Sons of God, Genesis 6:2, Part 2

Sons of God, Genesis 6:2:

Part 2:

We have information the early Jewish Rabbis did not have, that being,

Luke 3:38, “Adam, which was the son of God.”

What we know is Adam was a man! He reproduced himself in his first-born son Cain, and his sons reproduced themselves in their sons and daughters. These are Scriptural facts.

If Adam is called the son of God, would it be logical for us to conclude that his sons and their sons are also the “sons of God?

Now we all know that God is our Father. In this, we are His children, His sons, and daughters. So like Adam, we are sons of God, because He is our Father!

We also know that Satan has his children, these are called the children of darkness, of wrath, and their father is the devil.

We know Cain killed his brother Able. God cast Cain away He said to him “Now are you cursed from the earth.

Genesis 4:12, “A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.”

Cain was Adam’s firstborn who became a murderer; a liar, and cursed by God. We are told that righteous Able’s blood cried unto the Lord from the ground. Compare with,

“Psalms 9:12, “When He (God) maketh inquision for blood, he remembereth them.”  Cain seems to have had little sense of value concerning God’s presence, or of public worship; yet to be excluded from its external rites was considered as a heavy punishment for Cain. But this would be the punishment for Cain, for he said to God, “My punishment is greater than I can bear!” It appears he felt more for the misery to come than for his guilt.

Genesis 4:16, Cain said to God, “I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth.” Fugitive meaning he had to leave the area of Eden. Vagabond meaning to become a wanderer.

The first thing Cain did was to build a city in the land of Nod, Nod meaning land of wandering. He called the city after his son, Enoch. I will assume that Cain had a great deal of influence and power in this city he established. 

Verse 19, Lamech, Cain’s son “Took unto him two wives.”

Verse 23, Lamech said, “Ye wives (plural) of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain (killed) a man.” Compare with “The sons of God took them wives of all which they chose.” This contrary to God commanding a man to have but one wife.

Cain’s wife Adah bare as son called Jabal who was the father of those that dwell in tents, and who raised cattle. Zillah Cain’s second wife had a son Tubal-cain who worked with metals.

From his name Tubal-cain arose the name of Vulcan, “the god of smiths.” Lamech’s sister’s name was Naamah. From her may have sprung the character of Venus. Naamah name signifies beautiful! This may also have been the beginning of idol worship. “Every imagination of the thoughts of his (man’s) heart was only evil continually.”

OK, let’s see what the Scriptures have revealed to us so far.

1. Adam is called the “son of God.” Compare to Genesis 6:1.
2. Cain was a murder, a liar, was unrepentant, became a wonder, and established the first city.”
3. God then cast Cain away from Eden, and also set a mark upon him.
4. Cain had sons.
5. One of Cain’s sons Lamech took for himself two women, therefore Lamech was a bigamist.
6. Lamech also was also a murderer.
7. Lamech must have been a powerful and influential man for he said boastfully, “If Cain (his father) shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.” (Pride!)
8. The name of gods sprang from Naamah, and Tubal-cain, Venus, and Vulcan. (Idol worship)

So here is the pattern I see with,

Genesis 6:6, “Sons of god took for them wives,” this beginning with Lamech. If we were to apply, “Like father like son” here, we can only imagine what happened with Lamech’s sons, they also became tyrants, and took for themselves wives. 

Naaman Tubal-cain’s sister means “Beautiful.” Now I would suppose that many of the other daughters of men would have also been fair, meaning beautiful.

Genesis 6:2, “The sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were fair, meaning goodly, fair, and beautiful.

Phillip LaSpino  seekfirstwisdom.com