Monday, February 6, 2023
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 6 February 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 12:10)
An Inconspicuous Attempt at Espionage: China's Balloon – Why Did the U.S. Government Handle This So Clumsily?
Part II (12:10 - 17:36)
Freedom Always Has Enemies: Why Democracy Will Always Face Massive Threats in a Fallen World
Part III (17:36 - 25:55)
Political Stunt or Strong Economic and Ideological Statement?: Congress Votes Down Socialism in all its Forms
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, February 6, 2023. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm Albert Moller, and this is The Briefing. |
| 0:10.5 | A daily analysis of news and events from a Christian world view. |
| 0:14.4 | It would be very difficult to go back and to try to explain, say, to yourself a week |
| 0:19.0 | ago, why so much of the world, in general, and the United States in particular, was so interested |
| 0:24.7 | in an exercise to buy a balloon over the course of the last several days. |
| 0:29.6 | But of course, the world was, and in particular, we were. |
| 0:33.6 | We know that the story really begins in terms of the American consciousness last week, when |
| 0:39.2 | a citizen in Montana first noted the appearance of an odd object in the sky. |
| 0:45.1 | It turns out to be very important, by the way, and we'll return to this, that our government |
| 0:49.0 | did not tell us about this balloon. |
| 0:51.1 | Our fellow citizens did, and eventually the government had to confirm it. |
| 0:55.4 | And we're not talking about a small balloon, as a matter of fact, one of the first persons |
| 1:00.0 | to cite the balloon, which was believed then, to be crossing the Montana skies at about |
| 1:05.2 | 60,000 feet of altitude. |
| 1:06.8 | One of the first persons thought that he was seeing a rather strange impression of the |
| 1:10.6 | moon, until he looked just a little bit over from where this object was, and actually |
| 1:15.2 | saw the moon. |
| 1:16.9 | He realized that there was something major going on. |
| 1:20.3 | And by the time, of course, we began to spread, just understand the world we live in, with |
| 1:24.2 | the advent of smartphones and all the rest, very quickly, visual evidence turned into |
| 1:29.2 | video evidence of what had to be a very, very large balloon that was situated at a very, |
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