Day 2. Won’t you read the Bible with me this year? You can also listen to an audio recording. It only takes a few minutes.
Genesis 4-7
In the story of Cain and Able, we see some fruit of their parents’ sin. Cain’s feelings of inadequacy, jealousy, anger, a refusal to listen to God’s warning, and ultimately murder, caused him to be cursed by God.
Could righteous Able be a foreshadowing of the death of Christ in some ways?
Adam and Eve experienced the loss of both their sons, because God sent Cain away. But see how faithful He is to the grieving parents with the birth of Seth, the progenitor of the Messaiah, the eventual One who will crush the serpent’s head.
People sometimes wonder where Cain got his wife and, for that matter, where all of Adam & Eve’s other children got their spouses. For the answer, see Genesis 3:20. (And remember the early people were fresh from the hand of God, lived hundreds of years in comparable health, and did not have all the DNA problems we have today.) Incest was not forbidden until God gave Israel the law at Mt Sinai. (Leviticus 20:17)
And look closely at the ages of Methuselah and his son, Lamech. They died the year of the flood….possibly IN the flood. (God’s mercy or judgement?)
Lastly, do you ever wonder why only the air-breathing land creatures were annihilated in the flood, and not all the sea creatures too? I have an idea…. think of all the corpses of men and beasts. Shark fest!! Cleaning up the corruption!
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Morning Meditations 