Tuesday, August 1, 2023
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 1 August 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 13:38)
Israel’s Great Crisis: The Supreme Court, the Prime Minister, the ‘Reasonable’ Standard, and Israel’s Future
Part II (13:38 - 19:33)
An Ark and a Covenant: The Relationship of American Evangelicals and the State of Israel
Part III (19:33 - 21:16)
Judicial Supremacy? The Progressivist Legal Argument Undergirding the Current Controversy in Israel
Part IV (21:16 - 25:46)
No, Morality Is Not Determined by the Numbers: A Christian Worldview Response to the Rising Numbers Claiming LGBTQ Identification
- More Visible L.G.B.T.Q. People Isn’t a Curiosity or a Crisis — It’s Normal by New York Times (Jane Coaston)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, August 1, 2023. I'm Albert Mueller and welcome to the new season of the briefing, |
| 0:11.4 | a daily analysis of news and events for a Christian worldview. There's so much for us to |
| 0:16.0 | talk about as this new season begins, but the gravity of the situation demands that we begin |
| 0:21.3 | with the crisis in the nation of Israel. This is a crisis, a controversy that is left |
| 0:26.4 | onto the front pages of our newspapers and into the headlines regularly, but it requires Christians |
| 0:32.8 | to think deeply about what's going on there because the lessons are not just for Israel, |
| 0:37.4 | they are also for the United States, and they are not just for the Jewish nation, |
| 0:42.7 | but they're also for Christians as we see to understand these things from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:47.6 | First of all, what is the crisis in Israel? Many estimate that it is the most dramatic |
| 0:53.2 | constitutional crisis in the nation's history, which is to say there are some who claim that |
| 0:58.1 | this is actually an existential crisis for Israel, a crisis of the nation itself, and of Israeli |
| 1:03.9 | society. The presenting issue is a conflict between the majority in Israel's parliament, the |
| 1:10.1 | Kineset, and the nation's Supreme Court, but the larger conflict is between more conservative and |
| 1:16.1 | more liberal, even progressive as forces there in Israel. The more liberal and secular forces |
| 1:22.0 | allied with the nation's Supreme Court, the more conservative and the more religious allied with |
| 1:28.0 | the majority in parliament. To no one's surprise, the center of the controversy, indeed the main |
| 1:33.8 | driver of the controversy, is Israel's longest serving Prime Minister Benjamin, better known as |
| 1:39.4 | BB Netanyahu. In this case, Benjamin Netanyahu is serving an unprecedented fourth term as Israel's |
| 1:47.0 | Prime Minister, and in this case, at the head of a coalition that is led by his Lecude party, |
| 1:52.7 | but is basically also made politically possible by a combination with many of the parties known |
| 1:59.2 | in Israel as the far right or the religious right. The parties most associated with Orthodox forms |
| 2:05.3 | of Judaism. There's more to the story as we shall see, and from a Christian worldview perspective, |
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