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GENESIS 4
LESSON #13
PARALLELS IN RELATIONSHIPS
v MEMORY VERSE: HEB 9:22
v THE CONNECTION BETWEEN GEN 3 AND GEN 4:
Ø IN GENESIS 3 WE SEE SIN AND ITS CONSEQUENCESIN INDIVIDUALS. IN GENESIS 4 WE SEE SIN AND ITS CONSEQUENCES IN THE FAMILY.
Ø EVE IS A TYPE OF THE CHURCH:
§ READ EPH 5:22-33
v ADAM& EVE / CHRIST & THE CHURCH
| ADAM AND EVE | CHRIST AND THE CHURCH |
| IT WAS NOT GOOD FOR ADAM TO BE ALONE GEN 2:18 | CHRIST DESIRED NOT TO BE ALONE JOH 17:24 |
| EVE WAS CREATED AS A RESULT OF ADAM’S SLEEP GEN 2:21 | THE CHURCH WAS CREATED AS A RESULT OF CHRIST’S DEATH EPH 5:25 |
| EVE WAS CREATED FROM CLOSE PROXIMITY TO ADAM’S HEART GEN 2:21 | THE CHURCH WAS BORN TO BE HIS BODY OUT OF LOVE FROM CHRIST’S BROKEN HEART EPH 5:30 LUK 22:39-44 |
| MAN IS TO LEAVE HIS OLD LIFE BEHIND AND START A NEW LIFE WITH HIS WIFE GEN 2:24 | THE CHURCH IS TO LEAVE THE OLD SIN LIFE BEHIND AND START A NEW LIFE IN CHRIST 2COR 5:17 |
| THIS WAS TO BE A PERMANENT RELATIONSHIP GEN 2:24 | THIS IS TO BE AN ETERNAL RELATIONSHIP JOH 6:47 |
| ADAM AND EVE ARE TO BE IN UNITY GEN 2:24 EPH 5:31 | CHRIST AND THE CHURCH ARE TO BE IN UNITY EPH 5:31 JOH 17:21 |
| ADAM AND EVE ARE TO BE INTIMATE IN THEIR RELATIONSHIP GEN 2:25 | CHRIST AND THE CHURCH ARE TO BE INTIMATE IN THEIR RELATIONSHIP
1THE 5:17-18 |
| ADAM IS TO BE HEAD (AUTHORITY) OVER EVE EPH 5:23 | CHRIST IS TO BE THE HEAD (AUTHORITY) OF THE CHURCH EPH 5:23 |
| ADAM IS TO HELP HIS WIFE MATURE AND BECOME HOLY EPH 5:26-27 ADAM TOOK THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR EVES SIN. | CHRIST CLEANSES AND MATURES THE CHURCH MAKING IT HOLY EPH 5:26-27 JESUS CHRIST BORE THE SINS OF CHRISTIANS ON THE CROSS 1PET 2:24 |
| ADAM IS TO LOVE EVE EPH 5:25 | CHRIST LOVES THE CHURCH EPH 5:25 |
| ADAM IS TO PROVIDE FOR EVE’S NEEDS EPH 5:29 | CHRIST PROVIDES FOR THE NEEDS OF THE CHURCH EPH 5:29 |
| ADAM IS TO BE EVE’S SAVIOR AND PROTECTOR EPH 5:23 | CHRIST IS THE SAVIOR AND PROTECTOR OF THE CHURCH EPH 5:23 |
| SHE WAS CALLED “WOMAN” TAKEN OUT OF MAN GEN 2:23 | THOSE IN THE CHURCH ARE CALLED “CHRISTIANS” ACT 11:26 |
| THE SERPENT BEGUILED HER AND SHE DID EAT GEN 3:13 | CHRISTIANS WRESTLE NOT AGAINST FLESH AND BLOOD BUT AGAINST PRINCIPALITIES EPH 6:12 SATAN IS THE ACCUSER OF THE BRETHREN REV 12:10 |
| THEIR EYES WERE OPENED, AND THEY KNEW THEY WERE NAKED. THEY MADE APRONS OF FIG LEAVES GEN 3:7 | BUT WE ARE ALL AS AN UNCLEAN THING, AND ALL OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS IS AS FILTHY RAGS ISA 64:6 |
| FOR ADAM AND EVE THE LORD MADE COATS OF SKINS AND CLOTHED THEM GEN 3:21 | A GREAT MULTITUDE OF CHRISTIANS ARE BEFORE THE THRONE AND BEFORE THE LAMB, CLOTHED WITH WHITE ROBES REV 7:9 |
| ADAM CALLED HIS WIFE’S NAME EVE BECAUSE SHE WAS THE MOTHER OF ALL LIVING GEN 3:20 | I AM THE VINE, YE ARE THE BRANCHES. HE THAT ABIDETH IN ME AND I IN HIM BRINGS FORTH MUCH FRUIT JOH 15:5 |
v READ GEN 4:1-16
Ø NAMES ARE VERY IMPORTANT IN THE BIBLE.
§ THE NAME CAINMEANS = ACQUISITION OR BROUGHT FORTH.
§ ADAM AND EVE THOUGHT THATCAIN WAS THE MESSIAH, THE ONE PROMISED IN GEN 3:15 THAT WOULD REDEEM THEM FROM THEIR SINFULCONDITION.
· THE KING JAMES VERSION SAYS”I HAVE GOTTEN A MAN FROM THE LORD.” THE LITERAL MEANING IN HEBRES IS,”I HAVE GOTTEN THE MAN FROM THE LORD.”
§ THE NAME ABELMEANS = EXALTATION OR THAT WHICH ASCENDS
· IF CAIN HAD BEEN THE PROMISEDMESSIAH, THEN THE FAMILY WOULD BE EXALTED AND THEIR SINFUL CONDITION WOULD BE REMOVEDALLOWING THEM TO ASCEND TO THE THRONE OF GOD.
Ø WORSHIP IN CHAPTER 4:
§ THERE WAS A PLACE WHERE GODWAS TO BE WORSHIPPED (3)
§ THERE WAS A TIME WHEN GODWAS TO BE WORSHIPPED (3)
· “AT THE END OF DAYS” =PROBABLY MEANS AT THE END OF THE WEEK, THE SABBATH.
§ THERE WAS A WAY IN WHICHGOD WAS TO BE WORSHIPPED. THIS IS IMPLIED IN GENESIS. READ HEB 11:4
Ø WHAT WAS WRONG WITH CAIN’S OFFERING TO THELORD? WHY DOES GOD SAY HE HAD RESPECT FOR ABEL AND NOT FOR CAIN?
§ CAINS OFFERING WASNOT DONE IN HUMILITY:
· ABEL’S OFFERING WAS THE BEST (THEFAT) FROM THE FIRSTLINGS OF HIS FLOCK.
· CAIN’S OFFERING WAS SOME OF THEFRUIT. THE BIBLE DOES NOT SAY THAT HE BROUGHT THE FIRST OR THE BEST OF THE HARVEST.
§ CAINS OFFERING WASTHE WORKS OF HIS OWN HANDS:
· CAIN’S OFFERING IGNORED THE CURSEOF GEN 3:17 WHERE THE GROUND IS CURSED.
§ CAINS OFFERING WASNOT IN GOD’S WAY:
· GOD HAD SET THE PATTERN OF ANIMALSACRIFICE IN GEN 2 WHEN HE KILLED THE FIRST ANIMALS TO COVER ADAM AND EVE’S SIN. IT ISIMPLIED THAT THEY KNEW THIS.
¨ IT WAS NOT A BLOOD SACRIFICE ACCORDING TOGOD’S PATTERN.
¨ IT WAS THE FORM OF GODLINESS BUT DENIED THE POWER OF GODLINESS.(2TIM 3:5)
· CAINS OFFERING WAS NOT DONEIN FAITH. INSTEAD IT WAS AN OFFERING DONE IN PRIDE.
¨ CAIN WAS NOT WILLING TO HUMBLE HIMSELF AND GOTO HIS BROTHER TO REQUEST A LAMB FOR SACRIFICE.
Ø JUDE 1:11 SAYS THAT THOSE WHO COME INTHE WAY OF CAIN SHOULD BEWARE.
Ø GOD’S QUESTIONS TO CAIN:
§ “WHY ARE YOUANGRY?” (6)
· THE FIRST APPEAL TO CONFESS SIN.
¨ “WHY IS YOUR COUNTENANCE FALLEN?”(6)
Ø IT IS AN APPEAL TO LOOK UP TO GOD.
§ “IF YOU DO WELL, WON’TYOU BE ACCEPTED?” (7)
· THERE’S STILL HOPE EVEN THOUGHYOU HAVE SINNED.
¨ GOD GAVE HIM AN OPPORTUNITY TO BRING THEPROPER OFFERING.
· “IF YOU DO WELL” =
¨ THERE ARE 2 INTERPRETATIONS:
Ø IT LITERALLY MEANS, “SHALT THOU NOT HAVETHE EXCELLENCY”. IN OTHER WORDS, RETAIN THE RIGHT OF INHERITANCE OF THEFIRSTBORN.
Ø IF YOU WILL BRING THE PROPER SACRIFICE, YOUWILL BE ACCEPTED, BECAUSE IT’S NOT TOO LATE.
· “SIN LIETH AT THE DOOR”(7) =
¨ THERE ARE 2 INTERPRETATIONS:
Ø THE WORD SIN IS THE SAME HEBREW WORD USEDLATER IN THE BIBLE FOR SIN OFFERING. IN OTHER WORDS, GOD HAS SUPPLIED A LAMB, THE SINOFFERING, WHICH IS CROUCHING AT THE DOOR READY TO BE OFFERED.
Ø IF YOU DO NOT OFFER THE CORRECT SACRIFICE, SINIS CROUCHING AT THE DOOR LIKE A WILD BEAST READY TO DEVOUR YOU.
§ READ JAM 1:15.
· “UNTO THEE SHALL BE HISDESIRE, AND THOU SHALT RULE OVER HIM” (7) = SINDESIRES TO CONTROL YOU, BUT YOU MUST CONTROL OR MASTER IT.
¨ CAINS RESPONSE: CAIN KILLS ABEL
Ø THIS IS SATAN’S FIRST ATTEMPT TO KILL THESEED OF THE WOMAN. (1JOH 3:12)
· “WHERE IS YOURBROTHER?” (9)
¨ THIS IS A SECOND APPEAL TO REPENTANCE. HESHOULD BE FEELING REMORSE FOR THE LOSS OF HIS BROTHER.
Ø CAIN’S RESPONSE:
§ “AM I MY BROTHER’SKEEPER?” (9)
· THESE WORDS DOWN THROUGH HISTORYHAVE BEEN USED ERRONEOUSLY AS A RATIONALE FOR NOT GETTING INVOLVED IN PROBLEMS ANDDIFFICULTIES EXPERIENCED BY OTHERS.
¨ CAIN’S RESPONSE IS NOT THE CHRISTIAN RESPONSENOR WHAT GOD INTENDED. WE ARE TO BE OUR BROTHER’S KEEPER.
· “WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?”(10)
¨ THIS IS A THIRD APPEAL TO FACE HIS OWNACTIONS AND REPENT.
Ø THE CONSEQUENCES OF CAINS SIN: THECURSE ON CAIN. (GEN 4:11-15)
§ YOU WOULD THINK CAIN WOULDPAY FOR THIS SIN WITH HIS OWN LIFE. INSTEAD WE SEE GODS MERCY.
· IN REALITY, GOD DID NOT INITIATECAPITAL PUNISHMENT UNTIL A LATER DISPENSATION OF TIME.
§ THERE IS A CURSE ON THENATURE OF HIS WAY OF MAKING A LIVING.
· THE LAND WOULD NOT PRODUCE FORHIM AS IT DID BEFORE.
· HE WOULD BE A FUGITIVE AND AWANDERER UNABLE TO PLANT AND HARVEST.
§ THERE WILL BE A SPIRITUALSEPARATION BETWEEN HE AND GOD (14)
§ HE WOULD CARRY A VISIBLEMARK (PERHAPS A FOREHEAD TATTOO). WE SEE GOD’S MERCY, AS IT WAS TO PROTECT CAIN FROM DEATHAT THE HANDS OF ANOTHER PERSON.
· WHY WOULD THERE BE A 7 FOLDVENGEANCE ON ONE WHO TOOK CAIN’S LIFE?
¨ REMEMBER THIS IS THE AGE OF CONSCIENCE. CAINWAS EXHIBIT #1 OF THE CONSEQUENCES OF SIN. GOD DID NOT KILL CAIN BUT CONDEMNED HIM TO HISOWN GUILTY CONSCIENCE.
¨ THE OTHER PEOPLE ON THE EARTH (15)
Ø HERE ARE SOME WAYS TO EXPLAIN WHERE OTHERPEOPLE CAME FROM:
§ -1- 100 YEARS HAVE PASSED BETWEEN VERSE 15 ANDVERSE 16, ENOUGH TIME FOR THE MULTIPLICATION OF PEOPLE.
§ -2- ADAM AND EVE HAD MANY, MANY MORE CHILDREN THANTHOSE MENTIONED IN THE BIBLE.
· NOTICE THERE IS NO MENTION OF ANYGIRLS BORN TO ADAM AND EVE AND YET THERE WERE PROBABLY SOME.
§ -3- OR PERHAPS A COMBINATION OF #1 AND #2 ABOVE.
§ THE LAND OF NOD, EAST OFEDEN (16)
· ARCHAEOLOGISTS HAVE NOT BEEN ABLETO LOCATE THE LAND OF NOD.
· THE NAME NOD MEANS =”WANDERING”
¨ THERE IS NO PLACE OF PEACE AND REST FOR THEWICKED. IT PICTURES NON-BELIEVERS WANDERING IN SIN, SEPARATED FROM GOD.
Ø THE WARNING OF JUDE 1:10-11:
§ WOE TO THOSE WHO DENY THATTHE WHOLE HUMAN RACE SINNED AND FELL WITH ADAM.
· IN GEN 4:12 WE SEE HIM SETTLEDOWN TRYING TO FORGET THE CURSE IN VIOLATION OF GODS COMMAND.
¨ ACCORDING TO THE APOCRAPHAL BOOK OF JUBILEES,CAIN KILLED ABEL WITH A STONE AND HE, HIMSELF, DIED WHEN HIS STONE HOUSE FELL IN ON HIMAND CRUSHED HIM.
§ CAIN’S WIFE
· SHE WAS UNDOUBTEDLY HIS SISTER.THERE WAS NO PROHIBITION AT THIS TIME FOR INCEST. THAT PROHIBITION CAME LATER AS THEPOPULATION OF THE WORLD INCREASED AND MARRIAGE WITHIN THE FAMILY WAS UNNECESSARY.
v HOMEWORK
v GENESIS 4 continued
v THIS IS ASELF-STUDY. PLEASE DO NOT SEND HOMEWORK ANSWERS TO THE TEACHER FOR CORRECTION
v APPLICATION OF GEN 4
Ø WRITE A PARAGRAPH SPECIFICALLY STATING HOWGENESIS 4 RELATES TO YOU AND YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD.
Ø DOES IT ALSO HAVE A SPECIAL MEANING TO YOU INYOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH OTHER MEMBERS OF YOUR FAMILY? HOW?
v FURTHER PREPARATION FOR GEN 4
Ø REVIEW GEN 4 BY READING GEN 4:1-16
§ THIS CHAPTER IS FILLED WITHTYPES, PREFIGURES, OR ILLUSTRATIONS OF CHRIST, THE CHURCH, AND THE JEWS IN THE NEWTESTAMENT.
§ HOW IS ABEL A PICTURE OFTHE BELIEVER IN JESUS CHRIST?
§ HOW IS CAIN A PICTURE OFTHE SELF-RIGHTEOUS PERSON INVOLVED IN GOOD WORKS?
§ HOW IS ABEL’S BLOOD APICTURE OF THE BLOOD OF CHRIST ON THE CROSS?
§ HOW IS CAIN A PICTURE OFTHE JEWS AS A NATION?
v MEMORY WORK: LEARN OLD TESTAMENT BOOK NAMES,GENESIS TO 2 SAMUEL
