Reverent rebellion: Why children rule parents from beneath

Many parents believe children should stay put in their role, which is silence and shamefacedness. Children are technically in a subservient position, and that will be until the end of time. However, children have the divine right to reverently rebel against their parental custodians, issuing edicts and orders as to what they need.

Every single parent and adult is guilty in relation to children, and is deserving of DEATH and DESTRUCTION merely for existing in relation to children, with adults being meek and shamefaced in relation to children, and children rebelling against their parents reverently, being outspoken in their role. Parents are to esteem their children above all else, putting children first, and parents last, to the point of dutiful and selfless submission to children and their every vulnerable need, expecting absolutely nothing in return, with children resting safely and securely in parents, with children in place of God. See Colossians 3:20-21 KJV:

Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord. Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

The Greek root word translated "obey" is υπακουο (Latin: hupakouo) and refers to secure, vulnerable rest in the love and grace of parents, with parents being attendant caregivers to children, and children owing nothing in return to parents. Children were outspoken in their restful role, expressing themselves freely and giving lawful orders as to their needs, expecting no punishment or reprisal in return. Children ruled parents from beneath. Attachment parenting was the established norm in biblical times, in both ancient Israel and the Early Church. Think a mother holding pales of water, with a young child wrapped up next to her bosom in swaddling blankets, with a nude older child in tow next to her mother, with the mother gathering water to cook with and to drink. This was the parenting reality of the biblical context. Children rested in relation to parents, but in an outspoken, assertive way.

The Greek root word translated "provoke...to anger" is ερεθιζο (Latin: erethizo) and refers to damages, meaning the slightest of personal offense perceived by the child, including the slightest of offensive touch or words. This word can include striking a child in any way, under any circumstances. The Apostle Paul, in vs. 21, was lifting up the Law on punishing children. The punishment of children carried severe penalties, and incurred bloodlust. Punishing a child was considered kidnapping, thus an offense deserving of death, even if Christ spared the offender the death penalty in the Early Christian context. The rod verses in Proverbs and Hebrew do not refer to spanking, but to a dated form of judicial corporal punishment closely conflated with the death penalty in ancient Israel - the 40 minus 1 lashes with the rod of correction, as a last warning before putting an ADULT child in trouble with the law to death, after many warnings beforehand. Minor children were not whipped like adult children were, as minor children could not stand trial for criminal acts or civil wrongs that they committed. The rod verses in Hebrews 12:5-11 were symbolic in nature, with the rod of correction being a figure of speech for enduring hardship.

Children ruled their parents from beneath in ancient Israel and adjoining churches, meaning though parents took a leadership role in parenting, children had much of a say as to what care they got. Most all Hebrew and Christian parents had a secure parent-child bond, and this state of familial affairs was the established norm. However, children related to their children in terms of policing attachment, meaning children policed their parents for what they needed, issuing orders and edicts as to their wants and needs, with Hebrew and Christian parents giving in and giving up, surrendering to the rule of their children.

Parents in biblical times were attendant caregivers, and never questioned their child's needs, with children up until age 6 rarely ever leaving their mother's side in the Early Church. Older children intermittently clung to mothers and played outside, always in the supervision of parents. High-risk play was allowed then, with many of the games then carrying sexual undertones. The most high-risk of a game was "marriage". Now, marriage in biblical times involved sexual intercourse as a signing of the marriage contract, meaning the consummation of the marriage. Most children simply embraced. Parents supervised games like this to preserve the virginity of girls in particular, as one wrong move could possibly land a young girl a fate of death under the Old Testament law. Children weren't punished even for sexually penetrating another child, but instead the act was prevented if the children got too close to penetration. This goes to show how much freedom children had in ancient Israel. Children were not sheltered from sexual realities of life, but most children did not engage in sexual acts themselves, but merely talked and gossiped about it. Sex was seen as an adult thing that children mimicked and gossiped about. Children went naked for their whole childhood, meaning clothing was seen as an adult luxury, with children exposed as naked to show their vulnerability to the world. Parents ALWAYS supervised children, and children never played outside the line of sight of parents.

Children were expected in biblical times to rebel against parents at least a little bit. More accurately, children were seen as naturally rebellious in nature, but in a way you appeased to keep happy. The idea is that if you did not appease your child's rebellion and keep children happy, they would run you aground and eat you up. 

Punitive parenting was seen as a horrific way to treat a child, and parents who "kept children down" were seen as abusers of children, and were dealt with using the full force of the law. Usually, a concerned bystander stepped in to investigate on his own, and then turn the parents into the religious authorities to be sentenced to death, or to be excommunicated from the church community in the Early Church. In the Early Christian context, the parents were interviewed by a series of righteous judge in a spying way, and were spied on by the church, and then the parents were confronted with all the counts at the church gate, and were from there expelled and excommunicated from the Christian churches of God.

The depraved and entitled parents who provoke children to anger will not inherit the Kingdom of God! Let them be cast into the lake of fire and burning sulfur, which is the second death prepared for Satan and his accomplices! Let them descend into the abyss which is Hell and torment, suffering God's Wrath for all eternity! Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!