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"So Cain is the start of the line of wicked people who turned their backs on God.
Thus we
are
introduced to the fifth generation from Cain headed by a fellow named Lamech.
Lamech
is far
removed from God and Lamech (as had Kayin and many others) breaks God’s instruction about
the institution of marriage; of a man and woman being joined as one flesh: he gets greedy
and he takes TWO wives.
And, then, listen to the proud, rebellious Lamech who boasts this to his
2 wives:
(Gen 4:23-24 CJB) 23 Lemekh said to his wives, "'Adah and Tzilah, listen to me;
wives of
Lemekh, hear what I say: I killed a man for wounding me, a young man who injured me
24 If Kayin will be avenged sevenfold, then Lemekh seventy-sevenfold!"
Lamech admits to ***.
The line of Kayin (Cain) was thoroughly wicked, godless, and
corrupted and in just a few generations after the first man was created, and from
We’ll see this same pattern emerge
many years later after the Great Flood when Noah, the 2nd Adam, repopulates the earth but
amazingly
almost immediately wickedness reappears.
Interestingly that won’t be the last time history
repeats
itself in that way; when Christ comes the 2nd time....I believe in the VERY near
future.....and
cleanses the whole world and sets up His perfect Kingdom for a 1000 years....... toward
the end of
that millennium people will once again display wickedness and rebel against Messiah.
And they will
be destroyed completely, along with Satan, the entire evil spiritual world, and even
evil itself.
only then will that pattern (that cycle of evil) finally be broken once and forever.