Monday, February 5, 2024
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 5 February 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 11:25)
Biden Administration (Finally) Sends (Indirect) Message to Iran: The U.S. Responds After Drone Attack Kills 3 of Its Soldiers in Jordan
- Will Biden Finally Deter Iran? by Wall Street Journal (The Editorial Board)
Part II (11:25 - 21:18)
The Ripple of the Disruption in Three Seas: How World Conflict is Affecting the Global Economy and Freedom of Navigation
- On the High Seas, a Pillar of Global Trade Is Under Attack by Wall Street Journal (Drew Hinshaw and Daniel Michaels)
Part III (21:18 - 28:46)
A Parable of the Hermeneutical Line From Evangelical Feminism to the LGBTQ Revolution: Letha Dawson Scanzoni Dies at 88
- Letha Dawson Scanzoni, Pioneer of Evangelical Feminism, Dies at 88 by New York Times (Penelope Green)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, February 5, 2024. I'm Albert Moeller and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:13.9 | The big news over the weekend were the American military strikes undertaken against proxies |
| 0:18.8 | of Iran after a fatal attack upon an American military installation known as Tower 22 in eastern Jordan. |
| 0:27.0 | The deaths of those three American military personnel pushed America over a very important line and the Biden administration knew it had to act. |
| 0:35.8 | There been headlines calling for action by the American military because the proxies of Iran, |
| 0:41.7 | and we're going to define that a little better in just a moment. |
| 0:44.8 | Iran's proxies have been waging war against the United States and our allies and frankly |
| 0:49.5 | creating mayhem throughout much of the Middle East, threatening not only Israel and the United States |
| 0:54.8 | and our allies, but also international shipping, which as it turns out is a very, very big deal. |
| 1:01.8 | Now the use of the word proxies as I said earlier refers to |
| 1:05.1 | terrorist groups such as the Huthi rebels there in Yemen, Hezbollah, and various |
| 1:10.9 | other Islamist groups and what sets them apart from some other groups in the region, including other Muslim groups |
| 1:17.3 | or groups that are tied to an Islamist agenda, is that of course Iran is famously Shiite. |
| 1:24.0 | The Shia or the Shiite Muslims represent a minorities compared with the Sunni Muslims. |
| 1:29.8 | You can see the Sunni Muslim movement as anchored in states such as Egypt and Saudi Arabia |
| 1:35.4 | the other Gulf states etc. The Shiite Muslims have been in a minority position |
| 1:41.1 | they're more apocalyptic and that's why at least in some |
| 1:44.2 | forms they have been more in the front lines in terms of Islamic revolution |
| 1:48.9 | war on the West America the great Satan that goes back in particular to the Shiite Revolution that took place in Iran during the late 1970s and in the 1980s. |
| 2:00.0 | But Iran is now basically operating as a very malignant force there in the Middle East. |
| 2:04.6 | And that's not new. It has been for a very long time. And frankly, by one account, it's been stunningly |
| 2:11.1 | successful in terms of much of its effort. |
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