Gen 4:16

Excerpt:…But if that weren’t curious enough, each generation of the children of Cain, Adam’s first son, are named. Why? — perhaps because he, Cain had no prospect for a future legacy, so history was merely kind enough to list his children. Afterall, Cain left God, and the message in that fact is, no matter the sin, in so doing, your recorded seed will reach a dead end. The Bible says, “ 16 And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod …” —Gen 4: 16.. His seed intermarried with those of the ordained, and they did not survive the flood. But Adam’s named generations, by use of another metaphor, show to us the rickety fire-escape ladder of human ascension back to God…