It’s Reformation Day, Tuesday, October 31st, A.D. 2023. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard at www.TheWorldview.com. I’m Adam McManus. (Adam@TheWorldview.com)
By Kevin Swanson
Nigerian doctor hacked to death by Muslims
Hundreds of Christians have been killed this year in Nigeria’s Nasarawa State at the hands of radical Muslims. Morning Star News reports that the latest attack came on a medical doctor.
Dr. Stephen Angbas, head of the Angbas Medical Clinic in the town of Lafia, was hacked to death in the afternoon of October 17th, as he was returning home from his work. He was a member of the Evangelical Reformed Church of Christ.
Pray that God would comfort his family in their horrific loss.
Pro-abortion supporters pour money into Ohio
The battle of the century is lining up in Ohio — as proponents for the constitutional change legalizing abortion are buying a barrage of ads in the Buckeye State.
The Associated Press reports $29 million was raised in the last month, including $5.3 million from the Sixteen Thirty fund, compliments of a Swiss billionaire. George Soros’s organization chipped in $3.5 million, and the ACLU another $2 million.
A recent Baldwin Wallace University survey found 58% of Ohioans support the pro-abortion measure as of a week ago.
Proverbs 11:10-11 reminds us that “When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices; and when the wicked perish, there is jubilation. By the blessing of the upright, the city is exalted, but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.”
Trump outperforms GOP presidential competitors
Despite his legal woes, Donald Trump is advancing in popularity as the Republican nominee for the 2024 presidential race, according to a Des Moines Register poll conducted last week.
Trump leads the second tier candidates by 27 percentage points, up from 23% in August. Advancing in popularity, former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley has now tied Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for second place at 16%.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., an independent, polling at 13%, drawing Republicans
A new USA Today poll finds Trump neck and neck with Biden, if the election were held today.
But Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is now an independent, stands at 13% support with national voters. About two-thirds of those who would vote for Kennedy say they would vote Republican if Kennedy were not in the race.
Where did all the money go?
The final reckoning is in for the U.S. government’s spending for Fiscal Year 2023.
Half the deficit was spent on servicing the interest on the national debt! The deficit topped out at $1.7 trillion, up 23% from the previous year.
And the U.S. Treasury paid out $879 billion servicing the debt.
Cost of buying home 52% higher than rent
The cost of buying an average home is now 52% higher than rent. That’s the largest gap in history.
The U.S. median housing payment is hovering around 45% of the median household income. That’s the highest on record.
And, the 30-year fixed mortgage rate now stands at 7.8% — the highest rate in 23 years.
Halloween spending skyrockets
Halloween spending in the United States is estimated at $12.2 billion — a 15% increase over last year, and up from $8 billion in 2020.
That’s a 50% increase in just three years.
Real cost of electric vehicles
A new study published by TexasPolicy.com found that the real cost of operating electric vehicles would equate to an EV owner paying $17.33 per gallon of gasoline. The study found that a 2021 electric vehicle “would cost $48,698 more to own over a 10-year period without $22 billion in government favors given to manufacturers and owners.”
Interestingly, environmentalists are not all that happy with electric cars either. Earth.org reports twice the carbon emissions for the production of an electric car. The manufacturing process of an electric vehicle and its battery exceeds that of a normal car and produces at least four tons of CO2.
All of which introduces the question for consumers: Why were we supposed to buy these electric cars in the first place?
Keep in mind Proverb 29:12 today: “If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked.”
Happy Reformation Day
And finally, Happy Reformation Day!
October 31st, 1517 was the day when Martin Luther, a Catholic priest, nailed the Ninety-five Theses on the door of All Saints’ Church in Wittenberg, Germany in which he listed the 95 ways the Roman Catholic Church had become corrupt.
Chief among them was the selling of so-called indulgences which were certificates which allegedly reduced someone’s temporal punishment in purgatory for sins committed by the purchasers or their loved ones before they went to Heaven. Needless to say, there is no Biblical support for either a place like purgatory nor the ability to change one’s eternal destination after death.
Hebrews 9:27 says, “People are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment.”
Little did Martin Luther know how the Lord would use him to ignite a movement, the Protestant Reformation, that would change the world.
Watch a 2-hour dramatic film entitled Luther with your family. Plus, your children might enjoy a 34-minute animated film called The Martin Luther Story from Torchlighters. In addition, Ligonier Ministries has a free 90-minute documentary which you can stream entitled Luther: The Life and Legacy of the German Reformer.
Check out the three special links in our in our transcript today at www.TheWorldview.com.
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And that’s The Worldview in 5 Minutes on this Reformation Day, Tuesday, October 31st in the year of our Lord 2023. 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.