![]() ![]() In other words, He gave Cain more time to repent. He put a mark on him so no one would kill him. God gives each of us, as we live our lives, the way out of the death of anger. God gave Cain a way out of his anger, and he chose not to take it. It drains the life out of those who around he angry person and puts a damper on what could be an atmosphere of joy. It is usually not an instantaneous death, it is slow death, like a cancer creeping through the body. If anger does not drive an angry person to kill another person, as it did in Cain’s case, it kills the person who holds onto the anger. There are a lot of angry people in the world. God does not have to justify His action’s or motives to man. It does not matter why God favored Abel’s offering, and not Cain’s. I think people that try to figure this out are missing the point of the story entirely. I have heard and read many discussions about why God looked with favor on Abel’s offering, but He was not pleased with Cain’s offering. So Cain went out from the Lord’s presence and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden. Today you are driving me from the land, and I will be hidden from your presence I will be a restless wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.” But the Lord said to him, “Not so anyone who kills Cain will suffer vengeance seven times over.” Then the Lord put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him. ![]() You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.” Cain said to the Lord, “My punishment is more than I can bear. When you work the ground, it will no longer yield its crops for you. Now you are under a curse and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand. The Lord said, “What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground. Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” “I don’t know,” he replied. Now Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let’s go out to the field.” While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him. Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.” So Cain was very angry, and his face was downcast. The Lord looked with favor on Abel and his offering, but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favor. And Abel also brought an offering-fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock. In the course of time Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to the Lord. Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil. She said, “With the help of the Lord I have brought forth a man.” Later she gave birth to his brother Abel.
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