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ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.
When you cultivate the ground, it will no longer yield its strength to you; you will be
a vagrant and a wanderer on the earth." Cain said to Yahweh, "My punishment is too
great to bear! Behold, You have driven me this day from the face of the ground; and
from Your face I will be hidden, and I will be a vagrant and a wanderer on the earth,
and whoever finds me will kill me." So Yahweh said to him, "Therefore whoever kills
Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold." And Yahweh set upon Cain a mark,
so that no one finding him would slay him.

Is there not a great parallel between what is revealed here in this son of Adam and Eve
giving himself to the rule of the beast nature and receiving a mark by God, and in that which
we read in Revelation?

Revelation 14:9
Then another angel, a third one, followed them, saying with a loud voice, "If anyone
worships the beast and his image, and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand
he will also drink of the wrath of God.”

Yahweh proclaimed judgment upon Cain for his sin. Yahweh’s wrath was poured out
because Cain bowed down to his bestial impulses. God then set a mark upon him. Many
students of Scripture have theorized about the form of this mark that was placed upon Cain,
yet in one sense it most certainly points to the mark that all are said to receive who worship
the beast. Once more, from Genesis to Revelation we see a continued theme of man’s
struggle against the beast nature. To receive the mark of the beast is to come under the
judgment and wrath of God.
Tragically, the entire earth soon became filled with men and women who were given
over to the beast nature. Mankind gave themselves continually to such evil that God poured
forth His wrath and destroyed the entire earth with a flood. Yahweh found only one man
in the earth who was righteous, and this was Noah. The rest were given over to the same
violence that rose up in Cain.

Genesis 6:13
Then God said to Noah, “The end of all flesh has come before Me; for the earth is
filled with violence because of them; and behold, I am about to destroy them with
the earth.”

The earth today is also filled with violence, and because of this we know that the day
of God’s wrath is not far off. Those who would be delivered from the wrath to come must
put off all violence, all wickedness, all unrighteousness, and clothe themselves with the Lord
Yahshua the Messiah.
Let us look now at another man who also struggled with his brother and who bore the
unmistakable imprint of the beast.

Genesis 25:21, 24-26
Isaac prayed to Yahweh on behalf of his wife, because she was barren; and Yahweh
answered him and Rebekah his wife conceived... When her days to be delivered were
fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb. Now the first came forth red, all over