The Amoral, Godless Lineage of Satan and Cain – Genesis Chapter 4
by Sabrina Dawkins
Why did God accept Abel’s sacrificial offering but reject Cain’s? Abel kept sheep. He brought the firstborn of his sheep as an offering to God. A lamb is a young sheep. In the Bible, sheep are innocent, harmless, meek creatures, compared to wolves, who are evil and vicious attackers of the sheep. The Messiah is called the “Lamb of God” (John 1:29). The Son is the visible form of the invisible God and the firstborn of creation (Colossians 1:15).
Abel was showing a spiritual understanding, a prophetic knowing in spirit of the future sacrifice of the Lamb of God due to the sins of man. Cain’s offering did not reflect this internal spiritual connection to God and his purpose for sacrificial offerings. The purpose of a sacrificial offering is to show that you understand that sin leads to death and that you have a desire to die with Christ on the cross so that you can be born anew, with Christ now living inside and giving you spiritual knowledge, prophecy, clean thoughts (Romans 6).
God didn’t mention the crops that Cain offered when explaining to Cain that if he did not allow sin to rule him, he would be accepted, because it wasn’t about the crops that Cain brought, it was really about Cain’s inability to recognize sin and its grave consequences.
Cain is the seed of the serpent and inherited the nature of Satan: He kills and lies. Abel’s parents are Adam and Eve. Not only did Cain lie about killing his half-brother Abel, he didn’t seem to have any feelings of regret or empathy for his dead brother. His only concern was for himself: He didn’t want to be killed for having killed Abel. He never asked for forgiveness or expressed any remorse.
Where did Cain get his wife? His sister. Although Cain, Abel, and Seth are the sons born to Eve that are mentioned, she had other sons and daughters.
Cain’s descendant Lamech was the first to have two wives instead of one, and he, too, killed. A young man wounded him, and he killed him. He doesn’t express remorse either. Instead, he expects God to avenge him not sevenfold, as with Cain, but seventy-sevenfold if someone kills him for having killed the young man. The Bible doesn’t say that Lamech had a personal relationship with God or spoke with him. So Cain probably told his descendants that God said he would take vengeance on his killer.
It wasn’t until Adam and Eve’s son Seth had Enos that men started to look to God for guidance, which indicates that Cain’s lineage did not call on God; they went their own way.