Its origin is demonic.
In Genesis chapter 4, when Abel, the younger brother of Cain, brought an offering to the Lord, it pushed Cain over the top. The Lord rejected the offering of Cain.
Evidently, the Lord required a lamb but Cain brought items from the ground.
Cain probably worked hard to bring to the Lord what he thought would be acceptable.
It wasn’t.
The Lord rejected it.
The lamb that Abel brought was an type or shadow of Jesus, the Lamb of God.
The sacrificing of the lamb is about atoning for sin and the need to appease the Lord. It’s inferred that Abel recognized that he needed to have his sins forgiven and the Lord required a lamb.
Cain’s offering came from the ground. No doubt that Cain sweated and worked very hard to bring to God what he thought God would rather accept instead.
The rejection made Cain angry. So since he couldn’t kill God, he would kill his younger brother. Cain said in his heart that if it’s blood that God wanted, blood He will get.
God revealed to Cain his sin and what to do about it.
“Why are you angry? And why has your countenance fallen?”
It can be upsetting to be rejected by God, but how you respond afterwards reveals the kind of person you are.
We must remember that whenever God asks a question, He knows the answer already.
As Cain and Abel had a conversation, Abel was lured into a sense of security. He’s with his brother, Cain. But all of a sudden, in an instant. Abel’s blood was shed.
Cain hated his brother for shining brighter. Abel stole the “show.”
God said to Cain “Where’s is your brother?”
Cain’s response? “I don’t know. Am I my brother’s keeper?”
Cain lied and he knew exactly where his brother was.
Dead.
God’s response.
Genesis 4:10-11 (NKJV)
"And He said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries out to Me from the ground.“
Anger drives hatred but hatred is demonic.
In heaven, an assassination attempt took place.
Revelation 12 tells us that there was a war in heaven. In Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28, we see that Lucifer wanted to be like God. It was discovered that Lucifer had pride in his heart and he wanted to be like the Most High.
Lucifer was able to convince 1 out of 3 angels to revolt against God.
The war in heaven was unsuccessful.
satan was outnumbered by the angels that were loyal to God by a factor of 2 to 1.
The penalty would be no redemption and banished to a tormenting eternal hell fire after the great tribulation.
satan was cast to the earth along with his angels. God created man in His image. Adam and Eve rebelled against God and God had to send His Son to pay the penalty of man's sin with what God demanded. Sinless blood (see 2 Corinthians 5:21).
Genesis 3:15 would be the one Scripture where the plan to redeem man would be initiated, and to put down all rebellion forever.
After satan is cast into the lake of fire, and after the Great White Throne judgment, there will be no more rebellion (see Revelation chapters 19, 20, 21, and 22).
Long story short.
satan got his opportunity to kill the Son Of God.
satan was successful. The Lord died on the cross but little did satan know that the Lamb of God would accomplish two things.
Pay in full the sins of man.
The resurrection of Jesus sealed the fate of satan.
If satan believed that the Lord would be resurrected from the dead, he wouldn't have killed Jesus.
It’s interesting that Abel brought a lamb to the Lord and then the Lord God would send the Lamb of God to take away the sin of the whole world, for those that repent and place faith on Christ ALONE.
The warfare in heaven was a warfare of anger and hatred for God.
The warfare continues on earth. Anger and then hatred.
Did you know that sinners that have hatred will not inherit the kingdom of God?
Galatians 5:19-21 (NKJV)
"Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery,
hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries,
and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God."
Hatred in the Greek: g2189. ἔχθρα echthra; feminine of 2190; hostility; by implication, a reason for opposition: — enmity, hatred.
AV (6) - enmity 5, hatred 1;
enmity
cause of enmity.
When people can’t control their anger, the results are catastrophic.
Cain couldn’t control his anger.
Remember when the Lord asked Cain “Why are you angry?”
Proverbs 29:22 (NKJV)
An angry man stirs up strife, and a furious man abounds in transgression.
Ephesians 4:26 (NKJV)
“Be angry, and do not sin”: do not let the sun go down on your wrath...”
Cain was so enraged that he sinned against God by murdering his own brother over an offering being rejected by God.
The offering that Cain brought to the Lord was self righteousness and it was his way of imposing on God what he preferred to bring to the Lord. It’s like telling the Lord that this is what I want to bring to you and it wasn’t what the Lord required.
So Cain lost it.
Proverbs 25:28 (NKJV)
Whoever has no rule over his own spirit is like a city broken down, without walls.
Proverbs 16:32 (NKJV)
He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty,
And he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.
Proverbs 10:12 (NKJV)
Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all sins.
Proverbs 10:18 (NKJV)
Whoever hides hatred has lying lips, and whoever spreads slander is a fool.
Proverbs 10:19-20 (NKJV)
In the multitude of words sin is not lacking,
But he who restrains his lips is wise.
The tongue of the righteous is choice silver;
The heart of the wicked is worth little.
Proverbs 15:17 (NKJV)
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is,
Than a fatted calf with hatred.
Proverbs 26:26 (NKJV)
Though his hatred is covered by deceit,
His wickedness will be revealed before the assembly.
Ultimately, this demonic hatred continues to this day.
Fallen man, true to their father, the devil, hates God.
They hate God because the commandments of the Lord prohibits sin.
John 15:18-25 (NKJV)
“If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you,
A servant is not greater than his master.’
If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word, they will keep yours also. But all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know Him who sent Me.
If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin. He who hates Me hates My Father also. If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would have no sin; but now they have seen and also hated both Me and My Father.
But this happened that the word might be fulfilled which is written in their law, They hated Me without a cause.’
The Lord Jesus told the world of its sin and that’s why the Lord is blasphemed and hated.
No other name of the other gods are blasphemed like the Lord God.
Exodus 20:7 (NKJV)
“You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.”
Matthew 12:31-32 (NKJV) “Therefore I say to you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven men. Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, either in this age or in the age to come.”
We must remember that to be forgiven, one must repent (TURN FROM SIN).
To blaspheme the name of the Lord, you have to have hatred in your heart.
Finally, a man once said in hatred of Jesus that if He came back to the earth, he would crucify Him again.
The only way that anger can be dealt with is found in Colossians 3:5-10 (NKJV)
"Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
Because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience, in which you yourselves once walked when you lived in them.
But now you yourselves are to put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth.
Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds, and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him…”
The remedy?
For the sinner, only repentance from sin and placing faith on Christ ALONE, to be forgiven and born again will kill the dark heart.
For believers in Christ, we put off anger and…
Colossians 3:12-14 (NKJV) “Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, long-suffering; bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do. But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection.”
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