Man is the only creature God didn't give natural clothing. Being created in God's image, man was clothed in the same clothing as God.

From Psalm 104, we know God "coverest thyself with light as with a garment."

Both Revelation 4 and Ezekiel 1 tell us a great light shone out from the throne of God. The Apostle Paul confirms that God dwells "in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see."

The light is described in the Bible as being shaped in the form of a bow. A rainbow is light that's refracted so all the elements of the light, or its colors, show forth.

"Adam literally wore the first coat of many colors, which demonstrated, 'Here is my representative in the earth,' " explains my pastor, Richard Jordan (Shorewood Bible Church, Rolling Meadows, Ill.) in a sermon I have on tape. "He's dressed like God's dressed."

When the Lord Jesus Christ came and walked with Adam in the Garden in the cool of the day, giving instruction in God's Word, they two were both dressed in the same outfit.

"Adam was made in His image and His likeness, meaning Godlike and referring to the quality of His life," says Jordan. "There are three specific things about Adam being God-like—he was to think like God thinks, act like God acts and delight in the things God delights in."

Because God wanted man to know His mind and thinking, He reasoned to Himself, "Let (man) have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth." (Gen. 1:26)

God then tells Adam of His intentions, saying, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth." (Gen. 1:28)

Jordan explains of this, "You see what's going on? What God does is He begins to educate Adam in the way He's thinking. Adam is having the divine viewpoint put into his mind and is being educated to think like God thinks."

In instructing Adam about the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, for example, God educates Adam about the conflict between Satan's policy of evil and God's purpose and program of truth.

"He educates him about the two branches to the counterfeit program of the adversary," says Jordan. "One is the counterfeiting of what God's doing and the other is the open rebellion against God's truth program. The Lord says, 'Adam, you need to be aware of Satan's lie program and you need to know how to identify it and stay away from it.' "

He's educating Adam to think about what's going on in the surrounding environment and what the battle entails.

God's exhorting, "Don't have anything to do with that program, Adam, because I want you to live we like we live, having dominion and accomplishing my will in the earth. Go out and labor with me in accomplishing my will."

Proverbs 8 shows there's a distinct attitude God has about His wisdom for when it "speaks," it's actually personified.

"I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions," wisdom personified says in Proverbs 8:12.

Later in the chapter, wisdom gives its autobiography more or less: "The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old," reveals wisdom. "I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.
"When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.
"Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:
"While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
"When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:
"When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep:
"When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
"Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him."

Wisdom's saying, "You know what, when God created everything back there in Gen. 1, I was there with Him. I was right by His side. He carried me around with Him wherever He went. He had a blueprint for creating everything and I was by His side through the whole thing. I was with Him as one brought up with Him. We were inseparable. It's just like we were brought up together. I was there all along."

When God created the different aspects of creation in those six days of creation reported in Gen. 1, He'd admire what was accomplished and exclaim, "It's good."

Basically He was saying, "I love it when a plan comes together!"

With Adam, God wanted him to know the plan just like He knew it—to not only go labor with God in carrying it out, but to get as excited about it as God was.

"If you're really going to be Godlike, you got to know the plan, the way He thinks, what He's doing, what His will is," says Jordan. "You've got to participate with Him in it."