| THE APOSTOLIC CHURCH |
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| 8 The voice of my beloved! Behold, he comes, leaping on the mountains, skipping on the hills. 9 My beloved is like a roe or a young deer. Behold, he stands behind our wall! He looks in at the windows. He glances through the lattice. |
| Song 2:8 leaping on the mountains – the beginning of love. Christ as the Bridegroom pursues His bride, which is the Church. The mountain upon which He leaped, is best described as the Hill of Golgotha – “for the joy set before Him, He endured the cross” (Heb 12:2). |
| 10 My beloved spoke, and said to me, “Rise up, my love, my beautiful one, and come away. 11 For behold, the winter is past. The rain is over and gone. 12 The flowers appear on the earth. The time of the singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land. 13 The fig tree ripens her green figs. The vines are in blossom. They give out their fragrance. Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away.” |
| Song 2:11 the rain is over – the outpouring of the holy spirit, that began the Church, is described as rain in Hos 6:3. The latter spring rain brings “life” into the world. |
| Lover 14 My dove in the clefts of the rock, in the hiding places of the mountainside, let me see your face. Let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet and your face is lovely. 15 Catch for us the foxes, the little foxes that plunder the vineyards; for our vineyards are in blossom. Beloved 16 My beloved is mine, and I am his. He browses among the lilies. 17 Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be like a roe or a young deer on the mountains of Bether. |
| Song 2:15 the little foxes that spoil the vineyards – the vine is the Church, Christ’s saints, “I am the vine and you are the branches” (John 15:5). The little foxes are the small deceptions of Satan that destroy the Church. |
| 1 By night on my bed, I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn’t find him. |
| Song 3:1 I didn’t find him – Christ has disappeared from “the Great City” (Rev 11:8) the corrupted Church. The saints are now in the wilderness, in “mystery Babylon” (Rev 17:5). The Abomination of desolation has been set up (Dan 8:11; Dan 11:31; Dan 12:11; Matt 24:15). |
| 2 I will get up now, and go about the city; in the streets and in the squares I will seek him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn’t find him. 3 The watchmen who go about the city found me; “Have you seen him whom my soul loves?” 4 I had scarcely passed from them, when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, into the room of her who conceived me. |
| Song 3:4 I had scarcely passed from them when I found Him – the saints, the woman, finds Christ, just outside the City. |
| 5 I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, or by the hinds of the field, that you not stir up nor awaken love, until it so desires. |
| Song 3:5 do not stir up nor awaken love until it pleases – the ending of this section. The love of the saints for Christ will continue in the Wilderness. The Woman will fly into the wilderness. |
