![]() ![]() Once you invite one in, it invites its friends.Įarlier I mentioned that Cain’s last seed was sown through his brother’s blood (Gen 4:10) and he reaped death, not literally, but leaving God’s presence? He’s practically accepted death.According to the official website, Cain and Abel software is a password recovery tool for Microsoft Operating Systems. Notice how pride is also one of the seven deadly sins. Not the Cain that God ordained him to be. “Am I my brother’s guardian?”Ĭain is on a different level, he really tried to lie to God, but we all know this is pride speaking. You probably get too much mail anyways.)Ĭain was the first human to commit murder and the first human to be born into this world of sin and embrace sin.Įmbracing sin is like embracing a teddy bear covered in knives, it looks nice but it'll kill you.Īfterward the Lord asked Cain, “Where is your brother? Where is Abel?” “I don’t know,” Cain responded. (Sign up and receive weekly updates about new blog posts, free stuff and products. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him. Look how quickly Cain allowed sin in and it had already started manifesting, this is a powerful warning for all of us.ħ If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. Once you allow one sin in, another one comes to follow and look how quickly that occurs. Already we see the two deadly sins at work. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.Ĭain was full of wrath because he felt envious of his brother. His brother is a shepherd, so his brother could’ve led Cain to his destiny, but instead, Cain killed his destiny.ĥ But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. Now Cain had a choice here, he could either learn from Abel, so next time he could improve and sow a better seed or he could envy his brother. Now, that we’ve established a base, let’s look at how this story built up and what you and I can learn from Cain. It’s a pattern giving the reader hope for the Messiah. ![]() ![]() The biblical author, Moses gets the reader thinking, ‘I wonder what happens when someone doesn’t define good and evil for themselves?’ When humans decide to define good and evil for themselves rather than obey God’s definition of good and evil, it always inevitably leads to destruction. What’s the pattern the author is trying to convey here? Cain defines good and evil for himself and kills his brother which leads to his banishment. ![]() If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. The second occurrence of this is with Cain, he’s told by God in Genesis 4:7: The humans saw the tree was good, desired the tree (temptation) and took it, this lead to their destruction. In the garden of Eden, God said 7 times that everything was good, except the tree of the knowledge of good & evil. Something to establish before I begin is the way the authors in the bible use biblical patterns. I decided to do my own analysis on the story with this new information that I had been given, which is essentially the idea that Cain is the first human to be born into sin, by killing his brother he killed his destiny and he’s the first of you and me. I was having a conversation with a friend on the 2nd of August and something that struck me was his perspective on the story of Cain and Abel. ![]()
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