
Who begat this first murderer: Cain? Another famous story: Cain kills Abel, his own brother. Now, what would possess a man to do something so horrible? Cain didn't have a hungry family, there wasn't a war going on. As we recall from Untold Adam and Eve, the serpent and Eve may have gone a little farther than just eating fruit in the Garden. Their offspring, according to many ancient sources, was Cain. The common word for fathering a child, in the Bible, is the word begat. Nowhere in the Bible does it say Adam begat Cain! Although Cain was a child of Eve, he could have also had the genes of someone else: an upset and complaining angelic being, now made human for his punishment. With all the anger and resentment inside this angelic being couldn't it be easily assumed that he would have passed it on to whomever he sired? Could this had been a plausible reason that allowed Cain the ability to easily commit such a crime? The serpent (Azazel or Nachash), as postulated before, may have had sex with Eve. Through their fornication, she became pregnant. As a result, they may have created the twins: Cain and Abel. Nowhere in the Bible does it say that Cain was Adam's son, nor was he listed in any of the genealogies of Adam (Genesis 5:1). Cain, on the contrary, was actually said to be "of the wicked one" (I John 3:12). The Bible also states that the third son born to Eve, Seth, was the first child born to Eve that actually resembled Adam (Genesis 5:3). Could the first two have had the bloodline of someone else? Lets look: "And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain..." Genesis 4:1 KJV To many, this is proof positive it was Adam who had sex with his wife and was the father of Cain. The word knew, if we examine the original Hebrew further, has the meaning of sex, which makes it pretty easy to assume Adam and Eve indeed did copulate. However, the original Hebrew word may also say something totally different, as we examine it further. The word knew actually comes from two Hebrew words: yada and eth. The word yada not only means to have carnal sex with, but also to recognize, discern, or acknowledge. The word eth is untranslatable in English, but generally relates to a sign, a distinguishing mark, or omen. Also, the Hebrew word for conceived could mean to already be with child. Put these all together and we gather another possible wording for this verse: "And Adam eventually acknowledged the distinguishing sign that had come upon Eve; that she was with child, and realized she was about to give birth to Cain..." Genesis 4:1 KJV The verse could also mean that it was time for Cain to be born, and Adam realized it. See how easily things can get misunderstood when people think they should translate them a certain way? The next part of this same verse gives us even more creditability for our argument. Apparently, Eve first saw the baby Cain, and thought she had gotten him from someone beyond her world. As the rest of the verse states, she then exclaimed: "I have gotten a man from the LORD" (Genesis 4:1). According to the New Jerusalem Translation, however, we have the verse a little differently: "... I have gotten a man from an angel of the LORD." An angel of the LORD, a fallen angel of the garden, maybe? Eve apparently thought so. In Untold Adam and Eve, we already mentioned how the angels of the six-day creation rebelled, and their punishments handed out were so that they had to descend to earth and take on human form. As we see, in the Bible, there were other punishments dealt out by God to Eve. Curiously enough, these included punishments that related to pregnancy or childbirth. Could these have directly been related to the act the serpent and Eve participated in before the fall? There were, also, curses to the serpent: "But He (God) turned to the serpent (in great wrath) and said: 'Since thou hast done this... There shall not be left thee ear, nor wing, nor one limb of all that with which thou did ensnare them in thy malice and causesdst them to be cast out of paradise..." The Apocalypse of Moses 26:1-4 Apparently, God dished out their punishments "an eye for an eye" - his one sexual "limb" for the way he used it. "After Adam and his wife sinned, and the serpent had intercourse with Eve and injected filth into her, Eve bore Cain. He had the shape from above and from below (the earth)... Therefore, he was the first to bring death into the world, caused by his side, as he came from the filth of the serpent. The nature of the serpent is to lurk, so as to kill, and his issue, Cain, learned his ways." The Zohar: 26 Pekudei 21 Cain apparently carried on the attributes of his father, and that could have led him to easily commit the murder of Abel. In another curse to the serpent, God said something would come about, in probably one of the most important prophecies of the Bible: "And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel." Genesis 3:15 KJV The verse is a little complex, and is divided into two parts. First, it states the seed (or descendants) of the serpent will be at enmity (or hatred) to the seed of Eve. The serpent's seed would form one bloodline, Adam's pure, whole seed another. The second part, simply, was a prediction about Jesus Christ himself, and how he (a member of Eve's seed) will bruise the serpent's head, but members of the serpent's seed will only be able to bruise the heel of Jesus (by crucifying him on the cross). Jesus will become victorious in the end, by raising from the dead, and thus defeat Satan's curse of death on the world (because of how death became a curse to the world in the garden). If Jesus was from the true seed of Adam and Eve, then the seed of the serpent will possess enmity for Jesus and his teachings. If Cain (and possibly others) were indeed from this seed of the serpent, then his descendants will be at arms against anything that is truly and purely of God. Those people who would have the blood of the serpent would go on to form what was known as the "mixed multitudes". The conflict between the morals, religious beliefs and ways of life of these groups would be contrary to those who descended from Adam to this day, and would form one of the most important conflicts in our modern history. The interpretation of this division is quite simple: "... the members of the mixed multitude are the children of the primordial serpent that seduced Chavah (Eve) by the tree of knowledge, so the mixed multitude is indeed the impurity that the serpent injected into Chavah. From this impurity, which is considered the mixed multitude, Kayin (Cain) came forth and slew Hevel (Abel)..." The Zohar: 2 Bershith A28 There is more about these mixed multitudes, and their significance to the whole story of the Bible, in Birds and Beasts. Later on, we will see this applies to Way of Cain, as well. As well, there is a lot more ancient evidence which support this claim of Cain's bloodline present in my upcoming book. Copyright 2007, Brett T., All Rights Reserved |




