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One might ask, "why do I need to know about Kenites?" That is a fair enough question. Well Jesus wanted us to know about them. See in Revelation chapters 2 and 3, when Jesus was writing to the seven churches, the only two churches that pleased Jesus were teaching about the Kenites.
Revelation 2:8-9
8 And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive;
9 I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.
KJV
Revelation 3:7, 9
|7 And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;
9 Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.
KJV
OK, well if Cain had children how did they survive Noah's flood. There were only eight people on Noah's ark, Noah, his wife and his three sons and daughters in law?
Genesis 6:19-20
19 And of every living thing of all flesh1320, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.
20 Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.
KJV
Hebrew #1320
basar, baw-sawr’;
from 1319; flesh (from its freshness); by extens, body, person; also (by euphem.) the pudenda of a man:- body, [fat, lean] flesh [-ed], kin, [man-] kind, + nakedness, self, skin.
Genesis 7:2
2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male376 and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.
KJV
Hebrew #376
'iysh (eesh);
contracted for OT:582 [or perhaps rather from an unused root meaning to be extant]; a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation):
KJV - also, another, any (man), a certain, champion, consent, each, every (one), fellow, [foot-, husband-] man, [good-, great, mighty) man, he, high (degree), him (that is), husband, man [-kind], none, one, people, person, steward, what (man) soever, whoso (-ever), worthy. Compare OT:802.
So, from looking at Genesis 6:19-20 and Genesis 7:2, that flesh #1320 and male #376 both point to human beings in addition to Noah's family.
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