The Generations Radio Program

In this edition of Generations, Kevin Swanson and Steve Vaughan discuss the upcoming holiday, Halloween. The Day of the Dead was first celebrated in opposition to God's judgement on the earth through the worldwide flood, and it continues to celebrate death. Should Christians fear ghosts and ghouls, or should they fear God? Should our focus be on death and horror or on the risen Christ who conquered death?

Kanye West is a professing Christian professing pro-life positions . . . but what can be said about his association with the lost tribes of Israel and his criticism of Jews? We take a look at the biblical view of the lost tribes and the reasons for anti-Semitism. Did the Jews bring down Western civilization, or was it sin and apostasy in general?

The predominant view among evangelicals and other Christians today is that the church is not essential anymore. Is that just another first step into apostasy? Is the body of Christ really essential? Can churches who lack church membership be considered a church at all? Jonathan Leeman makes the case for church membership and describes healthy church relationships in this important exchange.

His two stepbrothers, one of which was a Baptist pastor, insisted that Elvis was a Christian. But what is the overall trajectory of his life and career? Does a man's life affect his music? Do we merely judge by lyrics, or is there a lifestyle that plays into the popular cultural emanations? We can't answer the question as to the eternal destination of Elvis's soul, but we can identify certain external signs—church membership, lifestyle, life trajectory, last testimonies, and so forth. We are also called to discern "the teachers" for as Jesus said, "By their fruits ye shall know them." Perhaps more importantly, Elvis represents the trajectory of American culture and church life.

"The current state of reproductive affairs can't continue much longer without threatening human survival," says epidemiologist Shanna Swan. Europe, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand are the worst for average Testosterone levels. Russia, Brazil, Mexico, India, Afghanistan, and most of Africa are way higher than the US and Europe. How's that going to work out for the future of world civilizations? It takes testosterone to build business . . . to fight wars . . . to defend countries . . . to go after the bad guys (on the part of civil governments who do not bear the sword in vain). The only possibility for the preservation of faith and civilization is a radical shift away from the present zeitgeist for all men.

Ex-Fed Chair Ben Bernanke gets the Nobel Prize for his last-ditch effort to defend Keyensian economics. We run over a few other nothing-burger Nobel prizes. Are these people really helpful, or is this more of the Emperor's-New-Clothes procession, where the clothes makers get all the awards? Without God, man doesn't do much good in science, economics, politics, or peace. Only Jesus brings substantial solutions. 

What would George Washington think about the present entangling alliances and the American prosecution of the war against Russia? It’s a reasonable question, but not many would want to answer the question. Above all, this is a time to fear God, and yet there’s precious little of that left in this administration right now. The president is concerned about a possible Armageddon, but then why is the nation inviting it by its gross disobedience to the Almighty? 

Here is the strange story of the mass infiltration of Marxism and Wokism into the modern church. Why does the enemy go after the seminaries first, and how will the church come through this present crisis? Once again, the root of the ethical confusion is the antinomianism in modern evangelicalism. Here is a summary of the new expose film on enemies in the PCA, the Southern Baptist Churches, and others. 

The FBI is taking the side of the abortionists, and nothing is done about the assault on pro-life pregnancy centers. We estimate $60 million of damage, and not one arrest. Meantime, the FBI is busy arresting pro-lifers who prevented one person from getting an abortion. Then, Pastor John MacArthur is calling Governor Newsom to account for his no-holds-barred pro-abortion, pro-infanticide policies. Is the pastor in a position to do so? We look at the biblical basis. 

Finally, the leading sane voices of the nation have spoken. It's time to abandon the public schools altogether. Franklin Graham, James Dobson, Dennis Prager, Rush Limbaugh, and Michael Reagan are telling Christian and conservative families to get the kids out . . . now. But what about the argument that the Puritans and pilgrims started up the public schools with the ol' Satan Deluder Act? Not so much. We provide the real history of the development of the messianic, state-funded schools here.