From head on downward

Proverbs 7 refers to a “woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart” who is “loud and stubborn.”

Jordan says, “We read in Timothy that the godly woman is to learn in silence with all subjection and this is the opposite of that. Verse 13 says, ‘So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him.’ That’s the opposite of the ‘shamefacedness’ you read about in I Timothy 2:9.

“When it talks about the ‘attire of an harlot,’ it’s talking about this issue of nakedness--how much of your body should be shown and how much of it should be uncovered.

 “Clothing is an extremely important thing in the Bible. It’s designed to accomplish a purpose.

“Psalm 104 says, ‘Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honour and majesty.
[2] Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain.’

“God is omnipresent but He can choose to manifest His presence in one geographical location and when He does that, He clothes himself. He puts on a display of His character in honor and majesty.

“The purpose of the garment is to be a covering and God covers himself with a garment of light. In Genesis 2, when God created man, He did a similar thing.

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“I Corinthians 11 says, ‘But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.
[4] Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonoureth his head.
[5] But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven.
[6] For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.
[7] For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.

“We’ll see this passage again in I Timothy 2:11-12 so it’s important to see the connections in all this.

“The woman is to have her head covered and that doesn’t mean having a hat on in church. You go out into these religious communities and you see they’ve got these little white bonnets on. That’s not what a head covering is. It’s not some little symbolic thing.

“In the passage, the covering is not a cap or a hat. It has to do with her hair. Shorn means to shave. What do you shave? Your hair. If she doesn’t have her head covered she’s like somebody who’s got her hair all cut off.

“Verses 14-15 says, ‘Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him? [15] But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering.’

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“Every animal God created He gave them their own garment. They have some kind of covering involved in them—hair and fur and that kind of stuff.

“Adam and Eve, though, ‘were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed’ (Gen. 2:25). They didn’t have a natural ingrown covering.

“Notice that after they’ve eaten the forbidden fruit, though, they realized they didn’t have a covering. Adam says in Genesis 3: 10, ‘I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.’

“They didn’t have a covering because they had sinned, which would tell you that before they sinned they had a covering and yet their body didn’t have a natural covering.

“What that worked out to be is God placed on man a covering that matched His covering and they literally were clothed in a garment of light.

“Genesis 1:27 says, ‘So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.’

“What did that thing in Psalms say about the appearance of God? He clothed Himself with a garment of light, and when He made man, He didn’t give man a covering of his own; He gave man HIS covering.

“In Ezekiel 1 is a fascinating thing about this garment that he gave to man for a covering. Ezekiel sees the throne of God and reports in verse 27, ‘And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about.’

“When Ezekiel sees the throne of God and the glory of God--that light that shines out of God--he says it has the ‘appearance of a bow in the day of rain.’ We call that a rainbow.

“When you see a rainbow, what do you see? You see the seven colors that make up the light spectrum. It’s light shining through water particles that refracts the light and breaks it up into its colors.

“Literally, when he saw the Lord, he saw the Lord dressed in a garment of many colors. You remember Jacob gave Joseph the ‘coat of many colors.’ What did it do? It showed him to be the beloved of his father, the apple of his eye; the especially loved son, talking about Joseph.

“Adam and Eve were to be the Lord’s regents in the earth so He gave them the same clothing as Him.

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Just as Adam and Eve wore no garments before they “fell,” but were clothed in light, Lucifer was covered with “every precious stone”—sardius, topaz, diamond, beryl, onyx, jasper, sapphire, emerald, carbuncle and gold.

“This guy was the original jewel collector,” says Jordan. “Those stones had to do with that issue of light and prisms and multi-colored facets; he was a light-bearer.”

(Editor’s note: Sorry this is kind of disjointed. Having a very hard time typing after I sliced open the tip of my left hand’s index finger using an Oxo Good Grips vegetable peeler—a Christmas present from me to my mom several years back. My mom thought she would have to take me to have stitches the cut looked so bad. All for some steamed carrots. Article to be continued . . . )