More Unknowns
For example …
- Was Cain conceived before or after the fall?
- How often did Cain and Abel offer sacrifices?
- Exactly how did Cain kill Abel?
- What is the mark of Cain?
A promising start
Adam and Eve have offspring…
Eve’s response?
- giving thanks to God
- or taking credit for creation
A favoured offering
…God looked with favour on Abel
…but on the offering of Cain
- all to do with how Abel trusts God.
- Heb 11:4 and in 1 John 3:12.
Cain was very angry and downcast
God questions
- … asks Cain why
- … seeks to talk him out of making a bad choice
- … if he does what is right he will be accepted.
Cain responds…
verse 13 – punishment is more than he can bear
The widening abyss
Verse 17-24
Lamech
… has two wives
… has killed a young man simply for bruising him.
… openly boasts of his sin
Hope remains
Seth is born.
“God has granted me another child in the place of Abel since Cain killed him”
… at that time people began to call on the name of the LORD.
For us today
God’s plan of redemption
The warning from Cain
- 1 John 3:12
- Jude 11
… God’s judgment
The example of Abel