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Scripture doesn’t say when Cain died. Some think he never did. I’m sure he did die, but have you ever wondered when? 

Though it’s always cool when I can see the story in a set of numbers, sometimes the story (in this case, Cain’s death) takes a little more coaxing than I know most people would be comfortable with. The reason is because “coaxing” requires making an assumption that might not be true. But, I enjoy trying it, because when evidence is scant, sometimes that assumption is all you have. If the rest of the story works out, then you go with it. Just make sure you’re open about the assumption, and realize that other opposing assumptions that you didn’t think of might have worked as well… …

Since writing Jesus Showed Mercy when He Made Eve on God’s Sabbath, it has dawned on my that God’s Sabbath, if it indeed was from Adam’s birth to Methuselah’s bar mitzvah, was just full of mercy.  Recall Jesus’ justification for his “working” on the sabbath in Matthew 12:7, that God desires mercy, not sacrifice.  In other words, instead of sacrificing the benefits and convenience of “working” on the Sabbath, God would rather we spend the sabbath being merciful than being martyrs of sacrifice.  For a modern, if trivial example: God would rather I move my car from the street on the sabbath so that kids can play, rather than accepting the odd reputation it gets me for refusing to move …

In Dating the Flood (Conclusion) - God’s Sabbath, I list all of the actions God is recorded doing on His sabbath.  Here is the list again:

Making the Garden of Eden
Putting Adam in it
Leading the animals to Adam
Putting Adam to sleep
Creating Eve from a rib
Interrogating Adam and Eve for their sin
Making clothes from fig leaves
Expelling them from the Garden
Accepting Abel’s sacrifice
Interrogating Cain
Putting the mark on Cain

Based on God Walks on the Sabbath, I should also add one item:

 12.  Walking with Enoch.

Of all of these actions, the one that jumps out at me the most is #5.  I feel like I can leave all of the others alone, as reasonable actions for God to take during His Sabbath.  …

I keep noticing more subtleties in the scripture.  I love this actually, even while it forces me to revisit things.  Okay, here we go…

If we pull the Jewish Calendar back by 700 years, to line it up with the Flood, then the Calendar doesn’t start until 700 years after Adam was given life. (What kind of life? We’ll get back to that later)

In contrast, Enoch started walking with God the year his son Methuselah was born, which was 687 years after Adam was given life, according to Genesis 5.

If those these years before the calendar are God’s sabbath, then we have a 13 year disparity between two potential indicators of when that sabbath ended.  Does it end 700 years after Adam is given …

As I said in God’s Sabbath Lines up with His Seeming Absence, God did appear to walk with Noah’s ancestral line.  However, I want to be more specific.  Jesus Himself walked in the Garden.  I believe it was Him who talked with Adam, and potentially the Holy Spirit who brought the animals to Adam.  God the Father was in Heaven (Jesus always refers to the Father as His Father “Who is in Heaven”).

After Adam was expelled from the garden, God was physically absent from Adam’s life.

Later on, Abel was born and sacrificed to God a lamb.  God the Father smelled the sweet aroma in Heaven, and accepted the …

After such a long analysis of God’s Sabbath, in the context of dating the Flood, I wanted to show how it brings together several observations I have made about that time period.  Let us start with verses 1-3 of Genesis 2:
 1 Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.

 2 By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. 3 And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.
God’s sabbath began and ended in verse 2.  …

In Dating the Flood (Part 7) - Methusalah’s Bar Mitzvah was After God’s Sabbath, I pointed out evidence that the Jewish Calendar begins between Genesis 2:3 and Genesis 2:4, and on Methuselah’s birthday.  The determination of these conclusions from scientific and historical evidence suggesting the flood was around 2807 BC, 702 years off the Jewish Calendar.  By tradition, the Jewish Calendar starts at Adam’s beginning, which begins traditionally at Genesis 2:4, and is thought to be 5771 years ago.  But then, adding up the generations in Genesis 5 pushes the flood out 2105 BC.  Supposing the Jewish year to be correct, supposing the …

It is an interesting question asked, in Dating the Flood (Part 6) - Is Methuselah’s Birth the Beginning of the Jewish Calendar? However, if you add up the years in Genesis 5 leading Methuselah’s birth, it only adds up to 687 years.  The Jewish calendar’s prediction for the flood is off by 700.  What of the other 13?  Well, if we are really onto something, then perhaps the calendar begins when Methuselah was 13 years old.  Why then? Well by Jewish tradition, the age of 13 is when a Jewish boy becomes a man.  But why him? Hmmmm… let’s put off answering …

…continued Genesis 3 - The Fall of Man (Part 7)
22 And the LORD God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.” 23 So the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. 24 After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth …

Genesis 2
 1 Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.

 2 By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. 3 And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.
When did God rest?  In Day 6 - When did it end?, I suggested that the creation of Homo Sapiens Sapiens was a reasonable date for ending Day 6: 200,000 years ago.  So then, when …