It’s Friday, October 14th, A.D. 2022. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard at www.TheWorldview.com. I’m Adam McManus.
By Adam McManus. (Adam@TheWorldview.com)
Nigerian Muslims killed 3 Christians
On Tuesday, October 4, Muslim militants murdered three Christians in an attack in northeastern Nigeria, reports International Christian Concern. The Christians lived in Njilang village, located in Chibok County.
During the attack, the Muslims burned multiple houses and businesses to the ground and wounded dozens more residents.
Nigeria led the world in Christians killed for their faith last year. Between October 1, 2020 and Sept. 30, 2021, 4,650 Nigerian Christians were martyred for their faith, up from 3,530 the previous year. That’s according to Open Doors’ 2022 World Watch List report.
Revelation 6:9 says, “When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the Word of God and the testimony they had maintained.”
Supreme Court denies Donald Trump
On Thursday, the Supreme Court rejected former President Donald Trump’s plea to step into the legal fight over the FBI search of his Florida estate, reports the Associated Press. The justices did not otherwise comment in turning away Trump’s emergency appeal.
The Trump team was asking the justices to overturn a lower court ruling and permit an independent arbiter to review the roughly 100 documents with classified markings that were taken in the August 8 search of Mar-a-Lago.
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones ordered to pay $1 billion
Jurors ordered conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on Wednesday to pay nearly $1 billion to Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims’ relatives and an FBI agent, who said he turned their loss and trauma into years of torment by promoting the lie that the rampage was a hoax, reports the Associated Press.
The $965 million verdict is the second big judgment against the Infowars host for spreading the myth that the deadliest school shooting at the hands of Adam Lanza, in which 20 first graders and six adults were killed in the 2012 Connecticut massacre, never happened. Jones claimed that the grieving families seen in news coverage were actors hired as part of a plot to take away people’s guns.
America rejects the sodomite Superman
DC Comics has announced it will axe a recent comic book series that was centered on a sodomite Superman.
In the months after Jonathan Kent, son of Clark Kent and Lois Lane, made his debut in July 2021, the 17-year-old character embraced various social issues, including school shootings, fighting global warming deniers and the deportation of illegal immigrants.
Then, in the series’ fifth issue, Jon Kent began a homosexual relationship with a male friend and refugee ‘hacktivist’ Jay Nakamura.
But, just like the box office flop entitled Bros, which was America’s first romantic comedy featuring a homosexual storyline, the comic book sales were disastrous.
The Washington Examiner’s headline was instructive. “Go woke, go broke: DC’s gay Superman canceled after 18 issues and poor sales.” Their first line was punchy. “People aren’t buying Superman’s new sexuality— literally.”
The Worldview wonders whether the creators of the sodomite Superman will blame America’s so-called “homophobia” instead of recognizing the vestige of our Christian heritage.
Superman’s image has been seemingly eviscerated. This foolish exploration of sexual perversion comes on top of last fall’s woke decision to change Superman’s slogan from “truth, justice, and the American way” to “truth, justice, and a better tomorrow.”
Drag queen talks with kids and delivers sermon in church
And finally, you can’t make this stuff up.
It was bad enough that the God-haters, who wanted to twist His design for our sex and our sexuality, invited drag queens into libraries to read to impressionable children.
Now, a reprobate pastor, Andy Oliver, at Allendale Methodist Church in St. Petersburg, Florida, invited Isaac Simmons, who performs in drag as “Ms. Penny Cost,” to interact with the children (at the 25:50 mark of the video) and deliver the sermon (at the 43:58-mark) on October 2. His reason? Because he wants “all people to see people like themselves called by God to preach the Gospel,” reports The Christian Post. Clearly, the moniker, “Ms. Penny Cost,” is a disturbing and disrespectful reference to the day of Pentecost when Jesus Christ sent the Holy Spirit after the ascension,
While Pastor Oliver introduced the drag queen to two children sitting on the altar steps, he said this.
OLIVER: “’Ms. Penny Cost,’ are you always dressed up like this? Do you always dress up?”
SIMMONS: “I wish! No, I only get dressed up on special occasions. Um. I kind of feel powerful when I put on a dress like this and a big wig and lots of makeup. Um. Kind of helps me to say things that I don’t have the confidence to say outside of it.”
When Pastor Oliver asked about the drag queen’s faith, Simmons, who had not grown up in a Christian home, made this remark.
SIMMONS: “When I got to college, I started asking deeper questions, um, and I found a boy that I loved (laughs) and he invited me to church, and so I went to hang out with him.”
As he twisted the words of Apostle Paul in Romans 12:2, Pastor Oliver gave his full endorsement of the drag queen’s ministry, as Simmons is a first-year seminary student who will one day preach weekly in a Methodist pulpit.
OLIVER: “Well, one of the things I think is great about ‘Ms. Penny Cost’ is she reminds us that we follow a God who calls us to not conform to things of this world, that we’re supposed to be transformed by the renewal of our minds. And that means that what I think today may have to change tomorrow pf I continue to renew my mind. It’s so cool that we serve a God that calls us to continue to grow and continue to change into something new, and to not be bound by the ways that the world confines us sometimes, that we’re supposed to live differently.”
In a Facebook post, Pastor Oliver wrote that Simmons was “an incredible preacher, grounded as Allendale is, in Wesleyan and liberation theology.”
But Mark Tooley, the president of the Institute on Religion and Democracy, believes drag queens, like Simmons, are becoming the “new public face of United Methodism.” Tooley said, “To my knowledge, no United Methodist official, including Simmons’ bishop, has publicly expressed concern about this United Methodist drag queen.”
No wonder the Methodist church is imploding!
Deuteronomy 22:5 declares, “A woman shall not wear a man’s garment, nor shall a man put on a woman’s cloak, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord your God.”
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