Sunday School Lesson 9: God Will Provide Himself a Lamb

Abraham 1 - This chapter serves as background to the story of Abraham and Isaac. We learn here that Abraham was an ordained High Priest; that his own parents had departed from the ways of God to follow the heathen gods, particularly the Egyptian gods, Elkenah and Pharaoh; that his father gave him to be offered as a sacrifice to the god of Pharaoh; and that he was saved at the last instant by an angel.

Abraham 1:21 - Now this king of Egypt was a descendant from the loins of Ham, and was a partaker of the blood of the Canaanites by birth. A few weeks ago, there was a comment in Sunday School that equated Adam's son with Noah's grandson. I wanted to make a clear distinction between Canaan, the son of Ham, and Cain, the son of Adam. Both were cursed, but Canaan and his subsequent generations was not Cain, and any supposition that the dark skin of the Africans were related to Cain is faulty logic. Canaan was cursed to be a servant to his brethren due to his father's disrespect of Noah. He had a granddaughter (or possibly a great granddaughter, the genealogy can get a little confusing at times) who discovered Egypt and was its first queen. Cain was cursed to wander the Earth and that the Earth would not yield to him its fulness. I can find no scriptural support for him not being dead, and no promise that any of his seed would survive in perpetuity. Though the scriptures do not talk about it, there are apocryphal references to his death by the hand of Lamech, and even if Lamech did not do it, the timing would be right for him to have been an extremely old man at that time.