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Cain

This is the story of a son who broke his mother’s heart. After they left the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve began to have children and those sons and daughters divided two and two in the land and began to till the land. Grandchildren began to come, and it seemed an idyllic existence. The Lord taught Adam and Eve the same Gospel that He has taught us and they made all things known to their sons and daughters.

And then, Satan came among them and some of the posterity of Adam and Eve loved Satan more than God and thereby brought damnation to their souls. The very next verse in the revelation is telling for its content and placement, “And Adam and Eve, his wife, ceased not to call upon God.” From the beginning of time worthy parents have prayed over their wayward children.

Then Adam and Eve had another son. They named him Cain. At his birth Eve said, “I have gotten a man from the Lord; wherefore he may not reject his words.” Was this a plea or a statement?

However, as Cain came of age, he too, tragically, loved Satan more than God. “And in process of time it came to pass that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord.”

The Lord had commanded that sacrifices were to be in the similitude of the sacrifice of the Only Begotten. Cain brought the fruit of the ground, not a lamb, and consequently his sacrifice was unacceptable. This made him very angry. The Lord counseled Cain in a most direct and specific manner to be careful of the course he was on, but Cain gave no heed. His anger grew until he entered into a covenant relationship with Satan and killed his brother Abel in order to lay hold upon his brother’s flocks. 

Cain gloried in his wickedness and with his ill-gotten wealth considered himself a free man. Interestingly, he titled himself “Mahan, the master of this great secret, that I may murder and get gain.”

But—there is no secret from the Almighty. There is no wealth and freedom in wickedness. In the end, Cain was cursed above all men and bound to Lucifer forever. What Jesus was to the Father, Cain became to Satan—the Father of his lies—Perdition–shut out from the presence of Lord forever.

This was a son who broke his mother’s heart—who failed to learn this one lesson—when God gives a commandment we must obey it exactly, on his terms, not ours. We can no more get into heaven with our own brand of obedience than Cain could by sacrificing a tomato.

Sources:

Genesis 4:3

Moses 5:12, 16