Song of Songs 1:9-11 - “I liken you, my darling, to a mare harnessed to one of the chariots of Pharaoh.  Your cheeks are beautiful with earrings, your neck with strings of jewels.  We will make you earrings of gold, studded with silver.”

The Song of Songs is more than just a love poem about Solomon and his wife. It is a prophecy about Christ and His Bride, the faithful church. The New Testament often refers to the true church as the Bride of Christ, and Jesus as the Bridegroom. “I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband…Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb…” (Revelation 21:2, 9). “Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her . . . to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless…” (Ephesians 5:25-32)

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