Max Lucado talks ends times: 'People don’t know what’s about to happen'



“Four out of 10 Americans believe we are living in the end times,” says Glenn Beck, adding that he’s “one of those four.”

Considering the growing globalist agenda, the endless warring, the focus on Israel, and the fact that debauchery of every kind has become commonplace, it’s not surprising that so many believe we’re nearing the end.

Glenn invited best-selling author and pastor Max Lucado onto “The Glenn Beck Podcast” to discuss how Christians can prepare for what Lucado calls “the fourth quarter.”

Lucado, who says he’s “never tackled this topic” before, just published a book in August called “What Happens Next: A Traveler’s Guide Through the End of This Age.”

He gives “two big reasons” for venturing into a subject he’s otherwise avoided.

“Number one, I’m getting old. … And then number two, not only am I curious about the future, I'm really concerned about the present. These are really severe times in which we find ourselves,” he tells Glenn. “It's going to get crazy before the end, but we're getting close to the end.”

“What are the signs that you say we should be looking for?” asks Glenn.

According to Lucado, the most important sign — “the super sign,” he calls it — is “the regathering of the children of Israel to the land of Israel,” which already happened in May 1948.

The second sign of encroaching end times is that Israel will be “surrounded and circled by its enemies.”

“That's a part of the news every day,” says Lucado.

Another sign is “wars and rumors of war,” says Glenn, adding that “[America is] in the rumor of war right now.”

According to the teachings of Jesus, says Lucado, more end times signs include “economic turmoil,” “seismic activity,” “persecution of Christians,” “political conflict,” “famines, pestilences, pandemics, ethnic conflicts, false prophets,” and “fearful signs.”

“When you compile all of those signs, it sounds like the daily news,” says Lucado.

“Except for the super sign [the restoration of Israel’s homeland], haven't we had those same signs before?” asks Glenn.

Indeed we have. Glenn points to Nazi Germany as an example.

However, according to Lucado, the fact that the super sign has already come to pass gives a heightened meaning to the other signs we’re currently watching unfold.

“I do not know the hour, but I do think all of these signs are increasing in intensity and frequency,” he says and points to the scripture that calls these signs “labor pains” that warn of what is to come.

“We've never seen Israel surrounded and threatened in such a fashion like this,” says Lucado.

“We haven’t seen this kind of evil,” adds Glenn, pointing to the re-emergence of “really old pagan rituals” and “the sacrifice of our children” as examples of the depravity.

Lucado also points to the gender confusion that’s become a defining issue of our time.

“22% of teenagers in 2021 literally considered orchestrating their own departures — committing suicide,” he says. “These are tragic times in which we live, and I cannot help to think that a large reason is that people don't know what's about to happen.”

To hear more of the conversation, watch the episode above.

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End times prophecies ARE coming true; ‘all the players are in place’



As war continues to rage across the globe — politically, ideologically, and spiritually — many have suggested that the end times are near. Pastor Max Lucado is one of them, telling Glenn Beck that “all the players are in place.”

While the end has been hinted at for a long time, Glenn has also noticed that the pieces are just now lining up.

“If you didn’t think World War II was the possibility of Christ returning, I don’t know what was wrong with you except maybe you had read enough of the Bible to go, ‘There’s not enough, you know, to say it’s this time,’” Glenn says.

“The big difference between right now and even World War II is the existence of the state of Israel,” Lucado says. “That’s the prophecy.”

“That miracle, that sign, it seems to me, Glenn, announced that we’re in the final days,” he continues. “Israel has to be a nation for many of the prophecies to be fulfilled, namely the reconstruction of the temple.”

Lucado believes that while what’s happening globally is being discussed politically, it needs to be discussed spiritually even more.

“Something is happening here that has never happened in any generation in history. I don’t know when Christ is returning. I don’t. No one knows,” Lucado says, explaining that the last book in the Bible was not written to instill fear in people.

“He gave that to us so we would not be freaked out. He gave it to us so we’d look and we’d know that great change is coming,” he says. “He did these things not to scare us but to prepare us. He told us these things so that we would not panic.”

And there’s never been a better time to turn to God in faith, and not in fear, than right now — despite Satan’s influence asking us not to.

“Satan has never told a word of truth, ever, and whenever he sees a person like you, or any person, try to deal with the anxieties of life by turning to faith or turning to God, he’s going to step in,” Lucado says. “The last thing he wants us to do as people right now is turn to God in faith.”


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4 places the Ark of the Covenant COULD be



As some in Israel are preparing to build a third Jewish Temple and with the possible sacrifice of a red heifer looming, many are wondering what might change and whether the Ark of the Covenant will be found.

The Ark of the Covenant is where the Ten Commandments were kept, and Glenn Beck previously believed it would never be found.

“Is that important for the rebuilding of the temple?” He asks Shoreshim Ministries founder Bill Cloud, who tells him that “there is historical precedent for building the Temple and not having the ark.”

“However,” he continues, “There’s prophecies that talk about how the glory of the latter house is going to be greater than the first one — referring to Solomon’s, which had the Ark of the Covenant.”

Not only do some in Israel want to build a temple on the Temple Mount, but they want to find the Ark of the Covenant.

According to Cloud, there “are a lot of traditions as to what happened to the Ark of the Covenant.”

“Some say that it went to Ethiopia, which I don’t believe. Some people say that Jeremiah hid it in Mount Nebo, which is in Jordan. Some people believe that it is outside of the old city buried. And then there are quite a number of people, and particularly people close to the idea of rebuilding the temple, who believe that it’s buried somewhere underneath the Temple Mount,” Cloud explains.

“That’s not really a big secret, honestly, it’s all over the internet,” he adds.


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What happens if Israel sacrifices a red heifer?



As Passover nears, rumors are spreading that Israelis will use the holiday to sacrifice a red heifer.

There have been nine red heifers that have been sacrificed since Moses, which Bill Cloud, the founder of Jacob’s Tent Fellowship, explains is the antidote for the golden calf.

“It is for ceremonial cleansing in order to approach God, so that’s important in relation to the rebuilding of the temple, because they don’t have a temple at this point,” Cloud explains.

This has become a point of contention for Hamas after the October 7 attack on Israel, as the group voiced its concern with the red heifer, claiming the Jews would start purifying Temple Mount.

Hamas called it an act of war.

Cloud has his thoughts on what this will mean for Israel.

“If you have the ashes, that doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re going to start next week in rebuilding the temple, because if they burn a red heifer, Glenn, everybody’s going to hear about it, including the Muslim world, including the Israeli government. That would be a provocation,” Cloud tells Glenn Beck, who is wondering what this means for the human race.

“How far down the line are we on the known prophecy of the things that have to happen before the clock starts ticking for the return of Christ?” Glenn asks.

“Well, I think the clock has already started ticking,” Cloud says, though he adds that in his experience, it won’t happen the way we believe it will.

“It just always happens the way it’s written,” he says.


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How Israel’s Red Heifer Prophecy Explains What's Happening Right Now

How Israel’s Red Heifer Prophecy Explains What's Happening Right Now

How Israel’s red heifer prophecy explains what's happening right now



A story from earlier this week has massively flown under the radar, and Glenn Beck believes it might explain a lot about the war in Israel.

On the 100th day of the war between Israel and Hamas, a Hamas spokesman proclaimed that Israel’s aggression “reached its peak” with “the bringing of red cows” to the Holy Land.

This is a reference to the red heifer prophecy, which some Christians and Jews believe will usher in the building of the third Jewish Temple and the End Times.

“Red heifers are important for a purification process that needs to be done before the Temple Mount can be restored and the temple can be rebuilt on it,” Glenn Beck explains, noting that many people will not be aware of the meaning.

“If you’re not religious, it probably means nothing to you,” he continues. “However, Hamas has just pointed out that they are at least following the red heifer story close enough to use it as the stated reason to launch the surprise invasion.”

The Grand Mufti, who became the father of radical Islam in the 1920s, was the first to bring up discussions about Al Aqsa and the Third Temple.

“The Jewish people were immigrating and coming in the 1920s to Israel, and al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti, he was able to spread his anti-Semitism and the idea that the Jews were coming to destroy the Al Aqsa Mosque to rebuild the Third Temple,” Glenn explains.

If the Third Temple is not rebuilt, then that stops the prophecy of the return of the Messiah.

“How is that going to happen with the Al Aqsa Mosque on top? Don’t know. Well, he got everybody wound up so much, it peaked in 1929, and they went on a terror raid a lot like October 7th,” Glenn says.

“We should be watchful,” Glenn continues, warning that “we are told to look for these things.”

“I think the best thing that we can do is pray, the best thing we can do is prepare ourselves spiritually, temporally, physically, prepare for uncertain times,” he adds.


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