Sometimes I
enjoy reading the Song of Solomon. There
are so many beliefs about the meaning of the book, but in my opinion, many
things in the Bible have more than one meaning.
{Example:
Dan. 11:31 is about a prince who would pollute the temple. While this speaks of the Antichrist (2Th.
2:4; Mt. 24:15) it was also fulfilled historically around 167 BC by Antiochus
IV Epiphanes (meaning god manifest) after he violated the temple with an idol
god and sacrificed pigs there.}
For certain
it speaks about love between Solomon and a woman. Some say it also speaks of God’s love for the
Jews, God’s love for the church, God’s love for all believers, or God’s love
for His bride. Personally, I believe it could
be read with them all in mind. I want to
share this Bible passage written to the bride (as in
all believers Jewish or Gentile) in TLB version for its beauty:
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| Mt. Hermon |
Song of Solomon 4:8-15
Come with me from Lebanon,
my bride. We will look down from the summit
of the mountain, from the top of Mount Hermon, where the
lions have their dens, and the panthers prowl.
You have ravished my heart, my lovely one, my bride; I am overcome by
one glance of your eyes, by a single bead of your necklace.
How sweet is your love, my darling, my bride. How much better it is than mere wine. The perfume of your love is more fragrant
than all the richest spices. Your lips,
my dear, are made of honey. Yes, honey
and cream are under your tongue, and the scent of your garments is like the
scent of the mountains and cedars of Lebanon.
My
darling bride is like a private garden, a spring that no one else can have, a
fountain of my own.
You are
like a lovely orchard bearing precious fruit, with the rarest of perfumes; nard
and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, and perfume from every other incense tree,
as well as myrrh and aloes, and every other lovely spice. You are a garden fountain, a well of living
water, refreshing as the streams from the Lebanon mountains.
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| Refreshing waters from Mt. Hermon |