After this, I saw a large crowd with more people than could be counted. They were from ev­ery race, tribe, nation and lan­guage, and they stood before the throne and before the Lamb. They wore white robes and held palm branches in their hands, as they shouted, “Our God, who sits upon the throne has the power to save His people and so does the Lamb.” Revelation 7: 9, 10. CEV. A few of you in Sardis have not dirtied your clothes with sin. You will walk with me in white clothes, because you are worthy. Every one who wins the victory will wear white clothes. Their names will not be erased from the book of life, and I will tell My Father and His angels that they are my fol­lowers. If you have ears, listen to what the Spirit says to the church­es. Revelation 3: 4-6 CEV.

In today’s world, white is still the symbol of purity. The virgin bride wants to wear white on her wedding day. No wonder God will give each saint a resplendent white robe at His second coming. The prophet John in Revelation tells about the innumerable saints praising God dressed in white robes and waving palm branches. He told some of those members in the church of Sardis that they will wear white because they worthy. I suppose that those robes will never get dirty in heaven. What a difference that was when Adam and Eve were driven from the Garden of Eden. They were naked and God pitied them so he made them robes from the skin of sheep, the first animals to die because of sin.

I’m sure, there will be lots of creativeness in heaven, and the saints will make beautiful, color­ful, and shimmering clothes to wear some other days and wear the white robes for the weekly convocations from one “Sab­bath to another and from one new moon to another,” all flesh will come to worship before the Lord.” Isaiah 66: 23

Do you want to wear that white robe of the saints at Christ’s com­ing? Be His follower. My cousin sent me this email about the story of the Barong Ta­galog . Let me share it with you just in case you didn’t know as I didn’t, why Filipinos wear Barong Tagalog.
I hope you’ll enjoy it.

The Barong Tagalog Story
“During the Spanish occupa­tion of the Philippines (over 300 years from 1561- 1889) the bar­ong tagalog was required by the Spanish government for the Fili­pinos (indios) to be worn at most times to show the difference between the rich and the poor. They said that the poor who serve the rich must always be in uniform.
“Take their chauffeurs, maids, and employees as examples. They are in uniform to immediately dis­tinguish them from their employ­ers. When the Spaniards colonized the Philippines, they had to make it abundantly clear who the boss was through the imposition of the dress code. Men were not allowed to tuck their shirttails in. That was the make of their inferior status.
“Second the cloth material should be transparent so that they could not conceal any weapon that could be used against their mas­ters. Third, as a precaution against thievery, pockets are not allowed on the shirt. By the turn of the century a new middle class began to emerge among the Filipinos. These were known as the princi­palia. They have mastered Spanish laws and were able to obtain title to lands. They became successful in business and agriculture and sent their sons to be educated abroad. They were privileged to build their houses in the poblacion around the plaza near the seat of power. Only a member of the principa­lia could be addressed by the title DON, and only they were allowed to vote. They have had all the trap­pings of power and status, but for one undeniable fact: they still had to wear their shirttails out, if only to remind them that they were still Indios.
“What the Spanish authorities did not smother was the Filipi­nos’ will power and determina­tion to psychologically conquer their colonial masters, through improvisation and reinterpre­tation. The Filipino’s stylistic bongga (flashy dresser) was a reaction against overt discrimi­nation and insensitive oppres­sion of the Spaniards.

“For example, Filipinos were forbidden to use imported silk and fabrics for their barong, so they ingeniously used pineapple leaves to weave the pinya jusi cloth of the barong turning the outfit into such delicate mate­rial, of luminous, silky rich mix­ture much finer than silk. And to add insult to injury, they hand-embroidered the front with such intricate abandon: Calado and handwork all over.

“Palgrave, the ethnographer noted, “The capitam’s shirt was the native barong, of fine delicate fiber, embroidered and frilled; it was light and cool, and not tucked in the trousers. (Cor­puz, 74). The Barong Tagalog gained its power, prestige, and status when President Que­zon, the first Filipino president declared it the national dress. The status of the lowly inferior Barong thus became another symbol of Filipinos’ resistance to colonization..

“After World War ll, the Philip­pine presidents began wearing the Barong Taglog at their installation into office and on every formal occasion. In contemporary times, the Barong is the power dress. As an abogado de campanilla, you cannot afford not to wear the Barong Tagalog when arguing a case in Philippine courts.

“Today, every visitor and foreign dignitary invited to a Malacanang Palace state function must by ne­cessity and dictated by protocol, be dressed to the nines in a Bar­ong Tagalog. The invitations say come in “Barong” instead of the traditional “Coat and Tie”. Thus every one invited to dinner at the Presidential Palace, and in many Filipino homes will unknowingly and unwittingly have to experi­ence directly, what it feels to have his shirttails out; to suffer the indignity of having the material of his barong transparent so he cannot conceal any weapon; and horrors! To be accused directly of incipient thievery by having no pockets in his barong to pt the silver. So when El Senor Spanish Ambassador is invited to a state dinner, you can say, “Ah, what sweet revenge.” “
That, my friends, is why I wear Barong. It is light and cool and have nothing to conceal.