Song of Solomon
This is the first part of a study of Song of Solomon that we are all under here in Ihop AC. There is so much in this one little book. We are going one verse at a time, so this how I am presenting it also. We first started out in Genesis1 & 2 when God created man. It helps to get the picture of man’s relationship with God and mankind. This part is exclusively the Genesis part so that next time I can go into Song of Solomon.
If we look at Genesis 1:26, we find that man is the only thing that God formed. He spoke everything else into existence; but man was not. God got dirty when He created man. That shows intimacy. Proverbs 8:22-31 speaks of us being His delight. We are created out of the overflow of His heart because God desires a companion.
In Genesis 2, Adam was given a job. God had made a garden just for him, a special dwelling. His job was to nurture and cultivate the garden. He had to make the garden a place to encounter God in. From this place of communion with God, Adam could speak things into existence. He named all of the animals, for example.
God made the tree of good and evil because He wanted voluntary love. God will not touch free will. If He had not let us choose, it would be like we were robots. God is jealous for true lovers.
Adam and Eve
God wanted to form a person suitable to Adam but not right away. We see in Genesis 2:18-20, He lets Adam go through the naming of all the animals first and even searching among them someone who could be a companion for him. Adam finds no one. It says, “But for Adam, there was not found a helper fit for him.”
God had been alone, too. He stamped mankind with that longing and feeling to want to be with someone else comparable. Adam is brought into God’s emotion for partnership. Adam feels what it is to desire and long deeply for something. Longing is not lacking or sinning. It is a God-given emotion.
So in this picture we see God’s desire for His bride. God causes Adam to go into a deep sleep or death so that He can form a women. Romans 5:14 says that Adam was a type of Christ. God took a women from the side of Adam or his rib. Jesus was pierced in the side. God foreshadows His Son’s death and resurrection. Adam gave birth to a wife. Jesus would give birth to a bride.
In John 17:4, Jesus asks the Father for a bride. We do not know if Adam asked for a partner, but he may have. Both scenarios happened in a garden. Jesus prayed in the garden beseeching the Father for His inheritance (bride).
I go back to voluntary love now. The man and women loved God because they knew nothing else. They were essentially like robots. God knew that, and so he had made the tree of good and evil. He desired a people of voluntary love.
The first prophecy happens in Genesis 3:14-19. Satan had now tempted them and prevailed. Now God prophecies against him. He says that since Satan touched His image bearers, He would use them to touch (judge) him.
Satan used to be the top angel, loved by God. But he turned to evil because he wanted power. He also took a thrid of the angels along with him in his rebellion. God could have judged him then, but He didn’t. He does nothing. It is when Satan touches His image bearers that God speaks agains Satan.
More to come,
Sarah Grace
