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His Swaddling Clothes
One of the signs by which the shepherds were to know the child was that they would find Him wrapped in swaddling clothes. …the Scriptures say, "Ye shall find Him wrapped in swaddling clothes."
I have a set of swaddling clothes here, a royal set of swaddling clothes such as Jesus had, which we have amongst the people at the present day. (The lecturer produced the different garments and explained them as she continued.) First of all, here is a garment such as Mary would have worn. Mary was a princess of the House of David, and she was a virgin; and so, as a princess and a virgin her garment would be blue; that is a sign of her virginity and her royalty. The princes of the House of David all wore garments of different cloths. Mary’s would be of this beautiful royal blue, all woven with gold. She is a candlestick of the Lord, so there is a candlestick all woven in gold thread, so that everybody would know that was a candlestick of the House of David, and a handmaid of the Lord.
Now, Mary would have to have a white garment like this over her head. (Indicating.) This is the way she went about until she came to Bethlehem, and everybody would know, "Why, Mary, she is a virgin of the Lord, and she is in the temple, the candlestick of the House of David." You can tell everybody in the temple by the garments that they wear.
Now, Mary is going to become a mother. She has come to Bethlehem. She still wears the virgin’s garments, but now the time has come when Mary was to be a mother. And so Mary takes of the outward garment, this white silk one here, and she must throw it over the manger. Now she must take off her silken garment with the candlestick of the Lord upon it, for now the one that is to be born is to be the candlestick; He is the light of the world. So she puts her garment over the manger in this fashion. (Indicating.)
Now, she must have another garment here, a swaddling garment, and this swaddling garment is of white silk (indicating). The shepherds have to find all of these things. This garment is of white silk, striped with blue; that shows that it is a royal child. Blue is a sign of royal blood, and that is where you get your expression "blue blood." Part of this swaddling garment would hang over the other garment in this fashion (indicating).
Now, the genealogy of this child is to be reckoned with. Besides the royal house, He comes from the House of Boaz through Ruth, and they must bring the sign of the mother’s family. So this red garment would be from the land of Moab, and would show that the blood of the land of Moab flowed through His veins.
Taken from the book, Jesus in his Homeland by
Mme. Lydia M. Von Finlelstein Mountford
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