Genesis Chapter Four

In Verse 5 we read "but God did not respect Cain and his offering and Cain was very angry." Apparently there was something wrong with Cain's attitude. It became manifested after he was confronted. How often that is true with us. People appear so spiritual, but if anyone dares to confront them about anything and they get all huffy. I remember one time a lady came to our church all spiritual and wanted to play the tambourine and she was totally distracting the worship. I had one of the ushers tell her she needed to stop. She got all huffy and left. One other time a young man played his guitar at a prayer meeting. It was terrible. The next week when he came I took him in the office and told him he couldn't play his guitar. He got all huffy and left. I think it is always the true test of what is in our hearts when we are challenged or confronted for something we are doing and then we see how we react. Apparently Cain was not as spiritual as he appeared!

In verse 17 we read that Cain knew his wife. Many people are stumbled by this and ask where did she come from? In chapter 5:4 we read that Eve had lots of sons and daughters. Since the average life span at that time was over one hundred years she would have had a lot of sons and daughters. The marriage of sisters and brothers was unavoidable in the early stages of the human race, but was later prohibited in the Mosaic Law. By the time Adan and Eve died it is easily conceivable that there were thousands of people living and by the time the flood came some have done the arithematic and have come up with the possibility that there were at least 3 billion living on the earth! If married at 25, and by 35 had 4 children, by 70 your children were married and had their children. In 5 generations there would be 96 people. In 10 generations there would be 3,070 people. In 20 generations there would be 3,150,000 people. In 30 generations there would be 3,220,000,000. That would be approximately 2,400 years which would be around the time of the flood.