Book of Genesis - Ch. 4, Vs. 6-26 (05/28/2000) | NOTE: Very low volume

assignment for next week. I'd like for you to go to the book of John, the second chapter, verses 1 through 10, and come with the answer to this question.

How does this set of scriptures teach us security of the believer?

How does John 2, 1 through 10 teach us the security of the believer?

Now Myron, if you write that question down, it means you have to be here next week. All right, we come to our study now in the book of Genesis.

We are at Genesis chapter 4, verse 5. I want to go back just a little bit to something that we mentioned before I talked about.

Go with me to chapter 4, verse 3 and 4. And in the process of time it came to pass that Cain brought to the fruit of the ground an offering unto the

Lord. And Abel, he also brought up the purslings of his flock, and of the fat thereof.

And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering. Now go to 1

John 3 .12. Myron, read that to us.

All right, that will help us understand a little bit back in Genesis now. But unto

Cain, his offering he had not respect, and Cain was very angry.

What I pointed out last week is in the fourth verse.

You have the little word, halts, a very small word, very, very small.

Think about the meaning of also. It is an adverb, as it is used here, and it indicates the presence of the production of something additional.

So Cain brought of the fruit of his hands, and he also brought the blood of him.

Abel, not Cain. Abel brought the fruit of his hands and the blood of him.

We don't know what Cain brought of the fruit of his hands.

I remember he was of the wicked one. And then in Hebrews 11 .4,

by faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous,

God testifying unto his gifts, plural. And by it he being dead yet speaking.

So a little more insight on Genesis. The part where we're studying about Cain and Abel and their sacrifices in Hebrews.

The Lord, now beginning with verse 5, but unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect.

Cain was very wroth in his countenance, Bill. Bill was countenance. All right, it includes a little more than that, the basic expression of course, but your entire body, you alter your countenance by the way you shrug your shoulders, by the way you walk and stand.

The Lord said to Cain, why are you wroth?

Why are you angry? Simple question.

Did the Lord not know why he was angry? Why was he asking?

All right. If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted, and if thou doest not well, send light at the door, and unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.

A very confusing verse, because it's talking about two or three different things. God said to Cain, if you do well.

Now, Cain was the firstborn, was he not? By that he had the birthright.

Cain, not being religious, but being of the wicked one, the only thing

Cain thought about was Cain. He had no care at all about what pleased

God, and he was afraid and contributed to his anger that he was going to lose that birthright.

But the Lord told him that there was no reason for him to lose that position, especially if he did well.

Now, to do well would be to bring a blood sacrifice, of course. Then God said, sin lies at the door.

Well, this cannot be the lamb, as some teach, because the lamb's under the law, and that's not for another two thousand years.

So we have something else here. I believe the

Lord meant that Cain did not know just how vulnerable he was to sin. The Lord kept asking

Cain these questions, as Myron told us, not to convince him to change his mind, but rather it was to fix in Cain's mind the truth as to his own character in preparation for that judgment day.

Now we come to the trip to the field. Cain talked with Abel, his brother, and it came to pass when they were in the field that Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and slew him.

And by research over the years, I've come across an old Easter. Now, I know it won't add much to the truth to help us to understand

Cain and why he hated his brother so. The ancient manuscript reads like this.

It's the Sirach manuscript. Cain said to Abel, let us walk out into the field.

And it came to pass that when they were in the field, Cain said to Abel, his brother,

I thought the world was created in mercy, but it is not governed according to the merit of good works, nor is there any judgment, nor a judge, nor shall there be any future state in which good rewards shall be given to the righteous or punishments executed on the wicked.

And now there is respect of persons in judgment. On what account is it that my sacrifice has been accepted and mine was not?

Abel answered and said, the world was created in mercy, and it is governed according to the fruit of good works.

There is a judge and a future world and a coming judgment where good rewards shall be given to the righteous and the wicked punished.

And there is no respect of persons in judgment. But because my works were better and more precious than yours, my offering was received of the

Lord. And because of these things they contended on the face of the field, and Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and struck him with a stone into his forehead and killed him.

It seems like the Eastern manuscripts I have come to like them because they have some high things, some posteriture and explanation of the

Western. Now it comes, the

Lord said to Cain, this is after Abel was dead, where is Abel my brother?

Does he need him?

Am I my brother? Where do you suppose he learned to do that?

It's all your fault because you gave him the wolf. So Cain tried to ship

Cain someplace else. Iron, we all, did you ever play tennis?

Did you ever look at the rackets in the hole? Well, David said, that's just the nature of it.

And he said, what is this that you have? The Lord is speaking.

The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto thee from the ground. Again, in the

Eastern manuscripts, there's an explanation for that.

The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto thee.

Now, in Abel's absolute purgatory of a man that is still in his younger age,

I will kill him. Eleven, and now art thou cursed from the earth, talking to Cain, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood again from thy hand.

Did you ever get caught in a lie by your parents? How did you feel when you found out they knew the truth?

I used to wonder, I used to wonder how did that old man lie about? When thou tellest the ground, art thou cursed now?

It shall not henceforth yield unto thee restraint, as it has been up to this point.

A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth. A fugitive and a vagabond.

Russ, what is a vagabond? What? Are they like that today?

Yes. A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth. Now listen, dear old

Cain. Cain said unto the Lord, my punishment is greater than I could bear.

He was just full of remorse. Who does he think of as remorse?

Himself. Did you ever know of anybody like that? Oh, there's a lot of people who do.

Now, why was Cain like this? That's right, the devil.

The Lord said unto him, Therefore, behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth, and from thy face shall

I be hid. And I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth, and it shall come to pass that everyone that findeth me shall slay me.

Well, that couldn't happen. What he meant was that if anybody found him, they'd kill him.

But again, he's thinking about himself. Now, just to set your mind at ease, there could have been at least 500 ,000 people in the world by this time.

Don't get trapped into thinking because you've read it all in one breath, and it all occurs. One reason they could intermarry, which is always the question that comes up, is because God first ordained it, and second, blood is still pure.

Fifteen, And the Lord said unto him, Therefore, whosoever slayeth

Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. For Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.

He gave him a book, a blog made out of setting apart and monolingualism, explanations from thousands of pages from some of the most learned men,

Dr. Shackleford, in England. He has made a collection.

The first one is that some say that Cain was a paralytic. The Targum of Jonathan Ben Israel says the sign was from the

Great and Precious Name, probably one of the letters of the word Yah.

The author of an Arabic cantina in the Botolan Library says a sword could not pierce him, fire could not burn him, water could not drown him, the air could not blast him, nor could thunder or lightning strike him.

The author of Bereshit Rabbi says the mark was a circle of the sun rising upon him.

Daniel says the sign was Abel's dog which constantly accompanied him.

But Rabbi Joseph, one of the most wise of all of them, says it was a long horn blowing out of his mouth.

Suffice to say the Lord gave him a token so that he could always remember that people loved him besides Vincent.

Sixteen, and Cain went out from the presence of the Lord and dwelt in the Land of God in the

East of Egypt. Since we have two learned professors, why is this the name of David you had in mind?

That reminds me of the young man in Bible class. This young man in Bible class, the professor was lecturing, and he asked the question, does anyone know where Moses was buried?

And the young man went back and raised his hand and called upon him.

He stood and he said, do you know where Moses was buried? He said, yes sir, but I don't know.

I think in the East. Almost any cemetery you go to in this country, people are buried so when they rise up in the

East. Well, it was just an interesting thought

I had. Yes, a good one.

A new day starts coming in the East. All right,

Cain leaves now, he and his family, they dwell in the

Land of God, where God, He, and Agamemnon wandered.

Now, the scene shifts a little. Cain knew his wife as she conceived the barren

Enoch, and he built a city and called the name of the city after the name of his son

Enoch. You know, as we study the Scripture, we find many, many times, especially when it's talking about people when the

Spirit gives us the seed of Satan first, and we'll follow him for a little bit of history, and then go back to that seed that we cherish so much.

So we have here Cain's lineage, and under Enoch was born

Arad, Arad, Geth, Ahaliel, Ahaliel, Geth, Thuzalot, Thuzalot, Geth, Lamech.

Lamech took unto him two wives. Lamech took unto him two, and that's what they said.

The name of the one was Ada, and the name of the other was Zilhon. First, can you tell me, tell us the meaning of those two wives,

Enoch and Ada? And Ada bear

Jabil. He was a father such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle.

So the first rancher of the line of Cain. And his brother's name was

Jubal, and he was a father of all such as handled the harp and the organ. Zilhon, she also bear

Jubal Cain, and instructor of every artifice of brass and iron.

Her sister Jubal Cain was Namon. I've never found a very, very seldom one.

Lamech said unto his wives,

Ada and Zilhon, hear my voice, ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech, for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt.

I killed a man today in self -defense. And if Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly,

Lamech, seventy and sevenfold. So what he thought was more justified than what

Cain did. And Adam knew his wife again, and she bear a son, and called his name

Seth. Now, Craig, Seth was one that were going to be with him for a little while, and named him

Abel. For God said she had appointed me another seed instead of Abel.

And to Seth and him also there was born a son, and he called his name

Enoch. Then began men to call upon the name of the

Lord. Now that's the end of the lesson that I want you to hear. Somehow, make sure that you remember the last part of it.

Then began men to call upon the name of the Lord. What has occurred here is that the people in the land begin to segregate those that worship

God and those that do not. Those that do are beginning to live and work together, congregate together, dividing up the ways to visit the hell on earth.

And that will be very, very important. Another note

I want you to make is that the children of the Lord were called sons of God, and the children of the devil were called sons of men.

People's identities separate. All right, is there any key to the way they were explained?

Anything else? See, there's just lots of things.

Anything else before we quietly pass out? If not, us