![]() ![]() Then, at the Day of Atonement, it was one lamb for the nation. Later, at the Passover, it will be one lamb for a family. But God was more concerned with faith in the heart than with artistic beauty. The offering of Cain was no doubt more aesthetically pleasing Abel’s would have been a bloody mess. The burning of fat in sacrifice before God is called a sweet aroma to the LORD (Leviticus 17:6). The fat of the animal was prized as its “luxury” and was to be given to God when the animal was sacrificed (Leviticus 3:16-17 and 7:23-25). Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat: This shows Abel’s offering was extra special. Cain’s offering was the effort of dead religion, while Abel’s offering was made in faith, in a desire to worship God in spirit and in truth.ĭ. The writer to the Hebrews clearly explained why the offering of Abel was accepted and the offering of Cain was rejected: By faith Abel offered up a more excellent sacrifice than Cain (Hebrews 11:4). Nothing in the account points in this direction.” (Leupold) “The word for offering, minchah, is used in its broadest sense, covering any type of gift man may bring… Neither of the two sacrifices is made specifically for sin. Many assume that this was the difference between their offerings, but grain offerings were acceptable before God (as seen in Leviticus 2), though not as an atonement for sin. The LORD respected Abel and his offering, but He did not respect Cain and his offering: Abel brought an offering of blood ( the firstborn of his flock) and Cain brought an offering of vegetation ( the fruit of the ground). It’s possible that Cain, Abel and later others met with God at the tree of life, where the cherubim guarded access to the tree and prevented any from eating its fruit.Ĭ. Cain brought an offering of the fruit of the ground to the LORD: We can surmise that Cain brought his offering to the tree of life because cherubim guarded the way to the tree of life (Genesis 3:24), and cherubim are always associated with the dwelling place or meeting place with God (Exodus 25:10-22). ![]() Adam and his descendants did not spend tens of thousands of years living as hunter-gatherer cave dwellers.ī. Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground: Agriculture and the domestication of animals were practiced among the earliest humans. And Cain was very angry, and his countenance fell.Ī. And the LORD respected Abel and his offering, but He did not respect Cain and his offering. Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat. And in the process of time it came to pass that Cain brought an offering of the fruit of the ground to the LORD. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. Then she bore again, this time his brother Abel. (2-5) The birth of Abel and the offerings of Cain and Abel. It is possible Adam and Eve wondered if their descendants would come forth fully mature, as they did. A man from the LORD: Eve had faith to believe that the little baby she held would become a man. Eve thought she held in her arms the Messiah, the Savior of the whole world, but she really held in her arms a murderer.Ĭ. Adam and Eve expected Cain to be the Messiah God promised. Adam, and especially Eve, had these expectations for Cain, but it went farther than normal parental hopes and expectations. They wonder if their children are destined for greatness. Under normal circumstances, parents want good things for their children. There is a sense in which Eve said, “I have the man from the LORD.” It is likely Eve thought that Cain was the seed that God promised, the deliverer who would come from Eve (Genesis 3:15). ![]() And bore Cain, and said, “I have acquired a man from the LORD”: The name Cain basically meant, I’ve got him or Here he is. Adam and Eve were certainly capable of sexual relations before the fall, because there is nothing inherently impure or unclean in sex itself, only in its misuse.ī. We have no reason to believe Adam and Eve did not have sex before this. Knew indicates an act that contributes to the bond of unity and the building up of a one-flesh relationship. Most terms and phrases people use for sex today are either coarse or violent, but the Bible sees sex as a means of knowing one another in a committed relationship. It shows the high, interpersonal terms in which the Bible sees the sexual relationship. The term knew or “to know” is a polite way of saying they had sexual relations and the term is used often in the Bible in this sense (Genesis 4:17, 4:25, 38:26, Judges 11:39, 1 Samuel 1:19). Now Adam knew Eve his wife: This is the first specific mention of sex in the Bible. Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, and said, “I have acquired a man from the LORD.”Ī. ![]()
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