This is the end, the last verse of the greatest love Song ever written.

Solomons Song of Songs 8:14

So how does the greatest true love story end?

Possible one or two sentence explanations of the ending.

• And they lived happy then grew happier and will continue growing holier and happier every day after, for ever and ever!
• Love desired union or oneness with the object/Object of her affection, she got it, enjoyed it more than anything else and was fully satisfied yet always desiring a stricter union.
• After being totally one with her husband, she still yearned for even closer intimacy. Her love new no end.  Her love was everlasting!
• A growing blessed oneness never ends in a marriage where both have the very “Flame of the LORD” in them.
• It started with her wanting the closest intimacy as soon as possible and even after perfect oneness in marriage she still wants a stricter union and greater displays of love because experiencing his/His love is more delightful than any other experience.
• If you are saved then you know how she is feeling at the end of the Song for our hearts yearn for the strictest and happiest union with Christ which happen when He raptures us or we die.  As we lay up our good deeds on top of the greatest mountains/trials, we yearn for the return of Christ when we can glorify Him by supremely enjoying Him forever.  A stricter and stricter blessed union forever for we are one in Christ as They are One.

1. They are Separated
2. Separated yet one
3. Separated by a long distance
4. Separated for a long time
5. Separated for a long time through many ups and downs
6. Separated for a long time through many ups and downs yet she is still producing consistent fruit/spices.
7. Separated and all the time longing for even more nearness or a stricter oneness.
   1. Her request in this fruitful time of his absence.  “Make haste, Come away.”
   2. To come quickly,  not just come but hurry!
   3. Skillfully to make haste.
8. Then Application for the husband, wife, believer and non believer.

1. She is either physically or spiritually separated
   1. She is physically separated.  What separated them we don’t know.  The verse just starts with her wanting her husband to come quickly to her all the while enjoying the spice laden mountains she has for him.  Though in the Song they are physically separated, this verse serves as a good illustration of an outward expression of an inward spiritual reality.  Her soul still wants a stricter union even after practical oneness is achieved.  Love desires the strictest union with the objection of its affection.  Both a physical and spiritual union.  The closest possible.  And when separated the heart gets love sick and desires the object of its affection to be near and not far.  Those who have the “Flame of the LORD” in them will feel this way when their husband/Husband feels far off.  Ours sins separate us from God Is. 59:2  and then He wont hear our prayers.
2. Separated yet one.  There is always room for our hearts to grow in the grace and the knowledge of God.  Always room for greater revelations of Christ.  Our ideas of God can grow forever.  As the husbands idea’s of God grow and the wife’s idea keep growing respectively then the husband and wife will forever grow stricter in their blessed union.  They were one positionally and not practically.  They grew to practical oneness then she desires the union to be even stricter, closer and more one with each other.
3. He feels really far off to her.  “be like a gazelle on the spice laden mountains”  Thats a lot of mountains they are far apart, yet fully satisfied in God alone for she has not sinned in his absence due to the multiple mountains or ups and downs in life.  She made it through them all and stayed holy all the while he felt really far away.  Not that he was near but he was far, far away over many mountains.  So He needed to come from what felt like a great distance to her to being close to her.  From the context she has sinned for a really long time while he still feels far away!  She is
4. She has been separated for a long time.  She has been on top of many mountains producing fruit.  This takes some time in life to have overcome many difficulties staying fruitful, holy and happy the whole time.  He has not been gone for a short time.  This looks like at least days of absence and maybe weeks or months.  At any rate it is a long time that she has been separated.  Although this could be one day.  She could have had multiple mountain like trials in one day like Job and stayed worshipful.  “The Lord gives the Lord takes away, blessed be the Name of the LORD!”
5. She has been separated through many ups and downs.  The mountains represent ease going down from on top.  Difficulty going up.  She has been humbling herself and intentionally denying herself for a long time without enjoying his presence.
6. She is separated for a long time through many ups and downs still producing fruit!  The good times she hasn’t forgotten him and the bad times she still praises.  He gives he takes away, blessed be the name of the Lord.  She still loves God and other’s even when his felt joyful presence is gone for a long time.  She is fully leaning on her beloved right now in his absence.
7. She is separated and never stopped longing/desiring closer intimacy or oneness.  Her heart felt request in this fruitful time of his absence is
   1. “come away.”   Make haste.  Hurry!!  Her request and deepest desire is still.  “Let him show me his affection over and over again because his name is like perfume poured out and his love is more delightful than any other experience.”  She desires even closer longer uninterrupted holy intimacy with her beloved.   It would be the same for her to say “Hurry, make our union stricter for we are one.”  She is not talking to anyone, she is just expressing her feelings about the one she loves who is absent so that we can know how she feels when he is gone!!  They are separated by mountains.  How could he hear her?   Her beloved husband is gone and she wants God to show His Love and Grace by blessing her with the presence of her husband.  She has a desire in this fruitful time of his absence. He has been gone a long time and patience is getting pushed to the limit.  Waiting on God’s time for his return.  She is the bride.  Her spirit says “Come”.  She yearns for him, so she says make haste.  She is not where he is.  He is gone.  She wants him there with her.
   2. To come quickly,  not just come but come quickly!  This shows the intensity of her desire.  The urgency in her heart!  Even though she is older and fully mature she still doesn’t want to waist anytime getting closer!  Her hunger for his deeper love felt presence is increasing still even after their hearts were one.  As a deer pants for streams of water so her soul has panted for him for a long time and didn’t stop.  This also proves that she didn’t stop desiring God.  Had she stopped desiring God then she would have stopped desiring her husband.  The deer doesn’t want to wait around for water when it is panting.  It wants water now.  She wanted enjoyment in his presence.  The longer she can produce fruit in his absence the greater her joy will be when he does come. He has been gone a long time and she is panting for him.  Panting intensely.  Her heart is enlarged and waiting to be filled with more love, joy and comfort when he returns.  Imagine if she said, “Take your time”.  No she wants him now.  Come quickly, hurry.  Let the king take me into his chambers.
   3. Skillfully to make haste.  To skillfully draw near to her.  Using his unmeasurable wisdom.  Solomon had unmeasurable skill to love his wife and overcome any obstacle, like a gazelle on the mountain tops.  Come in all your glory.  Let me see your wisdom and skill in life as you return to me.  She knows him to be skillful on the mountain tops.  This is the way she wants him to return.  She wants to see him return to her displaying his skills as he comes back to be with her.  Her request is for him to hurry and make a glorious return. He has been gone a long time, he must be doing something really good for her in his absence.

Let us learn from the bride and stay fruitful always yearning for the return of Christ, for we desire to be near Him always.  Be being filled with the Spirit.  Beholding the Moral Beauty and wisdom of God in Christ our Heavenly Husband.  There is no one like Him.  The virgins who had oil and were ready. Matt. 25.  The spiritual father is ready at all times.  To be fruitful and hastening his return no matter how long he is gone.  The father has learned this skill through many absences. He knows how to keep his heart humble for long periods.  Not only humble but counting all trials joy knowing that they have made him mature and complete lacking nothing.  She is a Proverbs 31 Woman, fearing the Lord and worthy of praise and honor.

Imagine the praise she has coming her way!!  She has earned and is worthy of the greatest praise ever!!!  Every time Solomon praises his wife it is after a time when she is worthy of it and is humble enough to receive it and give the glory to God.

Here she has stayed fruitful in multiple highs and lows of life all the while yearning to sense his love greater than before.  Her heart is completely and fully ready and humbled to receive the greatest honor and praise of her life!!

Suppose she would die at this moment and get her hearts desire to the fullest.  What would that praise sound like?  It would come directly from God.

Zephaniah 3:17

“The Lord your God is in your midst, A Victorious Warrior. He will exult over you with joy, He will be quiet in His love, He will rejoice over you with shouts of joy.”

“Well done good and faithful servant, enter into the Joy of your Master.”  Matthew

And you will stay perfectly humble, no pride at all, no selfishness, no giving yourself the credit when Christ praises you and he will forever praise you as you live in eternity loving and obeying Him without sin and the happiness and holiness gets better and better as my heart is continually enlarged to behold greater revelations of the glory and beauty of God in the face of Christ.  This is eternal life, that we may grow in our knowledge of God, that we may know Christ, love him deeper, enjoy him more as God is our all in all.  So our eternity ends the way the Song does.  We will be perfect but always wanting a stricter union to never end.  And it wont.  It will just get better and better forever and ever!  Amen.

Suppose she doesn’t die, then what is coming?

She is still desiring stricter union, happier, longer, deeper, wider and more intense intimacy as quickly as possible.  She hasn’t sinned so she has quite the praise coming her way.  Solomon would praise her moral character in ways far greater than in the Song thus far!!  Can you imagine that !!?  Greater praises, admiration, prizing, valuing, honoring expressing of the greatest type of Christ enjoying the holiness of his bride in her presence as her perfume spreads its fragrance.

Application

Husbands

1. Do your best to be the example of the perfect husband.  Do whatever you possibly can to help bring your wife closer to God and yourself in love.  Clearly the bride desires to be holy and happy, pleasing her husband in all respects during the good times and bad.  Your job is to catch all the foxes that ruin your relationship from blossoming!  You must be the example in the relationship, man up!!
2. If there is something wrong with the relationship it is first and mainly your fault.  You are the head and leader.  You know this well with football.  When the team is doing bad they first go to the coach.  They often fire the coach if the team is doing bad.  If the marriage if not so good fire the coach.  You are the coach.  But you can’t fire yourself or leave the marriage, that would be sinful, but you can repent.  Repent of all sin!!  Look to the cross for forgiveness and live a holy life.  Read you Bible daily with your wife and kids.  The reason she loves Solomon so much is because his name was like perfume poured out.  If you name is like perfume poured out, and your love is more delightful than wine and your wife is saved there shouldn’t be much wrong in the relationship.  Look, if you are reading and praying together then both of you will be growing.  Do your job and lead her spiritually by being an example of a godly husband worthy of honor and loving lead her spiritually.  What believing wife wouldn’t love listening to a man of God?
3. Go about the city through its streets and squares and search for God.  Grow in grace and knowledge of God!  As you grow closer to God so will she.  This is her greatest desire and happiness!!  This is where she is most happy if she is saved.  The greatest happiness is in holiness.  Holiness consists in love to God.  The closer you are to God the holier you are.  The holier you are the closer to God you are, ever getting closer.
4. Don’t waist time in your pursuit of a stricter oneness with your wife!  I know finding time may be hard nowadays but you always can give up some sleep to pray for your wife or read and memorize scripture.  Whatever, my point is that love is sacrificial.  You must give up something in order for your love to grow.  Give up watching tv.  Pray for God to give you the time.  He will give you time or you will find some.  Praise your wife when she is morally beautiful!!  Adore her noble character!  Even if you know she knows you appreciate her, say it!!  Say it with the sweetest words you can come up with!!  Praise her sincerely from the heart if she is staying faithful to God during the ups and downs of life!  Praise her today!!  Think of all the good she does and thank her now if you can.  Send her a text “Thinking of you”.   Do something more or better than you already are.   Keep going and don’t ever stop praising her as long as she can stay humble.  70% of the time Solomon speaks he is praising or adoring her physical or moral beauty!!

For the Wife

1.  Be as excellent as possible laying spices on top of the mountains.   A spice on the mountain is what your godly husband will enjoy about you.  What will make you more attractive, adorable, valuable and loving is for you to stay obeying God and not sinning in the high times/mountains and the low times of the valleys.  If you husband doesn’t see the fruit of your Love to God in the ups and downs of life, Im sure Christ see’s and enjoys your love to Him.  Do it for God first!!  If you do not listen to your husband that is sin,  you must repent and obey your husband.  God commands it!!  Im not saying to let you husband use you, but he is your head or leader and you are his side.  Be a suitable helper!  Pursue the closest most intimate relationship with God through Christ as soon as possible!!

For the Believer

Application for the believer is much the same as it is for the wife, except for one huge infinite difference.  To get a right application from the Old testament to the new we must argue from the lesser messiah to the greater.  Matt. 12:42

Meaning here in our text she desires closer intimacy with Solomon.  There is nothing directly in the text here for believers.  This is an example of what the bride is doing.  Is this right, wrong or whatever.  There are no commands in this text for believers.  But we can use other scriptures.    This text has the bride wanting her physical husband to be near her.  In order for a proper application we ask the question.

Is there anything similar going on in Song 8:14 that is similar to our marriage to Christ, our union with Him in Love the “Flame of the LORD” Song 8:6?

We see the bride yearning for the return of Christ in Rev. 22:17.

Christ is greater than Solomon Matt. 12:42   Greater in Wisdom.  Christ’s Wisdom as the Son of God is greater than the wisdom Solomon had, though Solomon had unbearable wisdom 1 Kings 4:29  Christ’s Wisdom is superior to Solomon’s.   Solomon was a type of Christ who loved his wife as Christ loved the Church.  Therefore the strictest union with Solomon would be most desirable.  The bride in the Song yearned for the return of her husband, how much more so ought we to yearn for the return of the one we love and are separated from, our Lord Jesus Christ.  Keep setting your eyes on Christ who..

Do you see the words “more so”.   Our Heavenly Husband is worthy of yearning for closer intimacy more than Solomon.

Psalm 6:4  “Turn, LORD, and deliver me; save me because of Your unfailing love.”

For the non believer

You are a non believer.  You think you get to heaven by your good deeds or that your not as bad as others, your faith is in your own supposed good deeds and not the deeds of Christ to save you from hell.  You are self-righteous.  You are outside a love relationship with Christ and you love your sin.  The proof of your love for sin is that you continue in it, you have no power over sin and temptation for the Love of God the flame of the LORD is not in you. You do no yearn for intimacy with Christ like the bride of Christ does.  You are condemned to hell unless you repent and believe Christ died for you sins.  And having believed with your whole heart your life, words and actions will change to reflect that of someone who loves God and is eagerly awaiting the return of Christ..

You do not eagerly await the return of Christ because your hope of pleasure and delight is in this world and not the world to come.

You are not united to Christ for you sins have separated you from God Is. 59:2.  God is holy and you are not.  Stop sinning or you will have hell to pay for ever and ever.  It only gets worse if you don’t repent.  If you don’t look to Jesus on the cross bearing you sin and shame you will spend eternity in the lake of fire yearning for salvation and never getting it.  The pain will only get worse and you will become more and more hopeless due to you knowing that there will be no end to your just punishment.  It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of a righteously Angry God.  You are a sinner in the hands of an Angry God.

Repent and believe in the Person and work of Christ on the cross on your behalf and keep “looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be destroyed by burning, and the elements will melt with intense heat!  2 Peter 3:12

Other verses

She is mature and continuing in maturity and has not be shaken from living a blameless life for quite some time like Psalm 15.

Imaginary praise that Solomon may give his sinless bride.

Song 8:14

“Hurry, my beloved,
And be like a gazelle or a young stag
On the mountains of spices.”

(not Solomons Song of Songs 8:15 but an ending where she dies at the stake by the enemies of God)

Listen my beloved/Beloved here he comes,

Here he comes quickly over the spice laden mountains.

My heart pounded with anticipation of seeing his face,

He peered through the lattice and my heart skipped a beat.

I ran out to meet him and he was already at the door.

I opened to my beloved and his face shone brighter than before.

I most delightfully beheld his holy beauty as he praised

my noble character, staying humble, holding on tight and never letting go,

my perfume spread its fragrance like never before as he honored me in his presence.

How beautiful your are my love, and oh how beautiful,

I was nearly blinded by the light of your holiness.

Your robes are brilliant whiter than the whitest snow,

Your eyes like doves lovelier than I ever imagined,

Your love more precious than rubies,

Your faithfulness stretches to the highest heaven,

Your holy joy, I am speechless attempting to describe,

You know I love You,

I know you do,

You feet stand in twigs ready for the flame,

Your hand tied behind a stake for My Name,

How beautiful you are my love,

OH how beautiful,

Your holiness adorns you more beautiful than jewels,

More than jewels adorn a bride on her wedding day

As the flames beneath my feet were lit,

My Lover spoke and said to me,

Today you will be with me in Paradise.

Lord into your hands I commit my spirit.

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