The notion of a "final, perfect generation", a group of people who finally get it right, sounds wonderful. What a grand privilege to be part of something so spectacular and significant. It sounds wonderful, but in practice it always leads ultimately to despair. Because you never get it right. Eventually you are forced to recognize that either God does not keep his promises (as you understand them) or you cannot or will not keep yours. Either way it becomes clear to you that you are not going to be part of this special group that seized your imagination.
Rather than dream of "finally getting right" it is wiser to simply do today what God makes available. To quote the Wisest One: Take no thought for the morrow. Embrace the habits of holiness--time with God, Bible study, worship and service. Take the one step that is right in front of you. That is all your Father asks. It is the same thing he has asked of every person in every age.
Doing now, today, right now, this minute what God asks is enough. Tomorrow is, at best, irrelevant. It often becomes a distraction from our true calling. We become preoccupied with our failings and eventually lose sight of the smiling face of God.
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Adventist teaching that there is a perfect final generation is in my mind,is a very strong argument for idea that Eden, Heaven, Hell are allegorical of spiritual states in the here and now life, and that there is no afterlife, nor was there ever an Eden, because the whole idea just doesn't make any sense. If we are all righteous in Christ, then that condition has already been met; if man can be perfect without Christ, then there is no need for Christ in the first place, so what was the point of the crucifiction?
Besides, I love people who are damaged, so according to me, the world is perfect already. If you got rid of all the damaged people, you would be living in Hitler's heaven.
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