Am I correct or not? What do you say? Are you willing to go to the Lord Jesus and ask Him if the majority of the Evangelical believers in America are under condemnation because they are not turning away from their sins? And if the Lord Jesus tells you this is the truth, what are you going to do about it?

Will you be as Nehemiah who left his life of luxury as the cupbearer to King Artaxerxes and traveled to the ruinous dwellings of the Jews as they sought to build the walls of Jerusalem? Will you seek the Lord to see if He would have you leave your comforts and help with the rebuilding of the wall against sin?

Our walls have been torn down by the false teaching that God sees us only through Christ (totally unscriptural) and we need have no fear of the Judgment Seat of Christ. No, we have no fear, only of being cut off from Christ; of having the door shut in our face when He returns; of having our talent taken from us and given to another and we ourselves placed in the outer darkness. These are the only fears we have and they are nothing to worry about, are they?

The Lord Jesus said deception would abound prior to His coming. Our grace-rapture-Heaven doctrine is one such deception. It is unscriptural. It is leaving multitudes of believers unprepared for the age of moral horrors we are entering.

Let us review what we are saying in this brief essay. We are explaining that the idea of nakedness and clothing are major concepts of the scriptures. We are suggesting that if Adam and Eve had eaten first of the Tree of Life that God then would have clothed them with skins and begun to instruct them concerning evil, and also would have given them wisdom and strength to embrace the righteous ways of the Lord and to renounce and reject unrighteousness. Little by little they would have been clothed spiritually with the righteousness of Christ, not an assigned righteousness but an actual righteousness proceeding from a transformed moral nature.

Eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil revealed to them that they were shamefully naked. This reminds us of the Apostle Paul who said he was not concerned about his covetousness until the Law of Moses underscored the sinfulness of covetousness. But, like Adam and Eve after they ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, Paul found no way to cope with the covetousness. No doubt Paul attempted to stop coveting just as Adam and Eve attempted to cover themselves with aprons made from fig leaves.

The believers of the church in Laodicea were counseled by Jesus to buy white clothes to cover the shame of their nakedness. We have been teaching in Evangelical circles that it is the blood of the Lord Jesus that covers our spiritual nakedness.

To be continued.