"Woe to them! for they have gone in the way of Cain..."
                                 Jude 1:11
The Way of Cain
















        How much of our culture is going in the way of Cain?  


Do you ever wonder why it seems so easy for some people to kill other
people, or commit crimes? Why can some people become violent, or do
things without seemingly an ounce of shame? As Jude and John tell us, it is
because those people follow the "ways of Cain". A lot of Biblical passages
give us “hints” towards identifying parallels of these antediluvian ways to
modern times. We know about the political and religious system that
ultimately came from Babylon. Now, lets look at these ancient influences
now present in our modern culture.

The Bible gets very specific about the characteristics of people who are of
this "way":


"Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain… These are spots
in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves
without fear: clouds without water, carried about of winds, trees whos
fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering
stars… murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their
mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in
admiration because of advantage… there should be mockers in the last
time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts. These be they who
separate themselves, sensual, having not the spirit.”

                    Jude 1:11-19 KJV


We see, the people of this culture are great partakers of charity. They take
charity with no fear or hesitation. They, like clouds without water, have a
lot to say and show to other people, but no substance to back it up. They,
like trees, do not generate fruit. If they temporarily do, it will eventually
wither because of their ways of life. They do not continue with what they
start, nor keep a good thing going.

Because they do things in a shameful way, their inner guilt and insecurity
transforms into outer rage and unpredictable behavior. They often wander
here and there, and do not stay in one place for a long period of time.
They murmur, complain, and pursue what they think is right. They mock
people. They pursue what makes them feel good.

The people speak great, boasting words, without substance to back it up.
Men around them will eventually admire them because of how they are,
but, one way or another, those who follow these paths will eventually head
towards destruction. They will separate themselves from the rest of
society, and pursue their own sexual lusts. Sound like a lot of people we
may know today?

Yes, the "Way of Cain" is out there, compliments of its blood-founder:
Cain! Those who followed the attitudes and ways of life in the days of
Noah often did not blame themselves for their own failures, nor did they
accept responsibility for their own actions. It was always another person
fault, or society, as a whole. They try to get away from their guilt and
responsibilities by claiming themselves as the victim. Another interesting
written work on Cain states the following:


“Cain said to God, ‘Am I (expected to be) my brother’s keeper? (Genesis
4:9). You (God) are the keeper of all creatures, yet You call me to
account for him…’ Accordingly, Cain’s question is in fact a defiant
assertion: ‘I slew Abel – it was You who created in me the impulse to
evil. But You are the keeper of all things- yet You let me slay him. It is
You who slew him. Had You accepted my offering and You did his, I
would not have been jealous of him… I never in my life knew or saw
anyone slain. How was I to know that if I struck Able with a stone,
he would die? Cain went on, ‘Is my sin so great that it cannot be borne?
(Genesis 4:13)… The whole world, all of it, You bear, yet my sin You
cannot bear?’… (the next verse of the Bible states:) ‘Cain went out from
the presence of the Lord (Genesis 4:16) signifies that Cain left (the
consciousness of) the Lord’s presence by tossing off the words (‘My sin is
greater than can be forgiven”), as if by mouthing them he could blunt the
Almighty’s awareness of his sin… Or: Cain reversed his garment front to
back and went out thinking that he had deceived (literally, stolen the
mind of) the Hold One.”


How unbelievably irreverent and cocky Cain was to the creator of the
world! After he tried to "outsmart" God in his war of words, he reversed
his garment from front to back, as a sign of his own mockery to “the status
quo” of God's culture and ways of life. He, and his pride, thought he had
outsmarted God by his words.

One interesting interpretation of the wrath of God to Cain is as follows.
God was speaking to Cain about his wicked act of murder:


“Why doth they brother’s blood cry from under the alter against thee?
Behold, is not his blood upon they flesh, a mark which shall not be
eradicated until the end of time? Thou wicked Cain, thou art Perdition
and thy deeds shall follow thee for from thee shall flow murder and
bloodshed, wars and contentions, until the earth shall hide her face from
the wickedness and pollution of mankind.
Depart from before my face, for thine existence is a pollution to the
sanctity of this spot. Nevertheless, no man shall slay thee, for thou shalt
live to see the full measure flowing from thine iniquity, until the final
destruction of the darkness of this world.”

                Book of the Generations of Adam 5:8


Contention is defined as a "verbal strife, dispute, argument, controversy,
or a statement or point that one argues for as true or valid". Perdition is
defined as "complete and irreparable loss, ruin, or loss of the soul"; it is
also "the cause of ruin or destruction" (Webster's). The sons of Cain have
no problem with violence and murder. They love to complain, and be in
controversy. Cain was marked, with what we are not sure - but surely he
and his descendants were associated with these attitudes. The blood of
Abel was on his hands, obviously, and the stigma of what he did would be
passed to his descendants, until the end of time.

I believe the "mark of Cain" had something to do with his advanced
knowledge of worldly things, possibly even psychic, and how he was able
to manipulate people using words. Cain used his word and attitudes to
protect him from the wrath of others (Genesis 4:14-16). He obviously
passed this talent down to his descendants:


“… the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the
children of light.”

                    John 16:8 KJV


“… know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God?”

                    James 4:4 KJV


As a consequence, those people who have the blood of Cain are often
unpredictable, uncertain about themselves, and wrathful:


“They have two heads (figuratively), wherefore they can never arrive at a
decision; they are always at loggerheads with themselves. It may happen
that they are pious (or moral) now, only to be inclined to do evil the next
moment.”

            The Legends of the Jews I, p. 114


“Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world,
according to the prince and the power of the air (Satan), the spirit that
now worketh in the children of disobedience: Among whom also we all
had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the
desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of
wrath, even as others.”

                    Ephesians 2:2-3 KJV


We recall in Cain, Seed of the Serpent, that Cain could have been a direct,
literal descendant of the devil (via the serpent):


“He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the
beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was mainifested, that he
might destroy the works of the devil. Whosoever is born of God doth not
commit sin; for his (God’s) seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin,
because he is born of God. In this the children of God are manifest, and
the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of
God, neither he that loveth not his brother. For this is the message that
ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. Not as
Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore
slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s
righteous.”

                       I John 3:8-12 KJV


Those of the seed of Cain (and, ultimately, the serpent) possess the
tendency to do all these above things, because they have the same blood as
the serpent. They do whatever evil they do without the rationality and
conscience that usually would "put the brakes" on other people of God:


"... but he who sins, and who thus blushes and is overwhelmed with
shame, is near akin to him (God)… for those persons who pride
themselves on their errors as if they had not done wrong, are afflicted
with a disease which is difficult to cure…”

 Philo: Questions and Answers on Genesis, I:8, I:5, I:65


It may be hard to spot someone with the blood of Cain, in other cases, it
may be easy. As the Biblical saying goes: “... by their fruits ye shall know
them” (Matthew 7:20).

As we will see in Politically Correct Babylon, this "disease" can extend to
beliefs in our society, and beyond.


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