How does Cain remain a vagabond and wanderer when he was the first to dwell in a city. Gen 4:17

Question

Gen:4.14
"Surely You have driven me out this day from the face of the ground; I shall be hidden from Your face; I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond on the earth, and it will happen that anyone who finds me will kill me. (16) Then Cain went out from the presence of the LORD and dwelt in the land of Nod on the east of Eden (17). And he built a city, and called the name of the city after the name of his son -- Enoch.

The land of Nod is a land of wandering according to the Hebrew meaning of the word Nod.

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Original: נד נודּ

Transliteration: nôd nôd

Phonetic: node

BDB Definition:

1) wandering (of aimless fugitive)

According to Heb 11:9, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were normadic tent dwellers. This is because they were waiting for a city.

Hebrews:11.9 By faith he dwelt in the land of promise as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise; for he waited for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God

QUESTION:

How is his prophetic punishment fulfilled if he is allowed to dwell in a city. How does Cain remain a Vagabond and a wanderer if he was the first to dwell in a city. He dwelt in a city before Adam or Seth.

Answer 1

He certainly gave Cain an opportunity to live on the earth and to have a family according to the command:

"be ye fruitful and multiply"

but Cain never did bear spiritual fruit. He had killed Abel, cutting off the seed of promise that would deliver them. God had heard the cry of Abel's posterity from the blood on the ground, that's why the lineage of the woman's Seed would not come through Cain.

So God gave Adam and Eve another Son named Seth through whom the seed of the woman would come. All that was of Adam was sinful by nature but not all committed a rebellious sin.

Therefore the seed was preserved through Noah's Son Shem. Though there were eight souls saved in the ark, all of Cain's lineage were destroyed in the flood including Cain.

All that dwelled and dwells on the earth today are descendants of Seth. Through this lineage came also the Seed of the woman, our LORD and Savior Jesus Christ.

Answer 2

It seems that each time God speaks to him he goes off and does the opposite. Control your sinful Adamic nature Cain! Says God. Cain lets sin have dominion over him. He is his own worst enemy. God suggests he would become a wanderer and a fugitive. Well he does run away from his parents. Did he marry his sister as new earth creationists would claim? Then he would have had to wander back and find her, or she leave home to find her brother. Cain was not of a spiritual nature, but a very sharp cookie. His name probably means lance. He turns his hand to the building of a city. Possibly he felt that dwelling in tents would be insecure for a vulnerable fugitive and as usual, forgetting what God had said, that he had marked him to be left alone.

Cursed and no longer having the talent to grow crops, he turns his obviously considerable other inate skills to good use and builds a city.

The story of Cain raises more questions than it gives answers to. It certainly leans towards old earth creation.

Only the Lord knows the answers.