We shall read from verses sixteen to the end of the chapter. Genesis chapter four. And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod on the east of Eden. And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bare Enoch, and he built a city and called the name of the city after the name of his son Enoch. And unto Enoch was born Ered, and Ered begat Mehujail, and Mehujail begat Methuselah, and Methuselah begat Lamech. And Lamech took unto him two wives. The name of the one was Adar, or Adar, and the name of the other Zilla. An otter bear Jabal, he was the father of such as Dwell and Ten, and of such as have cattle. And his brother's name was Jubal. He was the father of all such as handled the harp and organ. And Zilla, she also bear Tubal-Cain. and instructor of every cutting instrument that was made out of brass and iron. And the sister of Tubal-Cain was Nehama. And Lamech said unto his wives, Wives Ada and Zilla, Hear, my boy, ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech, For I have slain the man to my wounding, and a young man to my herd. If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold. And Adam knew his wife again, and she bare a son, and called his name Seth. For God said she hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel whom Cain slew. and to Seth, to him also there was born a son, and he called his name Inos, then began men to call upon the name of the Lord. We have thus far studied a young man under pressure, an old man under pressure, and tonight it will be a godly seed under pressure. In the history of civilization, the final period will resemble the first period. And would you notice and turn with me holding your place here to Matthew the twenty-fourth chapter? And in Matthew the twenty-fourth chapter, we read in verse thirty-seven But as the days of Noah were, so also the coming of the Son of Man be. For as in the days that were before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and knew not until the flood came and took them all away. So shall also the coming of the Son of Man be. Here at the very opening of the history of the kingdom, there was a division of two different ways. There was those who wanted to have that kingdom of God rule and reign in their lives, and then there were those who were opposed to it. And as there were two different ways then, so the two different ways are in our present day. It has always been that way down through the ages where the Lord God was concerned. There were the godly and the ungodly. The decisive bent of men's mind before the flood was an attempt to do away with the kingdom of God. And the way they tried to do it was to compensate for the lost garden of Eden by manufacturing a superficial one. And by manufacturing the superficial ones, they were conveying the fact that there was no such thing as God's judgment on men. Cain went out, and as he went out from the presence of God, immediately something took place. For when he went out from the presence of God, he built the city and called the city after his son's name, Enoch. In the word of God, you will notice, when certain events take place, or a certain piece of ground is formed, or a certain manifestation of God has taken place, they usually name that place with some sort of God in it. But here, when he went out from the presence of God, he built him a city. He did not want to live under God's jurisdiction, God's ways depending on him. When he built the city, Genesis four, seventeen tells us, and came to his wife, and she conceived and bear Enoch, and he built the city and called the name of the city after the name of his son Enoch. Now Enoch, in the Hebrew, means inauguration. It means a new start. It means sweeping away the path and beginning a fresh. so that he wiped the memory of God out of his mind, out of his heart, going his own way, building that city, naming it after his son, which may mean the inauguration, a new start, a new beginning. And the dominating factors of that civilization was overturning all that preceded it. And not only so, the new beginning of a self-exalted combined civilization in revolt against God. He purposely, as the Hebrew conveys, he purposely refused to remember God in any of his thoughts, and he purposely gave his son a name and a city a name after his son's name so that the Lord God would be banished. Through Cain, Cain settled life and city buildings. and immediately from then on civilization with rapidity became commercial, it became musical, it became so many things all of a sudden ever since Cain went out from the presence of God. Might I say what is in the beginning as we see it in Genesis, finds its parallel in the last days in which we are living. Those were past days, and I call these last days, for the past days came to an end, and these days in the present are the last days, for they will soon come to an end. The dominating characteristics of the Canaanite line have the germinal seed in it of what we have in our days only on a more sophisticated way of life. Then I want you to notice, first of all, there was the rapid advance of all mechanical art. Up to this time, the people lived in a way that is not known to us exactly, except if they were a shepherd people. They were not concerned for business or a conglomerate of business. They were not concerned of the material aspect of life so that the material things of life being dominated by men, others would suffer thereby by having to be dependent on them. So, in the last seven years or so, There was a rapid upsweep of science, of materialism, of culture, and in the last seventy years we have made such strides. Approximately, let's say, over five thousand years of waiting. It was an hour generation in this age that the atomic bomb came to pass. And it came to pass quickly, and nuclear fission, and all these things made rapid stride. As it was then on a small scale, in germinal form, it was on a large scale, on a plane that the world has never known before. the rapid advance. First of all, there were the three chief occupations that came to the fore before the flood. What were they? First of all, there was fools. Secondly, there was defense. And thirdly, there was instruction. In other words, the tradesmen and also the warrior and the intellectual. And where do we see it? First of all, we see that feeding came through Jabal. And as we see it here, will you notice this verse of Scripture? And we find it in verse twenty. And Ada Bear Jabal He was the father of such as dwelling tents and of such as half-cattle. The cattle belonged to the people as they were in groups living here and there. But when he came upon the feet, he was able in some way to monopolize the cattle. They lived as nomads. He, on the other hand, built, so to speak, a dwelling place. And as he began to gather cattle, he gathered cattle to the extent that it was within his power, and the people had to look to him and get it from him. Therefore there was, I am sure, a revolution. Where do I get that from, that the people rebelled? I get it from the fact of Hugo King. And we read here, and Zilla in verse twenty-two, she also bear tubal cane, an instructor of every cutting instrument in brass and iron. Why do they need cutting instruments? Why? Why not use them as plowshares? Why not use it for agricultural purposes? Why not turn these instruments into cutting instruments? It speaks to me of warfare. Why so, for there was a rebellion in the monopolizing of the cattle under Jabal. With regard to the cutting instruments, for agriculture that became weapons of war. Hold your place here and turn with me to Isaiah the second chapter. In Isaiah the second chapter, we read in chapter two and verse four, and he shall judge among the nation and shall rebuke many people, and they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. In other words, the instrument of war will become the instrument for agricultural purposes when the Messiah reigns upon the earth. But when you come to Joel three ten, it's the other way around. Take your plowshares. take these things and forge them into weapons of war. Why? Because Jehovah is going to judge his people. And the idea is, try to protect yourself as much as you would, turning the agricultural instrument into the weapons of war. You will not be able to prevail. So, after a tubercane, someone else is mentioned, and he comes upon the scene. And look at verse twenty-one. And his brother's name was Jabal, or Hubal. He was the father of all such as handled the harp and organ. The Hebrew word translated, that name means the undulator, U-N-D-U-L-A-T-O-R, up and down, up and down. He was the father of musical instruments. And if you go further, the word also means rhythm. If you go further, the word also means to sleep. You heard of a swinger? Yes. One who just beats it up, you know, dances to the music. So here, he was the undulator, and he was the father of the harp and organ. Why? You know, when the sons of Adam become weary, they need something to cheer them up. So he was the father of music. And the world is so weary and tired and unhappy and wretched that those who make the high salaries and the big money are the entertainers to rock and roll and the like. There it was in germinal form. Here it is full flowers and full ores. Now, the second thing, the first thing, was the rapid advance of all the odds. The second thing that shows the parallel between the past days and the last days is the population explosion. And before God's judgment and sending the flood, there was a great population explosion. when you notice chapter six. And it came to pass when men began to multiply on the face of the earth that and daughters were born unto them. It was a great population explosion. And in this population explosion, It was the cause for violence. It was the cause for treachery. It was the cause for murder and bloodshed. Because in the increase of population, the world at that time was so confining in its areas that they were treading, so to speak, one upon the other. There was not enough food to go around. There was not enough space. there was not enough of anything because of the population explosion. What have we now? We have shortages in almost every field. Bread will be almost a dollar a pound, and then you and I will not be as well bread as we feel we are, because we will just go against it, to pay a dollar a pound for a loaf of bread. The population explosion caused violence, and to prove it, when you notice the sixth chapter, verse thirteen. And we read in God sent unto Noah the end of all flesh. That's all he saw, their flesh. when he breathed into man the breath of life, finally man after falling. When he reached the highest, he was nothing but flesh. All flesh has come before me, for the earth is filled with violence through them. And behold, I will destroy them with the earth. A population explosion, and all these things follow in the stream. And we have various ways, contraceptives, and the pill and whatnot, to see. many from drinking forth children, because we feel the world is becoming so overpopulated, there is not enough food and the other things to make life worth living. And it shall increase. The third thing there was the divine disregard for marriage. And we find that in the sixth chapter, and the Spirit of God brings before us that that age, that time before the flood, was a time when everything was focused around the physical, the sexual, the body. There was a time when in our land people are concerned about their soul. But now their anxiety is according to what they have in their savings, what toothpaste they use, what kind of a bread they should buy, what kind of this that and the other. They are concerned in anxious because of their body and not their souls, and because of it anxiety is a winning the day, and people are being gradually whittled down. So we see in Genesis four nineteen a sample of it of what we read in the sixth chapter where daughters were born unto them. But look at verse two before going to verse nineteen, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair, and they took them wives of all which they chose. And I was told by one Hebrew professor, the man who before I came amongst the assembly preached my ordination message, and then After that, after he preached it, we were discussing it, and I said, what does it mean with regard to those days they married and they gave them to marry? They were not satisfied with the wife that they had necessarily, but what they did was take as many as they would, and they exchanged wine. That's what they did. They were sex-driven. And might I say, when the Spirit of God does not come into the heart of an individual, all he lives by is his senses. And as he lives by his senses, he is considered sensual. And as he is sensual, with the restraint of God being removed, everything seems to culminate around the fact of the relationship between men and women. And so there was polygamy in those days. For I want you to notice chapter four in verse nineteen, and Lamech took unto him two wives, and the name of the one was Ada, and the name of the other Zilip. But in sixth two, they exchanged wives. or they did away with the wife that they didn't like and took others unto them. Now do not please ask me who are the sons of God because it's a controversial subject. Personally, I believe that they were not fallen beings who were able to have relationship with the daughters of men, and through that relationship giants were born. That is, abnormal ones, giants, great ones, and that's where the manufacturing stories of the gods like Hercules, Atlas, and the like came to pass. I do believe that down came these fallen beings, and as these fallen beings entered into the sons of men, they threw a human body, and in that relationship that they had with the daughters of men brought forth these giants. You may not hold to that, you may, but that makes no difference. But I want you to know this. Having many wives, I personally believe that there is no such thing in a marriage where the one party is the guilty party. I feel that if the other party would have been what he or she should have been, that he or she would also feel that they contributed to the breakdown of a man. When God said to Hosea, even though she was unfaithful to you, love her, bring her back unto yourself, no matter if she only is worth the price of a slave, And I believe when the Spirit of God so works in the heart of a believer, he will do all in his God-given power to be a testimony to that individual. When the Lord, before the closing of the New Testament, Old Testament, Revelation, when the Lord spoke to his people through the prophet, he said in Malachi did not God, does not God have the residue of the Spirit? And if he wanted Adam to have more than one wife, would he have not given them to him? But the Lord said to them, I hate putting away that is divorce. I hate it, for in the beginning it was not so. So we notice there was a disregard for the divine law of marriage. Ada Zilla. And through that union of polygamy, one daughter was born to one of his wives, and her name was Naama. Why does the Spirit of God convey that to us? First of all, what does Ada mean? Ada means ornamental. an ornamental beauty. So was the lust of his eye. Zilla means shady, crafty, a tease, one who woes, one who leaps on. And there, when he had her for wife, her very name characterizes her character. For it was not only the lust of the eyes with regard to Ada, it was the lust of the flesh with regard to Nehemiah. Well, what's wrong in having many wives? Look at the result of it. There is Nehemiah. And she means lovely, lovely, gracious. So what's wrong with unions of that kind when it comes to do such a lovely one, such a desirable one, so charming? And that's why I believe the Spirit of God gives these women's name. In this ungodly line of king, as it gives the genealogy, I want you to notice that women has a prominent place. They were also sensuous and became sex symbols for the pandering of the men. And not only so, but there was, in all this, not once do you read in that ungodly line, there was no whole structure, no godliness there, none whatsoever. And so, He, Lame, could have said, Look the strides that my son jabled me, and Jubal, and Jubal Cain, and my granddaughter, Nehama, what's wrong with it? And so the world in nowadays says, What's wrong with the type of life we're living when good can come out of it? They call evil good and they call good evil. Now something else, there was the rejection of a call to repentance before God. They refused to believe in him in those days. And how so? Look at verses twenty-five and twenty-six. If I have the right, yes, right here. And Adam knew his wife again. and she bear his son and called the same step, for God said, she has compensated me, another seed instead of cable, whom came through. Step means compensation. And to step, to him also there was born a son, and he called his name Enos. What does Enos mean? Enos means frail. Enos means weak. In what way was Enoch's braille and weak? If the ungodly flood that seemed to be veiled over the land, and Enoch saw his frailty to be able to do anything against it, to stop the tide, he realized how weak he was, and his only resource was to cry unto God. That was the first call to repentance. Then men began to cry unto the Lord. And there the ungodly line saw it. And I am sure there were mockers at that time, as there are mockers in this time, who say these Christians, these weak ones, They cannot do anything to bring progression into our life, and all they know is to cry unto their God. Not only was there Enoch, but there was Enoch. Look at the fifth chapter, and look at verse twenty-one. There was an Enoch born to Cain in the ungodly line, and there was an Enoch in the godly line. And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah, and Enoch walked with God. After he begat Methuselah, three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. And all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty and five years, and Enoch walked with God, and he was not, and for God took it. Well, we would say, if that be the case, he must have had an easy time. He was able to walk with God. And it was pleasant, nothing to disturb him. He had sons and daughters, and then God took him. But not so. Turn with me to the book of Jews. And in the book of Jews, I want you to notice what we are told in the book of Jews. verses fourteen and fifteen. And Enoch, also the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints. to execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their harsh speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. That's exactly what he did in the three hundred years that he walked with God. Then look at Hebrews, the eleventh chapter. And in Hebrews, verse five, by faith, enough. was translated that he should not see death and was not found because God had translated him, for before his translation he had this testimony that he pleased God. What was he able to do that made him so pleasing to God. He spoke out and called them to repent because judgment was coming. While Enoch and others called on the name of the Lord and their weakness and their trouble and not being able to stem the tide of ungodliness and their refuge was in God, he for three hundred years Treat that judgment was coming, and in the midst of all that treasure brought forth sons and daughters, and they were godly, as we shall soon see. So then there was also Noah, and God said to Noah, I am going to wait one hundred and twenty years. and not only preach but give them evidence of what you are preaching show them that you believe what you are saying the flood is coming and prove to them that by your building the earth prove it to them not only speak the word but prove it in your action so we preach judgment is coming and he was building the earth there was In that time, the rejection of call to repentance of faith, and in this day it's the same thing, and men are mocking, and will not believe, and it's incredible, ridiculous, ask nine to believe that a judgment is coming and they reject it. Fifthly, there was the self-glorification of mankind then. How do we know? While in the line of Seth, there was piety that reached its height in Enoch, the seventh from Adam. So there was wickedness in the line of Cain, and it reached its height in Lamech, the seventh from Cain. Ungodliness had began to increase. The history of the Canites began with murder. Cain committed murder, and how does it end with blame it? He praises murder. He writes a poem in the praise of murder, and he dedicates it to his wife Ada and Zilla. Yes, was Cain justified? Yes, he was. Therefore, what I did will justify me. over and over again, seven times for him, seventy and seventy times for me. Therefore he was not afraid. While Enoch was walking with God, Adam was still alive. And not only Adam, but also Seth and Enoch and many of the godly lines. And when Lamech heard The message of judgment, he laughed and he scorned, and he said, Just let them come near me. I did it once, I'll do it again. And it was in the praise of the sword and confidence in his flesh. Yes, for how long? Only for a short season. And then the blood came. Then the sixth thing that took place then, that is parallel in our time, where you cannot tell the godly line from the ungodly. There are certain ones who might give testimony at certain campaigns. Then I see them working it up on some TV program. Then others gave testimony. Then I see them in some shady tractor. I am not their judge. I just cannot reconcile it. And so as there was a mixture of the godly with the ungodly, so that mixture has taken place, and they seem to justify their action. Now here is the goodie, right here. I want you to notice, in the set line, No women are mentioned, none whatsoever. You read chapter five in Genesis and you will see this. And the days of Adam after he had begotten his death were eight hundred years, and he begat sons and daughters, and all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died. Then it tells us a set flight. How long he lived. He begat sons and daughters. Then he died. And then it goes on to Inos. Then to Canaan. Then it goes to Mehalil. Then it goes to others. Right down through the line. Everyone is mentioned. The children and the fathers are mentioned. But the women are not women. They are left out. But when you come to the ungodly line. I'm sure there was a women's lived there because they were quite prominent and they had a voice and things and their names are mentioned. Why there and why not in the godliness? Why are they so obliterated, so to speak, so pushed into the background with all that the women call these days the male chauvinism? The very fact that they are not mentioned speaks loudly as to the glory of these men. The man could not have brought up these children in a godly manner without a godly mother. But she learned subjection because in the pressure the godly line was in subjection to the will of God. And as the brothers took place, as Sarah bowed to Abram and called them Lord, so in those days the women. was in subjection to the man, and it's the woman who's the backbone of the home, and the godly feet are brought to the floor. The person is not seen who is rooted in God, but the fruit is very good. That's why they are not natural. Secondly, there is something else. In the Cain line we do not read of frailty, of sorrow, of sighing, or death. Not one, from the time of Cain, right to the end of his line, which are many generations, many. You will never find them sighing. You will never find them suffering. There is no frailty. And not once in the ungodly line, as that's mentioned. Not once! But when you come to the godly line, and he died. And he died. And he died. And was there sorrow? Was there sighing? Oh, yes, there was. In verse twenty-eight of chapter five, and Lamech lived on hundred and eight and two years and he began a son and called the same Noah saying, The same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands because of the ground which the Lord has cursed. See they were rooted in God. They believed God cursed it. They believed the Lord would enable them no matter how they would sweat and toil. no matter what, whereas in the ungodly line everything is beautiful. There's a monopoly of wealth, none of this dying, none of this heaving, none of this remembering God. They live as though there were no afterlife, eat and drink, and we will go on that way. So we notice No frailty, no sorrow, no scion, nor death. Why? They did not live in the past. They did not live in the future. They only lived for the present. And as far as their thinking of philosophy is concerned, as if it would never end. I want you to notice, men began to cry unto the Lord, and in , as I've just said, we see the same theme. The Canaanites did not live for a future. The Septites lived with the hope of a future, for they lived for a city whose builder and maker is God, and that city has foundations. That is why when they die, then as the godly die now, the Word of God tells us in Psalm a hundred and sixteen, fifteen, blessed are they who die in the Lord. Therefore the pressures of ungodliness did not so much affect the godly line. They went on, they sighed, they wept, they were burdened. They were knolled in hands and furrowed in brow and perhaps stooped in shoulder. They sweated as they were, while the monopoly of wealth and power was in the ungodly line. But they brought forth under treasure a godly seed, for they looked for a city whose builder and maker is God. Shall we pray? Our Heavenly Father, how we praise thee, that we have seen from thy word the very germ of what took place in the past day, or so in the last day. And our Father, may it have a purifying effect. May we live to glorify thy blessedness. For we shall soon stand before the judgment seat of Christ. And we want to hear, well done, thou good servants. Why will we be called good if faithfulness toward thyself has been the benefit of our lives? We ask it, our Father, in the name and for the sake of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.