Genesis - Lecture 5
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Good day to you! Welcome to the Shepherd's Chapel, welcome to this family bible study hour. We're ready to get back in our Father's Word; the great Book of Genesis, you bet, chapter four.
Now chapter four, let's just get this straight coming out the gate. You're going to find that chapter four gives Cain's genealogy. You will find that chapter five gives Adam’s genealogy. So we’ve got a little difference. Why then, why is Cain not in Adam’s genealogy? Because he’s not of his [Adam’s] genes. God’s word is perfect from the manuscripts. The translators occasionally… I at least like to have a choice, but the manuscripts themselves are complete, basically.
Now, had Cain been of the genes of Adam, he would have been in Adam’s genealogy, but he’s not because he wasn’t. Now that’s not too difficult to grasp, is it? We know what happened in the last lecture by the seduction of Eve and the conception. So with that having been said let’s get right into this chapter four with a Word of Wisdom from our Father. Open you minds if you don’t understand, put it on a shelf and just come along with us. Let it sit there. And God’s Word always flows from the Old to the New Testament. Chapter four, verse one, and it reads:
4 And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and
bare Cain, and said, "I have gotten a man376 from the LORD."
Now you must remember they are innocent. And to say a “man” from the Lord is: Heb. 'ish 'eth Jehovah.
H376
אישׁ - 'îysh -eesh
Contracted for H582 (or perhaps rather from an unused root meaning to be extant); a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation.) : - also, another, any (man), a certain, + champion, consent, each, every (one), fellow, [foot-, husband-] man, (good-, great, mighty) man, he, high (degree), him (that is), husband, man [-kind], + none, one, people, person, + steward, what (man) soever, whoso (-ever), worthy. Compare H802.
Now “Cain” means acquisition.
Companion Bible side notes: 1 Cain = acquisition.
H7014
קין – qayin - kah'-yin
The same as H7013 (with a play upon the affinity to H7069); Kajin, the name of the first child, also of a place in
“Able” in the Hebrew tongue means breath or vapor.
Companion Bible side notes: 2 Abel -= transitoriness.
H1893
הבל – hebel - heh'-bel
The same as H1892; Hebel, the son of Adam: - Abel.
It’s thought, probably, that he was called that because his lifespan was so short that passed away as a vapor. Is that the real reason, well I don’t know but it at least sounds logical. Verse two:
2 And she again [continued in labour]
I repeat...
she again 3254 bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
Now you’ll remember we have a strange arrangement here because it was Adam that God created to till the soil. And here we have Cain, which is not of his genes, tilling the soil but Abel a keeper of sheep, that is to say the second [born]. Now many people misunderstand this. We know that conception took place and the prior chapter and here we have another conception from Adam. Not understanding the word “again” as it is used here, “she again bare his brother Abel”. I want you to look at that word in the Hebrew. Let’s call it up. It’s:
H3254
יסף - yâsaph - yaw-saf'
A primitive root;
Meaning it’ right there at the bottom…
to add or augment (often adverbially to continue to do a thing): - add, X again, X any more, X cease, X come more, + conceive again, continue, exceed, X further, X gather together, get more, give moreover, X henceforth, increase (more and more), join, X longer (bring, do, make, much, put), X (the, much, yet) more (and more), proceed (further), prolong, put, be [strong-] er, X yet, yield.
And it means to continue. Now if she’s giving birth to Cain and she continues in labor, what does that mean? It means that she continued in the labor of having delivered Cain and delivered Abel. They were twins but not by the same pregnancy. Identical twins are conceived in one conception, one pregnancy I should say. They’re both in the same bag of water. Whereas twins that are not identical, they are two separate pregnancies that happen at two separate times and they are in separate bags of water. Now any of you that might have a hang-up on that, talk with to your medical doctor. He will assure you that is correct.
DDC,
We even have records of a person having non-identical twins that are of two separate races. So it’s not a medical mystery. It’s something quite frankly… if there’s a set of twins that are not identical; this is what happens [separate bags of water]. I’m not saying by separate fathers; that’s separate conceptions [as with Eve’s twins having separate fathers].
So what do we have here? We have a set of twins; but at two separate conceptions. How do we know that? Because Cain is not in
3 And in process of time
Or near the end of time, better said in the Hebrew…
it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground a sacrifice unto the Lord.
Now note that very carefully. This is a religious act. In other words, it’s time for the sacrificial offerings to be offered to Almighty God. He simply brings an offering and he doesn’t call it his first fruits. I see no love what-so-ever involved in Cain having given this offering. So you can just about rest assured it wasn’t the best of his crop. Alright, verse four:
4 And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings
Now here we see that he brought his first fruits, his very best. Within that you see love, in this religious act, that is to say of loving our Father.
of his flock, and the fat thereof.
That really pleased the Father.
And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering.
Naturally, He did not [with] Cain. Now watch this carefully, verse five:
5 But unto Cain and to his offering He had no respect. And Cain was very wroth,
He was angry.
and his countenance fell.
Boy his old face! His countenance just drops down to nada and certainly he has a problem. Verse six:
6 And the LORD said unto Cain, "Why art thou wroth? And why is thy countenance fallen?
Of course, God knew but He wanted Cain to admit it. Verse seven:
7 If thou doest well,
And this could even be translated, “If you were really honest”…
shalt thou not be accepted?
If you had done what was right, do you think your gift would not have been accepted?
and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him."
Now this looses a little bit in the translation. What it is saying is, “If you do not well…”, and Cain hadn’t, he didn’t give the first fruits, he didn’t give his best, “sin waits crouching like a raving beast at the door to pursue you, but because of the Lamb, he was wroth”. Now this goes back to the promise and the prophecy made in the fifteenth verse of the prior chapter whereby God told the serpent, “I will put enmity between thee and the woman and between thy seed and her seed. It shall bruise thy head and thou shall bruise His heel”. And of course this will ultimately be that time when Satan, himself, his head is crushed, consider it the serpent if you want but it’s Satan, that his head would be “crushed”, but then Christ’s feet (the heels) were nailed to that cross. So we see here the beginning, if you would, of the conflict between the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent. Verse eight, continuing:
8 And 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.
Now the more ancient manuscripts say that Cain talked to Abel and asked him to go into the field, which that was obvious that that was the case, which he did. And here we have the war beginning between the seed-[lines]. It is an amazing thing that man will war over religion. That’s what started this conflict. It was the offerings to Almighty God. Now, lest someone get nervous, you must always have a second witness in God’s Word before you can accept a thing. That is to say, if God seemingly gives you a thought it must be backed up or second witnessed in more than one place. You must have at least two witnesses before you can be fairly comfortable with a [thought or] translation. So it really helps if you have the Word of Christ on a thing, from His own mouth, recorded in the New Testament.
I want you to turn to the New Testament with me. I want you to go to Matthew, chapter 23, in the New Testament. We’re going to take Christ’s words concerning this one, Cain. The twenty-third chapter happens to be the “woe” chapters which are the “eight woes” which are the opposite of the “eight B attitudes”, remember? But that’s a different subject. I want you to see the words of Christ concerning this murder [Cain]. It is in more than one place, in many places, but we’re only going to cover a couple that will give a second witness to what we have just said concerning the pregnancies, the conception, and so-forth. Verse thirty-three and Christ is talking to the Kenites of course. That means the sons of Cain. Why? Because He calls them, in this thirty-third verse of Matthew, twenty-three:
33 Ye serpents
Well who was the seed of the serpent? Well you know it was Cain’s children. [Satan being the father of Cain] Who are they? Kenites.
Ye serpents3789 ye generation1081
Or better translated, “You offspring of vipers”…
Serpents - G3789
ὀìφις - ophis - of'-is
Probably from G3700 (through the idea of sharpness of vision); a snake, figuratively (as a type of sly cunning) an artful malicious person, especially Satan: - serpent.
Generation - G1081
Γεìννημα - gennēma - ghen'-nay-mah
From G1080; offspring; by analogy produce (literally or figuratively): - fruit, generation.
G1080
Γενναìω - gennaō - ghen-nah'-o
From a variation of G1085; to procreate (properly of the father, but by extension of the mother); figuratively to regenerate: - bear, beget, be born, bring forth, conceive, be delivered of, gender, make offspring.
of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell ?
Thirty-four:
Mat 23:34 Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and [some] of them ye shall kill and crucify; and [some] of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute [them] from city to city:
Thirty-five, listen carefully; this is why we came here. Listen carefully:
Mat 23:35 That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.
So you see, from the first murderer, the murderer of Abel [Cain]. Well if it’s going to fall on the serpent’s seed, back to verse 33, “ye serpents, ye offspring of vipers”, you do this [that upon you]… all the righteous blood: you’ll be found guilty of it, from Abel to this time. So we know then that Cain was of that seed of the serpent.
Let’s take another from the New Testament. Let’s go to the Epistles of John. Let’s take the first Epistle of John and chapter three, and let’s picks this up with another proof. And we read in the Epistle of John, this being the same writer,
1Jo 3:11 For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning,
What beginning? Genesis.
that we should love one another.
1Jo 3:12 Not as Cain, [who] was of 1537
That’s progeny, offspring.
that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.
Of - G1537
ἐκ, ἐξ - ek ex - ek, ex
A primary preposition denoting origin (the point whence motion or action proceeds), from, out (of place, time or cause; literally or figuratively; direct or remote): - after, among, X are, at betwixt (-yond), by (the means of), exceedingly, (+ abundantly above), for (-th), from (among, forth, up), + grudgingly, + heartily, X heavenly, X hereby, + very highly, in, . . . ly, (because, by reason) of, off (from), on, out among (from, of), over, since, X thenceforth, through, X unto, X vehemently, with (-out). Often used in composition, with the same general import; often of completion.
[Side note: going back to 1 John 3:10, read the Greek word for “children” from the Strong’s Concordance and E.W. Bullinger’s Appendix 108 for further proof that Christ is speaking of the actual bloodline of Satan’s son, Cain.]
1Jo 3:10 In this the children 5043 of God are manifest, and the children 5043 of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
Children - G5043 – τεìκνον – teknon - tek'-non
From the base of G5098; a child (as produced): - child, daughter, son.
| The Synonymous Words for "Child", "Children", etc. Appendix 108 From The Companion Bible. There are seven Greek words translated "child" in the New Testament, which are to be distinguished as follows :- i. teknon = that which is borne or born (from tikto, to bring forth). Anglo-Saxon = |
So we see that Abel, though there’s very little written about it, the love in his offering, we know that he loved Almighty God; whereas Cain, quite the opposite, being of the wicked one did not possess this righteousness within his soul.
Now God makes salvation available to all His children, but this Cain and his offspring, as we will find as his genealogy is written in this chapter, has been recorded throughout… I can think of other places, certainly; I can think of St. John, chapter 8, verse 44; I can think of the Book of Jude speaking of Cain’s so called righteousness; many places where Christ, Himself, again calls Cain “of his father the Devil”. Well, I tell you what, you’re not going to have it but we might as well, now that I’ve mentioned it, I’ll flip over to John, chapter 8. I’ll read it to you real quickly, verse 44 of the book of
Jhn 8:44 Ye are of [your] father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning,
Now that’s really deep isn’t it? Who was the first murderer? Well let’s see, we just read it. It was Cain. He slew his brother Abel. So he’s talking about Cain.
and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
Okay, so there you have it. So don’t expect too much. This is why I consider it such a challenge to personally convert a Kenite; because if you can convert a Kenite it kind of like, you’ve got it. Call it a challenge or whatever you want to, but that’s personal and I shouldn’t have brought it up, but be that as it may. I know that it is difficult for some, as I state, in many churches people are afraid to teach the truth because of the controversy. I will have it know other way. I don’t care how controversial it is if it’s God’s Word it is always positive in the ultimate end. And without that knowledge you’re not going to understand any of Christ’s parables in the first place. So you’re kind of walking around in a daze without knowing the truth. So I dislike labels because there is only one Word of God. And to teach anything other than that and to teach simply the social systems of man or as man’s church would have you teach is a waist of time. Quite frankly, I feel, a big waist of time when God’s Word is so to-the-point and so true. It gives us an understanding of this world that we can live with.
Okay, so the war of the seeds began, the first murder, the first loss has happened. Verse nine, back in chapter four, the great book of Genesis:
Gen 4:9 And the LORD said unto Cain, Where [is] Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: [Am] I my brother's keeper?
What a liar. I mean even lying to God, Himself. He knew where Abel was. Verse ten:
Gen 4:10 And he said,
God speaking…
What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.
In the manuscripts this word “blood” is plural meaning “bloods”. Why? All the children that Abel would have given birth to, those genes also cried out from the ground. Because when you murder someone you don’t only just murder that person you murder all the offspring that would have come from that person. That’s why murder must always be settled with the Father not with man. Verse eleven:
Gen 4:11 And now [art] thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;
From his hand, he had bloody hands. That’s a Hebrew idiom meaning murder. Twelve:
Gen 4:12 When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
And I say to you even to this day, you will never find a Kenite farmer unless he owns the farm and hires all the labor done by someone else because even to this day the ground will not yield her fruit to them. They always have to have someone else or hire someone else to do the actual farming. Therefore they became vagabonds and builders of cities because that’s the only way they could survive. Verse thirteen:
Gen 4:13 And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment [is] greater than I can bear.
Gen 4:14 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] every one that findeth me shall slay me.
Stop and think here. Where are all these “people” according to some people’s teachings that would slay him [Cain]? You see, Cain new the sixth-day creation was out there, all the races, quite contrary to some with lack of knowledge and [they] do not teach [it] today. He knew how many peoples were out there and that his only way to make a living now would make him very unpopular. Verse fifteen:
Gen 4:15 And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.
And here you have the original and the beginning of the mark of the beast, quite frankly. Because to understand the mark of the beast you must count, as it is written in Revelation 13:18. And the word “count” is a Greek word that means to count by numeration with stones worn smooth over a long period of time.
Rev 13:18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count5585 the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number [is] Six hundred threescore [and] six. (666)
G5585
Ψηφιìζω - psēphizō - psay-fid'-zo
From G5586; to use pebbles in enumeration, that is, (genitive case) to compute: - count.
Meaning from this day in the garden up until this day, a continuous counting and keeping familiar with the seed of Cain, or better said, Kenites. This is why the only two churches that Christ found no fault in you will find them [to be]
Gen 4:16 And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the
I wonder where that is? Well we’re given a little clue there, it’s east, the Orient, going toward the Orient.
Gen 4:17 And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.
So he was a builder of cities.
Do you know that Iscariot, you remember Judas Iscariot that betrayed Christ? Do you know that the word Iscariot is a word that means builder of cities?
Iscariot,2469 (Strong’s # G2469)
G2469
Ἰσκαριωìτης - Iskariōtēs - is-kar-ee-o'-tace
Of Hebrew origin (probably [H377] and [H7149]); inhabitants of Kerioth; Iscariotes (that is, Keriothite), an epithet of Judas the traitor: - Iscariot.
H7149
קריה קריא - qiryâ' qiryâh - keer-yaw', keer-yaw'
(Chaldee); corresponding to H7151: - city.
H7151
קריה - qiryâh - kir-yaw'
From H7136 in the sense of flooring, that is, building; a city: - city.
Did you ever think about that, or did you even know it? I don’t know. Many are biblically illiterate and that makes it hard on you when it comes to knowing the truth and being able to discern spiritually, who has that spiritual marc and who doesn’t. It kind of exposes your flank, now doesn’t it, when you don’t know you enemy? The war between the seeds, spiritual enemies, you bet. Do we have to be afraid of them? Not in the least. Christ gave us power over all our enemies.
Now you will note and I will mention in passing that the genealogy of Cain will practically bear the same names as the genealogy of Adam. That’s God’s cool way of telling you, you’d better know [who’s who], cause names will fool you. You better keep the key of David which let’s you determine the difference between the seed-lines of the serpent and of Adam and of other races.
So how did we have these people over in Nod that he could take a wife from? You know [up to this point] it hasn’t said anything about Nod. Well, it really has if you understand chapter one. He married one of the peoples of the sixth-day races. No problem. God’s Word is perfect and complete. If some preacher tells you, “Well just have faith. Nobody knows”; well they do know. If you’re a student of God’s Word you do know. Don’t buy into that stuff alright. I know it may sound like I’m being a little tough on churches today but it’s time somebody got tough on them. God’s going to get a lot tougher because of people passing off that old excuse “you’re just supposed to have faith we’re not supposed to know that yet”. Well we are. Verse eighteen:
Gen 4:18 And unto Enoch was born Irad:
That means “fleet”.
and Irad begat Mehujael:
“Smitten by God” I wonder why He named him Smitten by God. I don’t think I have to tell you.
and Mehujael begat Methusael:
“Methusael” is almost like Methuselah, Yah instead of el; the only difference in the name.
and Methusael
“Man of God”
begat Lamech.
And remember, Noah’s father’s name will be Lamech also, but not this Lamech, and not this Enoch. The other Enoch of Adam’s children was a righteous man, this man wasn’t. Verse nineteen:
Gen 4:19 And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one [was] Adah,
“Beauty” or “beautiful”…
and the name of the other Zillah.
Meaning “shade”, well tanned in other words. Verse twenty:
Gen 4:20 And Adah bare Jabal:
We’ve got a lot of “bal”s [listed in Cain’s genealogy] here. Have you ever heard of “Baal” worshipers? Well let’s keep up with it.
Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and [of such as have] cattle.
We’ve got to cover the market friends, keep up here, builders of cities… Twenty one:
Gen 4:21 And his brother's name [was] Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.
Now we have here, I mean, when you can’t farm you’ve got to do something. Alright, so they were musicians. Twenty-two:
Gen 4:22 And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain [was] Naamah.
Naamah means “loveliness”. Come into my little web, alright. So there we have it; Jabal, Jubal, and Tubal. A bunch of the “bal” boys. Alright, Cain’s little best here. Twenty-three:
Gen 4:23 And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, 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.
He’s a murderer and he’s bragging about it. Twenty-four:
Gen 4:24 If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
I mean actually bragging here, if you would, about their care, or lack of care, in serving God, really of being murderers, bragging about it and boasting. Let me ask you something. If Adam and Eve, being created by God, formed I should say, innocent, totally, [then] where did all this wickedness slip in here from? Do you need that I tell you? I think not. I think that probably you can figure it out. There’s a snake in the wood-pile somewhere. So let that be said okay. Now verse twenty-five: In other words that concludes, that is Cain’s genealogy. Now you’re going to be given Adam’s. Sharpen up for me.
Gen 4:25 And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth:
That’s “compensation”; like she’s being compensated to replace Abel, alright. Seth meaning compensation…
For God, [said she], hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.
Gen 4:26 And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began2490 men to call upon the name of the LORD.
Now I want to tell you about this word “began” here. It’s:
H2490
חלל - châlal - khaw-lal'
A primitive root (compare H2470); properly to bore, that is, (by implication) to wound, to dissolve; figuratively to profane (a person, place or thing), to break (one’s word), to begin (as if by an opening-wedge); denominatively (from H2485) to play (the flute): - begin (X men began), defile, X break, defile, X eat (as common things), X first, X gather the grape thereof, X take inheritance, pipe, player on instruments, pollute, (cast as) profane (self), prostitute, slay (slain), sorrow, stain, wound.
And what it is, is to profane God. And it really loses it [in the translation], Châlal. I just made tape, a single study on Enoch that documents that for you and I would really recommend it as a supplement-[al] study to these chapters whereby you are better founded as to the sin that was in the world. As it reads to you in English it sound like they were calling on God to worship Him and praise Him, no, there profaning Him. Why? They’re turning to other ways of belief. That’s why Enoch was translated because of his love and his truthfulness to Almighty God. Alright now we’re going to go one more verse or two and then we’re going to stop it here for this particular lecture. Chapter five, listen carefully and let God’s Word speak to you. Do not let anything that you have heard in the past from man change God’s Word. You have just heard the genealogy of Cain. Listen to this, chapter five, verse one:
Gen 5:1 This [is] the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
Gen 5:2 Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
That’s the sixth-day creation. I want to stress again, when adam is utilized without the article then it means mankind or human beings. Now He [God] comes to “ha Adam” with the article whereby you know it’s talking about “the Adam” through which Christ would come. Here is his generation. Three:
Gen 5:3 And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat [a son] in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:
Do you find Cain listed there? No you do won’t. Do you know why? This is a chronological giving of the genes of Adam. Why isn’t Cain there? He was not of
