And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them. (Genesis 3:21 ESV)
Not Merely Clothes
Adam and Eve, freshly aware of their nakedness, were given clothes by God. Perhaps because nakedness was symbolic of their new broken openness before God and each other. Perhaps because the Fall ruined every part of creation, and now the weather was no longer as ideal. Perhaps because God was hinting at the eventual need for blood-sacrifice to cover human sinfulness.
It could be all of those.
But mostly, this gift of God was a foreshadowing of the Christ. Scripture continues this theme and picture, using robes, garments, and clothing culminating in the metaphor of Christ’s Righteousness covering us.
God loves His people so much, that already, with the first rebellion still fresh and smelly, smoldering and smoking, obvious and painful… He gives not merely clothes.
But He shows what Jesus would eventually, surely, completely do.
God loves, so He makes His people presentable to Himself.