Clothed with a Garment down to His Feet
In John’s description of the Son of Man in Revelation Chapter 1, John declared that Jesus had on a garment down to the foot. We should pay particular attention to every detail of John’s encounter of the Lord Jesus Christ? I believe if we look closely, the High Priest shall come into view. Just as we have seen in His feet of brass, the garment down to the foot is speaking from the Old Covenant Temple worship. The priesthood and high priest of the Old Covenant wore specific garments for Ministry. It is no coincidence that our High Priest should be clothed as well, but with a greater garment than them.
In Genesis 3, we read of Adam’s fall. After the fall, God clothes Adam and Eve with garments of flesh. I believe there is at a minimum a two-fold understanding coming from these garments. First and foremost, the garments were a foreshadowing of the clothing of the offering of our Lord Jesus Christ. We must be clothed upon with His offering to come into the presence of the Almighty. However, viewing what happened to Adam in this encounter, after his clothing of flesh, he was banished from the garden of Eden. He could not enter back in. From Adam to Jesus, man could not enter into the presence of God.
Through Moses, God gave the law and set forth a requirement for a continual sacrifice that could never take away sin. What does that mean, never take away sin? Does that mean, man will never commit sins or bad acts? This is something to delve into and consider before our God and Father. What I want to suggest to you is that these sacrifices could never take away a conscious or awareness of sins. Day after day, offerings were made. Year after year the Day of Atonement came and went. Still there remained for those who came a conscious of sins, and an inability to enter into the presence of the Almighty who was in their midst, but still hid from their view.
What we have come to in the New Covenant, and the clothing Christ is clothed in is MUCH BETTER. It far EXCEEDS the offerings of the Old. His sacrifice takes away from our hearts and minds the conscious of sins. “Thy sins and iniquities will I remember no more.” They have been cast upon Jesus and are ever forgiven. Now rather than having a conscious of the Law of Moses that can never take away sin we need to come to a consciousness or awareness of Christ and be clothed upon with Him.
Wow, CLOTHED IN CHRIST JESUS! This is an awareness of His work. This is a consciousness of Him. He took us from sin in Adam which produced death and brought us into Life in Himself. We are raised from the dead (Adamic man), and brought into the spiritual man. This is an internal comprehension of His work. Notice this. He brought us from the awareness of Adam and the sin that led to death to the awareness of Christ and the obedience that leads to life. Believe me, this is a better Covenant. This is a BETTER COVERING, covered in Him!
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