Sacred vestments anticipate the Resurrection, when men and women will be “clothed” with an immortal body. The Apostle Paul used language suggesting that at the Resurrection we will put on immortality, similar to putting on clothing: “So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory” (1 Cor. 15:54; emphasis added; see also 2 Cor. 5:1–4).
The theme of being clothed with a body at the Resurrection continues in Latter-day Saint scriptures: “Wherefore, it must needs be an infinite atonement—save it should be an infinite atonement this corruption could not put on incorruption” (2 Ne. 9:7; emphasis added). Enos concluded his book by stating, “I rejoice in the day when my mortal shall put on immortality” (Enos 1:27; emphasis added; see also 2 Ne. 9:13–14). A passage in the Doctrine and Covenants refers to human “bones, which were to be clothed upon with flesh, to come forth again in the resurrection of the dead” (D&C 138:43; emphasis added).
Latter-day Saint prophets also refer to clothe and clothed in reference to the Resurrection.319 Joseph Smith declared that “we have a knowledge that those we bury here. God bring them up again. clothed upon, & quckend [quickened] by the spirit of the great god.”320 So also President Thomas S. Monson speaks of the resurrected Christ being “clothed with an immortal body of flesh and bones.”321