Social justice, as it's called

When did men begin to multiply? What a lot of people don’t realize is Genesis 4 starts with Cain and Abel but covers a LONG period of history that extends out really to the days of Noah!

Genesis 5 gives you a genealogy from Adam to Noah, then Genesis 6 goes back and starts in the days of Cain and describes things back in the days of Cain that brought about the things going on in Genesis.

“If you want to see a description of the days of Noah (you remember Jesus said ‘as it was in the days of Noah so shall it be again’) don’t forget to read the last part of Genesis 4.

Genesis 4:19-22 reads, [19] And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
[20] And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle.
[21] And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.
[22] And Zillah, she also bare Tubal-cain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.”

Jordan says, “Notice Jabal didn’t dwell in the tents alone; he’s the father. From him comes a crowd of people, a whole lineage of people who dwell in tents ‘and of such as have cattle.’ Well, that’s talking about husbandry. He became a rancher.

“I mean, if you think about, if you have a city and a depletion of the labor force going to the city, there needs to be more efficient production methods for the farm. Everybody can’t have a cow in the backyard because in the city you have an ordinance against that.

“So you begin to develop technologies to provide for the need. It said over there that Nimrod was a ‘mighty hunter.’ Why would he be hunting? It’s ‘Well, you don’t worry about it; I’ll go get it for you. You go live in town.’ You follow that? That’s important. They’re developing an economy.

“In verse 21 it talks of ‘all such as handle the harp and the organ.’ Now you get into arts and entertainment. In order to have that you have to have leisure time. You have to have disposable income. You have to have people who don’t need to go out and work and grow a garden to get food or raise a cow so they’ve got something to eat.

"You don’t have to pluck the duck to have supper. The man can just go to the We-Sack-It. He’s got enough of an income that he can give himself to these other things. I’m trying to say that as you read this, you realize there’s a culture developing here.

“Verse 22, that’s metallurgy. Brass is an alloy where you take copper and zinc and you meld them together. You understand something about chemistry, how to form alloys, stronger metals, more durable goods. You’re talking about industrialization.

“If I told you we need to make a fuel injection system for the car, why you’d say, ‘Let’s go down to Pep Boys or Auto Zone, but me make one?!’ You see you have to have some technology out there. These guys were not a bunch of, ‘Oooh, oooh, ooh’ with a rock and long hair and hit ’em in the head and drag them home to the cave! These guys knew some things about earth science and math.

“There are 88 keys on a piano and every key is a mathematic marvel.

I was out at my son’s Friday for supper and took all the kids down in the basement. I’m thinking, ‘How did this happen?!’ And Bryant brought me a guitar and I strummed it and man, is it out of tune! Big time bad! And so I sat there and tuned it. You know how to tune a guitar? It doesn’t just happen and you know it sounds a lot better when it’s close to being in tune then when it’s way off.

“These guys had a culture that was advanced in economics, science and in the arts, and if you go down the chapter, you’ll see even in law and ‘social justice,’ as it’s called today. Where did all that come from?!”