Questions & Answers on Genesis
Questions 2 & 3(COD Page 27)
Q2. God made Eve from Adam’s rib, Genesis 2:18-21. Did God create man and women, then make Adam and Eve-Eve?
Q3. And did Cain go to the just creation of man and woman for his wife?
94 Now, let’s now... I don’t... The person’s probably present who wrote this. Now, when God... In the first question here:
Did God make man and women, of Genesis 2:18-21?
95 No. I-I... as-as you’ll see here, 2:18-21 now, notice: And the LORD God said, It is not good that... man should be alone; I will make him an help mate for him. And out of the ground the LORD... formed every beast... and so forth.
96 Now, God made Eve from Adam’s side. The woman has one more rib today in the anatomy and the makeup than man does, because a rib was taken from Adam’s body. Adam had already been made and was living, and was lonesome, and then God said, “It’s not good that man should live alone.”
97 So these priests and so forth which are denied the rights of having a wife. Now, that, the Roman church can do whatever... That’s them, they’re the one that has to answer for that-for that, not me.
98 Well, I was asked by a-a man, recently, said, “What do you think?” A priest, said, “What do you think about that young priest here in town that took that woman, that girl, a Jeffersonville
girl here, and went and married her?” In the Irish church, you
remember. I forget what his name was.
99 I said, “He had just as much right to get married as I have. That’s exactly what I think about it.” I said, “The only thing I hold... I think he done wrong, he ought to have went to the church and resigned his office and then went and married the girl, instead of just running off like that.”
100 Now, you remember when it taken place a few weeks ago here in Jeff., the Irish Catholic priest down here. He’s a young fellow, and he was going... has some girl sweetheart down here. And when he... They give him a great big love offering, going to change parishes with him, send him up to Indianapolis somewhere. And he just took the love offering, girl and all, and went off and got married, and they never heard from him no more. Well, he had a right to get married, but he didn’t have a right to do that. He shouldn’t have done that. He should’ve went to the-the church and said, “Here, I’m resigning this office as a priest. I’m going to get married, and that settles it.”
101 But, now, God making Eve, and-and Adam and Eve at the same time, the only thing He made was the supernatural, the spirit Adam and the spirit Eve, the man and woman. Then, when He made... put Adam in here, it wasn’t good for... See, it’s God’s picture unfolding all the time. Everything like this, it’s just-it’s just coming right down, just unfolding right out, coming out through the Millennium over yonder and right on into Eternity. Just God’s picture just unfolding, God unfolding Himself.
102 Here, God manifested Himself in Christ Jesus, to show what He was. What was Jesus? A man of sorrow, acquainted with grief, loving. To a prostitute, “Where art thy accusers?” “I have none, Lord.” “Neither do I accuse you. Go, sin no more.”
103 Tired and weary from walking about thirty miles that day, through the desert sands and things; there was a woman of Nain coming out; and her only boy, dead, laying there. He stopped the funeral procession, laid His hands upon him, said, “Rise.” And the boy who was dead rose up again. That-that’s our Lord Jesus. (Thank you, Teddy, son.) And there, that was
our Lord Jesus. He was never too tired, never too weary to do anything good. All right. Now here’s another thing: Did Cain go to the-to the first creation of man and woman for his wife?
104 Now, there is an awful ticklish question, now listen real close. Now, oh, I’ve... you’ve seen people put in the paper, “Where did Cain get his wife?” Oh, I used to say it.
105 And I never taught there was a burning hell for about four years after my conversion. I had to see it in the Scripture. If I don’t know, I won’t say nothing about it. See?
106 But, now, “Where did Cain get his wife?” Now, that’s the-the analysis of this question now. “And did Cain go to his wife to the creation of man and woman, for his wife?” See? Now, now, one of the first...
107 This Mrs. DeArk, you all heard about her healing the other night, how God blessed her and everything. She was laying, dying, they come around at two o’clock in the morning.
108 And so, now, that’s how I come... Her boy, George, the boy was a medium, Ed, also. They were in the store, and I heard a discussion back there, where the first... where Cain got his wife. Well, the one that had the floor seemed to be the best of the argument, he said, “I tell you where Cain got his wife,” said, “Cain went over and married a great big female ape.” And said, “Out of that ape come forth the colored race.” Said, “You notice the colored person’s head is kind of peaked like that, like-like the ape is, in the head.”
109 Well, I stood there, I was just about two months old in the Gospel. I said, “I don’t want to differ with you man, ’cause I’m not a student, I just got saved. But,” I said “if that be so, then the colored race of people would have ceased to exist when the antediluvian destruction, when the world was destroyed with water, for Noah and his family was the only ones that was in the ark. That was the only ones that was in the ark. The colored race would have ceased to exist,” I said, “if that would be so.” I said, “No, sir! The colored race never come from there. No, sir. The
colored race is off of the same tree that we’re off of, and every human being, the same one.” There’s no difference. Exactly. We’re just all... One may be yellow, and the other one brown, the other one black, and the other one white, and the other one pale, and the other one red, and just like that, but you’re all from that same tree. That’s just the physical part out here. That’s right. You’re a human being just the same, created here by God.
110 And now, notice, here not long ago, standing over here and some doctors in Louisville, I was talking about in Africa how those poor people, the cannibal type, especially, how they had a woman there, took a little baby, had found a little baby, and-and she had beat it like that and tied it up to a bush and let it rot for a few days, you know, till it become contaminated before they eat it, you know. Anything like that, they let it rot a little while, gets soft.
111 Don’t think that’s too much about the cannibals. In England they do the same thing, they kill pheasants and hang them in the trees, so once the feathers will drop out of them then they eat them. That’s the mother race of the Anglo-Saxon people, in England. That’s right. And don’t think... You don’t have to go to England, just go down here in the southern states, you’ll find the same thing. Certainly. Any man could eat a snail or-or a rattlesnake, can eat anything else. So... Yeah.
112 Now notice, let-let me tell you. But, here’s what happened. The colored... the-the colored race has nothing to do with this. Cain...
113 Now, I want you to watch. They said that “He went to the land of Nod.” Now, Cain was in Eden. And Eden, the Garden of Eden, laid east of Eden. Is that right? The Garden of Eden was east in Eden, the east side of Eden. And the Cherubims was placed, and the Tree of Life was at the east gate of the Garden, and there’s where I think Cain and Abel made their sacrifice. And there’s where the Cherubim with the flaming sword wouldn’t let them come in anymore, east of the gate!
114 Did you notice, Jesus will come from the east. The light rises from the east. Everything coming... Civilization started in the east and traveling west, until it revolves around and catches itself again. We are the Western Hemisphere. That’s the Eastern, the Eastern is the oldest civilization. China’s the oldest civilization known of, by historians, in the world today. East!
115 Oh, how we could dwell on these questions for hours, on one, but it wouldn’t just the others. But notice, here’s... How many would like to know what we believe of Cain, where and who Cain’s wife was? Let’s see. All right. I’ll tell you what Cain done, and it’s the only sensible answer you can figure: Cain married his own sister. He had to, for there was only one female on the earth then; the Bible only gives record of three being born, Ham, Shem... or not... I beg your pardon, was Cain, Abel, and Seth. But if there wasn’t any... The Bible seldom records a girl’s birth. You know that.
116 Now, I’m sure picking on the women tonight. But, look, the world worships women, but women was the devil’s instrument in the beginning. And an unjust one today is the best instrument he’s got. She’ll send more preachers to hell than all the bootleg joints there is in the world. Let a little flapper with a cigarette in the corner of her mouth, and her hair all cuticured up like that, and great big long eyelashes that blink up-and-down, brother, a little... kind of nice-looking physique on her, watch what she’ll do.
117 Preacher, you better cover yourself up with the Blood of Jesus Christ. That’s right. Now, don’t tell me, you’re man! I’ve seen too much of it. Now, watch here. The best thing to do is keep your mind centered on Jesus Christ and let your thoughts be pure.
118 Like Paul said over in there, said, “It’s... We know that we have the power to lead a sister. I have power to do it, but” said “I won’t do it.” See, he wouldn’t do it. He said, “I know that the ministry should live by their-their... Not muzzle the ox that treads out the corn.”
119 You know, we sometimes think, ’cause we’re a preacher... (Not you and I, I don’t say, brother.) But preachers think because they’re preachers that-that they’re somebody bigger than one of the laity members of the church. You’re no bigger and you’re no more in the sight of God than that drunkard that was converted an hour ago.
120 That’s one thing the reformation never purged, was these things. I know I sign my name “Reverend.” That’s exactly, that’s just a-a custom thing of the today, but it shouldn’t be done. “Reverend” and “Bishop” and “Doctor” and all those things are man-made titles, and they’re nonsense! In the Bible they were “Peter,” “James,” “Paul,” “John,” and all the rest of them.
121 Paul said, “Now, here, I know I preach the Gospel, that-that-that’s my duty.” I’m a preacher, he’s a preacher, Brother Neville’s a preacher, but it... That’s our duty, is to be a preacher. Well, that’s just what we’re supposed to do. “But let me do something,” Paul said, “that’s beyond that.” “Now, I’ve got a right to take up money,” Paul said, “but I’m going to make tents just to show you I can-I can sacrifice.” He said, “It’s honorable, marriage is honorable among all, the bed’s undefiled. It’s good for a man to be married.” He said, “I got a right to be married. Now, I-I could be married, I got a legal right to be married. But I just won’t get married, I want to do another sacrifice to the Lord.” See? Then he said, “Every man knows his calling. Let him do as... Some’s eunuch for the Word of God’s sake, and so forth.”
122 We want to do something beyond our duty. And if you are really born again of the Spirit of God and say, “Well, it’s my duty to go to church, I guess I’ll have to go.” Oh, my! Well, I want to do more than that, I want to win some souls for Christ. I want to do something! I want to visit the sick or do something for Him. It’s my duty to preach funerals, it’s my duty to preach the Gospel,
it’s my duty to pray for the sick. Let me do something else, let me get out and do something where God will honor me by it.
123 Now, back to Cain. [Blank spot on tape-Ed.] For Eve was the only female that was created by God, and if she didn’t have any daughters, when that last female (the only female) died, the human race would’ve ceased to exist. Is that right? There’d been no more females. So she had to have daughters. And Cain married his own sister, for he had to, there’s no other place for women to come from.
124 And it was legal and lawful in those days, even for Abraham, and even on down to Isaac. Isaac married his own blood cousin. And Abraham married his own sister, blood sister. His father’s... It’s different mothers but the same father. And the germ comes out of the male sex. Sarah, which brought forth the wonderful Isaac. Is that right? There wasn’t nobody on the earth then.
125 That was all in type, showing that the... Here it is, brother! Isaac... Rebekah is a type of the Church, and Isaac is a type of the Bride, Christ. Is that right? And they must be Blood relation! Hallelujah! Amen! Blood relation!
126 So Cain married his sister, and that’s... Then they went over there into the land of Nod. Now, we get into a deep subject if we went a little farther, and I’m glad you never asked any farther than that, (like, “Where was those giants that was in that land that day?” Josephus and different ones has many arguments on it). Amen! If I didn’t get that right, brother, hand it in again Sunday morning. All right.
