Song of Solomon chapter 7

Song of Solomon Chapter 7

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The Shulamite reaffirmed her love for Solomon in chapter 6, and he replies to her with these words, “How beautiful are your feet in sandals, O prince’s daughter! The curves of your thighs are like jewels, The work of the hands of a skillful workman. Your navel is a rounded goblet; It lacks no blended beverage. Your waist is a heap of wheat set about with lilies. Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle. Your neck is like an ivory tower, your eyes like the pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bath Rabbim. Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon which looks toward Damascus. Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel, and the hair of your head is like purple; A king is held captive by your tresses. How fair and how pleasant you are, O love, with your delights! This stature of yours is like a palm tree, and your breasts like its clusters. I said, “I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of its branches.” Let now your breasts be like clusters of the vine, the fragrance of your breath like apples, and the roof of your mouth like the best wine.” Song of Solomon 7:1-9a.

Solomon also expresses a similar description of his love for the Shulamite in Song of Solomon 4:1-5 and also in Song of Solomon 6:4-10. This is the “scarlet cord” of the Old Testament pointing to the love that Jesus Christ has for the body of born-again believers.

For example, Christians are the “Prince’s daughter”, the Prince being Jesus Christ and we are adopted into the family of God in His name. We are beautifully and wonderfully created by the Workman, God the Creator, “I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made…” Psalms 139:14 We are created to hold the beverage of the Holy Spirit and to be the wheat that He brings into the eternal New Jerusalem. As followers of Christ, we are to nourish newborn Christians with the nourishing milk of His word. Our head is crowned with Salvation. In the Spirit of Christ, we are pleasant with His delights, such as the Holy Spirit and His Gospel written on our heart. The fragrance of our breath is sweet and nourishing being seasoned with grace, “Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt…” Colossians 4:6 Our mouth is filled with the “wine”/blood that Jesus Christ shed on the cross to atone for sin, meaning we want to share what our Lord Jesus Christ has done for us.

The Shulamite replies to Solomon’s expression of love in this way, “The wine goes down smoothly for my beloved, moving gently the lips of sleepers. I am my beloved’s, and his desire is toward me. Come, my beloved, let us go forth to the field; Let us lodge in the villages. Let us get up early to the vineyards; Let us see if the vine has budded, whether the grape blossoms are open, and the pomegranates are in bloom. There I will give you my love. The mandrakes give off a fragrance, and at our gates are pleasant fruits, all manner, new and old, which I have laid up for you, my beloved.“ Song of Solomon 7:9b-13

As followers of Jesus Christ, we express love to our Lord Jesus Christ, the same as the Shulamite, but in the interpretation of the Spirit. The wine of the blood of Jesus Christ goes down smoothly, which is the blood He shed on the Cross to atone for sin. It moves “gently the lips of sleepers” meaning our born-again experience awakens us and moves our lips to share His Gospel. The Gospel of Christ is our born-again experience written on the heart. He calls us His own and He is ours. We want to go with Him to the vineyards to check whether there are blossoms of new Christian births and to see the blooms of the fruit of the Holy Spirit. In the vineyards of the family of Jesus Christ is where our love is found for Him. The fragrance of the Holy Spirit living in us is at the gate leading into the presence of God within our heart and soul. The pleasant fruit of the Holy Spirit is what we have laid up for our Lord Jesus.

“In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.” Ephesians 1:13-14 We are the “purchased possession”, purchased by the blood of Christ, and our redemption comes at our resurrection and entry into the eternal New Jerusalem.

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“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,“
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’”
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:11