The marriage union of Christ and His bride, the Church, is still in the future. Now is the time of the betrothal, and we, the bride, are the present object and delight of our Bridegroom. “I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ” (2 Cor. 11:2).
The whole Godhead is engaged in the communications with the bride. God the Father communicates by the Holy Spirit between the Bridegroom and the bride. Such are the communications that fill this sweet and precious Song of Solomon. These communications require spiritual intelligence for their interpretations. It is really the Bridegroom’s song of songs as He anticipates the marriage, the most joyous occasion that has ever been, or will be, in heaven or on earth.
Each believer walking in the truth has a measure of this intelligence, which increases through experience and communion. This fellowship with the Bridegroom provides constant joy for the bride in the midst of otherwise trying and sorrowful circumstances.
This song sets before us the mystical language used between the Bridegroom and the bride while the bride is still on earth and the Bridegroom is in heaven. Although no words are spoken literally, the Holy Spirit conveys both the thoughts of the Bridegroom to the bride and her answers to him. The individual believer needs this communion with and companionship of the Bridegroom as he awaits His coming for the whole bride.
While this song speaks of Christ and Israel, the earthly bride, it introduces, in type, the divine mystery of Christ and the Church — not the doctrine of it as found in Ephesians, but the actual experience and communion of it with the Bridegroom, before it is taken to heaven. It is a book of joy, just what we need to cheer our spirits as the shadows at sunset spread, while twilight and darkness close over the earthly scene.
What is your future? Will your end be a time of exceeding joy as you enter heaven, or a place of never-ending sorrow in the lake of fire?