It's Wednesday, September 18, 2024.

I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events

from a Christian worldview.

Sometimes truth really is stranger than fiction,

and sometimes in a political extremity

or in a military move things happen,

and it seems like there has to be more here than

meets the eye and that's exactly what is the case in the headline news coming

about Israel's presumed role in the explosion of almost 3,000 pagers that were in use by the terrorist group

Hezbollah, largely in Lebanon.

And you look at this and you recognize we're talking about

exploding pagers. Now behind all of this are some massive issues that many in the

mainstream media aren't even going to explain. First of all, why pagers? You know, these days, some of us are

old enough to remember when professionals in the United States carried pagers. Most of them just

began as a numerical pager.

And then of course the text also became a possibility.

And yet you're just talking about very crudely illuminated numbers and

it's coming across a very tight screen,

just a matter of about an inch or two inches wide.

And it just told you that someone's trying to get a hold of you

so you could call them, you're being paged.

Medical personnel use these at first and then

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