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39 and weights. And whereas they lived innocently and generously while they knew nothing of such arts, he changed the world into cunning craftiness. He first of all set boundaries about lands, he built a city, and fortified it with walls, and he compelled his family to come together to it [the first attempt to create a One World Government under man's authority]; and called that city Enoch, after the name of his oldest son Enoch" (chap.IL, 2). Obviously, Cain became the ringleader of a great apostasy away from the truth and ways of God -- the first great world apostate religious and political leader -- setting up boundaries, confiscating land, and erecting a huge city for his extended family and followers to dwell in. He became the world's first Dictator, Tyrant, and Despot. He inaugurated the first "New World Order" by rejecting the laws and teachings and government of God, and built his own wicked, devilish Empire before the Flood. Josephus concludes, saying, "Nay, even while Adam was alive, it came to pass that the posterity of Cain became exceedingly wicked, every one successively dying one after another, more wicked than the former. They were intolerable in war, and vehement in robberies." We read of Cain in the New Testament, where Jude, the brother of Christ, says of the masses of false teachers, religious leaders, and worldly people who follow the doctrines, teachings, political institutions, and philosophy of take, seize, get, acquire, grab, steal, rape, pillage, and murder, in order to satiate their own lusts and animal appetites: "Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain..." (Jude 11). The apostle John, in the New Testament, also makes a very strange and striking statement about Cain. We read, "For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning [even from the book of Genesis and time of Creation], that we should love one another. Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous" (I John 3:11-12). What did John mean when he said, in plain words, that Cain was "of the wicked one"? Of course, the "wicked one" here refers to Satan the Devil, that old antagonist and adversary of mankind, the one who deceived, and seduced Eve in the Garden of Eden! In Genesis chapter two we read that after God created Adam and Eve, "they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed" (Gen.2:25). They seemingly had no awareness yet of sex, and were still discovering and learning all about the new world into which they had been created. They were like newborn children -- full of desire to learn, to explore, to grow. They were, of course, created as mature male and female, but were much like children in their innocence, naiveté, and simplicity of mind. No one had ever lied to them. They did not even know the real meaning of evil, violence, robbery, seduction, lying. They were true Wee la They were true "innocents." The Wickedness of Cain and His Descendants The Serpent in the Garden In the book of Jubilees, we read that this state of inquisitive learning and innocence lasted