The Cain Syndrome – Part ii – Genesis Chapter 4, verse 10 -15, What Has Thou Done? –

The Cain Syndrome
Part ii
(Genesis 4:10 – 15)

What Has Thou Done?

And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother’s blood crieth unto me from the ground. (Genesis 4:10)
And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother’s blood from thy hand; (Genesis 4:11)
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. (Genesis 4:12)
And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear. (Genesis 4:13)
Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me. (Genesis 4:14)
And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him. (Genesis 4:15)

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The First and Last Documentations of
What Hast Thou Done

   What hast thou done is recorded seven (7) times in the word of God. Six times in the Old Testament and as the number six is the number of man we see in the Old Testament the history of man and the repetition of the phrase What hast thou done? This phrase is only recorded one time in the New Testament. In the Old Testament the first time applied to what Cain had done. It was God asking the first man born of a woman, which was Cain, What hast thou done? The last time that this phrase is used is man asking God, What hast thou done? in John 18:35. Pilate answered, Am I a Jew? Thine own nation and the chief priests have delivered thee unto me: what hast thou done? It is very important that we understand the mystery that is within the word of God. No matter what language the Holy Spirit presents the word of God, there is another language within the word of God, which is given by the revelation of the Spirit of God connecting certain verses, paragraphs and even chapters with other verses, paragraphs or chapters to complete the woven work of God’s tapestry in the word of God. Think of the words of God as many colors, and many threads, and within these colors and threads, God weaves a perfect picture of His will toward man. All that is revealed by God in the word of God is used by the Spirit of God by revelations to the heart of mankind. It is impossible for man to know God unless God reveals Himself to man. Each individual has to experience the seed of the Spirit of God within to be born again. God is completely in control; so, when we see numbers in scripture, those numbers develop certain colors all the way through the entire revealed word of God.
   The last time that this phrase comes up in the Bible, What hast thou done, was when Pilate asked GOD what He had done. What this phrase shows us in John 18 is that Pilate could not understand the hatred and the venom for Jesus of Nazareth. Pilate did not live in a corner, but he was the magistrate over Judea. He had undoubtedly heard of the miracles that Jesus of Nazareth had performed. Therefore, Pilate, could not understand the hatred and the screaming of Crucify him, crucify him. The mob of Pharisees, Sadducees, scribes, rulers of the Jews AND the people had NO authority over the government of Rome. Undoubtedly Pilate had never faced a situation as this before, and so, as he was perplexed, thus, he asked the Lord Jesus, What hast thou done?

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What Hast Thou Done?
He Gave Eternal Life to Man
He Brought the Power of Endless Life Into the World

   In Genesis 4:10, we see Cain as mankind bringing death into the world when he slew his brother. In Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, we see a Man from heaven bringing eternal life into the world. And yet, with this great benefit that He was to bestow upon mankind, they could only cry out in anger, Crucify him, crucify him. They were willing, in their own hearts, to give their lives and the lives of their children throughout history in the phrase, his blood be on us, and upon our children. God has held the Jewish people to the words from their own mouths; their children have been trampled on by the world, and their blood has been shed since the days of Christ to our present day. 

   The Lord Jesus came, being God, to give eternal life unto man. He brought the power of His endless life into the world. Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life. (Hebrews 7:16) The righteousness of God, the holiness of God, the wisdom of God, the word of God was manifested in the flesh in the Body that was prepared for Him (not upon the earth, it was prepared in heaven). Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: (Hebrews 10:5) Since we are dealing with the Cain Syndrome, this ungodly and satanic crowd chose a murderer in Barabbas rather than the Prince of life in the Lord Jesus Christ. For in Him was life and that life was the light of man. But as we know that darkness cannot comprehend the light because Christ separated the light from the darkness: another color in the tapestry of God. The very first principle given by God was the principle of separation when He separated the light from the darkness. We know, through the word of God in the gospel of John, Chapter 1, that light had come into the world in Jesus Christ and the darkness of the heart of man could not comprehend this light. Sin is the blindness of man to God. The Cain Syndrome establishes that sin of man against God and against those who follow God. I will expand this: to follow God one MUST be of God and MUST be born again by the eternal Spirit of God which is IN Christ Jesus our Lord. Even today the world cannot handle that Christ was not a man of the earth: earthly. He was the Lord from heaven in every facet of His Being. He came to replace Adam, not to be another Adam of the earth. Adam could not redeem his own self, so why do we try to connect the Lord Jesus with Adam when there was NOTHING of Adam in Christ. His whole BEING was Divine. Even His blood had the essence of Deity. Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. (Acts 20:28)
   In our section of scripture in Genesis Chapter 4, we see the condemnation of Cain from God. However, God was trying to get Cain to look inside himself, and see the tragedy that Cain brought into the world. To this point amongst men, man was only bearing the curse of sin which was upon the world, but Cain finalized sin in the death of his brother. Cain established the result of sin, which leads to the death of man. In the heart of Cain we see the words of the Jews, that His blood be upon me and upon my children . . . which it was by Cain slaying his brother. At this point Cain was showing us the Cain Syndrome and the seed of the wicked one that could not give life, only death in the branch of evil from the sin that Adam had brought into the world.

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What Hast Thou Done?
He Did Nothing Amiss
He Has Done All Things Well

  We have to wait for the answer to the question asked by Pilate, What hast thou done? The first man who was going to enter into paradise, the thief on the cross, answered Pilate’s question through the words, He has done nothing amiss. And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss. (Luke 23:41) In the case of Cain, we have the evidence that there was NO love for God, and the result was first his disobedience, and next, through his disobedience, he hatefully envied his brother Abel who was obedient to God, and in this, Cain had no love for his brother in that one act of sin, which was the murder of his brother. When the Lord Jesus was speaking of the commandments of God, He mentioned the great commandment . . 

Master, which is the great commandment in the law? (Matthew 22:36) Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. (Matthew 22:37) This is the first and great commandment. (Matthew 22:38) And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. (Matthew 22:39)

   We could not find any of this in the first man born of woman who was of that wicked one. Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous. (1st John 3:12) When Pilate asked Christ, What hast thou done? the answer in the heart of every child of God, is this: the heavens cannot contain what the Son of God has done.
   He called the worlds into existence by the word of His power. He maintains ALL that we see around us, and that which is above us in the heavens by the word of His power. He has prepared a place in the Father’s house for each and every child of God, and when our course is finished on earth, He will present us to His Father as a Bride in the likeness of His own image. For we are bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. We have passed from life to death and then from death to life in His grand work of salvation on the cross of Calvary.
   The word of God is only one glimmering star in His entire Being that is full of righteousness and full of grace and truth. Christ is GOD and GOD is Christ. He has never been separated from that position, although His flesh was denied by God because of the sin of the world upon it when the Lord Jesus cried out, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? And yet, when He bowed His head in the throes of death, He committed His Spirit to God the Father. Again, we ask ourselves of the Lord Jesus, What hast thou done?
   He has given me life from above. He has blessed me with all the treasures in heavenly places. God the Father because of the work of Christ, and He has translated me into the kingdom of God’s dear Son. The Father of lights and perfection has sent the Spirit of Christ into my heart whereby, I can cry out, Abba, Father.
   As the Lord Jesus walked upon the earth, He presented God to man, and in His life, He presented man to God. He had come as the Redeemer and not as the Judge. He had come with grace based on divine truth. He gave sight to the blind, and in Chapter 9 of the gospel of John, the man who was born blind had received sight from the light of the world, Jesus Christ, bowed down and worshiped the Son of God. The leper whom Christ healed was far beyond the healing of The Law of the Leper. For this man saw in his own flesh the complete renewal of that flesh without the marks of leprosy. Christ had returned that leper to his prior state of newborn flesh; consequently, that leper bowed down and worshiped Him.
   Only Christ could go into the presence of death and take the hand of death and say, Maid, arise, And he put them all out, and took her by the hand, and called, saying, Maid, arise. (Luke 8:54) In his total walk upon the earth, death could not prevent Him in any way. When both death and the earth had swallowed Lazarus, the Divine Life of Christ Jesus simply called Lazarus to come forth from the tomb after they rolled the stone away. And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth. (John 11:43) And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go. (John 11:44) Many cannot see the depth that was in the raising of Lazarus.

    In the presence of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Divine Man, for God was IN Christ, Christ has to remove the presence of death and the instrument of death which is sin in order for Lazarus to receive life once again. This was a divine act by the Son of God to break the chains of sin and death for death is the result of sin. The great example of this was when Lazarus came forth, he was still bound in the robes of death. These clothes of death had to be removed by man to see the life which was beneath them. No one in the history of the Bible, or the history of mankind, could perform such a feat, and have such power over sin and death, but the Son of God. In all of scripture, the Holy Spirit used this phrase ONLY ONE time, He hath done all things well. And were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all things well: he maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak. (Mark 7:37)
   In the answer to the question of Pilate, What hast thou done? the thief on the cross told us in such simplicity that Christ had done nothing amiss. In the answer to Pilate’s question, the Holy Spirit of God supplies the answer, He (Christ) has done all things well. And because of the profoundness of this statement, the Holy Spirit of God, only used this phrase ONE time for the Divine Person of the Son of God. In ALL of scripture, there could not be another . . . not Moses, not Joshua, not Gideon, not David nor Solomon, could this simplistic phrase from the Holy Spirit of God be attributed to them. ONLY the Man from heaven, the Divine Creator of all things, could the Holy Spirit write such a phrase. Are you beginning to see the different colors and the many threads?

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What Hast Thou Done?
He Has Given the Eye of Faith to Man

    When the Lord Jesus tells us that our eyes should be single in Luke 11, and therefore, by having a single eye, our whole body will be full of light.

The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness. (Luke 11:34) Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness. (Luke 11:35) If thy whole body therefore be full of light, having no part dark, the whole shall be full of light, as when the bright shining of a candle doth give thee light. (Luke 11:36)

  These verses are not a proverb, nor a parable, these verses are a similitude, this is another color and contains more threads in the divine tapestry in the word of God. The light of the body is the eye, although we have two eyes, we have a single vision. We receive ALL light as one light and although we have two eyes, our sight must be singular, and this sight of the inward body must be centered on Christ and WHO HE IS. Anything that detracts from the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ is darkness. The light of the Son of God must fill the whole body.
   Compare this to the sight of Cain, he not only disobeyed God in the things that He heard from God by the word of God. Cain’s eye was not fixed on God, but on the things of the world which were the works of his own hands and when those works were not accepted by God, Cain showed the darkness that was IN him for he was very wroth with God. Here we see that in Cain, sin had brought forth iniquity, and iniquity had brought forth enmity against God. As we saw in Lucifer in the ‘I wills’ of Isaiah Chapter 14 that sin and iniquity was found in him because of his own merchandise (his own works) in Ezekiel 28. If the eye be single and is focused on the light of God in Jesus Christ, then the whole body is FULL of light. As we examine this further, we find that the Lord Jesus is the brightness of God’s glory and the express image of God’s Person in Hebrews 1:3. Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; The brightness of God’s light is the brightness of His own glory. We see this on the mount of transfiguration, on the holy mount, when Christ was transfigured before Peter, James and John. God the Father declared in this revelation that the brightness of His glory, the brightness of the Godhead, was the image of God’s beloved Son. In His beloved Son, He had ALL pleasure for this was the essence of God’s righteousness and God’s purity standing before man in the Person of Jesus Christ. This is why if the singleness of one’s eye is stayed on Jesus Christ, then the whole body is full of light, and there will be no part of the darkness of the wicked one that we find in Cain and in the Cain Syndrome. Cain looked at all the things around and labored to present his own works to God.
   In all the actions of Cain there was no element of faith, and as we examine the Cain Syndrome, we see the very denial of faith in God by the darkness of the wicked one who was in Cain. And yet, Abel was full of light. He had faith in God, and was obedient to the word of God and as God gave light to Abel He allowed that light to fill his whole body through faith. Remember now what Hebrews Chapter 11:1 declares, Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. This is what the eye of faith sees. The eye of faith believes God and every word of God is precious to the eye of faith. Faith is the eye of things hoped for it is the things revealed IN God to us that we might see into the invisible by faith.
   The elders, as Enoch through faith, received a good report. Abel, with hope, and with the eye of faith BELIEVED God and through his excellent sacrifice acquired the righteousness of God through his obedience of things hoped for. Thus, Abel understood the present and the FUTURE of God’s redemption. Truly not all was revealed to Abel, but he embraced the things hoped for and the evidence of the things not seen in the blood of the sacrificial lamb and of the altar, the great stone of Abel, and the wood and the fire that consumed the fat as a sweet savor unto God. What Abel could not see at that time was that the Almighty had already viewed in His determinate counsels and foreknowledge the crucifixion of His Divine Son on the cross of Calvary. Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain: (Acts 2:23) In Romans Chapter 8, we are introduced to the hope of faith within us in verse 24 through 25. For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? (Romans 8:24) But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. (Romans 8:25)
   Now faith is our hope, and the evidence of things not seen that through the eye of faith (being single) in the object of our faith, the Lord Jesus Christ, we see our hope, and our body is full of light. Our hope is a surety, our hope is our faith, and Christ is the surety of that faith. The same hope that we have in the unseen is the same hope that Abel had when he presented his excellent sacrifice to God.
   This first recorded sacrifice from man to God is the only one in scripture called a more excellent sacrifice because it prefigured the excellency of the sacrifice of Christ on the cross of Calvary. So, our hope in our faith is the surety of Christ’s more excellent sacrifice on the cross of Calvary. We can truly say in our heart that He hath done all things well. Abel could look up and see the smoke ascending to God as a sweet savor knowing that his sacrifice was accepted by God and by this sacrifice, he received God’s righteousness, for God, in His foreknowledge, could display His grace in Abel prior to the crucifixion of His beloved Son.

Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed. (John 20:29)

Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: (1st Peter 1:8) Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls. (1st Peter 1:9)

   When the eye is single, and fixed on the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ, the colors and the threads weave a divine picture of the beginning of the creation of God that man knows not of. And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; (Revelation 3:14) This is the only place and time that the Holy Spirit used the phrase the beginning of the creation of God. The Lord Jesus attributes this phrase to Himself. This connects ALL the beginnings of the outward manifestation of the power of the Godhead bodily IN Jesus Christ.

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. (Genesis 1:1)

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (John 1:1) The same was in the beginning with God. (John 1:2) All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. (John 1:3)

That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life; (1st John 1:1) (For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;) (1st John 1:2)

Who hath wrought and done [it], calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I [am] he. (Isaiah 41:4)

Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me. (Isaiah 43:10) I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour. (Isaiah 43:11)

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What Hast Thou Done?
Only ONE Has Done All Things Well

   Isaiah connects the hope of our faith to the ONLY Creator, to the ONLY God, to the ONLY Savior who IS Jesus Christ who is the beginning of the creation of God. We’re adding more colors, and we are adding more threads. We must see that from the beginning, Christ who is the image of the invisible God, the brightness of God’s glory and the express image of His Person and the fullness of the Godhead bodily, He hath done all things well. In Mark Chapter 7, this wonderful chapter in what it exposes to us through the Spirit of God, in all that is revealed and manifested in this Chapter is capped with the words, He hath done all things well in verse 37. This Chapter begins with the Pharisees, and the traditions of man over the word of God. The Lord’s ministry to the Pharisees reveals their hypocrisy, all the things that they embraced were of man and not of God. The Pharisee based his appearance before man before he looked within his own heart, his eye was not single; therefore, his body was full of darkness. Christ was not looking on the outward man, but He went into the heart, the very center of man and saw the thoughts and the intents of the heart.

For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. (Hebrews 4:12) Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do. (Hebrews 4:13)

And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man. (Mark 7:20) For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, (Mark 7:21) Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: (Mark 7:22) All these evil things come from within, and defile the man. (Mark 7:23)

Now when he was in Jerusalem at the passover, in the feast day, many believed in his name, when they saw the miracles which he did. (John 2:23) But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew all men, (John 2:24) And needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew what was in man. (John 2:25)

   Today we live in a world of Pharisees, whether it is the religions of the world, or the political systems of the world, they all have the heart of the Pharisees, as Cain, for they continual look at the works of their own hands. And pharisaicaly judge others, without looking into their own hearts. When the Pharisees followed and stalked the Lord Jesus Christ, they were not following to agree with His words, but they were attempting to catch Him in the very words that He spoke, even in the miracles that He performed. Even in these wonderful miracles, they (the Pharisees) were so full of darkness that they declared that He cast out the devils by Beelzebub, who is the devil himself. If we rely on the words of men, we will see how they continually deny the Person of Christ. If it were not for the Spirit of God telling us through the word of God that He has done all things well, we would only have the voice of the Pharisees, these men of renown who lead us in the path of destruction and not in the path of God’s glorious light in Jesus Christ. As the word of God is a lamp unto our feet, and a light unto our path, so, Christ, the Living Word is the brightness of God’s glory, the Light that shineth more and more until the perfect day when Christ is manifested in ALL His glory to all those who have been bought by His blood and the sacrifice of His flesh upon the cross of Calvary.
   The resentment of the Pharisees more than equaled the resentment of Cain against his brother Abel. I think it would be safe to say that there was more hate, more darkness, more enmity against the Lord Jesus Christ by the Pharisees and even by man as a continuum of man’s wickedness even unto this very day. The Pharisees followed Christ trying to catch Him in His words and deeds. It’s amazing how the people of our age emulate the spirit of those Pharisees, ever trying to overthrow anything that is just and good, or anyone who even speaks of Jesus Christ. It is amazing today how everyone looks on others and has no sight within their own hearts. Man does not want to see the defilement, the sin, and the condemnation of his own being. The Pharisees would only look on what man could see. They presented themselves in fine and glorious garments to show their position before man, and this position was to be held in high esteem among man. They outwardly displayed their pharisaical hearts by praying openly in the market place as today we see the waving of hands high in the air and speaking in un-understandable guttural sounds words of the devil. Their eye is not single in the Person of Christ. They have not laid hold of the true love of God which is within the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ.
   Think of the people in the age of the Lord Jesus: they had been under the leadership of these Pharisees since the days of Malachi. Read Malachi and you will understand the personalities and character of those Pharisees. With Cain, Cain came first, and then everything else followed. With the Pharisees, THEY came first, then everything else followed. There was no room for God in Cain’s heart and there was no room for God in the hearts of the Pharisees, BUT they were the authority of that day, and for centuries these men of self-imposed importance have been regarded by the people as authority figures to be honored and respected as experts and scholars and sages. How could they ALL be wrong and this one Man, Jesus of Nazareth be right? After all He was just a carpenter’s son, where was His credentials?
   It is never said of Cain, or the children of Beelzebub that they do all things well. The Spirit of God, not the traditions of man, left THAT statement for ONE and ONLY ONE, the Son of God the Lord Jesus Christ that He has done all things well. There is not enough paper or ink in this world to write ALL the things that the Son of God has done. Pen and paper cannot look into the UNSEEN. Only the eye of faith can behold what is now present in Christ, and all that is to come. Pen and paper cannot give the assurance of the Spirit of God within the heart. Pen and paper cannot reveal the glory in the face of the Lord Jesus Christ. Pen and paper cannot do the work of the Spirit of God in the new birth, but pen and paper can inform others of a holy and righteous Savior that loved them and gave Himself for them: that there is only ONE in all the SEEN and in the UNSEEN that has the power of life. The very ONE who spoke the worlds into existence is the very ONE today who upholds all of the tangible creation, and who upholds and fulfills the determinate counsels of God by His presence at the right hand of God. From the past to the present and onward to the future He HAS and WILL DO ALL THINGS WELL. Now all the colors and the threads in the word of God are revealed by God the Spirit.

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What Hast Thou Done?
Christ Revealed Himself as the ONENESS of the Godhead bodily

   As the Ethiopian eunuch man needed the Spirit of God to interpret the word of God to show the many colors and threads within the word of God, the Spirit of God provided a man filled with the Spirit of God and full of faith. The Spirit of God is the Author of all gifts to man and imparts these gifts to the heart that is earnestly seeking the truths within the word of God, and therefore, God the Holy Spirit SENT Phillip to guide this eunuch. Philip was one of those gifts of God who was full of faith and of the Holy Ghost. And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch: (Acts 6:5)

And the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, Arise, and go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert. (Acts 8:26)
And he arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for to worship, (Acts 8:27)
Was returning, and sitting in his chariot read Esaias the prophet (Acts 8:28).
Then the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join thyself to this chariot. (Acts 8:29)
And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest? (Acts 8:30)
And he said, How can I, except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him. (Acts 8:31)
The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth: (Acts 8:32)
In his humiliation his judgment was taken away: and who shall declare his generation? for his life is taken from the earth. (Acts 8:33)
And the eunuch answered Philip, and said, I pray thee, of whom speaketh the prophet this? of himself, or of some other man? (Acts 8:34)
Then Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same scripture, and preached unto him Jesus. (Acts 8:35)
And as they went on their way, they came unto a certain water: and the eunuch said, See, here is water; what doth hinder me to be baptized? (Acts 8:36)
And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. (Acts 8:37)
And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him. (Acts 8:38)
And when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more: and he went on his way rejoicing. (Acts 8:39)

   We often speak of the conversion of this Ethiopian eunuch, but we fail to see the abundance of the work of the Holy Ghost IN Philip. We can see by Philip’s actions and the work that he was given that his eye was single, and he was FULL of light, and the message that he took to the Ethiopian eunuch was about the Center of God’s love: Jesus Christ. In Acts 21:8, we have the last mention of Philip as the evangelist. Philip was one of the seven who were confirmed in Matthew 10:3 and Mark 3:18.

And the next day we that were of Paul’s company departed, and came unto Caesarea: and we entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, which was one of the seven; and abode with him. (Acts 21:8)

Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the publican; James the son of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus, whose surname was Thaddaeus; (Matthew 10:3)

And Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Canaanite, (Mark 3:18)

   Philip was always in good company; the name Philip is mentioned thirty-three times through the gospels and the book of Acts. He had the gift of the evangelist, and we can see his gift through all the records of the Spirit of God in the word of God. Philip is mysteriously viewed through both his life and his movements by the Spirit of God moving him from place to place, and sometimes in a supernatural manner. All the evidence shows that Philip was FULL of faith and of the Holy Ghost. And the Center of his faith was the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ. Through John 14:8 we see one of the greatest revelations to Philip. Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. (John 14:8) Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father? (John 14:9)

   The Lord Jesus opened Philip’s eyes with this revelation. There is something much deeper because the Lord is revealing both the SEEN and the UNSEEN uniquely showing Philip that His manifestation is both of the SON and of the FATHER. They are revealed as the ONENESS of Godhead bodily, and that Christ is the fullness of ONENESS of the Godhead. For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. (Colossians 2:9) Philip received this revelation from the Lord Jesus while the Lord Jesus was upon the earth, as a witness of the Godhead bodily.
   Now, there is a further witness with Stephen, a man FULL of the Holy Ghost. When Stephen was in the process of being stoned, he looked up into heaven and SAW the Lord Jesus, the Son of man standing at the right hand of God. Stephen’s eyes were opened to the glorious truth that we see united in the book of the Revelation where Christ sits upon His glorious throne as the FULLNESS of the Godhead bodily. (Revelation Chapter 4 and 5)
   In the gospel according to John, we have several references to the Godhead, and Christ being the manifest image of God. In John Chapter 3:11-13, John 14:9; and in John 17 this entire Chapter shows Christ united as ONE with the Father. And of course, John Chapter 4, the revelation to the woman of Samaria, that God is Spirit and yet, it is the Gift of God giving this revelation to the woman at the well. More colors and more threads as we see the fullness of God IN Jesus Christ.

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What Hast Thou Done?
The Cain Syndrome Infects the Blood Stream of Mankind

   Now, let us return to Cain and the Cain Syndrome, and What hast thou done? What Cain did NOT do led Cain to do what he did, and that was to lead Cain from disobedience to murder him to exile to a deformed body. Cain did NOT obey the word of God. He refused to follow God’s instructions. This not only affected his whole life but set a standard of evil for all of his descendants. He was truly from the evil branch of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Cain was the evil seed. He reproduced after his own kind; therefore, the Cain Syndrome became a perpetual syndrome, and we can trace this evil seed and watch it grow as a thorn bush throughout man’s history.
   Let us continue to trace the beginning of the Cain Syndrome from the sin of Adam when he brought sin and death into the world to the gifts that Cain brought to God from the ground that was cursed by God in Genesis 3:17 – 19.

And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; (Genesis 3:17)
Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; (Genesis 3:18)
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. (Genesis 3:19)

   Man (in Adam) brought judgment and a curse upon the earth because of his disobedience to God. I find it interesting that man already knew the Law of Sin and Death. (Romans 8:2) However, to Adam, God said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; (Genesis 3:17) In comparing the curse through the trial of the Lord Jesus interesting because the first thing that we read is that Adam listened to his wife, in the trial of the Lord Jesus with Pilate, Pilate did not listen to his wife, when she said, Have nothing to do with this JUST man. When he was set down on the judgment seat, his wife sent unto him, saying, Have thou nothing to do with that just man: for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him. (Matthew 27:19)

   Another comparison is the curse upon the earth that it brought forth thorns and thistles . . . when the Lord Jesus went out from Pilate his soldiers platted a crown of thorns and pushed it into His brow . . . this crown of thorns caused the Lord of glory, the express image of God IN Christ to experience the pain and the agony of the curse meant for Adam and for the ground. In the Lord’s crucifixion that curse of Genesis Chapter 3 had to be removed along with the sin of the world. As the crown of thorns was a symbol of the curse, the curse also was removed by the death of God’s Son on Calvary. And it will be finalized when Christ comes to reign over the earth in His millennial kingdom. So, when Cain brought of the fruit of the ground, he presented that which was cursed to God Almighty. This curse would be multiplied through Cain’s disobedience. There would be a further curse for Cain’s actions. Not only in what he presented to God, but also for the slaying of his brother. In Genesis 4:11, it was Cain who was cursed from the earth. Why? because the earth had opened its mouth and received Abel’s blood from the hand of the murderer Cain. And now we exist in a world where blood touches blood. The Cain Syndrome brought this insanity into our age of wars where blood touches blood. Just because wars may be far away does not mean that the politicians and leaders of far-off nations can wash their hands of blood. Pilate washed his hands, but the stains of the blood of Christ never left his soul. Pilate condemned himself when he condemned the JUST man, the Lord of glory.
   On that day the earth opened its mouth and received the blood of Christ the whole earth shook as the Creator and God of creation gave His life and His blood on the cross of Calvary. Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. (Matthew 27:50) And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; (Matthew 27:51) Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God. (Matthew 27:54) Even the earth knew the occasion and the reason for Christ’s death on the cross.
   When God was speaking face to face with Cain, He told Cain that from henceforth, the ground would not yield to him the strength of its fruit. With Adam, God told him that from henceforth his food would come by the sweat of his face, but then with Cain, the ground would not even acknowledge his labor and would hold back her fruit and strength from Cain. The Lord told Cain that he would be a fugitive and vagabond for his crime against man and against God. He would be a vagabond for even the earth did not want to acknowledge his existence. This should have been the moment, the time of Cain’s repentance, instead, Cain looked into the face of God and his reaction was not repentance. It was a reaction against the severity of God’s judgment. Cain said, My punishment is greater than I can bear. (Genesis 4:14) Cain thought that God’s reaction did not warrant the severity of his being exiled. But Cain’s punishment was much more than being exiled from his family and from his familiar environment, Cain was exiled from the presence of God. He would no longer see the face of God. The face of God would be hidden from Cain and his descendants.

And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear. (Genesis 4:13) Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me. (Genesis 4:14)

   When Cain used the phrase, from thy face shall I be hid, we see a revelation that at the FIRST both Cain and Abel stood before God and listen to the same words that God proclaimed concerning the animal sacrifice of a lamb without blemish. Both Cain and Abel not only listened to the words of God, but both men LOOKED upon the face of God. And yet, the very disobedience to the word of God, that first recorded sin of Cain bringing the fruit of his own labor and NOT the required lamb, that first trespass led him to murder his brother from self-pride, covetousness and enmity against God. Cain also proclaimed that everyone who found him would slay him. Again, we see in verse 15 of Genesis 4 the long suffering of God in love and mercy even to those who did not love God nor showed mercy to others, and to those who continued to propagate the Cain Syndrome. God announced to the whole world, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him. In order to protect Cain against the manslayer God set a mark upon Cain. This was to keep not only the manslayer at a distance, but it was to keep all men away from a murderer. Having murdered once does not prevent a murderer from killing again. So, the only logical solution was to mark the murder with a visible sign, and Cain’s mark was a change of stature. The element of height was added to Cain’s body, he was made taller, he was the first giant in the earth. Therefore, man would be able to recognize the murder Cain from a distance. God sent Cain into the land of Nod showing His rejection of this first earth born man.

   As we watch the current strife and war between Hamas and Israel, we are only watching the fulfillment of the Cain Syndrome. It is impossible for man today to turn away from blood touching blood. Man has become so evil that his wars have become a habit of shedding the blood of others. No matter which side man places himself, it is the ground, the earth that opens its mouth and takes in blood. God has watched man, man was watched man, and the earth itself has not only watched man, but has felt the complete sin of man as a victim. Even the earth itself will break forth with singing when the Creator, the Lord of Lords, and King of Kings, the manifestation of the Lord Jesus Christ returns to set up His millennial kingdom and bring peace to the earth. For one thousand years the sin of the world will be under the reign and judgment of the Son of God upon His throne.
   After a thousand years, Satan will be loosed from the pit, and it will be Christ Himself who will destroy the evil nations of the world. At this point (when the earth is totally subdued) Christ will reveal His great white throne of judgment and all the wickedness of man, from Adam’s first sin through the centuries and the millenniums the books will be opened, and anyone not found in the book of life of the Lamb slain from before the foundations of the world will be judged for their works and cast into the eternal lake of fire.
   Concerning the Cain Syndrome today, the majority of the people still fail to open their eyes because the world’s societies have wired their eyes shut with the lies of Satan from the garden to this present moment. Man has embraced through his actions and his works the words of Satan, ye shall be as gods. Remember that Adam was changed at the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. He no longer had a heart that was totally given to God, his heart had changed and become corrupted by sin, and even today, it is only God Himself who knows all the thoughts and intents of the heart. For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. (Hebrews 4:12)

   Before this article closes there will be more on the Cain Syndrome for, we must follow Cain to the land of Nod and see what developed in the line of Cain. Today the people who do not embrace the Lord Jesus Christ as God and Savior and Master and Lord of all things, are looking through the eyes of Cain. They see no beauty in the Lord of glory. To them there is no tangible wealth in knowing Him. There is no fame or pride in knowing Him. And yet, discounting all the enmity of man out of every nation, out of every people, out of every race, out of every nationality, today men and women are bowing their knees to the Lord of Lords and King of Kings. Lost children have come home under the blood on the lintels and on the doorposts within they are safe and sound from the angel of death for they have been given life eternal in the Son of God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of peace. I beg you this day be ye reconciled to God and although the whole world be at war, the Lord Jesus tells us, My peace, I give unto you. Amen and Selah.

Part iii to follow.

© Copyright – Michael Haigh

Published on November 3, 2023 at 11:59 AM (EST)
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