SONG
OF SONGS
In Song of Songs He is “our beautiful Bridegroom.”
He has taken me to the banquet hall,
and His banner over me is Love.
Song 2:4 NIV
In the Old
Testament Israel was regarded as “the Bride of Yahweh.”
For thy Maker is thine husband; the Lord of hosts is His Name;
and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole Earth shall He be
called.
For the Lord hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in
spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God.
Isa 54:5-6 KJV
"Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem:
"'I remember the devotion of your youth,
how as a bride you loved Me
and followed me through the desert,
through a land not sown.
Jer. 2:2 NIV
In the New Testament, the Church is “the Bride of
Christ.”
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.
2 Cor 11:2 KJV
For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the Head of
the Church, His body, of which He is the Savior. Now as the Church submits to
Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ Loved the Church and
gave Himself up for her
Eph 5:23-26 NIV
Rev. 19:7-9
discloses "The Wedding Supper of the Lamb." In the fulfillment of
this passage, Jesus Christ will wed His triumphant Bride. On that Day, Christ
will exceedingly rejoice as a Bridegroom over His Royal Bride.
He will take His
Bride to the royal Heavenly banquet; His banner over His Bride is Love (see
SOS.2:4).
Our beautiful
Bridegroom is Chief among ten thousand!
He is altogether
lovely!
King Solomon wrote
an excellent poetry of admiration of Him, in the Song of Songs.
My lover is radiant and ruddy,
outstanding among ten thousand.
His head is purest gold;
his hair is wavy
and black as a raven.
His eyes are like doves
by the water streams,
washed in milk,
mounted like jewels.
His cheeks are like beds of spice
yielding perfume.
His lips are like lilies
dripping with myrrh.
His arms are rods of gold
set with chrysolite.
His body is like polished ivory
decorated with sapphires.
His legs are pillars of marble
set on bases of pure gold.
His appearance is like Lebanon,
choice as its cedars.
His mouth is sweetness itself;
he is altogether lovely.
This is my lover, this my friend,
O daughters of Jerusalem.
Song 5:10-16 NIV
Psalm 45 is a song celebrating the King's Marriage.
You are the most excellent of men
and your lips have been anointed with grace,
since God has blessed you forever.
Ps 45:2 NIV
Matthew 25 foretells of the perfect union of the
Bridegroom and His Virgin Bride.
"At that time the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten
virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the Bridegroom (v. 1 NIV).
And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the Bridegroom
cometh; go ye out to meet Him (v.6 KJV).
Hosea prophesied of the restoration of unfaithful
Israel; but in the context of that prophecy, is the promised restoration for
the Israel that is by Grace—a Bride that is by the New Covenant (read Hosea
2:16-20).
Israel in the Old Testament was regarded as “the
Bride of Yahweh.” In the New Testament, the Church is “the Bride of Christ.” The
Song of Solomon illustrates the former and anticipates the latter.