The Glenn Beck Program
The Glenn Beck Program

Best of the Program | Guests: Jonathan Cahn & Chris Salcedo | 9/9/26

September 9, 2026

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The Trap of False Unity

Glenn Beck opens with a warning about a specific kind of deception he sees coming for Christians in America. The bait is appealing: the culture is rotting, your children are being handed a meaningless life, and the institutions that run the country openly despise your faith. All of that is true, Beck says. Then the pitch arrives: it's time to stop fighting each other—Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, Jew, Muslim. The old arguments are a luxury we can't afford anymore. There's a fire, and we're arguing about the color of the water.

Beck says that sounds reasonable, even Christlike. But it's a half-truth arriving in the face of something you love. The first version of this invitation is entirely good—Christians have practiced it for centuries, standing shoulder to shoulder with neighbors of different faiths at school boards and food pantries, disagreeing about God on Sunday and serving together on Tuesday, nobody pretending. That's not what's coming.

The second version asks you not to stand beside each other, but to agree that the disagreement never mattered. "The distance between these two conversations is about an inch, but it's the entire game."

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What you'll learn

  • 1 (00:00) **Program Introduction & Unity vs. Merger** - Glenn Beck introduces the "best of" episode, starting with a warning about a false unity trap being set for Christians.
  • 2 (07:03) **The Ancient Mechanism: Using the Bhagavad Gita** - Glenn uses the Bhagavad Gita to illustrate how a religious text can be hollowed out to create a soldier who will do anything and feel nothing.
  • 3 (11:09) **Translation Key: Four Phrases to Spot the Trap** - Glenn provides four specific phrases to listen for that signal the false unity push.
  • 4 (15:19) **Warning: The Increase of Evil & ADF Sponsor** - Glenn warns listeners to recognize basic evil in society, such as the embrace of ideas that destroy the family, and urges them to stand on truth.
  • 5 (17:21) **Jonathan Cahn Interview: The Altar of Pergamon** - Jonathan Cahn introduces his new "faction" novel, *The Altar of Pergamon*, revealing an ancient object that has altered world history.
  • 6 (21:29) **Discovery & Journey to Berlin** - Cahn details how the altar was unearthed in 1871 and moved to Berlin, coinciding with the birth of modern Germany and the swastika.
  • 7 (26:26) **Hitler's Platform & The Holocaust** - Cahn explains how Hitler's Nuremberg rally platform was a direct reproduction of the Pergamon Altar, and how the word "holocaust" is linked to the altar's function.

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Guests on this episode

Jonathan Cahn

Show Notes

Glenn breaks down how a trusted voice can be right about cultural rot and sell a unity that keeps religion’s shell, all while cutting out the name of God and turning Christ from Lord into just an example. Author Jonathan Cahn joins to discuss his book “The Altar of Pergamon: The Mystery of the Dark Angel and the Future of the World.” Chris Salcedo, host of “The Chris Salcedo Show,” joins to discuss what we can expect from the first-ever midterm RNC convention happening this week in Dallas, Texas. 

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