Isaiah 24: 3 The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the Lord hath spoken this word. 4 The earth mourns and fades away, the world languishes and fades away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.
[Patriarchs & Prophets pp 61] In humility and unutterable sadness they {Adam and Eve} bade farewell to their beautiful home and went forth to dwell upon the earth, where rested the curse of sin. The atmosphere, once so mild and uniform in temperature, was now subject to marked changes, and the Lord mercifully provided them with a garment of skins as protection from the extremes of heat and cold.
As they witnessed in drooping flower and falling leaf the first signs of decay, Adam and his companion mourned more deeply than men now mourn over their dead. The death of the frail, delicate flowers was indeed a cause of sorrow; but when the goodly trees cast off their leaves, the scene brought vividly to mind the stern fact that death is the portion of every living thing.
Therefore, several false charges are made by Cain in the above passages taken from Genesis 4, and these statements and conclusions are too often harbored and repeated in our day.
Ecclesiastes 8:12 Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him. 13 But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he fears not before God.
May The Lord add His blessing to the study of His word. God bless!