Do you know that old Israel's physical exodus from Egypt and their forty year trek in the wilderness was a shadow of our individual spiritual walk with God as well as the combined spiritual walk of the family of God? To properly see and understand this however, we must try to look through the eyes of our spirit.

God heard old Israel crying out for salvation, so He led them from Egypt for a much better land. They had to make a long walk through the wilderness to get there however. We leave the world for a much greater land also, the Kingdom of God. They went through the Red Sea, red being symbolic of Adam and the sea symbolic of humanity. We experience the red sea by resurrecting from our death at baptism. In other words we leave our life in the world (Egypt) to be born again, a new creature, no longer connected to Adam and his race (the red sea).

As newborns we are dressed in our first spiritual garments (swaddling clothes).

Side Note: If we are born again from within Sion (the spiritual mountain of God), the swaddling clothes are to make us secure and bind us to God. However, if we are rescued and born again from the world, our previous swaddling clothes that we received at our physical birth must be removed in the deliverance ministry of Isaiah 61 before we can have our new ones. Rather than being a swaddling cloth, they are more like grave clothes that bind us to Satan. As in the parable of Lazarus, we must be set free of these clothes to enable us to make our walk.

As a little side note: the cloth, if you look in the Strongs Concordance, that was on Lazarus' face was a "sweat cloth". If not removed it symbolized his toil and work would be for this world and its master. Remember, when Jesus was resurrected, the cloth was neatly folded and "set apart" from the other grave clothes in the tomb, signifying His work would be for God's Kingdom only.

As new creatures we must feed only on the tree of Life (Jesus) and our navel cord to Adam must forever remain severed. We cannot return to the tree of good and evil (Satan, his world or people). If the blood of Adam is washed off in the water of separation and purification that we studied about earlier, and we are baptized or have experienced the red sea, the eye of God will always be watching over us as we wander through this world (wilderness). He will spread His protective wing over us to cover our spiritual nakedness until we are old enough and mature enough to want to be properly dressed. Like any newborn we are naked "but not ashamed". We have to mature in the things of God enough to even know we need to be further clothed. Apostle Paul was one who saw the need for these clothes.

At Deuteronomy 29: 5 we see again a prototype in old Israel of the newborn being covered by God. This was after she was baptized in the Red Sea.

He covered and preserved her physical clothes, so she would manifest a picture for us in the natural of what we will one day have happen in the supernatural. We will finally have spiritual clothes that won't wear out. We will then be immortal!

We put on immortality when we put on Christ. We have His blood when we are born again, and life is in the blood. Life swallows death as light dispels darkness. This is a fact "positionally", but "experientially" immortality will not be for us until we are fully clothed. Here is why. As we mentioned earlier, when we are spiritually naked, even as God's Bride we are as vulnerable to the fallen angels (the demons and Satan) as were the women in Genesis six before the flood. Remember, God was so angry over this very situation that He destroyed all of wicked mankind along with the whole earth, sparing only Noah who was righteous.

In other words, Noah had on his robes of righteousness, and he in turn was the covering for his family. Combined there were only eight people in all. This number eight in itself by the way is symbolic. It foreshadows the eighth day children that will be spared in the next judgment day because they too are made righteous through being born again, separate from the cursed race and therefore covered by Christ. Peter speaks of Noah and this time in history in 1 Peter 3: 20-21.

In other words, when we are baptized into Christ, He becomes our Father, far greater than Noah, and our covering. We are protected through Him from the wrath of God at the end of this age.

Side Note: Jesus like us, was born through a human mother that was of the Adamic bloodline. Jesus also had to be born again because His body, like ours, was corruptible. It carried defects from the sin of Adam and would one day die, even though His spirit and soul were immortal. In other words, He had to be born again so His body could be spiritually clothed and He could gain the victory over the enemy. An Adamic body cannot be clothed in spiritual clothes. Remember the skins God put on Adam and Eve? Even though Jesus allowed Himself to be killed in order to pay our death penalty, death itself could not hold Him captive. His body was spiritually fully clothed, incorruptible and therefore immortal.

He had to endure temptation and affliction just like us however to acquire His spiritual clothes. This meant He was faced with situations where He could have been prideful and yet He remained humble and gained the victory over pride to be dressed in humility. He had to be depressed at some point and unhappy, to be covered in the garment of praise, etc. The word tells us He was tempted in all things just as we are.

The best part of His victory over sin and temptation however was His resurrection. He actually defeated death. Look what this victory did for us!

Jesus gave us the chance to be born over again and shaped, molded and dressed spiritually to become like Him, immortal.

Now maybe we can understand how vital it is to be separate from Adam and born through God at baptism to be given a body that can wear spiritual clothes and become immortal.

Here is something for those of us that are born again to think about. The outside of a person reflects what they are on the inside. Remember the scripture we opened with?

We must ask ourselves, in the natural, do our actions, speech, decisions, and yes, even our clothing, reflect a soulish person or a person guided by their spirit? For instance, are our actions self-centered, all about what we want, or do we look out for the needs of others? Is our speech coarse? Are off-colored jokes funny to us? Do we hurt others' feelings just because we are angry? These are all soulish reactions to life's situations, and the language of our soul man.

When we make decisions, do we consider what the Lord would have us do? Do we check that our decisions are in line with the truth found in the Word? Our spirit humbly would seek direction from God, our soul intellectually would not.

I leave us with this thought, when people look at our apparel or clothing, what is reflected? Girls, do we wear tight, revealing clothes that will attract the lust and perversion of others that are guided by their soul man also? Guys, do we like to be in style with the world's trends that have Satan as the trend setter? Are we into clothes and jewelry that highlight our flesh, and make appealing, or do we dress in such a way that people will see our inner spiritual clothing of righteousness, humility and regal, quiet dignity?