It’s Monday, February 6th, A.D. 2023. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard at www.TheWorldview.com. I’m Adam McManus.
By Adam McManus (Adam@TheWorldview.com)
Young Muslim woman in Indonesia comes to Christ
Ruth, a 26-year-old Indonesian woman, was born into a Muslim family where 86% of the people follow the false god known as Allah.
Since 2009, she has had a vivid, recurring dream. She would walk up a hill, over and over again, feeling very tired. Later, in junior high school, the dream came again for two weeks. Except this time, she said, “I was not alone—I walked with a man. But when I woke up, I did not feel tired.”
When she told the dream to a new Christian friend at school, the Christian girl said, “I think I know that man.” After showing her a picture of what some painters believe Jesus looked like, Ruth said, “Yes! Who is He?” That prompted the curious Muslim girl to secretly buy and read a Bible, reports International Christian Concern.
After graduating from high school, she worked in a beauty clinic in Jakarta where she took off her hijab, or Muslim head covering, because she felt uncomfortable theologically with it.
In October 2019, while Ruth was scrolling on TikTok, she saw a quote from a church. It said, “You did not choose Me, but I chose you (John 15:16).” Intrigued, she started attending that church “without anyone knowing that I was a Muslim.” After learning more, she trusted Christ and was baptized in December 2019. After finding her Bible though, her mother discovered that Ruth had converted to Christianity, and kicked her out of the home.
Today, living with a friend, she quoted Matthew 19:29 in which Jesus says, “Everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for My sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life.”
According to Open Doors, Indonesia is the 33rd most difficult country to be a Christian. Please pray for other Muslims to accept Jesus Christ as their Savior as Ruth did.
French Senate ready to enshrine abortion in the Constitution
On February 3rd, the French Senate passed a draft law to include abortion in the Constitution, by a close vote of 166 votes in favor and 152 against, reports Evangelical Focus.
Although the Senate Law Commission had rejected the text of the draft law last week, this time the new wording of the text convinced a majority.
Philippe Bas, senator of the Republicans, presented the new text, which changes the term “right” for “freedom.” Here is the text. “The law determines the conditions under which a woman’s freedom to terminate her pregnancy is exercised.”
Biden belatedly shoots down Chinese spy balloon
On Saturday, President Joe Biden belatedly authorized a military fighter jet, off the coast of South Carolina, to shoot down a Chinese spy balloon with a missile, reports Reuters. It fell into the Atlantic Ocean.
The balloon entered U.S. airspace in Alaska on January 28 before moving into Canadian airspace on Jan 30. It then re-entered U.S. airspace over northern Idaho on January 31. U.S. officials did not publicly disclose the spy balloon’s presence over the United States until February 2nd.
The Chinese spy balloon traveled over sensitive military sites including the Malmstrom Air Force Base in Cascade County, Montana where there are some 150 silos for intercontinental ballistic missiles, including the nuclear-capable Minuteman III.
China condemned the military strike, saying the balloon was used for meteorological purposes, and that it had strayed into U.S. airspace “completely accidentally.” Those claims were flatly dismissed by U.S. officials.
Appearing on Fox News Sunday, Republican Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas, a member of the Intelligence Committee, blasted President Biden for his belated response.
SEN. TOM COTTON: “What began as a spy balloon has become a trial balloon, testing President Biden’s strength and resolve. And unfortunately, the president failed that test. And that’s dangerous for the American people. The president was paralyzed for an entire week by a balloon.
“We should have shot this balloon down over the Aleutian Islands. We should have never allowed it to transit the entire continental United States. And I think there’s a lot of open questions that the administration needs to answer to Congress on behalf of the American people about why they didn’t.
“I think part is the president’s reluctance to take any action that will be viewed as provocative or confrontational towards the Chinese Communists. I would say what’s provocative and confrontation is sending a spy balloon all across America.”
As a result of the brouhaha, Secretary of State Antony Blinken postponed his visit to China last week that had been expected to start on Friday.
Bill Maher: Similarities between “Woke Revolution” & Mao’s Cultural Revolution
On Friday’s broadcast of the HBO show called “Real Time,” host Bill Maher, a liberal who has increasingly told the truth, likened America’s “woke revolution” to the Chinese Cultural Revolution, reports RealClearPolitics.com. In his monologue, he said we’ve embraced the “re-education” policies under Chairman Mao Zedong.
MAHER: “Yesterday, I asked ChatGPT, ‘Are there any similarities between today’s woke revolution and Chairman Mao’s Cultural Revolution of the 1960s?’ And it wrote back, ‘How long do you have?’” (laughter)
“Because, in China, we saw how a revolutionary thought he could do a page-one rewrite — of humans. Mao ordered his citizens to throw off the four “olds” — old thinking, old culture, old customs, and old habits. So, your whole life went in the garbage overnight. No biggie. And those who resisted were attacked by an army of purifiers called the Red Guard who went around the country putting dunce caps on people who didn’t take to being a new kind of mortal being. A lot of pointing and shaming went on. Oh, and about a million dead. And the only way to survive was to plead insanity for the crime of being insufficiently radical and then apologize and thank the State and of course, submit to re-education, or as we call it here in America, freshman orientation.” (laughter)
Proverbs 12:17 says, “He who speaks truth tells what is right.”
South Dakota House passes ban on ‘gender transitions’ for minors
And finally, South Dakota is one step closer to eliminating dangerous transgender drugs and mutilating surgeries for youth, reports LifeSiteNews.com.
Last Friday, the South Dakota House passed a ban on chemical castration and cosmetic reproductive surgeries for minors in an overwhelming 60-10 vote.
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