Raising Cain - by Bob Smith of Foreman AR

Adam and Eve, in the Garden of Eden, began Our "Walk" down Memory Lane,
These two names had started it all, and left a lot to be explained.
'Raising Cain' was what they did in the days before Abel was born', (Gen4)
Did they argue about a name for the baby? Or were they too busy planting corn?

Her husband was Adam -- now our Husband is Christ;
'The 2nd Adam', came with Salvation advice; (1Cor15:45-47),
Two Enoch's, two Noah's, but only one Eve, and she was the Mother of All. (Gen3:20),
She met up with the Serpent under the tree; which led to the Mankind Fall.

It all began after Abel was born, and the two boys started to wrestle,
Farmer Cain was plowing earth--brother Abel was herding sheep;
their occupations got them into a hassle, (Gen46:33 and 1Cor15:47)
The murder of Abel, made Cain a 'marked man', and exiled from his home..
The Law against killing not yet announced, and for a time he abided alone.

Cain got a wife from his sisters, and she birthed Enoch their son,
But the mother of Enoch was nameless -- to this day we haven't a clue,
It could have been Shirley or Susan or Joyce, or it might have been Mary Lou.
The mother of Jesus was Mary, and most of us know where we nursed,
To Honor our Mother and Father is known to us all as 'well-versed'.

The multiple names in the Bible are challenging in the extreme,
The Anna and Simeon Seniors were part of His welcoming team, (Lk2:36, 26)
Two special Joseph's, the Old and the New, are there for our attention, (Gen41:32)
Like Jacob the Old, and Jacob the New, who just barely gets a mention! (Matt 1:16)
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The 'old man of the flesh', like Cain, vs the 'new hidden man of the heart', 1Pet3:4, Is another example of being born-again.
"The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is the Lord from heaven". 1Cor15:47