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Jesus in the OT :: Song of Solomon

The book of Song of Solomon gives us a glimpse of who Jesus is in the Old Testament (O.T).

Allegorically the Song of Solomon paints the imagery of the Church as the Bride who is espoused (engaged) to Jesus Christ, the Bridegroom.

As a young student of Sunabeda Public School in Orissa, India, I remember participating once in a quiz competition in which the question that was asked was “What is the expansion of the abbreviation SOS?” Some teams said, Sons of the Soil while others said Song of Solomon and our team got it right by saying the abbreviation SOS stood for Save our Souls. In hindsight today, as I ponder on this, it makes me wonder if God was probably trying to tell me something even in my school days. I feel now as if I just wasn’t paying attention to Him then because now putting the three together, I can now see that the The Song of the King of kings (Jesus) is that the sons of men made from the dust of the ground (a.k.a. the sons of the soil), are soiled in sin, until the King (Jesus) Saves Our Souls.

Celine Dion is famous for her hit song “The Power of Love” but if you really want to know the power of Love, I reckon you read Song of Solomon 8:6-7 which avers
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Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
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Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.

Now if we replace the word love in verse 7 with the word Jesus and read it, what essentially surfaces is if a man would give all the substance of his house for love Jesus, it would utterly be contemned (despised/cursed).

Now to see the glimpse of Christ in the Song of Solomon from the Song of Solomon 3:6-11

6 Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, (remember the pillar of cloud in the wilderness) perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant? (Gifts that were presented to Jesus at his birth) 7Behold his bed, which is Solomon’s; threescore valiant men are about it, of the valiant of Israel.8 They all hold swords, being expert in war: every man hath his sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night. (Jesus returns with his hosts to make war (Rev 19:11) and out of his mouth comes a Sword (Rev 19:15)) 9 King (of the Jews) Solomon (Jesus) made himself a chariot of the wood (The Cross) of Lebanon. 10 He made the pillars thereof of silver (The Pillar of the Holy Spirit that is a consuming fire, that purifies and refines as silver is refined in the Fire), the bottom thereof of gold (Humility from divinity), the covering of it of purple (The color of the robe that was put on Jesus as he was led to be crucified), the midst thereof being paved with love, for the daughters of Jerusalem. (Via Dolorosa, aka the way of suffering, or in other words – God’s Love Walk) 11 Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon (see King Jesus) with the crown (of thorns) wherewith his mother (we can say God the Father) crowned him (with a crown above all) in the day (day of the Lord) of his espousals (marriage of the Lamb), and in the day of the gladness of his heart (because man, the delight of his heart can once again be restored into a relationship with God).

2 Corinthians 11:2 reads
2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

In Song of Solomon, Jesus Christ is the Bridegroom waiting for you are me, who are engaged to Him.

Beloved’s desire and delight

Song of Solomon 7:10 reads I am my beloved’s, and his desire is toward me.”  Throughout this book, allegorically Israel is painted as the beloved’s (God’s) betrothed bride (Hosea 2:19-20) and the Church as the bride of Christ.

From the verse, there are three things that we can learn:

  1. We belong to God (I am my beloved’s)
  2. God is beloved, which means He is to BE LOVED. The sum of the law and the prophets is in loving the Lord, our God with all our heart, soul and mind and loving our neighbors as ourselves. (Matthew 22:40). In other words, it is all about first God being Loved.
  3. God’s desire is toward you and me. Psalm 8 poses the question, “What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?” (Psalm 8:4) and Proverbs 8 answers that question by stating “and my delights were with the sons of men.” (Proverbs 8:31). In other words, we are the delight of God.

Points to ponder:

  1. Do we belong to God?
  2. Can you and I say that God is my BELOVED i.e., God is being loved by you and me?
  3. What a wonderful thing it is to realize that we are not only the desire of God, but we are his delight as well. His desire for us is constant and never changing, but are we living our lives in such a way that when he finds us, he will be delighted to see us.

Hosea 2:19-20 (KJV)
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And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies.
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I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the LORD.

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