The Closest Intimacy
Solomon’s Song of Songs
was written as a love song between a “Groom’ and a “Bride.” The story it tells
is of a vine-tender (who is also a shepherdess), who is engaged to King
Solomon, the wisest human of all-time and the wealthiest ruler of his day.
Allegorically, the book
presents Israel as God’s espoused “bride”—and it portrays the Church as the
Bride of Christ.
There is no higher,
more intimate love in the human realm than the love between a husband and wife.
As Genesis says:
Therefore
shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife:
and they shall be one flesh.
Genesis
2:24 KJV
There is no closer
intimacy than two separate entities becoming one single entity.
That picture of the
highest level of Love as portrayed in the Song of Solomon is prophetically a
representation of the highest form of Love which is shared between Christ and
His Bride—the Church He gave Himself to redeem.