Glenn Beck’s recent conversation with filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza reopened a debate that should concern every patriot: can biblical prophecy help us understand the savage war waged against Israel? On Beck’s program the discussion wasn’t academic or timid — it was a wake-up call, a reminder that the battles we’re watching on TV have roots deeper than politics and that conservatives must not cede the spiritual framing of this conflict to the left.
D’Souza’s new film, The Dragon’s Prophecy, brings Jonathan Cahn’s controversial thesis to the screen, arguing that October 7 and the wider assault on Israel fit a prophetic pattern that reaches back into Scripture. The movie, which D’Souza has promoted on his podcast and is being released in theaters and on streaming in October 2025, is designed to push Americans to look at the event not as isolated terror but as part of an ancient, ideological war.
Rabbi Jonathan Cahn’s claim — he’s made it repeatedly in interviews and in his book — is simple but unsettling: the imagery of Revelation, especially the Four Horsemen, shows up in modern symbolism, and the colors of the Palestinian flag mirror those apocalyptic hues. To many believers this is more than coincidence; it’s a warning sign that the forces arrayed against Israel are both worldly and spiritual.
Conservatives should be honest about what that symbolism means in practice. When campuses, media outlets, and political operatives wrap themselves in Palestinian banners and shorthand, what they’re doing is normalizing and elevating an enemy that celebrates mass murder and seeks Israel’s destruction. It’s not “nuanced foreign policy” — it’s moral blindness, and courageous voices like D’Souza and Cahn are right to call it out rather than pretend all sides are equally virtuous.
The mainstream angle on this story has too often been to flatten outrage into a debate about optics, while refusing to name the ideological evil behind the slaughter. That’s exactly what Glenn Beck and his guests pushed back against on air, arguing that there is a moral imperative to identify our enemies and to stand with allies who share our values and heritage. Conservatives must insist on clarity: cowardly equivocation only encourages further carnage.
Whether you read Cahn or watch D’Souza’s film, the useful takeaway for patriotic Americans isn’t theological trivia — it’s vigilance. The film and book urge Christians and conservatives to wake up, defend Israel, and reject every attempt by progressive elites to sanitize or mythologize terror as merely another “protest.” If you believe in standing for freedom and for the Jewish state that stands as a bulwark against radicalism, this conversation matters.
At a time when cultural and spiritual battles are collapsing into the geopolitical, we need more conservatives willing to speak plainly and less of the hand-wringing that has paralyzed so many leaders. Call it prophecy, call it history, call it common sense — the lesson is the same: America should stand unapologetically with allies who defend civilization, and we should expose and oppose the forces that would see that civilization undone.
