As I stated earlier, Abel by trade was a shepherd and Cain, a farmer. In the Abel church, the pastors and leaders shepherd their sheep with diligence and care unto the Lord. These pastors leave their ninety-nine to go after the one that was lost. These pastors use their anointed staff of the Word to protect their flock from the ravenous wolves that come to devour and in some extreme cases, the Cain mentality churches in their cities. These pastors obey and sacrifice what is holy and acceptable unto the Lord for his Glory. In the Cain churches, these churches usually take the cheap way out of everything, cheap staff, cheap theology, cheap buildings (I know a church that painted the walls lime green because the lime green paint was on sale saving the church ten dollars), etc. Everything is done the easy and cheap way because these people see it as "using their resources wisely" and "cheap is blessed and free is anointed". To pay the price for something is not of God in their eyes. In the same manner, these Cain churches offer up cheap sacrifices based on their farming mentality of things they generate from the seeds they sowed unto themselves instead of the Spirit. It is at this point in the sacrifice of the harvest where these two churches offer up the sacrifice of praise unto God. In the Abel Church, the sacrifice of praise is accepted because of the focus on the blood of Jesus as the atonement for their sins. In the Cain church, the sacrifice is rejected because it came from the spiritual grounds that God cursed and it was a cheap and easy sacrifice of convenience instead of a costly sacrifice that the Abel church offered up.

What happens now is that the Abel church goes forward with God while the Cain church is now angry with God. The Cain church is upset because the Abel church is better off financially, physically, and spiritually and is growing in leaps and bounds reaping what sacrifices they sowed. The jealousy and anger that manifests draws God's attention to where God gives this Cain church another chance to rectify the sacrifices. The Cain church is at a crossroads of decision. "Do we rectify the problem at hand or do we expose the Abel church in the name of God and our perceived holiness of God?" All the Cain church has to do is to rectify the problem at hand by either offer up the proper teachings of sacrifice and the proper sacrifice, or they can ask their fellow brothers and sisters in Christ at the Abel church to help them become more obedient and sacrificial to God.

In many instances, we can see the tragic choices that the Cain church makes. Usually, the Cain church is so enraged in it's jealousy and anger and sin so deep that instead of offering up the proper sacrifices, they usually decide to devise a plan to "kill and expose" the Abel church. In the Cain mentality, the Abel church had to either compromise the Gospel, sin and get riches by Satan, or sell out Jesus by heresy theology in order to become a big church to obtain lots of numbers and money. Therefore, the Cain church's focus is no longer recognizing the brotherhood of the churches, but to kill the Abel church by any means necessary (slander, libel, deception, in extreme cases, sending a harlot woman to entice the pastor into adultery, or seeing the Abel church in weakness and usurp authority to take control, etc). Like the story of Cain and Abel, the Cain church tries to use unity to entice the Abel church to "go out into the fields" with them. In the name of unity, brotherhood, servanthood, and evangelism, the Abel church goes out with the Cain church into the fields gleaning for harvest. Meanwhile, while out in the harvest, the Cain church attacks the Abel church and kills the Abel church through lies, slander, libel, setting up traps of sin, etc. When the Abel church dies, the Cain church thinks that it avoids the Abel church and God and can reap the spoils of the Abel church. In Cain churches, these churches go after the hurt and wounded people of the killed Abel church and desire them for their own selfish gains and sacrifices. Most of the gathered now scattered people in the Abel churches have that glimmer of discernment and go to another church for their worship.

God the appears on the scene and approaches the leaders of the Cain church about their spirit of murder. The Cain attitude of selfishness manifests with the rhetorical questions of "Is it my job to babysit?", "Is it my job to look after my brother and my brother's church?" the answer is YES!!! God then shows the Cain church how the blood of the Abel church cries out of the ground and the Cain church is caught in their lie and their sin. We see God place his curse on Cain and banishes him from the spiritual ground where he planted because the Abel church's blood in the ground has defiled the ground. As the ground no longer yielded the crops for Cain no matter how hard they worked, The spiritual ground around the Cain church will no longer yield a harvest no matter how many outreaches they have, no matter how many Christmas plays they have, no matter how many seminars they have and no matter how many advertisements on Christian radio they run to entice new members. Like the physical Cain, the church of Cain is now a spiritually homeless person wandering to and fro in their cities trying to regain what little glory they had.

Like the punishment that was too hard to bear for Cain in verses fourteen and fifteen. The spiritual punishment for the church of Cain is too hard for that church to bear. In the New Testament, Jesus talks about the little children and states that "Better for a millstone to be tied around the neck and thrown into the sea of one who touches the children than to face the wrath of God." The Cain church usually goes into hiding and incognito to re-establish themselves as a spiritual presence or they wish for their death. However, like Cain, God places a mark around the Cain church warning that whoever kills it would face a wrath seven times worse. Why, God in this New Covenant wants to give the Cain church one more chance to repent and offer up the holy and acceptable sacrifice to join him in establishing His kingdom on earth. We see that Cain got married and had children and their children had children. Even though Cain's generations gave us music, music instruments, and metalworking, the spirit of murder increased in the generation and the sin was never dealt with.

Before I proceed, let me pray:

Lord right now in the name of Jesus, I rebuke the spirit of murder and Cain that ravages our churches and kills the Abel churches in the name of Jesus. I ask that you would extend your mercy again on the Cain churches and give them another opportunity to repent of their sin and join in the kingdom. I have been in an Abel church that wanted to be in unity with the body to where it made an alliance with a church that ended up being a Cain church that killed us in our weaknesses and tried to become the epicenter of anointing in our city, but was exposed and marked as cursed. I remembered that it was not fun to go through this experience. Extend you hand of mercy one more time and give these people another chance to experience your love and true power. In Jesus name I pray, AMEN!

But God was not finished yet!!!

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