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I’m noticing something in my study of the Song of Songs. Translations cannot be fully trusted to give an accurate picture of all that should be conveyed. Some seem to even tamper with the meaning, watering verses down to make them less offensive. I blame religion for this, who is knowingly or unknowingly always coming up with ways to strip the Bride of her association with Christ’s offense — thus making people fit their perfect ideal of “who gets in, and who stays out.” In 1:9 for example, a few versions translate “my mare” as a “company of horses,” when the Hebrew is clearly a female horse, who is among Pharaoh’s horses. But of course this would be a problem for the ancient mind. Often, and for a variety of suggestive details, a comparison of a woman to a mare or filly in poetic literature was a provocative one. In addition to that, horses in general were often associated with a pagan, extravagant lifestyle as well.
But there’s more to it than even this!
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Believe it or not — the coronavirus is in the Song of Songs! We’ll have to jump to Chapter 3, to a part that always puzzled me until now.
But first, it will help to know how this virus was named. Corona means “crown,” and it was named for its spike-like appendages and encircling shape when viewed under a microscope.
But there’s more to a crown than meets the eye! A crown is worn by someone, specifically a king and/or queen, and so a crown also represents a kingdom and its authority. Basically, if you serve a crown, you serve whoever wears it.
Think about this: There is a spiritual reason why a virus named after a crown has recently been…
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What is YOUR experience with the Song of Songs?
I believe anyone starting off on a journey of faith knows, deep down, that the “Song” is uniquely special and useful for their spiritual life. But unfortunately most don’t have the tools to properly understand it. When I was a young girl, I remember reading the Song in secret, and how it ignited desires in me for what was spiritually possible in my love-relationship with Christ. But being raised in a strict religious environment, I didn’t have a mature place to talk about the details of sex, let alone a book like the Song of Songs. So it was largely something that I “put on a back burner,” while meanwhile pursuing a more intellectual and dispassionate approach to studying the Bible.
That is, until…
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“The men were stacked like a ladder on top of each others’ shoulders. The commentator said the picture symbolized all the lives lost throughout history to reach the highest peaks of the world…” And I was captivated. This is a parable of the Intimate Kingdom!
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King David, Solomon’s father, was said to be a man “after God’s own heart.” Not so much after His mind, His purpose, His plans, but His heart. There’s something passionate in this that I can’t shake. David was a visionary for the central part of God, the part that makes Him tick and from which everything flows. One of the ways David expressed this was in a desire for God to have a permanent place to call ‘home.’
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I once spent several years in my 20’s in a very bad slump. I wore a plain brown dress and didn’t wear makeup or put jam on my toast. I walked around feeling the weight of the whole world was on my shoulders, and if I didn’t warn literally everyone that passed me on the street they would all be doomed forever.
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There is a place for meeting our own needs, but there is also a critical time for going on with the Lord in maturity. The Bride in the Song of Songs is not a woman wandering in doubt of who she is or what she wants in life. There is a place she has reached sexually and reproductively that speaks of spiritual maturity, and a desperation right from the opening verse that makes her ‘terrible as an army.’ Song 6:10
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