(Please read the passage cited above first.)
A closet is a small room or cell, like a box, to wall someone in or keep someone out.
The Lord Jesus was closeted in the tomb, but broke down the doors of death and come out of the grave. The apostle St Paul, who saw that his people had closeted themselves in chains by their lack of faith, preferred that he be condemned so that they could get out of their closet.
There are many in the United States who want to closet off our borders so that a lot of people cannot get in (or perhaps that lot of us cannot get out of the closet).
Often all of us have made closets, cells, fences, boxes, graves and other things to protect us from harm or reality. We live in closets to protect our opinions, our thoughts, our sexuality, our families, our beliefs, our life. When we live in closets, we die.
The Lord had to break out from the grave to free all people from death. The apostle St Paul wanted to be condemned himself so that his people could come out of the closet of their lack of faith. We have to enable the others come out of their closets and live in the glory of the freedom of the Lord.
How can we do this? We have to welcome the others. We have to make our society welcome those who seem different from us, or strangers to us, or enemies of ours. We have to love the others. We have to allow all peoples to live, with one another without distinction of age, religious belief, nationality, color of hair of skin-color, financial condition, gender or sexuality, country of origin, education or anything else: if they are human, we have to love them.
I know that many suffer discrimination for these things, but I likewise know that God made and loves all people and that all of them are good. There is no man or woman whom God did not make: God made them all and all are good.
To live we have to come out of our closets. To enable others to live, we have to enable them to come out of their closets into the freedom of God, who is their Lord and ours too.
We have the example of the Lord who came out of the closet of his grave. We have the example of St Paul who wanted his people to come out of their closet of lack of faith. We can come out of our closets and likewise enable others to come out of their closets.