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

00:00:01.000 The Days of Ash, Episode 7, The Book of Light and Ash.

00:00:08.940 By the seventh month, we stopped calling it Collapse.

00:00:13.340 It wasn't sudden anymore, it wasn't surprising, it just was what it was, the way things were.

00:00:19.780 The maps had changed, the rules had changed, the weather even felt different, sharper somehow, like the wind carried judgment.

00:00:25.860 But underneath it all, the cracks between the fires and the factions, something else was moving.

00:00:32.320 Not louder, not stronger, just, I don't know, truer.

00:00:35.820 And the ones who could feel it weren't harmed.

00:00:39.380 They were awake.

00:00:41.140 There were moments in sanctuary, quiet and small, that didn't make sense by the old rules.

00:00:46.860 A child lost in the woods for three days, no food, came back laughing and full of stories.

00:00:50.740 A blind man who had been silent since his wife died stood during prayer and quoted Psalm 46 from memory, word for word.

00:01:00.480 A woman who hadn't slept since the blackout closed her eyes one night by the fire and whispered,

00:01:05.800 He's here. He's here.

00:01:11.020 We didn't call them miracles, at least not out loud.

00:01:14.260 We just stopped asking questions and we started paying attention.

00:01:18.120 faith wasn't a sermon anymore or a building it was how you walked how you listened how you stayed

00:01:27.120 soft in a world that had gone so sharp there was no stage no offering plates no applause just a

00:01:34.080 quiet circle under the trees a few verses a few tears and and silence the kind of silence you

00:01:40.480 didn't want to break and we read the bible differently now it wasn't just a book of comfort

00:01:47.760 But it was a survival manual, not for our bodies, but for our souls.

00:01:55.820 There is one passage we kept returning to, Isaiah 30.

00:01:59.280 In repentance and rest is your salvation.

00:02:03.680 In quietness and trust is your strength.

00:02:09.800 Not resistance, not revenge, not self-righteousness, quietness, trust.

00:02:17.760 How we were learning to see things so differently now, not just danger, but people.

00:02:22.480 Their eyes told the story now.

00:02:25.020 You could feel it.

00:02:26.280 Those who carried peace and those who carried something else.

00:02:30.620 There was a man who passed through from Atlanta, said all the right things, quoted scripture,

00:02:35.580 but his eyes were cold and calculating.

00:02:40.280 Clara watched him for an hour and then told him gently,

00:02:43.660 There is a place for you, but it's not here.

00:02:47.760 He didn't argue, he just nodded, walked back into the trees without looking back.

00:02:53.940 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.

00:03:07.840 It wasn't magic, it wasn't pride, it was discernment.

00:03:12.860 And those who had it didn't talk about it, they just prayed harder.

00:03:17.760 but not all faith is the same some twisted some calcified some grew teeth in the hills north of

00:03:27.680 us a group called itself the risen sword had taken over an old schoolhouse they said they

00:03:33.540 were there to restore the kingdom they said america had been judged for its sin and they

00:03:38.380 were the instrument of cleansing they wore crosses they chanted verses and they carried

00:03:45.160 rifles. They executed two men they accused of sexual impurity. One of them was 16.

00:03:54.020 When we heard about it, Thomas, our sometimes preacher, wanted to act.

00:03:59.200 Said we should warn them. We should send a letter. Clara said, Jesus never wrote letters to wolves.

00:04:08.020 So we all prayed instead.

00:04:10.680 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.

00:04:20.140 We were really learning faith is not power. Faith is obedience.

00:04:26.080 The Muslim family that stayed with us, Amina's family, became kind of a mirror.

00:04:32.020 We watched how they prayed, how they fasted, how they wept when they were alone.

00:04:37.820 They didn't believe what we believed, but they honored what was sacred.

00:04:43.060 And in this world, that meant more than agreement.

00:04:46.460 It meant humility.

00:04:49.920 One night, Amina asked if she could join our reading.

00:04:52.840 She sat quietly there while we opened up Matthew 5, the Sermon on the Mount.

00:04:57.020 When we reached the part where Jesus said,

00:04:59.060 Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.

00:05:03.800 She closed her eyes and whispered,

00:05:05.940 That, I understand.

00:05:12.060 No one said a word.

00:05:15.120 But something passed between us, not theology, not conversion.

00:05:21.420 It was recognition.

00:05:26.500 That very same night, Clara said something that changed me.

00:05:30.180 We were discussing whether we were living in the end times,

00:05:32.940 and she sipped her tea and stared into the fire, and she said,

00:05:35.940 Maybe. But maybe it's not the end of the world. Maybe it's just the end of our world, so he can

00:05:45.140 finally build his. Wow, that stuck with me. Because if you looked at it that way, the world

00:05:52.680 hadn't ended. It had just been corrected. The proud were now silent. The powerful were now

00:06:00.320 scattered. The violent ruled for now, but underneath it all, in all the corners and

00:06:05.780 cracks, the meek were inheriting the earth. And not with armies, not with declarations, 1.00

00:06:12.200 but with gardens, with prayer, with a truth that didn't need defending, just living.

00:06:22.060 I began to feel it too, the promptings, the whisper in the stillness, a nudge when I was

00:06:29.720 about to speak in anger. A warmth when I let somebody cry without offering a

00:06:34.300 solution. It wasn't emotion, it wasn't imagination, it was him. Not shouting, just

00:06:44.520 near.

00:06:48.400 There was a moment I'll never forget. A child wandered out into our outer field,

00:06:55.020 Maybe five years old?

00:06:57.020 No name, no family.

00:06:59.560 She wouldn't speak.

00:07:02.600 Clara held her hand and began humming,

00:07:05.120 and softly said,

00:07:06.860 She seemed too much.

00:07:09.880 We all nodded.

00:07:12.020 Then the girl looked up at me,

00:07:13.860 and in a voice barely audible, she said,

00:07:17.540 They had no light.

00:07:21.980 I asked her what she meant.

00:07:23.340 she pointed to her eyes

00:07:24.960 and then to mine.

00:07:27.780 And then she whispered,

00:07:29.740 You do.

00:07:32.840 And that was all.

00:07:37.100 Later that night, I asked Claire what it all meant.

00:07:39.540 She said,

00:07:40.860 The spirit marks his own.

00:07:43.560 Sometimes the children see it first.

00:07:47.220 We didn't make signs.

00:07:48.520 We didn't post cards.

00:07:49.400 We didn't recruit.

00:07:50.200 We just stayed open. 1.00

00:07:53.340 And somehow they just kept coming, the tired, the kind,

00:07:57.360 the ones who had been broken but not embittered.

00:08:00.720 They didn't ask for leadership.

00:08:02.940 They asked for honesty, and we gave it.

00:08:06.200 The Word became our shield, not a weapon, a filter.

00:08:11.860 If it passed through the Gospels, we could trust it.

00:08:14.960 If it didn't, we left it on the ground.

00:08:17.100 We watched as the world turned medieval in places.

00:08:21.140 warlords, feudal zones, religious tribunals, witch burnings, yes, even those.

00:08:26.520 In Eastern Europe, whole towns were ruled by prophets claiming to be Elijah reborn.

00:08:31.900 In Turkey, Christian converts were executed by old neighbors, not soldiers, old neighbors. 0.53

00:08:38.020 In parts of the South, churches turned into barricades full of rage and not grace.

00:08:43.740 But there were the others.

00:08:46.800 In Colombia, a woman opened her home to the dying, no questions, no politics.

00:08:50.820 In the Congo, a tribe shared their last harvest with a traveling missionary.

00:08:55.840 In Canada, a retired nurse baptized 12 people in a lake with no witnesses but God.

00:09:02.200 Light, but not loud, not flashy, but unquenchable.

00:09:08.500 The Book of Light and Ash.

00:09:12.140 That's what we started calling it.

00:09:14.940 It wasn't a real book, it was a journal we passed around.

00:09:19.440 Each person wrote one thing in it, a moment of grace, a prompting obeyed, a kindness given or received.

00:09:27.000 It became our scripture of survival, not equal to the Bible, but flowing from it, the fruits of it.

00:09:34.860 Proof that the Spirit still moved, it still spoke, it still lit candles in the dark.

00:09:42.900 Sometimes I wonder what others would think reading it a hundred years from now.

00:09:46.800 would they understand would they they laugh at us or would they see what we saw that the end

00:09:55.440 wasn't just judgment it was an invitation a return to remember to walk again in the cool

00:10:03.720 of that garden with nothing to hide not all made it some left chose safety elsewhere or fell to

00:10:13.760 despair. But those who stayed, they became something else, not revolutionaries. A remnant.

00:10:24.060 We didn't sing like we used to, but we hummed. And sometimes, when the fire was just right,

00:10:29.480 we lifted our voices low, raw, unrehearsed, and somehow holy.

00:10:37.440 I don't know what comes next, but I know this. If he is still speaking, if he is still marking,

00:10:43.760 if he is still making all things new,

00:10:46.700 then we are not lost.

00:10:49.900 We have been found.

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00:12:15.680 The Days of Ash, Episode 8, No-Go Nation.

00:12:21.720 We didn't know the flag had fallen until three days after it happened.

00:12:28.440 No speech, no ceremony, no warning.

00:12:31.140 Just a rumor passed from truck to camp to radio.

00:12:34.740 Like all the truth now.

00:12:35.780 Washington's dark, the Capitol's sealed

00:12:39.100 The flag was lowered and never raised again

00:12:42.200 At first, no one really believed it

00:12:46.660 Even in collapse, people still clung to the symbols

00:12:49.800 But then the reports started coming in

00:12:52.180 No federal convoys, no executive orders, no broadcast from D.C.

00:12:57.420 Just silence again

00:12:58.880 And that's when the maps really started to change again

00:13:03.020 Not just new borders, new beliefs

00:13:05.660 They stopped calling them states or counties.

00:13:08.080 They were now zones.

00:13:09.940 Some of them were drawn by force, some by creed, and some by the absence of both.

00:13:15.820 There was the Free Pacific Corridor, backed by the Chinese logistics and global investment,

00:13:21.140 solar power, AI-managed food systems, digital compliance.

00:13:25.000 No God, no guns, no questions.

00:13:27.420 Then the Continental Partnership Authority, formerly Oklahoma and parts of Kansas,

00:13:32.060 run by a coalition of governors and constitutional officers,

00:13:35.620 some legitimate, others self-declared,

00:13:37.860 and law and order by fire if necessary.

00:13:42.220 The UN Blue Zones in New York, Philadelphia, D.C. proper,

00:13:46.500 controlled by peacekeepers, mostly Brazilian and Polish,

00:13:49.380 but monitored by drones, and then by the shadows.

00:13:54.420 The Strip.

00:13:55.920 This was a cartel-held territory from El Paso to St. Louis,

00:13:59.280 heavily armed unaccountable ruled at night and borderless the holy citadel of resplendent judgment

00:14:09.840 somewhere in the west some self-proclaimed prophets execution without trial entry by oath only

00:14:19.200 and thousands of no-go sectors abandoned cities looted suburbs failed communes this is where you

00:14:25.760 went if you didn't want to be found or if you were already lost the united states of america

00:14:34.560 it wasn't gone it just wasn't here anymore but sanctuary remained hidden intact untouched

00:14:46.400 not because we were stronger because we were quiet because we refused flags we refused

00:14:51.760 ideologies. We refuse to become a node in someone else's network. We belong to no map. And so far

00:14:58.520 for now, no map came looking. Harris told me something one night while we were on watch.

00:15:05.220 The wolves have stopped circling, he said. And not because we scared them off, but

00:15:09.880 I think it's because they couldn't see us.

00:15:14.980 There was talk in the camps of something called Project Orion, a rumored AI-run

00:15:20.620 coordination system housed somewhere beneath Denver, I think. Supposedly, it monitored all

00:15:26.960 remaining energy flows, network traffic, drone routes, and behavioral heat signatures. It didn't

00:15:34.060 intervene, but once again, there was that word it observed. Some called it the ghost president,

00:15:41.980 others the shepherd of the West. Few whispered that it was anti-human altogether, but one thing

00:15:49.220 was clear, where Orion looked, peacekeepers followed. And where peacekeepers followed,

00:15:55.540 the gospel shrank. We heard that in one of the former churches in Ohio and Virginia,

00:16:00.880 sermons had to be cleared by digital filter, uploaded, scan, and assigned a speech score.

00:16:07.220 If it contained certain trigger words, like salvation, judgment, kingdom, or repent,

00:16:13.240 It was flagged.

00:16:14.820 Flagged content meant interrogation.

00:16:18.300 Interrogation meant transfer.

00:16:20.520 And transfer meant silence.

00:16:24.420 But in sanctuary, no cameras, no screens, no stream, just scripture and firelight.

00:16:30.920 And the sound of the wind through the pine trees.

00:16:35.060 Sometimes I do think God didn't hide us by power.

00:16:38.320 He hid us by irrelevance.

00:16:40.300 by irrelevance to the algorithms, to the hunters, to the machines that now govern the visible world.

00:16:47.520 We were invisible, because we weren't data.

00:16:54.540 A boy came to us from Texas, 12, thin, carrying a radio and a pistol with no bullets.

00:17:01.360 Said his town had become a patrolled sector, enforced by the Republic of Sons.

00:17:05.500 It was a military run by four families with old grudges and new firepower.

00:17:10.300 They banned books, they banned meetings, they banned hope.

00:17:15.200 Said his father had tried to read from Psalms at dinner the next morning, he was gone.

00:17:21.020 The boy didn't cry when he told his story.

00:17:24.120 He cried when Clara handed him a plate of food and said, you're safe.

00:17:29.240 Because in this world, those words are rarer than bread.

00:17:35.920 He didn't have a leader of sanctuary.

00:17:38.320 Only stewards, a circle, a balance.

00:17:41.160 Decisions by consensus, correction by scripture.

00:17:44.540 No coercion, no title, only responsibilities.

00:17:49.260 Thomas still preached, but his fire had softened.

00:17:52.520 Clara's steadiness wore on him like water against stone.

00:17:56.140 One night after prayer, he said,

00:17:57.920 I used to think God wanted warriors.

00:18:00.860 Now I think he wants gardeners.

00:18:02.540 the same week someone placed a black flag at the edge of our property

00:18:09.660 again no words just a symbol a spiral around a sword we didn't touch it we prayed we watched

00:18:19.280 we waited it was gone by morning replaced by a small bundle of herbs and a note you were seen

00:18:28.660 and pass by. We burned the note. We kept the herbs. The cities, they just kept fracturing.

00:18:36.980 New York became an open-air index of ideologies. Manhattan was civil district number one,

00:18:43.400 internationally controlled and AI regulated. Brooklyn was anarchist. The Bronx, cartel

00:18:50.160 occupied. Queens declared independence under a community board made up of poets and teachers and

00:18:56.140 ex-NGO managers that one lasted about three weeks then it went gray no more words from queens

00:19:04.300 someone on the ham network said because america is now a skin stretched over 13 corpses

00:19:13.580 and no one disagreed with that

00:19:18.860 the gospel spread slowly now it wasn't intense or revivals or broadcast it was

00:19:26.140 in whispers, in acts, and in sudden moments of beauty.

00:19:31.920 A child singing, Be Thou My Vision, while planting beans.

00:19:36.720 A former atheist fixing an elder's roof in the rain, no questions asked.

00:19:41.220 A woman writing scripture on the walls with charcoal, one verse per town as she traveled.

00:19:46.840 There weren't any missionaries anymore, only witnesses.

00:19:50.220 And the word returned, not with power, but with presence.

00:19:53.480 and hearts softened, hands opened, evil flinched, but not from gunfire, from conviction.

00:20:02.060 I remember watching a man break down after hearing Luke 15, you know, the story of the

00:20:06.540 prodigal son. He was a warlord's enforcer at one point. He buried people with his own hands,

00:20:14.120 and when he heard that story, he wept and wept and wept, not because he was told he was guilty,

00:20:20.160 but because he was told that he was wanted.

00:20:24.480 That's when I understood.

00:20:26.020 The no-go nation?

00:20:28.000 That was a lie.

00:20:29.660 Because there was nowhere he wouldn't go.

00:20:34.840 Not everybody saw it.

00:20:36.160 Some still built their bunkers,

00:20:37.880 their ideologies, their empires,

00:20:39.440 but others, they built altars,

00:20:41.820 small, quiet, unseen by the world,

00:20:45.440 but burning all the same.

00:20:46.880 We don't really know what's coming.

00:21:05.120 Some say the sky will burn.

00:21:07.500 Some say a new king will rise.

00:21:09.020 Some say the machine will swallow the last of the free world.

00:21:11.560 But in Sanctuary, we've learned something else.

00:21:16.880 The kingdom doesn't come with observation.

00:21:19.820 The kingdom's already here and it's within you.

00:21:23.880 We're not really sure how long we'll stay hidden.

00:21:26.800 We don't know if Orion will find us,

00:21:29.220 if men with guns will come,

00:21:30.820 if false shepherds will ride in under crosses they don't deserve.

00:21:34.520 But we do know this.

00:21:35.860 When the time comes, we're not going to raise a fist.

00:21:39.800 We will raise the light and let it speak for itself.

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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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