Song of Solomon 6
McGeeCHAPTER 6
Song of Solomon 6:1
FROM SKEPTICS TO BELIEVERSThe daughters of Jerusalem are not so skeptical and cynical now. They are willing to go with the bride to help her find him. They want to see this one whom the bride has told them about. They conclude that he must be wonderful, and they want to see him for themselves. The Bible tells us that whoever seeks will find. The Lord Jesus has said that if anyone would come to Him, He would in no wise cast him out.
Song of Solomon 6:2
She has located the bridegroom. What assurance, what satisfaction, what joy she has! God is satisfied with Jesus. He has said, “…This is my beloved Son: hear him” (Luk_9:35). He is satisfied with the work which Christ accomplished for us on the cross. He says that if we will come to His Son, we will not perish but have everlasting life. What an invitation has gone out!
Song of Solomon 6:4
THE KING’S DELIGHT IN THE BRIDE"Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah"the beautiful expressions throughout this section are the bridegroom’s response to the long, intense, sorrowful, and patient search for his presence. A. Moody Stuart gives us this helpful background: “Tirzah was the royal city of one of the ancient kings of Canaan, and afterwards for a time of the kings of Israel. The word signifies pleasant, and the situation of the city, as well as the town itself, was probably remarkable for beauty….‘Beautiful as Tirzah’how gracious the address to the slothful, sorrowing, smitten Bride! but ‘whom he loveth he loveth unto the end,’ though we change, He is ’the same yesterday, today, and for ever.’”
Song of Solomon 6:10
This shows us how the Lord views the Rapture of the church. It is natural that we look at the Rapture from the viewpoint of our expectations. “For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first” (1Th_4:16). But the Lord looks at it from His side. He will be calling His own. When the church comes into His presence, the angelic hosts will see one of the greatest sights that will be beheld in all of eternity. This will be the most thrilling event for us and for Him, too.
Then they will say about the church, “Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?” This same union of Christ and the church is pictured for us in the lives of Isaac and Rebekah. Isaac was walking in the field when he looked up and saw the caravan of camels coming. Rebekah was on one of the camels in that caravan. She got off the camel and came to meet her bridegroom. What a glorious picture of the time when you and I will go into the presence of the Lord Jesus.
Song of Solomon 6:11
THE RESPONSE OF THE BRIDEI just can’t resist intruding here with a little anecdote. A friend of mine who is a preacher went to speak to a group of unbelievers. They were a group that included college professors. Many of their theories were way out in left field. They really understood very little about the real issues of life. I asked my friend, “What do you think you accomplished by going to that group?” He answered, “I don’t know that I accomplished very much, but I was certainly scriptural. I went down into the garden of nuts.” There’s no question about that! Seriously, the bride had something very different in mind. It is interesting that this is the third garden we see in the Song of Solomon. A. Moody Stuart calls our attention to this: “The first garden is in spring, full of flowers and tender grapes with nothing mature; the second garden is in autumn, full of spices and ripe fruits with nothing imperfect; and this third garden is in the end of winter, but with the immediate prospect of a new spring…. It is still winter, but the winter is on the very point of bursting in a new spring, and the Bride descends into the garden of nuts to watch the first sproutings of the valley, the earliest blossoming of the vine, and the budding of the pomegranate.” Stuart compares this to the experience of the disciples of our Lord after His ascension as they wait in Jerusalem for the promise of the Father. In a sense they go into the garden to watch for a fresh outbreak of a new spring. The entire Old Testament is a new treasure to them since Jesus had “…expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself” (Luk_24:27). While gathering and breaking open those old treasures of the past, the Spirit came in an unexpected manner and with unexpected power, which could not be described more exactly than in the words of the Song, “or ever I was aware, my soul made me like the chariots of Amminadib.” My friend, the Word of God is a garden, a whole garden of unopened nuts. There are innumerable kernels in the Word of God waiting to be opened and enjoyed by the bride of Christ.
Song of Solomon 6:13
The statement is made that the bride of Christ will be for the demonstration of God’s grace throughout the ages: “That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus” (Eph_2:7). All of the created universe is going to see us. None of us is worthy to be there, but we are going to be there because we are in Christ. It is because He loved us and gave Himself for us. We will be there for His glory and for our good. I can’t think of anything better than that!