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Genesis 4:16 - 25

Genesis 4:16 - 25. Cain and his descendants. Genesis 4:13-15. “In Cain’s character we see a terrible outburst of self-will, pride, and jealousy, leading to a total and relentless renunciation of all human ties and affection.” “Among the lessons or truths which the narrative teaches:

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Genesis 4:16 - 25

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  1. Genesis 4:16 - 25 Cain and his descendants

  2. Genesis 4:13-15 “In Cain’s character we see a terrible outburst of self-will, pride, and jealousy, leading to a total and relentless renunciation of all human ties and affection.” “Among the lessons or truths which the narrative teaches: • The nature of temptation • The manner in which it should be resisted • The consequences to which an unrestrained temper may lead a man to sinful anger – and murder

  3. Genesis 4:13-15 Lessons we can learn from Cain’s negative example: • The gradual steps by which a deadly crime may be committed • The need of sincerity of purpose lest our offering should be rejected • God’s care for the guilty sinner after he has been punished • The interdependence upon one another • The duties and obligations which we all owe to each other (ISBE, Vol. 1, p. 539)

  4. Genesis 4:13-15 Difficulties with the Narrative of Genesis 4 (Cain) • The religious purpose is paramount to Genesis • Who was Cain’s wife? • What was the nature of the sign of Jehovah’s acceptance of Abel’s sacrifice, and disregard for Cain’s? • What was the nature of the sign placed upon Cain?

  5. Genesis 4:13-15 Difficulties with the Narrative of Genesis 4 (Cain) • When was sacrificial offerings instituted?(4:3-4) • When did the blood-avenger begin? (4:14) • Who was Cain afraid of? (4:14) • Who inhabited the city he built? (4:17) • How can a ‘wanderer and fugitive’ build a city and live in it?

  6. Genesis 4:13-15 Difficulties with the Narrative of Genesis 4 (Cain) • Did the narrator of Genesis mean that animal husbandry, music and metal-working (ver. 20-22) were begun by descendants of Cain, and sinful? • How is metal-working reconciled to the modern belief that iron was not developed until the time of Moses (‘The Iron Age’)?

  7. Genesis 4:13-15 Difficulties with the Narrative of Genesis 4 (Cain) • Leviticus 17:26 “However, a first-born among animals, which as a first-born belongs to the LORD, no man may consecrate it; whether ox or sheep; it is the LORD’s. • Exodus 13:2 “Sanctify to Me every first-born, the first offspring of every womb among the sons of Israel, both of man and beast; it belongs to Me” • Was Cain the first-born? (Probably not). Did God claim him, and yet he refused to walk in obedience?

  8. Genesis 4 The Lost Antediluvian World Genesis 4 gives us the only picture we have of the antediluvian (pre-Flood) world It is the first information we have about human civilization and its early development---which was later destroyed by the cataclysmic world-wide Flood Archaeological excavations deal almost entirely with post-Flood deposits, so the evidence we have for this world is mostly through legendary recollections, and a few artifacts found deep in fossilized rocks (coal…)

  9. Genesis 4The Lost Antediluvian World Ex: The ancient city of Atlantis? Ex: Ancient interplanetary astronauts? The brief Biblical record is still the only fully reliable account we have of that early age. It leaves us in no doubt that the antediluvian world was substantially different from the one in which we now live. • The earth’s waters were stored ‘above the firmament’ in some kind of blanket of invisible water vapor, producing a ‘greenhouse effect’

  10. Genesis 4 The Lost Antediluvian World • The climate was uniformly mild, and warm, everywhere, all year long, with no wind or rain storms • Land surfaces were covered by lush vegetation and an abundance of animal life – worldwide • The hyperbaric pressures (a condition of much higher atmospheric pressure than we now have on the earth, because of the weight of the vapor canopy) and the radiation-filtering effect of the canopy, enabled people (and animals?) to live longer

  11. Genesis 4The Lost Antediluvian World • In recent years, it has been demonstrated in biomedical research that both the existence of such high barometric pressures and the absence of mutation-producing radiations in the environment do contribute significantly to longevity. (Morris, p. 143) • The pristine purity of the human genetic system and its bloodstream, with so few accumulated mutant genes, together with the primeval absence of disease-producing organisms (which only gradually developed, through the outworking of the curse) from the originally created beneficent microorganisms, served to maintain greater life-spans

  12. Genesis 4 The Lost Antediluvian World • In Genesis 5, each patriarch lived many hundreds of years, and ‘begat sons and daughters’ • If each family had at least six children, three sons and three daughters, and these children grew to maturity, married, and had children of their own by the time their parents were 80 years old, then parents would live through five ‘generations’ of children---or 400 years • By the end of Cain’s lifetime, there would be a minimum population of 120,000 people • Adam & Eve are said to have had 33 sons and 23 daughters, living to age 930 (5:5) (Josephus, 1.1. chapter III, p. 27)

  13. Genesis 4The Lost Antediluvian World • In order to get this process of multiplication started, at least one of Adam’s sons had to marry one of Adam’s daughters • Probably in the first generation, all marriages were brother-sister marriages • There were no mutant genes, with no genetic harm resulting from these marriages (Moses forbid such marriages in Lev. 18-20 because of the genetic harm that would occur, and incest is then prohibited)

  14. Genesis 4The Lost Antediluvian World Q: Where did Cain get his wife? A: The argument is trivial, because long before the time of Cain, there was a large population in the earth (at least 120,000 people). At the time of the Flood, 1656 years after Creation (according to Ussher’s chronology, with conservative estimates of population growth), there would be 7 billion people on the earth (more than there is today). These people all died in the Flood, except Noah and his family

  15. Genesis 4:16-25 Cain flees from the presence of the LORD Cain flees with his wife, if he was married when he murders Abel Cain settles in the Land of Nod (‘wandering’) Cain builds a city, and calls it Enoch, after his son Lamech is the 7th generation from Adam, and he has 3 sons and a daughter who are mentioned And then, Adam and Eve have another son, Seth, who gives rise to a godly line of descendants

  16. Genesis 4:16-17 16 So Cain went out from the Lord’s presence and lived in the land of Nod,east of Eden. “Nod” means ‘wandering’ in Hebrew It may not be a literal place, but a figure of speech for Cain’s perpetual manner of life from that time on (although he founded a city, later)

  17. Genesis 4:16-17 Q: Does this mean that Cain went to the land of Nod, and found a wife there? Q: Does this mean there was another race of people on the earth, who were not descendants of Adam, who produced Cain’s wife? John Calvin: “From the context we may gather that Cain, before he slew his brother, had married a wife; otherwise Moses would now have related something respecting his marriage” (Genesis, Vol. 1, p 215)

  18. Genesis 4:16-17 17 Cain made love (KJV: ‘knew’) to his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Cain was then building a city, and he named it after his son Enoch.  (NIV) Q: Does the reference to a ‘city’ mean that Cain was defying God’s prophecy that he would be a wanderer in the earth? Q: Does ‘was building…” mean he began a city, but never finished it? And then moved on, leaving Enoch to complete the job?

  19. Genesis 4:16-17 Note: Evolutionary anthropologists denote the emergence of urbanization as the break from the ‘Stone Age’. According to the Bible, the first such ‘city’ is built by Cain, in the very first generation after Adam. There is no long, million-year period of evolution. “Because of intense evolutionary indoctrination, many people today think that our generation is the most intelligent that has ever lived on this planet. But just because we have jet airplanes and computers, it does not mean we are the most intelligent. Modern technology results from the accumulation of knowledge. We stand on the shoulders of those who have gone before us” (A.I.G. The Answers Book, p. 139)

  20. Genesis 4:16-17 “Our brains have suffered from 6,000 years (since Adam) of the Curse. We are greatly degenerated compared with people many generations ago. We may be nowhere near as intelligent or inventive as Adam and Eve’s children. Scripture gives us a glimpse of what appears to be great inventiveness from the beginning” (Ham, The Answers Book, p. 139)

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