Clothed

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Genesis 3:21 "The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.

God clothed Adam and Eve because He still loved them. God is also MERCIFUL and GRACIOUS to repentant sinners. God changed Adam and Eve's leaf coverings with a better garment. However, because God made their garments out of animal skin, Adam and Eve must have seen for the first time the gruesome image of death when God put to death the innocent animals from whom God has taken their garments because of their sin. Had they not sinned, death would not have come to any life, even to their own.

Did Adam and Eve do something good to merit better garments? No! The skin garment was not merited by man's good work, for it was after they did evil towards God that God clothed them. The garment was an unmerited gift because God had mercy on them and He was not willing that man should perish. Even if they did not deserve it, God clothed them.

God's action revealed that He still loved Adam and Eve though He hated their sin. When God clothed them, God (the offended) was reconciling man (the offender) back to himself. He was not willing that man should perish.

Didn't God also promise to send a SAVIOR (seed of the woman) who will crush Satan? God's promise revealed that He will save Adam and Eve and their coming offspring from Satan, sin and death when His promised SAVIOR comes. This means that they cannot in any way save themselves because God promised a Savior.

Any thought?

Hari