In this episode of The Glenn Beck Program, Glenn takes a look back at the protests of the 1960s and compares them to the current protests against capitalism and the current political climate in America. He talks about how the protests were a direct response to the lack of support from the political system, and how we need to take back control of our power.
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00:06:07.040Because I believe today the banners have changed, but the slogans haven't.
00:06:11.720We see the radicals in the streets, some openly calling from the dismantling of capitalism, the overturning of the United States of America.
00:06:19.960Some are cloaked in softer language, but our schools have become training camps and universities are no longer places of learning.
00:06:27.600They just become staging grounds for ideological revolution.
00:08:28.860because that's really only half of the story.
00:08:31.240In the late 1960s, it was a time of total chaos and despair, but it was also a time of decision, because while fires were burning in places like Altamont, the free concert in San Francisco, where order collapsed so completely, the hell's angels were used as security.
00:08:51.420At the same time those fires were burning, another fire was being lit, a different kind of fire, a fire of belief.
00:09:01.240In the middle of that same turbulence, exactly as it is today, America decided to go to the moon.
00:09:12.760At the same time, with the same conditions, Apollo 11 went to the moon.
00:09:19.300At the very moment when voices on the ground are saying America is finished, a very small group of Americans looked up and said, no, no, no, no, no, not yet, not yet.
00:09:29.380And they chose creation, exploration, and the future over fight.
00:09:39.060It was right after, as the poets say, we slipped the surly bonds of earth,
00:09:46.280that America then entered another revolution.
00:09:50.900This revolution was proclaimed by Time Magazine, of all people.
00:09:55.480It was the Jesus revolution. Seemingly out of nowhere, miraculously, all of these pieces just start coming together out of nowhere.
00:27:38.700They won't because too many numbers, too many programs, it's really complicated.
00:27:42.120So 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.
00:27:49.840But 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.
00:28:01.760So here's what Christopher Rufo and his colleagues at the City Journal have been digging into.
00:28:08.760And this is not isolated waste, but it is, again, a pattern.
00:28:16.140It doesn't think. All it does, because this is intelligence, it recognizes patterns. So look for patterns. If a portion of what they have documented here is accurate, it is staggering. So let me make it really simple.
00:28:37.060First, let me give you the scale. This is according to interviews with officials, audits, and public records that are reviewed in the report. California may have lost as much as $180 billion to fraud and improper payments across multiple state programs.
00:28:54.780Now, what I just said, I'm going to come back, and that probably didn't shock you at all, but when I go through this, I'm coming back to that number, and I think you'll go, holy crap.
00:29:08.060Now, this is an important distinction and something that most people on either side won't do.
00:29:16.100It's built from multiple sources, and it is not a single confirmed audit line.
00:29:21.440But even the confirmed numbers underneath it are enormous. Let me just start with what's been confirmed. Start with unemployment. During COVID, California alone rapidly expanded unemployment payments.
00:29:38.720What Rufo is now reporting, based on state admissions and audits, is that roughly $20 billion of that was confirmed as fraud, and $55 billion of that was classified as improper payments overall.
00:29:57.800So, let me just take the $55 billion, not even the $20 billion, just the $55 billion.
00:30:04.540If you spent $1 million every day, it would take you 150 years to spend $55 billion.
00:30:15.900That is more than the entire annual budget of many U.S. states.
00:30:22.560You could build dozens and dozens, I'm sorry, hundreds of high schools and dozens and dozens of major hospitals with $55 billion.
00:30:31.480You could fund tens of thousands, armies of teachers, police officers, and nurses, and you could fund it for years.
00:30:44.060$55 billion equals about $150 taken, stolen from every man, woman, and child in America.
00:30:52.980Not taxpayers, every single person in America.
00:30:57.260For a family of four, that's somebody coming into your house, the average American has $500 saved in the bank account. $500 is the average cushion. This is this one program, one program in one blue state stealing $600 from every family of four.
00:31:18.10055 billion dollars if you stacked it in one dollar bills a million dollars is four inches high
00:31:26.680a billion stacked in one dollar bills is 358 feet that's taller than the statue of liberty
00:31:35.200how big is a stack of one dollar bills at 55 billion it would stretch 3.7 miles into the sky
00:31:44.900that's how much money this one program in one state has paid out in fraud that is something
00:31:55.520we should be able to see from a distance but because these numbers are so big and it's going
00:31:59.640to get even worse it people will people won't understand it i mean the fraud is unbelievable
00:32:06.820payments were sent in the name of prisoners including death row inmates international fraud
00:32:14.020rings filing claims from overseas. Criminals bragging about it online. We saw it. This is
00:32:21.860not speculation. This is all documented. That's one. Then comes healthcare, Medi-Cal. Here are
00:32:30.540the things that are confirmed. Fraud. And then estimates and warnings. Experts cited in the
00:32:41.380reporting suggest fraud rates could range from 15 to 25 percent of total spending which applied
00:32:49.660over time could mean tens of billions of dollars lost again this is not a confirmed total you then
00:32:56.900have welfare and homelessness spending california has spent roughly 24 billion dollars on homeless
00:33:03.700programs okay what rufo's team documents now specific criminal cases including non-profit
00:33:11.440leaders siphoning millions of dollars developers accused of misusing public housing funds fraud
00:33:18.480rings exploiting food assistance systems how bad of a person do you need to be to take food out of
00:33:24.580people's mouths that are hungry and take it for yourself and here's the key point auditors have
00:33:30.520said, in multiple cases, they couldn't fully track the outcomes or spending effectiveness.
00:33:37.120Not they didn't like it. They couldn't track it. So what's the pattern?
00:33:45.200What Rufo is arguing in this report now, very directly, is this. This is not bad luck. This
00:33:52.820isn't just a few bad actors. This isn't just, well, it was COVID. This is an entire system
00:33:58.960where oversight was weak to begin with, safeguards were removed
00:34:04.960or people told to ignore, and massive amounts of money pushed out quickly.
00:34:13.460This is an environment where fraud isn't just possible.
00:35:13.140All we keep hearing about are human rights.
00:35:15.320Make sure that it's justice and fairness, right?
00:35:19.000She's now facing 17 felony charges, including conflict of interest, perjury and misappropriation of public funds.
00:35:30.320Prosecutors are alleging now that Cheryl Davis, who helped manage tens of millions of dollars, not from the state, but from the city, the city, the Dream Keeper initiative, diverted money meant for vulnerable communities, and it went right directly into her bank account.
00:35:48.160everybody in the city of san francisco should be enraged how much money do you pay in taxes
00:35:55.480how come things aren't getting better in my city well this is why let me give you the facts
00:36:02.580non-profit tied to her received 3.5 million dollars in city funds intended to help homeless
00:36:08.840children the money according to the prosecutors redirected through organizations all connected to
00:36:16.720her. In fact, her son allegedly received $140,000 deposited into an account she controlled.
00:36:24.680A co-conspirator ran another non-profit that's accused of helping facilitate the scheme.
00:36:32.740And this wasn't uncovered by routine oversight. This one came from a whistleblower. Thank God
00:36:40.240for whistleblowers. And it went on long enough that investigators had to execute more than
00:36:45.80050 search warrants and over 18 months just to piece it together.
00:36:54.020These are all allegations. They'll be tested in court. I want to remind you that her attorney
00:36:59.060is denying any wrongdoing, but prosecutors are clear. These are not routine charges.
00:37:05.440And here is why this matters. This was not a back office clerk, and this isn't isolated.
00:37:11.120This and the other programs were done by people who were entrusted with public money, public trust, and a mission rooted in justice.
00:37:21.060And when people hear billions lost, it feels distant.
00:37:26.640Corruption doesn't start at $55 billion.
00:37:30.320And when you hear $55 billion, remember, the average American has $500 saved as a cushion.
00:37:38.440They stole from your family and every family of four in one state on one program, $600.
00:37:49.400One program, one gatekeeper, one decision to look the other way or worse.
00:37:56.800Multiply that across systems with weak oversight.
00:38:01.020Multiply it, not just from San Francisco, but cities all through California.
00:38:04.840Then multiply it for all of the blue states.
00:38:07.480then add in all of the red states do you think this is just a blue state problem this is going
00:38:13.320to hit red states as well the numbers are going to be astronomical and if we don't fix this that's
00:38:22.420how the whole thing goes apart one small abuse at a time until it's not small anymore but let me
00:38:28.620give you some good news. I believe the president put J.D. Vance in charge of this because J.D.
00:38:37.260Vance's whole career is going to depend on the end. Did you find anything and did you put them
00:38:45.180in jail? And I will tell you, if J.D. Vance is smart, he will simultaneously do a red state as
00:38:55.100he does a blue state and he shows we're talking justice not political payback we are talking this
00:39:02.600is the american money this is the american taxpayer this is our about our very survival
00:39:09.000when you are stretched so thin you have a hard time making money enough money to buy your food
00:39:16.060for your kids at the grocery store i don't care who did it they're going to jail and i think you're
00:39:23.860going to see that i think you're going to actually see interest on action on this one because it is
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01:09:20.560And there are a few tickets left. This is a great fundraiser for Moms for Liberty, but it's just going to be an incredible event. And Tina is with us now. Hello, Tina, I haven't talked to you in a couple of weeks. How are the plans coming?
01:09:36.840Oh, it's starting to really all come together. You know, putting on massive events like this is stressful, but also very exciting as they start coming together. So I'm thrilled at how it's coming along.
01:09:48.500Good. Just give a thumbnail of what people are going to experience.
01:09:54.820For those that have been out to Ellis Island, just the experience of arriving and taking the ferry over, passing the Statue of Liberty, where they'll stop for a few minutes and then go on to Ellis Island.
01:10:04.900And that alone is, I mean, people line up from around the world to do that.
01:10:08.780But then we have reserved the entire Ellis Island where millions of Americans and most
01:10:29.540Mary Mildon, for those that know her, is going to be performing to fireworks going off over
01:10:33.640the statue of liberty at the end of the night so it is going to be a black tie gala and like no
01:10:39.440other i am uh i am so excited and how are our nameless special guests coming along we have
01:10:46.480we have some nameless special i'm not allowed to say i'm not even allowed to say that we have
01:10:53.080nameless special guests which i guess which i guess i just did um well no we don't know
01:10:58.940really fun no i'm the special guest you were talking about tina he just i will be unnamed
01:11:04.820uh for now um if you want to get tickets uh i want you to go to glennbeck.com
01:11:10.900slash events and get your tickets there again it is happening on may 2nd uh and trust me you
01:11:18.980are going to want to be i'm bringing my whole family in uh from all over my kids are coming
01:11:23.540And they're, you know, leaving school and everything else to be there, because I think this is a once in a lifetime event.
01:11:30.480I remember when Ronald Reagan reopened the Statue of Liberty with a new torch and he had fireworks like we're going to have fireworks thanks to Patriot Mobile.
01:11:40.520And I remember that because it was such a big deal.
01:11:47.820And we're going to have I know David and Tim Barton are going to be there talking about history and bringing some artifacts with one of the other co-sponsors, which is the American Journey Experience, otherwise known as Mercury One.
01:11:59.340That's our museum is the American Journey Experience.
01:12:03.000I'm bringing a few things to show you'll be able.
01:12:06.400I mean, there's very few people that are going to be there.
01:12:08.500This whole island is for about 400 people.
01:12:12.560And you will be up close and personal first draft of the Declaration of Independence.
01:12:17.820The stone copy of the Declaration of Independence, that's from 1820.
01:12:21.620The reason, if you ever see the Declaration of Independence in person, you'll look at it and you're like, I can't even see it.
01:12:30.100Part of it is because they left it out in the sun for a while.
01:12:32.280But most of it is because in 1820, they took a solvent and put it on top of the Declaration of Independence, then put rice paper on it and lifted it up and took the ink off of a lot of the ink so they could make copies of it.
01:12:46.560We have one of those very, very rare copies that you will see.
01:12:50.440Also, a ton of stuff from George Washington, his compass, his glasses.
01:13:43.340Real America's Voice has come in as the media partner, and we had to get special permission from the administration to live stream from the island.
01:13:50.940And they are going to live stream and package the whole event so that all of your listeners that can't maybe get to New York that night will be able to host their own watch parties.
01:13:59.740And we have free kits that we'll be able to send them and download to assist in their parties or a kit you can purchase to enhance your party, hashtag it.
01:14:07.820And Real America's Voice has offered, if you're going to have a really great watch party, to actually send out folks to broadcast and check in with us on the island that evening.
01:14:16.680So it's going to be amplified across the country.
01:14:19.960I will tell you that Torch was pursuing this.
01:14:23.200And when the number just for the broadcast hit 750,000, I thought, no, I'm going to have to pass this on to somebody else.
01:14:31.100just because of the rules and regulations of the parks in New York and everything else.
01:14:48.920If you're a Torch member, we have other things happening.
01:14:50.840The day before, I assume we're still on for that, Ricky,
01:14:55.200that I'm going to do some things behind the scenes that you've never seen.
01:14:59.220Uh, and we're getting a special tour of, uh, parts of Ellis Island that most people don't get to see as well.
01:15:06.900So all of that is coming up, sign up for it.
01:15:09.600Now get your tickets, um, at, um, you can either go from moms for liberty.com or glennbeck.com, I'm sorry.org or glennbeck.com forward slash events and get your tickets.
01:15:20.980Now there's only a few left Tina real quick.
01:15:23.960You are on a panel at the White House, and you and I have been talking about education and how it really needs to be revamped.
01:15:36.100And one of the things that we've talked about a lot was what we're doing with AI.
01:15:41.980And I was so glad to hear that you are representing moms and families at the White House about protection of our kids with AI.
01:15:50.540because AI is either going to serve the system or it's going to serve us.
01:15:57.620Can you give us, bring me up to speed or bring in, you know,
01:16:00.140the audience up to speed on what you're doing and where we are in that process?
01:16:08.020So AI and education is the biggest threat to parental rights in America right now.
01:16:13.360It's the biggest threat to our children and it is the biggest threat to education.
01:16:18.020That being said, it can be the biggest blessing if it's harnessed and the right policies are put in place.
01:16:23.680And Moms for Liberty is just honored to be in a position now in America where we are leading in this area.
01:16:30.800And the White House, you know, I commend them for including us.
01:16:33.620You know, the White House released President Trump released just last week their national policy framework for artificial intelligence.
01:16:39.940And because of the work that we've been doing with the White House and them including us on meetings and in December, I spoke to members of the cabinet.
01:16:49.820And then I was recently at the First Lady's big event where she had with 45 first spouses of other countries having these discussions.
01:16:57.400That national policy framework that President Trump released last week from the White House, the number one thing on that framework is protecting children and empowering parents.
01:17:05.480That is a huge win for us and for kids across the country.
01:17:09.120But there is so much work that still needs to be done in that policy crafting that needs to happen to make sure children are truly protected.
01:17:17.760Explain what that means to protect from artificial intelligence.
01:18:42.780And it has to be completely transparent.
01:18:45.040You have to know what that algorithm is, and you have to be able to control it for your own family.
01:18:50.760Tina, I can't thank you enough for everything that you guys do.
01:18:53.640I mean, there is nothing more powerful on Earth than a mother.
01:18:56.640And when moms get together and they speak to power, it changes the world.
01:19:02.140And Tina has put together Moms for Liberty, and it is a game changer.
01:19:06.820And you have my 100% total faith in support, Tina.
01:19:12.500I just love you as a person because I know you, I know your values, and I know how hard you work.
01:19:18.220And I thank you so much for everything you're doing at momsforliberty.org.
01:19:22.600So grateful for you, Glenn, and your partnership and your help.
01:19:25.780The one thing we didn't throw in is that we're launching the second event where we had so much excitement and response to the first event on D-Day on the U.S.'s Midway in San Diego.
01:19:36.200So for your fans that are out on the West Coast, you will be there.
01:21:19.800They offer support for up to two years after the child is born, as well as encouragement and love, the kind of care that helps her know she's not alone in that monument.
01:21:29.920And maybe most importantly, they share the love and the message of the gospel.
01:29:04.140It's fascinating, Glenn, and I'm so glad that you're capturing this for the audience.
01:29:08.880And what I want you to know is we have the exact date that Jesus died by Roman crucifixion.
01:29:15.860It's the best established fact of the ancient world.
01:29:18.280He died on Friday, April 3rd. Guess what today is? Friday, April 3rd, A.D. 33. We know that as a historical fact. If we cannot believe that, we cannot believe that Caesar crossed the Rubicon in 49 B.C.
01:29:36.780Because Passover fell on the 14th of Nisan, and we know that that was Friday, A.D. 33, a lunar eclipse was seen when Jesus was being crucified.
01:29:55.360And so the facts that we're going back to the moon on the very week where the exact day, April 3rd, the crucifixion happened, which means the resurrection occurred, April 5th, A.D. 33, that is providential.
01:30:10.180That is no accident, and people need to wake up.
01:36:56.280because you're such a great communicator.
01:36:57.640By the way, y'all, I listened to Glenn over pizza
01:37:00.200in turn explain the American Constitution, Glenn should be teaching the Constitution at every
01:37:05.460university in America, okay? Can everyone just say amen? You are incredible. So magic, this is huge.
01:37:12.440Do you know, and this has never happened to me before, before my book, The Jesus Discoveries,
01:37:16.340ever came out, Popular Mechanics and other scientific magazines were doing articles on
01:37:21.000my book because of this one discovery. Glenn, you may not have heard of this, it's so new.
01:37:25.340the earliest artifact that we have with the name of Jesus on it is actually a magic cup now stay
01:37:32.740with me on this for a minute Jesus is known as a miracle worker and as an exorcist way before the
01:37:39.200resurrection okay and you think Luke 7 22 remember 25 percent of the Roman Empire was sick dying or
01:37:45.280in need of immediate medical attention on any given day Frank Gaudio my friend at Oxford and
01:37:50.080and by the way, there's Oxford again, 2008, he's a marine archaeologist, so he does archaeology
01:37:56.840underwater. He uncovers a cup, and there's pictures of this in my book, The Jesus Discovery,
01:38:01.200and do you mind if I say it in Greek for your audience, how it appears on the cup? Can I do it?
01:38:05.240It says, through Jesus, the magician, or the enchanter. What does that mean? That means that
01:38:14.740Jesus' 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.
01:38:37.820And I had I had something come to me this week that just because of the times we live in now, I want to see if you think there's anything to it.
01:38:46.860And then you can also talk about the king of the Jews.
01:38:49.220And the name of the book is The Jesus Discoveries.
01:38:56.540We're going to spend a couple more minutes with him here in just a second.
01:38:59.440First, let me tell you about Z Factor.
01:39:01.180Maybe you drank too much coffee in the morning.
01:39:03.040Maybe, you know, you brought the stresses of of home or stresses of the day home with you and your brain just doesn't have the off switch right now when you need it.
01:39:13.960Whatever the reason is, when you can't sleep, it's not a small thing.
01:39:17.680It is huge and it just gets worse and worse.
01:40:16.540So I don't know if there's anything to this, Jeremiah, but, you know, King of the Jews,
01:40:21.440I was watching something just the other night, and it was about the crucifixion.
01:40:26.060And it said, you know, the inscription, King of the Jews.
01:40:28.580And I thought, you know, when they put the crown on him and everything else and they mock him with the robe, I thought this is really kind of the first real anti-Semitism where you are seeing people mock him as, oh, here he is, the king of the Jews.
01:40:46.000And it just took on, because of how we're living right now and we're seeing what people say, that's not why they killed him.
01:40:54.540But it just, it felt different to me that I looked at it maybe from their time instead of our time.
01:41:05.620That's the Holy Spirit speaking to you.
01:41:07.680It's a shame we even have to have this segment, but we do.
01:41:10.560And in fact, I have a picture of the titulus in my book, The Jesus Discoveries.
01:41:13.960he writes the king of the jews and i want to clear something up for our audience
01:41:18.040jesus is flogged 700 times he loses one third of his blood volume on good friday please by the way
01:41:25.260glenn i just i just got some first century dice made of bone i've got to show them to you next
01:41:30.040time i'm with you because don't forget the crew the executioners are gambling for his clothes
01:41:34.440right well the author of life is dying before them they affix a mocking a condemnation sign
01:41:41.060titulus crucis in latin this the king of the jews but i can i just say one thing if you and i were
01:41:47.740in the audience that day when pontius pilate presented the bleeding nearly dead jesus mocking
01:41:54.320him humiliating him it wasn't just the jews yelling crucify him glenn every single one of us would
01:41:59.900have been yelling crucify him every one of us would have been we all killed jesus because our
01:42:05.420sin put Jesus on the cross. We needed him to die, not just the Jews. We would have been yelling,
01:42:13.080crucify him, because without Christ, we destroy ourselves. And so, yes, it's anti-Semitic. The
01:42:18.260king of the Jews, they're mocking him. And it is truly the first form of anti-Semitism. And they
01:42:23.980mock him. He is crucified. Not an area of his body is not wounded, including the pelvic region.
01:42:30.020And friends, this is God demonstrating his love. Forgive me for preaching, Glenn, but someone
01:42:35.340right now in your audience, they need to know that God loves them and that there's hope.
01:42:38.980And Romans 5, 8 says, but God demonstrated, and that's what we're thinking about, demonstrated
01:42:46.700his love for you and me, and that when we were at our worst, he sent his best Jesus to die for us.
01:42:52.460And that's why that condemnation sign is so important. And let me just remind you, Romans 8,
01:42:58.000therefore there is now no condemnation to those of us who are in Christ. Do you see the connection,
01:43:04.160glenn jesus had a condemnation sign we don't because like you said earlier in the broadcast
01:43:10.620you've been forgiven i will tell you um i don't know why jeremiah it is so hard to ask for
01:43:20.540forgiveness for yourself and and and and accept forgiveness for yourself we can forgive others
01:43:28.480but it is so hard to accept and it's like you know people like i can't even go to god on this
01:43:34.860i can't even go to god because i've made so many mistakes and i've promised so many times and i've
01:43:38.140broken the promises so many times i'm like he's not surprised he knows right he already knows
01:43:43.000it's not like you're going and he's going to go wait a minute you did what he knows and he's
01:43:48.300already accepted it is just about getting you to accept the forgiveness why is that so hard
01:43:55.580Glenn, and here's what I would say. Well, first, a lot of people have challenging relationships with their dads. Now, Glenn, you are a rock star dad. So if you think about any of your kids coming to you who've made a mistake, you're going to love them. You're not going to shame them. You look at your, you'll hear your kids and you say, your love for me, my love for you will never diminish. It doesn't matter what mistakes you make, period. But you know what? A lot of people have broken relationships with their dads. A lot of people don't even know how to ask. And they don't even know what to do. We all pray way too religiously.
01:44:24.380Do you remember the prayer, Glenn, that Jesus said was the perfect prayer?
01:44:40.100Jeremiah, I appreciate your friendship, and I appreciate all the stuff that you've done, and you've gone all over the world, and you have really made this so people can really see it and understand it in such a great way.
01:48:39.640And so when they called me and said, you know, and I'm like worn out from this book tour, you know, book tours are like, and I said, it's Glenn Beck.
01:48:48.240And I said, yes, yes, whenever he wants me, however long he wants me, I am there.
01:48:53.360So thank you for the honor of being with you again, my friend.
01:48:56.420Well, you have written a book, Nero and Paul, uh, and, and tell me about it.
01:49:31.760And my son, who got his master's at Oxford University, is a brilliant, brilliant mind.
01:49:39.960And he said, Mom, a couple of years ago, Mom, why don't you take this obsession you have with these epic characters from the scriptures, epic characters that started with Herod, and it goes on from there.
01:54:04.520And so it was Nero who said, we've got a problem with these little Christians.
01:54:11.220He said it very derisively, and he meant it because the word Christo in Greek means Messiah.
01:54:20.480so the the story that you're bringing here is i mean i think so appropriate for today because
01:54:30.280we are so we've lost hope we we are seeing everyone struggle for power in in all walks
01:54:40.060of life in everything that we see it is all about the struggle for power and even truth is at stake
01:54:48.340um and what is it that you found in the story that you hope people connect with to that gives
01:54:56.180them because this is what we really lack we lack hope we lack hope that this can be solved
01:55:02.720that's right and that's why our sub our subtitle is and this is the second in the series the first
01:55:08.840one was nero and it was uh excuse me herod and and mary talk to talk about juxtaposing ancient
01:55:15.720evil and living hope as as as herod was dying and he was i mean just his body was literally
01:55:25.420littered with with with with i mean maggots and everything else from the way he lived his life
01:55:32.220he's dying while mary has the hope of the world the hope of humankind she's carrying the king of
01:55:39.560kings. And Herod used to call himself the king of the Jews. He wasn't even a Jew. And Mary is
01:55:46.460carrying the king of humanity in her womb. So that's what I loved about that juxtaposition.
01:55:53.380They were around at the same time. And Nero and Paul were too, although Paul came quite a few
01:56:00.540years before Nero. But still, it was Nero that set forth the whole world of... He was the one
01:56:09.160that was crucifying the believers in Jesus, by that time called Christians, and he was torching
01:56:15.920them. He would light Rome up with them on crucifixion crosses, you know, and he never
01:56:23.640fiddled while Rome burned. The fiddle was not even invented then. That's just one of those things.
01:56:30.260How did he, what is his ending? Did he ever come and turn around?
01:56:35.320Absolutely. Never, never, never. He committed suicide. And Herod died of maggots and larvae in his groin. None of these people that had more power than the world had ever seen at the time, none of them ever turned around. But Saul of Tarsus did. And why? Because he literally heard the voice of the Messiah.
01:56:59.640so how do we apply this to our life today kathy what are we missing where have we missed the
01:57:06.440messiah in our lives what are we struggling with that we haven't given him yet that we haven't
01:57:12.880turned over haven't surrendered to him yet it's you know he's he's not the kind of leader that
01:57:20.220wants to you know and put us in chains that's why i don't like religion glenn you and i've talked
01:57:25.300about this many times. Religion, for the most part, as I have observed, puts us in chains of
01:57:31.500some sort. The way the Pharisees and the Sadducees did, they were already under the rule of Rome.
01:57:37.700They were already under the Torah. That's enough for any human being to have to try to deal with.
01:57:43.280Then they added like 600 other things. It's another whole conversation.