Genesis 4 and 5:GEN 4GEN 5

Such was man's changed condition. To cling to the earth now as one's delight and portion was to act in bold defiance of the Lord of judgment. Such was the spirit of Cain and his family. He thought the earth good enough for God and desired nothing better for himself. He gave God the fruit of it and built a city for himself on the face of it, furnishing it with desirable things of all sorts. He was unmoved by the thought of the blood with which his own hand had stained it, and of the presence of the Lord on whom he had turned his back.
This was not Adam, or Abel, or Seth, or that line of worshippers who "call on the name of the Lord." They have in the earth only a burying-place. Grace having provided a remedy for them as sinners, and righteousness having separated them from a cursed earth, they believe in the remedy and seek no place or memorial in the earth. The Lord gives them a higher and a richer inheritance, even in heaven with Himself, as signified in the translation of Enoch.