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PROPHESY AGAIN

Pastor Andrew Henriques

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COVERING YOUR NAKEDNESS, Part One

1. What did the prophet Moses say concerning Adam and Eve in Gen. 2:25 _______________________

2. What is the meaning of nakedness? Job 1:21_______________________________________________

NAKED=WITHOUT ARTIFICIAL GARMENTS   According to Webster’s Dictionary

3. How did God create Adam and Eve? Gen. 1:27_____________________________________________

4. Is God unclad or naked? Ps.104:1, 2______________________________________________________

5. Before Adam and Eve sinned, with what were they covered? Ps.104:1,2_________________________

6. When Adam lost the “mind of God” by sin, what did Satan cause him to invent? Gen.3:7___________

Here we find the beginning of worldly, unhealthful fashion.

7. Was the wearing of aprons and apron-like garments pleasing in God’s sight? Was it healthy? What did God do? Gen.3:21________________________________________________

*COMPARISON OF APRONS AND COATS

APRONSCOATS

ARMS EXPOSEDARM COVERED

LEGS EXPOSEDLEGS COVERED

BACK EXPOSEDBACK COVERED

CHEST EXPOSEDCHEST COVERED

8a. Was there any distinction between the clothing of man and woman? Yes. Men wore breeches. Nowhere in the Bible does it say that women wore or were permitted to wear breeches.  Ex.28:42, Ex. 29:27, 28, and Ezekiel 44:15, and 18_______________________________________________

Breeches were pants. Here is a quotation from the encyclopedia:

“Breeches (pronounced /ˈbriːtʃɨz/) are an item of male clothing covering the body from the waist down, with separate coverings for each leg, usually stopping just below the knee, though in some cases reaching to the ankles. The breeches were normally closed and fastened about the leg, along its open seams at varied lengths, and to the knee, by either buttons or by a draw-string, or by one or more straps and buckle or brooches. Formerly the breeching of a young boy, at an age somewhere between six and eight, was a landmark in his childhood. The spelling britches reflects a common pronunciation, and is often used in casual speech to mean trousers or "pants". Breeks is a Scots or northern English spelling and pronunciation. From the 1890s to the 1930s a form of Breeches called Knickers were in fashion with both men and boys. Like their 18th century predecessor, they reached and were fastened just below the knees but the thighs were more loosely worn. There were various versions including Plus-fours for golf wear which reached down a further four inches below the knees. “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeches”

8b. Was there any distinction between the clothing of man and woman? Yes. Men wore hosen.  Nowhere in the Bible does it say that women wore or were permitted to wear hosen. Hosen were pants. Dan. 3:21_______________________ Read below the first paragraph under “Men’s Trousers”.

9. Does God presently make a distinction between the garments of men and women? And what does God say concerning those who disregard this principle? Deut. 22:5. _________________________________

10. When did the wearing of pants among women originate and how did it become so widespread ? _________________________________ Read below the sections under the title “Women Trousers”.

11a. Notice the following three questions and scriptures which show that women did not wear pants. (…Only under their dresses to clothe their limbs and extremities). Lamentations 1:9; Isaiah 47:1, 2 _________________.

11b. What did God use to cover the nakedness of a man? Ex.28:42_______________________________

Bear in mind that a man’s primary nakedness is from his loins down below his thighs.

11c. What did God use to cover the nakedness of a woman? Ezekiel 16:8__________________________

Bear in mind that a woman’s primary nakedness is from her breasts down to her loins and then below her thighs. Read also verse 7.

12. What was a sign that the woman was naked and bare? Is there hope for such person? Ezekiel 16:7, 6.

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13. Did men wear skirts in the Bible? What were those skirts? Ps.133:2; 1Sam.15:27; 24:4, 5, and 11; Hag.2:12_____________________________ The word translated skirts literally means border, edge, boundaries, corner, end, or extremity. From Strong’s Concordance numbers 3671, 6310, and 6284.

Therefore the skirt was at the border or edge of the man’s mantle, robe, or coat. Still there was a clear distinction.

14. What does the Bible say regarding mini-skirts, splits, and shorts? Isa. 47:1-3; Ex. 20: 26 ____________________________________________________________________________________

15.  What kind of apparel should women adorn themselves in and why?  1 Tim. 2:9, and 10; Numbers 15:37-41___________________________________________

Men's trousers

Trousers trace their ancestry to the individual hose worn by men in the 15th century (which explains why the word "trousers" is plural). The hose were easy to make and fastened to a doublet at the top with ties called "points". At this time, these were not trousers, but trews, such as can be seen in the 1746 painting by David Morier. As time went by, the two hose were joined, first in the back then across the front, but still leaving a large opening for sanitary functions. Originally, doublets came almost to the knees, effectively covering the private parts, but as fashions changed and doublets became shorter, it became necessary for men to cover their genitals with a codpiece.

By the end of the 16th century, the codpiece had been incorporated into the hose (now usually called "breeches"), which were roughly knee-length and featured a fly or fall front opening.

During the French Revolution, the male citizens of France adopted a working-class costume including ankle-length trousers, or pantaloons, in place of the aristocratic knee-breeches. This style was introduced to England in the early 19th century, possibly[original research?] by Beau Brummell, and by mid-century had supplanted breeches as fashionable street wear.[11] Breeches survived into the 1940s as the plus-fours or knickers worn for active sports and by young school-boys. Types of breeches are still worn today by baseball and American football players.

Sailors may have played a role in the worldwide dissemination of trousers as a fashion. In the 17th and 18th centuries, sailors wore baggy trousers known as galligaskins. Sailors also pioneered the wearing of jeans, trousers made of denim. These became more popular in the late 19th century in the American West because of their ruggedness and durability.

Women's trousers

Main article: Women wearing pants

Wigan pit brow girl.

Although trousers for women in many countries did not become fashionable until the later 20th century, women began wearing men's trousers (suitably altered) for outdoor work a hundred years earlier.

Starting around the mid 19th Century, Wigan pit brow girls scandalized Victorian society by wearing trousers for their work at the local coal mines. They wore skirts over their trousers and rolled them up to their waist to keep them out of the way. Although pit brow lasses worked above-ground at the pit-head, their task of sorting and shovelling coal involved hard manual labour, so wearing the usual long skirts of the time would have greatly hindered their movements.

Women working the ranches of the 19th century American West also wore trousers for riding. In the early 20th century aviatrices and other working women often wore trousers. Frequent photographs from the 1930s of actresses Marlene Dietrich and Katharine Hepburn in trousers helped make trousers acceptable for women. During World War II, women working in factories and doing other forms of "men's work" on war service wore trousers when the work demanded it. In the post-war era, trousers became acceptable casual wear for gardening, the beach, and other leisurely pursuits.

In Britain during the Second World War, because of the rationing of clothing, many women took to wearing their husbands' civilian clothes, including their trousers, to work while their husbands were away from home serving in the armed forces. This was partly because they were seen as practical garments of workwear and partly to allow women to keep their clothing allowance for other uses. As this practice of wearing trousers became more widespread and as the men's clothing wore out, replacements were needed. By the summer of 1944, it was reported that sales of women's trousers were five times more than they had been in the previous year.

In the 1960s, André Courrèges introduced long trousers for women as a fashion item, leading to the era of the pantsuit and designer jeans and the gradual eroding of social prohibitions against girls and women wearing trousers in schools, the workplace and in fine restaurants.  “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trousers”