Longest Love Story.
Rabbi Akiva,one of the sages of the Talmud, said, All the songs of Scripture are holy, but the Song of Songs is holy of holies.” To both the Sages of the Talmud and the classic commentators, it was clear that the Song of Songs is an allergory, a duet of longing between God and Israel.
Solomon foresaw through the Holy Spirit that Israel is destined to suffer a series of exiles and will lament, nostalgically recalling her former status as God’s chosen beloved… And they will recall the goodness He promised for the End of Days.
The prophets frequently likened the relationship between God and Israel to that of a loving husband angered by the straying wife who betrayed Him. Solomon composed the Song of Songs in the form of that same allegory. It is a passionate dialogue between the husband(God) who still love his estranged exiled wife(Israel), who long for her husband and seeks to endear herself to him again, as she recalls her youthful love for him and admit her guilt.
God, too… recalls the kindness of Israel’s youth, her beauty, and her skill deeds for which He loved her so. He proclaims that… she is still her wife and He her husband, and He will yet return to her.
Some of the verses extractfed from Song of Songs depicting the dialogue between God and Israel and vice versa.
God to Israel, 2:2-3a:- Like the rose maintaining its beauty among the thorns, so is My faithful beloved among the nations. Like the fruitful, fragrant apple among the barren trees of the forest, so is my Beloved among the gods.
Israel reminisces, 2:3b to 6:- In His shade I delighted and there I sat, and the fruit of His Torah was sweet to my palate. He brought me the the chamber of Torah delights and clustered my encàmpments about Him in love. I say to Him, “Sustain me in exile with dainty cakes, spread fragrant apples about me to comfort my dispersion, for, bereft of Your Presence, I am sick with love.” With memories of His loving support in the desert, of His left hand under my head, of Hi right hand enveloping me.
Song of Songs 3:7-8:- Behold the resting place of Him to Whom peace belongs, with sixty myriads of Israel’s mighty encircling it. 8 All of them gripping the sword of tradition(Oral Laws), skilled in the battle of Torah, each with his sword ready at his side, lest he succumb in the nights of exile.
God to Israel, Song of Songs 4:1:- Behold, you are lovely, My beloved, behold you are lovely, your very appearance radiates dovelike constancy…
Going into exile & Coming from exile back to Jerusalem was already prophesied in Song of Songs…
God to Israel, Song of Songs 4:8 to 16:- With Me will you be exiled from the Temple, O bride, with Me from the Temple until you return; then to comtemplate the fruits of your faith from its earliest beginnings, … cont’d verse16 Awake from the North and come from the south! Like the winds let my exiles return to My garden, let their fragrant goodness flow in Jerusalem. Let but my Beloved come to His garden and enjoy His precoius people.
How many times this phrase, “O nations destined to ascend to Jerusalem…” was repeated in the book of Song of Songs? The answer are 6 times. They are chapter 1:5; 2:7; 3:5; 5:8; 5:16 and finally 8:4. This is how Israel reply to the nations in the verse of Song of Songs 8:4 read, “I adjure you, O nations who are destined to ascend to Jerusalem, if you dare provoke God to hate me or disturb His love for me while He still desires it.”
How did the nations and still doing it to to provoke God to hate Israel or disturb His love for Israel while God still desires Israel?
Have you heard of the Replacement Theology created by the church?
Replacement Theology teaches that the church has replaced Israel in God’s plan. Those who uphold the Replacement Theology believe the Jew are no longer God’s chosen people, and God does not have specific future plans for the nation of Israel. It also teaches that the church is the replacement for Israel and that many promises made to Israel in the Bible are fulfilled in the christian church, not in Israel. Do you buy this lies of the Replacement Theology?
Big problems exist with this Replacement Theology view, such as the continuing existence of the Jewish people throughout the centuries. The Jews still remain, but where are the Roman Empire?, are the Romans still around? They were the greatest persecutors of the Jewish nation. They were no more around.
Isaiah 54:17:- Any weapon (Roman Empire) sharpened against you will not succeed, and any tongue(Replacement Theology) that will rise against you in judgement, you will condemn. This is the Heritage of the servants of Hashem(Israel), and their righteousness from Me – the words of Hashem.
Isaiah 66:8-9:- “Who has heard such as this? Who has seen such as these? Has a land gone through its labour in one day? Has a nation ever been born at one time, as Zion went through her labour and gave birth to her children? Shall I bring a woman to the birthstool and not have her give birth? says Hashem. Shall I, Who causes birth, hold it back? says your God.”
This verse is the ongoing fulfillment of the modern nation of Israel since the year 1948. If Israel has been condemned by God, and there is no future for the Jewish nation, how do we explain the supernatural survival of the Jewish people over the past 2 millennium despite many destructive forces(anti-semitism) to destroy them? How do we explain why and how Israel reappeared as a new nation in 1948 after not existing for nearly 2000 years.
Song of Songs 8:5:-” How worthy she(Israel) is ascending from the wilderness(worldwide exiles) bearing Torah and His Presence, clinging to her Beloved! Under Sinai suspended above me, there I aroused Your love, there was Your people born; a mother to other nations, there she endured the travail of her birth.
Israel interjects in Song of Songs 8:7a:- Many waters of heathen tribulation cannot extinguish the fire of this love, nor the rivers of royal seduction or torture wash it away.
God replies to Israel in Song of Songs 8:7b:- “Were any man to offer all the treasure of his home to entice you away from your love, they would scorn him to extreme.”
The Heavenly Tribunal reflects on Song of Songs 8:8-9:- “Israel desires to cleave to us, the small and humble one, but her time of spiritual maturity has not yet come. What shall we do for our “cleaving one” on the day the nations plot against her?”
If her faith and belief are strong as a wall withstanding incursions from without, we shall become her fortress and beauty, building her city and Holy Temple; but if she wavers like a door, succumbing to every alien knock, with fragile cedar panels shall we then enclose her.
Israel replies proudly in Song of Songs 8:10-11:- “My faith is firm as a wall, and my nourishing synagogues and study halls are strong as towers! Then, having said so, I become in His eyes like a bird found perfect. Israel was the vineyard of Him to Whom peace belongs in populous Jerusalem. He gave His Vine yard to harsh, cruel guardians; each one came to extort his fruit, even a thousand silver pieces.”
God say to the nations, on judgment day on Song of Songs 8:12a:- “The vineyard(Isreal) is Mine! Your iniquities are before Me!
The nations will reply in Song of Songs 8:12b:- “The thousand silver pieces are Yours, You to Whom peace belongs, and two hundred more to the Sages who guarded the fruit of Torah from our designs.”
God to Israel in Song of Songs 8:13:- “O My beloved, dwelling in far-flung gardens(synagogues throughout the world), your fellows, the angels, hearken to your voice of Torah and prayer. Let Me hear it, that they may then sanctify Me”
Israel to God in Song of Songs 8:14:- Flee, my Beloved, from our common exile and be like gazelle or a young hart in Your swiftness to redeem and rest Your Presence among us on the fragrant Mount Moriah, the site of Your Temple.
This is the Longest Love Story between God and Isreal( Everlasting Love of God towards Israel) to refute the Replacement Theology.
Hurrah, Judaism and Noahidism in on the path towards Ascendency but Christendom is on the path towards descendency.
So the six verses found in Song of Songs as mentioned earlier, “O nations who are destined to ascend to Jerusalem…….” to witness the re-construction of the Third Temple on Mount Moriah.
It is also predicted when the Jewish Messiah come in Isaiah 2:4:- ” It will happen in the end of days: The mountains of the Temple of Hashem will be firmly established as the head of the mountains, and it will be exalted above the hills, and all the nations will stream to it. Many peoples will go and say, ‘Come, let us go up to the Mountain of Hashem, to the Temple of the God of Jacob, and He will teach us of His ways and we will walk in His paths.’ For from Zion will the Torah come forth, and the word of Hashem from Jerusalem. He will judge among the nations, and will settle the arguments of many people. They shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks; nation will not lift sword against nation and they will no longer study warfare.”