[133] Genesis 4: The Length of the Exedenic Times

The First Murder and the Penalty

The account of Cain's murder of his brother is:

8 After that Cain said to Abel his brother: [Let us go over into the field.] So it came about that while they were in the field Cain proceeded to assault Abel his brother and kill him.
9 Later on Jehovah said to Cain: Where is Abel your brother? and he said: I do not know. Am I my brother's guardian? 
10 At this he said: What have you done? Listen! Your brother's blood is crying out to me from the ground. 
11 And now you are cursed in banishment from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood at your hand. 
12 When you cultivate the ground, it will not give you back its power. A wanderer and a fugitive you will become in the earth.
13 At this Cain said to Jehovah: My punishment for error is too great to carry. 
14 Here you are actually driving me this day from off the surface of the ground, and from your face I shall be concealed; and I must become a wanderer and fugitive on the earth, and it is certain that anyone finding me will kill me.
15 At this Jehovah said to him: For that reason anyone killing Cain must suffer vengeance 7 times.
And so Jehovah set up a sign for Cain in order that no one finding him should strike him (Genesis 4).

In the literal meaning, Cain killed Abel, and Cain was not his brother's guardian, because, although big brothers should look after little brothers,  these boys were actually grown up. For this murder occurred in 3928Nisan (11 times or 3960 years before Jesus' death, this being the symbolic meaning of Genesis 4:23,24, a comparison of 77 times with 7 times, 77times/7times = 11times. This is not covered in this site/book at present, but Jesus was the 77th in the maternal line from God through Eve, Lamech was the 7th in line from Adam, through Cain, Enoch, Irad, Mehujael, Methushael, Lamech). One can deduce that Cain was born in 3992Shebat and Abel in 3990Tishri, from the fundamental pattern - see [41], [42].

God cursed Cain by banishing him 'from the ground'. What does this mean, did he float in the air? Well, Cain himself says that: From your face I shall be concealed. This would mean that he cannot appear before God's face, which is effectively a disfellowshipping or an excommunication. So the 'ground' in question was a physical area where God's people resided at that time, from which Cain was banished. In fact this would have been the area of residence of Adam and his sons, who existed amongst general Homo Sapiens at that time. It seems that Cain was sent to live with those who did not know God, the sons of 'evolution' as it were - see [1]. But since Adam had a covenant with God before his sons offered a sacrifice, it is apparent that God had an administration of his people in accordance with this covenant. So the sacrifice would have been a part of their obligations to God under this covenant. Let us be clear about something - God does nothing without a covenant, a legal framework. All his ways are Justice, said Moses. This administration of God's people under Adam's covenant would presumably have been in a localised area. Cain was banned from both the area and the administration.

A further penalty on Cain was that when he cultivated the ground it would not give him its power. Yet the earth was already cursed, to the extent that one had to work very hard to get food from it. So in Cain's case, it would give him nothing of any use at all, no edible food. So Cain offered God substandard fruits from a cursed ground, and God's penalty for this was that the ground would no longer give him even these if he cultivated it. God's penalty for the murder of Abel, on the other hand, was the banishment, the excommunication.

Cain therefore had to live off the efforts of other peoples' cultivation. In other words he would spend the rest of his life begging for the very garbage that he offered to God, in order that he might eat!!

Now Cain complained that anyone finding him would kill him. So God said:

15 For that reason anyone killing Cain must suffer vengeance seven times (Genesis 4).

This was a vengeance covenant from God to kill anyone who killed Cain, for God's justice is a soul for a soul! There was no need for God himself to kill Cain at that point, because he was already 'dead', being under Adam's death penalty. He was going to die in any event, although God could have justly killed him there and then had he so chosen. But he did not in the case of Adam or Eve, so why should he in the case of Cain? Was he going to be harder on the Son than he was on both of his parents. Quite obviously any would be killer of Cain would not be killed himself 7 times by God, because his justice is soul for soul, not soul for 7 souls! So it is rather a penalty that lasted for 7 times. So that a better translation would be:

15 For that reason anyone killing Cain must suffer vengeance [for] seven times (Genesis 4).

We apply the Times Principle of the Code here, although purely in the literal meaning (we are just using Revelation 12, which reveals that '3½ times' is 1260 days, so that '7 times' is 2520 days). We then see that this vengeance penalty lasted for 7 years of the Biblical Lunar Calendar (BLC), or 2,520 lunar days. 

The bible does not literally say (as far as we are aware) if Cain actually was killed within this 7 year period (from 3928Nisan to 3921Nisan), but he did take up residence in the Land of Nod (Fugitiveness - for the location of Nod today - see [1]), where he fathered Enoch, so it looks unlikely that he was killed. In fact he also had a sign set up by God that no one finding him should strike him (Genesis 4:15), so we must assume that with this level of Divine protection, he survived at least 7 years! Actually one can deduce that the vengeance protection on Cain worked because Lamech composed his song for his wives saying:

23 A man I have killed for wounding me,
Yes, a young man for giving me a blow.
24 If seven times Cain is to be avenged [for]
Then Lamech seventy times and seven (Genesis 4).

Perhaps the first incidence of gangster rap! (If so then Lamech has a lot to answer for!) One can deduce from this song that the protection on Cain worked, because if not then Lamech would not himself have wanted to be protected in the same way for 77 years after his murder that Cain was for 7 years after his murder.

The appropriate vengeance for murder is death, although the scripture is deliberately ambiguous here. We know that the justice of God is soul for soul, although this penalty was not applied immediately to Cain. So if anyone had killed Cain (and no one did) then he would have to have been killed, presumably by a justice system amongst Adam's sons. This 7 year protection, was the import of the sign set up by God that no one finding Cain should strike him. It appears therefore that murderers got 7 years expulsion and murderers of expelled murderers got death under Adam's justice system. For in order to murder an expelled murderer one had to leave the camp or administration of Adam, go and find the expelled person and kill them. This level of premeditation and of taking the law into one's own hands was considered to be worse than simply murdering a member of your own family.

The Symbolic Meaning of the Vengeance Protection for Cain

13 At this Cain said to Jehovah: My punishment for error is too great to carry. 
14 Here you are actually driving me this day from off the surface of the ground, and from your face I shall be concealed; and I must become a wanderer and fugitive on the earth, and it is certain that anyone finding me will kill me.
15 At this Jehovah said to him: For that reason anyone killing Cain must suffer vengeance 7 times.
And so Jehovah set up a sign for Cain in order that no one finding him should strike him (Genesis 4).

It is not hard to see whom Cain represents in the greater meaning. All that Cain had done before the vengeance penalty was decreed for him, in the literal meaning, was murder his brother and present a useless sacrifice. So he obviously stands for false worshipping murderers amongst God’s people.

In the case of Ezekiel's actions as a prophet in Ezekiel 4:1-12, we know that each day of his literal actions stood for a year in the real fulfillment on God's people. This was part of the basis for the Times Principle. So applying the Times Principle of the code, we know that the length of the vengeance penalty from God for true worshippers who physically kill false worshipping murderers, the greater Cain class, is 7 Prophetic Times or 2520 years.

In the literal meaning, the vengeance from God for any son of Adam who killed Cain within 7 years of his killing Abel was physical death. But in the symbolic meaning we have a vengeance penalty on true worshippers who kill false worshipping murderers among their brothers, i.e. amongst God's congregation. It is important to realise that this was a law for God's people. We will call it the law of Vengeance, or the Vengeance law. It was basically prohibiting God's people from taking the law into their own hands and killing murderers themselves. God was saying: Vengeance is mine (Deuteronomy 32:35). 

But quite obviously God would not afford a greater protection to a false worshipping murderer amongst his people than he would afford a true worshipping non murderer. So what we are seeing here is a law from God on all of his true people that lasted for 2520 years, which prohibited them from killing each other under any circumstances. But what was the vengeance that God himself took on his own people who did murder one of their brothers?

Well, to work this out we must first realise that Eve herself was the first human false worshipping killer. Of course this is not a politically correct statement. But it is a correct statement because Jesus said to the Pharisees, referring to Satan:

44 You are from you father the Devil, and you wish to do the desires of your father. That one was a manslayer when he began, and he did not stand fast in the truth, because truth is not in him. When he speaks the lie, he speaks according to his own disposition, because he is a liar and the father of [the lie] (John 8).

So Satan was guilty of manslaughter in the case of Adam (Jesus did not call him a woman slayer, although he was this as well). And of course Satan said nothing to Adam, he set up Eve to do his dirty work for him using his status and her desire for that status to seduce her. And teaching her, by the example that he set her in his persuasion of her, how to use her sex and Adam's desire for that sex, on Adam who hitherto had not known such desire, see - Quick Introduction to the bible. So if Satan is the manslayer of Adam then so was Eve. Neither Adam nor Eve were under the vengeance law in the Garden, however, they were under the one law of the tree. Let's face it, Eve was the original deadly internal human corruptor, personally tutored by the original deadly internal angelic corruptor. But whereas Satan corrupts things knowingly, Eve was completely deceived:

14 Adam was not deceived, but the woman was thoroughly deceived and came to be in transgression (1 Timothy 2).

But Cain is standing for all false worshipping killers, and Eve was the first of these, and the vengeance period covers all of these until it ends after 7 times. Symbolic Cain, the Cain class, started with Eve at Adam's sin, which she incited. So this vengeance law started at that time, in the month that Eve was used to kill Adam, at the start of Cainism, and covered a period of 2520 years accurate to the month.

So the Law of Vengeance was in place when Cain killed Abel. Therefore since God did not kill Cain instantly, for he went on to have Enoch, we know that the vengeance that God took under this law was not instant death. Also had this been the penalty then there would have been no need for the 7 year protection that Cain was afforded.

We have already deduced that this was simply a 7 year excommunication from God's people. But lets investigate matters a bit further. As we have seen, when Cain and Abel offered their sacrifices to God, in fact in Nisan 3928 - see [101] this was not a chance occurrence. These two brothers did not wake up on that day and say, hey, let's offer up a sacrifice. The account proves that Adam and his family were involved in the worship of God. Not only that but Abel was aware of the necessity for a blood sacrifice, and therefore he must have been aware of the possibility of Adam's sin being paid for by another death, so he must have understood the concept of the ransom. So they were all aware of the possibility of a resurrection. In fact given that God did look with favour on Abel's sacrifice, he actually had a resurrection at that time. This resurrection was through the Adamic covenant. So having the possibility of a resurrection removed from them would have been a real penalty.

Now Cain was expelled from God's people, under this law, but that could hardly be described as vengeance for a murder from God, until one realises that God's people are in a saved condition. God's people have the hope of a resurrection, and when one is expelled, on proper grounds, this hope has gone temporarily at least. This is therefore a form of death. It is not the second death which is everlasting damnation, which is being wiped off God's hard disk when one dies, rather than being kept in the recycle bin, because the damnation in this case is reversible. One clue as to the vengeance that Cain suffered is that Cain was to be concealed from God's face. This means that God would not look at him with mercy, for the period of his excommunication. But God is one who forgives after seven times:

1 At the end of every seven years you should make a release.
2 And this is the manner of the release: There will be a releasing by every creditor of the debt that he may let his fellow incur. He should not press his fellow or his brother for payment, because a release to Jehovah must be called (Deuteronomy 15).

God is never one to leave a man with absolutely no hope. Indeed what would be the purpose of punishing Cain so severely if God had no interest in teaching him from this punishment. God is not a sadist, he is an educator. Satan is the sadist:

6 For whom God loves he disciplines; in fact, he scourges every one whom he receives as a son (Hebrews 12).

So look! Cain could come back after the 7 years, if he so wished!! Yes, that is why God protected him physically just for 7 years. This is not saying that Cain did come back, repentant. In fact the apostle John says of him:

12 Cain, who originated with the wicked one (1 John 3 - NWT)
12 Cain, out of the wicked one he was (1 John 3 - Greek Interlinear)

Which means that he did not come back repentant. Even so, God would not remove all hope from him, and he always had that option after 7 years. So now we are able to state the Law of Vengeance, which applied to God's people from 2520 years after Adam's sin.

The banishment and vengeance protection law was replaced by the law of Moses. This law allowed God's true people to kill false worshippers and murderers by stoning them. The law came into force on 1513Sivan3 at mount Sinai see - Quick introduction to the bible. But the children who were born in the 40 year period in the wilderness, between 1513Nisan (March/April) when the Jews left Egypt and 1473Nisan when the Sons of Israel entered the promised land, were not circumcised. They therefore did not come under the law of Moses and therefore were still under the law of vengeance, once they came of age, 20 years of age, whilst they remained in the wilderness.

5 For all the people who came out proved to be circumcised, but all the people born in the wilderness on the road when they were coming out of Egypt they had not circumcised (Joshua 5)

These people were circumcised on the 10th of Nisan (March /April)1473 BC:

19 And the people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth of the first month and took up camping at Gilgal on the eastern border of Jericho (Joshua 4).

And those that were 20 years old or more would then have come under law at the passover, celebrated 4 days later:

10 And the sons of Israel continued to camp in Gilgal, and they proceeded to carry out the passover on the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, on the desert plains of Jericho. 
11 And they began to eat some of the yield of the land the day after the passover, unfermented cakes and roasted grains, on this same day (Joshua 5).

So 1473Nisan14 would be the last day of the 2520 law of vengeance by God, it being replaced by the law of Moses, in the cases of those born in the wilderness. A law which provided for vengeance by men, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, blow for blow, branding by branding, and soul for soul.

25 But if a fatal accident should occur, then you must give soul for soul,
eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, branding for branding, wound for wound, blow for blow (Exodus 21).

So the Exedenic Times, the period during which God's people were not in a blessed land of God, was coincident with the period during which the law of vengeance applied to God's people. A period of 2520 years. This vengeance law/blessed land mix is the knot of Genesis 4. It is a typical feature of the bible code, that an account will say nothing about a vital issue, such as how long God's people were Exedenic for (not in Eden/Promised land). But it will give instead full details of what at first sight looks like an irrelevant issue. However a closer examination reveals that there is a relationship between these two issues, which enables one to get the information on the vital issue, from the seemingly irrelevant information in the account.

Putting this diagrammatically:

3993Nisan                                                1473Nisan
Eve begins false worship                          Circumcision at Gilgal
Eve used to kill Adam                                Law of Moses begins for those born
Law of vengeance begins                          in wilderness (Second law)
Not allowed to kill murderers among         Law of Banishment and Vengeance ends
God's people. God will deal with               Men allowed to kill murderers among
them himself (by 7 year expulsion)           God's people, stoning them under law
Adam evicted from Eden                          Jews enter promised land
X________________________________X
              2,520 years (7 Times)

3993Nisan                                                                    2008Nisan
Adam Sins                                                                    End of the world. End of this system
Evicted from Eden                                                        Sons of Adam enter the Kingdom of God
X__________________________________________X
             6 'Days' or 6,000 years   

If you understand this, then you have become one of:

13 The wise men having knowledge of the times (Esther 1).

If not then unfortunately you remain one of the men having knowledge only of the News of the World ! 

In Ezekiel we read:

12 And those of the house of Israel will have to bury them for the purpose of cleansing the land for 7 months (Ezekiel 39).

This must follow from a general principle that land when defiled takes 7 'times' until it is cleansed. Now the ground was cursed when Adam sinned. And 7 Prophetic Times later, 2520 years later, the first fruits of the promised land, a blessed land, were eaten.

There is a cute proof of the length of the Exedenic Times from the counting and the cryptic dimensions of the bible see [Code19]. Because 'Manna' means literally 'What is it'. So when the scripture says: The Manna stopped. The literal translation would be: The what is it stopped. Or rather: What is it that stopped? The answer is: The Exedenic Times, and the Law of Vengeance!

10 And the sons of Israel continued to camp at Gilgal, and they proceeded to carry out the Passover on the 14th day of the month in the evening on the desert plains of Jericho (Joshua 5).

2x.3x+1x=7x, 7 Times. 'Day the that' is the day of the end of the Exedenic times.