The rising of generation xtreme - part 2 in the serialising of Carl Anderson's Changing Of The Guard

If you desire to see the rebellion, just look at the graffiti which surrounds you. It has taken over the inner cities like a plague.

I will say it again: there has thus arisen a generation of wanderers. On a recent ministry trek across Western Europe, I noticed them everywhere I went. On the trains, the ships, the busses, the subways, the street corners were young people, traveling about, perhaps "in search of themselves." Many wearing backpacks, and those whom I spoke with, lost.

In his book, Between Two Worlds, preacher John R.W. Stott gives a startling continuance of this truth:

"Seldom if ever in its long history has the world witnessed such a self-conscious revolt against authority...What seems new today, however, is both the world-wide scale of the revolt and the philosophical arguments with which it is sometimes buttressed. There can be no doubt that the twentieth century has been caught up in a global revolution, epitomized in the two World Wars. The old order is giving place to a new. All the accepted authorities (family, school, university, State, Church, Bible, Pope, God) are being challenged. Anything which savors of 'establishment', that is, of entrenched privilege or unassailable power, is being scrutinized and opposed...

In economics it (this generation) protests against the exploitation of the poor and against the new social servitude, slavery to the consumer market and to the machine. In industry it (this generation) protests against the class confrontation between management and unions, and calls for a greater measure of responsible participation for the workers. In education it (this generation) protests against indoctrination, the misuse of the classroom to bend the malleable minds of the young into predetermined shapes, and calls instead for young people to develop their own personal potential."

It was said of Cain, who rejected brotherhood within his own family by slaying Abel, "You shall be a vagrant and a wanderer on the earth." Genesis 4:12.

So goes the cycle. Separated from God, pronounced guilty in the judgment of God against them, sentenced thus to wander in search of truth and always to come up empty are our own youth. What then is the third of these points in history? Could it be perhaps that you and I are living in it right now? Is this the time of the end, where Satan is using all his tactics in order to destroy a generation? If so, why? Let's examine even deeper the downfall of these past twenty or so years and see if we can find an answer.

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