The Legacy of Cain

Now Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let’s go out to the field.”  And while they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him. (Gen 4:8 NIV) www.biblegateway.com

Cain is an interesting character.  He is what is most essentially human in us all.  He is self-centered, jealous, and tempermental.  Cain has also ganrered much discussion in some religious circles that look to conspiracy theories, evil empires and government cover-ups.

Let’s look at some other things about Cain.

Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? (1 John 3:12 emphasis added).  Some have use “belonged to the evil one” as saying that Cain was  the son of Satan.

15 But the LORD said to him, “Not so ^[e] ; if anyone kills Cain, he will suffer vengeance seven times over.” Then the LORD put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him. 16 So Cain went out from the LORD’s presence and lived in the land of Nod, ^[f] east of Eden.

 17 Cain lay with 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. 18 To Enoch was born Irad, and Irad was the father of Mehujael, and Mehujael was the father of Methushael, and Methushael was the father of Lamech.

The interesting thing is that Cain went out into the land of Nod (which means wondering) and he built a city.  First one wonders exactly who taught Cain how to build a city.  And building a city is much more than just bricks and mortar.  A city is a place with an infrastructure.  It is also a place where men rule over other men.  The city of Babylon is an example where “Nimrod was a mighty hunter before the LRD”.  That “before the LRD” means “in the face of the LRD” as in getting up in one’s face and being the defiant (Note: Nimrod is Hebrew for “the fool” or  “the rebel”)

Any way, this not to say that I am certain of these things but I find it interesting that Cain was of the devil, and he went out building cities.  God did not create government–men did!  Cain lived to be 800 years old at a time before the continental divide.  Many have associated Cain with building the pyramids of Giza to the ziggurats in South America.

http://www.ancientdays.net/nimrod.htm

http://www.mazzaroth.com/ChapterThree/TowerOfBabel.htm

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/case1.html

http://www.biblestudy.org/beginner/definition-of-christian-terms/satan-seed.html

http://www.ichthys.com/mail-Cain.htm