The Cain Syndrome
Part i
(Genesis 4:1 and 2)
And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD. (Genesis 4:1) And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. (Genesis 4:2)
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The Progression of the Cain Syndrome
  The Cain Syndrome has been with us since the days of Cain. This syndrome has traveled through history to our present day and will continue until man will be no longer. So what is the Cain Syndrome? The background is from the garden where both Adam and Eve partook of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. It was there that man first disobeyed God. In Genesis Chapter 2, verse 17, God established the first Law given to man. But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. This was the Law of Sin and Death. When we read verse 16 it is the Lord who COMMANDED, and it was the Lord who established this Law of Sin and Death. And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: (Genesis 2:16) For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. (Romans 8:2)
  When the Lord spoke to Adam, he KNEW that the Lord God was his Creator. Adam had KNOWN the voice and the presence of the Almighty God. Adam had walked with God in the garden, and God proclaimed to Adam that of this tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it and God established THEN the Law of Sin and Death with thou shalt surely die. Adam had these words BREATHED by God in his heart, in his mind, in his soul and in his spirit; thus, the knowledge of the Law of Sin and Death was known by Adam and the woman Eve.
  When the serpent came, the tempter of ALL of mankind, he repudiated the word of God. He attacked God, God’s word and God’s truth when he spoke to the woman when she described the commandment of God to Satan, but she BELIEVED the words of the serpent. The very first thing that Satan did was to call God a liar in the words, ye shall not surely die. Genesis 3:4, And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die. Satan’s second attack was to defeat the knowledge of God, that in the day that ye eat thereof, that your eyes shall be opened. For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. (Genesis 3:5) Were not their eyes opened to all the beauty of the garden? They could partake of the fruit from all the trees except for the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The first attack was against the word of God. The second attack was against the KNOWLEDGE of God, and the third attack was against the Person of God . . . Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. This is the first time that scripture brings in idolatry that instead of one God, there could be many gods. This was an attack against the Godhead. Satan KNEW from his past in heaven, as Lucifer, that the Godhead was ONE and the Godhead contained Father, Son and Holy Ghost with COMPLETE equality in will and purpose. The temptation was to be as your Creator, which was impossible; therefore, Satan set the seeds of idolatry in Genesis 3:5, For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
  I want you to see that it was the woman who was deceived. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression. (1st Timothy 2:14) The cunning and knowledgeable serpent attacked the helpmate and not the Federal Head of mankind. She took of the fruit, and ate and gave unto her husband who was with her, and he did eat, and Romans 5:12 was brought to reality in THEIR trespass against the commandment of God that they should NOT eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.
  Adam was made in the likeness of his Creator; he was a formed object from the dust of the ground. It was God who breathed the spirit of life within Adam. This creation with the breath of God became man without deity, or the capability of God’s power of creation. The temptation to be as God was too much for both Adam and Eve. To acquire deity, to acquire the power of creation, was too much for man to bear. So, the word of God spoken directly from the mouth of God was brushed aside for the lie of Satan. (John 8:44) They did not believe their own Creator, but believed another created entity who had no authority of creation, in fact, the liar, the devil himself, Lucifer, was also a created being. Satan twisted the words of God in thou shalt NOT surely die. Satan NEVER mentioned sin or death. Satan KNEW sin because it was sin and iniquity that caused his own dreadful fall.
  Adam had time to weigh the words of God against the words of Satan. The words, thou shall surely die, did not have the strength to overcome the lust to be as God. And the tremendous temptation to be as gods sounded to the ear much better than the word death. So, both Adam and Eve denied their Creator and listened to a fallen angel (Lucifer) who had brought sin into heaven. (Ezekiel 28) and NOW at the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, Lucifer wanted a man after his own heart. Lucifer had tried to overthrow God’s dominion in heaven and had failed and thus, God cast him down to the ground. Now Lucifer wanted to overtake God’s dominion on earth by overthrowing Adam and Adam’s limited dominion over the fowls of the air and the beasts of the field and the fish of the sea. And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. (Genesis 1:26)
  This was a very high position that God had given to Adam, but Adam surrendered this tremendous position for a lie of Lucifer the serpent. Since Adam had dominion over the earth and the creeping things over the earth, he thus also had dominion over the serpent as well. As Lucifer persuaded one third of God’s angels to follow him in a coup against God, so, now Lucifer persuaded man to give up his life with God for the knowledge of good and evil. The overthrow of God’s man on earth was achieved by a lie of the devil. At this point, Adam DIED to God. Adam brought sin into the world, and death by sin.
  You cannot tamper with the word of God, you cannot tempt your Creator whether an angelic creation or the creation of man, if one varies from the word of the Almighty God it will not go well for any rebellious spirit. It was too much for Adam to REMAIN as a man. He thought that he could be as God and be equal to God. The lie of Lucifer brought man to the ground for now death was upon man and man would return to the dust from whence he came. The word that Satan used was gods (plural). This attacked the Godhead (singular), God has always proclaimed Himself as the ONE GOD, the true God, the God of eternity, and there is NO OTHER GOD beside Him.
Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I [am] the first, and I [am] the last; and beside me [there is] no God. (Isaiah 44:6)
I [am] the LORD, and [there is] none else, [there is] no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me: (Isaiah 45:5)
Tell ye, and bring [them] near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? [who] hath told it from that time? [have] not I the LORD? and [there is] no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; [there is] none beside me. (Isaiah 45:21) Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else. (Isaiah 45:22)
Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, (Isaiah 46:9)
Yet I [am] the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no god but me: for [there is] no saviour beside me. (Hosea 13:4)
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The Cain Syndrome
From Unbelief to Death
  As the battle against the Godhead began at the tree of the knowledge of good and evil when the serpent tempted the bride, Eve, so the Bride of Christ was also tempted in the very beginning of her existence on earth. In the very beginning of the Church, the biggest battle was against the Godhead. Satan wanted to divide and conquer the complete unity of Father, Son and Holy Spirit, inseparable in will and purpose. Righteousness encompasses the Godhead, thereby cementing the will and purpose of God in one holy direction. Without spirit man cannot have a life, without body man has no presence, and without soul man has no existence.
 The word trinity caused man to fracture the Godhead into categories in position and power. Thus, Lucifer and his ministers used this word to attempt to divide the Godhead and the doctrine of ONE God and ONE Head UNITED in will and purpose became fractured to the point of allowing false doctrines and cults to gain popularity through time. The word trinity or triune is NOT in scripture; however, the word GODHEAD was selected by the Holy Spirit of God to describe the unity of deity to mankind in God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. The first mention of trinity in regard to deity can be traced as far back approximately around 318 A.D. It is important to use the words that the Spirit of God used, for example, the word rapture is not in scripture, but the word translation and translate are in the Bible. Using the word trinity instead of Godhead has greatly damaged the Church. God gave Colossians 2:9 to the Church, through His Spirit, for a reason. For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. It is the Head that moves the man, and man cannot be divided for he is body, soul and spirit. So, God cannot be divided from His own ONENESS, He is ONE God, ONE Creator and Christ the Son IS the outward and tangible manifestation of this ONE GOD and Adam was made in the image of the Son. The words, Let us make man in OUR image comes from the total representative of the Godhead bodily. The ONE image of the Godhead throughout scripture contains Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Deity, the deity of God has NEVER been divided . . . Let US is the complete will and purpose of the FULL GODHEAD. Genesis 1:26 is the expression of the ONE GODHEAD in the creation of mankind . . . body, soul and spirit. And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. (Genesis 1:26) So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. (Genesis 1:27)
  Christ is the image of the invisible God. He is the FULLNESS of the Godhead bodily: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. He declared Himself as the Son of man to be EQUAL in every part of the Godhead. In John Chapter 14, the Lord told Philip, 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)
  In John Chapter 3, Christ proclaimed His equality in the Godhead in both heaven and in earth. Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. (John 3:11) If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? (John 3:12) And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven. (John 3:13) The reality of verses 11 and 13 are found in the expression of verse 12, If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? This one verse unites verse 11 and verse 13. In verse 11, we have the Godhead speaking, in verse 13, we have the Godhead revealed in the Son of man which is united with both Father and Spirit IN HEAVEN.
  In John Chapter 4, verse 24, God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. Here the Son recognizes the invisible God as GOD IS A SPIRIT. This does not remove the unity of the Son and the Father, and the Spirit of God.
  In John 6:63, we read, It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. The words that the Lord Jesus speaks they are spirit, and they are life. This verse identifies the eternal Spirit of God with the very words that the eternal Son speaks. In verse 64, the Holy Spirit cements the COMPLETE DEITY of the Lord Jesus Christ in the omniscience of the mind of God. But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him.
  When Adam and Eve partook of the tree, they DIED to God: their spirit died, they LOST the glory that had surrounded them. They then lived in a world of sin and death because of their own disobedience to God. As disobedience caused Lucifer to be cast down to the ground (Isaiah 14) this celestial occurrence shook both heaven and earth, for it was the Son of God who cast Satan down. He beheld Satan cast down as a mighty bolt of lightning. And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. (Luke 10:18) In this verse, the Lord Jesus identified Himself as the ONE who cast Lucifer out of heaven after the rebellion by both Lucifer and his angels, when the war in heaven was ended, the Might Conqueror, the Son of God cast Lucifer down to the ground and the impact of Lucifer shook the whole earth. As disobedience caused Lucifer to be cast out of heaven, so disobedience caused Adam and Eve to be cast out of paradise. And God DROVE them out. Every mouth was stopped, no excuse was accepted, and no excuse would be heard. They both KNEW the result of disobedience and rebellion.
And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams. (1st Samuel 15:22) For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king. (1st Samuel 15:23) And Saul said unto Samuel, I have sinned: for I have transgressed the commandment of the LORD, and thy words: because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice. (1st Samuel 15:24)
  Both Adam and Eve were driven out of paradise NEVER to return to the garden or to the tree of life in the midst of the paradise of God. This is one of the hardest things for man to comprehend because Adam was our father and Eve was our mother that they were both lost to eternity by their disobedience to their Creator, the Almighty God. Now sin and death was upon them. And as physical death awaited them and their children, instead of glory they were then covered with the shrouds of sin and death all their days of their lives. In the garden they had complete freedom to partake of ALL the trees, except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. They violated by their disobedience the Law of Sin and Death. (Romans 8:2) In their new world of thorns and thistles, Eve gave birth to Cain, and Eve gave birth to Abel, and God declared a NEW LAW, the Law of Faith. Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. (Romans 3:27) Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. (Romans 3:28)
  To the critics and the nay sayers, God never changes, He is a God of PURE righteousness, and He is a God and the Giver of the Gift of faith. And this faith is within the creator of faith, the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who is the Author and Finisher of Faith. Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. (Hebrews 12:2)
  Although the Law of Faith is declared in Romans Chapter 3, and the Law of Sin and Death in Romans 8:2, they were both established in the very beginning BEFORE sin came into the world. (Genesis 3) And when both Cain and Abel were faced with obedience to God and God’s word, God had already established sacrifice in the garden with the death and shedding of blood of the two lambs for the trespassers of sin and death. Skins were a covering for both Adam and Eve. I want you to understand that the blood of this sacrifice was NOT a covering for Adam and Eve. It was an outward covering in the skins of the animals to simply hide their sin from the eyes of God. This was NOT ATONEMENT, but a covering for their sin. When we approach God in the writings of Moses, in the book of Leviticus, the whole of the burnt offering was to be consumed and then it ascended up to God as a sweet savor, meaning that God saw in the burnt offering the complete covering of sin when ALL was consumed before Him.
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From Death Through the Cain Syndrome
to Abel’s Faith in the More Excellent Sacrifice
  NOW, we return to the offering of Abel . . . from the text and the offering of Abel, we see the continuance of the offering of the lamb. And in Hebrews 11:4 it is revealed by the Spirit of God that Abel by his obedience by offering a MORE excellent sacrifice obtained the righteousness of God. By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.
  We find by the offering of Abel that he was obedient to righteousness. It was God who offered the sacrifice in the garden. It was not man. There is no evidence that Adam or Eve ever repented of their sin and definitely no evidence of Adam sacrificing to the Lord in the land of thorns and thistles. It was Abel, the first recipient of God’s faith, that stands out in righteousness obtained by His more excellent sacrifice. In Hebrews 11:1 we are introduced to the unseen power of faith. Faith becomes tangible in a man of faith upon believing God. But without faith it is impossible to please him: for him that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. As faith is unveiled in Hebrews 11 by the Spirit of grace, we see the worlds being created by the Word of God. The breath of His mouth thundered through a vacuum as God called the worlds into existence. Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds. (Hebrews 1:2)
  As Abel was a man of faith, Cain stands out as a man of disobedience, a sinner with no repentance. As Abel received the gift of God, faith from on high; Cain in his disobedience became the accursed thing in his rebellion against the Almighty God. In Genesis 4:4, Abel had the full understanding of sacrifice and the atonement both in the blood and the complete sacrifice of the lamb. They both stood in the presence of God and they both had been instructed in the proper way to approach God and how to make peace with God in the sacrifice of the lamb. Both Cain and Abel could reach for God’s righteousness through sacrifice. Cain disobeyed and Abel obeyed. By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh. (Hebrews 11:4) In Genesis 4:4 concerning the sacrifice, we have the words, the fat thereof. And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering. This shows us that the sacrifice was to be consumed by fire and this connects Abel with a personal relationship with the offering for it was a lamb out of his flock without blemish and without spot. Therefore, we can identify Abel’s sacrifice with the book of Leviticus, and the offering of the priest for the sin of an individual.
And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering an offering made by fire unto the LORD; the fat thereof, and the whole rump, it shall he take off hard by the backbone; and the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards, (Leviticus 3:9)
And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat is taken away from off the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn it upon the altar for a sweet savour unto the LORD; and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and it shall be forgiven him. (Leviticus 4:31)
And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat of the lamb is taken away from the sacrifice of the peace offerings; and the priest shall burn them upon the altar, according to the offerings made by fire unto the LORD: and the priest shall make an atonement for his sin that he hath committed, and it shall be forgiven him. (Leviticus 4:35)
And he shall offer of it all the fat thereof; the rump, and the fat that covereth the inwards, (Leviticus 7:3)
And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering: (Genesis 4:4)
  Although the book of Leviticus was thousands of years in the future from Abel, we should remember the testimony of the patriarchs and their sacrifices such as Noah, Abraham, and Jacob. In the life of Isaac, being the promised seed, we do not see the altar of Isaac first, we see Isaac being offered on one of the mountains of Moriah as a type and shadow of the Divine Seed (Genesis 22) to come: the Lord Jesus Christ. (Galatians 3:16) Also we should see the comparison of Isaac bringing Rebecca into his mother’s tent as the Lord through His Divine Sacrifice brings His Bride into the heavenly Jerusalem which Paul stated was the mother of us all, thus referring to the line of promise that God first gave to Abraham. Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ. (Galatians 3:16)
  In the sin of both Adam and Eve we should realize that it was God who was offended; therefore, it is up to us as Abel to make peace with God and this is accomplished through the sacrifice and offering of the Lord Jesus Christ. In Hebrews11:4, the first action of Abel was to offer unto God a more excellent sacrifice. The word excellent shows the purity of the sacrifice and this speaks of the sweet savor of Christ. And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour. (Ephesians 5:2)
And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. (Genesis 8:20) And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. (Genesis 8:21)
But his inwards and his legs shall he wash in water: and the priest shall burn all on the altar, to be a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD. (Leviticus 1:9)
For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish: (2nd Corinthians 2:15)
Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father: (Galatians 1:4)
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. (Galatians 2:20)
And inasmuch as not without an oath he was made priest: (Hebrews 7:20)
How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? (Hebrews 9:14)
And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: (Hebrews 10:11) But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; (Hebrews 10:12)
Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. (1st John 3:16)
But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? (1st John 3:17)
My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth. (1st John 3:18)
And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him. (1st John 3:19)
For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. (1st John 3:20)
Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God. (1st John 3:21)
And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight. (1st John 3:22)
And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment. (1st John 3:23)
And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also. (1st John 4:21)
  Now these verses are ALL connected to the love of God in the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. This love stretches all the way back to the offering of Abel for ALL is of faith in contrast to Cain, a man without faith. He brought the works of his hands which cannot please God or the Law of Faith. (Romans 3:27 and 28)
  There are many forms of works: even donations and tithes can be seen as the works of one’s hands. If all is absent of faith, then we just have the repetition of the Cain Syndrome. Works cannot bring faith; it is faith that justifies. I want you to also notice that Abel’s faith was IN THIS LIFE. His offering was in his lifetime, and because of his offering he yet speaks to us concerning his faithfulness in Hebrews 11:4.
  When Adam and Eve were in the garden, the Lord Jesus built the first altar of ONE STONE, which would later be known as the tried stone and the polished stone of His own Person. In the garden, the Lord Jesus offered the two lambs: one for each trespasser. Their sin caused the death of another. Their sin brought forth the first death in the garden in the two lambs. Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them. (Genesis 3:21) These coats of skins were only a covering for their nakedness. Notice that in the garden, there is no mention of blood. The sacrifice in the garden was completely God’s part as the sacrifice of Christ on the cross was given of God to be a sacrifice for our sin on God’s part. In the garden this allowed God to look past their sin and death and cover them with the spent lives of others. But this was only an outward covering because of their sin. They went into the land of thorns and thistles as sinners and there is no record of Adam seeking peace with God through sacrifice to God. There is no mention of a repentant heart in either Adam or Eve.
  Now the Cain Syndrome presents a man that hears the word of God in the presence of God and is given directions on what and how to sacrifice unto God. God is NOT unrighteous. He was long suffering with Cain, and the text shows God’s desire that Cain would turn from his path of disobedience to a path of obedience. The fact of God’s long suffering can be seen throughout all the holy scriptures. Cain not only rebelled against God but rebelled against the gift of faith. By his actions, he did not believe God. God revealed Himself to both Cain and Abel. As we study the gospels in the New Testament, we see God revealing Himself in the Son of God, the Lord Jesus Christ. Man would not believe God but turned away from God’s Gift in His Son. The spirit of Cain DROVE the hearts of the people to crucify the Lord of glory and thrust a spear into His heart. Sin was so embedded into the heart of Cain that he performed the actions of the wicked one, the devil, for Cain was of the wicked one, he was the devil’s seed.
He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. (1st John 3:8)
Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. (1st John 3:9)
In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother. (1st John 3:10)
For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. (1st John 3:11)
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)
Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you. (1st John 3:13)
  Cain was void of faith. He was self-centered and believed the lie that the devil had told Adam and Eve in the garden that ye shall be as gods. In Genesis 4:3 we see the slothfulness of Cain for it was AFTER the process of time that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground as a deliberate rebellion against God in his offering of disobedience. The earth itself was under the curse of God, 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) God had established a blood sacrifice which Abel obeyed. (Genesis 4:4) By the Holy Spirit using the words process of time, it shows that Cain had an uncaring heart, and there was a lack of urgency even in his disobedient sacrifice. And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD. (Genesis 4:3) As man today says that they will get saved later, they do not see the urgency of the need of their own soul. They are too wrapped up in their own selves and have no time for the crucified One. Cain brought his sacrifice in his own time, and he would tell God what he would sacrifice: the works of his own hands. The result was that God would not receive Cain’s offering. Even after God’s refusal, Cain would NOT repent of this great trespass of his disobedience to God as those who hear the gospel and trample underfoot the blood of Christ and do despite to the Spirit of grace.
Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace? (Hebrews 10:29)
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The Cain Syndrome
From Disobedience to Hatred
  Look at the demeanor of Cain as he stood in the presence of God in his disobedience. Cain was VERY WROTH WITH God. The Holy Spirit of God chose the word wroth instead of the word anger because wroth is intense anger. Wroth exactly described the extreme hatred that Cain exhibited toward his Creator God. Cain’s anger and self-will brought harsh words from God. But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. (Genesis 4:5) And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen? (Genesis 4:6)
  When we look at Cain, we see his countenance fell, the inward man was VERY WROTH with God, his temper flared out AGAINST God, and his body language revealed his inherent enmity against God. Cain’s actions, his demeanor and his words were abusive to the Lord. Cain revealed himself in his fallen countenance before God disclosing his rebellious heart. Cain was an extremely angry man, and this was just the beginning of this child of the wicked one. As we study Lucifer’s character in Isaiah Chapter 14 and Ezekiel 28, we see the same actions of sin and iniquity in Lucifer. Cain was a reflection of his father, the devil, and without faith he could not please God. Sin is progressive. Sin feeds on sin. Genesis 4 reveals this to us. We can see the downward walk of Cain into a deeper dungeon of the darkness of sin. In Genesis 4:6 the Lord looked on the heart of Cain, for God looks on the inward heart of man and God asked Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?
  When the Lord Jesus was manifested upon the earth, in John Chapter 2, after He was wroth with the money changers and the sellers of sacrifices in the Temple, the Spirit of God informs us that the Lord Jesus, in His deity, KNEW ALL MEN and what was in the heart of man. 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) It was no different with Cain, God KNEW the very inner being of Cain. Cain tried to pass the fault of his own disobedience and sin to the Lord for not giving Cain the leeway to bring a sacrifice of Cain’s choice. We see this same attitude throughout the history of mankind. Even in our day, when the abundance of truth has been revealed, man still wants to achieve salvation by his own works and his own way. When not allowed, man shows his anger in his posture and in his face and attitude as Cain. When one preaches the gospel for a long time, God gives the eyes of the Spirit to the preacher to see the body language and the eyes of disobedience for man will not accept God’s gift, God’s sacrifice in the offering of His beloved Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. As Abel’s sacrifice separated him from Cain, so today, the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus separates the children of God from the Cain’s of this world and the Cain Syndrome. Cain’s body language as well as his mouth spoke many words that the Lord did not want to hear. The Lord was waiting for an explanation that never came. So, the Lord in Genesis 4:7 explains to Cain, If thou doest well, shall thou not be accepted? And here we begin to see the development of the Cain Syndrome. For Cain brought what man wants to God and NOT what God demands. And the rebellion of Cain was as of witchcraft in his sin. God revealed Cain’s sin that was lying on the door of his heart with the words, Sin lieth at the door. If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
  It is with the heart that man believes. And it is with the heart that man refuses to believe. The heart is the door to the spirit and the soul. And if sin lies on the threshold of the heart, God’s will is blocked by the will of man and man becomes controlled by sin. Man likes to believe that he is a free spirit and that he is a free man and his will belongs to him alone, but sin is the chain of slavery, and man without Christ is in the bondage of sin. Man’s will is the will of sin, and his heart deceives him with this idea of freedom. Sin closes all communications with God and with heaven. In our text, it is the first time that the word door is used in scripture, and the fulfillment of the door into the heart lies in the forgiveness of sin through the Lord Jesus Christ who is the Door of salvation. Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep. (John 10:7) I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. (John 10:9)
  The offering of Cain could not bring the righteousness of God to Cain. However, the sacrifice of Abel of the lamb without blemish and the shedding of the blood and the fire of the altar consuming the lamb brought a sweet savor up to God and God saw Abel righteous before Him.
  Now the second part of Genesis 4:7, is based on obedience. If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him. If Cain, being the oldest son, obeys God then he will find favor with God and his brother Abel. To rule over a subject one must be worthy, and Cain was not. God again tells Cain that he is not worthy to rule, and this fed the fire of sin in the heart of Cain. Yes, sin begets sin. Sin is the multiplier of iniquity and iniquity multiplied brings forth all manners of evil. As Cain stewed in his sin, he blamed another: first and foremost, Cain blamed God; then Cain’s anger and covetousness turned against Abel for his own lack of acceptance by God. Because of his own sin the Cain Syndrome grew when Cain talked with Abel in Genesis 4:8, And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him. Undoubtedly there had been many conversations between Cain and Abel; however, the Holy Spirit only allows us to hear the voice of Cain. The Holy Spirit desires that we should see the many times that Cain tried to persuade and influence his brother from the path of faith. It just wasn’t one conversation. It is Cain’s voice that we hear in his sin and disobedience. This was mankind trying to persuade his brother not to listen to God . . . . to STOP that sacrifice of promise. . .and today the voices of influence attempts to turn away many from Jesus Christ . . . and listen to your older brother . . . for after all wisdom comes from age . . . but the man of faith, Abel, could only respond to the gift of faith that was in him, the evidence of things not seen. He believed God and acted on God’s word, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
  During the early years of Church history when those who would not turn from their faith in Christ were also murdered . . . stoned . . . mutilated . . . even amongst their brethren . . . for the Cain Syndrome refuses to accept another’s acknowledgment of faith in God. And murder comes into the heart, and by the way this was a planned murder, for Cain had the weapon of death with him. Cain came to Abel where Abel offered his sacrifice on the great stone of Abel, and Cain’s heart was so full of enmity against his brother at this exact time of Abel’s offering, and with his weapon in hand, Cain thrust the spear into the heart of Abel and Abel’s blood soaked into the ground. As Abel was a type of Christ, follow the word spear, But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water. (John 19:34) This blood of the first man of faith would cry out to God. Sin caused the first murder and the first death on planet Earth. But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. (James 1:14) Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. (James 1:15) Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. (James 4:2)
  This murder of Abel shows that Cain was of the wicked one for the devil has been a murderer from the beginning. Later, in the history of mankind, when Christ came into the world, it would be the children of the devil who murdered the Prince of life. Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. (John 8:44) As the blood of Abel and the blood of the prophets and the blood of the saints cry out from the earth, the blood of Jesus still cries out as a testimony against the wickedness of man.
By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh. (Hebrews 11:4)
And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel. (Hebrews 12:24)
But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you; (Acts 3:14) And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses. (Acts 3:15)
  Now the Cain Syndrome spread throughout all of mankind. Man became so corrupt that in Genesis Chapter 6, God could no longer tolerate the evil imaginations of their hearts. And so, the people of The Age of Evil Imaginations world were removed from the earth in the great flood of the universal deluge. And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. (Genesis 6:5)
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The Origin and End of the Cain Syndrome
  Cain is the beginning of disobedience and darkness. On the third day, God gives us a message when He brought forth the herbs with the seed within themselves, and He brought forth the trees of fruit with the seeds within themselves. This third day in Genesis is a witness of resurrection for the seed is within itself in the tree, and we begin to see how the seed develops. God saw the trees on the third day and what He had created on the third day was good. From the description in Genesis 1, each tree brought forth one fruit, and each tree had one seed within itself. This was on the third day.
  Now in Genesis Chapter 3 we find a tree of the knowledge of good and evil with two fruits: the fruit of good and the fruit of evil contained in one tree: two seeds. When God describes the seed of the woman and the seed of Satan, we see two seeds from two origins except with the woman, sin had already made her a trespasser. There would be both good and evil seeds come from out of the woman. Abel was the seed of faith, and Cain was the seed of the devil. However, both men stood before God, and by the words of God we see that God gave Cain a choice, a choice to turn from his wicked ways and to be accepted by God. But darkness had already taken control of Cain’s heart. The seed of the devil had embraced Cain’s soul to the devil’s evil and to the way of murder and death. In the gospel of John Chapter 3, we see the same opportunity given to the men of the world by the Almighty God through His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Divine Seed of God.
For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. (John 3:17) He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. (John 3:18) And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. (John 3:19) For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. (John 3:20) But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. (John 3:21)
  As Cain was given the opportunity to repent of his evil, so today, through the gift of God’s Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, God has revealed to the whole world His grace through His Son. This light of truth has come into the world, yet the mind and heart of Cain loves darkness and not the light of God in Christ. Cain succumbed to the devil’s evil, and way of murder and death. In our present evil day, there is murder and death all around the peoples and nations of this world. The world is living on iniquity against God and will not repent of their sin. When Cain brought the works of his own hands, he had convinced himself that he was doing good and knew better than God the definition of good. At the first, the definition of good was to love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all thy soul, with all thy spirit and with all thy might and to love thy brother as thyself. When we spend time around the conversation of God with Cain, and Cain with God, we find that Cain could not tolerate truth.
  When grace and truth was manifested upon this earth in the Son of God, the fullness of the Godhead bodily, the Cain Syndrome could not stand truth. As the gospel of grace and truth is now ministered by the Spirit of God throughout the whole world the Cain Syndrome the heart of man is still hardened against God. In the political world, they deny God, they deny even the existence of God. In the religious world, they deny God by bringing the works of their own hands. In the secular world of education, they deny God by replacing God with their own intellectualism that they alone are gods. The whole world lies in darkness, and only faith gives the glimmer of light IN Jesus Christ.
  As Abel was condemned by Cain, the spirit of Cain condemns those of like faith of Abel today. The descendants of Cain are of the evil one, and they have no mercy or kindness to the children of faith IN Jesus Christ. John in his 1st epistle in Chapter 3, verse 12, stated that Cain was of that wicked one, and that wicked one stood in the presence of the Lord and deliberately declared his own will against the will of the Almighty God. After the death of Abel, once more Cain stood in the presence of the Lord. God asked, Where is Abel thy brother? Cain looked into the eyes of God and lied, again showing his evil heart. His answer was, I know not. Am I my brother’s keeper? Here we see the empty soul, the seared conscience, and the deceptive heart, and the evil spirit of Cain, I know not.
  And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother’s keeper? (Genesis 4:9) This has become the great lie of man and Satan. (John 8:44) Since Cain uttered these words, man has been killing his brothers in every conceivable way and justifying the death of his brothers in rationalizing as war, punishment, abortion, systematic killing, population control (plandemics) even now Cain is blinded by the lust for blood all over this present evil world. Man (Cain) will smile in front of the cameras and with his deceptive heart proclaim, I know not. He sheds man’s blood and will not take responsibility of the murder within his own heart. As Pilate would not take responsibility after condemning the Lord Jesus Christ to be crucified knowing that Christ was innocent of the lying claims against Him. The symbolism of Pilate washing his hands was the voice of Cain saying, I know not.
  It was Cain after he had slain his brother, he buried him, he hid the body thinking that the eyes of God were not watching. This also shows the attitude of Cain’s unbelief, and how far mankind had slid since the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Man had lost all conception, even in Cain, of the power and might and GLORY of his own Creator. Again, in this, we see man thinking that he is more than the Almighty. In hiding the body of his brother, Cain thought that God would be blind to what Cain had done. And then the further lie of Cain, and in this lie we see that there is NO fear of God in him. The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, [that there is] no fear of God before his eyes. (Psalm 36:1) There is no fear of God before their eyes. (Romans 3:18)
  Once again as Cain looked into the face of God and proclaimed, Am I my brother’s keeper? It is difficult to believe that the one standing in the presence of God did not believe in the God of creation, and the powers that God has. Cain refused God’s proper place as Creator of ALL things, and Cain denied the all-seeing eyes of God. Not only of the outward man, but the very depth of man’s heart, of man’s soul, and man’s spirit. Yet, we should understand that Cain was looking at God through the eyes of a sinner, and a murderer, and just as Cain had no love for his brother, he had no love for God. These words from the mouth of Cain reveals his lack of love. All of Cain’s love was centered in his own being and only for himself. Am I my brother’s keeper? Cain was the eldest brother. Anyone who studies scripture knows that we, as the eldest brother should have a responsibility to look after younger brothers. This applies to both the physical and the spiritual world. Cain should have understood that the eyes of the Lord go to and fro throughout the whole earth. God sees without and God sees within, and the Word of God examines the heart, soul, and spirit of every person.
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)
  The eyes of the Lord are the seven Spirits of God that goes forth through the whole earth and in every realm of mankind. They record in the books the ways of man, the works of man, and all the wickedness and sin of man. These books will be opened at the great white throne judgment, and everyone not found in the Book of Life in Jesus Christ will have all their works read out against them. They will stand before God and their lips will be frozen, they will have no excuse for God has testified to them of His grace and mercy from the very beginning with Cain and Abel. I do not know but I would think that in the first book, on the first page, the life and deeds of Cain will be read out against him either by the Lord or by one of His hosts. And onward through the history of man, one book after another will be opened and their sin and trespass will be read out against them. There will be no voice heard except the voice of the great Judge as one after another is cast into the lake of fire.
  When Cain slew Abel, the blood that ran from the heart of Abel into the ground had no voice to Cain; however, in the realm that belongs to God His spiritual ears hear the voice of blood . . . the voice of the blood of Abel witnesses against Cain. Abel’s blood cries out from the ground still. Again, over the history of mankind, how many times has the voice of blood cried out to God? From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, which perished between the altar and the temple: verily I say unto you, It shall be required of this generation. (Luke 11:51)
And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held: (Revelation 6:9) And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? (Revelation 6:9)
For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand. (Revelation 19:2)
  As we see in the text of Genesis 4, this sin of murder can only bring a curse from the earth. After this horrendous act by Cain, the earth refused to give her strength to the work of the hands of Cain. That which Cain cherished, the works of his hands, was taken from him.
  Now let’s look into the UNSEEN in Ezekiel 28:15 and 16. Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee. (Ezekiel 28:15) By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. (Ezekiel 28:16)
  Till iniquity was found in thee . . . here again, in what we call the UNSEEN world, is opened to the eyes of God. It was the eyes of God that uncovered and exposed the iniquity that was found in Lucifer. Just as in our world when Cain was exposed, so Lucifer was exposed in the realm of heaven, and throughout God’s word we see man being exposed in their sin and transgressions. The word iniquity is found in the Bible, 278 times. Does this not say something to your soul? Iniquity runs through the whole history of mankind, and it can only be removed by the blood of Christ. What is more profound is that the first mention of this word is in heaven itself in Ezekiel 28:16. We also see the word merchandise. This could compare to the works of Cain’s hands. In heaven this led to violence. And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels. (Revelation 12:7) This violence was a war in heaven: the greatest war that has ever taken place in the UNSEEN and SEEN realms. It was between two factions: God and His angels and Lucifer and his angels. It was God’s righteousness against unrighteousness. It was sin and iniquity against God’s Holy Person. This shook heaven itself. Through Lucifer bringing sin down to earth and Adam bringing sin into the world, Lucifer extended the war in heaven to include the battle for control over earth. And so, there became an ongoing struggle of sin and iniquity against God’s righteousness and His holiness.
  As Lucifer coveted and lusted over his merchandise both sin and iniquity was found in his heart. As Cain lusted and coveted over the works of his own hands, both sin and iniquity drove him to murder his brother. Again, compare the works of Cain’s hands to the works of Lucifer in Ezekiel 28:16. Also, in 1st John 3, we find that Abel’s works were good and accepted by God, but Cain’s works were evil. In Ezekiel 28, the first time that sin is recognized is IN Lucifer, and it is recognized IN heaven. The apostle Peter connects the fallen angels in Lucifer’s army to that same sin in heaven. For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; (2nd Peter 2:4)
  So, sin and iniquity began in heaven and Lucifer was the host, and both sin and iniquity are linked to the realm of mankind through man’s history and recorded in God’s holy word. There are many examples, but Psalm 32 verse 5 gives us a complete picture of sin and iniquity. I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah. (Psalm 32:5) The psalmist acknowledges both his sin and iniquity as my sin and mine iniquity. Cain refused to acknowledge either one. In Genesis 4:13 Cain’s punishment was expressed as being too harsh, although it was for the murder of his brother. 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)
  Cain refused to accept his punishment although his sin and iniquity was exposed by God. Cain’s problem began with disobedience to the word of God. In the case of Cain, he heard the same words from God as Abel heard. They both knew what God’s will for them was, and the very beginning of Cain’s disobedience ended with the death of his brother. After this, Cain’s punishment was the aftermath of his sin against God and his sin against his brother. Cain then in rebellion stood before God and declared that his punishment was greater than he could bear, and it is the same today, the preaching of hell and the lake of fire brings few results in the profession church, although they have the warning in Hebrews 10:26 – 29.
For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, (Hebrews 10:26) But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. (Hebrews 10:27) He that despised Moses’ law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: (Hebrews 10:28) Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace? (Hebrews 10:29)
  Man expresses himself in the same manner as Cain, that hell and the lake of fire are too great a punishment; yet Lucifer, the man of sin, and the false prophet will be cast into the lake of fire with all those who have refused God’s Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. In every age when man refuses the word of God, which the Lord Jesus is the Living Word of God, man is exposed in both their sin and iniquity. The seed of the devil is related to us in 1st John 3:12. 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.
  The Holy Spirit, the all-knowing Spirit of God, takes us back to the first born from Adam and Eve that Cain was of that wicked one, this scripture connects Cain to Lucifer, the devil; thus, sin and iniquity travels through the history of mankind. There was only one, the Son of man, the Son of God who was not a partaker of sin of iniquity for there was no sin and iniquity within Him. He was the Man from heaven, the first begotten of the Father in all purity of righteousness and holiness. God sent a Man from heaven to replace the earthly man: Adam. He sent the sinless One to take away the sin of Adam that man might find a refuge for his soul in the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Amen. Selah.
Part ii to follow.
© Copyright – Michael HaighÂ
October 17, 2023 – 3:21 PM (EST)
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