It’s Tuesday, August 23rd, A.D. 2022. This The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard at www.TheWorldview.com. I’m Adam McManus. (Adam@TheWorldview.com)
By Kevin Swanson
Chinese Communists falsely charge elder with fraud
Back on March 16, 2021, Chinese police raided a Bible Study conducted at Guiyang Renai Reformed Church.
When an elder of the church, Zhang Chunlei, attempted to negotiate the release of the church members arrested, he was detained as well, and remains in custody now for a year and a half.
International Christian Concern reports that, earlier this month, Chunlei was officially charged with “inciting subversion of state power” and “fraud.”
His last tweet included the words; “He makes me lie down in green pastures, He leads me beside quiet waters.” (Psalm 23:2)
Fauci out
The man most responsible for COVID-19 restrictions here in the United States, Dr. Anthony Fauci, is stepping down from his post in December, reports CNBC.
Fauci, age 81, is director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and President Biden’s chief medical adviser.
His salary, $480,654 per year, surpasses the president, making him the highest paid among the 4.3 million federal employees.
Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky tweeted, “Fauci’s resignation will not prevent a full-throated investigation into the origins of the pandemic. He will be asked to testify, under oath, regarding any discussions he participated in concerning the lab leak.”
Singapore legalizes unnatural relations
Following Taiwan and Thailand, now Singapore has also legalized unnatural relations between two men, reports Reuters.
On Sunday night, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced the decision on national television to discontinue a British law dating back into the 19th century.
LOONG: “The government will repeal section 377 A and decriminalize sex between men. I believe this is the right thing to do and something that most Singaporeans will now accept.”
Philippines, Panama, and Bangladesh closed schools longest
After two full years of school closures due to COVID-19 fears, Filipino schools are finally opening up in-person classes.
UNICEF reports that Bangladesh, the Philippines, and Panama have kept schools closed longest of all nations in the world.
Texas public schools proclaim: In God We Trust
Prayer and Bible reading are still against the law in American government schools.
But Texas public schools and institutions of higher learning will be displaying “a durable poster or framed copy” of our national motto, In God We Trust, “in a conspicuous place in each building of the school,” reports CBN. Posters will also feature an American flag and the state flag of Texas.
Psalm 118:9 reminds us “It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man. It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in princes.”
Britain’s economy slipped 11% in 2020
Official figures are finally in for Britain’s economy in 2020.
The once great nation state slipped 11%. That’s more than any other major nation, and the largest slip since 1709, reports Reuters.
Recovery is lagging as well. Now, Britain’s second quarter Gross Domestic Product appears to have gone negative with first estimates at -0.1%.
Real estate bubble is popping
The Real Estate Bubble is popppppppping now.
Here in the United States, we are facing a 20.2% drop in existing home sales, year over year. Fox Business said that’s the most precipitous decline in two decades.
Twenty-one percent of sellers dropped their asking price in July. San Francisco median home prices have dipped to 2018 levels in just the last six months, reports WolfStreet.com.
And the average 30-year mortgage rate is back up to 5.8% after a slight dip in early August.
NASDAQ dropped 6%
The NASDAQ stock index is off 800 points in the last week, a 6% drop from its August peak, reports the Associated Press.
Bitcoin followed, now registering 21,000 and change. That’s a 14% drop from its August peak.
Great Barrier Reef grew 20% more coral
In God’s good providence, the Great Barrier Reef is doing better than ever, reports Cornwall Alliance.
All climate-change naysayers aside, the Australian Institute of Marine Science reports the reef has roughly 20 percent more coral than last year for another record year.
Coral now covers 34% of the seabed, double the lowest coverage recorded as 12% in 2012. That makes for the best coverage in recorded history.
Boy finds 4,400-year-old fossilized shark tooth
And finally, an 8-year-old boy found a fossilized tooth of a gigantic shark, the Angustidens, on a South Carolina beach earlier in August, reports Fox News.
The 4.75-inch tooth probably belonged to a 30-foot-long shark that swam the waters around the time of Noah’s flood some 4,400 years ago.
In Genesis 6:7-8, the Lord said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.” But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.
Close
And that’s The Worldview in 5 Minutes on this Tuesday, August 23rd, in the year of our Lord 2022. 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.