Candy’s Cane

Alright, Mr. Smarty Pants, just tell me…where did Cain get his wife? Aha, caught you on that one? Have you ever had someone say that to you? Well, oddly enough, we know more about Cain’s wife than you would imagine. The Bible says in Genesis 4:16 that Cain packed up his mules and left home and “he went out of the presence of the Lord”. He settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden. He left God for Nod. Ironically, millions of others have done the same thing and have decided they’ve had enough of God and they pack up and move to Nod…and that sounds like a place where you just have “brain sleep” and get into a self-made dreamworld “nodding off”, it is not real and a sleeping sickness. No God in Nod! But he did have a wife. She and Cain went into real estate in Nod. The Bible says she conceived and had a son named Enoch (not the great preacher evangelist that was a son of Seth) and Cain built a city, occupied by his many offspring, and called it “Enoch”. She undoubtedly conceived and had many sons and daughters…they all did back then.
Cain’s wife was Adam and Eve’s little girl. Cain’s sister. She looked just like Cain only a female version. I imagine she was “some good looking” by any of our standards. She might well have been the first female baby born to Adam and Eve. Maybe even the next child after Cain. I’m pretty sure she grew up with Cain, swimming in the clear waters of the river and eating the fruit of the trees. Let’s call her “Candy”. Candy and Cain. That seems to go good together. Little Candy was cute as a bug’s ear. Have you ever seen a bug’s ear? She romped and played and giggled and tumbled and climbed trees and chased Cain all over God’s Creation. And as she got older she began to get cynical like Cain was doing! Candy was losing her sweetness. Somehow, inevitably, she began to follow Cain’s logic and arguments and soon was just as rebellious as he was. How many sweet little innocent precious girls have grown up and fallen under the spell of some “Cain” and as Jude later wrote in his short letter “they have gone the way of Cain, and they have rushed headlong into error”. Maybe it was Candy that influenced Cain to NEVER give in and sacrifice a lamb on that altar! They were the Anti-altar rebels of that day! Self sufficient, self made, self righteous and headed for self-destruction! They moved to Nod together. They never taught their children or grandchildren about God and that Adam and Eve were made and not born. The Bible doesn’t tell us how long Cain lived, or Candy, but since everyone back in those days lived into their 900s, we are safe to presume Cain and Candy also died over 900 years old. Bitter, sour old souls. Disillusioned. They both eventually did die. And on a very quiet night sometimes you can almost feel like you hear a great lament coming up from the pits of Hell, “SEND ME A LAMB TO SACRIFICE ON THE ALTAR!” It echoes through all Hell. But for Cain and Candy it is forever too late. How about you? Are you trusting the Lamb of God Who was sacrificed on the Cross to be your Savior?