RAISING CAIN
(By Dan Richardson)

Jude, a servant of Christ, wrote by inspiration to admonish Christians to "contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered unto the saints" (Jude 3).  The need for this is apparent by the warning in the next verse: "For there are certain men crept in privily, even they who were of old written of beforehand unto this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ" (vs. 4).  In further description, Jude said, "Woe unto them!  For they went in the way of Cain ..." (vs. 11).  They had raised (resurrected) Cain by imitating his spirit and behavior.  From Genesis 4, consider what this involved.