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THE CLOTHES OF HEAVEN based on Rev. 7:9-17
By Glenn Pease
A taylor who used an apple as a trade mark was asked why he used that particular symbol.
He replied, "If it hadn't been for the apple, where would the clothing business be?"
He had a good point.
The clothing business did start in the garden of Eden because of sin, and the need to cover the bodies of those who had started sin by eating of the forbidden fruit.
Clothing is not a part of the origin of sin, but rather, a necessity to overcome the emotions set loose by sin.
God was the first taylor to create garments for man.
Adam and Eve had sewn fig leaves together to cover their bodies, but shortly thereafter we read in Gen. 3:21, "And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins, and clothed them."
From that point on, clothing has played a major role in the life of man.
Scripture is literally packed with references to clothes and their significance.
Man is the only creature that God created who has a desire to adorn itself with clothes.
No animal has any appreciation for styles, and for a variety of clothing, or for jewelry.
Males often wish God would have made females more animal like in this respect.
Wilfred Funk calls the daughters of Eve the Insatiable Sex.
He goes to great extremes to express himself in poetry.
If I scaled the heights of Venus
And ransacked ten million stars
Of their fineries--Orsinus,
Mercury, Arcturus, Mars.
Plucked the pleiades and hung them
Flaming on your ivory breast,
With the shining moon among them
As a diadem and crest.
Seized the Milky Way and tore it
From the skies to make a gown
For you, dearest, and you wore it
With Orion as a crown--
Would it help you?
Would you try a
Little thrift then?
No! my guess is
You would merely go and buy a
Dozen other hats and dresses!
Most of the humor directed at clothing is connected with women, but the facts of history reveal that men have been just as involved in the fashion fuss, vanity, and folly connected with clothing.
The history of men's pants is a joke if there ever was one.
Battles have raged over them from ancient Persian times.
Church councils have met, sermons have been preached, and pamphlets have been written declaring them to be designed by the devil.
A ruler in Germany in 1790, ordered all criminals in chain gangs, working on the roads, to be clad in long trousers, in order to deride and discredit the fashion.
In 1820, it was forbidden in England for any clergyman to wear long trousers in the pulpit.
Nothing could stop the onward march of a good idea, and so, we all now feel perfectly comfortable in what has become a traditional garment with us.
Men, of course, did not wear pants in Bible days, but they wore what we would call a robe.
They were as proud of their robes however, as the modern man is of his suits.
Joseph had a robe of many colors.
It made him the best dressed man in his big family.
It was a garment of great value and was an expression of his fathers affection.
Wealth was often determined by the number of garments a man possessed.
Samson is usually portrayed as half bare, to show his great muscles, but his goal was to become the best dressed man in Israel.
In Judges 14, he made a deal with 30 men at a feast.
If they could guess his riddle, he would give them 30 linen garments and 30 festal garments.
If they failed, however, they would give him the 60 outfits instead.
Samson was confident that he would start out married life with a huge wardrobe.
It turned out, he lost, and had to pay them their 60 garments.
The whole transaction reveals that clothes mean a lot to men, just as they do to women.
Clothes mean a lot to God as well.
Numerous are the references to the holy garments that God ordained for the priests to wear, and to the beautiful jeweled garb of the high priest.
Several references are even made to the garments of God.
We read in Psalm 93:1, "The Lord reigns; He is robed in majesty; the Lord is robed, He is girded with strength."
In Psalm 104:1-2 we read, "O Lord, my God, Thou art very great!
Thou are clothed with honor and majesty, who coverest Thyself with light as with a garment."
Looking at God's wardrobe is like looking into the sun.
Don't you wonder what kind of clothes we will wear in the presence of God?
If He demanded holy garments on those who served Him here on earth, what will he demand when we are before Him in heaven?
The book of Revelation answers this question for us, not just to satisfy our curiosity, but because clothing has such important symbolic meaning.
John makes it clear, that there is no going back to Eden's innocent nudity, but a moving ahead to cosmic clothing and divine dress.
The future fashion will be garments of glory.
Jesus modeled this garment briefly when He walked the earth, His daily garments were, doubtless, of fine quality, and He had a special robe of unique value.
The soldiers at the cross gambled to possess His robe rather than throw it away.
Even His daily attire had to be attractive, to convince the seriously sick woman that a touch of the hem of it, could heal her.
His earthly clothes were of fine quality, but they were still earthly clothes.
Only briefly did He model the garments of glory.
This He did on the Mt. of Transfiguration.
We read in Mark 9:3, "...his garments became glistening, intensely white, as no fuller on earth could bleach them."
White was the common color, and so a lot of bleach was used in that day, but no bleach could create the whiteness the disciples saw that day.
You favorite detergent could not match the whiteness produced here, for it was not due to any miracle product, but to a literal miracle.
Christ was suddenly clothed with the garment He will wear in glory.
Mark 17:3 says, "His garments became white as light."
Only one other time did the disciples ever see clothing so white, and that was when they saw visitors from heaven.
In other words, angels also wear these bright white garments of glory.
In Matt.
28:3, the angel at the tomb is described like this-"his raiment was white as snow."
If white is the color that always describes the garments of heaven, then we could guess that white is what we will wear also.
There is no need for guessing, however, for Scripture makes it clear, white will be the color of our garments of glory.
This fact has much meaning, or otherwise, it is hard to understand why the book of Revelation stresses it over and over.
I counted 17 uses of the word white in this book.
Jesus promises, that those who conquer, will walk with Him in white.
In our text, twice the vast multitudes of heaven are described as being clothed in white robes.
If we are to live by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God, white is to be a part of our spiritual menu.
The white garments are a way of saying, we will be partakers of the divine nature, and will share in the very glory of God.
There are many things in nature more beautiful than man.
Jesus said even Solomon in all his glory could not match the beauty of the lilies.
Isaac Watts lamented the fact, that man cannot make any clothes to match the beauty that God has given to lower creatures.
He wrote,
The Tulip and the butterfly
Appear in gayer coats than I.
Let me be dressed as fine I will,
Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.
This will no longer be true, however, when we get our garments of glory.
We will then possess the beauty of the Creator of all beauty.
Let's focus on these garments of glory and consider the reasons for their whiteness.
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