battles with his flesh (v. 3). He battles with the world (vv. 1–7). He battles with evil supernaturalism (vv. 1–4 in light of 4:7). He totally loses this multidimensional sin war. The world was now a world of “Cains” (4:4 with 6:1–7). Like Cain, it had become “of the evil one” (1 John 3:12). Without doubt, this was the most demonized generation of human beings ever to live on earth. Thus God must totally destroy them and begin again with the one man who, like Seth whose descendant he was, “called