Where Are We Supposed to Live?
Copied from the sermon notes of Pastor Don Elmore
January 2, 2022
Scripture Reading: Genesis 4:14
In Jim’s sermon, given on November 14th of this past year (2021), he had the following quote from Josephus, the great ancient historian:
“He [Cain] first of all set boundaries about lands; he built a city, and fortified it with walls and he compelled his family to come together to it; and called the city Enoch, after the name of his eldest son Enoch….” – Antiquities of the Jews, Flavius Josephus, Book 1, Chapter 3, paragraph 2.
And what became of Cain’s descendants? Josephus adds in the same paragraph:
“Nay, even while Adam was alive [he lived 930 years], it came to pass that the posterity of Cain became exceedingly wicked, every one successively dying one after another, more wicked than the former. They were intolerable in war; and vehement in robberies; and if anyone were slow to murder people, yet was he bold in his profligate behavior, in acting unjustly, and doing injury for gain.”