The Man Clothed in Linen Throughout Scripture, linen garments are associated with priestly service, purity, and heavenly ministry. This mysterious figure stands apart from the executioners. He comes not first to destroy, but to mark. The glory of God now moves from above the cherubim toward the threshold of the Temple, and the Lord speaks: “Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry