It’s Tuesday, October 8th, A.D. 2024. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard on 125 radio stations and at www.TheWorldview.com. I’m Adam McManus. (Adam@TheWorldview.com)
By Kevin Swanson and Adam McManus
Gutsy Australian pastor won’t bow knee to Aborigine pagan religion
An Australian pastor is facing charges in Queensland State for opposing Australia’s “Welcome to Country” ceremonies, based in Aborigine pagan religion.
On the basis of biblical law, Dave Pellowe, pastor and founder of Church and State Ministries cited Psalm 24, and claimed that “the Earth is the Lord’s and the fulness thereof” in opposition to the claims of the Aboriginal traditional religions and rituals.
Pastor Pellowe said, “[Welcome to Country rituals] are religious rituals which Christians in particular should have no part of. And under a democratic, allegedly secular and pluralistic society, it should also be something that the taxpayer doesn’t fund and the government doesn’t impose. It’s the duty of Christians to preach the truth and the Gospel and to not mix Christianity with false religion, such as the Aboriginal traditional religion, which is bearing all the hallmarks of paganism’s inherently false beliefs.”
Dave is now facing ongoing inquisitions from the Queensland Human Rights Commission.
New Russian law bans adoptions to pro-trans countries
By a vote of 397 to 1, Russia’s parliament voted last week to ban all adoptions to persons living in countries allowing homosexual faux-marriage and or gender reassignment.
South China News reports that Russia has 358,000 children in orphanages, or what they call care homes, and only 6 were adopted to foreign citizens last year. China also announced last week they are halting all adoptions to foreign nations. U.S. families have adopted 82,674 children from China over the last few decades.
Iranian & North Korean underground nuclear tests causing earthquakes
Seismic activity which may have been an underground nuclear test was detected late Saturday night near the city of Aradan, Iran.
The U.S. Geological Survey detected an earthquake at 4.6 on the Richter scale, but noted the absence of seismic compression waves, which typically accompany natural earthquakes.
A nuclear test is distinguished by a sharp peak in intensity at the very beginning as well as the absence of “aftershocks” and preliminary tremors.
North Korean underground tests have produced earthquakes anywhere from 4.2 to 6.3 on the Richter scale.
Fools run amuck in England
Psalm 14:1 says, “The fool has said in his heart, there is no God.”
There are more adherents to the religion of Atheism in England than those who would acknowledge Theism. The study conducted by a research team at Queen’s University, Belfast, found that atheists increased from 35.2% to 42.9% of the population between 2008 and 2018.
The study found that the influence of parents appears to be the largest factor that contributes to a child adhering to a theist faith.
One year anniversary of Hamas attack on Israel
Yesterday marked the one-year anniversary since the October 7th Hamas attack on Israel.
Palestine’s economy has dropped off from $4 billion to $2.57 billion since the war started, reports Reuters. The loss of life has been extensive, although the numbers of war dead are usually debatable. Israel reports 1,200 people killed in the war, including about 800 civilians, 346 Israel Defense Forces soldiers and 66 police officers. 97 Israeli hostages are still held in Gaza,
And, the Palestinians claim over 40,000 of their own killed in the war.
Amos 3:6 asks the question: “Is a trumpet blown in a city, and the people are not afraid? Does disaster come to a city, unless the LORD has done it?”
Hurricane Milton more powerful than Hurricane Helene
Hurricane Milton is barreling towards Tampa, Florida and Florida’s Gulf Coast — possibly packing a punch of a Level 5 hurricane with wind strength upwards of 180 mph. The storm is expected to make landfall by tomorrow afternoon, reports NBC News.
In fact, the forecast for ocean surge in Tampa Bay is up to 15 feet if the peak surge coincides with high tide.
Milton arrives just as America is emerging from the devastation of Hurricane Helene which could be the costliest hurricane in recent history.
AccuWeather has increased its estimate of the total damage and economic loss of Hurricane Helene to be between $225 billion and $250 billion. It was the deadliest hurricane on American soil since Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Conditions in western North Carolina are still dire. For example, the City of Asheville’s water supply system was totally destroyed as water mains and pipes were swept away in the floods.
How one Baptist church in North Carolina is helping hurricane victims
And finally, the devastation of Hurricane Helene has been matched by the kindness of neighbors.
I talked with Scott Brown, President of Church and Family Life and the pastor at Hope Baptist Church in Wake Forest, North Carolina, outside Raleigh. He began getting flooded with calls and texts from pastors at like-minded Evangelical reformed churches affected by Hurricane Helene.
BROWN: “There’s a church that’s near us in Wake Forest that got stranded in a place called Burnsville. They couldn’t get out, and they needed some people to come and pick up the women and children. So, the men, you know, would stay with their cars until they could get the cars out. So, we sent several vans up to go pick up these people that were stranded.”
He explained what drew them to Spruce Pine, a four-and-a-half-hour drive away from Wake Forest, with a population of 2,175, in Western North Carolina.
BROWN: “My fellow pastor, Trent Moody, grew up in Spruce Pine, so he knew people here. We wanted to go try to help people that we knew really had needs. And Trent came up to the place he grew up and started knocking on doors and we’re up here.”
He described the conditions.
BROWN: “You can’t imagine how much mud, how many trees, how much destruction is everywhere. I’ve never seen so many power lines just laying on the roads.”
Their crew of eight young men from Hope Baptist Church got busy with four chain saws to clear away the downed trees.
They helped one lady yesterday by the name of Mrs. Mace.
BROWN: “Today we were at this woman’s house that he found whose roof was damaged. There are trees all over the place. Tree hit her house. This old woman living all by herself. Husband died two years ago.
“She’s kind of like an Appalachian Memaw, you know. Just this very funny, strong woman. But she needed a lot of help. I mean, massive trees all around her house that we spent the day with chainsaws today. We’ll be repairing her house tomorrow.”
Scott Brown described what the real need is right now.
BROWN: “The big need right now is cleanup — chainsaws, bobcats, cleaning supplies, mold remediation. The mud factor in the lowlands is just unbelievable.”
When I asked him if he had seen any personnel from the Federal Emergency Management Agency known as FEMA which appears to be missing in action, he revealed this.
BROWN: “We haven’t seen FEMA around in these mountain areas at all. It’s pretty much people from all over the country bringing supplies, and also people within the community just helping each other. That’s really all we’ve seen. I can’t testify to what FEMA is doing anywhere else. We’re in the rural areas. We’re dealing with mountain people.”
He underscored the generosity of the body of Christ.
BROWN: “Isaiah 32:8 says, ‘The generous man devises generosity,’ and that’s what we’ve really seen with the American people. The overflowing outpouring of resources toward this area is just fantastic. The fire departments, the churches, they don’t even know how to store what’s been brought up here because of the generosity of the American people.”
In the midst of the loss, the mountain people of North Carolina have expressed their gratitude.
BROWN: “Extremely thankful people, even in the midst of many of them, have lost everything. It’s astounding.”
Hope Baptist Church plans to continue to send teams of volunteers into the Noth Carolinian mountains. If you would like to help provide the funds to pay for more chain saws, plywood, dry wall, and shingles, go to ChurchAndFamilyLife.com/donate . Look for the Hurricane Relief pink-shaded box on that website page to make a donation.
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And that’s The Worldview on this Tuesday, October 8th, in the year of our Lord 2024, the 48th birthday of my beautiful bride Amy. You can read our love story at AdamsWedding.net. Subscribe by Amazon Music or 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.