As Adam and Eve began to follow God's instruction in conceiving children in order to create a family, Eve became pregnant and gave birth to a son named Cain. Soon after the birth of Cain, Eve brought forth another son whom she named Abel.
Abel kept the flocks and Cain worked the soil. They worked outside most of the time and learned what it meant to plant and provide with the basic tools that God had given them.
Offerings soon began as an acknowledgment to God. Cain brought some fruits from the soil and Abel brought fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock. The Lord looked upon Abel with favor, but to Cain he did not. Cain became angry. Here we must acknowledge that the greatest of offerings to God is our writing and dialogue with Him.
God said to Cain, "If you do what is right will you not be secure by Me? However, if you do not act according to God, sin is crouching at the door and it desires to have you. Your job on this earth is to master sin!"
Cain became angry and in his anger murdered his brother Abel. For this murder God took His blessing away from Cain and commanded that Cain would wander the earth as a man lost.
God then placed a mark on Cain in order that no man who found him would slay him. Note that this is the first place in the Bible where we are able to acknowledge God marking His chosen. For later in the Bible we see where false prophets have arisen and have marked mankind according to the ways of man, specifically the mark of the beast or the devil. The fact is that self mutilation is the work of Satan and very different than that of the sealing of God's servants by their toil and efforts in standing firm and remaining true to Jesus. Those that have stood firm in Jesus, the Son of God, have battle wounds from the sheer persecution and the battle that in Hebrew is called Har-Magedon. This directly applies to the Book of Revelation.
The lesson to be learned from this chapter in Genesis is that our job on this earth is to master sin by conquering Satan along with all of the false prophets who appear in sheep's clothing, but inside are ravenous wolves. There is no greater priority for us than to act according to God, versus man. This is how the battle will be won. Have no regard for man, but in all ways seek God for direction.
Abel kept the flocks and Cain worked the soil. They worked outside most of the time and learned what it meant to plant and provide with the basic tools that God had given them.
Offerings soon began as an acknowledgment to God. Cain brought some fruits from the soil and Abel brought fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock. The Lord looked upon Abel with favor, but to Cain he did not. Cain became angry. Here we must acknowledge that the greatest of offerings to God is our writing and dialogue with Him.
God said to Cain, "If you do what is right will you not be secure by Me? However, if you do not act according to God, sin is crouching at the door and it desires to have you. Your job on this earth is to master sin!"
Cain became angry and in his anger murdered his brother Abel. For this murder God took His blessing away from Cain and commanded that Cain would wander the earth as a man lost.
God then placed a mark on Cain in order that no man who found him would slay him. Note that this is the first place in the Bible where we are able to acknowledge God marking His chosen. For later in the Bible we see where false prophets have arisen and have marked mankind according to the ways of man, specifically the mark of the beast or the devil. The fact is that self mutilation is the work of Satan and very different than that of the sealing of God's servants by their toil and efforts in standing firm and remaining true to Jesus. Those that have stood firm in Jesus, the Son of God, have battle wounds from the sheer persecution and the battle that in Hebrew is called Har-Magedon. This directly applies to the Book of Revelation.
The lesson to be learned from this chapter in Genesis is that our job on this earth is to master sin by conquering Satan along with all of the false prophets who appear in sheep's clothing, but inside are ravenous wolves. There is no greater priority for us than to act according to God, versus man. This is how the battle will be won. Have no regard for man, but in all ways seek God for direction.
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