GENESIS 3:21 Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them. INTERPRETER: God did not kill any animal for man, but God made coats of skins which he used to cloth man and woman: It is not atonement for man’s sin neither is it sacrifice; rather it is purely God dealing with man according to man’s level of knowledge. 1. When man was a baby in knowledge, he and his wife walked naked and were not ashamed; but, 2. When man became wiser in knowledge, God had to provide and clothed them, and not suffer them to continue walking naked as they were in prematurity. As God clothed man and his wife in the garden, so did God also clothed his people whom he regarded as his wife and who was once naked in prematurity: As it is written, “Now when I passed by you, and looked at you, behold, your time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over you, and covered your nakedness: yes, I swore to you, and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord GOD, and you became mine.” (Ezekiel 16:8). He also used skin and other clothing material to clothe her, including jewelries (Ezekiel 16:10-14). VISION: God himself made the clothes for them, and he himself clothed them; and they were no more naked in his presence. The reason is because, unless God clothed them by himself, the clothing man and his wife had made for themselves will still not be enough to cover their naked in the sight of God. The leaves (aprons) they sewed for themselves could cover their naked from one another, but could not cover their naked before God: no human made material can truly cover man from his own nakedness before God, unless God himself made and provided the clothing himself: This is in accordance with Revelation 3:17-18. HARBINGER: ‘I was naked, and you clothed me’; and they shall answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you naked and clothed you?’ And He shall answer, ‘Whatsoever you do to the least of my brother is what you do unto me’ (Matthew 25:35-40). If a church can prophesy and pray for a man or woman who is obviously naked and hungry before them, yet they do not provide clothing and food for him or her, such faith is a dead faith (James 2:15-16).
Posted on: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 05:01:31 +0000
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