One thing that I noticed while working in Ezra and Nehemiah. The Nethinims (descendants of Cain) went with Ezra and Nehemiah to rebuild Jerusalem. Well Ezra thought that he had Levite priests but he had a load of Nethinims (given to service way back in the book of Joshua (the Gibonites) that were assigned to be hewers of wood and drawers of water for the temple of God.

The fact that these were descendants of Cain can be found in 1 Chronicles:

1 Chronicles 2:55
55 And the families of the scribes which dwelt at Jabez; the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and Suchathites. These are the Kenites that came of Hemath, the father of the house of Rechab.
KJV

Kenites ==> sons of Cain.

Anyway, as I was linking the names of the Nethinims to Strong's numbers I kept seeing things like: "cankerworm", "palmerworm", "Locust", there was a fourth was "caterpillar". When I read these names it brought to mind many verses in the Old Testament such as this:

Joel 1:4
4 That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.
KJV

When I first read this verse I was thinking about actual worms, but looking at end-time prophecy it makes perfect sense that Kenites will be taking all the good things.

I don't know if you have studied Kenites before, when I heard of them I made a study, in fact I made two studies, my first one, and a year later when I understood more and I learned much more. In the Bible (KJV) "foxes" is another nickname for Kenites. And guess who took over the priesthood and had Jesus crucified? In the book of Jeremiah, chapter 35:2-19:

Jeremiah 35:2
2 Go unto the house of the Rechabites, and speak unto them, and bring them into the house of the LORD, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink.

Jeremiah 35:5-7
5 And I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites pots full of wine, and cups, and I said unto them, Drink ye wine.

6 But they said, We will drink no wine: for Jonadab the son of Rechab our father commanded us, saying, Ye shall drink no wine, neither ye, nor your sons for ever:

7 Neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any: but all your days ye shall dwell in tents; that ye may live many days in the land where ye be strangers.
KJV

This is remarkably similar the the curse that God put on Cain in Genesis 4:

Genesis 4:12
12 When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
KJV

The point about the Rechabites is that they were left in Jerusalem after the house of Judah was taken away. That along with the Nethinims which returned to Jerusalem as priests (or assistants to the priests) (scribes is often used for Kenites too, not always, but the children of Cain couldn't grow anything so...). Over the next 400 years or so these Nethinims took over the priesthood and became the "scribes and Pharisees" in the New Testament that Jesus was addressing on many occasions, for example:

Luke 11:44
44 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are as graves which appear not, and the men that walk over them are not aware of them.
KJV

Hypocrites in the Strong's is "play actors".

John 8:42-44
42 Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.

43 Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.

44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
KJV

This is as far as I want to go in this E-mail. If you are interested in more of this subject, please let me know. I love researching these things. When one thinks of the Pharisees being Kenites (sons of Cain) it makes it easier to understand why Jesus talked to them in this manner. Jesus was not just calling them names, he was letting us know just who these people were. Jesus was preaching with every word he said, even from the cross. I don't believe that Jesus would take the time, knowing that his words would be documented, and call people names. Do you?