This Generation - Proverbs 30:11-13

There is a generation that curses its father,
And does not bless its mother.
There is a generation that is pure in its own eyes,
Yet is not washed from its filthiness.
There is a generation—oh, how lofty are their eyes!
And their eyelids are lifted up.
Proverbs 30:11-13

    As our society and culture surely and slowly slip into crassness and greater sinfulness are we not compelled to look for the contemporary force behind the slide? Recent news stories are appalling, to say the least, and in some cases too bizarre for Godly men and women to even process. From the vestiges of our society diving headlong into the sinfulness of same-sex marriage to the full faith and support of transgender issues to a softening of the public conscience on pedophilia to a recent rash of reports of bestiality. All coincidental? I think not. “Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves . . .”
 - Romans 1:24.
    Sadly enough, the push behind this wave of debauchery seems to be the Millennial generation. It appears that there is simply no criminal or moral perversion that they will not somehow defend as a human right. And certainly there will be voices that place the blame firmly on the sin-nature of mankind. While this is true an even more worldly deflection places the drift on the popular culture, liberal educators, and what-not, but despite their part in the downward drift there is still the need for a class of acolytes or minions. This is where the Millennials firmly fit in. Education : In this most fragile area of life we parents of this generation have failed miserably by allowing the liberal educators to infect our children’s minds and hearts with the poisonous doctrines of worldly pursuit rather than the pursuit of God! And what child will not seek his own desires if, not only allowed to, but encouraged to?
    “Ours is peculiarly an age of irreverence, and as the consequence, the spirit of lawlessness, which brooks no restraint and which is desirous of casting off everything that interferes with the free course of self-will, is rapidly engulfing the earth like some giant tidal wave. The members of the rising generation are the most flagrant offenders, and in the decay and disappearing of parental authority, we have the certain precursor of the abolition of civic authority.” - A. W. Pink. The Calvinist, Arthur W. Pink, made this assessment of the generation of youth during the early part of the 20th Century. As anyone can plainly see, the successive generations have continued the downward drift into today’s most pestilent sinful lifestyle.
    In the title verse we see very clearly three components of this perverse generation’s pedigree. First, there is a general contempt among them for any traditional values handed down by their parents’ generation. Within the hearts of these corrupt children nothing of their parents’ generation is worth keeping alive - all of it must be slain. To one degree or another this may be the parents’ fault.  “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.” - Proverbs 22:6. As I stated earlier - we parents have failed in our duty to our children. We can not instil with words what we don’t live up to by our actions. Children must be properly “churched”; so must parents. However, this still doesn’t release children from their 4th Commandment duties. They are still bound to honor their fathers and mothers; something this generation wouldn’t even consider.
    Second, these self-absorbed delinquents are convinced of their righteousness before the great cosmos despite their lowing and rooting in evil ways. “In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.” - Judges 21:25.
    Thirdly, and finally, they are of a high opinion about themselves and their causes. In their minds, they are the most enlightened generation to ever come along. The generations of Aquinas, Da Vinci, Shakespear, Galileo, Newton, Jefferson, Beethoven, Lincoln, Einstein, Churchill, and King fall short of the vain imagination of a generation that worships at the altar of Nietzsche, Bakunin, Marx, Che . . . and Jay Z.
    The sinfulness of this generation is their  badge of honor. In their present state they are merely fodder for hell awaiting condemnation which will surely come at the hands of an angry God! “Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.” - Proverbs 16:18.
    Perhaps the Puritan, John Trapp describes this generation better than I ever could.
He says they are, “An evil and an adulterous generation, doubtless; a bastardly brood, as were those in the gospel; "a generation of vipers," that make their way into the world by their dams’ death. These monsters of men are doomed to destruction. Hell gapes for them . . .” Of their claim to purity Trapp is even more contrary - “they wallow in sin like swine, and welter in wickedness, which is filth and blood, the vomit of a dog, the excrement of the devil, the superfluity or garbage of naughtiness, and the stinking filth of a pestilent ulcer . . .” And finally, of the loftiness in their eyes he says, “The eyes are the seat of pride and disdain.”
    This Millennial generation, in my estimation, has no further to go to live up to Trapp’s commentary! They currently ride in the contempt Trapp had for them, and they are working very hard to supercede even his estimation of their sinfulness! Where can we turn away from this generation? If they achieve their ends Christianity will be outlawed and persecution will rule the day; this will be the future! Let us pray that an act of God puts the plans of the devil and this generation far away from us. Anathema maranatha.