Cain's curse met with a wink and Nod

When Moses says, "Let my people go?" in Exodus 5, Pharaoh responds, "Who is the Lord God that I should obey His voice?"

“He does exactly what the Antichrist will say,” explains Jordan. “By the way, Pharaoh in Ezekiel 29 is called a dragon, as Satan is in Revelation 12. He has plagues that are cast out on him, just as the Antichrist has in Revelation 11, 15 and 16.

“It wasn’t just that Pharaoh was a (slave ruler); there was a satanic force behind him. They wouldn’t have known that if God hadn’t told them and demonstrated it to them!

“In fact, when it says in Exodus 1 that a Pharaoh came on the throne who didn’t know Joseph, Isaiah 52 calls that Pharaoh an Assyrian. The Assyrian in the Bible is one of those little tag words, or identifiers, of the Antichrist.

“After Pharaoh, the next type of the Antichrist is in Numbers 22. It’s a dude named Balak. In Numbers 22 is the unholy trio: Balak, Balaam and Baal. Balak’s the false king, Balaam’s the false prophet and Baal is the false god. In type, it’s the Antichrist, the false prophet and Satan.

“Cain was the first type of the Antichrist. The archetypal figure of Cain can be found in an astonishing variety of myths and legends from divers places and periods. Notable ones include: Kronos/Saturn, Hermes/Mercury, Zeus, Vulcan, Oceanus, Osiris, Oannes, Dagon, Moloch, Baal, Odin, Wotan, South American gods . . .

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“Look what God says to Cain in Genesis 4: [11] And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;
[12] When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.

“Cain was a farmer and he LOVED his occupation. He’s a tiller of the ground and now God says, ‘You’re cursed from that. You can’t do that anymore. You can’t settle down on one piece of ground and live there and till it and bring its fruit forth.’

“Now, don’t get all bent out of shape about a curse. Why don’t you know God put a curse on women? Genesis 3:16. Don’t you know He put a curse on man? Romans 5:12.

"There’s all kind of curses in the Bible and it’s not anything particular to Cain or the descendants of Ham. He put a curse on Israel. He put a curse on the ground. There’s certain restrictors He put in their activity.

“Genesis 4:13 says, [13] And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear.

“Cain said, ‘I can’t do that! This is more than I can take! I’m going to be a useless no-good bum wandering around and can’t do anything productive?! People will kill me!’

“God said, ‘I’ll fix that. I don’t want your punishment to end short. I’ll put a mark on you where when they see you, they’ll KNOW what’s going on and they won’t kill you.’

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“Notice what Cain does in verse 16: [16] And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod (editor’s note: the name Nod means ‘wandering’), on the east of Eden.
[17] And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.

“If he went east of Eden, he went west to east. Wrong direction! ‘And Cain knew his wife.’

“Somebody says, ‘Where’d Cain get his wife?’ You know the question I always wanted to know? ‘Where’d Mrs. Cain get her husband?!’ I don’t know why you’d marry a rascal like that.

“She conceived and bare Enoch and notice, he built a city and called the name of the city after the name of who? His boy. You know what he’s doing? Cain’s raising up a NAME for himself.

"You know what my first son’s name is? He has my daddy’s name. I’ve got my daddy’s name and now he’s got it. You know what you do? You raise up a son that has a NAME and you say, ‘There’s my boy!’ and he’s raising up a name for himself.

“Instead of Eden, Cain is going to reconstruct the world and society his way. You see, God said, ‘You’re going to be a vagabond and a fugitive.’ A vagabond is a guy who has no real dwelling place.

"Cain said, ‘I’ll see about that,’ and in direct rebellion against Almighty God, in a humanly devised scheme to thwart God’s judgment on him, and realize on his own--his own desire for security--what did he do? He built a city.

“He took the population, which was obviously large enough to fill up a city, and gathered them together as a monument to his rebellion against God.”

(to be continued tomorrow)