Before the fall into the sin, instead of the animal fur the man was covered and illuminated by the glory of God. "Now they were both naked, the man and his wife, but they had no feeling of shame towards one another." (Genesis 2:25) But because they had sinned, they got to an condition in which the presence of God's glory would have meant an instantaneous death for them.

That is why the glory of God retired from them. "And they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons." (Genesis 3:7) They were ashamed of their nakedness because it discovered the absence of God's glory and it reminded them of the committed sin.

Their desperation become even greater when they noticed around themselves the consequences of their transgression. A damnation fell onto the Earth because of their sin. The leaves started to fade and animals became mortal.

"Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze and hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. But the Lord God called to the man, and said to him, 'Where are you?'

He replied, 'I heard the sound as you were walking in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, and I hid myself.'" (Genesis 3:8-10)

Having an aroused feeling of guilt they tried to justify themselves by passing the responsibility for the committed sin to each other. But, the exterior circumstances could not justify their guilt. The temptation was precisely an opportunity for them where they could, with a right choice, glorify God and thereby be glorified themselves. Distrust in the love God had towards them enabled them to be tricked by flattering of the tempter and to fall into the sin. Now in the light of God's presence they felt guilty and like lost rebels. They have found themselves in a changed state, in which the community with God did not represent joy any more. By their sin and their guilt they got to a hostility with God's character and his righteousness.

When they had heard God's voice in the garden, Adam and Eve got afraid, and then they were the witnesses of something unexpected.

With surprise they listened to God Who, while cursing the snake, was saying the words that represented a hope in salvation and eternal life to the fallen man and humanity. Then they heard for the first time the prophecy about their Saviour:

"I will put enmity between you and the woman, between your brood and hers. They shall strike at your head, and you shall strike at their heel." (Genesis 3:15)

God will raise The Saviour from the woman's descendants, in the laps of God's church The Saviour will be born. He will smash the snake's head; destroy the evil, but then he will get a death bite; he will pay the price of the human transgression.

Then the first sacrifice was offered - an innocent lamb.

The spilt blood of an innocent animal became a symbol of an innocent sacrifice which God Himself would make through Christ in order to redeem the fallen humanity. So Jesus will become "...the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world." (John 1:29) Many centuries later the angel choirs will sing the "new song", to the Lamb's glory, saying:

"Thou art worthy to take the book and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of ever kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honor, and glory, and blessing." (Revelation 5:9.12)

"And the Lord God made garments of skins for the man and for his wife, and clothed them." (Genesis 3:21)

The clothes of fig leaves, the symbol of the human clothes of justice could not justify the sinful man before the heaven's condemnation. The human righteousness cannot fulfill the demands of God's justice because it is desecrated by sin. God Himself dressed the Eden couple in the lamb's clothes which is the symbol of Christ's clothes of righteousness. The putting off the skin from sinless lamb had lethal consequences upon the lamb, as man's putting on Christ's clothes of righteousness had cost the Saviour the lethal consequences.

Man's natural reaction to the aroused feeling of guilt is to try to suppress impure conscience by building the feeling of its own righteousness. However, before God that justice is worth not more than fig leaves. God is not asking from us to come out in front of him offering our righteousness, but, what a wonderful miracle, God gives us His own righteousness as a gift. God's intention is to dress our naked bodies in white clothes of His own character in which we will walk while we are still on this earth.

"I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, ..." (Isaiah 61:10)

"After this I looked and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and tongue, standing before the throne and in front of the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. And they cried out in a loud voice:

Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne and to the Lamb.

All the angels were standing around the elders and the four living creatures. They fell down on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, saying:

Amen! Praise and glory and wisdom and thanks and honor and power and strength be to our God for ever and ever. Amen.

Then one of the elders asked me. These in white robes-who are they, and where did they come from?

I answered, Sir, you know.

And he said, These are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore, they are before the throne of God and serve him day and night in his temple; and he who sits in the throne will spread his tent over them." (Revelation 7:9-15)