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Originally Posted by Timotheist
The "leaves" being linked to "clothing" makes sense when reading about the naked guest who was thrown into outer darkness. He has eternal life, but not enough holiness to enter the Son's kingdom (more specifically, the wedding banquet).
I suggest he will be saved, but will need the leaves to cover his nakedness in the New Creation, as one of the "Nations".
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In the garden, A & E clothed themselves with leaves, but "God made garments of skins for Adam and his wife and clothed them." What I have heard most often was that the manmade covering of leaves was not adequate and that God killed (probably) an animal to provide covering skins, which was a foreshadow of Christ. So why would He now provide leaves as a covering for the nations?