Tuesday, February 14, 2023
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 14 February 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 12:55)
Death Toll from Turkey-Syria Earthquake Raises Above 36,000 — And Those Governments Bear Some Responsibility for That Staggering Number
Part II (12:55 - 20:47)
What Is Going On Up There?: The U.S. Government Shoots Down More Airborne Objects
- What’s Going On Up There, Mr. President? by Wall Street Journal (The Editorial Board)
Part III (20:47 - 26:00)
Truth Attended by a Bodyguard of Lies: We Will Likely Only Know What the Government Wants Us To About Unidentified Airborne Objects
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, February 14, 2023. |
| 0:08.1 | I'm Albert Moeller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a |
| 0:12.4 | Christian world view. |
| 0:14.4 | The numbers coming out of Turkey and Syria these days are just absolutely horrifying. |
| 0:19.3 | We are talking about a scale of death and of course of loss and destruction of life |
| 0:24.4 | that almost defies the moral imagination. |
| 0:27.3 | Now there have been natural disasters that have led to greater loss of human life. |
| 0:32.2 | But when we're talking about earthquakes and we are talking about this part of the world, |
| 0:35.7 | we are looking right now at one of those history headline making tragedies that over time |
| 0:41.6 | becomes better known to us at the personal level. |
| 0:44.6 | A life here, a life there, a baby found in the rubble, a 40 year old woman rescued beyond |
| 0:50.5 | the time that people thought anyone could have survived in that area under that rubble. |
| 0:55.5 | You have story after story after story and then the horrifying sites, some of them by |
| 0:59.8 | satellite. |
| 1:01.2 | The satellite images are important because they tell us something that can be seen even |
| 1:06.2 | from beyond planet earth, looking down at the planet. |
| 1:09.2 | What do you see? |
| 1:10.2 | You see a soccer stadium turned into an immediate refugee camp, but you also see areas in |
| 1:16.5 | which cemeteries are now emerging where no cemetery had existed and you're looking at |
| 1:21.7 | mass burials this morning, National Public Radio reported that at least some of these burial |
| 1:27.1 | sites at one point are bearing 4,000 dead and then having to move on. |
| 1:33.5 | You also of course here are looking at incalculable human loss and human heartache. |
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