TUXEDO SHOP: THE WEDDING GARMENT — Dream, Revelation, Teaching

From June 1, 2013

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The Dream

I was with Miguel, (a friend of mine from a previous job). We were in the neighborhood where I grew up in Jersey City looking for a tuxedo shop. We went to the shop, not sure where. It wasn't obvious from the street. There was no sign or storefront. It was incognito. A gentleman greeted us and helped us.

I asked for the color peach, and he said he had a million shades, so I said not too light and not too orangy. We went over to a rack of clothing and he pulled out a tux and led Miguel to a fitting room. There was a lady and another person (man and he had a measuring tape) in the fitting room. Miguel sat down to try on. He wasn't wearing pants, but he wasn't exposed. I kept thinking gray/charcoal pants would go well with a peach cummerbund.

Symbols and Observations

Miguel (Michael) H4317 = Who is like God, god-like, mighty one, one of the seven archangels who interceded for the people of Israel before God.

Michael is found in Daniel 12

Daniel (H1840: Daniye'l) = God is my judge, i.e., who delivers judgment in the name of God.

12 = GOVERNMENT, rule, reign, kingdom

Daniel 12 is the last chapter in the book and it has 13 verses

13 = REBELLION

It is evident that the kingdom of God will come forth during a time of great rebellion, and many will rebel against God's government in and over their lives.

Miguel: Is it Michael, the archangel whom God is referring to or is it His bride? One who is like God; us, His children, made in His image according to His likeness, being measured, inspected, fitted. The wedding garment.

Tuxedo shop: Sells wedding garments. I was first taken aback and thought because it was a tuxedo shop, that the dream expressed clothing for the groom/bridegroom. Not so. In a very ingenious way, the Father is speaking about the wedding garment for the bride.

The tuxedo shop was not obvious, it was sort of out of nowhere, incognito; just as the kingdom comes without observation.

Luke 17:20-21

20And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:

21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.

Measuring tape: (self explanatory) being fitted, sized up. Measuring the temple... and we are that temple.

I still believe that Daniel 12 gives us some nuggets to glean from. I'm going to list verses 1-3, but I suggest reading the entire chapter.

Daniel 12:1

1 And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.

At what time? Time of God's government, the coming of the kingdom?

stand up: (H5975: amad) to stand, remain, endure, take one's stand; to stand by any one, to defend him

prince: (H8269: sar) prince, ruler, leader, chief, chieftain, official, captain. Commander, esp. of soldiers, the princes of angels, i.e., the archangels interceding with God for particular nations.

time: (H6256: eth) time (of an event), the time of the end.

trouble (H6869: tsarah) straits, distress, trouble, vexer, rival, wife

LEX: a female adversary, enemy, esp. a rival; distress

delivered: (H4422: malat) to slip away, escape, deliver, save, be delivered, to be smooth, to make smooth.

written in the book

book: (H5612: cepher) missive, document, writing, book, the Book of Life

Book of Life — book: G976 and life: G222

(G976: biblos) a written book, a roll, a scroll | (G222: zoe) the state of one who is possessed of vitality or is animate, the vital spirit, the breath of life of the life of persons raised from the dead.

NOTE: trouble — female adversary is interesting.

The first time I heard God speak my name, clearly, He woke me out of my sleep. He showed me Michael and He said Jezebel. Is this that female adversary?

I'd like to expound just for a moment. Jezebel is not some loose woman wearing a red dress and red lipstick, but she is a harlot. In the bible in 1 Kings 19, she was an actual character, one who joined herself to a weak king, Ahab, who allowed himself to be seduced, and gave over his power and his throne to Jezebel and led God's people into harlotry, spiritual adultery all under the guise of Ba'al worship.

That spirit is alive today in the world and has now infiltrated the church. Jezebel functions in the soul. Operates out of the flesh. Lust of the eyes, lust of the flesh, pride of life is the breeding ground for this spirit. The danger of how it has infiltrated the church is that it is done under the cloak of religion, but at best it is an outward form of godliness 2Timothy 3:1-6, and once again, spiritual Israel has taken off their bridal garment and put on the raiment of the harlot.

I truly believe that a significant part of this end time battle that is brewing is between the bride and the harlot church.

A Time of Separation and Resurrection

Daniel 12:2-3

2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

3 And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.

NOTE: The wise I attribute to the wise virgins who had oil in their lamps (see Matthew 25).

The Tuxedo — Wedding Garment

In the dream, I asked specifically for the color peach. Peach: includes attributes of red, yellow and white.

Peach also symbolizes the breath of God's mercy and the breath of God's GRACE KISS. Peach is God breathing forth the mind of Christ. Peach is sweetness like a ripe fruitfullness off the tree.

Source: Collection of Prophetic Meanings of Colors by Carol Nemitz

Let's examine each color that make up the color peach:

Peach = Red + Yellow + White

Red: the blood that Jesus shed for our forgiveness, healing, deliverance, and salvation. It is the fire of the Holy Spirit that cleanses us and sanctifies us from clay to vessels of honor. The fire of His red blood makes us vessels that are able to carry whatever He pours into us. It makes us trustworthy. It removes sin, blemished, chaff, sickness, unforgiveness, lies, deceptions, shame and evil powers, and flushes them out to replace them with His provisions from heaven instead; in summary, red symbolizes REDEMPTION.

Yellow: the Holy oil of GRACE that fills the lampstand in the temple. This oil is replaced fresh every morning and every night. The anointing. This yellow dew like oil rains grace drops from heaven into our eyes and we are able to see in the Spirit the things of God's kingdom. This is the eye salve in Rev. 3 that needed to be bought as well as white garments; in summary, yellow symbolizes the ANOINTING (ED).

White: the color of God's lightning power creating RESURRECTION. Any color that includes white to lighten it, includes the attributes of this holy color. White stands for AWAKENING. White is the color of His holiness, purity, righteousness, sanctification, virginity, hosts of heaven, His wings, breath of betrothal priesthood; in summary, white symbolizes RESURRECTION and PURITY

Redeemed, Anointed, Resurrected: The Bride | Priesthood

From my notes, I made mention of the wedding feast, so let's refer to that portion of scripture. It tells of one who was not wearing the proper wedding garment and was cast into outer darkness.

The Wedding Feast

Matthew 22:11-13

11 And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment:

12 And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless.

13 Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness, there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

wedding garment

wedding (G1062: gamos) a wedding or marriage festival, a wedding banquet, a wedding feast, marriage, matrimony.

garment (G1742: endyme) garment, raiment, cloak, and outer garment, sheep's clothing, the skins of sheep

From the parable of the wedding feast, it is obvious that an appropriate garment, raiment, apparel is mandated for entrance into the kingdom.

Strange Apparel

Zephaniah 1 speaks of strange apparel:

Zephaniah 1:7-8

7 Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord God: for the day of the Lord is at hand: for the Lord hath prepared a sacrifice, he hath bid his guests.

8 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.

strange apparel:

strange (H5237: nokriy) foreign, alien, foreign woman, harlot, of another country or family, a strange woman, and adulteress; metaph. new, unheard of.

apparel: (H4403: malbuwsh) a garment; from (H3847: labash) to dress, wear, clothe, put on clothing, be clothed.

The strange apparel is the garment of the harlot. In Matthew 22:11-13, the man who did not have on the wedding garment was not allowed into the kingdom. He could not partake because His garment was not “peachy” so to speak.

Let's take a look at what stains on our garment will deny us entrance into the kingdom?

Galatians 5:19-21

19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

1 Corinthians 6:9-10

9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

Revelation 22:14-15

14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.

15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.

Here in Revelation 22, we see that they who do the Lord's commandments are blessed and enter into the city. They that do the Lord's commandments are His bride, His holy priesthood, so this segues the next section of this study:

What kind of garment does the bride wear?

Ephesians 5:27

That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

glorious (G1741: endoxos) held in good or in great esteem, of high repute, illustrious, honorable, splendid, of clothing; free from sins.

spot (G4696: spilos) a spot, fault, moral blemish

wrinkle (G4512: rhytis) a wrinkle, to draw together, contract

holy (G40: hagios) most holy thing, a saint, venerate, revere, sacred, set apart

blemish (G299: amomos) without blemish, free from faultiness, as a victim, without spot or blemish, unblamable, faultless

Gray Pants

I had to change direction a bit to address the pants. The closest I found to pants were breeches (britches), a part of the priestly attire. I'm going to speak to what I found out about breeches here, but plan to continue the study of the priest's garments in a subsequent study.

We also know that the Lord said that He would have a kingdom of priests and kings. Exodus 19:5-6. Because the Bride is His holy priesthood, I know this is relevant. Let's see how.

breeches (H4370: miknac) underwear, drawers, trousers, a priestly undergarment of linen. Breeches of the Hebrew priests, so called from their hiding and concealing their nakedness.

Exodus 28:42 And thou shalt make them linen breeches to cover their nakedness; from the loins even unto the thighs they shall reach:

So, the breeches were linen and the purpose was to cover their nakedness, from the loins even unto the thighs. Now this sounds to me like loin cloth.

They were made of linen:

linen (H906: bad) linen, white linen, a thread, thread, yarn, fine white linen, linen garments. In the bible, we know that linen is used as an emblem of moral purity; as a symbol of purity, righteousness and holiness, truth.

Loin cloth in the bible is a part of our spiritual armor (Ephesians 6) that relates to truth, the word of truth, the word of God. It is truth that will keep us from being ashamed (nakedness uncovered). In 2 Timothy 2:15, we are instructed to study and shew ourselves approved, a workman unashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. It is walking in the truth that covers us.

In the dream, Miguel wasn't wearing any pants, but he was still covered. He had on underwear. His loins were girded.

Ephesians 6:14

Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;

Interestingly, the breeches, pants, the tuxedo bottoms, are a part of our garment, which is our spiritual armor. We are instructed to be girt about with truth, and the area of the loins is where reproduction takes place.

Indulge me with a little birds and the bees lesson from a spiritual perspective.

In the bible, the male is the spirit and the female is the soul. You need both male and female to reproduce, even in the natural. Adam, before sin and rebellion, the whole Adam, was male and female, one — the whole Adam, in other words, Adam was whole, one, at one in and with God.

Genesis 5: 2

Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.

The spirit (male) gential area is where semen, seed is produced. The female (soul) is the womb. It is the place of birthing. When our loins are girt with truth, truth can only reproduce truth. We then produce after it's own kind.

In the case of the fall of Adam, Eve ate from the tree, the soul was seduced and fed it to the spirit.

Genesis 3:6

And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

As a result, their offspring was of mixed seed (Cain and Abel).

Now with truth as the breeches, pants, loin cloth, that which is in the image of God, no longer of the mixed seed, but pure, holy, righteous, as God intended in the beginning.

Too many times has God said to me, “As it was in the beginning, so shall it be in the end.”

Now I understand why it was Miguel, and why a male. We were created in the image of God, as spirit beings. The spirit is the male, and one who is like God is spirit, for God is spirit and they that worship Him, worship Him in spirit and in truth. John 4:24

Covering one's nakedness, also takes me to Rev. 3 and the command to the lukewarm church, the Laodicean church, which sadly, makes up a large percentage of the current day church.

As stated in the post I shared from my sister yesterday, “Choose this day...”, the prosperity gospel has perpetuated a lie that riches in things is the way to the kingdom, but we know what God speaks is quite contrary.

Back to the church of Laodicea:

Revelation 3:18

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.

The gold referenced here is righteousness, tried, tested, pure, the integrity of the element is tried and tested thoroughly to ensure there is no impurity. That's the riches of heaven, righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. God said, to seek ye first the kingdom of  God and His RIGHTEOUSNESS, and all else will be added, not the other way around.

We must be willing to put on the garment of the Lord Jesus Christ, which is the word. Jesus is the Word that became flesh (manifested) and dwelt among us. In His image, we too must put on the same.

While I pondered this, just this morning, the Lord said the garment is the word. As He is, so are we to become.

In the dream, the pants were gray.

The color gray symbolizes dignity, honor, humility, repentance. Ashes are often gray.

This was the last part of the dream before I awakened, and now in lieu of how this revelation unfolded, I would employ us all to examine ourselves, and desire to walk in dignity and honor and humility. Put on the Lord Jesus Christ. Examine our apparel and where we see the stains and blemishes, be diligent to repent, turn away from those things and ask God to remove us from them and remove them from us.

Do not be turned away from entrance to the kingdom. Do not die in the wilderness. Christ already sealed the deal. Now we must do our part. The great thing is that God will never ask anything of us that He has not equipped us to do.

Put on truth and let Him wrap us in the garment of light, the garment of the word that we may make it back to our first estate and fulfill our purpose in Him.

Repentance

repentance: (G3341: metanoia) a change of mind, as it appears to one who repents, of a purpose he has formed or of something he has done

NOTE: When there is a mind change, there is also a change in deed.

The message of John the Baptist, as one who cries from the wilderness, REPENT, FOR THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS AT HAND.

Here is a link to a great teaching on repentance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Co44SBbTRU

In closing, I pray the priestly blessing toward each and every one of you:

The Lord bless thee, and keep thee:

The Lord make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:

The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.