Introduction: Do you like Love Stories? Here is a passage of Scripture that is an intimate “Love” relationship between Solomon and his Shunamite bride. There are several different approaches to interpreting this book called the Song of Solomon. Some interpret it as meaning Jesus Christ and His relationship to the Church, which has some merit. Others understand it as God the Father’s relationship between He and His wife, namely Israel. This also has validity. Still others interpret Song of Solomon from the literal perspective as to mean this is Solomon and his bride. So we have the allegorical method, the historical method, and the literal method of understanding this book. The best interpretation is technical, which is the literal, although we can certainly draw parallels from other Scriptures.

Here is the The Bride’s response: “16Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our bed is green.” (Song of Sol 2:1f)

“3As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste. 4He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love. 5Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. 6His left hand is under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me.”

“My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies.” (Song of Sol 2:16)

Solomon uses flattering words as he seduces his bride to be, while she is captured and bitten with the LOVE BUG! Yet as you know, love is deeper than an emotion!

“7Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. 8Charity never faileth.” (1Cor 13:7,8)

That is our Lord’s definition of love.

2. Next the Wedding! (Song of Sol 3:9-11)

“9King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon. 10He made the pillars thereof of silver, the bottom thereof of gold, the covering of it of purple, the midst thereof being paved with love, for the daughters of Jerusalem. 11Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon with the crown wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.”

Imagine the pomp and pageantry of the wedding of the King. By the way, he was one of the richest men in the world. However, here is a side note looking back in retrospect. His many wives and concubines helped turn his heart away from God. Consequently, his kingdom was divided after his death in 931 BC.

3. Finally, after the wedding! (Song of Sol 4-8:6,7)

“Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. 7Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.”

After the fantasy and ecstasy comes the REALITY!