The Glenn Beck Program - September 26, 2026


The Book of Light and Ash ⧸ No-Go Nation ｜ Days of Ash ｜ Ep 7 & 8

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00:00:01 The Days of Ash, Episode 7, The Book of Light and Ash.
00:00:08 By the seventh month, we stopped calling it Collapse.
00:00:13 It wasn't sudden anymore, it wasn't surprising, it just was what it was, the way things were.
00:00:19 The maps had changed, the rules had changed, the weather even felt different, sharper somehow, like the wind carried judgment.
00:00:25 But underneath it all, the cracks between the fires and the factions, something else was moving.
00:00:32 Not louder, not stronger, just, I don't know, truer.
00:00:35 And the ones who could feel it weren't harmed.
00:00:39 They were awake.
00:00:41 There were moments in sanctuary, quiet and small, that didn't make sense by the old rules.
00:00:46 A child lost in the woods for three days, no food, came back laughing and full of stories.
00:00:50 A blind man who had been silent since his wife died stood during prayer and quoted Psalm 46 from memory, word for word.
00:01:00 A woman who hadn't slept since the blackout closed her eyes one night by the fire and whispered,
00:01:05 He's here. He's here.
00:01:11 We didn't call them miracles, at least not out loud.
00:01:14 We just stopped asking questions and we started paying attention.
00:01:18 faith wasn't a sermon anymore or a building it was how you walked how you listened how you stayed
00:01:27 soft in a world that had gone so sharp there was no stage no offering plates no applause just a
00:01:34 quiet circle under the trees a few verses a few tears and and silence the kind of silence you
00:01:40 didn't want to break and we read the bible differently now it wasn't just a book of comfort
00:01:47 But it was a survival manual, not for our bodies, but for our souls.
00:01:55 There is one passage we kept returning to, Isaiah 30.
00:01:59 In repentance and rest is your salvation.
00:02:03 In quietness and trust is your strength.
00:02:09 Not resistance, not revenge, not self-righteousness, quietness, trust.
00:02:17 How we were learning to see things so differently now, not just danger, but people.
00:02:22 Their eyes told the story now.
00:02:25 You could feel it.
00:02:26 Those who carried peace and those who carried something else.
00:02:30 There was a man who passed through from Atlanta, said all the right things, quoted scripture,
00:02:35 but his eyes were cold and calculating.
00:02:40 Clara watched him for an hour and then told him gently,
00:02:43 There is a place for you, but it's not here.
00:02:47 He didn't argue, he just nodded, walked back into the trees without looking back.
00:02:53 We started calling this the gift, that knowing, the way some people could look at one another and just see, not judge, not accuse, just know.
00:03:07 It wasn't magic, it wasn't pride, it was discernment.
00:03:12 And those who had it didn't talk about it, they just prayed harder.
00:03:17 but not all faith is the same some twisted some calcified some grew teeth in the hills north of
00:03:27 us a group called itself the risen sword had taken over an old schoolhouse they said they
00:03:33 were there to restore the kingdom they said america had been judged for its sin and they
00:03:38 were the instrument of cleansing they wore crosses they chanted verses and they carried
00:03:45 rifles. They executed two men they accused of sexual impurity. One of them was 16.
00:03:54 When we heard about it, Thomas, our sometimes preacher, wanted to act.
00:03:59 Said we should warn them. We should send a letter. Clara said, Jesus never wrote letters to wolves.
00:04:08 So we all prayed instead.
00:04:10 Not that they'd fall, but that they'd see that someone somewhere would speak the truth to them and live to do it again.
00:04:20 We were really learning faith is not power. Faith is obedience.
00:04:26 The Muslim family that stayed with us, Amina's family, became kind of a mirror.
00:04:32 We watched how they prayed, how they fasted, how they wept when they were alone.
00:04:37 They didn't believe what we believed, but they honored what was sacred.
00:04:43 And in this world, that meant more than agreement.
00:04:46 It meant humility.
00:04:49 One night, Amina asked if she could join our reading.
00:04:52 She sat quietly there while we opened up Matthew 5, the Sermon on the Mount.
00:04:57 When we reached the part where Jesus said,
00:04:59 Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.
00:05:03 She closed her eyes and whispered,
00:05:05 That, I understand.
00:05:12 No one said a word.
00:05:15 But something passed between us, not theology, not conversion.
00:05:21 It was recognition.
00:05:26 That very same night, Clara said something that changed me.
00:05:30 We were discussing whether we were living in the end times,
00:05:32 and she sipped her tea and stared into the fire, and she said,
00:05:35 Maybe. But maybe it's not the end of the world. Maybe it's just the end of our world, so he can
00:05:45 finally build his. Wow, that stuck with me. Because if you looked at it that way, the world
00:05:52 hadn't ended. It had just been corrected. The proud were now silent. The powerful were now
00:06:00 scattered. The violent ruled for now, but underneath it all, in all the corners and
00:06:05 cracks, the meek were inheriting the earth. And not with armies, not with declarations, 1.00
00:06:12 but with gardens, with prayer, with a truth that didn't need defending, just living.
00:06:22 I began to feel it too, the promptings, the whisper in the stillness, a nudge when I was
00:06:29 about to speak in anger. A warmth when I let somebody cry without offering a
00:06:34 solution. It wasn't emotion, it wasn't imagination, it was him. Not shouting, just
00:06:44 near.
00:06:48 There was a moment I'll never forget. A child wandered out into our outer field,
00:06:55 Maybe five years old?
00:06:57 No name, no family.
00:06:59 She wouldn't speak.
00:07:02 Clara held her hand and began humming,
00:07:05 and softly said,
00:07:06 She seemed too much.
00:07:09 We all nodded.
00:07:12 Then the girl looked up at me,
00:07:13 and in a voice barely audible, she said,
00:07:17 They had no light.
00:07:21 I asked her what she meant.
00:07:23 she pointed to her eyes
00:07:24 and then to mine.
00:07:27 And then she whispered,
00:07:29 You do.
00:07:32 And that was all.
00:07:37 Later that night, I asked Claire what it all meant.
00:07:39 She said,
00:07:40 The spirit marks his own.
00:07:43 Sometimes the children see it first.
00:07:47 We didn't make signs.
00:07:48 We didn't post cards.
00:07:49 We didn't recruit.
00:07:50 We just stayed open. 1.00
00:07:53 And somehow they just kept coming, the tired, the kind,
00:07:57 the ones who had been broken but not embittered.
00:08:00 They didn't ask for leadership.
00:08:02 They asked for honesty, and we gave it.
00:08:06 The Word became our shield, not a weapon, a filter.
00:08:11 If it passed through the Gospels, we could trust it.
00:08:14 If it didn't, we left it on the ground.
00:08:17 We watched as the world turned medieval in places.
00:08:21 warlords, feudal zones, religious tribunals, witch burnings, yes, even those.
00:08:26 In Eastern Europe, whole towns were ruled by prophets claiming to be Elijah reborn.
00:08:31 In Turkey, Christian converts were executed by old neighbors, not soldiers, old neighbors. 0.53
00:08:38 In parts of the South, churches turned into barricades full of rage and not grace.
00:08:43 But there were the others.
00:08:46 In Colombia, a woman opened her home to the dying, no questions, no politics.
00:08:50 In the Congo, a tribe shared their last harvest with a traveling missionary.
00:08:55 In Canada, a retired nurse baptized 12 people in a lake with no witnesses but God.
00:09:02 Light, but not loud, not flashy, but unquenchable.
00:09:08 The Book of Light and Ash.
00:09:12 That's what we started calling it.
00:09:14 It wasn't a real book, it was a journal we passed around.
00:09:19 Each person wrote one thing in it, a moment of grace, a prompting obeyed, a kindness given or received.
00:09:27 It became our scripture of survival, not equal to the Bible, but flowing from it, the fruits of it.
00:09:34 Proof that the Spirit still moved, it still spoke, it still lit candles in the dark.
00:09:42 Sometimes I wonder what others would think reading it a hundred years from now.
00:09:46 would they understand would they they laugh at us or would they see what we saw that the end
00:09:55 wasn't just judgment it was an invitation a return to remember to walk again in the cool
00:10:03 of that garden with nothing to hide not all made it some left chose safety elsewhere or fell to
00:10:13 despair. But those who stayed, they became something else, not revolutionaries. A remnant.
00:10:24 We didn't sing like we used to, but we hummed. And sometimes, when the fire was just right,
00:10:29 we lifted our voices low, raw, unrehearsed, and somehow holy.
00:10:37 I don't know what comes next, but I know this. If he is still speaking, if he is still marking,
00:10:43 if he is still making all things new,
00:10:46 then we are not lost.
00:10:49 We have been found.
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00:12:15 The Days of Ash, Episode 8, No-Go Nation.
00:12:21 We didn't know the flag had fallen until three days after it happened.
00:12:28 No speech, no ceremony, no warning.
00:12:31 Just a rumor passed from truck to camp to radio.
00:12:34 Like all the truth now.
00:12:35 Washington's dark, the Capitol's sealed
00:12:39 The flag was lowered and never raised again
00:12:42 At first, no one really believed it
00:12:46 Even in collapse, people still clung to the symbols
00:12:49 But then the reports started coming in
00:12:52 No federal convoys, no executive orders, no broadcast from D.C.
00:12:57 Just silence again
00:12:58 And that's when the maps really started to change again
00:13:03 Not just new borders, new beliefs
00:13:05 They stopped calling them states or counties.
00:13:08 They were now zones.
00:13:09 Some of them were drawn by force, some by creed, and some by the absence of both.
00:13:15 There was the Free Pacific Corridor, backed by the Chinese logistics and global investment,
00:13:21 solar power, AI-managed food systems, digital compliance.
00:13:25 No God, no guns, no questions.
00:13:27 Then the Continental Partnership Authority, formerly Oklahoma and parts of Kansas,
00:13:32 run by a coalition of governors and constitutional officers,
00:13:35 some legitimate, others self-declared,
00:13:37 and law and order by fire if necessary.
00:13:42 The UN Blue Zones in New York, Philadelphia, D.C. proper,
00:13:46 controlled by peacekeepers, mostly Brazilian and Polish,
00:13:49 but monitored by drones, and then by the shadows.
00:13:54 The Strip.
00:13:55 This was a cartel-held territory from El Paso to St. Louis,
00:13:59 heavily armed unaccountable ruled at night and borderless the holy citadel of resplendent judgment
00:14:09 somewhere in the west some self-proclaimed prophets execution without trial entry by oath only
00:14:19 and thousands of no-go sectors abandoned cities looted suburbs failed communes this is where you
00:14:25 went if you didn't want to be found or if you were already lost the united states of america
00:14:34 it wasn't gone it just wasn't here anymore but sanctuary remained hidden intact untouched
00:14:46 not because we were stronger because we were quiet because we refused flags we refused
00:14:51 ideologies. We refuse to become a node in someone else's network. We belong to no map. And so far
00:14:58 for now, no map came looking. Harris told me something one night while we were on watch.
00:15:05 The wolves have stopped circling, he said. And not because we scared them off, but
00:15:09 I think it's because they couldn't see us.
00:15:14 There was talk in the camps of something called Project Orion, a rumored AI-run
00:15:20 coordination system housed somewhere beneath Denver, I think. Supposedly, it monitored all
00:15:26 remaining energy flows, network traffic, drone routes, and behavioral heat signatures. It didn't
00:15:34 intervene, but once again, there was that word it observed. Some called it the ghost president,
00:15:41 others the shepherd of the West. Few whispered that it was anti-human altogether, but one thing
00:15:49 was clear, where Orion looked, peacekeepers followed. And where peacekeepers followed,
00:15:55 the gospel shrank. We heard that in one of the former churches in Ohio and Virginia,
00:16:00 sermons had to be cleared by digital filter, uploaded, scan, and assigned a speech score.
00:16:07 If it contained certain trigger words, like salvation, judgment, kingdom, or repent,
00:16:13 It was flagged.
00:16:14 Flagged content meant interrogation.
00:16:18 Interrogation meant transfer.
00:16:20 And transfer meant silence.
00:16:24 But in sanctuary, no cameras, no screens, no stream, just scripture and firelight.
00:16:30 And the sound of the wind through the pine trees.
00:16:35 Sometimes I do think God didn't hide us by power.
00:16:38 He hid us by irrelevance.
00:16:40 by irrelevance to the algorithms, to the hunters, to the machines that now govern the visible world.
00:16:47 We were invisible, because we weren't data.
00:16:54 A boy came to us from Texas, 12, thin, carrying a radio and a pistol with no bullets.
00:17:01 Said his town had become a patrolled sector, enforced by the Republic of Sons.
00:17:05 It was a military run by four families with old grudges and new firepower.
00:17:10 They banned books, they banned meetings, they banned hope.
00:17:15 Said his father had tried to read from Psalms at dinner the next morning, he was gone.
00:17:21 The boy didn't cry when he told his story.
00:17:24 He cried when Clara handed him a plate of food and said, you're safe.
00:17:29 Because in this world, those words are rarer than bread.
00:17:35 He didn't have a leader of sanctuary.
00:17:38 Only stewards, a circle, a balance.
00:17:41 Decisions by consensus, correction by scripture.
00:17:44 No coercion, no title, only responsibilities.
00:17:49 Thomas still preached, but his fire had softened.
00:17:52 Clara's steadiness wore on him like water against stone.
00:17:56 One night after prayer, he said,
00:17:57 I used to think God wanted warriors.
00:18:00 Now I think he wants gardeners.
00:18:02 the same week someone placed a black flag at the edge of our property
00:18:09 again no words just a symbol a spiral around a sword we didn't touch it we prayed we watched
00:18:19 we waited it was gone by morning replaced by a small bundle of herbs and a note you were seen
00:18:28 and pass by. We burned the note. We kept the herbs. The cities, they just kept fracturing.
00:18:36 New York became an open-air index of ideologies. Manhattan was civil district number one,
00:18:43 internationally controlled and AI regulated. Brooklyn was anarchist. The Bronx, cartel
00:18:50 occupied. Queens declared independence under a community board made up of poets and teachers and
00:18:56 ex-NGO managers that one lasted about three weeks then it went gray no more words from queens
00:19:04 someone on the ham network said because america is now a skin stretched over 13 corpses
00:19:13 and no one disagreed with that
00:19:18 the gospel spread slowly now it wasn't intense or revivals or broadcast it was
00:19:26 in whispers, in acts, and in sudden moments of beauty.
00:19:31 A child singing, Be Thou My Vision, while planting beans.
00:19:36 A former atheist fixing an elder's roof in the rain, no questions asked.
00:19:41 A woman writing scripture on the walls with charcoal, one verse per town as she traveled.
00:19:46 There weren't any missionaries anymore, only witnesses.
00:19:50 And the word returned, not with power, but with presence.
00:19:53 and hearts softened, hands opened, evil flinched, but not from gunfire, from conviction.
00:20:02 I remember watching a man break down after hearing Luke 15, you know, the story of the
00:20:06 prodigal son. He was a warlord's enforcer at one point. He buried people with his own hands,
00:20:14 and when he heard that story, he wept and wept and wept, not because he was told he was guilty,
00:20:20 but because he was told that he was wanted.
00:20:24 That's when I understood.
00:20:26 The no-go nation?
00:20:28 That was a lie.
00:20:29 Because there was nowhere he wouldn't go.
00:20:34 Not everybody saw it.
00:20:36 Some still built their bunkers,
00:20:37 their ideologies, their empires,
00:20:39 but others, they built altars,
00:20:41 small, quiet, unseen by the world,
00:20:45 but burning all the same.
00:20:46 We don't really know what's coming.
00:21:05 Some say the sky will burn.
00:21:07 Some say a new king will rise.
00:21:09 Some say the machine will swallow the last of the free world.
00:21:11 But in Sanctuary, we've learned something else.
00:21:16 The kingdom doesn't come with observation.
00:21:19 The kingdom's already here and it's within you.
00:21:23 We're not really sure how long we'll stay hidden.
00:21:26 We don't know if Orion will find us,
00:21:29 if men with guns will come,
00:21:30 if false shepherds will ride in under crosses they don't deserve.
00:21:34 But we do know this.
00:21:35 When the time comes, we're not going to raise a fist.
00:21:39 We will raise the light and let it speak for itself.
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