Honour Your Father and Mother

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (which is the first commandment with a promise),  “in order that it may be well with you, and you may live a long time on the earth.” And fathers, do not make your children angry, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Ephesians 6:1–4 (LEB)

The Apostle Paul reinforced the commandment from the Torah to “honour your father and mother”. Why would Paul suggest this commandment was important if he truly preached a different gospel than the other apostles, as some popular sects of Christianity claim? The importance of the commandments is emphasized by Paul just as much as it was by the other apostles and the Messiah Yeshua, called “Jesus” in Greek.

Romans 7:11–12 (LEB): ¹¹ For sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me. ¹² So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.

Sin is identified by knowing God’s commandments. It is the only benchmark of behavior, so when we are opposed to the commandments, we are really opposing God. No one will ever succeed opposing the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, even if an ear tickling preacher is claiming it is right to do so.

Yeshua used the commandment “to honour your father and mother” as an example to explain to the Pharisees about how important it was to not place man-made traditions and rules ahead of the commandments of God.

Mark 7:8–13 (LEB): ⁸ Abandoning the commandment of God, you hold fast to the tradition of men.” ⁹ And he said to them, “You splendidly ignore the commandment of God so that you can keep your tradition. ¹⁰ For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘The one who speaks evil of father or mother must certainly die.’ ¹¹ But you say, ‘If a man says to his father or to his mother, “Whatever benefit you would have received from me is corban” (that is, a gift to God), ¹² you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or his mother, ¹³ thus making void the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down, and you do many similar things such as this.”

There are people today that do not want children to honour their father and mother. They want to break up the family unit because it is a way to gain control of society. Once children start listening to state agents over their parents and grandparents, then society can be socially engineered to believe any propaganda that the state wants to promote. This philosophy is nothing new. Karl Marx proposed this idea in the Communist Manifesto.

“Abolition of the family! Even the most radical flare up at this
infamous proposal of the Communists.
On what foundation is the present family, the bourgeois family,
based? On capital, on private gain. In its completely developed
form this family exists only among the bourgeoisie. But this
state of things finds its complement in the practical absence of
the family among the proletarians, and in public prostitution.
The bourgeois family will vanish as a matter of course when its
complement vanishes, and both will vanish with the vanishing of
capital.
Do you charge us with wanting to stop the exploitation of
children by their parents? To this crime we plead guilty.
But, you will say, we destroy the most hallowed of relations,
when we replace home education by social.”

“The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims.
They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by
the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.
Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution.
The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains.
They have a world to win.”

Excerpt From
The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx
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I don’t believe Karl Marx envisioned communism to look like the societies that Lennon and Stalin created where the government murdered sixty million people. Some of the socialist forms of government we have today are not working either. Brazil is a good example of this and they are turning away from socialism due to its disastrous results. North America has had people pushing it towards communism for decades and it is going to be a painful cycle. The road back to a free society from communism is long, deadly, and hard. The efforts of overthrowing the “bourgeois” and replacing the old ruling class historically results in food shortages, poor living conditions for everyone, and totalitarian governments living off of the backs of the people they oppress. This is likely the opposite of what Karl Marx was dreaming.

In Plato’s Republic, the idea of a perfect state is also discussed. Creating a virtuous ruling class, or “guardians” was the theme of this type of state. The family is also attacked in this system.

“The law, I said, which is the sequel of this and of all that has preceded, is to the following effect,—’that the wives of our guardians are to be common, and their children are to be common, and no parent is to know his own child, nor any child his parent.’”

Excerpt From
The Republic
Plato
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The reason these systems do not work is simple to understand if one believes that there is a Creator that has already given us the instructions we need to live in harmony with each other and nature, providing enough resources for everyone. However, much like communism, religion has not succeeded either. Religion often brings man-made rules, greed and people being convinced that they need not worry about the Creator’s instructions because they are old and out dated. When religion was in complete control, the period was called the dark ages for good reasons.

Matthew 19:3–6 (LEB): ³ And Pharisees came up to him in order to test him, and asked if it was permitted for a man to divorce his wife for any cause. ⁴ And he answered and said, “Have you not read that the one who created them from the beginning made them male and female ⁵ and said, ‘On account of this a man will leave his father and his mother and will be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? ⁶ So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, man must not separate.”

The family unit is very important in a functioning society. It only works when the Creator is honoured by doing what he said, and he said to honour your father and mother. There were no exceptions for fathers and mothers who did a terrible job raising their family, or wayward parents that ended up in jail for heinous acts. How one honours these types of parents may look differently then how one honours loving fathers and mothers that unselfishly raised their children.

Behind the people thinking that these antichrist societal changes will make living better for everyone, are entities that want to enslave and rule over people. I say “entities” because they are both human and super-natural. These are the forces deceiving people that the way we were created is some how wrong, and that the instructions of the Creator are to be destroyed.

Ephesians 6:11–13 (LEB): ¹¹ Put on the full armour of God, so that you may be able to stand against the stratagems of the devil, ¹² because our struggle is not against blood and flesh, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. ¹³ Because of this, take up the full armour of God, in order that you may be able to resist in the evil day, and having done everything, to stand.

It becomes easier once we understand the attack on the family unit and children today is an age old struggle with dark forces that are simply using different means to achieve the same goals. Alice Bailey gave us insight into the new age plan in her book Stages in the Externalisation , written in the early twentieth century. Alice Bailey states, “The three main channels through which the preparation for the new age is going on might be regarded as the Church, the Masonic Fraternity and the educational field. All of them are as yet in relatively static condition, and all are as yet failing to meet the need and to respond to the inner pressure. But in all of these three movements, disciples of the Great Ones are to be found and they are steadily gathering momentum and will before long enter upon their designated task.”.

The “Great Ones”, whom Alice Bailey references, are the same entities Paul refers to as principalities and rulers. The Church has been a great tool for these “Great Ones” because they have convinced themselves that God’s laws no longer apply and have adopted all the “Great Ones'” holidays and traditions. We will be seeing this in full force soon with “trunk or treat” gatherings at churches supposedly shining the light of God. However, it is the light of the wrong god. The “Great Ones” gain their power by the Church ignoring the commandments of God.

2 Timothy 4:3–5 (LEB): ³ For there will be a time when they will not put up with sound teaching, but in accordance with their own desires, they will accumulate for themselves teachers, because they have an insatiable curiosity, ⁴ and they will turn away from the hearing of the truth, but will turn to myths. ⁵ But you, be self-controlled in all things, bear hardship patiently, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

The only “truth” is the word of God and these entities will use whatever groups of people who will do their bidding. Unfortunately, it is often the Church that embraces the wrong god in the name of “Jesus”. We see the end result of all of this in the book of Daniel. The current social order, consisting of an amalgamation of all the historical, worldly empires, (and who knows what else) will be destroyed, and the kingdom of God will be in power on the earth.

Daniel 2:43–45 (LEB): ⁴³ And in that you saw the iron was mixed with wet clay, so they will mix in marriage and they will not cling to one another, just as iron does not mix with clay. ⁴⁴ And in the day of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, and the kingdom will not be left for another nation, and it will bring an end to all these kingdoms, but it will stand forever. ⁴⁵ Inasmuch as you saw that a stone from the mountain was chiseled out but not by hands, and that it crushed the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver and the gold, thereby the great God made known to the king what will be in the future, and the dream is certain and its explanation trustworthy.”

Honour your father and mother and value your family. Ignore the cries from the people trying to destroy the family, remembering that they have been with us for thousands of years in various forms. Study the instructions that the Father in heaven gave us and live in them.

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