Questions And Answers


                                        

Walk In White

 

How were Adam and Eve clothed?

 

With a garment of light.

 

Comment-  At the first advent of Christ, Satan had brought man down from his original exalted purity and had dimmed that golden character with sin. The man whom God had created a sovereign in Eden, he had transformed into a slave in the earth groaning under the curse of sin. The halo of glory, which God had given holy Adam to cover him as a garment, departed from him after his transgression. The light of God's glory could not cover disobedience and sin. In the place of health and plenitude of blessings, poverty, sickness, and suffering of every type were to be the portion of the children of Adam.

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It was similar to what God said he is clothed with in Psalms  104:1,2  

 

            Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honour and majesty. 

       Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain: 

 

After they sinned with what did God clothe Adam and Eve?

 

      “Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.”

Genesis 3:21

 

What was the instructions given by God to the Israelites about their garments?

 

      “And the LORD said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes.”

Exodus 19:10

 

What was the special sign that they were God’s children?

 

      “Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue: 

       And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring: 

       That ye may remember, and do all my commandments, and be holy unto your God. 

     I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the LORD your God.”

Numbers 15:38-41

 

What distinction was to be made prominent between male and female?

 

      “The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.”

Deuteronomy 22:5

 

Comment- It is not modest apparel, and is not at all fitting for modest, humble females who profess to be Christ's followers. God's prohibitions are lightly regarded by all who would advocate the doing away of the distinction of dress between males and females…. 

     God designed there should be a plain distinction between male and female dress, and has considered the matter of sufficient importance to give explicit directions in regard to it; for the same dress worn by both sexes would cause confusion, and great increase of crime. St. Paul would utter a rebuke, were he alive, and should behold females professing Godliness with this style of dress.

 

What were the words written by Paul from the Lord?

 

     “In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array.”

1 Timothy 2:9

 

What additional emphasis did Peter put on the way a Christian appears?

 

      “Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; 

      But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.”

1 Peter 3:3,4 

 

What were some of the people wearing that eventually was a part of the cause of their destruction?

 

      “What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts. 

      Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet: 

       Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts. 

     In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon, 

      The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers, 

       The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings, 

       The rings, and nose jewels, 

       The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins, 

      The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the veils. 

       And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty. 

       Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war. 

Isaiah 3:15-25

      “And when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; thy lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life.”

Jeremiah 4:30 

 

What other person was an example to lead the people from the simplicity of truth?

 

     “And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window.” 

2 Kings 9:30

 

What garments were John the Baptist clothed with?

 

     “In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea, 

      And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. 

     For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. 

      And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey.”

Matthew 3:1-4 

 

What is God’s description of Laodicea?

 

     “I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. 

     So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. 

      Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: 

     I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. 

     As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.”

Revelation 3:15-19

 

What will God do to those in strange apparel?

 

     “And it shall come to pass in the day of the LORD'S sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, and the king's children, and all such as are clothed with strange apparel.”

Zephaniah 1:8

 

How important is it for the professed Christian to follow every ray of light from God?

 

      “And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.”

Acts 5:32

 

What will God do for those who do not defile their garments?

 

 

        “Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy.

 

To the overcomer, what is the promise?

 

     He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.”

Revelation 3:4,5