So "Honour thy mother and thy father",,,why?,,I know God said to do it,,,but why,"why is it the correct and right thing to do?",,,
God loves when people obey authority,and children are in a less position then parents,and the children came from the parents,so children should honor them,and obey them.
Like humans came from God,and we are in a less position than Him,so we are to honor Him,and obey Him.
God even says do not rebel against government,rulers,because they cannot rule unless God allows it,so obey their authority,unless it goes against the will of God in which we heed Him.
Eph 6:1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Eph 6:2 Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise
Eph 6:3 That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.
Eph 6:4 And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Pro 8:13 The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
Children honoring their parents,and obeying their parents,is the first commandment with promise,which means if children obey the authority of their parents,they will most likely acknowledge God,and obey His authority,at least in the truth.
The 1960's was a time of a counterculture movement where the youth rebelled against authority,and we see the results of that,as a lot more do not acknowledge God,or acknowledge Him but are hypocritical,not representing goodness.
The majority of the younger people do not fear the LORD representing goodness,and humbling themselves before Him,as many children do not obey their parents at times,and do not humble themselves before them like they should.
But it is a two way street,for while children have to honor their parents,and obey them,parents have a responsibility to act right themselves,and fathers provoke not your children to wrath,for if you do not act proper it may cause your children to be in defiance against you.
And I see both instances,where children are sometimes unruly,but then parents are very short with their children,and given more parents are alcoholics,druggies,and do not act with the decency they have in the past,it causes children to act unruly.
There are not too many parents that act like the Leave it to Beaver parents today.
Parents look at children as rebellious,with the attitude,children are crazy today than what they were years ago,and children look at parents the same way,which it is true in a lot of cases,because majority wise they do not act with the decency and sophistication as in years past,and that is why it is going downhill.
Children do not honor their parents like in the past,because parents do not act with the decency they did in the past,which the 1960's caused quite a situation with their rebelliousness,have your own way,do your own thing,and be your own boss,in which I view it as a selfish movement.
2Ti 3:2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy.
Disobedient to parents is one of the traits of the last days.
Pro 30:11 There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.
Pro 30:12 There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.
Pro 30:13 There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.
Pro 30:14 There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
The last generation before Jesus takes over the world,which the children will be disobedient to parents,will think they are right in their own eyes,but not washed from their filthiness,which means not right with God,highly selfish,and highly arrogant,and very aggressive towards each other,and will be so obsessed with heaping money to themselves that they will not care about the poor and needy.
Children honoring,and obeying,their parents,is the first commandment with promise,for if they learn humbleness from their parents,they are more likely to acknowledge God,and if they do acknowledge God,more likely to humble themselves before Him,and obey Him,instead of being hypocritical,and not washed away from their filthiness.
Indeed the 1960's caused quite an upheaval with the youth rebelling against authority,have your own way,do your own thing,be your own boss.
The beginning of the end of people's rulership on earth,and we are at the last generation,where children do not obey their parents like they should,and aggressive towards each other,believing they are alright with God despite their filthiness,and people heaping money to themselves in a ludicrous fashion,and are greedy dogs that can never have enough.
Pro 30:15 The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give.