Comments on: On the Road, to Understanding the Song of Songs

By: Samuel Hansen

Samuel Hansen — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 01:39:59 +0000

Dear Pamela, I know I am responding late to your posts. You know and understand the situation of why. In order for me to respond to your later posts, I must start at the beginning. To help you and others that may read and understand my responses I will be coming from what I believe is the best way for me to study Scriptures. It is based on several Scriptures in 1 Corinthians 15:46 – “However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural; then the spiritual”. (NAS) The next two are in 1 Corinthians 10:6 – “Now these things happened to them (Israel) as examples for us, that we should not crave evil things, as they also craved”. (NAS). And, 1 Corinthians 10:11 – “Now these things happened to them as an example, and they were written for our instruction, upon whom the ends of the ages have come”. (NAS). I know that many miracles occurred in the Old Testament for Israel’s sake, but they were the natural Israel.
This has been my approach to study since being a young Christian and called to preach the good news of salvation in Jesus Christ and the good news of the Kingdom now. I was aware that all of what the early writers of the New Testament wrote came from what was taught about Jesus in the Old Testament and what He taught in His earthly ministry. They had no other Scriptures to refer to. I asked the Lord to help me understand the Old Testament (the natural Israel) as the early apostles did in order for me to teach about Jesus and the Kingdom (the spiritual Israel). So my approach is always to see the example of the natural first and then apply it to the spiritual in Christ. As the travelers on the road to Emmaus discovered, scriptures in the Old Testament point to Jesus. And this is where the Song of Songs (Shir haShirim) points us. In the natural, as a love relationship of two individuals; as a love relationship between God and natural Israel; as a love relationship between Jesus and His spiritual body; and lastly, but I believe the most important, a love relationship between Jesus and the individual believer.

By: Judy Simmons

Judy Simmons — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 00:10:23 +0000

Emmaus— Earnest Longing
On the road to earnest longing, as we speak of Saviors dying,
Talk of all that happened to Him, when we see it we start crying-
Earnestly longing on the road.
There He was the One they spoke of, they did not notice it was He,
Him they spoke of and they wondered, How this happened or could be.

Then when He would act as leaving, going on without them they,
Asked for Him to come and dine there, it had been a long-drawn day.

So He stopped and broke bread with them, then their eyes were open to see
Did our hearts not burn within us, there that day He walked with thee —
On the road to earnest long. Luke 24: 31. Jms. 2/9/15.

By: Pamela

Pamela — Wed, 14 Nov 2018 15:28:40 +0000

In reply to Judy Simmons. That is such a beautiful poem you wrote, Judy! Thank you for sharing it. I did not know the meaning of Emmaus was 'earnest longing!' It's interesting that when I wrote the 2nd paragraph of this post, I actually wrote the word "earnest," even though I rarely use it in my speaking vocabulary. When I went to finalize the draft, I planned to take the word out, (thinking it was extraneous) but felt the Spirit say "Keep it in." Now I see why. :-)