An Open Letter to Glenn Beck
You are a hard man to reach!
Hello Glenn,
I would like to begin by thanking you for all that I have been able to learn through your books, and radio and television programs since I found you when you began your show on Fox. I have been a mostly daily listener since that point and was an original subscriber to GBTV. I attended Restoring Honor in Washington D.C. I bought a ticket to Restoring Courage in Israel but due to thunderstorms in the eastern United States I was unable to make the connection to actually get to Tel Aviv; I ended up watching from my living room in California. My wife and I attended Restoring Love in Dallas and then we both attended Restoring Unity in Birmingham. Back in the day, when you used to do live shows, we attended several tapings of your television programs, and I even offered the closing prayer on more than one occasion. We have also volunteered at popup museums, AJE and even a gala. We have been around a while.
I have been listening to you for a long time. There are a few things that I believe that you should now hear from me and since you are by no means an easy man to be able to talk to, I have chosen this open letter hoping it might get in front of you, and that what I have to say may educate others as well. I will primarily be focusing on things you have discussed in the closing months of 2025.
Since you so frequently have quoted Jefferson saying, “Question with boldness…” I am taking you at your word that you are willing to entertain the notion that you might not yet have all of the facts and that may have led you to some erroneous or incomplete conclusions. I will be quoting Scripture in justifying my positions and I take you at your word that you believe the Word of God from Genesis to Revelation. Let’s begin.
We will start with Muslims. You want to slice and dice Muslims into “good Muslims” and “radical Islam/political Islam/Islamists.” I would like to equate this to what Solomon was proposing when he said to split the baby in 1 Kings 3:16-28. You know this story. Solomon knows that you can’t actually split the baby and still have a baby. You want there to be two pieces to this Muslim/Islamist thing. This is a distinction without a difference. What does the Word of God have to say about Islam? Let’s just begin with what you sometimes like to call something like, “Bob’s top 10 list.” Most people call them “The Ten Commandments.” I call these “The First Ten Commandments.”
Since the beginning is a good place to start, we’ll start there in Exodus 20:2-3:
“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. You shall have no other gods before Me.”
Since Muslims worship a false moon-god Allah, not the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, that is YHVH, by allowing Muslims, I’ll even say “good Muslims,” to worship their god in our land, we are putting these false/foreign gods in YHVH’s face. We’ve broke the first commandment.
Should people that worship Allah even be in the United States of America? I answer that in my article Islam in America but will summarize here. The first amendment to the United States Constitution reads:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
(Incidentally, this is the very first conversation that you and I ever had in person. I was in the audience of one of your Thursday studio audience shows and you asked what five rights are protected by the first amendment. I was sure that someone in your audience would know that answer so I was reluctant to respond, but since no one else would speak up I had to respond, and I did give you the five rights. Later in the show you came back to me with another question saying, “John will know.” I did.)
We interpret that to mean that any religion should be allowed in this land. Is that what YHVH thinks? We call ourselves a Judeo/Christian nation. What does that mean? I posit that we would say that our culture and system of laws is based upon the Bible, the Jewish and Christian Bibles. Allah is not the god of the Bible though he is in the Bible; he is known as Ba’al. The Jewish and Christian Bibles both contain what Christians refer to as “The Old Testament.” Let’s consult that. Exodus 12:49 says:
“The same law applies both to the native-born and to the foreigner residing among you.”
Who said that? YHVH, the God of the Bible, did! Are Muslims allowed to bring their false foreign god and their Shariah Law into a Judeo/Christian nation? YHVH says, “NO!” The law spoken of in that verse is the Torah, where we get the ten commandments from. That law, the Torah, is to govern all Judeo/Christian nations. Remember that when Israel was finally able to enter the Promised Land after their little forty-year excursion wandering through the wilderness because of their disobedience and distrust of God, that God told them to drive out or destroy all of the current inhabitants. This was 100% to prevent these pagan false god worshipping people from infecting the Israelites with their false religion. They were not to take the heathen’s daughters in marriage nor offer their daughters to the heathen. YHVH drew a very distinct, dark line.
Back to the first amendment and thinking that it was meant to protect any religion; it was not. I can’t articulate the religion of each and every founder, framer of the Declaration or Constitution but I can say with 100% certainty that there wasn’t a Muslim among them. The religious ones, which was the vast majority, worshipped the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob as one of the many Christian denominations, or as Jews. They worshipped the “One True God.” When they were protecting “religions,” they were protecting Jews and the many Christian denominations. Being a student of history, I know you know all about the Barbary Pirates, so I won’t elaborate here other than to remind you that this is our first encounter with Muslims. The framers of the first amendment were not protecting the Barbary Pirates wicked, false god religion. You also know that the United States produced a Koran in order to educate Americans as to what these false god worshippers believed and why we had to go to war with them!
When we allow the “good Muslims” in, the ones that don’t intend to murder us, at least right now, we must understand that along with allowing them comes their Koran and Mosques. They don’t assimilate; they congregate. They will recruit/convert people and marry our sons and daughters (I think we were told to never allow that!). Allowing the “good” ones in, the ones that reproduce at an almost exponentially higher rate than native Americans do, means that in only a few generations they will be taking over the culture. In fact, that is already beginning to happen. Can you say, “Dearborn, MI?” Can you say, “Minneapolis, MN?” Our own “little Mogadishu.” Now we have Mamdani as the first Muslim mayor of New York. I am, at least somewhat, less concerned about him being a Democratic Socialist than him being a Muslim. And you personally know that this is a big deal in Irving, TX right now! We can also point to EPIC, recently renamed the innocuous sounding, “The Meadow.” Because we allowed the “good Muslims” in, they now have the numbers to make these things happen. All of this is happening because we always seem to know better than God and we just love to do things our own way! This has a name: Sin.
Let’s move onto another subject: the Sabbath. You recently interviewed Erika Kirk on your radio show and discussed Charlie’s book, Stop, in the Name of God: Why Honoring the Sabbath Will Transform Your Life. It was a nice interview, and I appreciated it greatly. I must say though that I was dumbfounded when you asked Erika something like, “Why did you and Charlie decide to keep the Saturday/Jewish Sabbath?” Sabbath has but one definition and it is defined by God clear back in Genesis 2: 1-3:
Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. And by the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on that day He rested from all His work. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because on that day He rested from all the work of creation that He had accomplished.”
You make the claim that there is a “Christian Sabbath.” There is not. The Constantinian Catholic Church outlawed the Saturday Sabbath and created a Sunday “day of worship.” Sabbath is to literally cease and rest. A “day of worship” requires no such thing. Just consider how most Christians go to church on Sunday and then go out to eat (which requires others to work), and then go home to mow the lawn, wash the car, do the laundry, etc. Just another day, not a holy (meaning “set apart”) day.
Back to “Bob’s Top Ten,” Exodus 20:8-11:
Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.
Who shouted that commandment down from Mt. Sinai? YHVH did! He said that the sabbath is the seventh day! Will this seventh day definition ever change? Exodus 31:16 has that answer:
The people of Israel must keep the Sabbath day by observing it from generation to generation. This is a covenant obligation for all time.
Some will say that it changed in the New Testament. Consider that carefully. Just before you turn the page into what Christians refer to as the New Testament you will be in the book of Malachi. Malachi 3:6 says:
I the LORD do not change. So you, the descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed.
God is very deliberate to make sure that we are reminded just before turning to the New Testament and saying that everything is going to change, that He is NOT going to change!
It is very explicit. The Sabbath is the seventh day, from sundown Friday to sundown on Saturday. This is right in the Bible. It is beyond arrogant to think that it could/would change, it is like calling God a liar. I, for most of half a century, was that arrogant!
You might counter with, “But it says, ‘The people of Israel must keep the Sabbath day,’ or ‘So you, the descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed.’” You, as most do, I once did, equate Israel/Jacob to “the Jews,” and then say that since you are not a Jew that this doesn’t apply to you. This is where most people get all bollixed up. The Jews, the tribe of Judah, are only one of the twelve tribes of Israel. All Jews are Israelites, but all Israelites are not Jews. Judaism is not a religion created at Mt. Sinai; it is a man-made religion created by the Pharisees in about the second century BCE. When we stop conflating Jew with Israel and Judaism with the Law of Moses, the Bible becomes a lot clearer and we can understand what is happening in our world, at this time, a lot more clearly (More on this below).
Moving on. You have given some very heart stirring monologues where I can hear in your voice your sincere desire to understand and do what is right. I have been right there with you with tears in my eyes as you pour out your heart. As you say, you are good at putting things together but are terrible on timing. I do think that is something that I can help you with. The problem is that I can’t lay all of that out in this letter or a small post. I did write a book that dives deep into this. I am finding that if your name isn’t Glenn Beck or James Patterson that marketing a book is much more difficult than actually writing the book! My book is Blessings & Curses: if my people… Since I now live in the DFW area, I drove to Irving, to your studios, and hand delivered three copies of the book. I couldn’t get in the door—you have some tight security— but met with one of your security guards outside and gave the books to him and asked that they be delivered to a producer of your show. I don’t know if you ever saw them. This book does have answers that you are searching for. You may not agree with what I have written yet but in the not-too-distant future you will want to know what is in those pages. The book also contains chapters explaining the whole Jew/Israel/Jacob confusion as well as where America is in the Bible; America is in the Bible! This might even be interesting for The Torch.
Sincerely,
John Solgat
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