THE TRAGEDY OF CAIN AND ABEL

THE TRAGEDY OF CAIN AND ABEL

The tragedy of Cain and Abel was the loss of Cain’s natural birthright as the elder brother and the firstborn son of Adam and Eve. In God’s natural order of things, the eldest male child is supposed to receive the birthright from both his father and his mother because he has the right to dictate the future of the entire family. This right is dependent on the concern and care that an elder brother has to have for the future of his siblings. Why male? Because this concern and care extends up to death meaning if anyone will threaten the very life and survival of the siblings, it is the responsibility and obligation of the eldest male child to kill (yes, kill) anyone who threatens the life and survival of his siblings. That is important in God’s way for the survival of the family.

Cain did not recognize his responsibility and obligation towards his parents and thus had no care and concern for his sibling Abel. Cain was selfish, careless with his birthright, and literally pissed it away by becoming envious of Abel’s innocent, obedient and dutiful offerings to God. God wants cheerful givers, people who are willing to serve God by prioritizing God first. Obedience to God is the first step to prosperity and thus Abel was blessed with more fruits from his harvests by God, leading Abel to give more offerings to God without hesitation. Cain on the other hand did not want to give God everything he had so he was selfish with his offerings to God. He only gave offerings because he would have been scolded by his parents if he didn’t make the offerings from the harvest. Grudging gifts are actually no gift at all. So God said “Cain does not want to offer what I gave him to me therefore I will not give him anything anymore”. And that increased Cain’s rage because he believed he was entitled to everything without the duties that God demands from a true servant of God. Cain was irresponsible.

So Cain thought to himself “if I kill Abel, God will no longer see his offerings and will only see mine. That way, no one can compare to my offerings and I will still be the best child in the family. Then the birthright will pass to me without any competition.” Cain considered Abel his competition rather than his sibling so he killed Abel so he would have no one to compete with. The problem was, he also rejected his duty as the firstborn son to take care of his sibling so that countered with the natural order of God’s creation. You cannot care for your siblings and kill them at the same time. It is a tragedy because Cain actually had the leadership capabilities to become a great leader of his family if he had only recognized one fact – he was actually competing with his own soul. So he killed Abel then realized “oh shit! What did I just do?” So he tried to hide from his sin.

The problem is, he spilled blood on the soil and nature never counters what God has intended it to do. So the very earth cried out against the destruction of the natural order of things and that is how God knew what Cain and the devil had done. And God was enraged but he also understood what happened. That is why he didn’t kill Cain outright (and also why God has not killed the devil yet even though he can do that in a second’s worth of time). He knew that Cain knew his sin and that Cain’s own soul was crying out to be found out, scolded, punished then forgiven. Cain’s own soul wanted to return to God but Cain fought his soul and thus became insane. So in the end, Cain actually condemned himself to wander around looking for his natural place in society and in the world, because he lost his birthright as the firstborn son. And looking for his family that he had betrayed. But God knew that other people who do follow the natural order of God’s way in the earth would kill Cain for his sin because Cain’s soul was crying out to be killed. Cain’s soul knew that there was no way to go back and reverse what he had done and Cain was so stubborn that he refused to acknowledge his soul’s misery. So it would have been a mercy to kill Cain and end the suffering already.

But God also wanted Cain to realize his sin. So he told Cain that he would put a mark on Cain so that other Godly people would not kill him. Cain wound up a zombie – alive physically but not knowing where in society and in God’s green earth he belonged. He also knew that by not apologizing for the murder that he had lost his birthright as God’s son. So he was a zombie. To console himself for this half-life, he married a woman hoping that this would bring comfort and subconsciously bring back his role as the head of the family. He was craving for his birthright as the firstborn son but knew it was gone forever.

This tactic of marrying a woman didn’t work though because all Godly people knew what Cain had done because of the mark put on him by God. So he would never be able to fit in with normal people who are not murderers. So in effect, Cain lost friendship with everyone – with God, with his friends, with his parents, and of course, with his brother.

The lesson here is that God does want us to be his friends even though technically we are just dust in the world and not worthy to be God’s friends. But if we persist in going against God’s natural way of doing things, and refuse to apologize for our sins, and accept our penance, we will have psychological landmarks and landmarks in our souls that will tell Godly people who we really are. Godly people will shun us and people who reject God become criminals and insane psychotics.

The penalty here is that time is always the common denominator between God’s people and with criminally insane people. So God’s people are always ready to go back to the Creator with a clear conscience and with joy because we have done what God intends us to do. We know our purpose here on Earth and that is our sole consolation because the riches of this world and the desires of the flesh are foolish and temporary and empty. Those who become criminally insane are people who reject God completely yet their souls are crying out to be discovered, for their sins to be analysed for themselves, and to be forgiven by God. They become insane and criminals because they cannot accept that they are wrong and that they need to say sorry for their sins, and of course to accept their penance to be disciplined by God. But time always ends for each of us. So the tragedy and penalty is that criminally insane sinners cannot accept time because it means being lonely, alone, and afraid of the afterlife.

This is why criminals often pack together to join forces = loneliness. Because the most frightening thing in the world is to commit a sin then to know that you know your sin and that God knows your sin. When you go to sleep at night, your soul cries out against you and you become uncertain and uncomfortable in your own skin. So to assuage this loneliness, we have sinners who will get other sinners to join them. But this is tragedy too because in the end we all die alone, even when surrounded by our allies.

So make up your mind now if you will confess your sin or not. Because tomorrow might never come and you can die at any point. Then you have to face your soul who will condemn you before God. And God will have to make you suffer eternal death because your eternal soul requires justice. The End.