The Mark of Cain

[patricia1]

Dear Brother Wisdom

You post above is absolutely beautiful.

[Marnie]

My husband preached on this, as part a series in Genesis. If you read the account carefully, Cain was afraid that he would be killed by others on account of his sin, and so in mercy G-d marked him so nobody would kill him. The mark, nobody knows what it looked like, could be thought of as a sovereign act of mercy and grace on God's part toward a sinner.

[Guest]

Did anyone notice the OP date? It's "Feb 8 2003"

Glad the Word of God is timeless!

[patricia1]

Did anyone notice the OP date? It's "Feb 8 2003"

Glad the Word of God is timeless!

yes marnie he was frightened that he may be killed, perhaps it was a knowing that occurred when peopl passed by. I would ve Loved to have heard that sermon. love patricia

[Marnie]

Did anyone notice the OP date? It's "Feb 8 2003"

Glad the Word of God is timeless!

yes marnie he was frightened that he may be killed, perhaps it was a knowing that occurred when peopl passed by. I would ve Loved to have heard that sermon. love patricia

If you are ever in the Appalachian Mountains of Southwest VA, look us up. I'm the ONE who isn't a hillbilly. Mike has his moments.

[Treasure]

Interesting reading. Thank you all.

[Bold Believer]

Again, better late than never. The Hebrew word for mark is 'owth and has several different definitions. The one which I found most fitting...came under the lexicon info in Blue Letter Bible. "A sign of something future." Perhaps that mark IS a cross, meaning that the future Messiah would judge Cain.

[Openly Curious]

I can't remember where I read or heard it, but the conditions were ideal for new races after the ark landed. Three sons...three races.

Hello JohnS,

The mark of Cain has nothing at all with the different races coming about as many people tend to believe and embrace this idea in or to explain how all the different races came into being. The different races came into being as God created them to be from the womb. An example of this story is between Jacob and Esau.

Genesis 25:23-34--"And the Lord said unto her, Two Nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be seperated from thy bowels: and the one people shall be stronger than the other people and the elder shall serve the younger. vs.24 And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled behold there were twins in her womb. vs.25 And the first came out RED, all over like a hairy garment; and they called his name Esau"......................

If you can see that there was two different nations or races of people that was within the womb of Rebekah and the twins were wrestling Notice that the two boys are different from one another as Esau came out red all over like a hairy garment. Now it is plain to see that Esau would be used to be the father of a nation which I will show in a moment. It is plain for me also to see that if He wanted a race to come into being He simply would create in the womb of a woman and NOT from the mark of that was placed upon Cain. Jacob went on too marry Leah and Rebecca who bare the 12 Patriarchs being the heads of the 12 tribes of Israel. So it is Jacob who is the head of the nation of Israel and as you can see chp. 29 that obviously that Israel would be the stronger nation of the two.

Thanks for baring with me a little here. Jacob is the father of the nation of Israel-- Esau is the father of the nation of Edom--Genesis 25:30--And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with the same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom. Genesis 32:3--And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir the country of Edom.

The Mark of Cain is just God at Cain's request put a mark on him of some kind so that others would not come upon him and kill him for being a murderer of his own brother and also that all others will stand on guard against him and see him as a murderer.

But the mark of Cain is simply that a mark upon Cain himself and nothing to do with the different races which is shallow an illogical thinking it is God who create the different races in the womb as He sees fit and there is no race of people created for the purpose of sin.

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