God didn’t accept Cain’s sacrifice and offering, but God did accept Abel’s sacrifice and offering. When Cain realized that God did not accept his offering but did accept his brother Abel’s, Cain became enraged with jealousy and killed Abel his brother, presumably because he could not attack God directly so he went after the closest representative, Abel. And then Cain was cursed by God as a consequence of his sin of murdering his brother Abel.

Then Cain went and built the city of Enoch, named after his son.

I am not sure how many people understand the significance of Cain building a city. It is rebellion against God. In the city a person doesn’t have to work the field, rely on the rain and the seasons for their food to grow. They can buy it in the marketplace. And as we know in modern times, a lot of avenues to sin are covertly and not so covertly available. A city is a place where a person can essentially live as if God did not exist. They can buy food and be entertained and indulge is whatever fleshly desires move them.

We continue to seek to live in cities. But it goes much deeper than that. Satan has used global leaders and corporations to keep us in urban and suburban enclaves. Everything is close by and convenient. A grocery store is usually 10 minutes away. In the city, you can’t walk twenty feet without walking past someone selling food or trying to sell some materialistic bougie item that so-and-so celebrity wears, and so we must buy it. We don’t think about who is making the food we eat or what they are using to make it. We don’t care because we are lazy.

Millions of people are griping on the internet because their government subsidies were cut, and that the government has the audacity to demand that they get a job if they are physically able to work. Charity has shifted from churches to community food banks and government programs.

What this all means is that we have stopped depending on God for our daily sustenance. In the Lord’s prayer, we are to thank God for our daily bread. And it is not something we ought to gripe about. We should complain about portion size or how much we have in our pantries. We should be grateful that God has once again provided food for us.

The rebellion of Cain employed by satan through his dedicated minions has made it difficult to totally depend on God. A person cannot just go to some wooded area, build a humble homestead and call it “home” without the government knocking on the door demanding their cut. The government has made sure that all land belongs to them. We are merely host bodies that they can suck the money and life out of. If we are paying property taxes then we do not own any land or house we may live in. The government owns it, because they can seize for unpaid taxes.

Cain moved away from God, built a city so he wouldn’t have to depend on God for produce from the land and had a legacy of evil after him up until the flood. That rebellion continues today, whether we choose to recognize it or not. We, especially Christians, have lost our way and have forgotten what living in the mercy and grace of our God really means. Ease of life and the covetous nature have made us weak and complacent. And we find our pride in our profession and societal standing and what type of house we live in and what automobile we drive. We do not hope in Christ and find our identity in Him.