Genesis 3:21 - God Clothes Our First Parents and Us.

In Genesis 3:21 we read this:
And the LORD God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins, and clothed them. (RSV:SCE)

The setting of this event is The Garden of Eden. This is after they have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, realized that they were naked and then clothed themselves with fig leaves.

Just thinking this through a little, you never see any art-work of this event. God provides garments of skins. Where did he get them? Were they donated by some animal? Probably not.

It would seem that God himself provides the sacrifice (Genesis 22:7) and spills the blood of this animal in The Garden to cloth our first parents.

We now fast-forward to Our Dear Lord and see how this is taken up and fulfilled in Himself.

John 19:41 Now in the place where he [Jesus] was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb where no one had ever been laid.

Now I am sure that there is also some significance to Jesus sweating blood in the Garden of Olives and a hundred more connections but I am just pointing out this one.

St. Paul makes the next two connections:
Romans 6:3-4 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.

Galatians 3:27 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

In conclusion, just as an animal was sacrificed in The Garden of Eden to clothe our first parents, so Christ is sacrificed in a garden to clothe us.

See also Romans 13:14 and Colossians 3:12