SOS Notes Session 08.pdf

S ONG OF S ONGS – M IKE B ICKLE

SESSION 8: Challenging The Comfort Zone (2:8-17)

SONG 2:8-17

The voice of my beloved! Behold, he comes leaping upon the mountains,

Skipping upon the hills.

My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Behold, he stands behind our wall; he is

looking through the windows, Gazing through the lattice.

My beloved spoke, and said to me: "Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.

For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone.

The flowers appear on the earth; the time of singing has come, and the voice of the

turtledove is heard in our land.

The fig tree puts forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grapes give a good

smell. Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away!

"O my dove, in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the cliff, let me see your

face, let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely."

Catch us the foxes, the little foxes that spoil the vines, for our vines have tender grapes.

My beloved is mine, and I am his. He feeds his flock among the lilies.

Until the day breaks and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be like a gazelle

or a young stag upon the mountains of Bether. (Song 2:8-17)

OVERVIEW OF SONG 2:8-17

In 1:5-7 she faced her first spiritual crisis, which was sin as a veiled woman with the unkempt

vineyard. In 2:7 the Lord says, “Don’t disturb her.” He is disturbing her. It is the voice of God

Himself. In 2:8 she confronted her second spiritual crisis which was fear. He is awakening her

now. We don't know how much time has elapsed between verses 7 and 8. He did not want

anyone else to disturb her. He told the daughters, “Let her sleep.” But now, He is awakening

her. This is the third revelation of Jesus in the Song. Jesus knocks on the door of her heart to

bring her out of the comfort zone and into mature partnership with Himself. This season brings

changes in her life. The time frame between 2:7 and 2: 8 could be a week later, a month later, or

10 years later. It is different in everybody’s life.

In 2:17 she refuses to leave the comfort zone.

The issue before her: “Is Jesus Christ a safe God?”, “Is it safe to obey Him 100%?”. In the

flesh, it seems safer to be in the boat without Jesus instead of on the water with Him.

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THE 3 RD REVELATION OF JESUS— THE SOVEREIGN KING

II.

“The voice of my Beloved! Behold He comes leaping upon the mountains, skipping

upon the hills.” (2:8-9a)

The young Bride has an entirely new revelation of Jesus as the sovereign king.

She sees Jesus as the “Lord of all” who effortlessly conquers all opposing

mountains. Up until this time she only understood Jesus as the counseling

shepherd and the affectionate Father sitting at the table lovingly feeding her

grapes and apples. But now He is skipping and eaping on mountains. It is

unknown how much time elapsed between 2:7 and 2:8. He is revealed as leaping

on mountains. Up to this point, she thought He just rested under shade trees.

She'd never seen Him in this light.

Jesus is now awakening her heart with His voice.

“The voice of my Beloved!” (2:8a).

She sees Him as the beautiful God that she loves.

“my Beloved” (2:8a)

He wants her full and undivided attention.

“Behold, He comes” (2:8b)

Jesus is seen as the Lord of the nations, and the harvest. Jesus, the King,

overcomes human and demonic obstacles. Mountains speak of obstacles that

hinder her full faith and obedience.

“He comes leaping upon the ‘mountains’, skipping upon the ‘hills’”. (2:8c,d)

“Mountains” are symbolic of human or demonic obstacles. They also

speak of natural or spiritual governments. Jesus taught us to speak to

“mountains of adversity”, commanding them to move.

"… whoever says to this mountain, `Be removed and be cast into the

sea,' and does not doubt in his heart…he will have whatever he says.”

(Mark 11:23)

The Scripture also speaks of mountains in context to natural and spiritual

governments. Since a mountain is very large and immovable, it provides a

good picture of government. Why? Because a government is very large

and unmovable. It is permanent. The obstacles in the world are as

nothing before Him.

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Mountains speak of spiritual governments as in powers and principalities.

Jesus triumphed over all demonic powers and principalities.

“Now it shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the

LORD'S house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and

shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow to it.”

(Isaiah 2:2)

a. This speaks of the mountain of the house of the Lord being greater

than all the other mountains. This refers to the government of His

kingdom as being greater than all other governments. Communism

was a mountain that He skipped over and brought down effortlessly.

That means the authority of the government of God's house will one-

day be greater than the authority of any nation.

b. The prophet Daniel uses the picture language of a mountain to

prophesy that God’s kingdom will triumph over all the governments of

the earth.

"…the stone…became a great mountain and filled the whole

earth…the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be

destroyed. In as much as you saw that the stone was cut out of the

mountain without hands." (Dan. 2:35,44)

c. The prophet Zechariah instructed Zerubbabel to speak grace to the

mountains of adversity.

“Who are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you shall

become a plain! And he shall bring forth the capstone with shouts of

‘Grace, grace to it!’” (Zech. 4:7)

“Hills” speak of personal difficulties in our lives. They are much smaller

then the mountains of oppression in the nations. Mountains speak of the

largest obstacles.

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This is her third new revelation of Jesus. She sees Him as a gazelle or a young

stag leaping and skipping on mountains. Jesus is pictured in His effortless victory

over all His enemies and all their authority structures, whether on the earth or in

the heavens (Col. 1:13). He is seated far above all power, thrones, dominions and

names (Eph. 1:22). He has authority over all nations. Jesus is revealed as leaping

over these enemies with ease in His victorious resurrected life.

“He comes ‘leaping upon’ the mountains, ‘skipping upon’ the hills. My

beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. ” (v.8c-9a)

A gazelle is an animal that is fast and especially swift in their sudden

energetic movements. A gazelle can run easily in the high places. The

gazelle is the picture of effortless ascending up the mountain.

This is a new revelation of Jesus as a triumphant leaping gazelle with

boundless energy and agility to overcome obstacles. This gazelle is fast

and swift, with tremendous movement leaping from place to place. It is no

challenge for Him to leap over all mountains (enemies, obstacles, and

demonic dominions).

The heavenly Stag speaks of fearlessly conquering all opposition.

Summary-This is not the fragile and easily distracted gazelle that was used

in verse 7. The gazelle here is associated with the fearless young stag.

Great agility and fearlessness is the main point of the metaphor,

combining the gazelle and the young stag.

She is weak and about to compromise, yet continues to relate to Jesus as her

beloved.

“My beloved’ is like a gazelle.”

Each time the Bride speaks to Jesus she calls Him “my Beloved”. When

she speaks about Jesus to others she refers to Him as the One she loves.

Each time Jesus speaks to the young Bride in the SONG, He uses one of 2

words. He either calls her, “My love”, referencing His affection, or He

calls her “fair one”, referencing her beauty in redemption.

The name “my love” is used 22 times in the SONG. The name “beloved”

is used 22 times in the SONG. See appendix at the end of this session.

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III.

“WALL” OF SELF-PROTECTION AND ISOLATION

“Behold, He stands behind our wall He is looking through the windows, gazing

through the lattice.” (2:9b,c,d)

He is standing, pictured as ready for action. The Lord is normally pictured sitting

in the Scripture. He is especially pictured as sitting in heaven, as sitting in a place

of rest and dominion but here He's standing. He is pictured as sitting calm and in

victory with His enemies under His feet.

“Behold, ‘He stands’ behind our wall.”

Earlier she was sitting at the table with Him in great delight.

a. The point is that He is ready for action. He stands. In other words, the

great commission is being introduced (Matthew 28:19). He is

commissioned to conquer the nations.

b. When Stephen died the Lord stood up.

“Stephen…being full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the

glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God, and said,

"Look! I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the

right hand of God!" (Acts 7:55-56)

c. The Lord stood to receive the first martyr. He was taking action. He

poured out a great revival. When the Lord is pictured as standing,

very powerful things are about to happen.

d. God stands to knock on the door of the church.

"Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone…opens the door,

I will come in to him” (Revelation 3:20).

He is not actually ever outside the church. But when He pictures Himself

as standing on the outside, He is saying, “I want in. I want a new level of

ownership.” I believe this includes a prophetic statement of the end of the

age. When God says, “Behold”, the nations will shake. When He knocks

on the door of the church, the church will shake. It is not an accident that

when He comes in Rev. 3:20, He wants to dine at His table. He wants to

feed His people at the table again just like here in the Song.

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