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Cain and Abel: Right Product/Wrong Time

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2nd in a series on how men and women in the Bible deal with waiting, disappointment and unemployment   Cain and Abel: Right Product/Wrong Time In 1940,  Henry Ford  famously predicted: "Mark my word: a combination airplane and motorcar is coming. You may smile, but it will come.”   In 1957,  Popular Mechanics  reported that  Hiller Helicopters  was developing a ducted-fan aircraft that would be easier to fly than helicopters, and should cost a lot less. Hiller engineers expected that this type of an aircraft would become the basis for a whole family of special-purpose aircraft.  And 60 years later, we’re still waiting.   Maybe it is the car of the future but the timing has to be right doesn’t it?   Well, let’s go back 6000 years, a time way before automation, before infomercials to the first market economy, two competitors: Cain and Abel.   Two sons who had legitimate occupations marketing legitimate products.   Genesis 4 says “Cain worked the soil and