A Tale of Two Seeds
Jason Martin
From the Beginning... / Genesis 4–5
The Seeds
The proto-evangelion
Genesis 3:15 ESV
15 I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”
• This is meant to put our attention on the offspring/seed of the woman and the opposition of the serpent
1. Gen 4:1 - Even just heard God’s promise about offspring and now she has this son
a. Adam and Eve thought this was the Promised Seed - the Messiah to fix the curse.
2. Gen 4:2-7 - sin is pictures as a predator lying in wait - it’s target is Cain / it wants to rule over him (same wording as Gen 3:15) - but Cain must rule over (subdue) it
3. Gen 4:8 - the first murder in Scripture and it started in Cain’s heart
a. the first baby born on Earth was the first murderer
b. the first human death was by murder
4. Gen 4:9 - When the LORD confronted Adam and Eve, they confessed but blame-shifted - Cain lies directly to the LORD.
5. Gen 4:10 - YHWH reveals to Cain that He knows what happened
Hebrews 12:24 ESV
24 and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.
a. Abel’s innocent blood is crying out for justice
b. Jesus’ blood announces atonement, mercy, reconciliation, and forgiveness
6. Gen 4:11-12 - part of his punishment is he can no longer be a farmer
7. Gen 4:13-16 - Nod, East of Eden , who will find Cain?
8. Gen 4:17- The first city already - and it’s a result of another curse
a. Cain named the city after his son instead of something glorifying to God
b. not the famous Enoch
9. Gen 4:18-24 - Lamech is
a. the seventh from Adam through Cain’s line.
b. the first polygamist
c. makes a song bragging about killing a boy
d. his children begin
i. tent-building
ii. making wood and metal musical instruments
10. Gen 4:25-26 - up until now, nobody has invoked God by His Name - YHWH
11. Gen 5:1-3 - Adam was made after God’s Image, Seth was after Adam’s
12. Gen 5:4-5 - Almost certainly where Cain’s wife and the people he was worried would kill him came from
13. Gen 5:6-20 - and he died.........
14. Gen 5:21-24 - Enoch and Elijah
a. seventh from Adam (seed line)
b. Enoch was a prophet
Jude 14–15 ESV
14 It was also about these that Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of his holy ones, 15 to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness that they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things that ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”
15. Gen 5:25-27 - oldest man ever died before his father
a. Methuselah means “his death will bring”
i. he died in the year the flood came
16. Gen 5:28-29 - they thought this was the Promised Seed again - in some ways it was
17. Gen 5:30-32 - these numbers seem to have meaning
Hebrews 11:4–7 ESV
4 By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks. 5 By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God. 6 And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him. 7 By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.
a. Abel is the first righteous man murdered by the serpent’s seed
b. Enoch prophesied judgment
c. Noah preached righteousness
Exported from Logos Bible Study, 2:57 PM August 21, 2026.