The Good News According to Cain

The abundance that comes through the good eye, which overcomes the evil eye and produces the fruit which makes glad the heart of Yehovah! The good news according to Cain!

Yhosha said: “the light of the body is the eye!”

Therefore if the eye is good the body is full of light. But if the eye is bad the body is full of darkness. Now if the light that is in you is darkness, how profound is that darkness?!

What does he mean? First of all let us get down to the reality of Yhosha. He was a faithful messenger and a son. And as a son he looked on what his father said and did and he did the same. Therefore these words come from the creator of all things, the father. And his son is relating them to us. So let us go back to the creator who created Adam and Eve with eyes.

And when he breathed into the water and soil clay figure that neshmat chaim; that water and soil was transformed into a living and breathing and digesting and blood filled flesh. And those clay eyes became fleshy eyes.

And behold the eyes beheld (or look).

Now understand the eyes were looking at all good, all things excellently made and well done and so the light of those eyes filled that body with light. And when that lump was split into two, into one with a penis and one with a womb, those eyes beheld, gazed on all excellent things and these bodies were filled with light.

So we see that the good eye produces good things, but they were wise and discreet and not at all in fear of or ashamed of themselves or Yehovah.

Darkness came in the form of a snake, dazzlingly beautiful, jewels and shiny glistening, multi-coloured and fascinating. This was “darkness“ and this darkness looked like beautiful light, so how great was that darkness?

Yhosha related to us how the owner of the vineyard rewarded all his workers with good. But they who had borne in the heat of the day and worked the longest came for their agreed wage supposing that they would gain more than they agreed. And when they did not the evil eye was exposed. Until then it seems reasonable; until then it seemed fair and just.

But when their hopes were dashed and their imaginations were not confirmed then the evilness of the eye was exposed in anger, murmurings and in wrath. So the owner of the field said: “in what way have I done you wrong? have you not received what you agreed with me? Or is it not that your eye is evil because I am good?“

So here we see that our creator is the source of the good eye. And even his son Yhosha, while he was yet a flesh and blood and digesting breathing human being would not allow the evil eye to deceive him. “Why do you call me good? There is no one good but Elohim! And that is because of my father Yehovah.”

The source of all good, all excellence, all beauty and all nobility is our father and he is the source of the good as we have already related in his creation of six days. The source of the evil eye was not just the snake. The source of the evil eye is a limited understanding of who and what we are and the purpose for which we have existence in the grace of Yehovah. However, the snake is the one who lied with the intent to murder and also to steal from this lump of soil, this seemingly worthless piece of clay pottery.

‘Misery loves company’ is a saying, and the evil eye within this snake resonates within the bad eye inherent within our flesh, our genetic make-up, a limited and resourcefulness and ability to be good.

We are introduced to an amazing Hebrew verb.

It is the verb which describes the very nature, purpose and intention of our creator Yehovah. It is the verb which references being good, being excellent, being beautiful, being noble, being wonderful, being amazing, being full of light and colour, being fun, being full of life and opportunity for good, being full to overflowing; redolent with bounty for all. And the list goes on and on endlessly. This verb is ytab in Hebrew. It is the gift of the grace of Yehovah to all of his creation who would have it. It is the source of the good eye for all of us who are so limited in our perspective and our abilities. It is Yehovah who has given to us wisdom and the knowledge that is good and excellent and creates eternal life!

Yehovah through his grace and guidance given to me and to you through his son Yhosha is downloading this subject into my consciousness as I remain supported by him, risking my life on his provision both for health and wealth and courage to proclaim the good news of his imperial administration which is second only to decontaminating his uncontaminated name!

We see the introduction of the good eye beginning in chapter 2 of the book of Bereshit, but beginning in chapter 3 we see the introduction of the bad or evil eye! And we know it is bound up with the eyes of the humans and the words of the snake! 

The words of Yehovah until this time have only been for the good of the lump, for the good of Adam and his wife Eve. And he took care of any good parent who would command his unwise children to obey his voice, to live by his wisdom and to avoid the tree of knowledge.

Now the tree of knowledge is in the middle of the garden along with the tree of living things. Whether they are neighbours or just in the same general area doesn’t matter; the eyes are directed towards the tree of knowledge and the word says “do not eat and do not touch because you will certainly become a wet spot marking the place of your burial in the ground from which you came! You will die!”

The word of the woman is “in case you die!” And the word of the snake is: “you will not die”. The evil eye of the snake acts upon the uncertainty of the woman whose evil eye comes about because of the limitation of her wisdom and her understanding. The evil eye knocks on the door of this uncertainty and blasts it out of the water, replacing it with a far more attractive and desirable outcome. “You will become like the Elohim, knowing good and bad, and the Elohim knows this!”

The evil eye senses that it is being robbed or held back from something that it wants to look upon, or that it has looked upon and desires with a great desire. Who would not want to be like Elohim? But what does that actually mean? How can that be achieved? Questions that should have been asked of the Elohim but instead the evil eye asks them of the senses of the flesh.

What did she see, if it was not something that looked innocent, tasty and even delicious? What had she been told about this harmless looking fruit? If it was not true then it was the way to obtain all that she desired; wisdom, prudence and skill. What did she do? She made the decision to disobey the clear and straightforward commanding instruction of her creator and perform the desire of her evil eye.

At that point she didn’t believe that she would die and in fact she didn’t care. She was fully deluded and only wanted to be like Elohim. And as it says stolen bread taste sweet. The fruit from the tree far from being poisonous was avariciously delicious and she couldn’t stop eating it.

Now Adam was watching all of this and his eyes were looking perhaps to see if this woman would fall down dead before his eyes, confirming what he may have been thinking. Because of his evil eye he had limited understanding, but instead she did not die. She remained alive and voraciously eating and then she turned to him and said “have some, it tastes good!“

It looked good to the evil eye, tasted good to the evil eye using the tongue and it didn’t kill you straight away so there was every prospect that it would open their eyes and they would become like Elohim. And at the same time they were disparaging the word of the creator. What did he know? What was he withholding from them? Look we are eating and we are still alive. And then their eyes were opened!

When their eyes were opened they saw that they were vulnerable. Suddenly their discretion turned back on them and said: you were discreet, you blended in with everybody including Yehovah, but now you have disobeyed the voice of Yehovah. Where is your discretion now? And they began to look at each other and be ashamed. And further still they began to be fearful of what Yehovah would do? And they said discretion should save us and being discreet should protect us! So they slunk away like the snake into the undergrowth, and began to sew together leaves to camouflage themselves. They wanted to hide away, not only from Yehovah but from each other, ashamed of each other. But they didn’t want to give up eating the fruit from that tree. Now the evil eye would not let them give up eating the fruit from that tree.

So Yehovah sounds out his voice in the middle of the garden, his wind energy called out amidst the trees. “Where are you?” And it wasn’t as if they didn’t move in response to his voice, it was more like they were playing hide and seek. They were trying to avoid the wind energy of Yehovah in vain.

Finally Adam and Eve stood forth clothed in the leafy garments. “We heard the voice of you in the garden and we became terrified!”

The fruit that is the very first fruit of the tree of knowledge is the fear of Yehovah.

“We knew that we were wise and discreet and so we hid ourselves amongst the trees and camouflaged ourselves!”

Like a penetrating laser Yehovah cut to the fundamental issue. “Who told you Adam you were discreet and wise?” Up until that time it seemed nobody had mentioned these descriptions, but because of the wind energy in them and the good eye in them these behaviours occurred in them naturally. But in the snake these behaviours were cunningly crafted to deceive. They were distinguished and then used as a cover. There was no integrity in the snake; everything was falsehood. So who told Adam that he was discreet? It would seem that the evil eye within him took cognizance of the snake and how it behaved and informed Adam and Eve that they could behave like this and that they to could be discreet, wise and counterfeit like the snake.

And then Yehovah asked them if they had eaten from the tree which he had commanded them not to eat from. It was one thing to come up with this idea through being influenced by the snake, but it was another thing to come up with this idea by direct disobedience of a command from Yehovah.

Adam decided to pass the blame onto Yehovah. “You gave me that woman, and she gave me fruit from that tree.” But here is something that is not translated. It is usually translated “and I ate.” But that is not what the Hebrew says. It says “and I will continue to eat!”

Then Yehovah turns to the woman and asks her what she has done. And she decides to blame the snake. The snake it seems hypnotised me (from the root word nasha which means deceived or beguiled), but again she says “and I will continue to eat!”

The evil eye not only lead them into this behaviour but also emboldened them to be defiant. It is this defiance which made it imperative that they were removed from the presence of the tree of living things and out of the garden.

But they were not abandoned by Yehovah. He laid out before them his plan of resolving this issue of the evil eye. First of all the evil eye source itself would be made lower than any other animal, and then the woman would bring forth a human being that would crush its head into the ground! So you see the plan of a liar and a thief and a murderer was not going to win through even with the help of the evil eye. The human being would crush it with its heel and it would fasten itself onto the heel trying to inject poison into it but it would not succeed. It would be smashed to pieces. It had done enough damage.

Then to the woman Yehovah said “you will prove to be of great abundance and a desire for your teammate will be in you to produce this abundance. And he represents you.”

This is not really a curse because it is a 
re-establishment of the purpose and the mission of the woman, of the she mate. Yes childbirth will be painful and that might be considered a curse, but the end result of all this childbirth would be to bring forth the seed that would crush the snake. And not only will all this childbirth bring forth the seed, but it would also produce superabundance in her family and her husband would be the one to represent her in all of this.

Someone tried to translate this as men ruling over women or their wives and this is a product of the evil eye. For those that are ashamed of each other and blaming each other will be harsh towards one another. But Yehovah desires us to love one another and to play our part. And despite whatever treatment the woman would receive from her parents and husband she would still be fundamentally important in bringing about the salvation of her descendants, so she should be encouraged to keep a good eye from Yehovah and pass it onto her children.

Now when Yehovah turns to Adam, who in his arrogance declared that he would continue to eat Yehovah does curse the ground. The ground will do battle with his arrogance! Thorns and thistles and briars it would produce to remove his wilful behaviour and to humble him. For he declared that he would continue to eat from the tree of knowledge and in his ignorance of all the good that he had that Yehovah had provided him with; he needed the school of hard knocks, the school of thorns and thistles to help him to turn back from the arrogance of the evil eye and to look upon all that is provided for him with the good eye from Yehovah. He needed to learn from his battle with the land, but it was from the soil that he was taken and mixed with a little bit of water and into which was puffed the wind energy of Yehovah. What did he know? What could he know apart from his creator Yehovah? What knowledge was there going to be from the dust of the earth from which he came and from which all plants have sprung? What wisdom, what ability to be good?

In struggling with the soil and with the plants in the soil, in order just to gain enough to eat with a sweaty brow, with a head full of questions and bemoaning he had the chance to come to realise that he was nothing, that humility was what was necessary. As the grace of Yehovah far outweighed the limited and debilitating acquisition of knowledge and especially the knowledge of bad. For the increase of the knowledge of bad with scratches and thistles and failures was what he was destined to learn having been provided with the knowledge of good from the outset.

We need to know that without Yehovah and without his greatest giving of us of the neshmat chaim we are little better than the dust in the soil and the water from which we came! And we will return to that dust and to the water as if we never existed. And what good would all this knowledge be to us then? What good is knowledge to those who are dead? What knowledge is there in Sheol? And what have we learned which we can take forward? Those who have learned are brought down to dust and what they have learned scattered away in the wind! Why should they learn if in the end they come to nothing but dust?

Those that live with Yehovah and aligned themselves with him, to them knowledge of good will be a gracious joy. The good will be forever looked upon and what is excellent and inspiring, the good will reconnect, all manner of the good things will give assurance of ecstasy concerning what is good and what Yehovah has purposed for all those that love him and aligned themselves with him and risk their life support reliance on him and fix their life support reliance in him.

It would seem that Adam and the snake weren’t very happy with this judgement, this decision to apply justice and equity in fairness to all, and so they together tried to resist being escorted out of the garden of Eden. In the end they were expelled forcibly by the Elohim because as Yehovah had said: “they become like us, the Elohim, but now they want to send out their hand and grab hold of the fruit of the tree of life! The tree of living things was their next goal.”

But they didn’t know how weak and helpless they really were. They were easily expelled from the garden and a single cherub with a flaming sword was all it took to protect the way to the tree of living things. It indicates that the cherub would run round and around, so it wasn’t just protecting a single road; it was protecting attack from all sides.

So we come into a period where Adam and Eve had to comply with living outside of the garden of Eden and Adam actually begins to take time to get to know his wife Eve. And it seems that they liked each other! And then Yehovah granted Adam and Eve a conception through sexual intercourse of course! But the important thing is that she conceived by the will of Yehovah, conception not being something that automatically occurs through penetration and ejaculation.

The outburst that Eve made when she gave birth, apart from the groaning and the crying out with birth pains was an outburst of elation that she had gained a relationship with Yehovah! That is to say that she had become very desirous of repairing the breach that she had caused between her and Yehovah in accord with his statement about producing a seed that was to crush the head of the snake, and she was rejoicing that Yehovah had not abandoned her, and was indeed giving her the fertility that she needed in order to produce this seed. In this sense she looks right past her husband as all women should to the creator and former of all things as the source of the fertile womb. 

She named this son Cain to express all of the above. Eve gave birth to two sons, the second one being called Abel which means a vaporous mist. 

Now the division of labour in the new economy was between animal husbandry and agriculture. Adam split his sons between these two tasks. Cain worked the land with Adam and Abel took charge of gazing over and watching over and protecting and getting to know the livestock.

In the economy both are important, especially if you have ground that is full of briars and thistles. Livestock can get through these things and reduce them to nothing to give you the opportunity to plough the land and sew it with seed. So apart from cutting down trees livestock are important for maintaining and creating workable arable land.

Now that our focus is not on the arable economy but on the inherent nature of Cain, and this is where we see a classic example of the evil eye, noting that is genetically related to Adam and Eve, both of whom had the evil eye and so in their descendants the evil eye will appear; but it appears that Abel had a less dominant trait which is not quite a good eye but that’s what we are going to relate it to in a minute.

The way that this is revealed is in his relationship with Yehovah and his system of governance over these human beings. It seems that in the dwelling places, which were permanent dwelling places, surrounded by fields which could be used to graze livestock as well as for other animals of the field to live in, within this place was a house or temple for Yehovah to which tribute was to be brought.

Any idea of tribute or gifts from the economy is a much broader idea than just bringing a thank you gift. It is spoken of in relation to empires where the imperial government imposes upon tributary and subordinate nations the responsibility to bring tribute from their produce in their economies. This was done willingly in order to promote peace amongst the subjugated nations with regard to the dominant nation. In return for this many benefits were given to those who were friends of the dominant nation in terms of protection and even help with building projects etc. 

So this word nincha allows us to imagine not only a settled dwelling place but also a temple system with tribute and an administration.

Now we don’t know how long it took for this to be established after they were expelled from the garden of Eden and therefore we don’t know how old Cain was. We have a second genealogy which gives us some years in regard to when Adam and Eve gave birth and their descendants gave birth so we might be able to work something out from there. However in this particular setting it says after a number of days. In any case we cannot assume that Adam and Eve and Cain and Abel had grown to be very wise in this period of time or to be able to deal with the situation that they now were in, in regard to their lack of knowledge!

It would seem that a tribute day came and Cain got together some fruit of the ground and brought it as his tribute. The Hebrew says that Abel also came to give his tribute, which did mean that there was a bit of rivalry going on, or as I say there was a system set up in which tributes were due at a certain time.

We have no indication of what Cain brought, but we were told fully that Abel brought the first out of the womb of his flock and the “fat“ of them.

Now this in the system of sacrifices could mean that he brought the first born and sacrificed them or some of them to bring the fat to the altar. But this is not necessarily the case. It is possible that what it is alluded to is the fact that he carefully selected from his flock those that were the first born, the first out of the womb of any female that was giving birth. These were all noted and collected together to form a flock of first borns. Then from amongst these first borns he chose the very best of them. The ones that looked really good and fat and plump. Then he brought these two Yehovah who then concerned himself with inspecting them.

If somebody brings you something and says these are the very best, then naturally you will need to look at them and check that they are the very best!

All we are told is that this involvement with Abel’s tribute occurred but was very pointed. But it was pointed because there was no involvement with Cain’s tribute. And this was purposeful.

If it was purposeful we might be able to conclude that Cain’s tribute was not the very best, was not as well considered and prepared as Abel, and in fact embarrassingly so.

Now we are not to assume that Abel was trying to outdo his brother. If this was the case then he would also be affected by the evil eye. Instead the evil eye is focused intensely and without wavering on Cain. It would seem appropriate to assume that he had an affliction of this evil eye that was being addressed, and that Yehovah was using this tribute session to teach Cain an important lesson and to remind him of the standards which he had already been told and had agreed to.

The evil eye as it manifested in him came was this intense anger which erupted in him.

This was not as a result of anything that the snake was doing for the snake was banished from the presence of Yehovah. This was something that was an incoherent defect within Cain’s self, within his flesh and blood breathing and digesting blood being, enervated by his neshmat chaim. We could call it and then a genetic fault, but we know it was passed on to him by both his parents Adam and Eve, and this evil eye was particularly violent.

After the eruption of this violent anger followed a paralysis which made him fall to the ground on his face! We see this behaviour sometimes in young children where they become very vocal and then throw what we call a tantrum and throw themselves on the ground. This apparently is what was happening with Cain. 

So this outburst is met with a response from Yehovah which is so caring and loving and understanding that the translators had to make it look bad! They couldn’t believe that Yehovah could not only put up with this kind of behaviour but train Cain in a way to get out of it. So they made out that Yehovah was going to punish Cain. 

If we look at it very carefully will see firstly that Yehovah reflected back to Cain questions about his behaviour. It is possible that Cain was so out of it that he didn’t know what he looked like and what he was doing. So that’s the first thing that Yehovah addresses.

Having identified erupted anger and raging paralysis resulting in falling on the ground on his face, possibly kicking and screaming, he then draws Cain’s attention to the expectation. It is an expectation which means that Cain already knew or was taught this.

The expectation is brilliant and it introduces this incredible verb ytab, around which the expectation is built, but around which also the solution to any problem is built. The expectation is excellence, beauty, goodness, doing ones very best, being full of goodwill, goodwill to God and all manner of men. This is the expectation and this results in an upliftment and uprising or bearing up of good things. The person that has this behaviour which I’m going to call the good eye will see only the good thing and it is lifting him up into the great goodness of Yehovah. Whatever it is that he does, whatever it is that he produces in this manner will be praised to the sky. And so we see that Yehovah responds to Abel’s tributes in this way; he concentrates on it, he clearly values it, he holds it up and inspects it with admiration. So we see that this uplifting, this bearing up happens if you do good, promote excellence, diligently strive to present the very best. Since it happened to Abel and not to Cain we can assume that Cain did not try his very best with his tribute.

So if you didn’t do your very best with your tribute, in fact you did the opposite; that is to say you didn’t try to be good. It is important to note that the opposite of not doing your very best is not necessarily being bad or doing bad. So assuming that Cain didn’t try his very best what options were open to him? Well as a caring parent you would try to encourage your child to focus on doing its best. And this is what Yehovah did, but it involved the animals.

In explaining how to turn to doing your very best we get the mention of an opening, which is commonly a reference to an opening to the temple or the tent of meeting or gathering. We also get a reference to something which all translators recognise is an animal waiting patiently at the opening.

It is here that the translators take a flight of fancy. Because instead of taking the clear and obvious meaning that this is a covenant shredding offering; which is an animal that’s waiting patiently at the opening to fulfil its function for a human being would be a covenant shredding offering, the translators assume that this is referring to something they call “sin”. This is the introduction of a concept which is foreign to the Hebrew economy and foreign to the teachings and the instructions of Yehovah. Instead of promoting the behaviour or the good behaviour that Yehovah wants by identifying the bad behaviour of the evil eye and having something that will counteract this bad behaviour with its pure and simple and innocent behaviour, the translators have imposed a description of something which is evil within and outside of the temple opening, which in effect is lying in wait to pounce on anybody who leaves the temple, and which as a consequence they will have to struggle with when they leave the temple.

Of course this does not make sense because within the temple Cain is already struggling with the evil eye! So he doesn’t have to wait to go outside through the opening for it to pounce on him! So this is not what he’s talking about. He’s talking about the solution to the problem which presented itself within the temple. The problem of the evil eye and the problem of being excellent and doing well. The solution is actually a young, innocent, trusting, obedient docile animal that is waiting at the door for you as it’s shepherd and carer to come and slaughter it!

However hold on, this is not what it’s waiting for. There is a Hebrew verb which first appears in relation to Eve. And with relation to Eve it’s actually mistranslated as desire. What it actually means is to be superabundant or to bring forth superabundance. And so this covenant shredding offering is not waiting to be slaughtered, although it will be slaughtered it is waiting to help produce superabundance at the opening of the temple! Now the only other person to which we can relate this after 2000 years with any understanding is Yhosha. For when he laid down his life everyone including his closest students thought that he had come and been slaughtered but he was telling them and he’s telling us that he had come to produce super abundance! And he explained it in this way. Unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies no crops would appear and produce superabundantly. Yes you are puzzled but when a seed dies it produces a plant which might produce 30, 60 or 100 fold. That is super abundance. And when we throw seed into the ground we look past the death of the seed to the life and superabundance that it will produce. And in the same way this covenant shredding offering which was waiting at the opening of the temple docilely, innocently and looking forward to its shepherd coming out and laying his hands on it was going to be the seed that would produce the super abundance of goodness, good humour, good behaviour and excellence in somebody; anybody including Cain who had failed to do these things.

Many of us who are not tenderhearted and who are carnivores, that only think of the stomach by the evil eye will not be moved by some tender young kid of the goats or lambs bleating before us, looking up with their doleful eyes expecting us to take care of them. No, we wouldn’t be moved by such a thing, but those of us that are understanding of what Yehovah is presenting to us, which is a representation of the kind of character and behaviour that we need to have within ourselves and which we are in danger of losing. And in presenting that to us he expects us to represent it to him. So this sacrifice is not substitutionary. That is an idea that seems to be the case but it is not Yehovahs idea. His idea is that this sacrifice should be representative.

In other words the sacrifice represents to us the good eye, and we represent to Yehovah the good eye that the animal has invoked in us. Return back to the source of a good eye and plead for it, thereby making the sacrifice and the laying down of the life of this innocent creature meaningful and with great purpose. It is a super abundant purpose which would appear at the gates of the temple for all those who having an evil eye, but desiring to be good and excellent will take this visceral path to help correct their internal and inherent defect by the grace and power of Yehovah.

This is the good news given to Cain by Yehovah.

Did you hear the good news, and so develop a life support reliance in Yehovah?

The record focuses on Cain’s next action. Possibly a phrase missing from there but it’s not important. Cain said to his brother Abel probably something like let’s go for a chat in the field. The kind of thing brothers do anyway, however this wasn’t Abel’s Brother. It turns out to be in a stratagem employed by the evil eye. When they got into the field and after a little conversation in the field it says that Cain rose up against his brother and slaughtered him.

So the two words of interest are rose up. These words actually means to rise up but it’s not referring to him bodily rising up only, but also to the wind energy within him rising up and boiling over again and erupting like a volcano. It is related to the verb nqm which refers to perhaps revenge which has as a possible source this incident that is recorded here in this chapter. Later translators of this word looked back and said it probably also means revenge. But that’s not what it is referring to. It is referring to the rising up of the wind energy stirred up by the evil eye. Unable to control himself because the evil eye was controlling him he ended up slaughtering his brother. How ironic. Yehovah had provided an innocent, docile and loving animal for him to interact with and to slaughter in order to turn back to doing good. Instead he chose to slaughter his brother, his brother has forever been associated with that innocent, trusting, docile and loving animal. Next time your brother says let’s go and walk in the field you probably should decline.

This kind of activity amongst brothers is what is being targeted by the example. Brothers should not behave this way with each other. Let’s see how Yehovah handled this outburst which surely was a capital offence and should have attracted the instant striking down by a lightning bolt from Yehovah you would think. But again this thought is the thought process of your evil eye. Did you ever think what good you might be able to bring out of this situation; disastrous and horrible as it is? Is it your eyes are not like Yehovahs? He was thinking once again how can I rescue Cain from this serious defect? Let’s have a look at this defect.

Yehovah asked Cain where is your brother Abel? Now this is not a question to find out anything because Yehovah already knew. It is a question to bring Cain’s focus onto what had happened and to see what his thinking was.

Well the translators have had a field day here again. What Cain actually says is:

“I didn’t know that I was my brothers protector and defender!”

Now this can be taken in two ways. The first way is that he didn’t know, he had not been told, he had not understood that he was meant to protect and defend his brother. It just wasn’t a concept that had occurred to hi, or been taught to him. This is unlikely however but it is possible that he was absent and that a lesson was being taught; working in the fields, all following the dreams and illusions that were in his own head.

The second meaning is a sarcastic one. It is saying I don’t know and I certainly didn’t know I was expected to protect and defend my brother and keep track of his whereabouts! Whichever of the two was his response to Yehovah he was immediately questioned with the words what have you done?

Again this is not a questionof trying to find out what had happened because it is followed by the blood of his brother or the bloods of his brother crying out to Yehovah from the ground! So it really was a question to bring Cain back from either arrogance or ignorance to actuality. His brother’s blood was crying out to Yehovah. It says his bloods were crying out, making a screaming or screeching noise made like a stuck pig or a frightened animal. The consequence of this was that the ground which had opened itself to receive Abel’s blood at his hand was now cursing him. The ground was angry with Cain. The ground didn’t want to swallow up the bloods of Abel and neither did any reasonable entity in Yehovah’s service. 

So as a result the ground cursed Cain, and because he worked and laboured on the land it would refuse to give or add to his labours its power and its strength and its ability to multiply the crops and the seeds that he threw into it. But none of us know how seeds in the ground work together to produce the multiple bounties which we enjoy but the arable land knows, and it chose not to work with Cain again.

As a consequence of this Cain would not be able to settle anywhere, would not be at ease anyway, would not be able to lock his door anywhere. Why was this? Because not only did the land not give its power and ability to him, but he was going to be removed from the presence or in the face of Yehovah. It actually says that Cain would be hidden from the face of Yehovah, not that Yehovah would hide his face from Cain. Again the evil eye is cutting Cain off from the only source of good but is able to rescue him from its influence.

Then Cain seems to understand the greatness of this evil eye and its impact on the burden that it was continually bringing on him and his family and those around him. “The evil eye continuously burdens!” That is a rough translation of what he says. And then he lists the reasons why he came to that conclusion: the land wants nothing to do with him, he it seems will have a tendency to hide his face from the presence of Yehovah and finally he wouldn’t be able to settle his eyes, he would be constantly darting them to and fro looking over his shoulder, he is not seeing his crops grow and his doors which continuously fly open are not providing him with any protection from anything, and all who would find him suddenly decide to kill him!

This interaction is usually translated as Cain being cursed to become a wanderer and a vagabond in the land to the east. But this is contradicted by what actually is reported which simply says that he settled in the land to the east outside of Eden away from Yehovah after securing an agreement that would protect his life, which was set up in some kind of sign. So why do a sign to him unless people are going past it?

The point of fact is that Cain was sent out to this land to the east of the garden of Eden into the east of where his family was, and it seems that he was given by Yehovah his she mate, which he actually took time to get to know. And as a consequence Yehovah blessed them with a pregnancy and she gave birth to a son called Enoch and the first thing that he did was build a city! He named the city after himself. But this is hardly wandering and being a vagabond!

Whatever was happening in Cain’s land his descendants certainly had to find other ways to make a living, and it seems they traded in industrial goods and metals and in musical instruments; things which they would have to raise from the ground, by mining and by smelting and other things like that. In other words the ground didn’t produce for them agriculturally so they had to take what they could from the ground and make what they could from what they taken. And some of these things were notabl, and valued not only amongst themselves but also amongst those who stayed within the first settlement of Adam and Eve. So it seems that some established trading took place which enabled Cain and his descendants to acquire food from the agriculturalists who in turn acquired articles which they desired from Cain’s descendants.

So why do we have this story of Cain’s genealogy? Yehovah did not abandon Cain and his family, but he worked with them, presumably for the same end of restoring Cain and his children to his way of goodness and excellence. And maybe some of them did begin to perform excellently in what was given to their hands from underneath the ground. But there were other noticeable trends which seem to be reflected in the names that the children were given.

So let’s look more closely at what Yehovah did for Cain when he obviously cried out to him that this evil eye is too overwhelming for him to cope with.

Greater than my evil eye has been born! This was his moaning as well to Yehovah. He had suffered the consequences of this inherent, evil weakness in him or rather this inherent genetic fault within him but now the strict measures that Yehovah laid out before him really hit home. This was not going to be like any other consequence giving into his evil tendencies, the weakness that he had was greater than anything that had received before. “Look” he says “you have expelled me from the land.” That is the soil is not going to produce crops for him in protest at his slaughtering of his brother. This is all in one day plus I will be hiding myself from you as my eyes will be twitching this way and that way andmy doors will be swinging and banging in the wind.

I will be the target of anyone who finds me or springs out on me to kill and slaughter!

Cain understood that without being able to work the soil and to remain within this community he would be constantly looking over his shoulder. He would be constantly checking his door to make sure that it was secure because his relatives would want to find him and kill him because of what he had done. He was a wanted man and outlaw and blood revenge might occur to him! There may be others with an evil eye that couldn’t control themselves.

This was certainly true and so Yehovah acted to limit the freedom of his followers who had wanted to kill Cain. It says he put a sign to keep within bounds and to strike anyone who might come upon him suddenly or might spring on him out from some place. This is almost like saying that he set up a street sign to say this is the way to Cain so that nobody would come upon him by surprise and kill him by mistake or out of vengeance. Especially not out of vengeance because there was a command that anyone that slaughtered Cain would be revenged upon sevenfold.

There are several interesting concepts in this description, one of them being keeping within bounds, the other being revenge and the third one being sevenfold or a multiple of seven.

Blh is a very interesting concept but the best way to get a handle of it is the image of a lion tamer driving a lion back into its cage with a whip and a stick but not locking the cage. In this sense Adam and Eve were told not to eat from the fruit of the tree but no fence or guard was put around it. And so Eve even added the instruction not to touch the tree. This word implies that it was a constant act of keeping that tree in its place and not allowing it to function as a tree of knowledge. Whatever it took to keep that tree away from its designed function; that was what needed to be done and this is what Yehovah enquired of Adam. “Have you done everything to keep that tree within its commanded place away from you and your wife and untouchable and uneatable?”And he had done that, but not by encasing it in a block of concrete! Similarly this sign or direction that was put up to Cain’s place was intended to keep anyone finding him, from striking him with a blow by force of their will and that is not because they could not find him but because he would be accessible to them and even a trading partner with them.

However he would not live amongst them, he would go away from the presence or face of Yehovah into the land of Nod which is east of the land that was already east of Eden.

The land of Nod means the land of revolving doors or doors that can’t be locked, or in another sense doors which can’t be opened to him; a door that is rooted shut. These are just symbols of the land of insecurity where the people are twitching with nervousness and making sure the doors cannot be opened.

The door which can open easily was feared.

Nqm is the second concept which is translated as revenge but which has a form that is the same as the concept qwm which means to rise up. They are distinct roots but related by the qwm by literal roots. However the idea of piercing holes to drain away water and the idea of digging a hole to allow water to bubble up is the only real connection.

To pierce holes into the ground so as to let water sink down to the roots or to pierce holes in a wine bag so as to let the liquid in it drain out are similar actions with different intentions. The idea of revenge seems to be the idea of blood letting by the avenger of blood.

To get the big picture of what we’ve been told by this verse we need to realise that Adam’s family was not a necessarily smooth running society. The evil eye was present, it seems that hitting and smiting and slaughtering and killing was also present or a potential and of course struggling with the ground to produce a harvest was also present. In amongst all of this was Eve trying to bring about the solution to it all by giving birth to the one who would destroy the snake! In the meantime all around her family was slowly disintegrating.

The land of Nod to the east of the settlement of Adam and Eve may well have been a hunting or grazing ground into which Adam’s family would venture and through which there may have been roots. But certainly with the banishment of Cain to this land, a route to his house was signposted to help control any inadvertent striking of him by anyone, including those that were in the settlement with Adam and Eve. And the controlling punishment was the punishment of being revenged sevenfold. That is hard to understand but if we use the idea of bloodletting and this would seem to imply a sevenfold increase in bloodletting for those that killed Cain. In the sense that if anyone killed Cain seven of their family would be put to death.

We see that this instruction which was meant to keep in check vengeance and hurtfulness within the bounds of the evil eye was actually used to inspire a saying by someone who was even more out of control than Cain. That was a descendant called lamech, who also took to himself two she mates!

We now look at the development of Cain’s family to see what it can tell us about the evil eye and about the educational program of Yehovah to reform as many human beings as possible.

Today on the 21st of December 2022 I learn that the first son of Cain whose name is Hanoch/Enoch means dedication! This is significant because we are met bang in the middle of the festival of Hanukkah! So it wouldn’t be far-fetched to assume that Cain had a change of heart and began to listen to the words of Yehovah and so came to dedicate himself to the good eye and to do battle with his evil eye. And as a result of this because of the obvious goodwill shown to him and his wife, by giving them a son he named his son dedication and it seemed he continued in his dedication, going on to build a city with its walls which also is called by the same name dedication, or rededication. It may be that he built an altar and dedicated it to Yehovah in order to offer up the covenant shredding sacrifice in the land of Nod to repair and restore his relationship with Yehovah with the aid of his creator.

The son of Enoch, the dedicated one who lives within the dedicated city is very interesting. In passing it may be that the city which was named with the same name as his son by Cain contained an altar which was dedicated to Yehovah. We know that Cain was worried about being away from the presence in the face of Yehovah and that he had been directed by Yehovah to the representative sacrifice at the opening to his temple or house. So it may be that Yehovah helped him to build a satisfactory altar on which to offer this offering of representation as part of his remedial training bringing him back into line. And the city therefore becomes a secondary altar to Yehovah.

So the grandson of Cain was called Yrad from a root which is not used in the text but I found in the name of a couple of outlying communities. So the meaning of it is not clear from the pictograph; it seems to be referring to the eye of suspicion, the twitching curtains they’re peeking from behind closed doors etc. This would be in keeping with the relationship between Cain and his sons whenever they came up to the encampment of Adam and Eve to bring their tribute offering.

The tribute offering would have been brought because Cain got over or overcame this incredible defect in his biology by the training and help and patience of Yehovah. He would become more observant and obedient to the system set out by Yehovah. Nevertheless the community around Adam would need to be convinced and this meant that they would be highly suspicious of him and his intent and the intention of his sons. It would take them a long time to become comfortable with these “outcast“ relatives coming to the meetings with Yehovah and as he was told there was no welcome and there was no throwing open of doors; instead there was a twitching and a firm closing of doors in their presence. He also within the land which was called Nod could see this behaviour even amongst his own family. He had to work very hard to overcome the influence of the evil eye. And so his son is named to try and convey to us how dedicated he was and this son named his son to try and convey just how much they were made to feel like outcasts!

Now the son of Yrad was named Mehujael. Again a very interesting name which we can find as far as can be found out is based on two possible roots. The first root has to do with the concept of the hand being extended, usually to violently slap or smite or hit somebody or we find this verb used in particular when Cain is listing all the problems that his evil eye had brought upon him which were more than he was able to bear, that is beyond what he was used to. And it gave rise to the fear that he would be slaughtered, just like that all of a sudden people would find, him spring out on him and slaughter him.

If that sounds like what he did to his brother Abel then you’d be right. And his fear was the fear of being revenged by the relative of blood. This was a common practice amongst families and seen as justice for the spilling of blood of a relative. Another relative would come and avenge or spill the blood of the perpetrator. After this got out of hand, in the fact that the spilling of blood may have been unintentional or accidental, however the avenger of blood would still not show any mercy and therefore no justice in that situation.

So we see that Yehovah made it plain that this smiter, a good old-fashioned King James word, or rather the one who took it upon himself to avenge and hit back at Cain would experience seven times their revenge on himself and on his family! And the actual verb here indicates that the purpose of this sentence was to curb or to drive into a corner this dangerous action which arises from the evil eye, calling itself justice. It’s not to cage or to eliminate it, but to drive into a corner by the force of will of those to whom it may appear as a right course of action. In a similar way Adam and Eve were not to fence off the tree of knowledge but to drive it into a corner where is influence would be contained by the wilful actions of avoiding and neglecting to touch or eat from that tree, even though it was readily available. These two descriptions highlight the fact that Yehovah was not just looking for simple obedience but for obedience by an act of will which showed and told him that you did not want anything to do with this action by your own will.

So this first word refers to someone who is out to hit or kill another person. In context this would be an act of revenge.

And the second word is a bit more mysterious as it comes from a root that is again not found in the text but apparently refers to something that keeps on twisting. And in the two uses that it generates in the text it appears to be something in the front of a person. It seems obvious that we have a reference to the twisting bowels and guts of an individual or an animal. And this makes sense because as we will find out in much more detail in Leviticus that is it the twisted gut and bowels and fat of any of these acceptable representative sacrifices that Yehovah requires to be put on the altar.

So although the word is pronounced yael it would seem to be the name of an entity which causes the twisting of the guts. That would ordinarily be yawl according to the naming convention from a verb. So I’m going to hazard this understanding of this particular name as referring to this matter of he who twists the guts! Or it could be the one who is continuously hit or struck by him who twists the guts!

This is wonderfully ambiguous in that it could refer to Yehovah continuing to protect Cain and his family from those who would desire to avenge the blood of Abel as per his instruction and his clear delineation of the route to Cain’s dwelling. Anyone going down that route to Cain in order to kill him will be in a whole heap of trouble with Yehovah and his family and he would pay the consequences of that. And that seems to be what Yrad was experiencing, that is divine protection by means of the instructions of Yehovah. The second and less consistent meaning could be that Yrad and his father and grandfather were experiencing life as if they were being attacked by Yehovah. And this is only worth mentioning because of Lamech’s response to the situation. In other words Lamech could have understood things in this alternative way!

Now we come to the fourth generation and the name is again interesting. It is a name that is similar to a name which appears in Seth’s line and seems to be a name which indicates the end of an era. The name is Mathusael.

It’s very possible that Cain died and his sons and grandson and great-grandson were besides themselves with grief and anxiety for their future. If this is the case it would indicate that Cain had made a major effort to turn his life around and come back into a relationship with Yehovah according to his instruction program, with which his son, grandson and great-grandson and possibly great-great-grandson were all in alignment. But we are finding that the next generation were not willing to get with the program! The next generation includes Lamech.

The meaning of this son‘s name was a total surprise to me. Apparently it’s based on Babylonian text and not Hebrew and it means man of El! In the scenario which I have been building up concerning Cain and his descendants this would be remarkable if it commemorates the respect of this great grandson regarding his great grandfather Cain! If it really commemorates Cain then he was seen as a man of El!

I’m going to look at the more familiar name of Methuselah and see what that actually means!

I find this rabbit hole more and more interesting looking into the concrete meaning of the name Methuselah and I find that it is made up of the same prefix which is considered to mean man in Babylonian and a very interesting noun connected to the verb shilach. This is the verb behind the idea of sending away messengers and the apostles! Looking more carefully at this root from the pictography point of view he seems to reference a goad or a rod that enwraps or puts in a vessel or some kind of fence, although it could be a wall or it could be some kind of repetitive structure, as in the case of a ladder etc. And the pictures that this denotes is a defence which cannot be broken through, which on the contrary repel things away or those who tried to break through. So this kind of suffix represents repelling or sending away probably attackers, but in general anyone who is no longer supposed to be within this defence.

So it would take quite a lot of work to fully understand this concept, but let’s look very quickly at the request to Pharaoh to send away Yehovah’s son, the children of Israel. There is no doubt that the children of Israel exist inside an armed offence, kind of like a work camp so nobody could come in who wasn’t invited. All unwanted people would be repelled and sent back. In the same way Yehovah is commanding Pharaoh to send his people away like they were invaders that needed to be repelled.

Similarly in the new Testament the 12 students have been associated with those who needed to be sent away from the assembly or the gathering, sent out as missionaries on a mission, not afforded the protection of the gathering but sent out into peril.

So Methusael and his counterpart in Yehovah’s house Methuselah both had children called Lamech. It is worth comparing the meaning of the names of these sons but it’s very interesting that in both Seth’s line and Cain’s line there is a man who is doing Yehovah’s work representing El, either personally or by sending out missiles or apostles, and sending them out would have been Enoch, again meaning dedicated to dedication. In both lines there is a very pronounced reference to a later teacher whose dedication would result in the descendants of Adam coming to know Yehovah.

There doesn’t seem to be any understanding of the name Lamech and so I would put out there based on the pictographs that this is referring to a man who has the power of divination of water by means of his hands and feet, that is a water or or diviner.

We have people alive today who are able to sense where water is underground or where ores or other compounds are present under the ground. And while this seems to be very significant in the case of Cain’s descendants who had no reliance on agriculture it seems that it might have become important to the growing population of Eve’s descendants as it expanded out from the initial camp.

In any case the search for water and pasture is important to all societies and in the case of Seth’s descendants it seems that it was necessary to help provide some relief from the struggle with the land. However in the case of Cain’s descendents it was a necessary need to provide them with water sources but to also provide them with other minerals which they could then use to create saleable objects. And the children of Lamech and Cain’s descendants were nomads who lived in tents. There was also a third class who were also very skilful with their hands and feet in making musical instruments and wind instruments and being able to play them and become travelling musicians or possibly in the King James English roving minstrels.

In any case the use of the hands and the soles of the feet seem to be of importance to the parents of Jared. We know that Enoch walked with Yehovah and was taken out of the sight of his son who concentrated on keeping the family together in the service of Yehovah not only by supporting the missionaries and also by practically supporting the communities with water sources etc. This kept Lamech busy and he had one notable son, that is Noah who seemed to encourage the whole of the community of Adam and Eve with the prospect of the end of the curse.

Back to Cain’s descendants. They seem to have gone on an industrial revolution spree and be drifting away from Yehovah and his servants in the camp of Adam and Eve, who also became missionaries to the descendants of Cain who wanted to continue that contact with Yehovah. However it seems that Lamech was highly irritable and suspicious of these missionaries and in fact anybody who crossed him. This led to increased hostility between his family and those in the camp of Adam and Eve.

We will have to wait to the time of Noah to get a better picture of what is happening between these two camps but we end with a positive note that the son of Seth, Enoch in carrying on the line of his grandfather Abel began the practice and the teaching of the calling of things in the name of Yehovah. Whereas by creating or by praying or by naming children it was all in reference to the name of Yehovah, that is as the servants of Yehovah Elohim and therefore with the clearest expression of the sons of Elohim that walk with and serve Yehovah. The sons of Cain, while initially being in remediation to Yehovah, after the fourth generation and possibly after the death of Cain spiralled down into violence and bloodshed. These were called the sons of Adam because they focused on the soil and what it would produce, that is minerals and water, and not on Yehovah and what he had stored up for all his children.

The evil eye and a good eye have been thoroughly worked out here and we find that just as it says in Isaiah, Yehovah laid upon his servant the iniquity or the evil eye of us all; that this was the plan from the beginning with Cain. A pure and innocent sacrifice would be used in a representative way to enable us to overcome our evil eye and by continually looking on this pure lamb (even Yhosha), Cain became able to represent him, but at the same time he would represent all evil eyes and all our defects! And in one act of incredible bravery and of love and grace he would remove from the sons of Adam the defective genes in the second stage of Yehovah’s planned development of his children of clay and water.

The wives of Lamech and one of the daughters of Lamech are particularly mentioned in this section. So we need to understand their significance.

The parents of Ada may well have been artistic and creative people but they were certainly parents that appreciated fascinating objects. This means that their eye was entranced by good things and curious about bad things. We can only assume that they kept their eye on what was good. We don’t know whether they were from the house or family of Seth or descendants from Cain’s family, but they named the child something which means a fascinating ornament which meant something that would attract the attention or cause a person to want to either avoid it or know more about it.

Lamech acquired Ada as his first wife. The meaning of Lamech’s name and name suggests that he may very well have been a diviner of water and minerals. It is interesting that she named her two boys after the powerful movement of energies in water. She felt the flow that was going on around her as well. So she name the first one something like a stream of water of destiny; Ebal, and he became the founder of the father of all those who dealt in livestock and lived in tents. Then she named his brother Yobaal which name is something like a raging torrent, and he became a father of all those who made stringed instruments and wind instruments. In the economy of Cain livestock was very important since they couldn’t grow many crops and so one’s wealth was measured by livestock. But the ability to sing and make music in the encampments of the livestock traders was much prized and this enabled the family to gain a very powerful hold over the burgeoning community.

Lamech took a second wife which was unusual and her name is related to the idea of shelter and shading. Her family apparently moved by the need to shelter and shade from the harsh environment of the wind of the sun and when she was born that seemed to have been an important requirement so she was named after the need to find shade and shelter, to get into the cool dark places. She gave birth to her son and called his name Tubal-Cain, which means rushing torrent of Cain, the founder of this group.

So it seems that the women when they became involved with Lamech (who was a diviner of water) they became influenced by the powerful urgent stream of consciousness which was related to their founder Cain. It seems that they were sensing that evil eye that drove Cain to act contrary to the will of Yehovah. And if they were genetically related to Cain that would be very interesting in terms of what we find Lamech doing!

But for the sake of this subject we will confine ourselves to the genetic influences on Lamech, evidence of the genetic component of this evil eye. And if we do a punnet diagram we can see that after the fourth generation individuals will arise who are strongly dominant in the dominant trait of Cain depending on who was selected for marriage. Given this and the suppose divining powers of Lamech it may be that we are being drawn to that powerful wind energy that is generated around a person who has a strong weakness! This wind energy affected not only his behaviour but also that of his wife or wives.

Tubal-Cain became skilful in mining and smelting ore of iron and copper, resting it from the ground like a goat nibbling plants down to the roots!

There is one more name we need to look at before we move back to Seth’s line and what happened there, and that name is the name of Tubal-Cain’s sister Naamah.

This name of course means lovely or pleasant. That indicates that Zillah was in a good position in the family even though she was the second wife. It is more likely that the daughter that she gave birth to was very pleasant to look at. This becomes important because something happens which causes the sons of Elohim who are deputies from Elohim to the camp of Adam and Eve, in their expansion and intermingling with the camp of Cain to abandon the good eye and become heavily influenced by the evil eye.

We see the evil eye at work in a statement that Lamech makes but the significance of this statement is the indication that external epigenetic influences are at work in the camp of Cain leading to extremes in violence.

I really have to begin by giving thanks to Yehovah and Yhosha for giving me this exciting glimpse into what they are doing at all times with all people at all stages of their development.

There are many new concrete concepts that I have come into contact with in the study but the three which concerns now are nch, cbr and ptza. The last one involves both the mouth and the eye, whether good or evil, but the first two are concerned with the palm of the hand.

Now the palm of the hand is a very potent symbol. It symbolises holding in a secure environment over which someone has control. We use phrases like “in the palm of my hand“ to signify this kind of situation. But the palm of the hand can be used to care for or to crush; to protect or to punish; to strike or to slap; to hold gently and release carefully or to grab roughly and to choke wilfully.

In addition this symbol this actually applies also to the sole, the instep of the foot and so can refer to the use of the feet in the above matters.

One of the common uses of the palm is to strike or slap and this is done to focus the attention of the one slapped or struck, and the attention of that person or thing is what controls or gives orders to the behaviour of that thing. So for a person or a thing that is apparently going out of control, strike or slap may help to regain control or at least temporary focus for that control. It may also exacerbate that persons or things loss of control! Which way it goes depends on how much control the one striking or slapping has over the environment. In any case whatever the outcome the palm of the hand initiates a subterranean reaction within the subject of the strike which then enables the control of that individual to react according to its fate! This is the meaning of the word, a combination of pictographic symbols nch. The strike is calculated to produce something whether it be harm or good.

This strike is controlled by Yehovah in his arrangement for dealing with Cain. He makes it very plain to everyone around that to strike Cain with whatever intention would result in sevenfold revenge. This avenging is not specified but I have formulated it to the avenger of blood and what Yehovah has shown me is that this sevenfold increase in vengeance is a divine judgement!

It is a divine judgement because it is something that Yehovah will enforce. There is no leeway in this instruction for anyone else to enforce this vengeance! In fact it is designed to dissuade anybody from using this form of vengeance! It is designed to make people think seven times before they think about avenging the blood of Abel. In the process of doing the “calculation“ the intention is that the avenger will back down and leave it to Yehovah.

What was being avoided by this instruction was the escalation of violence, the tit for tat or tic-tac-toe and so on. And in fact later on in the Mosaic instructions the judgement was strictly limited to a 1 for 1 basis! In other words the idea of escalating into a feud in which behaviours became out of control and not appropriate to the circumstances was being greatly dissuaded. Any judge or any person who had a grievance against his brother had to focus just on that matter and on that brother. There was no call for anyone else to be involved, neither was there any call to threaten anyone else, like their family or their father or their mother or their uncles or their livestock! This was what Yehovah wanted to dissuade, which he specifically limited within the contract that was made at Sinai.

So in the case of Lamech we see that he goes beyond this limitation, beyond the judgement of his creator and imposes his own judgement! Instead of sevenfold vengeance, he claims the right to the 77th old vengeance. If you think about it this is saying that if somebody created him a problem he would wipe out the whole tribe of them!

Now we know from the Assyrian records that this was a favourite practice of some of the rulers of the early Assyrians! They not only killed the warriors in the field, but they went beyond that and struck at their families and at their countrymen; killing, maiming, dicing and slicing people according to their own “violent“ inventiveness. They showed none of the restraint that Yehovah wanted and certainly fulfilled the words of Lamech. But this was after the flood and was in the time of Abraham. These practices were one of the reasons why Yehovah brought Abraham and his family out of that land and into the land of Canaan and eventually Egypt. It would seem that the Egyptians behaved better towards their people and their captive nations!

We can see therefore that the evil eye is certainly greatly influencing the thinking of Lamech, and that he is an anti-type of Yhosha, in who in reference to this passage answered one of his students saying “you must loose the people that offend you, if they come back to you to make a renewed contract with you not seven times but 77 times!”

So who would have thought that Lamech was related to Yehovah in this way? Only Yhosha in inspiring his son to answer many of the issues of the evil eye in his students and the people around him.

But there are two more relations within what Lamech said to his two wives. The first one is ptza which the translators struggled with and in fact it only occurred three times. And the translators decided to go for the word “wound“ or wounding. I can imagine that when they were trying to understand this word and one of the Hebrew speakers grabbed hold of a ripe date and squeezed the stone out that they felt inclined as males to consider this to signify “wounding“! However the pictographic information enables us to understand that this was more than just wounding.

What we have from the pictograph is an upright place onto which someone stands to open up their mouth to give expression to an eye! This means someone is standing up with a group of others to form a wall who are expressing a particular point of view, or desire, which could be a good one or could be an evil one depending on the context.

In the context of Lamech it would seem that some kind of cabal had got together to pronounce an evil eye upon him some kind of curse from the evil eye. This surprising conclusion cannot be drawn just from the verb alone. It has to be joined to the second verb which is cbr.

How strange this verb is, because in the majority of its examples it is related to the Mishkan, the dwelling place of Yehovah, and is the joining together of the tenting cloths which surround the wooden pillars! But when it’s not used in this context it is used in the context of men banding together for their own purposes! And in most cases this banding together is with regard to taking advantage of, going to war with, raiding, etc. These are conspiratorial gatherings attempting to enforce the common will of this group on others.

Now again this joining together could be for good as in the case of Yehovah’s dwelling place or for bad as in the case of kings making war with other kings.

The very interesting association of this verb is with the practice of forming a conspiratorial group wishing to place a curse on somebody else or something else. Also wishing to cause harm and have power over that other thing. It is like a witches cauldron or a cabal that wants to secretly overthrow everybody else, or some group that wants to manipulate behind the scenes and strike at whoever they want to strike at like the mafia or some other dark and secretive evil eyed organisation.

The pictographs are very explicit. It is a tent which holds in the cup of its hand an individual human being! That is, it is a community which unfolds and holds an individual. Now we all need a community to support and guide and help us but we all know that such communities have control over our very expression of ourselves. And some of these communities exercise that control without the wisdom and insight and the goodness of Yehovah and actually try to pronounce curses or create harm or enable bad things to happen to anyone who stepped out of line from that community.

This is in keeping with the meaning of the word ptza. And so what we can now picture is some kind of secret organisation or grouping of men or families who wanted to get control of Lamech. For whatever reason, but most likely because his family were becoming extremely successful in the economy of tent making and dealing in livestock, in making musical instruments that entertained the community and the mining of ores of copper and iron. His family from his two wives had become the centre for the evil eye to focus on! And as a consequence everything around him he could sense as conspiratorial.

Now the assumption made earlier is that he had some kind of divining ability, as did his wives. He was probably very sensitive to this attention from the evil eye and this provoked his inherent weakness which was passed down to him from Cain. It would seem that he erupted in violence and killed one of these conspirators for merely ‘looking’ at him with the evil eye! Probably more likely that the man had come to curse him and this man or as he called him a child; so probably one of the descendants either in his family or in the relatives around him was sent to pronounce this curse on him from the evil group that was controlling this child. And the result was that Lamech erupted and rose up and slayed this ‘messenger’ from these evil conspirators.

◦   And then he threatened them with extreme violence! It would not only be this young child that was destroyed; it would be every one of his associates in his family and his tribe by the hand of Lamech, the descendant of the famous, now infamous Cain! 77 times he would avenge this slight upon his character. There is very little evidence that this person actually got anywhere near him. It’s more likely that Lamech intercepted him and slew him because he knew what the intention was behind this man’s visit.

Now we don’t know what the intention was, because it could have been an intention to lessen the burden upon all these people that were now falling under the power of Lamech.

For example; we know the mining in this country and under the Romans involves putting young children as young as 4 to work underground for long hours and in very cramped conditions with little or no protection. We also know that factories that produced linen, cloth and wool put people to work for very little pay for long hours in disgusting conditions; so those people who are making the hides of their livestock into leather in order to make material for tents may very well have a workforce that was steeped in drudgery. For all we know those people that helped the maker of stringed instruments and flutes were engaged in a factory process that was highly dangerous.

More than likely to make a stringed instrument the guts of the animals had to be removed and made into strips and dried, the shape of the wood had to be carved with sharp instruments and put together, the flutes had to be perfectly drilled etc. All this required skill and skilled workers. But that doesn’t mean that the person over them was kind and gracious! They may very well have been driven to mass produce things as some are today in poverty.

So it’s possible that these were people who are coming to Lamech to put across their point of view, their desire for a good and better prospect. And instead they were met with the evil eye of Lamech.

It could have been the other way but Lamech was a good employee and his family did good and these were evil conspirators trying to muscle in on the business!

So holding that thought we need to understand that this last concept applies to Yhosha because the word that is translated as stripes in the statement “by his stripes we are healed in” is a word specifically derived from this concept!

In other words that statement may be referring as we know to an evil group of men who were jealous of the good works of Yhosha and banded together to pronounce an evil curse on him by means of “a young man“.

Certainly we know as it is carefully explained in the writings of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, that these evil groupings were banded together to do just this. And certainly we know that they managed to gain influence over one of his students named Judas. They held him in the palm of their hands by means of his evil eye for money and they desired him to be the agent of their evil eye.

Now the difference is that instead of killing Judas Yehovah allowed his son to be taken by this group of scheming conspirators wishing to curse him with harm. And Judas went away and killed himself!

And it was through the evil devising of these conspirators that their evil and harmful intentions were brought to fully bear upon the son of Yehovah who indeed we know suffered losses, whippings and striking with the hand, and thrusting through with a spear, every kind of evil curse that could be caused upon a good man!

So think about this and realise that because of all of this evil eyed activity focused on Yhosha we will stand beside him having gained a victory over all these curses and all these conspirators and have been restored to a healthy and uplifting relationship with Yehovah. They wanted to work their evil but evil was turned to good by our ever loving source of goodness that is Yehovah.

When I was discussing this with someone they mentioned “is this unrighteous Cain?” You know the words that they were referring to was a verse which says that Cain is described as unrighteous. But the problem with this is that they don’t understand the word unrighteous. In fact they don’t even understand the word righteous. And in point of fact there are very likely two words being used in the Hebrew. Righteous or righteousness is usually the word tzadiq and it’s derivatives; and it means excellent stewardship. On the other hand the word which is translated as unrighteous is the Hebrew word avl and also avon concepts which we started out with, both related to the evil eye! Those who work the works of the evil eye will be separated from the flock of Yehovah and will be brought before Yhosha to be slaughtered! That is a reference to the reaction, or rather overreaction of Lamech.

I hope I have been able to make plain due to the very likely possibility that Cain was so upset by his brothers slaughtering by his hand that he made a decision to take the offer of redemption by Yehovah and to change his life and his behaviour with the help of Yehovah down to the fourth generation! And in a similar way as we shall see Adam and Eve reconciled themselves to Yehovah, down to the time of Noah.

By the time of Noah we see that things had gotten out of hand and violence was erupting everywhere, both in the camp of Adam and Eve and in the camp of Cain. One of the things that seemed to exacerbate that was the fact that the deputies of Yehovah, called the sons of Elohim at the time of Enoch were rebelling against Yehovah. They again became seduced by the evil eye! They saw that like Naamah, Cain’s descendants were beautiful pleasant and fair. So they started to marry with the daughters of Cain and they exploited the genetic problem which was inherent within ten sons of Adam.

That genetic defect enabled the snake to use the influence of the evil eye to create havoc, devastation, blood letting and bridled avenging, feuding, and war. The good times were over.

We come at last to three two-syllable verbs shy, shoh and shar. All three of them have the same action which is to encapsulate, that is to surround it in some kind of ship or vessel or container, but the three of them have different subjects all related to this action. The one that we are most familiar with is that of a human being surrounding something with a vessel or a head surrounding something. This is the verb which is used to denote singing; that is musically performing tunes or poems or sayings. The singer is able to hold in himself or in his head the sounds of the tunes in the words that he sings.

So the next one shoh it first used in relation to the snake and then Yehovah sentencing the snake to its final destiny. Also the third one is used in this sentence but concentrating on the one involving the snake it shows instead a mouth that is surrounding something. This is so appropriate for a snake which opens its mouth not only to swallow but to bite with its fangs. And so despite the translation using the word bruise, the concept is that one of Eve’s seeds is called: “he will open his mouth and bite the head of the snake!” Not a usual thing for a human being to do but very graphic indeed and compared with the response of the snake which is to open its mouth and bite the heel of the seed. As we can see biting the head is going to be far more affective and disabling at killing the snake and then biting the heel will be disabling the seed.

At best is will poison the seed and cause inflammation and hurt, but this can be removed and the poison sucked out and this one restored to full health. But as for the snake a bite to the head is it’s finish.

This image and picture is so important to Eve and she clings to it. She wants to make amends for her part in causing the mess which her and Adam and humanity are in, and now she knows she can do this by giving birth to this seed, this singular seed. However what she does not know and what we are doing with the benefit of hindsight is that it will be some 6000 years before this seed comes onto the scene. But she does not know this so she is hoping that her very first born child Cain will be the solution, but then she gives birth to her second child, probably. So which one will it be?

It seems that it becomes obvious that it’s going to be Abel to Eve because she feels she has a restored relationship with Yehovah and it seems that Abel also has his great relationship! So this is a possible reason for Cain’s instability and his evil eye! Although he was working with his father in the heat of the day and in the hot sweaty work in the ground he noticed that his mother favoured Abel, so sibling rivalry and the evil eye were present.

And we are not to assume that they were separated from Yehovah, but instead it’s more likely that they were receiving instruction and training and guidance from him and the Elohim. But it may have been the last straw which broke the camels back and made Cain erupt into a violent rage, falling to the ground in a temper. Or it may have been this is a problem which showed itself as he was developing the relationship in the family. The second is more likely because of the reaction of Yehovah. To him was that of a loving parent trying to coax a foolish child into the correct behaviour.

So this third concept is that of a goat swallowing something and what that means in practice is that the goat will devour everything and it will devour it suddenly and quickly. Anyone who keeps goats knows how destructive they can be, how determined they are to eat what they want to eat and how quickly they will destroy something. So this verb which gives translators a lot of issues is really getting across the idea of a sudden and destructive swallowing up. And what Yehovah said to the snake is that a long standing relationship between a part of Eve and a part of the snake would suddenly be eaten up in enmity or in hostility by him, and then he gets specific using the word seed saying that this block of seed from Eve and this block of seed from the snake he would suddenly devour in enmity in hostility. And finally he specifically points out that it is a single person or entity that will bite the head of the snake but all the snake will be able to do is bite his heel.

So you can see that Eve was waiting for the day when that would break out between Abel and the snake, and suddenly the problem caused by the snake would be gone! However what happened instead was that Cain, her first born son slaughtered Abel. And she didn’t expect that and she really didn’t know what to say or do and she was overcome as any mother would be with grief and anger and confusion, and possibly hopelessness. But then Adam turned his attention to his wife again, getting to know her in this new state of mind, consoling her no doubt and as a result of that she became pregnant again and gave birth to another son or block, and this time the grief was consumed in an instant, and all her hopelessness and anger and confusion was swallowed up in an instant as if eaten by a goat! So she called the name of this son Seth because Elohim had swallowed up her grief in an instant and given her another seed to be in the family line in name of Abel who Cain slaughtered.

To this day amongst the families that follow the covenant of Yehovah if a brother dies without bringing a family into being by the grace of Yehovah then his brother would take the widow by the grace of Yehovah, get her pregnant, maintaining the name of his brothers family in the register.

Now it seems that Seth himself also had a son or a block, and so it became clear that it may not be Seth that was going to solve this issue with the snake, it could be his son-in-law or any descendant.

This was the time when Seth began to call out in the name of Yehovah and teach his descendants to do the same. This is the reason why they were given the generic title of the sons of Elohim as is called out in the name of Yehovah, just like the Elohim did.

Keep your eyes focused on Yehovah and at the very least on his son Yhosha from Nazareth. Then you will have abundance and super abundance and every good thing.