His genealogy comes down to the time of Noah where they are known as ‘the sons of God.’ It is the title of everyone who believes that the law of God is just and that the grace of God is through the sacrifice God has provided, 1st John 3:1-5.
The genealogy of Cain runs concurrently with Seth’s and just several generations later, a descendant of Cain’s was the first to break God’s law of marriage and take two wives, Genesis 4:18.
God uses marriage throughout the Bible to illustrate God’s relationship with his people and how relationship with him is damaged as in marriage when marriage is compromised.
In the time of Noah, in contrast to Seth’s line known as ‘the sons of God,’ Cain’s line is referred to as ‘the daughters of men.’ ‘The sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair,’ and married them. Genesis 6:2,4. Apostasy became reality followed by world-wide corruption and violence, Genesis 6:11.
Only Noah ‘found grace in the eyes of the Lord,’ verse 8, and only Noah believed rain and flood were coming. And only Noah and his family were preserved.
Not only did it rain, ‘the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven’ poured forth storm, water, volcano and earthquake. The surface of the earth erupted and the heavens poured forth their anger that the sacrifice for broken law was rejected. The grace of God was spurned.
As the Lord would say many years later, ‘But your wrongdoing has upset nature’s order,’ Jeremiah 5:25, REB, or, as Isaiah said ‘The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.’ Isaiah 24:5, KJV.
The heavy hand of disbelief in the Lord’s way of dealing with sin, changed weather patterns and today we have storms, floods, droughts, fires, earthquakes and volcanoes.
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