What was the Mark of Cain?  And was this mark a blessing or curse?  The Book of Genesis does not go into the greatest detail on this but merely mentions that God placed it on Cain to protect him. It was a shield of sorts.

 One can read the text of Genesis, chapter four, and see how the various events played out.  Cain envied his brother Abel and killed him because God favored Abel and his sacrifice, whereas what Cain sacrificed (grains and plants) were rejected.  We see in Genesis 4:10 to 4:14 that Cain is cursed and penalized severely but we can see from verse 15 that the mark placed on him is for his protection and no curse.  It is not a further penalty or burden!!!

What was the nature of this mark?  Was it a racial difference as some try to say?  Was Cain turned into an ugly orgre or a Neanderthal like creature?  (some actually say these things.).  Most of these speculation are silly!  The mark was a good thing and for the protection of Cain, despite his committing murder. One might even wonder if Cain was ultimately redeemed. Certainly the Lord cared for and provided for Cain.  We don't hear much more about Cain after some brief genealogies.....

Does the Hebrew text and the early Greek (Septuagint) give us any clues about the mark or sign?  The Hebrew for mark in Genesis 4 is oth or ot and is Strongs number 226.  This signifies a "mark" or "sign".  Note that the final letter for ot is the Hebrew letter Tav, which roughly corresponds to our "T", and up to about 600 BC. this was a cross shaped letter, looking little like the latter squared Hebrew letter.  Could the mark that the Lord placed on Cain be a cross? Some have suggested that this letter can alone indicate "covenant". I think this is very likely and that Cain was actually repentant for his sins. The Septuagint text does not seem to help us determine anything extra. The word mark is rendered semion (semeion) or sign.  It had to be visible enough to warn others so it was either an actual mark or something clear in Cain's activities.  Cain has been demonized down through time but he was probably no more sinful than King David or Saul of Tarsus.


And note the earlier form of the TAV---
And in Hebrew or Jewish translations of the Book of Revelation Yeshua is the Alef and the Tav, because in the Hebrew Alphabet the "Tav" is the final letter and it also represents completion.  There is completion in the Cross of Christ Jesus.

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The one drop rule even applies to the European/Americans as will be shown.

Blacks being the original race once occupied virtually every corner of the globe. Britain was no exception. The Grimaldi African man is known to have occupied Europe in ancient times. Blacks have been living in Britain from prehistoric times to the present era.

Irish tradition tells of a giant-like race of Africans headed by a king with a retinue of priests called Fomorians. They were depicted as gloomy sea giants who brought their skills from Africa via Spain.

The original Celtic priesthood were Blacks. The White Druids had nothing to do with the construction of Stonehenge since it predated their emergence by several centuries.

The Roman historian, Tacitus, mentioned "the dark complexion and unusually curly hair" of the Silures, or Black Celts who he believed migrated there from Spain. When Julius Caesar invaded Britain he met these Blacks. Julius Caesar's army was itself composed of prominent Blacks. In fact Blacks have served as Roman emperors on a number of occasions.

The Scots are themselves of Black origin. Ireland was once known as Scotia Magna and Scotland was called Caledonia until about the third century A.D. when a tribe invaded Caledonia and the name was changed to Scotia. The Irish are said to have derived the name Scotia from the daughter of an Egyptian Pharaoh named Scota.

The construction of Stonehenge has been attributed to giants who sailed from Africa bringing their skills with them. The presence of giants may not necessarily be a figment of the imagination. Giants have been mentioned in the Bible. There was a Black Canaanite race called Anakim. When the Black Hebrews first saw them they realized how small they were themselves: "And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.” (Numbers 13:33).

Anak was a Black giant, a descendant of Canaan, the youngest son of Ham. Ham is widely believed to be the ancestor of the Black race. There are other Black giants mentioned in the Bible. These are the Enim and Zamzummin, from which group Goliath and his brother emerged.

The Formorians are believed to be Carthaginian pirates and/or traders. Carthage was a Phoenician colony. Attempts have been made to classify them as Semites. They belonged to the Black race.

Phoenicia or Canaan was a Black civilization before the migration of Indo-Europeans. After the dispersal from the Tower of Babel, Canaan, Ham's youngest son, moved to Palestine which was then uninhabited. They called the land Canaan. The Canaanites were a very gifted people who built great cities such as Jericho. Canaan's first son, Sidon, became the father of the Sidonians or Phoenicians. When the Black Hebrews invaded their land most of the Canaanites fled Palestine to Africa.

Because of their seafaring prowess the Black Egyptians entrusted them with the responsibility of providing them with their materials. They sailed to Cyprus for copper, the Iberian Peninsula for silver, to the Americas before the birth of Columbus and as far as Britain for tin.

C.A. Diop in his work, The African Origin of Civilization made reference to the megaliths. He said, "These are found only in lands inhabited by Negroes or Negroids, or in places that they have frequented, the area that Speiser calls “the great megalithic civilization,” which extends from Africa to India, Australia, South America, Spain and Brittany. It is known that the menhirs and dolmens of Brittany date back to an epoch of an agricultural and copper civilization. Moreover, Spain and Brittany were stopovers for the Phoenicians, a Negroid group, en route to pick up tin from the British mines. That megalithic civilization in Brittany belongs to the second millennium, the period when the Phoenicians frequented those regions. This combination of facts should leave no doubt on the southern and Negro origin of the megaliths in Brittany."

The Basques in Spain are considered to be a branch of the colony founded there by Black Africans. Their language is totally different from any in Spain and for that matter in Europe.

Blacks are also mentioned in Welsh folk-tales, such as in the story of Peredur in The Mabinogion. They are sometimes referred to in unflattering terms, as ugly, giants, misshapen and oppressors.

The original knights of Europe including the Knights of King Arthur's round table were Blacks. There was an African, Gormund who ruled Ireland at the time of the Anglo-Saxons. There were also Blacks among the Vikings. The first King to unite Norway was Black. He was known as Halfdan the Black. He was not called Black simply because of the color of his hair but because he was dark-skinned.

The Roman Emperor Septimius Severus who led a conquest of Britain was a full-blooded African, born in North Africa.

One of the Black Vikings was known as Thorhall, living at the time of Eric the Red. He was among the crew that took the Vikings to the shores of North America before the birth of Columbus. He has been described as “a large man, and strong, black and like a giant, silent and foul-mouthed in his speech, and always egged on Eric to the worst, he was a bad Christian.”

The Black Britons were sometimes referred to as “shameless Irish robbers,” and the word “Scot” came to be synonymous with “vagabond.”

On the origin of the word “Blackmail,” David MacRitchie tells us that, “the expression applied by the inhabitants of Wales to the tribute exacted from their prince, Meredith, by the Danish pirates [Black Danes] of the year 987 A.D., virtually signified “black-mail.” And, moreover, “the tribute of the blacke armie” precisely phrases the tax paid by Theodosius to Rugilas, King of the Huns, five centuries before. It was black-mail. That is the origin of the term. Dane-gelt was black-mail, equally with the tribute paid to the black Huns by the Romans."

Question about the Garden of Eden.

Why isn't the garden of Eden place anywhere near Europe?

The Eden of Genesis has been variously located at the headwaters of the Tigris and Euphrates in northern Iraq, in Africa, and in the Persian Gulf.


Genesis 2-3 locates the garden with reference to four rivers and the regions they flow through:

    Now a river flowed out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it divided and became four rivers. The name of the first is Pishon; it flows around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.[...] The name of the second river is Gihon; it flows around the whole land of Cush. The name of the third river is Tigris; it flows east of Assyria And the fourth river is the Euphrates

Which means that civilization started over in the African/Asiatic part of the world.

 

Following a false religion can keep one out of heaven.

 

Exod 20:1 God spoke all these words:
Exod 20:2 “I, the LORD, am your God, who brought you from the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery.
Exod 20:3 “You shall have no other gods before me.

and this which is not obeyed by others.

 

Deut 12:32  You must be careful to do everything I am commanding you. Do not add to it or subtract from it!

 

 

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Isa 59:1 ​​​​​​​Look, the LORD’s hand is not too weak to deliver you; ​​​​​​his ear is not too deaf to hear you.



{Your sinful acts have alienated you from  God; ​​​​​​your sins have caused him to reject you and not listen to your prayers. ​​​​​​​For your hands are stained with blood ​​​​​​and your fingers with sin; ​​​​​​your lips speak lies, ​​​​​​your tongue utters malicious words. ​​​​​​​No one is concerned about justice; ​​​​​​no one sets forth his case truthfully. ​​​​​​They depend on false words and tell lies; ​​​​​​they conceive of oppression ​​​​​​and give birth to sin. They hatch the eggs of a poisonous snake ​​​​​​and spin a spider’s web. ​​​​​​Whoever eats their eggs will die, ​​​​​​a poisonous snake is hatched.Their webs cannot be used for clothing; ​​​​​​they cannot cover themselves with what they make. ​​​​​​Their deeds are sinful; ​​​​​​they commit violent crimes. They are eager to do evil, ​​​​​​quick to shed innocent blood. ​​​​​​Their thoughts are sinful; ​​​​​​they crush and destroy. They are unfamiliar with peace; ​​​​​​their deeds are unjust. ​​​​​​They use deceitful methods, ​​​​​​and whoever deals with them is unfamiliar with peace.}

[Then Jesus came up and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”]


{You must be careful to do everything I am commanding you. Do not add to it or subtract from it!}

[He answered them, “And why do you disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition?  Hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you when he said, ​​​​​​​‘This people honors me with their lips, ​​​​​​but their heart is far from me, and they worship me in vain, ​​​​​​teaching as doctrines the commandments of men."]




Rom 6:12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires,
Rom 6:13 and do not present your members to sin as instruments to be used for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead and your members to God as instruments to be used for righteousness.
Rom 6:14 For sin will have no mastery over you, because you are not under law but under grace.
Rom 6:15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Absolutely not!


Haven't seen any of this from you are your disciples.

[ Love must be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil, cling to what is good. Be devoted to one another with mutual love, showing eagerness in honoring one another.]

Silly pictures sly twisted renarks at others who don't agree with the doctrines. Shall I pull some of them up from the past, just as this discussion was or maybe I will go bring the other pictures up that doesn't pertain to the Lord.




Three years in Germany and understand very well. Like I said you only show your true self and it isn't about the Lord.

Instead of the games try obeying God are do you know how. What was it that you are suppose to teach others to obey. The sad part is you expect to be trusted by people and can't even obey just one of God's commands.

 

Pagans are one of a people or community observing a polytheistic religion, as the ancient Romans and Greeks.

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