The King's SOS to Earth

Forever in my memory will be the time I heard a Jew sing in Hebrew the Song of Solomon a-cappella. I was completely captured - I could not move and could barely breathe. It was so beautiful! It seemed as though every fiber of my being came to attention. It was only later in my sojourn that I would learn how intrinsic this passionate description of the heart of our Bridegroom is in yearning for His Bride and the yearning of the Bride for her Bridegroom!

A bit a trivia, in King Solomon’s early days he would go out among his own vineyards, in disguise, and see the state of his affairs. It is within this context that the storyline for the musical, literary art and prophetic book of Song of Solomon was written. The royal king of Israel, disguised as a simple shepherd, comes to a small village in northern Israel. There he meets the Shulamite and experiences a desire and love that was unencumbered by his royal robes. The Shulamite loved him for who he truly was – not for his wealth, rule or title – but for him. He then mysteriously went away. The text records her longing and reflective thoughts of what she could have said or done, as well as receiving a measure of public ridicule for her desperation to find him again.

In the meantime, the daughters of Jerusalem were asking the Shulamite questions about if there was an arrangement, betrothal or marriage. Interestingly enough, the word Shulamite in Hebrew is the feminine form of Solomon. One commentator points

out, it was like calling her Mrs. Solomon, meaning a woman already betrothed.

When the king returned to the village, as the royal king and not a humble shepherd, he made comments on the Shulamite’s beauty. Not recognizing him, she disregarded his many comments. Something to the affect of, “Why me? You have plenty of others. Why an interest in me? I’m lovesick for my beloved.” This continued and, with every detouring comment by the Shulamite, the king’s heart grew increasingly ablaze with love. He then revealed himself. As Paul shares this “revealing of fate” at Israel’s appointed time in Romans 11:26, 27,

And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: “The Deliverer will come out of Zion, and He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob; for this is My covenant with them, when I take away their sins.”

By understanding our study up to this point you can draw the profound and eloquent parallel of our Shepherd King returning in all His Glory to reveal Himself to Israel!