If you remember the book just before this one, Ecclesiastes, you’ll see that nothing completely satisfied the writer, the place was a disappointment. But in the Song of Solomon the heart is satisfied with a person. The book is a love story, a man — Solomon, a picture of Christ — in love with an unnamed woman (Israel). Now all this is a picture of Christ and His actual bride — all the believers. But remember carefully, the pictures in the Old Testament are like shadows (Read Heb. 10:11For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. (Hebrews 10:1)). We get the perfect Person (Christ) and His bride (every believer in Him). Israel refused the Lord Jesus when He came to earth to them the first time, so we see that the woman at times fails.
There are many beautiful pictures in this love story which can apply to us as the bride of Christ. Remember Christ has one bride only, the believers in Him — the Church, the Assembly. We’re reading of a picture of the real thing.
V.1-4 The bride tells of how much he means to her, and how sweet and intimate that love is.
V.5-6 She realizes how unworthy she is to be loved by him. She compares herself with the black tents, and him with the beautiful, gorgeous curtains of Solomon’s temple!
V.8-11 The bridegroom answers, and tells her of his love.
V.12-14 She was just thrilled to sit in his presence. She did not ask for anything more than himself.
V.15-17 In spite of how terribly she had acted toward him in the past, here is how he now sees her! Throughout this book, you will notice that when it is he who is speaking he speaks directly to her and says “thou.” But when it is she who speaks, she speaks of him, by using the word “he.” We believers in the Lord Jesus can know the intimacy of addressing Him as “Thou” (See Rev. 5:99And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; (Revelation 5:9)).