The Coming King

“Pleasing is the fragrance of your ointments, your name is like ointment poured forth.  Now wonder the young maidens love you.”  Solomon’s Song of Songs 1:3

The bride in Solomon’s Song of Songs falls in love with young Solomon at his anointing.

The first coming of the king in the Love Song is at his anointing.

From her perspective he is being anointed and she smells his ointments and knows his character and compares the two and is pleased with both and so are all the other girls.  So she says,

“Pleasing is the fragrance of your ointments, your name is like ointment poured forth.  Now wonder the young maidens love you.”

So the first time Israel’s new Messiah shows up in the Love Song he is being anointed, then rejoiced and delighted in by all who love him.

Then the bride to  be wants to be near her shepherd/king.  So he encourages her to “follow” the tracks of the sheep and “find rest” by the shepherd tents.

So at his first coming the king (Song 1:2-2:6)

1 He arouses her affections at his anointing

2 Encourages his bride to be to follow his lead and find rest by his side

3  He praises her noble character and she is happy that he is pleased with her

4  As he adores her she has high thoughts of him.

5  They both stare at and compliment each other’s beauty and doves eyes

6  They both delightfully share the same luxurious setting.

7  She realizes her new found inner beauty and compares it to a rose

8  He noticed that amongst difficulty she still stayed holy and beautiful inside

9  Being in a love relationship with him was delightful and gave her heart a peace that surpassed her understand and rest that satisfied her every need.   Therefore she compares him to an “Apple tree” where she delighted “to sit in his shade” and “his fruit was sweet to her taste”

10  She becomes love sick with the thoughts of his love.  She desires something to sustain her under such overwhelming thoughts and feelings.

11  He takes her to a banquet hall where there he has a banner over her with the word “Love” on it.  She grows faint and it ends with her being supported by his loving arms.

The second coming of the king (Song 2:8-3:4)

1  This time he shows up he proposes to her.  He wants a commitment from her.

 

The 3rd coming (Song 3:5-5:1)

The 3rd time the king shows up in a glorious and heavily guarded chariot for his wedding.

The 4th coming of the king (5:2-8:3)

The forth time he shows up is at a time when she wasn’t expecting him and she opens the door to late..

 

The 5th coming  (8:4-8-13)

The King and his Queen show up together, coming out of the dessert.

The 6th coming is yet to happen  (Song 8:15  Well there is no 8:15 because it hasn’t happened yet.)

 

The Love Song ends with the bride yearning for the return of her Messiah.  She is hastening his return

“Hurry, my beloved, And be like a gazelle or a young stag On the mountains of spices.”  Solomon’s Song of Songs 8:14

There is much more to add to his 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th coming but I just wanted to show that there are 6 comings of the king in the Song.

I have yet to see a correlation somewhere with Jesus showing up 6 different times.

Jesus did show up to Jerusalem on a donkey and was hailed as the Messiah.

The second time Jesus showed up to earth was after he died.

Then depending on your end time beliefs

There is a time when the bride of Jesus Christ is snatched away at a twinkling of an eye.

There is a time when Jesus Christ comes down the way that he left in glory.

There is a time when he comes he will reign in Jerusalem for 1,000 years with His Bride.

There is also among other things a marriage supper of the Lamb yet to come.