Daniel 7:9
"I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of Days did sit, Whose garment was white as snow..."
Some preach that the sinful flesh of men is made "white as snow" while we're here in this wilderness, getting better and better by sinning less and less, but any who are truly the LORD's know that's not true.
Our flesh will never 'get better,' and although it doesn't get worse, it seems that way to the awakened sinner because we're made to see the God-Man Who made His "garment" "white as snow" by perfect obedience unto death.
"...though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow..." (Isaiah 1:18). Christ is the Way our sins are changed from blood-shed red, the color of death, to pristine white, the color of Light and Life. His righteous flesh is the flesh God sees while we are here on this earth; we don't 'patch up' our sinful skin with our own works and some of His: "No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment..." (Matthew 9:16).
We mourn over our sin but rejoice in Him. We don't see His work on the cross as a path to sin freely. Our mouths are shut to our own progress, because there is none. We pray for Him to keep us from the evil of sin and to keep us looking to Him at all times:
"...the Ancient of Days {the God-Man} Whose garment was white as snow..."
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