" Thou hast a few names even in Sardis who did not defile their garments, and they shall walk with me in white, because they are worthy. He who is overcoming -- this one -- shall be arrayed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the scroll of the life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before His messengers. He who is having an ear -- let him hear what the Spirit saith to the assemblies. " Revelation 3:4-6 YLT
“White garments” (or robes) are mentioned seven times in the book of Revelation. The Laodiceans are counseled to buy white raiment to hide the shame of their nakedness:
"So -- because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I am about to vomit thee out of my mouth; because thou sayest -- I am rich, and have grown rich, and have need of nothing, and hast not known that thou art the wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked, I counsel thee to buy from me gold fired by fire, that thou mayest be rich, and white garments that thou mayest be arrayed, and the shame of thy nakedness may not be manifest, and with eye-salve anoint thine eyes, that thou mayest see. 'As many as I love, I do convict and chasten; be zealous, then, and reform; lo, I have stood at the door, and I knock; if any one may hear my voice, and may open the door, I will come in unto him, and will sup with him, and he with me." Revelation 3:16-20 YLT
Christians grown to mature stature to find the gold of His divine nature filling their inner being and they are taught how to be crucified with Christ. They belong to Jesus! It’s not just head knowledge for them, they have been redeemed from other distracting kinships, all other languages(ways of saying things), out of every mindset set including national group thinking. Christian overcomers identify Christ WITHIN THEIR INNNER BEING. They have grown by following the instructions they learned while waiting on the Lord. They gain vindication with Him in great light. They are even now true partakers of divine wisdom who are giving truth to believers, witness of what the Spirit of the Lord Jesus Has said to us:
" And when he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those slain because of the word of God, and because of the testimony that they held, and they were crying with a great voice, saying, 'Till when, O Master, the Holy and the True, dost Thou not judge and take vengeance of our blood from those dwelling upon the land?' and there was given to each one white robes, and it was said to them that they may rest themselves yet a little time, till may be fulfilled also their fellow-servants and their brethren, who are about to be killed -- even as they.” Revelation 6:9-11
This heavenly language describes New Jerusalem heavens as being people that are now clothed with spiritual white robes, an enlightened spirit in men and women who are enthroned with God’s celestial substance. This is God’s governmental order that has already been clad in white garments, as a vast host, those who are clothed with white have come out of every people and nation:
"And around the throne are thrones twenty and four, and upon the thrones I saw the twenty and four elders sitting, clothed in white garments, and they had upon their heads crowns of gold; and out of the throne proceed do lightnings, and thunders, and voices; and seven lamps of fire are burning before the throne, which are the Seven Spirits of God, and before the throne is a sea of glass like to crystal, and in the midst of the throne, and round the throne, are four living creatures, full of eyes before and behind; and the first living creature is like a lion, and the second living creature is like a calf, and the third living creature hath the face as a man, and the fourth living creature is like an eagle flying. And the four living creatures, each by itself severally, had six wings, around and within are full of eyes, and rest they have not day and night, saying, 'Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, who was, and who is, and who is coming;” Revelation 4:4-8 YLT
" After these things I saw, and lo, a great multitude, which to number no one was able, out of all nations, and tribes, and peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne, and before the Lamb, arrayed in white robes, and palms in their hands, and crying with a great voice, saying, 'The salvation is to Him who is sitting upon the throne -- to our God, and to the Lamb!' And all the messengers stood around the throne, and the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell upon their face, and bowed before God, saying, 'Amen! the blessing, and the glory, and the wisdom, and the thanksgiving, and the honor, and the power, and the strength, are to our God -- to the ages of the ages! Amen!' And answer did one of the elders, saying to me, 'These, who have been arrayed with the white robes -- who are they, and whence came they?' and I have said to him, 'Sir, thou hast known;' and he said to me, 'These are those who are coming out of the great tribulation, and they did wash their robes, and they made their robes white in the blood of the Lamb; because of this are they before the throne of God, and they do service to Him day and night in His sanctuary, and He who is sitting upon the throne shall tabernacle over (in) them; they shall not hunger any more, nor may the sun fall upon them, nor any heat, because the Lamb that is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters, and wipe away shall God every tear from their eyes.” Revelation 7:9-17
Today some are considered by God to be overcoming Christians. Certainly every one of them used the troubles of this life to be so refined by Christ that working on our insides, we were being changed as Christ guided us through each of life’s experiences. The great tribulations we faced with God were most especially a refining process that taught us a lot about God. It made us conquerors with Christ, so we now fit in with the armies of God in heavenly places.
Christians in every time frame of church history have followed the conquering Christ to be made overcomers arrayed in His fine linen of righteousness, ROBED IN PURE LIGHT, being robed in white:
" And the armies in the heaven were following him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen -- white and pure; and out of his mouth doth proceed a sharp sword, that with it he may smite the nations, and he shall rule them with a rod of iron, and he doth tread the press of the wine of the wrath and the anger of God the Almighty, and he hath upon the garment and upon his thigh the name written, 'King of kings, and Lord of lords.” Revelation 19:14-16 YLT
We have concluded many things about overcomers being now in white raiment. I have concluded that All of His holy army is alive in the unseen, being now spiritually clothed in white garments and represented true conciliation with God, in all it’s spiritual attire. This being true state of enlightenment within the heart of man through Christ. Where we first received Christ Jesus as Savior. His Spirit has instructed us to be clothed with Christ, many learn how to put on their lasting spiritual house, a spiritual body covers them like raiment that has been formed within each and every trial and test we faced in this life, that Christ presented Himself to us a conquering mature stature as having qualified to see with God’s eyes, to know as we are know of God, as overcomers, as with those who no longer see and think as a carnal man.
Our Father has been writing His nature (name) upon overcomers in each church dispensation. Many have now matured, they inhabit unseen heavenly places, yet we of the same faith are connected to them, which we that inherit salvation should be expecting to break forth with enlightenment from His Body, seen and unseen, His Spirit resurrecting us with power, we are raising the standard of being like Jesus, to be united to God’s family as brethren of one God, the Father of our spirit, the source of all divine instruction that clothes us with His glorious Life:
“Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.” Matthew 5:48
Paul also exhorted:
“ unto the perfecting of the saints, for a work of ministration, for a building up of the body of the Christ, till we may all come to the unity of the faith and of the recognition of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to a measure of stature of the fulness of the Christ, that we may no more be babes, tossed and borne about by every wind of the teaching, in the sleight of men, in craftiness, unto the artifice of leading astray, and, being true in love, we may increase to Him in all things, who is the head -- the Christ; from whom the whole body, being fitly joined together and united, through the supply of every joint, according to the working in the measure of each single part, the increase of the body doth make for the building up of itself in love.” Ephesians 4:12-16 YLT
God is writing on the pages of our spiritual life every day our journey is recorded in God who has allowed us to grow up into the fuller aspects of Christ’s Headship, we are all being led into a perfection God authored all ago about perfectly righteousness nature, in a perfect state of enlightenment, being a Son of the living God. I am enthralled beyond measure that He has translated us out of the kingdom of darkness and has introduced us to heavens wherein His white garments clothe our inner being!
We should be watching for the Lord to clothe us with a better understanding of something helpful, something better from Him. A better covenant robes us with a spirit of righteousness and is granted wisdom to receive the ongoing light of Christ within us. Jesus Christ has no limits in reigning over every vestige of inner darkness, fear and death. If, in our weakness, we are granted to see the invisible things about us, we would overcome the teachings of men, we would wrench out of their grip our forlorn heart, and sorry, not hear your stories any longer.
Christ has been formed more perfectly within our inner being in this generation, we now know what it means to “put on our house from heaven”. God is perfectly capable of clothing us with His glorious light. He comes within our spirit when we are fellowshipping light a shining on the promises God gives His people a gathering at His right hand where they are covered with a wedding garment, similar to natural wedding, and like sheep producing wool.
The redemption of Christ formed within us is growing, within our being it keeps buying us back from every death, hell, and grave, Jesus keeps delivering us from the ways earthly minded men think. The mind of Christ creates clean, clear connection with God our Father, who’s Spirit is sent to touch our spirit, that we may be learning and coming to know God as He truly is, that He saves us from darkness and willingly clothes us with a ROBE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, a robe we gain through faithfully following Jesus Christ.
Obtaining this robe isn’t done by our own self-efforts in good church works, but by allowing an indwelling power of truth to come and abide within our life so as to reign within our lives. Yes, that is when the Kingdom is come. He is still coming to reign over earthly things with the wisdom bestowed in His Word. HIS WISDOM has reached our inner being and talked to us about truthful things, about heavenly things. It teaches us to have a single eye, spiritually, to be seeing and understanding the light of His enthronement, and that which can clothes us as His understanding is recognized within our spirit. Enlighten us with the mind of Christ!!!
Having been quickened by God, submitted to Jesus as Lord within our inner man, we are continually being clothed with a spiritual aspect of His COMNG. God grants His followers strength to experience more of the coming, by quieting us from dead works to rather be PATIENTLY QUIET. Waiting on the Lord to deal with even the slightest sense of division caused by us presenting our own judgments and separate views to His body, we pray it be removed from us. Instead, to now shine in ONENESS WITH CHRIST, and speak only of that revealing the new day, alive in oneness with the spirit of truth.
Our Father’s work is done in us when He instruct you with Word and Spirit. They teach our spiritual inner man to recognize His Spirit. He then keeps coming to reveal in fuller detail the beautiful truths shining out of the simplest things that are to be adored within our being. We no longer desire to be defiled, soiled, or stained by earthly ways of being. Christ chooses to be spotless in behavior. When He is our Lord, we truly are CLOTHED in right positions, attitudes, motives, and behaviors, having right characteristics in the eyes of God. He has promised an inheritance to us that is “incorruptible and fades not away”:
“…and they shall walk with me in white, for they are worthy.” Revelation 3:4
The Greek word that is here translated as “white” actually speaks more of the brilliant radiance of a LIGHT than it does of a color. It is the same word used in the appearance of Jesus as “white and glistening” at the time of His transfiguration. Actually what is being instructed here is that Christians who overcome certain conditions qualify to be clothed with radiating LIGHT.
Our Father has made a way for us to be just like Jesus — He was tried, tested, and found faithfully robed in the celestial light of the Godhead. Those faithful to sonship’s call as overcoming sons and daughters are being progressively clothed upon with the glory of God found in the New Jerusalem order. A glory we may learn of after leaving the lesser heavenly glories of traditional church orders. The ultimate glory of the New Jerusalem is formed within a people it is their HOMELAND, we call all Christian people on the path of life to the general convocation in Mount Zion. It is the third heavenly rank that grants wonderful oneness with God within our inner being.
For now our Father writes His thoughts in our hearts, so that over time, these thoughts carry us to sense His justice and righteousness shining intensely brilliance. So that brilliance would be dazzling brighter than natural sunlight. Grace has been granted for all Christians to experience the glories of the New Jerusalem order and access the teachings of it’s celestial hosts. Christ within Christians advises them how to put on truth, to be clothed in our inner man with the Word and Spirit of God.
So it was on that not-to-be-forgotten day when our Lord led His three disciples to the top of a very high mountain and was transfigured before them:
“And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, and James, and John his brother, and doth bring them up to a high mount by themselves, and he was transfigured before them, and his face shone as the sun, and his garments did become white as the light, and lo, appear to them did Moses and Elijah, talking together with him.” Matthew 17:1-3 YLT
His garments were white as light. Jesus was transfigured before them. He was transformed! His form was charged with light. The Greek word “metamorphoo” is the word the evangelist Matthew used to describe this change that took place in Him on that wonderful day. Jesus was transformed from his natural condition to one manifesting a Godly light like a robe . A celestial robe of light is exactly what God gives all those drawn to the city of God. God’s light clothes our inner spiritual person to now face the truth so that light can shine brighter than the sun:
Jesus showed Peter, James and John a revelation of what He Himself would gain when complete and that God intends to do the same for all those joined with His incorruptible Son. We know what to look for as to anticipate what God will do next, yet we wait with others for His coming, He is returning by Spirit to bring a day of Pentecost to each of us, yet His fullest can come when we have spiritual access within our inner being to the great godly treasures of Christ revealing mysteries and uncovering excellent and unspeakable glories, so that they can be made available.