The Revelation Series - The Son of Man in Glory - Girt about the Paps with a Golden Girdle

The Revelation Series – The Son of Man in the Seven Golden Candlesticks, Girt about the Paps with a Golden Girdle

 

Have you ever noticed the detail in scripture?  When you read through the Books of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy vivid detail is given to the instructions of the building of the Tabernacle, the Priests Garments, the Feast Days, the Trumpets, etc.  Why such detail?  Remember, Jesus said the scripture spoke of Him.  He is the fulfillment of the details.

 

Order, fullness, perfection had to be set forth in the type as a testimony of the reality.  From Genesis to Malachi the testimony of Jesus Christ is set forth.  We search the scripture to find its fullness or completion in Him.  When Jesus is seen in the Seven Golden Candlesticks with the description that is set forth of John, we should have a heart and mind to search the scriptures to see what is being declared through His eyes being  flames of fire and His feet being as burning brass.  Our hearts should burn to see it in the scripture, and to find the reality of what is said in our own being in Christ Jesus.

 

In the description of Christ in Revelation Chapter 1 He is clothed with a garment down to the foot and He is girt about the Paps with a golden girdle.  Why is the girdle golden?  Why is it around His chest and not around His waist?  These are questions we should ask ourselves, and the Father in the seeing of Christ.  Why?

 

Gold in the scripture is speaking of divine nature of God.  The ark of the covenant was covered inside and out with pure gold.  Here was where the presence of God dwelled and appeared in the midst of the Israelites.  God would appear above the ark.  The gold in scripture is speaking of the purity of His nature.  His nature has no shadow of turning from what God is.  He does not change like man.

 

The golden girdle speaks of Christ’s garment of righteousness being held up or together by His own divine nature.  He that knew no sin became sin for us (2 Corinthians 5:21).  He was in the world but not of the world.  He was not of the nature of man, but in nature was God.  As a spotless lamb He died for us and died to the world.  He is our separation from the world.  He is how we are sanctified or separated from the world.  As we comprehend in our hearts, His death, we comprehend our own sanctification and separation from the world.

 

The picture of the sinless spotless lamb is seen in the High Priest’s atonement for Israel.  One time a year, the Priest would disrobe of his High Priest glorious garments, which are described in Exodus 28, and put on the simple white linen garment for the day of atonement (Leviticus 16:3).  To me this speaks of Jesus, who was in the form of God, emptying Himself and taking upon Him the form of a servant to die the death of the cross (Philippians 2).  Christ, being God, lowered himself, and as a spotless lamb offered Himself for all.  He offered ONE cleansing sacrifice that could perfect forever those who come to God by Him.    

 

This linen white robe speaks of the spotless lamb of God that was offered for our salvation.  The girding around His chest of the golden girdle, is speaking of Christs own deity.  When the devil came to Jesus he could find nothing in Him to tempt him.  The nature of Christ was and is divine.  His clothing of righteousness was held in place through the nature of God.  Glory to God.