The ten commandments of the Old Testament were not about God generating rules by which obeying men would be saved. It was never about that and Paul knew it and preached it hard. So, if we are not saved by obeying the Mosaic Law or any other rule-based system, then what are the ten commandments about? More specifically, what is up with the commandment to honor our fathers and mothers?
Stop the bleeding
The first rule in life saving first aid is to stop the bleeding. Broken arms can be handled, but if your patient bleeds out and dies, what good is your work of setting his arm in a splint? In modern terms, we now understand that we must slow down the death march of bleeding out before we address other damage done to an injured body. This very thought is captured in the purpose of the ten commandments of Exodus 20:1-17 and again in Deuteronomy 5:4-21.
It is the backstory to Genesis 3, 6, 10, and 11 from materials like 1 Enoch that give us details of the extent of the damage that was done to humanity by fallen Watchers and giants, who then died in the flood and became unclean or impure spirits that we call demons. The details of these rebellions are stark and revealing.
In the first two rebellions (Genesis 3 and 6:1-4) we have a couple of critical items that must gather our primary attention and focus. Both of these items have to do with extreme sexual immorality and violence—that is—the Nechash of Genesis 3 came to assault the loyalty of Eve for Adam and then rape her. His mission was unsuccessful to the degree he wanted it to be, however he did dismantle the loyalty of Adam and Eve for God, thereby causing men to enter into his own rebellion against God.
The second rebellion of Genesis 6:1-4 was very much a mission accomplished for the fallen sons of God. They came, targeted married women, violently raping them, and impregnating them with their seed, which resulted in giants. Also, the mission was multifaceted. Not only would they break the loyalties between husbands and wives, but they would attempt to corrupt and defile the seed of the woman (Eve) that would produce the Messiah, Jesus Christ, the Lord.
The third rebellion would be more complex, starting with rebellious human beings and ending with them divided into seventy clans (families), lands, nations, and languages. Each of these was then given to lesser elohim of God (the uncreated Elohim) to rule in God's stead. The Lord's answer to this situation is to form his own nation from Abraham, starting in Genesis 12, which puts us on both the road to war and redemption through a nation that God would raise up for himself in a land that he claimed for himself.
Now, but not yet
The first step in the mission of God was to take one man by his faith (allegiance to God's loyalty to the man) and build a nation out of him and his wife. Notice that God did not build a nation out of just a man, but a man and his wife: Abram and Sarai.
Further note that they themselves need to be proved to demonstrate that they will adhere to the notion that God is faithful, loyal, and just and fair to them in his promise. Thus, God is looking to demonstrate to everyone that his chosen couple be loyal, and only then does God change their name from Abram to Abraham and Sarai to Sarah, adding the letter-of-grace (hey) to their names, stamping and sealing his approval of their demonstrated loyalty to his promise.
SPECIAL NOTE: Abraham has his failures as well. It's not just that he allows his wife to be taken as a concubine of Pharoah, and not just that he takes his wife's advice to sleep with Hagar to have a child. No, it's not limited to that. Later in scripture we find that Abraham is once again hedging his bets with God like some kind of human-made "Plan B" by having other concubines and children with them as if to say, "Just in case Isaac doesn't make it!"
In the Old Testament book of Genesis (25:1-6), it tells that after the death of Sarah, Abraham married a woman named Keturah and had six sons with her. These sons are named as Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. The Bible sometimes refers to Keturah as Abraham's concubine, implying she may have had a lower standing than Hagar (who was also Abraham's wife's maid). Other than Hagar and Keturah, no other concubines of Abraham are mentioned in the Old Testament.
In all of this, God is building towards the time and place of his own choosing where he will give the Law through Moses. First, we have to travel through the nomadic Jacob (then Israel) and on to his twelves sons, and Joseph in Egypt. From there we must traverse a famine and four hundred years of slavery in order to arrive at Moses, Aaron, and the children of Israel, Passover, and release from Egypt. And if all that wasn't enough, Moses, Aaron, and Israel must endure the deserts of the wilderness, but before the Land of Promise to Abraham can be entered into, God has a chore to handle—the giving of the Law.
Why the Law?
In Galatians 3, we find Paul telling us that the Law was given because of transgressions. The transgressions are not the transgression of human beings, but of fallen angels. This is what the Law was given to do—to slow down the damage done by fallen sons of God; literally—to stop the bleeding from the attack of Watchers and their demons on humanity and the whole of creation. This was the purpose of the Mosaic Law given by God on Mt. Sinai.
As we traverse each commandment of the Law, many of them make a great deal of sense, especially in an Enochian light. For example, the very first commandment is best read as "You shall not have the gods of the other nations on the land that is mine!" This makes perfect sense in light of the surrounding nations and the rebellion of Genesis 11. The Lord is carving out a land for himself and then bringing a people for himself into that land, which will form the womb from which the very Son of God (Son of Man) will come as the answer to God's promise to Eve in Genesis 3.
The other commandments make sense in this damage-staunching and slowing view as well. Do not murder harkens back to not only the murder of Abel by Cain, but to the rampant murdering of humanity by gods and giants that swept over humanity like a violent wave until the flood came and put an end to it—for the time being.
Do not steal is another one with Enochian echoes. The fallen sons of God stole from heaven. Giants stole from humans and each other. Theft went hand-in-glove with everything to do with Watchers and their hybrid bastard children.
The other commands can be equally framed in terms of both human treachery and that of Enochic Watchers and demons. But perhaps the one that is the strangest of all in the group is to honor your father and your mother. How is it that this commandment fits into the matrix of data we have when Watchers and their transgressions come into view? In Galatians, Paul clearly points to the Law as coming because of the angels (Watcher) and their transgressions. So, how does honoring of father and mother and what about father and mother is it that the Law is trying to slow down and limit the damage?
Mum n Dad - Why?
In the context of all of the above, the ten commandments are coming into focus, but there is one commandment that in the context above is quite strange and weird! Which commandment is it? See the two instances of this commandment below.
From Exodus 20:12: "Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you."
From Deuteronomy 5:16: "Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live long and that it may go well with you in the land the LORD your God is giving you."
To understand how the honoring of father and mother play into the Enochic Watcher picture, we must understand the overall nature of the attacks that happened in Genesis 3, 6, 10, and 11. We must also see how God was and did reverse that damage.
Our first clue might well come from 1st Corinthians 11:10 and the surround passage, where Paul isolates his doctrine to just marriage women and their husbands. We find more evidence in 1 Enoch 86:1-4, where once more, we find a fixation on married women. Moreover, in the Testament of Moses 8:1-3, we also find a fixation of the antichrist and his henchmen attacking Jewish men and "their wives will be given to the gods of the nations." In all these, there is this fixation on marriage couples, with two distinct attacks on the men and on the women—the men are attacked and subjugated and the women are given to the gods, where they are raped.
You may well and rightly be asking, what has this to do with honoring your father and your mother? To be direct: The Watchers (gods) never honored the loyal commitment between a husband and a wife. They not only bypassed it and ignored it, they attacked it viciously and with complete disdain and dishonor of it. So strong is this contempt for the fidelity of allegiance between a man and a woman (starting with Adam and Eve) that in order to slow down the damage and stop the bleeding, the Lord deems it necessary to direct one of the commandments at the children to honor their parents. In light of the contemptuous attack of the Watchers against the loyalty between husband and wife, and that the commandments in general about slowing the damage of the Watchers and demons—the commandment of honoring father and mother only makes good sense when mutual loyalty is brought squarely into view.