Rule from beneath: Why children rule adults from beneath under God's Law

Many think that power structures in the Bible call for parents to rule children from above. This is a common mistake American parents make in their thinking, believing that children can be beat and whipped into submission to a higher authority, with parents being that higher authority. The fact of the matter is that children are an extension of God ruling adults from beneath. Children, in biblical times, had immense lobbying power from beneath. 

It says in 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. Children are to rest securely in the sacrifice of parents, just as parent believers rest securely in the Sacrifice of Jesus Christ. Parents are to be extensions of Christ in the family home, sacrificing for their children, just as Christ sacrificed for His children, with children resting as a Godhead in the family home. Parents are the enemy of children, just as mankind is the enemy of God, and are to be subservient to children as such, from above, with children ruling from beneath.

The Greek root word translated "provoke...to anger" is ερεθιζο (Latin: erethizo) and refers to damages or offenses, namely the slightest of personal offense perceived by a child, including, but not limited to, the slightest of offensive touch or speech perceived by a child, coming from entitlement. This commandment was intended by the Apostle Paul, and understood in its original context, as a moral statute prohibiting all forms of punitive parenting, including any punishment or controlling demeanor towards children. In the Old Testament, punitive parents were put to death by way of bloodletting, after punishing their children too many times. Parents who punished their children were charged with kidnapping, with "kidnapping" being defined under the Law as the slightest of damages or offenses stemming from hostage-taking - child punishment was seen in biblical times as holding a child hostage merely for things they did wrong. Paul here was lifting up the Law to Greek Christian parents who brought their pagan custom of spanking and punishing children into the church. Paul, contrary to popular legend, was anti-spanking, and opposed any and all punishment of a child.  Paul was educating Greek and Roman newcomers to the Christian Church about proper Jewish parenting. The Early Christians were simply another sect of Judaism in the 1st Century, and thus the Early Church adopted Jewish parenting as the norm,

According to vs. 21, children are to rule adults from beneath. Anything that is perceived by the child as offensive or abusive is objectively a form of abuse. Children should be able to lobby their adults as to better treatment, and anything else they deem as in their best interest. Abuse is whatever the child victim perceives as such. The bare minimum of offenses in the Bible are crying and other visible upset. If a child cries over a necessary limit, the adult must reassure the child of their presence and that all will be okay in order for the limit not to be abusive. Children in biblical times policed their parents on this issue by bearing witness against them in a court of law when such abuse happened.

Children had immense lobbying power in biblical times. Parents and other adults were still the head of children, but children could lobby their adults  Children ruled adults from beneath, getting most all of what they wanted, with adults serving children while being the enemy of children, just as mankind is the enemy of God, with adults being subservient to children from above. Children, in turn, rested beneath the umbrella of parents and other adults. Men and women both paid due chivalry to children, stepping aside, holding doors for children, and giving children a place to be children. Children petitioned adults for what they needed from them, and adults were happy to provide. 

Attachment parenting was the established norm among Christian parents in biblical times. Christian parents in biblical times used a specific, distinct type of attachment parenting that deified children. Children were worshipped and venerated as extensions of God on earth in biblical times, striking reverent fear and terror into parents and other adults with their vulnerable status. Whatever you didn't do for children, you didn't do for God. Children could issue lawful and binding summonses to parents as to what they needed, and if they weren't satisfied with the service they were getting from parents, they could take parents to court. Once parents were taken to court by their children, the child always prevailed. Parents could not prosecute children for anything, as children were sacrosanct. 

Children ruled their parents from beneath by both demanding, in the form of lawful and binding orders, their needs. Also, children had the power to righteously judge their parents and their every action in relation to children. Children were empowered in biblical times, and knew their rights, and they policed adults as such.

The depraved and entitled parents who provoke their children to anger through punitive parenting will not inherit the Kingdom of God! Let them be forever 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 the ever-burning Hell of fire and torment, suffering God's Wrath forever and ever! Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!