It's a generational thing

While anybody can trace their family roots these days, Paul warns in I Timothy 1:4, “Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies.”

Of this verse, Bible scholar C.R. Stam once explained, “In Paul’s day genealogies were very important, even among Believers. One’s family relationships meant a great deal. If you were a second cousin to Christ or even a third cousin to Peter you ‘had it made.’ You might be crude, or stupid, or even wicked, but all this was overlooked: you were closely related to Christ Himself, or to the Apostle Peter, and all were ready to give you audience.”

Jordan says, “When you make the choice to honor the Lord with your body, your life in Him is going to be lived so that He is manifested in your body as the one who IS your life. Not money, not possessions. Not fame, not status.

"Ecclesiastes says one generation comes and passes away, the next generation comes and passes away. If you go back two or three generations, you don’t even know who your ancestors are. How many of you know who your great-grandparents were? You can go on Ancestry.com and look it up, but you still don’t know who they were.”

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Proverbs 30:11 says “there is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.”

When Jesus Christ said, "This generation shall not pass until all be fulfilled," He said of the generation He was talking about, “O generation of vipers who hath warned thee to flee from the wrath to come?”

Jordan explains, “When He talks about a generation, He’s not talking about a period of time somebody lives. We talk about the Baby Boomers and the Millennials. He’s not talking about that. He’s saying, ‘You were generated; you were created by snakes.’ Who is the viper? Satan.

“In other words, ‘You’re the offspring; your father is the devil.’ The generation is talking about the SOURCE where something comes from and in that Last Day, look at Proverbs 31:1: ‘The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him.’

“You see, the Book of Proverbs is not just a book of history. It’s a book written for the prophetic program specifically to give the Little Flock in Israel, in the Last Days, some wisdom to stand against the lie program; to stand against the ‘strange woman who rides the beast.’

“There’s a generation that will be there and they love, ‘Give me! Give me!’ Here’s one of the characteristics of that apostate generation in Proverbs 30:14: ‘There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.’

“In Matthew 23:13 is just one illustration of how this stuff fits: ‘But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.’

“Those hypocrites are the ones to whom Jesus said, ‘You are of your father the devil.’ ”

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