Generations Radio

It was a big year. The world economy took the biggest hit in 140 years. It was the biggest year of transitions in a century, the biggest year for socialism since the 1930s, the biggest year for anarchy on the streets, the biggest year for the American church, and the biggest year for disease in about a century. It was the year Babylon fell. It was the year of fear. . . but where was the fear of God? It was the year God shook the world. Here’s the Generations annual Year in Review.

Everybody knows or should know the present economic situation is unsustainable. Zero interest prime rates. Debt to GDP’s of 400% plus. The Wilshire 5000 to GDP in excess of 1.85. The crack up is inevitable now.  But, how does one make it through the economic hard boot? What is the stabilizing factor? Where are the durable trades that will stand the test of time? Kevin Swanson chats with Rory Groves, author of a new book representing key research into the durable trades and family-centered economies.

America became the strongest nation on earth, economically and politically, on the backs of one-room-school houses and homeschools. Then, the experts showed up. They centralized controls, incorporated compulsory attendance, and then ruined it. Fourteen year old girls would speak at a 16-grade level and put the present president of the United States to shame for their literary abilities. Big government-funded education and the elimination of the fear of God from public schools pretty much ruined education in the US.

Another $900 billion of “free money” is about to be distributed here and there, and everywhere across the nation. The year 2020 will be remembered as one giant step for big government socialism, increasing the fed expenditures/GDP from 21% to 31% in one year! We haven’t seen anything like that since FDR. We ask the question again, “Should Christians cash the check?” And then we trace the debauchery of money in the modern age to a murderer and a pedophile — John Law and John Maynard Keynes. At the least, let's oppose the socialist frenzy of redistributing wealth and debasing the money supply in the process. And let's not trust in princes from here on out.

While families enjoy Christmas all over America, a Christian continues serving time in a prison for his faith. Caught on a technicality while trying to help another Christian extricate herself from an ungodly relationship, Phillip Zodhiates is working on his third year in prison. Here is a bonafide persecution case taking place in the United States, but will the president of the United States pardon him? He pardons drug dealers, bank robbers, and others. Would he pardon a Christian?

As opposition to Christianity intensifies in Western nations, how do real Christians respond? How does the Apostle Peter and the others respond to the intense opposition on the part of the religious leaders in the Book of Acts? Dr. Erwin Lutzer, author of the new book “We Will Not Be Silenced,” describes the present antithesis and the proper Christian response to it. How do we resist amalgamation into the world’s ideas? How do we speak the truth in love? How does courage and faith demonstrate itself in the present situation?

The golden age of Hollywood is over. . . way over. The cultural powerhouse which led much of the revolution that destroyed the West is a mere shadow of what she used to be. The harlot on the beast has got a bad case of arthritis and dementia. In 1930, 80 million Americans attended the cinema weekly, and that fell to 24 million in 2019, down to almost nothing in 2020. The star system has collapsed. We provide a brief history of Hollywood as it took the lead in the sexual revolution of the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. The worldview shifted from decadent to decayed and dystopian. Nobody is watching the movies favored by the Academy. It’s over. The Babylon of Revelation 18 always seems to topple, and heaven rejoices.

The socialists and liberals always pretend compassion, and they end up killing more people. The body count racks up when you look at what communists, socialists, eugenicists, and liberals have done to the world since 1900. After killing 4.5 billion people, liberals would get upset with conservatives who wish to implement the death penalty on a few hundred people. But, the root issue is that they don’t fear God, which would have been the beginning of wisdom. We contrast the modern state with the formation of the nation. Was America ever a Christian country? The answer is yes. . .until 1789. 

Celebrity pastors seeking to be famous turn out to be infamous, and the pattern repeats itself over and over again. But pastors who follow in the bloody footsteps of the Master will be infamous in a different way. They would be infamous for the same reason that Jesus was infamous and dragged over to the cross. But what is the difference between celebrity pastors and shepherds who are totally accessible, always approachable, and generally throwing their lives away for the flock?

The nation is more divided than ever, but are the things that divide us of little substance? If the matters are the persecution of Christians and killing babies, then the divide must be as wide as the Grand Canyon. The nation is weakening and dividing. Internationalism, multiculturalism, anti-Christian sentiments, disillusionment with democracy and elections, and partisanship are chipping away at the integrity of America. Rifts are developing. Secession is discussed. Could decentralization protect a few liberties? Perhaps, but only the dismantling of socialist education would bring any meaningful protection of liberty.