It’s Tuesday, July 9th, A.D. 2024. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard at www.TheWorldview.com. I’m Adam McManus. (Adam@TheWorldview.com)
By Kevin Swanson
Pro-lifer sentenced to 6 months in prison
Pro-life activist Cal Zastrow has been sentenced to a 6-month prison sentence followed by three years of supervised release for singing hymns and praying in front of a door leading into the Carafem abortion mill in 2021 in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, just 17 miles east of Nashville, reports The Christian Post.
Zastrow told the judge he has tried to live his life “under the Lordship of Jesus Christ” and that “children are a blessing from God.” He closed with Revelation 5:11-14. U.S. District Judge Aleta Trauger pointed to Zastrow’s religious fervor as the problem in her sentencing.
Zastrow was one of six pro-lifers arrested in March 2021. Five other pro-life activists, who blocked a Washington D.C. abortion mill in 2020 have been convicted and sentenced to 2-5 years in prison.
As Zastrow indicated, Psalm 127:3 and 5 indeed affirms that “Children are a heritage from the Lord. The fruit of the womb is a reward. … Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them.”
Russian bombs hit within half mile of The Worldview staff in Ukraine
Several Ukrainian cities came under major aerial attack on Monday morning. It was the most extensive Russian bombardment of Kiev in several months.
Another attack in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih resulted in at least 11 deaths. Both cities were locations of Christian family conferences held over the last few days, sponsored by the Generations and Worldview ministries.
The attack consisted of at least forty missiles, one of which hit Ukraine’s largest children’s hospital in Kiev, reports CNN. The hospital was just half a mile from where The Worldview staff was staying.
A total of 37 people were killed in yesterday’s bombings, reports ABC News.
French Parliament split three ways
Political division is growing in France.
The French election has split the parliament in three ways, reports Reuters. The right now holds 142 seats, the center has 150 seats, and the leftist coalition has 178 seats. Since the 2022 elections, the left grew by 36% and the right by 50% at the expense of the center.
Iran elects moderate president
Another surprise election result came down to the east of France. This time in the nation of Iran.
The more moderate candidate, Masoud Pezeshkian, won the national election by a 16.3 million to 13.5 million vote count. The 69-year-old cardiac surgeon opposes the mandatory hijab or head covering for women, and advocates negotiations with the West on Iran’s nuclear program.
Real estate values skyrocketing in Europe and U.S.
Real estate prices are up in European countries.
Since 2010, the largest increases have occurred in Austria, Czech Republic, Portugal, and Germany, reports WolfStreet.com. Amazingly, prices for the average home have at least doubled since 2010.
Here in the United States, the average price of a home has increased by 89% since 2010.
Hurricane Beryl slowed to Category 1 Cyclone in Texas
Hurricane Beryl made landfall on Monday morning in Texas as a Category 1 cyclone.
Galveston, Houston, and Freeport were hit with 80-90 mph winds and ocean storm surges reached 7 feet at points. The storm is headed into eastern Oklahoma and Arkansas.
Over a ten-day blitzkreig, the Category 5 hurricane did major damage in Jamaica and parts of Mexico, resulting in ten deaths.
Presbyterian Church USA doubles down on perversion
Last week, the Presbyterian Church USA doubled down on its affirmation of homosexuality, and its opposition to pastors who take the biblical stance on the subject.
The resolution to “guarantee full participation and representation” of homosexuals and individuals attempting to change their gender in its worship and governance passed by a vote of 389 to 24.
John MacArthur: Biden is punishment for abandoning God
Pastor John MacArthur told Breitbart News in a recent interview that God has given America up to “sexual immorality, homosexual immorality, and a reprobate mind.”
The pastor said that God has taken His hand of blessing off of this society, and “what you get is Joe Biden.”
MacArthur added, “The train is moving so fast down the direction of having been abandoned by God that unless there’s a huge spiritual turnaround, there’s no way to stop this.” He urged Christians to uphold righteousness in politics, but “to care a whole lot more about the Gospel.”
Romans 1:28 and 32 declares that “they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting; being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness. … who, knowing the righteous judgment of God, that those who practice such things are deserving of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.”
Kansas court struck down ban on second-trimester abortions
The State of Kansas is now a go-to state for abortion.
Since 2020, the official number of child killings in the state is up 152%. At least 20,000 children lost their lives in Kansas last year by chemical and surgical killings.
And, in a 5-1 decision, the Kansas Supreme Court struck down a ban on second-trimester abortions on Friday, reports The Associated Press.
The high court argued that the state constitution guarantees total access to abortion. Any legislative restrictions would then be deemed unconstitutional.
The only conservative on the court warned that the state is becoming known as “a legal regime of unrestricted access to abortion.”
Jewish man shares how he trusted Jesus as Savior
As Kevin Swanson travels and speaks abroad, I guest host for him today on Generations Radio. I interview Rich Flashman, a Jewish man who trusted Jesus Christ as Messiah.
When he went off to the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, an Evangelical Christian knocked on his dorm room door.
FLASHMAN: “I got a knock on my door and I opened the door and a young man says, ’Hi, my name is Paul. I could talk to you about establishing a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.”
McMANUS: “Woah.”
FLASHMAN: “’Well,’ I said, ‘I’m sorry, Paul. I’m Jewish.’ He goes, ‘That’s okay. So was He.’”
McMANUS: (laughs) “Did that surprise you?”
FLASHMAN: “You know, I knew Jesus was Jewish, you know, but you know, it’s just yeah. But I laughed when he said, like you. I invited him in. I invited my Jewish friends from down the hall as well to listen to him. And he shared the gospel sure that Jesus was the Jewish Messiah, He lived a perfect life. He taught on the kingdom of heaven, kingdom of God, that He suffered and died for our sins, and He rose again, and He gives new life to anyone who believes.
“So I said, ‘Why do you think that? And he said, ‘It’s an historic fact.’ And I said, ‘Well, where’s your historic data?’ He said, ‘The Bible.’ I said, ‘Come on, Paul — oral tradition, human writing, you know, come on.’ He goes, ‘No, the Bible is an historical document. Read it.’”
Eventually, after reading Isaiah 53, a chapter that most Jews skip over, Flashman became convicted that Jesus was indeed the long-anticipated Messiah.
Today, he leads the Manhattan branch of Chosen People Ministries, which has brought the Gospel to Jews for 130 years. Plus, we talked about their June 20th event held in Times Square in the Big Apple about opposing antisemitism, and how Christians can speak up for Israel and our Jewish neighbors.
Listen to my 34-minute interview with Rich Flashman, a Jewish believer in Jesus at Generations.org/radio. That’s Generations.org/radio.
Republicans waters down their platform on abortion & marriage
And finally, the Trump campaign has announced the Republican platform national committee has softened language on abortion and homosexual faux marriage, reports The Washington Stand as well as NBC News.
The updated platform, entitled “America First: A Return to Common Sense,” will no longer define marriage as between “one man and one woman.”
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And that’s The Worldview on this Tuesday, July 9th, in the year of our Lord 2024. Join me Adam McManus, and my two sons, Honor and Valor, at the Colorado Father-Son retreat Thursday, August 15th through Sunday, August 18th. Go to ColoradoFatherSon.com. 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.
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100 people shot in Chicago over 4th of July weekend
The city of Chicago turned into a war zone of sorts over the Fourth of July weekend. Tragically, 100 people were shot, resulting in 17 deaths, reports Breitbart. That’s up 27% over the previous year.
Chicago, like all of Illinois, has a 72-hour waiting period on gun purchases, a red flag law, an “assault weapons” ban, a “high capacity” magazine ban, and a Firearm Owners Identification card requirement.