Judges 2, part 1: how to keep a new generation from bowing to the world

To understand what happens in the book of Judges as a whole, we must understand what happened immediately after Joshua died. Every time Israel is oppressed, it is because a new generation arises that prostrates to the world, rather than to God. Why? Because their parents failed to teach them to remember who God is, and what he has done…and what he requires of them. The church, too, is in the same danger — in just the past 5 years, 50% of young people with a biblical worldview have abandoned it. And the solution today is the same as the solution then: a return to God’s model of family discipleship, over the world’s model of secular education.