Make Sure that Your Clothes is not Burned

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Rev 16:15 “Behold, I am coming like a thief. Blessed is the one who stays awake and keeps his clothes, so that he will not walk about naked and men will not see his shame.”

This is a warning from the Lord that we should be found clothed when He returns. In the context, this likely applies to the Rapture but is still applicable to believers today. The Jewish background to this verse is very interesting. John Gill writes:

“The allusion is to the burning of the garments of those priests who were found asleep when upon their watch in the temple: the account that is given is this;

The governor of the temple goes round all the wards (every night) with burning torches before him; and in every ward where the person does not stand upon his feet, the man of the mountain of the house says to him, peace be to thee; if he finds he is asleep, he strikes him with his staff, and he has power to burn his clothes; and they say (in Jerusalem) what voice is that in the court? (it is answered) the voice of a Levite beaten, and his clothes burnt, because he slept in the time of his watch; R. Eliezer ben Jacob says, once they found my mother’s brother asleep, and they burnt his clothes.”

Make sure that your clothes is not burned when the Lord returns!