Thursday, November 30, 2023
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 30 November 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 06:00)
Focus on the Hostages: The Moral Importance of Getting the Vocabulary and Priorities Right
Part II (06:00 - 11:03)
Women and Children First: Note the Lack of Gender Confusion as the Hostages Are Released to Israel
Part III (11:03 - 21:15)
The Master of Chaos Sees an Opportunity: Russia’s Current Plan in Ukraine
- A hungry beaver is chomping on the Tidal Basin’s cherry trees by Washington Post (Kevin Ambrose)
Part IV (21:15 - 25:08)
There’s a Cherry Tree Vandal on the Loose in DC: A Hungry Beaver Has Been Very Busy
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, November 30, 2003. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Albert Moeller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian world view. If you rewind history just a matter of a couple of years, you go back say to 2020 or |
| 0:18.5 | 2021, the big topic of discussion was COVID-19, what wasn't being discussed is open warfare involving, for |
| 0:26.6 | instance, European states. |
| 0:29.0 | But now, of course, we are settled into the fact that the Russian invasion of Ukraine now more than a year ago has turned |
| 0:34.7 | into a protracted war. |
| 0:36.8 | It is the first European war of this scale since World War II. |
| 0:41.0 | It is exactly what many people in the West did not think could happen. |
| 0:46.0 | And of course we now have a second war and this one is actually gaining a lot more attention |
| 0:51.6 | than the Ukraine and Russia conflict and that has to do with the Hamas attack upon Israel that took place on October the 7th and the consequent war with Israel pressing to defend itself against Hamas even in the territory of Gaza. |
| 1:05.6 | So you look at this and you recognize we're living in a different world than the world in which |
| 1:09.6 | we inhabited at least the moral world, at least the awareness world of just a matter of a couple of years ago. |
| 1:16.2 | We are now in a situation in which the question is which of these two wars is going to earn more of the space on the front page of the daily newspaper. |
| 1:24.8 | The question is, which of these two wars is going to have primary concern when it comes |
| 1:29.6 | to the military support and consultation of the United States. |
| 1:33.4 | Which one is considered the larger diplomatic challenge? |
| 1:36.6 | Which one is the greater focus of attention on the part of the American people? |
| 1:41.2 | Right now it's really clear that the attention of the American |
| 1:43.9 | people is predominantly directed towards the war that involves Israel defending itself against |
| 1:49.2 | Hamas. And of course that's easy to understand, particularly in recent days when we have the |
| 1:53.8 | exchange of hostages on one side with prisoners on the other side. Now we need to talk |
| 2:00.1 | about that for a moment because the math continues to change and now into a sixth |
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