Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours (Genesis 37:3). The Old Testament, filled with types and shadows of living realities to come, includes Joseph’s coat of many colors as a type. The coat of many colors represents various things, but to sum them all up it stands for the divine favor of God in this final hour. Down through the ages, man has walked with the partial favor of the Lord, but the coat of many colors symbolizes all the favor of God, all His divine grace, power and love, all the gifts and fruits of the Spirit—the whole thing. Jesus came to Earth, bringing the spiritual Coat of Many Colors which had been foreshadowed by the type, Joseph’s coat. The healing for soul, mind and body that Christ gave to the people is ours today, our Coat of Many Colors. I Peter 2:24 tells us that Christ in his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. In Matthew 8:16,17 we read that Jesus cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick: That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.

What colors dominate our Coat of Many Colors? You will find the blood of Jesus, which is our redemption, represented by the crimson in the Coat. Jesus is pure—blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God—and white represents purity. There must be white in that Coat. The green of life is present, for Jesus brought life, life, life. The gold, the healing virtue of Jesus Christ of Nazareth coming down like liquid fire…there must be plenty of that. Blue is there, the beautiful purplish royal blue representing the miracle power of God that I see again and again in the visions as God heals the people.

After the Israelites were freed from Egypt, God used a number of colors in His instructions on building the tabernacle—the white, the blue, the purple, the scarlet.

When Solomon’s temple was built, God again specified colors: blue, purple, crimson, and of course much was overlaid with gold. Every color had a special meaning.

A Coat of Suffering

When Joseph lost his coat of many colors he also lost favor because his father, thinking him dead, was unable to help him any further. It will be the same for you if you lose or fail to put on the Coat of Many Colors that Jesus purchased for you on Calvary. The favor of God will not be yours. Joseph cried his heart out; he suffered agony of soul when he lost his coat. He endured much before he was able to wear the Coat of Many Colors that God had provided—the divine favor of God in Joseph’s hour.

To wear the Coat of Many Colors, one must suffer much. Wearing the Coat requires more than the father-child relationship of this earth; God wants you to be a vessel completely yielded to His will. Jesus came to show you how to live in the divine favor of His heavenly Father, how to reach God. The way includes fasting, praying and living in the Word of God. If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you (John 15:7). Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting (Matthew 17:21). Down through the ages, however, people have found great difficulty following His way. Had Jesus said, for instance, “You can come to the Father by throwing great banquets, by praying only once-in-a-while, by reading the Bible only on Sunday,” many would have enjoyed it. But it isn’t that simple to have all the divine favor of God so you can wear His Coat of Many Colors.

Some think they have acquired all the divine favor of God when they find Calvary. Not so. Receiving salvation isn’t the end of your journey and growth in Christ, but the very beginning. After your heart is right with God, it must stay yielded as the Holy Spirit molds and makes you into a vessel qualified to wear the Coat of Many Colors. A growth process, a putting down of self, is vital so that God can take charge of your life instead of you.

Joseph, the Savior of His People

Joseph in the beginning wasn’t in a condition to wear the Coat of Many Colors. No one is fit to wear that Coat until the Lord prepares him through the power of the Holy Spirit, not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast (Ephesians 2:8,9). Some people have received too much too quickly in life. They didn’t know how to appreciate their blessings; they weren’t grateful for them. Joseph was no doubt happy about his coat—it was different than everyone else’s—but possibly he didn’t take as good care of it as his dad thought he should. Joseph was young and inexperienced, but God was going to raise him up, give him much wisdom. Why Joseph and not one of his brothers? Joseph was a moldable vessel in the hands of God. Look at Joseph after God finished working on him—second only to Pharaoh in the kingdom. Joseph became the savior of his people—had it not been for him, his family as well as multitudes of Egyptians would have starved. A man of humility, Joseph is grateful for the way God has moved for him. Now he wears God’s true Coat of Many Colors. No longer does he throw his weight around, saying, “I have dreamed a dream.” The dreams have taken place. It’s enough.

How many under the same circumstances as Joseph would have been eager for vengeance? His brothers after all had first plotted to kill him and then sold him for a slave. Yet when he is reunited with them years later, he is still humble; he still slips away to cry.

His brothers, fearing Joseph will hate them and bring judgment upon them, ask his forgiveness. Joseph’s response is most beautiful: Fear not: for am I in the place of God? But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive (Genesis 50:19,20). He had a marvelous spirit.

Colors of Destruction

Some find it hard, almost impossible, to forgive but I read that Jesus says to forgive, and ye shall be forgiven (Luke 6:37). You never know when you’ll need a big dose of forgiveness from God, and it’s best to keep on the forgiving side. “Getting even” just hurts you. Bitterness in your heart destroys your relationship with God. The color of bitterness is not found in the Coat of Many Colors. Bitterness cuts off your mercy. You need mercy every day that you live on Earth. If that mercy begins to shrink, it’s time to check your attitude toward others.

Even some ministers claim they are called to preach, that they have the divine favor of God—the Coat of Many Colors—and the truth is they have rejected part of the Bible. They not only refuse to preach the whole Word, they criticize those who have the real power of God working in their lives. You’ll never have the favor of God when you’re jealous of another. The colors of jealousy and resentment cut off your own supply from God’s blessings. Would you resent it if the Lord blessed you? Then why resent others who are being blessed?

People have worn man’s coat of many colors to their destruction. Mother and Father made the coat by giving the children undeserved favor…favor when discipline was called for. It was all there on a silver platter—Christmas every day. The children didn’t have to work for any of it. They had no idea how to cope on their own; they placed no value on hard work, integrity and perseverance. These are but some of the results of wearing man’s coat of many colors.

Man’s coat did not bless Joseph at all, nor did it bless his father; but God’s Coat of Many Colors contained God’s unlimited blessings for them. No color of destruction wove through it at all. Joseph put it on a step at a time, for that’s the way God ordained man to walk. A toddler does just that—he toddles. He does not start walking by taking six steps at once. If he tries, he falls on his nose. It is much the same way in the Kingdom. You first have to crawl, then toddle, finally walk until one day you can actually run.

Good Faith Is Tested Faith

God separated Joseph from his people. Why? It was the way Joseph could be molded into what God wanted him to be. He had much to learn.

God must have you alone to make you what He wants. Your wants are in conflict with God’s. You’re eager to play and have a good time. Never will you be all that God planned that way. The divine favor of God comes only as you yield all of self to Him. You’ll have to go to the dungeons of despair where only God can help. Many nights alone with Him will be yours.

Joseph, away down in the dungeon, didn’t feel God was with him many times; he just felt alone, forgotten. God wanted him to feel like that—He wants us to feel that way, to realize that He is our only source of supply, so that we depend on Him. Then He can bring us into His living reality. He tries us, tests our faith to let us KNOW that that faith is good. God knows His faith is good, but you must know it, too; and before you know it, you have to use it. God tests you to bring you to the knowledge of the truth.

The love of God is tested in you, not for the sake of God, but so that you will know what His love can do for you. You do not recognize how much holding power, how much keeping power and how much sacrificing power are contained in the love of God until you have proven them in your life. Faith in what is available to you from God must become a working part of you as you wear His Coat of Many Colors. When it is, you call miracle faith your faith—but it really is the faith of God. Faith is a gift from God, for God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith (Romans 12:3).

Noah and Abraham Owned the Coat

Remember, when you first are saved you do not automatically have the Coat of Many Colors. Let’s trace it through the Bible. God was about to destroy the earth—until He spied a man with the Coat of Many Colors, a man taking advantage of all God’s divine graces that were available at that time. Noah had them all, all the love, all the faith. When God saw this Coat of Many Colors on Noah, He just couldn’t let him die. Why, Noah had clothed his family in the graces, the love, the faith, the knowledge and the wisdom and understanding of God, too. God spared eight souls because Noah wore the Coat of Many Colors.

Then we find Abraham wearing that Coat in such a gracious way that today he is called the Father of the Faithful. He climbed a mountain top to sacrifice his son because the Lord had asked it. God tested his faith, found it good and provided a sacrifice to take the place of his son. All the grace of God available in that day flowed out to Abraham. He reached for it with a desire to receive the greatness of God. Abraham’s heart before God was unique.

Although the Coat of Many Colors was available in Abraham’s day, we don’t hear of anyone else wearing it. Sarah didn’t wear it. Only people who obey God and do all that God wants of them can wear that Coat. A completely surrendered life to the Lord wears the Coat of Many Colors. It’s a sacrificial life. I BESEECH you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service (Romans 12:1). When you give yourself totally to God twenty-four hours around the clock, week after week, year after year, you can’t have anything but the divine favor of God. All the blessings of God, all the gifts of God are available to you in the Coat of Many Colors.

Hundreds of years after Abraham, we find his descendants…slaves in Egyptian bondage. None of them wore the Coat of Many Colors. It would take a long time to find someone to wear that Coat, someone to be raised up, not by the hand of man, but by the hand of God—just like Joseph was raised up to save his family. The Israelites desperately needed a savior to deliver them. Where was that man?

Moses Changed Coats

We see a little basket floating in the Nile. In it, an infant destined to be schooled, trained and made ready when he reached manhood to wear the Coat of Many Colors. He will be taught in the palace of Pharaoh among the Egyptians, and he will be taught among the Hebrews.

When he was forty years old, Moses struck his first blow for freedom. It was a disaster, and he fled to the wilderness. He was wearing man’s coat, not God’s.

Forty more years passed as God prepared Moses for the Coat of Many Colors. At last Moses stands before a burning bush. He has found the divine favor of God, and God comes down to talk to him. All the blessings, all the miracle power of God is upon this one man. Moses is about to carry the faith of God right to the throne of Pharaoh. You have read in Exodus the story of the miracles that were performed by this man who wore the Coat of Many Colors—Moses stood before Pharaoh with all the greatness of God. What else could the Coat of Many Colors represent but all the grace of God, all the goodness, all the power and all the works of God?

The Greatness of God Clothed the Israelites

Four hundred years the Israelites had been without; now they have been offered the Coat. Would they dare wear it? For them to wear the Coat of Many Colors, a lamb would have to be slain; there must be blood. Crimson. Salvation is imbedded in that Coat of Many Colors. The lamb’s blood foreshadowed the blood of Jesus Christ his Son [which] cleanseth us from all sin (I John 1:7). Will the Israelites be obedient to God? If not, the death angel will strike their households. The lamb was slain, the blood placed on the doorposts, and Israel received the favor of God—and favor with the Egyptians. The Israelites spoiled the Egyptians; they did not leave Egypt as paupers but were loaded down with Egypt’s treasures, with the greatness of God, with God’s best. They had the silver, the gold, the fine clothing and all the divine favor of God. Finally they were wearing God’s Coat of Many Colors.

God, wrapped in a pillar of fire by night and a cloud by day, was now leading them. The Israelites could see that cloud, that fire, and they knew God dwelt within. It brought protection, everything they needed. With divine graces, divine power, the Israelites headed for the land that God had promised them, a land flowing with milk and honey.

God separated the waters of the Red Sea. He wouldn’t do that for just anyone; it had to be a people wearing the Coat of Many Colors, the divine Coat of God. There was to be no lack; everyone was to have plenty, God’s best. God gave them food by the way; He rained it down from the skies. Clothed in the divine graces, the divine love, faith and understanding, wisdom and knowledge of the Almighty, the Israelites had it all in that hour.

...But Color the Israelites Ungrateful

The waters separated to the left and to the right. Oh, that they would have realized what a precious anointing was available to them! But they didn’t fully understand. They had worked hard and now it was payday…a payday wasted. They fashioned an idol god and said, “Why, this is the god who brought us out of Egypt!” How ungrateful man can be after God has given him so much! The Israelites did not have enough of the power of God to keep them; they didn’t have a Calvary, a Pentecost. But they could have taken advantage of the valuable Coat God had provided, that God had given to bless them. They could have entered the Promised Land in a matter of days. Instead they wandered forty years in the wilderness.

You today have everything; you do not have the excuse of the Israelites in the wilderness. All Heaven is yours to draw from. Tell yourself I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me (Philippians 4:13). All the power of Heaven backs up those who use the name of Jesus in faith and love. The Israelites had it all, but it was on the outside. God’s faith had not really reached into their hearts. Clothing man on the outside won’t protect him completely; it takes the blood of Jesus applied in his heart. The healing power of God must be throughout the whole body. It wasn’t enough to eat the lamb’s body at Passover; the lamb’s body had to live within. The body of Jesus, our sacrificial Lamb was given for you and me.

Prophets of Old Wore the Coat

We see the Coat of Many Colors appearing in Elijah’s day, Elisha’s day. They wore it with great pride, yet all the graces of God had not been poured out. Only through Christ could all the graces of God be poured out, all the love, the power, all the deliverance of God.

Daniel was cloaked in that Coat, and the lions refused to touch him. The Hebrew boys wore that Coat—they had great favor with God—and the fire couldn’t burn them or even leave a smell of smoke upon them. Again and again we glimpse that Coat worn in great glory and power, but only fleetingly do we see it.

The prophets of old talked of the day to come when the Coat of Many Colors would be available to all through Jesus Christ, a day when man would have everything needed if he would only reach out and accept Christ in all His power and saving grace. With Jesus, man would stand; man would be more than a conqueror. Man would defeat the devil through the name of Jesus the Son of God. Jesus would make it possible for all mankind to wear the Coat of Many Colors, possible for man to be schooled in and by the Holy Spirit.

My mind goes back again through the ages to Joseph. The boy with the coat of many colors is forgiving, forgiving his brothers. Tears running down his cheeks, Joseph was controlled by the same Spirit, the same power, the same God who controlled those brave Christians in the Early Church. How marvelous indeed! Man would have to walk many valleys—like Joseph of old. Man wouldn’t have instant knowledge of all that God wanted him to be the moment he came to Calvary. Man would know the loneliness, the despair of the dungeons, the years spent in the Potter’s House as the Lord molded and groomed him for the Coat of Many Colors. He would have to wear it with humility, with dignity, his heart yielded completely to the Lord. He couldn’t just give his life to the Lord for an hour or a day, he must give his life to God for all time and eternity. The valleys may be deep, but you will always be able to climb out—as long as you wear the Coat of Many Colors. The mountains are steep, but you always will be able to reach the top. God has told us in His Word to fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness (Isaiah 41:10). Wearing the Coat, you soar into the greatness of God like the eagle soars toward the face of the sun.

The Coat of Many Colors—a Protectiong Wall

Because of the crimson blood of the Lamb—Jesus Christ—we have the divine love, the divine graces of God. This is the pouring-out hour, and it’s whosoever-will: reach out and take the Coat.

Think of the price paid on the Cross that you might wear it! Put loved ones on the altar of sacrifice to never take them off. Forget how many tears it will cost you, how many hours and weeks of fasting it may take. It matters not. You must not shun those days or even weeks of fasting—whatever the Lord calls for. Don’t avoid the many hours spent at the feet of the Lord Jesus with the Holy Spirit leading you into the greatness of God, into His Word, teaching you all the truths of God. He throws up a wall of truth around you to protect you. Know the truth and you are free.

The world may look upon you as nothing, but God’s smile rests upon you as you wear the Coat of Many Colors. God sees you wearing that Coat, and He knows that the sacrifice of His Son on the Cross—all that Jesus went through that you might receive salvation, healing for soul, mind and body—was worthwhile. The price was almost too great for Heaven to pay.

Without the Shedding of Blood

You can’t imagine how much God wanted to come down when men began driving the spikes into the hands and feet of Jesus His Son. When they spit upon Jesus…it would have been so easy for God to rend the skies and tear man into little bits. “Come down if you be the Son of God!” they cried to Jesus hanging on the cross. God would have delighted in coming down, but Jesus was paying the price to reconcile mankind to the Father. He paid the price so that we could wear the Coat of Many Colors.

Red, I say again, is a dominant color in the Coat, red for the blood of Jesus. Without shedding of blood is no remission (Hebrews 9:22). Without the shedding of blood we have no remission for sin. Without the shedding of blood none of us could wear the Coat of God’s graces today nor have the divine favor of Lord God Almighty.

The Bride, Wrapped in the Glorious Coat

We live in the final hour. The Bride is marching like a mighty army upon the face of the earth. Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners (Song of Solomon 6:10)? She’s the Bride of Christ—you who are born again and Spirit filled. Like an army with banners she marches, looking for her Groom Jesus to come in the final hour. The Bride wears the Coat of Many Colors; the gifts are in operation, the fruits of the Spirit evident everywhere. The Bride reaches out for His greatness, knowing there’s no turning back. The Bride will never turn back. She walks in the presence of the Lord, hand in hand with Him. The sorrows of life don’t count anymore. She doesn’t hold her own life dear. She’s on the altar. It matters not when she enters the fiery furnace. Unafraid, she shuns none of it.

If you’re wrapped in His glorious Coat of Many Colors, you’re part of the Bride, and you know Jesus is your source of supply. He is gracious in your sight, marvelous. He’s everything. You’ve found the Good Shepherd, the Water of Life, all you need. Jesus is the Lily of the Valley, the Rose of Sharon, the Savior, the Redeemer, Baptizer and Coming King. You have the One who lives within; and so long as you cherish that Coat of Many Colors, the Holy Spirit and His power are working within to change you in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye at the soon return of Jesus.

It’s almost go-home time, and you’re hurrying—not to get the power; you have it, the changing power. You’re not worried about the Rapture; you know that you’ll be changed. The only thing that presses you on into His greatness is love for Him and winning the lost at any cost. Your soul cries out night and day, “Give us the lost!” If you’re wearing the Coat of Many Colors, you have no trouble carrying the burden for the lost; it’s always there before you day and night. “God, save the lost! God, give us the lost!” is your cry. Only a few more days left and then the end shall come: the harvest will be over.

Oh God, help us! Set our souls aflame! You who don’t yet have the Coat of Many Colors, seek it day and night. You must have it. Sacrifice, pay the price for all His divine favor and you will fail Him in nothing. Any place you find your life lacking as you study His Word, measure up. Do the whole will of God.

Thus Saith the Lord

Yea, saith the Spirit unto this people. I am in the midst of my people, reaching out to my people with the love and the greatness of Heaven. You that I have called to do my holy will, you must not fail. I have called you to pray and to seek my face that you might have my grace and my power for this final hour. You must not fail! Daily I have called to you to call upon my name and live in my presence. I have called you into a great place. I have called you into a place of my anointing, and you who answer the call: I am anointing you daily. Your anointing is becoming greater and greater, and you know it not, saith the Spirit. You’re being bathed in the love, in the precious love of your God daily. I am anointing your minds that you might think the thoughts that I want you to think, that you may know the way that I want you to go. I am anointing your minds so that I can speak to you any hour and you hear my voice, saith the Lord.

I have brought you into a relationship with me that I can touch you, and your sleep is gone, and you cry unto me for the lost.

Oh my people that are called by my name: honor my name daily and honor my Holy Spirit that I have sent to live and dwell within you. Walk your last valley, climb your last mountain and great victories await you—not in the next life, but mighty victories for this end-time hour, saith the Spirit of God!

I cover you with my love. My graces I clothe you in. Fear not. Arise and do my will and know that I am the Lord thy God. Let my voice thunder in your ears when you’re discouraged, and you will arise with my strength to do my will. I cry unto my people: The hour is indeed late, late, late, late. Oh my people, hear the cry of my Spirit today! saith the Lord unto this people.

Love and honor belong to the children of God. Clothed with the veil of His mercy, our eyes bright with His understanding, we look beyond the valley of tears to see Him whom we have longed to see. We behold His nail-pierced hands, and we know the One who conquered all is coming for us. The Coat of Many Colors is offered to all today. Wear it proudly as you seek to do the whole will of God in this last and final hour.