She loved the Messiah’s

The bride in Solomon’s Song of Songs is married to Israels Messiah.  This post is to help you understand my use of the word “Messiah’s” when I write.

She is also united by faith to the coming Messiah Jesus Christ.

Often when I write I may say “The bride loved Israel’s Messiah’s”

Above is a picture of Solomon as a child, the 3rd anointed king of Israel.  He may be as young as 12 or 13 and as old as 18, but a “child” 1 Kings 3:7 and Messiah of Israel.  The second picture is of the coming Messiah.  She loved both of them.

When I use the word “Messiah’s” in the plural what I mean is that the bride could physically see Israel’s third Messiah and she loved him.

The physically seen 3rd Messiah of Israel was Solomon, the king of peace also name Jedidiah, meaning beloved son of God.

Israel’s first physical Messiah or Anointed one or Christ in the greek was Saul.  David was Israel’s second Messiah or Anointed king.  The third Messiah was Solomon.

In the first few verses of the Song David was dying and had told his wife Bathsheba and Nathan the prophet that Solomon was to be the next Messiah of Israel and not Adonijah.  The child Solomon was anointed king and the single sunburnt slave girl was there and desired to be married to Israel’s third king.

The other Messiah

When I say something like “The bride in Solomon’s Song of Songs loved the Messiah’s”   I not only mean the current physically seen human anointed king of Israel but also the coming Messiah.

The promised one who would rule as king of Israel forever.

Her faith in the coming Messiah.

He would be a sinless substitute typified in the temple sacrifices and God killing a substitute in Gen 3:21 to cover Adam and Eve’s sin and shame.  The fact that an innocent spotless substitute would suffer in place of the sinner was typified in the temple sacrifices.  The bride in the Song had a true special unquenchable love in her heart.  Song 8:6.  This is no common love, which is no true love at all that we are all born with, but a special love from God and is something of God in her heart.

The bride believed God when He said He would send a Messiah to “crush Satan’s head” in Gen. 3:15.  Her faith in the coming Messiah would credit her righteousness.  She would be counted righteous in God’s eyes not by any works she had done but because God said something and she believed it. Gen. 16:5

Her love to the coming Messiah.

Not only did the bride in the Song have faith in the coming Messiah Jesus Christ, although she didn’t know as much as we know about Jesus she did know enough that would save her from suffering for her own sins but she believed a spotless substitute would die in her place.

Since the sinless substitute would be holy, and since she had true love in her heart then she would love any being/Being that was holy as well.  She would love them with a both a love of complacency first that was the foundation of her love of benevolence.  True love has God and the supreme excellency of His nature, or Holiness, as the object of its affection first before any other true love to any other being can be exercised.

So the bride would have some idea of the coming Messiah or Christ that would crush Satan’s head and be a sinless substitute and rule as king from Jerusalem forever.  Clearly Solomon was like the coming Messiah Jesus Christ in many ways but he didn’t die for our sins nor was he sinless and nor did he rule from Jerusalem as king forever because he died.  Solomon was a type of the coming Messiah Jesus Christ but Jesus Christ is the Anti-type.

Since the bride had some idea of the promised Messiah in her head and she had a true unquenchable love for the current type of Christ she would also have a love for the coming Messiah.  She would understand the coming Messiah’s love for her, because he would die for her.  Since he would be a sinless substitute, then the love of the coming Messiah would be understood because of what he/He would do.  ( I say he/He because there is enough information in the OT for her to know the coming Messiah would be God but wether or not she knew that we don’t know.   Ex. 23:21 God’s “Name YHWH would be in Him.”  He would be the “seed of a woman.”  Gen. 3  and David said in Ps. 101:1 The LORD says to my Lord: “Sit at My right hand Until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.”  “Lord”  is God.  So there is enough in the OT to know that the Messiah would be both human and God but wether or not the bride in the Song new this we don’t know.)

What we do know is that if she had true love in her heart then she would have to have faith in God and the coming Messiah.  Having true love to God she would also love the coming Messiah (whatever she knew of him/Him), therefore she loved Israel’s Messiah’s.

She loved the one Messiah she could see and smell the anointing oil of and she loved the Messiah she couldn’t see but was promised to come.  She loved Israel’s Messiah’s.

We also have not seen the coming Messiah Jesus Christ who will reign as King of king from Jerusalem.  Do you love Him who you haven’t seen by faith?

Do you have some idea of Jesus Christ the Beloved Son of God who gave Himself for you as Sinless Substitute?

Learn more and more about Jesus Christ so you can love him/Him more!!  You must grow in the knowledge and grace of our LORD!!  You ought to desire him/Him more than anything else because His love is more delightful than wine!  He is the Chief Lover of all who gave himself for us.  He is the True Messiah that all the other Messiah’s gave us some idea of.

Is your love waining?  Learn more of Jesus!  Learn more about the types of Jesus Christ and argue from the lesser type to the Greater Type.  Solomon loved his bride, but the Love is Jesus is Greater by far!  Think often of the Love of Israel’s Messiah’s.