient world he died on friday april 3rd guess

00:20:27.460 what today is friday april 3rd ad 33 we know that as a historical fact if we cannot believe that

00:20:37.380 we cannot believe that that caesar crossed the rubicon in 49 bc because passover fell on the

00:20:43.940 14th of nissan and we know that that was friday ad 33 a lunar eclipse was seen when jesus was

00:20:52.220 being crucified this is all factual you can see this and so that's why it went dark is that why

00:20:58.640 it went dark why it went dark absolutely and so the facts that we're going back to the moon

00:21:03.860 on the very week where the exact day april 3rd the crucifixion happened that means the resurrection

00:21:11.240 occurred April 5th, AD 33. That is providential. That is no accident, and people need to wake up.

00:21:18.240 I want you to pick up his book. It's a great book, by the way. I haven't had a chance to

00:21:21.320 talk to you since I've read it. The Jesus Discoveries, and these are the 10 big, big 0.77

00:21:27.080 historic finds that you will be introduced to Jesus face-to-face, and it is based on not just

00:21:34.780 the bible but but the facts um that are provable facts so can you can you take us through some of

00:21:41.720 these um some of these facts that introduce in a different way absolutely we're doing the more

00:21:48.460 glendiana jones right now isn't it fun that the christian faith unlike any other religion certainly

00:21:54.160 not islam unlike any other religion in the world glenn you know this archaeology is christianity's

00:21:59.060 closest cousin, because Christianity is baked in facts, real people, real places, real events.

00:22:05.180 You know that I have a bunch of kids. I have nine-year-old triplets. I have two teenagers,

00:22:09.000 so I haven't slept in nine years since my triplets were born. And at dinner, my kids

00:22:13.720 challenged me. They said, Dad, what can you tell us about Jesus, but you can't use the Bible? Now,

00:22:19.560 hey, we love our scriptures, right? But the fact is, all of us listening right now, we need to

00:22:25.180 know how to pass the faith on to our kids and to do it in two minutes or less. And so I wrote a

00:22:30.280 book, Glenn, about all the things we can prove about Jesus from the evidence. We can build 65

00:22:37.480 facts, 65 about the birth, the death, the life, the miracles, the burial, the death, and yes,

00:22:44.360 the resurrection of Jesus from extra biblical sources before we ever crack open the New Testament.

00:22:50.140 Now, here's the problem. Most people are, 98% of people listening right now, they don't know

00:22:54.460 these discoveries are. And so I wanted to write it in a way, my nine-year-old who I dedicated the

00:22:59.600 book to, Abel, was reading it to me. I paid off, Glenn, I paid off every archaeologist I could to

00:23:04.900 get permission to use photos. So we actually have images of all these discoveries, and this will

00:23:09.760 give you that X factor when you're talking about your faith that Jesus is based in evidence. But

00:23:17.020 here's the cool thing, Glenn. I don't know if you've read the chapter yet where I talk about

00:23:20.500 you, Glenn. I actually talk about you in my book. Here's what I write. I will never forget my dear

00:23:25.840 friend, Glenn Beck, through tears, giving testimony in the Holy Chapel of the Shroud

00:23:32.100 and Turin. And you said, it's one thing to see it on television. It's a whole nother thing to

00:23:37.660 witness it firsthand. You were doing experiential archaeology. That's what your audience loves.

00:23:43.300 That's what you did. That's what Tanya and you and me did together. Experiential archaeology.

00:23:48.080 And here's one thing I do need to correct, Glenn. A lot of fine Christians, they think, oh, I just need faith. I don't need proof. Can I just tell you something, Glenn? If Jesus did not walk out of that grave alive on April 5th, 2,000 years ago, physically alive from the dead, the Bible wouldn't exist. Am I making myself clear? He said in Acts 1-3, he appeared with many infallible proofs. And so faith is always based in evidence. Does that make sense?

00:24:16.820 Yeah. I don't care what anybody tells me. I know my relationship with Christ, and I understand redemption and salvation because I needed it so badly, and I know that that is a power that does not come from man. That is something entirely different.

00:24:38.760 And I don't care what any science tells me, but the things like when I was with you at the Shroud, when you actually see these things and you can experience them and you know, wait a minute, wait a minute, this is proven, it doesn't strengthen your faith.

00:24:59.960 it just deepens it it just deepens it it gives you more confidence to say no no my friend i can

00:25:06.200 talk to you about the spiritual stuff but i'm talking about the scientific stuff that is

00:25:10.720 provable because a lot of people they don't they don't have any idea what's provable they just

00:25:16.740 you know they don't know about josephus which your book talks about they don't know that there's that

00:25:21.080 there was a jew that the first the world's first historian that talked about jesus that's right

00:25:27.660 Right. And Glenn, this is why what you're doing is so important with Torch. By the way, can I weigh in on the poll since I'm a full Torch member, Glenn?

00:25:35.800 Oh, jeez. No.

00:25:36.960 Listen, no, I'm going to. Listen, Glenn, you told me to go speak at the World Economic Forum in Davos to all the people that are working with the Antichrist. So let me tell you, you're absolutely going to go speak at Oxford, and you'll mop the floor with all of them, okay?

00:25:52.640 Oh, geez. Okay. All right. Okay. So let's go through it. Let's do go through a couple of

00:25:58.040 things. Talk about the James ossuary. What is that? The James, the James, we actually have

00:26:02.900 the bone box, ossuary is a bone box, and we have the very bone box of Jesus's brother, James. How

00:26:09.420 do we know that? And Glenn, you're talking to someone who's been in more tombs and more

00:26:13.280 ossuaries than anyone else in the entire world. Okay. And so ossuaries are what you would collect

00:26:18.540 bones in. That's all oxalegium means. It means bone collection. And oftentimes, Glenn, it would

00:26:26.020 say, you know, Glenn, son of, and it would say your dad's name. Well, we actually have an

00:26:30.080 ossuary that says, James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus. No other ossuary, and we have 150,000

00:26:39.100 of them on the Mount of Olives, says brother of anyone. And this is what's so cool about this

00:26:43.820 finding. James thought his brother was embarrassed by his brother. I mean, I have four sons, as I

00:26:49.840 mentioned, and I don't know if you have any brothers, Glenn, but what would it take for you

00:26:53.160 to believe your brother is the Messiah? It would take God. Yes, exactly. And so James was skeptical

00:27:01.420 too, like many of our audience. And guess what? Jesus appears to him, 1 Corinthians 15, 7, and

00:27:06.460 says, bro, I hope we can time travel someday and go back when Jesus appears. He said, bro, check out

00:27:12.820 my hands, check out my side. And James becomes the leader of the church of Jerusalem, and he dies

00:27:19.080 in AD 62. And I know that not because the Bible said it, because who you mentioned, Josephus,

00:27:25.700 that first century historian, he dies, Glenn, in AD 62, believing his brother is the Messiah.

00:27:33.360 I cry when I think about this, because sometimes it's the hardest to reach our own family with the

00:27:38.620 And so that's why we have a chapter in the book that, listen, James, the just, as he's called, died believing his brother with the Messiah.

00:27:47.560 And yes, in 2002, we found his ossuary.

00:27:50.780 Talk about the healing magic.

00:27:52.340 What does that prove to us?

00:27:53.520 This is so powerful.

00:27:54.480 Jesus is famous.

00:27:56.740 Glenn, you've written so many great books.

00:27:59.560 I try to copy everything you do because you're such a great communicator.

00:28:02.620 By the way, y'all, I listened to Glenn over pizza and turn explain the American Constitution.

00:28:08.060 Glenn should be teaching the Constitution at every university in America, okay?

00:28:11.880 Can everyone just say amen?

00:28:13.120 You are incredible.

00:28:14.740 So magic, this is huge.

00:28:17.440 Do you know, and this has never happened to me before, before my book, The Jesus Discoveries,

00:28:21.340 ever came out, Popular Mechanics and other scientific magazines were doing articles on

00:28:26.000 my book because of this one discovery.

00:28:28.560 Glenn, you may not have heard of this.

00:28:29.760 It's so new.

00:28:30.780 The earliest artifact that we have with the name of Jesus on it is actually a magic cup.

00:28:37.180 Now, stay with me on this for a minute. Jesus is known as a miracle worker and as an exorcist way before the resurrection.

00:28:44.920 OK, do you think Luke 7, 22? Remember, 25 percent of the Roman Empire was sick, dying or in need of immediate medical attention on any given day.

00:28:52.920 Frank Gaudio, my friend at Oxford and by the way, there's Oxford again, 2008.

00:28:58.420 He's he's a marine archaeologist. So he does archaeology underwater.

00:29:02.260 He uncovers a cup, and there's pictures of this in my book, The Jesus Discovery.

00:29:06.240 Do you mind if I say it in Greek for your audience, how it appears on the cup?

00:29:10.020 Can I do it?

00:29:10.580 It says,

00:29:12.080 Through Jesus, the magician, or the enchanter.

00:29:17.240 What does that mean?

00:29:18.880 That means that Jesus' name is so incredibly popular, Glenn, that around the Mediterranean world, people realize if you insert this name Jesus, there's power and it heals people.

00:29:29.720 So guess what?

00:29:30.300 That means God can heal you, too.

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00:29:39.660 So atheists are not happy because I posted something on X 1.00

00:29:44.680 and it actually became a community note.

00:29:48.320 I witnessed the launch of Artemis and the entire time,

00:29:55.340 as I think many Americans were doing,

00:29:57.640 I was saying a prayer for their safety because I witnessed the challenger.

00:30:01.680 and until they had all the separation until they were actually you know past that moment of launch

00:30:10.220 and they were really on their way with no more go with throttle up um I was nervous and praying and

00:30:18.860 and so when they finally did it Ricky said to me um she said what are you feeling and she was

00:30:26.040 rolling you know her phone you know to capture the moment and she said what are you feeling

00:30:30.400 and I was so overwhelmed with emotion that what had just happened but also that they were safe

00:30:37.120 that I looked at her and I just said God is great and I couldn't that's all I could utter I had a

00:30:43.080 lot of things I wanted to say but all I could utter without blubbering like a baby was God is

00:30:48.920 great God is great so she posted the launch and that moment and next thing we know we we have

00:30:56.320 people coming after me. God is not great. Really? Who is arguing this? God's not. God's not great.

00:31:03.820 Science is great. Okay. I want to talk to you about science and the difference between science

00:31:11.620 and faith. But before I do that, I want to show you something else that just came out in the

00:31:16.720 Washington Post today. The more people use social media, the less likely they are to believe that

00:31:23.020 democracy is the best form of government. This is a survey of over 20,000 Americans.

00:31:28.860 The same heavy users are far less likely to believe democracy is the best form of government.

00:31:36.380 53, sorry, 57% of heavy users, people who use the internet five or social media about five hours a

00:31:43.560 day, whereas 73% of people who use social media for an hour or less say democracy is the best

00:31:50.840 form of government. That is crazy. So if you're a heavy social media user, you are more open to

00:31:58.960 political violence. You are less open to compromise. This is what the survey has just

00:32:03.780 found posted in the Washington Post today. They find it hard to get along with people who don't

00:32:08.500 share their belief and they are less likely to believe that everyone should have the right to

00:32:12.580 vote. That's incredible. That's incredible. Which brings me to something that Thomas Jefferson said

00:32:20.280 about newspapers, but I just replaced the word newspaper with social media. He said,

00:32:25.000 the man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but 0.94

00:32:33.420 social media. He said newspapers. But that is our newspaper. The man who reads nothing at all

00:32:41.600 is better educated than the man who reads nothing but social media. It's true. It is true.

00:32:50.280 So let me take you to science, but I want to take you through science by looking at the calendar. Today, Wednesday was Passover. Today is Good Friday. Easter is on Sunday. These are three markers in time separated by centuries, but all bound by one single idea, deliverance as an event.

00:33:16.620 for a long time now for a very long time we've been told something that is not true

00:33:22.820 we have been told quietly at first then loudly and then confidently then beating the chest and

00:33:27.680 then told shut up sit down full faith belongs in one corner and facts belong in another

00:33:34.260 that science only advances when belief retreats that the old stories the ones that built

00:33:42.600 civilizations have to be discarded if we're to be considered modern rational and enlightened people

00:33:49.040 i just want to ask you the question what if that assumption is wrong

00:33:54.440 remember this we're talking about the same people who told us that butter is good then butter was

00:33:59.900 bad then butter is good again it's going to be bad and then it'll be good again science is

00:34:04.440 constantly changing truth never changes but what if the what if the separation between science and

00:34:10.880 religion, there was no dividing line there. The dividing line is between open minds and closed

00:34:21.600 minds, and that could be on either side. You can be religious and totally closed-minded to science.

00:34:26.220 You could be a scientist and you're totally closed-minded to religion. But piece by piece,

00:34:31.980 layer by layer, something remarkable is happening, and it's happening in the dirt,

00:34:38.400 in excavation sites, in burial

00:34:41.340 grounds, in fragments of papyrus

00:34:44.340 and the ruins of ancient cities

00:34:46.760 places

00:34:48.960 like where the Bible calls

00:34:53.320 Goshen, avarice

00:34:54.940 archaeologists have uncovered something that they weren't looking for

00:34:59.400 and this is amazing, this is a story in the

00:35:02.460 Glenn Beck show prep, you can also get it at glennbeck.com today

00:35:05.480 it's a free article, Ryan Morrow

00:35:07.480 wrote this, and he's been looking at this for a while. What we found in the dirt was a massive

00:35:16.220 Semitic population, a Jewish population, foreign to Egypt. They were all living together,

00:35:22.940 but they were not equals. They were laborers. They were slaves. Remember, everybody has said,

00:35:31.020 oh, that whole Passover story, that whole story of the Bible, that's all false. We can't prove

00:35:35.880 that well now wait a minute hold on these were people that did not belong to the ruling class

00:35:41.860 they were part of the system then there's another site i think it's kuhan same story

00:35:48.960 same jewish kind of people same conditions slaves for egyptians two separate places

00:35:56.160 and here's where it gets really strange

00:36:00.040 the the archaeologists have found that suddenly these people just vanished they it wasn't through

00:36:09.840 assimilation it wasn't through war or genocide it wasn't through illness they just vanished just 0.78

00:36:17.920 gone what's interesting is it's happening it happened at the exact same time egypt was hit

00:36:26.840 by catastrophic calamities, massive death, sudden devastation.

00:36:32.480 They have found burial pits not filled with soldiers but with civilians

00:36:37.420 and not just civilians but children, male sons.

00:36:44.740 So it was an outbreak targeted, it seems, in a way that even modern researchers

00:36:51.420 struggle to explain.

00:36:52.640 Burial pits with sons, Egyptian sons, died of something, they don't know what, and an enslaved population that at the same time just disappears, that population was spared or passed over.

00:37:13.900 After they're passed over, they immediately leave, and there's no record of the destruction, no evidence of their collapse, just they depart.

00:37:22.640 and exodus. Now stop for just a minute because this is the part where modern thinking is supposed

00:37:30.740 to kick in and say it's a coincidence. It's legend. It's myth wrapped around natural events.

00:37:37.000 Okay, maybe, but you don't know that and neither do I. I can tell you what I believe,

00:37:42.760 but that doesn't necessarily make it true. But we're starting to find evidence that leans that

00:37:49.040 way, not the other way. If you read some ancient Egyptian papyrus that has been found, an ancient 0.50

00:37:57.140 document, it's not in Hebrew, and it describes Egypt at the same time in chaos, blood, plagues,

00:38:06.160 death, social collapse, children dead in the streets. You read the records from that second

00:38:14.220 ancient town they found. It refers to an, quote, evil hour, a time of devastation that was marked

00:38:21.960 by disease and loss suddenly overnight. Now, the question isn't, can this be proven?

00:38:30.520 The question is now, why does this line up at all? Why does archaeology begin to echo what was

00:38:39.520 written thousands of years ago. Why do independent records, hostile sources, start to resemble the

00:38:47.960 same exact pattern? Maybe, maybe, because the truth leaves fingerprints. Over time, if you're

00:39:02.180 willing to look, if you have an open mind, and an open mind means I'm willing to consider it,

00:39:07.060 doesn't mean i believe it i'm willing to consider it and if you can make the case

00:39:11.260 then i will believe it but you got to make the case but if you start to look you begin to see that

00:39:17.840 now bring all this forward from passover to good friday another moment where the world

00:39:25.760 thought it understood the story man executed movement crushed hope buried the end that's

00:39:33.040 what it looked like but in about 12 minutes i have a guest who is going to show you the evidence that

00:39:39.360 is now because of science beginning to mount up that uh-uh it's not what people are dismissing it

00:39:46.460 as it's what the book says that happened on good friday and then comes easter and everything that

00:39:56.980 looked settled now suddenly isn't settled everything that looked dead is suddenly becoming

00:40:02.100 alive. Everything that seems like the end was something else entirely, a turning point,

00:40:10.680 a reversal, a deliverance that no empire could stop.

00:40:17.780 And so here we are today, thousands of years later, still arguing whether these things are real,

00:40:25.700 as if reality is something we vote on, as if truth depends on a poll or consensus.

00:40:32.700 But history doesn't work that way.

00:40:34.500 And by the way, this isn't new.

00:40:35.780 I can guarantee you that if the story in the Bible is true,

00:40:39.780 Moses said, these things are going to happen to you.

00:40:42.100 And when they started to happen, the people in Egypt went, that's a coincidence. 0.98

00:40:47.060 I mean, this is human nature.

00:40:50.420 But truth comes out in the end.

00:40:53.000 That's the way it works.

00:40:54.120 That's the way God is.

00:40:56.140 What we're learning now through science, through archaeology,

00:40:59.460 Archaeology, through the slow uncovering of the past, is not that faith was wrong, it's that we're perhaps too quick to dismiss it, too eager to believe that modern means superior, too willing to close the book before we've read all the pages or pondered, could this be explained some way or another?

00:41:25.380 Is there any evidence of this?

00:41:27.480 Because now the evidence is mounting.

00:41:30.820 And to me, what this says, the most important thing is science and religion are not enemies.

00:41:36.600 When I said God is great, I didn't mean that God put the rocket into the sky.

00:41:41.820 Man did that.

00:41:43.460 Man used eternal principles, mathematics, not common core math, not math that man's

00:41:50.700 making up, but math that has been there since the beginning of time.

00:41:54.860 We just had to understand it, and when you use those eternal principles, you can call it science, but it's eternal principles, and you're able to do remarkable things, but that's man choosing to apply those eternal principles, and God is great because it's his design.

00:42:15.440 And then he created us, and he's given us this desire to find truth, to explore.

00:42:22.340 And when we actually come together and put our differences aside and look for common truths, look at what we can do.

00:42:30.520 God is great because he created us.

00:42:35.780 But here we're finding ourselves in a situation where two languages are describing the same reality.

00:42:43.080 One measures, one means.

00:42:46.380 One tells you what happened.

00:42:48.220 The other tells you why it matters.

00:42:51.760 And when they begin to align, which science is starting to align,

00:42:56.740 it doesn't diminish faith and it doesn't diminish science.

00:43:00.440 It deepens it.

00:43:03.800 This weekend is not just a remembrance.

00:43:05.940 It is a reminder.

00:43:08.080 It's a reminder that deliverance is not a myth.

00:43:12.360 Do you want to live in a world where there is no deliverance?

00:43:16.560 That you have to depend on me or you or some system to deliver you from whatever it is?

00:43:26.500 I don't.

00:43:27.560 I want truth that survives skepticism.

00:43:30.960 I want truth that is actual truth, history, real history, that has a way of resurfacing

00:43:37.500 even when the best of intentions and the best of people have tried to bury it.

00:43:43.380 No matter how dark that moment might appear,

00:43:47.480 there's always morning coming.

00:43:51.820 And science will back that up eventually.

00:43:55.180 But faith gets you there.

00:43:58.260 The God in the Old Testament was the God of deliverance of a whole people.

00:44:03.140 And the God of the New Testament is the same God, unchanging.

00:44:06.760 But this time, he offered personal deliverance.

00:44:13.540 And I have to tell you, I don't care what science tells me about personal deliverance,

00:44:20.540 but I have turned my life over to him when I had wrecked everything in my life,

00:44:26.700 and it was impossible to fix.

00:44:28.520 And I surrendered to him, and I asked for forgiveness, and I tried to correct my ways.

00:44:33.960 And I haven't corrected all of them.

00:44:35.440 I've tried.

00:44:36.000 and I try to be a more perfect person every day

00:44:39.380 and I fail every day.

00:44:40.740 But he is so good

00:44:42.460 that he helps me.

00:44:46.380 And I don't care what science says.

00:44:48.360 I am an entirely new man than I was

00:44:51.500 35 years ago.

00:44:54.940 God is great.

00:45:01.700 Some say the bubbles in an aero truffle piece

00:45:04.140 can take 34 seconds to melt in your mouth.

00:45:06.780 Sometimes the very amount you're stuck at the same red light.

00:45:10.440 Rich, creamy, chocolatey Aero truffle.

00:45:13.300 Feel the Aero bubbles melt.

00:45:15.320 It's mind bubbling.

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