Radical right-wing pastor Kevin Swanson was not impressed with yesterday's nationwide walkout in which thousands of students left school to protest gun violence in the wake of the mass shooting last month at a Florida high school, saying that the fact that the movement is being led by young people is a sign that America is under the judgment of God.
On his "Generations" radio program today, Swanson read a passage from Isaiah in which God threatened to punish Judah by warning that "I will give children to be their princes and babes shall rule over them."
"This is the curse that God places upon nations," Swanson said. "The people will be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbor. The child will be insolent toward the elder and the base towards the honorable. As for my people, children are their oppressors and women shall rule over them. Oh my people, those who lead you cause you to err and destroy the way of your paths."
"In other words, the young folks have all this revolutionary zeal but no real wisdom to govern what they are doing," he said. "This is the result of the breaking of the commandment of God. Things are not going well with us in the land, we are not seeing things going well for tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions of people across the country largely because the massive violation of the Fifth Commandment: Honor your father and your mother."
"Young people need to come to grips with the fact that they have not honored their parents' wisdom," Swanson said. "For this, God is bringing his judgment upon these individuals and upon this nation."
