The Right Clothes Make The Man

• Posted on MarpmThu, 10 Mar 2016 14:58:12 -06002016-03-10T14:58:12-06:0002 17, 2016
• in Bible, God, Hebrew, Messiah, Pekudei, Study, Torah, Yeshua
• by Hallelujah Girl

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Do the right clothes make the man? We’ve all heard the phrase, “Dress for success”.  For the most part I’m all about putting your best foot forward. How do we dress for success for The Holy One Himself?  This week’s Torah portion pekudei, we find the weavers busy creating the Priestley Garments.

And of the blue and purple and scarlet material they made woven garments, to do service in the set-apart place. And they made the set-apart garments which were for Aaron, as HaShem had commanded Moses.
Exodus 39:1

According to HaShem these garments were for glory and for splendor. The hebrew word for garments here is beged, meaning apparel.  Beged comes from the root bagad,בגד,  (pronounced baw-gad) meaning to act or deal treacherously,  treacherous.  The first this word is used in scripture is Exodus 21:8, “If she does not please her master who has selected her for himself, then he is to allow her to be redeemed. He will have no power to sell her to a foreign people, seeing as he has dealt deceitfully (bagad) toward her.” The first time the word is used as beged (garments), is when the Servant of The Holy One brings ornaments and garments to Rebekkah in Genesis 24. It took me a minute or two to make the connection here. When man sinned in The Garden The Holy One provided for them skin, or a covering for their “nakedness”. They no longer pleased Him, but He must allow them to be redeemed, bought back, or rescued. The Hebrew letters beit, gimel, dalet form both words. Consider,  the family within the tent (beit) can be lifted up or be sustained on its own, this is self will(gimel), but there is one door(dalet) that leads to the way of life.

Let’s just glance at the “garments” being fashioned for Aaron. Garments that were made with “wisdom and understanding”

1.  Specially designed jeweled breastplate. The choshen (The Breastplate of Righteousness). This was woven, complete with the Shoham stones encircled each with gold. In each stone was according to the twelve tribes.
2.  The efod, a unique apron. Hold was actually rolled out into very thin sheets and slivers were cut from the sheets. These threads were woven into the materials.
3.  A robe, sky blue in color. A picture of Heaven. With pomegranates and bells hung from the hem.
4.  A Tunic, white referencing purity, Righteousness
5.  Turban, a head covering
6.  Sash, also referred to as the belt of Truth
7.  Linen breeches, to hide your nakedness, modesty
8.  Crown made of gold, signifying royalty.

Each piece was woven into a seamless piece, except the sleeves of the robe.  Aarons garments were part of the mirror image The Holy One showed Moses. So in essence, these were a shadow of the garments of Our Great High Priest. When Aaron is clothed in these garments he is reflecting the glory and splendor of The Holy One! Whose beauty are the clothes we wear designed to reflect? Whose identity and priorities do our garments we put on testify?

He put on righteousness as a breastplate and a helmet of salvation on His head. He clothed Himself in robes of vengeance and wrapped Himself in zeal as a cloak.
  Isaiah 59:17

Stand firm then! Buckle the belt of truth around your waist, and put on the breastplate of righteousness.
  Ephesians 6:14

But since we are of the day, let us be sober-minded—putting on the breastplate of faithfulness and love, and the hope of salvation as a helmet. For God did not destine us for wrath but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Yeshua the Messiah. He died for us so that, whether we may be awake or asleep, we may live together with Him.
1 Thessalonians 5:8-10

Then Yeshua said to His disciples, “So I say to you, do not worry about life, what you will eat; nor about the body, what you will wear. For life is more than food and the body more than clothing. Consider the lilies, how they grow. They neither toil nor spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his glory was clothed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass in the field—which is here today and thrown into the furnace tomorrow—then how much more will He clothe you, O you of little faith?
  Luke 12:22-23, 27-28

Sometimes the Right clothes do make the man!

May everything we do be as The Holy One instructed Moses!
Shalom, Happy day,
Hallelujah Girl 💗

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