how do you know that Abel was not providing "fat" sheep as a Shepherd, meaning true worshippers for Yah
How would Cain know that when no offering was asked for?
Cain was plowing his own ground, maybe? Whereas Yah wants Shepherds?
OK, i'm back - Bruins lost due to negligence fed by pride.........hopefully they learn and make corrections = like us who by Grace, Believe.
PART 1 of my reply only dealing with Abel and his offering.
We cannot reach
beyond what is
detailed for us to see in Scripture = especially in a
vacuum of Genesis chapters 3-4.
We must understand that Genesis chapter 3 BEGINS the very FIRST interaction between God and man = Adam & Eve = ch2
The very next chapter, chapter 3, brings to the Readers our FIRST introduction to the Speaking Standing Serpent and SIN.
Included in Chapter 3 is the
non-verbal Instruction of God for
blood sacrifice = HE clothed their nakedness with skins of an animal.
This is God's
Foundation of
Truth that the entire Scripture
will build upon all the way to Revelation.
This leads us to Cain and Abel.
FURTHERMORE = we must pay
EXTRA Special Attention to this account for it is confirmed that Abel is the very FIRST Prophet of God.
"Therefore the wisdom of God also said, ‘
I will send them prophets and apostles, and
some of them they will kill and persecute,’
that
the blood of all the prophets which was shed
from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation,
from the
blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah who perished between the altar and the temple."