Song of the Bride, Parts 1-34 - Feasting at the King's Table

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Such a battle raged within him! He knew he had a new Master and Lord, but his will was not yet as strong as it needed to be to resist the wiles of the enemy. At last, he cried unto the Lord for help. He needed some spiritual weapon badly! The Lord took from David’s armory (within him) the gift of praying in the spirit and he found himself praying in tongues. The power of God seemed to literally propel him up the steps to the bank where he deposited his friend’s money, all the while praying in tongues. The young man’s supply of spiritual weapons was not yet very large, but he used prayer and the Lord granted him the weapon that would support him at this crucial time. Prayer, praise, and the word of the Lord are strong weapons hanging upon the armory of David, ready for our use when we need help. Psalm 18:2 tells us, ”The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.” Proverbs 18:10, “The name of the Lord is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe.” The number of bucklers (shields) should be cause for rejoicing for us. There are one thousand bucklers) (which means “the glory of God; divine completeness.”) This tells us that there is a sufficiency of weapons in David’s spiritual armory so that believers are well covered and protected! PART TWENTY-TWO Newsletter No. 196 – October 2003 Song of Solomon 4:5, “Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies.” The seventh feature that the Lord admires in His Bride is her breasts. Many would look at this passage carnally, but when one understands what is meant in the Spirit, no offence could possibly be taken. In our day, a woman’s breast is a “secondary sex symbol” and is being displayed as much as possible. Women are even having surgical procedures to increase the size of their breasts. If only they knew that the breast is the seat of the emotions. As we embrace the Lord, our pure emotions are our faith and love. Only through these are we united to the Lord. The breastplate of the Christian and the breasts of the bride are the same. In I Thess. 5:8 we are commanded to put on the breastplate of faith and love. The just live by their faith and their faith “worketh by love.” “Like two young roes.” A young fawn is timid, shy, and easily frightened. It is also very nimble. The young roes are emblems of the spiritual affections, which we hold for the Lord. Because of their sensitive and tender nature, such affections are not for the general public. (I have seen the unsaved flee in the face of this tender love!) These two fawns are born of the same mother and are identical in size. Faith and love are set forth in Gal. 5:6 as of equal importance: “For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but faith which worketh by love.” I Tim. 1:5 and Philemon 5 agree with this thought. No one could be considered fair if they had unequal breasts. There is no such thing as being great in love and small in faith, or great in faith and small in love. These virtues must always be equal, for they are twins. The double breastplate of the Christian is symbolized by the breastplate of Judgment worn by the High Priest. It was double, and was made after the style of a pocket. In it were kept the Urim and Thummim, or the Lights and Perfections, stones through which the priests received guidance from Jehovah. I Thess. 5:8 confirms this: “But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love….” In the pocket of a Christian’s breastplate we have the Holy Spirit who leads and guides us by the rise and fall of the Spirit within. Just as the stones in the breastplate “brightened” when the Lord was saying “Yes”, so they remained “dull” when the answer was “No.” That’s how it is within us when we ask the Lord something! Either the “lights go on” or they “go off!” Eph. 3:14-19 sets forth the meaning of the breasts of the bride. Paul prays that the Ephesians may be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inward man; that Christ may dwell in their hearts through faith. The purpose of this is that they may be rooted and grounded in love. This is the other part of the SONG OF THE BRIDE, Parts 1–34 [Elaine Cook] ~ BIBLE STUDY 32
eastplate. Only when the bride’s breasts of faith and love are fully developed, is she in a place where she can “apprehend the breadth and length and height and depth of the love of Christ. His love is beyond knowledge, so she could never know His great love by her natural senses. It is through this breastplate that she is filled unto all the fullness of God. Both breasts grow and develop, or neither grows. They must grow evenly. Why is this so? We could ask, “Why do we not have more faith?” Because we have not more love to God. Divine love to our fellow-man depends upon our love to God, for as we love Him whom we have not seen, we shall also love our brother whom we have seen. He has provided for us to be perfectly filled out. He gives us hard things to be exercised in so that we may be driven to seek Him. Through seeking Him, we attain unto the love that joyfully loses all things for Christ’s sake, and develop the faith that worketh by love unto removing mountains! Those who have on the breastplate of faith and love are to be found “feeding among the lilies.” The lilies grow in the richest valleys. They are a symbol of the virgins of the bride who feed in the pasture of the great Shepherd. They draw down the life of Christ and feed upon hidden manna and through faith and love, the life of their Bridegroom is manifested in them. We sum up all of the things the Lord has admired in the body of the bride that show forth the beauty and graces that He has inworked in her. Each virgin of this company has been prepared and conformed to the will of God, and to the image of Jesus Christ. Each virgin has beautiful, uncut locks of separation protecting her dove-like eyes. By faith she feeds upon the Word and her lips are holy, ever covered with the blood of Jesus. Her speech is edifying to both God and man. She is humble before her Lord, but bold and fearless before the enemy. Her faith and love are being perfectly developed as she reaches out to her Beloved and feeds in His pasture. PART TWENTY-THREE Newsletter No. 197 – November 2003 Song of Solomon 4:6, “Until the day break and the shadows flee away, I will get Me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.” The historical meaning of these words point to the last hours that the Lord spent on earth, before He instituted the betrothal supper and just before the crucifixion. Shadows of approaching night were falling upon the day of the Bridegroom’s presence upon earth. These shadows took the form of a rugged cross outside the city walls. Jesus was aware that His disciples did not discern that the hour was at hand when they would be left alone— yet, not alone, for the Comforter would come unto them. He spoke very plainly: “The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and the chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.” The traditions of men still blinded their eyes, which yet looked for an earthly Deliverer, one who would set them free from the Roman yoke, when His plan was to set all men free from the yoke of sin. Still today we see that same blindness upon the church system who look to be raptured and escape from this present evil world when the Lord came to deliver them from it by making them overcomers over it! “The Mountain of Myrrh” is a symbol of the tomb in which the Lord lay. “The Hill of Frankincense” represents the cross of Calvary where He offered Himself. Myrrh shows forth the priceless value of Christ’s redemptive work. It is a fragrant, gummy substance with a bitter taste. The bride of Christ also knows bitterness as is shown by Esther, who was purified by “oil of myrrh” for six months, to prepare her to be the king’s bride. This tells us, though bitter things may be allowed to come into our lives, the Lord will use them to do a precious work in our hearts. When I hear the prevailing thought that “Jesus died so I won’t have to,” I know the truth of the matter is: “He died so that I might also have the power to die to my self-life and walk in the newness of His life.” SONG OF THE BRIDE, Parts 1–34 [Elaine Cook] ~ BIBLE STUDY 33
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