Rebellion
Everything that man touches he destroys, he sees a view of pristine beauty and he wants to improve it by building on it; he sees an institution formed by God and he desires to destroy it, and in so doing he causes confusion and chaos. Man sees breath taking beauty in animals and he desires to kill them, or cage them. Man sees fresh healthy food and he wants to increase his profits by adding chemicals to it, or taking away nutrients from it. Yes, man surely has a deep seated problem called sin.
A Worm
The worm has no power of it’s own to become a butterfly. It is the power of God that transforms it to such beauty. And when we leave this earth, we leave the worm of sin behind to decay, and to turn to dust, but the body of the celestial will be a body of glory by the power of God. Adam lost more than life that day in the garden; he lost his glory for sin, and became a worm of sin. He was created in the image of God, and gave it up for the image of a worm when compared to what he was. His glory was gone, and the worm was left behind.
Hiding From God
The first death was recorded in that God clothed man with the skins of an animal. The sin of one caused the death of another: an innocent died for the guilty, and this by the hand of God Himself.
God Wants You Dead!
We are continually surrounded by the witness of death, both natural and unnatural — the end of all nature and men is death. We shudder at our own demise and many attempt to find ways to postpone the inevitable end. Mankind aches for not merely long life but within man there is a deep intrinsic need for life eternal.
Why the First Murder?
What was the motivating factor that drove Cain to violently murder his brother? We are informed from previous verses that the conflict between these two brothers was not merely a disagreement between two, but it was the conflict of Cain with God — Jehovah. Some have considered this to be the first ‘religious’ dispute which led to the first ‘religious’ persecution. Indeed, that is partly true, for on Cain’s part it was about ‘religion’ — man’s religion versus God’s way and God’s Word.