Albert Mohler Daily Briefing 6/21/21
PART I
Debate Continues in the Roman Catholic Church Over Communion Rights for Politicians Who Support Abortion: The Necessity of Moral Coherence in One’s Personal and Public Life
We’re living in a very interesting time. How interesting? Well, just consider the fact that last week, the bishops of the Roman Catholic Church met in a very highly charged session to try to decide what to do with the nation’s second Roman Catholic president.
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The reason is simple. President Joe Biden is president of the United States. He is the second Catholic president of the United States, but his position on abortion is diametrically opposed to the official teaching of the Roman Catholic church on an essential issue of doctrine.
PART II
Benjamin Netanyahu Is Out as Prime Minister of Israel — And There’s Theology Here Under the Headlines
Next we’re going to shift to the international scene. Two very important governmental changes. Electoral office changes into the most important headline nations in the world right now, Israel and Iran. The first, one of the most crucial allies of the United States, the other, one of our most important adversaries.
Political change in both of these countries turns out to be not only important, but of worldview importance. And yes, theology is very much a part of the picture, even though many in the mainstream media seem basically to have missed it in both cases. Let’s look at Israel first.
PART III
Ebrahim Raisi, Radical Islamist, Elected as New President of Iran: Theology Always Matters and Christians Know Why
But even as Israel is a very close ally, Iran is a very clearly identified adversary. Indeed, you could use the word enemy. And in Iran over the course of the last several days, an ultra-conservative former head of the judiciary, Ebrahim Raisi has been elected president.
He is basically one who has the stamp of approval from the Supreme Ayatollah there, that would be Iran’s Supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamanei. And you have the fact that he was also vetted by what is known as the council of guardians. The theological issue here is radical Islam, radical Shiite Islam.
