Song of Solomon
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So here is the beginning of Song of Solomon. I am doing the first 7 verses of the first chapter today. I know that whoever you are, you will find that this book will change your life. It is important to personalize this book so that you can obtain the best understanding and revelation.
Starting in the second verse. “Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is better than wine.” The women or (bride of Christ) is longing for more of His word. She is saying, kiss me with the kisses of you word. She knows that her beloved’s love is better than the thing that makes her the most happy.
Verse 3: “your anointing oils are fragrant, your name is oil poured out; therefore virgins love you.” Later on in the book, she will talk about the specific fragrances that he has. Some of these talk of suffering and humility. He pours out his oil. Oil also speaks of intimacy like the five virgins with oil in their lamps.
Verse 4: “Draw me after you; let us run. The king has brought me into his chambers.” She is talking to him in an intimate way. She is immature still in her relationship with him. It is all about her, right now because she is discovering him. He is ok with thisbecause she has to go through this process of resting in his love for her. So he brings her into his presence/chambers.
Last part of Verse 4: “We exult and rejoice in you; we will extol your love more than wine; rightly do they love you” This is just other observers or friends of the bride commenting on the love of her beloved.
Verse 5: “I am dark but lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.” She is dark from sin, but God sees her through His blood, so she is called lovely. Her success is not determined by what she does or doesn’t do for the kingdom. It is defined by her loving Jesus and in him loving her. She is calling herself what God calls her. She is loved and a lover; therefore she is successful. The tents of Kedar were dark curtains made of skins. Solomon’s curtains were white like for a bedroom. She says dark but lovely and as an alliteration, she says I am like Kedar and like Solomon’s curtains. She points out the darkness first–because without darkness, there is no light.
Verse 6: “Do not gaze at me because I am dark, because the sun has looked upon me.” She is speaking her identity out when she says she is dark but lovely, but she is still under that weight of darkness. She was still comparing herself with others. The sun represents the sinful world she is living in. She is in essence saying, “don’t look at me because I still don’t feel worth it.”
Last part of verse 6: “My mother’s sons were angry with me; they made me keepers of the vineyards, but my own vineyards I have not kept.” The mother’s sons symbolize the church or the people she saw everyday who knew the Lord but did not have a close relationship with him. She was being pulled every direction for the sake of “ministry”. She was being made to do so much in the church that she had neglected her own intimacy with the Lord. They were also angry because she was passionate but immature.
Verse 7: “Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you pasture your flock, where you make it lie down at noon.” This is her desperate cry for his romance (love). She wants to be close to the shepherd that she loves so much. Noon is the heat of the day. She wanted to know where the sheep were resting and being fed by the shepherd (Jesus).
Last part of verse 7: “for why should I be like one who veils herself beside the flocks of your companions?” She does not want to have this veil over her anymore. She wants to be vulnerable before the one who died for her. She cannot settle for being near the companions of the Lord; she wants to be a companion of the Lord so she can commune with him and rest.
God bless
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
