Great men of prior generations – highly principled, noble, and of impeccable character – were never allowed the snotty and rebellious words and actions toward parents that are nearly universal today. So you should not be surprised that there is nearly a universal dearth of men and women comparable to those wonderful leaders of yesteryear. Solomon used the eye as synecdoche for facial expressions. And he meant more than just the muscle and mucous membrane that reside in one of your sockets. No eyeball shows disdain for authority without the heart directing it to do so. If the eyes are the windows to the soul, there had better not be irreverence seen in the heart toward either parent. Mocking is haughty disrespect by ridicule or scorn. We call it “rolling the eyes” or “tossing the head” in disgust or resentment. It is now common, and any idea of punishing children’s looks and attitudes was rejected years ago by most. And everyone suffers the consequences by this arrogant and rebellious generation. But God hates such disrespect. Despising to obey a mother here is facial expressions of saucy refusal to honor her requests. Most mothers today have given up trying to get teenagers to do anything helpful or productive. They haughtily and lazily intend to make their own plans for their time, and they have no conscience against ignoring, mocking, or defying parental requests. God presents this rebellious brat as buzzard bait, with the hooked beaks and talons of these birds ripping out eyeballs and eating them. Though politically incorrect in this coddling society, it graphically shows God’s opinion of disrespectful children. Such fools will die under the harsh judgment of a holy God, Who defends His ordained offices. Both parents are included. Mothers should be esteemed and reverenced comparable to fathers, and a wise father will demand and enforce such respect for his wife. It took two parents to conceive a child, and it is usually two parents that provided everything for that child to reach maturity, if the character of a thirty-year-old today can be called maturity. Reader, the holy God of heaven chose capital punishment for speaking lightly about parents. Do you agree with God about it? Or do you think such harsh precepts of Moses’ Law are outdated, extreme, and without value? Moses wrote, “Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen” (Deut 27:16).
Posted on: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 10:48:55 +0000
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