It’s Wednesday, September 29th, A.D. 2021. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard at www.TheWorldview.com. I’m Adam McManus. (Adam@TheWorldview.com)
By Jonathan Clark
The mercilessness of North Korean guards toward Christians
The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom released a report documenting organized persecution in North Korea.
The report found the government of North Korea uses arrests, torture, and execution to “exterminate all Christian adherents and institutions in North Korea.”
One Christian prisoner spent 15 years in the prison camps. Every day he prayed during his 30 minutes of free time. Every day the guards would beat him, sometimes nearly to death. Guards also mercilessly beat the hands of imprisoned Bible smugglers. In another case, a woman and her grandchild were executed just for practicing Christianity.
Revelation 2:10 says, “Indeed, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested . . . Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.”
Polish President: I’m unapologetically pro-family & pro-life
Polish President Andrzej Duda went on Fox News with Tucker Carlson on Monday.
Duda said the country defends marriage as a union between one man and one woman. Poland’s “Family 500+” incentives families to have children. Since the program started in 2017, Poland’s birthrate has increased by 3.17%.
Duda said he is unapologetically pro-life and pro-family.
DUDA: “But to me, a politician speaking openly, I consider myself to be rather conservative. And I actually was always frank about my views. I’m a Christian. I’m a practicing Christian. I pray. I’m not ashamed of that whatsoever. And to me, the value of family is priceless. I do support families. I’m pro-life. I defend life. I believe that life is sacred. I believe it should be guarded and families have to be supported as strong as they can because family is the foundation of every nation.”
Court to United Airlines: Let employees get COVID exemption
A Texas district court ordered United Airlines to temporarily halt its termination of employees who want a medical or religious exemption from the company’s COVID shot mandate.
Six United employees sued the company for making it difficult to get medical and religious exemptions.
If you need a religious exemption for your workplace COVID shot mandate, visit Liberty Counsel’s website: www.lc.org/exempt . That’s www.lc.org/exempt
Homeschooling & charter school enrollment skyrocketing
The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools reports public school enrollment over the pandemic fell by 3%. Meanwhile, charter school enrollment increased by 7%, taking hundreds of thousands of students out of the government-run schools.
Homeschooling also increased, jumping from 5.4% to 11%.
Overall, the public school system lost about 1.5 million students between the fall 2019 school year and the fall 2020 school year.
Update on Arizona’s presidential election 2020 story
On Monday, we included a story about the forensic audit of the votes in Maricopa County, Arizona in the 2020 presidential election between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. The Republicans in the Arizona Senate were the ones who commissioned the audit. The story indicated that there was no proof that votes had been stolen from Trump.
In a follow-up to the initial story, The Epoch Times reported that Arizona Senate President Karen Fann, a Republican, explained that while the forensic audit did not uncover a significant difference in the total vote tallies—the difference was only hundreds in the final report— evidence was uncovered of numerous other anomalies, including statutes being broken and chain of custody not being followed.
Cyber Ninjas, a Florida-based company hired by the state Senate to conduct the audit, said its review involved more than 1,500 people and a total of over 100,000 hours. While the company said it only found in the recount a vote discrepancy of 994 in the presidential race and 1,167 in a U.S. Senate race, the report highlighted potential issues with a combined total of 53,305 ballots.
Some of their additional findings noted:
- 23,344 mail-in ballots voted from prior address
- 9,041 more ballots were returned by voters than sent
- Voters potentially voted in multiple counties
- 17,322 duplicates of early voting ballot return envelopes
- 2,382 voters cast votes in Maricopa County, in person, after moving out of the county.
In an emailed statement, former President Trump said, “The audit has uncovered significant and undeniable evidence of fraud! Until we know how and why this happened, our elections will never be secure. This is a major criminal event and should be investigated by the Attorney General immediately.”
Plus, Intercessors for America reported on explosive findings from independent auditor, Ben Cotton, founder of CyFIR and an expert IT analyst.
Cotton shared that Maricopa County officials deleted a large volume of county election records from the 2020 general election from computer servers just prior to handing over the information to auditors. That’s a violation of state election law. Thankfully Mr. Cotton was able to report, “We have captured screen shots of Maricopa County people at the keyboards during those time periods.” This implied that his team can identify who deleted the files by matching the time stamps and when people were at their computers.
New “God’s Not Dead” film hits silver screen this Mon, Tue., & Wed.
The latest installment in the “God’s Not Dead” Christian film series is hitting the silver screen for three days only — Monday, October 4, Tuesday, October 5, and Wednesday, October 6.
In “God’s Not Dead: We The People”, Reverend Dave is called to defend a group of Christian homeschooling families. He is shocked by the interference of the government, which is trying to fine homeschoolers unless they send their kids to public school.
Believing that their right to educate their own children is a freedom worth fighting for, Reverend Dave is called to Washington, DC to testify in a landmark congressional hearing.
Listen to my interview on Generations with Christian musician Francesca Battistelli, a homeschool mother of five herself, who portrays the Christian homeschool mother in the film.
Watch the movie trailer and purchase your tickets for this three-day, limited release.
Scientists discover how God might have destroyed Sodom
And finally, scientists now believe the city of Tall el-Hammam in the Middle Eastern country of Jordan met a fiery destruction from an icy space rock about 3,600 years ago.
The place in ancient times was known as the Biblical city of Sodom.
For 15 years, dozens of scientists excavated and studied the area.
Scientists believe that a giant space rock hurtled toward the city at 38,000 mph and exploded 2.5 miles above the ground with a force about 1,000 times stronger than the Hiroshima atomic bomb. Anyone looking would have been instantly blinded. Temperatures rose to 3,600 degrees Fahrenheit as everything went up in flames.
Genesis 19:24 says, “Then the LORD rained brimstone and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah, from the LORD out of the heavens.”
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And that’s The Worldview in 5 Minutes on this Wednesday, September 29th, in the year of our Lord 2021. Subscribe by iTunes or email to our unique Christian newscast at www.TheWorldview.com. Or get the Generations app through Google Play or The App Store. I’m Adam McManus (Adam@TheWorldview.com). Seize the day for Jesus Christ.