GLENN BECK'S RUSSIAN END TIMES SCARE

He did it again! Glenn Beck is again drawing onerous conclusions based on false premises. That's the problem when you're thinking in biblical absolutes with incomplete or false knowledge. Born of reading part of the writings of Russian philosopher, Alexander Dugin -- allegedly President Putin's personal Rasputin according to the myth creators -- Beck concluded that Russia is planning all out nuclear war against the United States based on some half baked religious theory. Given the present geopolitical and cultural state of affairs, these are dangerous allegations to make. And hardly the Christian thing that Beck prides himself on so often. 


Nov. 16, 2023 Glenn Beck: Match Made in HELL: The Chilling Reason Russia & Iran Are Driving the West to War. Short version. 

But then, Beck isn't a Christian, he's a Mormon. If you want to sample Beck's religious fundamentals, look no further than the Old Testamental "covenant" he made with God almost simultaneously with the Russia slander. He read this pledge on air and later posted it on TwitX. (He forgot to ghost the o in God.)


In the "covenant" is no mention of Jesus Christ at all. He doesn't come into this Old Testamentic construct. We are therefore not to take seriously anything Beck says anymore when he claims to be a Christian. 


Tsarist Russia historically had a relatively good relationship with imperial Persia, which is a far cry from today's Islamic Republic of Iran! But that aside, it is good policy to live in peace with the neighbors. Perhaps reality looks a little different when your world isn't the continent of America, but the landmass of Eurasia. 

The contrast between the Shia Islamic and Christian eschatologies could not be starker. Shia Muslims believe in the Mahdi, who will emerge in the end of time to establish peace and justice and redeem Islam after an all consuming battle. Read the entire contrived story in the Wiki.

Christian eschatological narratives are entirely different. The Book of Revelation also known as The Apocalypse was written by John the Theologian while in exile on the Greek island of Patmos.

It was written at a time when Christians faced increased persecution by the Roman Empire (Orthodox Wiki). The book is widely studied today  (free Orthodox course by Father Ezra Ham). 

The other Christian eschatological teaching is the Second Coming of Christ that his given rise to the concept of the katechon (wiki), a Greek word meaning, the one who withholds, the restrainer. That is to say, the one who withholds or restrains the Revelation of the Antichrist. 

If President Putin of Russia is the katechon, this makes the concept not similar to the Shia Islamic eschatological version or additional to it, but quite the opposite. The restrainer holds off the inevitable coming of the Antichrist. He does not encourage it, as is the case in the story of the Twelfth Imam. Beck's rational is wildly off the mark! 

The dogma of the End Times varies widely per Christian denomination or cult. Father John Brown explains the Orthodox versus the dispensational teaching (video, and particularly part 2). 

This video is very useful because the Orthodox meaning represents President Putin's view, versus the dispensational perspective which is probably adhered to by Glenn Beck (or whatever Mormons believe). 

James Poulos has recently published a post on his Substack on  Russia as a tech superpower. He writes this on the katechon: 

"For the uninitiated, there’s a lot of talk (...) about the katechon, a somewhat mysterious or opaque entity understood broadly in Christian theology to be a political or regime “restrainer” against the inevitable advent of the Antichrist, who might not take over the entire world but, I think it’s fair to say, rules in the name of the world, rules under the sign of maximalizing worldness and goodness in the intended utter absence of the triune God. "

"As Russia continues to be thought of in influential Orthodox circles as the Third Rome, following those of Rome itself and Constantinople, the possibility of Russia being or spiritually inheriting the katechetic authority and function from Byzantium is gaining consideration" (more on Substack). 

Alexander Dugin has denied he has any in-depth relationship with President Putin, who is an Orthodox Christian. You have to be deeply Russophobic to paint someone a demon, completely ignoring what he has historically said and done. But then the command against false witness is a Christian thing. 

Dugin's theories are directed at Western imperialism and liberal morality. In that analysis he is not wrong. Anyone with eyes to see could have witnessed where liberalism is going in its ultimate iteration. It becomes a tyranny, just like any other form of Utopianism based on false premises. 

Dugin is a philosopher, not a theologian. And no, he is not the Rasputin behind Putin's throne. To construct a Islamic religious casus belli for Jihad from a treatise against liberal imperialism is disingenuous to say the least. Watch Dugin in a recent debate on Eurasia and the cross roads to the Middle East (video). 

By now, every ethnic, social or gender related group is somehow at war with some other faction of humanity. This, of course, is no coincidence. The last thing the world needs in its present instable, chaotic state is a vendetta between Orthodox Christians and American Conservatives! 


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