The amazing frequency in which clothing is referred to in angelic visitations
and insights into heaven and the world to come
Revelation 3:4
Yet you have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their
clothes. They will walk with me, dressed in white,
for they are
worthy.
(5)
He who overcomes will, like them, be dressed in white. I will
never blot out his name from the book of life, but will
acknowledge his name before my Father and his angels.
Revelation 3:18
I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so
that you can become rich; and white clothes to wear, so that you
can cover your shameful nakedness; and salve to put on your eyes,
so that you can see.
Revelation 4:4
Surrounding the throne were twenty-four other thrones, and
seated on them were twenty-four elders. They were dressed in
white and had crowns of gold on their heads.
Revelation 6:11
Then each of them was given a white robe, and they were told
to wait a little longer, until the number of their
fellow-servants and brothers who were to be killed as they had
been was completed.
Revelation 7:9
After this I looked and there before me was a great multitude
that no-one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and
language, standing before the throne and in front of the Lamb.
They were wearing white robes
and were holding palm branches in
their hands.
Revelation 7:13
Then one of the elders asked me, ‘These in white robes
- who
are they, and where did they come from?’
(14)
I answered, ‘Sir, you know.’ And he said, ‘These are they
who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed
their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.’
Revelation 19:13
He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood,
and his name is the
Word of God.
(14)
The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white
horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean.
Revelation 19:16
On his robe
and on his thigh he has this name written: KING
OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.
Revelation 15:6
Out of the temple came the seven angels with the seven
plagues. They were dressed in clean, shining linen and wore
golden sashes round their chests.
Revelation 16:15
‘Behold, I come like a thief! Blessed is he who stays awake
and keeps his clothes with him, so that he may not go naked and
be shamefully exposed.‘
Daniel 7:9
As I looked, ‘thrones were set in place, and the Ancient
of Days took his seat. His clothing was as white as snow;
the
hair of his head was white like wool. His throne was flaming with
fire, and its wheels were all ablaze.
Daniel 10:5
I looked up and there before me was a man dressed in linen,
with a belt of the finest gold round his waist.
(6)
His body was like chrysolite, his face like lightning, his
eyes like flaming torches, his arms and legs like the gleam of
burnished bronze, and his voice like the sound of a multitude.
(7)
I, Daniel, was the only one who saw the vision . . .
Even God himself is revealed as wearing clothes:
Isaiah 6:1
. . . I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and
exalted, and the train of his robe filled the temple.
Note even the modesty of the seraphs:
Isaiah 6:2
Above him were seraphs, each with six
wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two
they covered their feet, and with two they were flying.
Matthew 28:2
There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came
down from heaven and, going to the tomb, rolled back the stone
and sat on it.
(3)
His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white
as snow.
When Peter, James and John were granted a glimpse of the Jesus’
true glory, he still wore clothes. His clothing was simply more glorious.
Mark 9:2
After six days Jesus took Peter, James and John with him and
led them up a high mountain, where they were all alone. There he
was transfigured before them.
(3)
His clothes became dazzling white, whiter than anyone in the
world could bleach them.
Mark 16:5
As they entered the tomb, they saw a young man dressed in a
white robe sitting on the right side, and they were alarmed.
Luke 24:4
While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in
clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside them.
John 20:12
and saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus’ body had
been, one at the head and the other at the foot.
Acts 1:10
They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going,
when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them.
Acts 10:30
Cornelius answered: ‘Four days ago I was in my house
praying at this hour, at three in the afternoon. Suddenly a man
in shining clothes stood before me . . .’
Revelation 1:13
and among the lampstands was someone ‘like a son of man,’
dressed in a robe reaching down to his feet and with a golden
sash round his chest.
(14)
His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow,
and his eyes were like blazing fire.
(15)
His feet were like bronze glowing in a furnace, and his
voice was like the sound of rushing waters.
(16)
In his right hand he held seven stars, and out of his mouth
came a sharp double-edged sword. His face was like the sun
shining in all its brilliance.