King Solomon wrote 1,005 songs, but the “Song of Songs” is tops on the Heavenly Billboard Hot 100 forever. This Oriental love song is divided into three parts recording the courtship, the wedding, and the marriage of King Solomon to an unnamed peasant country girl from Shunem, located near the Valley of Armageddon. Many believe her to be Solomon’s first and true love, whom he married before he backslid from the precepts of God. Thus, they are the odd couple. Who would imagine King Solomon with a farm girl?

The imagery of a typical Jewish wedding unfolds in chapter 3:6-10. The groom has finally arrived without advanced notice with great pomp and a parade of people. He appears in his luxurious coach to then whisk away his beautiful bride. The groom will take the bride to his father’s house, where he has prepared a place for them to remain alone and out of sight for seven days.

In John 14:2 Jesus promised, “In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare aplace for you, I will come again and will take you to myself.” Jesus Christ is the groom and His church is His beautiful bride. The Bible informs us of a great catching away of born again believers in the twinkling of an eye (1 Cor 15, 1 Thes 4). This world will then experience incredibly great tribulation for seven years. We the bride, will have beencaught up and out of sight to remain alone with Jesus Christ, at His Father’s house in heaven.

Solomon’s marriage to a peasant girl foreshadows Christ’s marriage to us bankrupt and undeserving sinners, who have only our hearts to offer. Revelation 22:17 declares our current mission to this lost and misguided world is to proclaim, “The Spirit and the Bride say, ‘Come.’"

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Pastor Huck