Appendix 15 - Solomon's Song of Songs Enigma helps to solve the Enigma of the Saints Rapture.
1) The Enigma in Song of songs of Solomon :
From my point of view (borrowed from the beloved pastor Frédéric GODET) in the Song of songs - SoS,
See : https://www.levangile.com/Annotee/Etude-Biblique-Cantique.php
to summarize the characters, there are:
- Sulamith (model of Israel) captured by a king, put in his harem.
- The king Solomon who writes the SoS to repent of his fall caused by his passion for women - so he is to be considered finally as saved by Grace.
- The Beloved Shepherd, Sulamith is in love with a young shepherd (model of Christ)
And finally the last character :
- The Little Sister-guardian (model of The Church) will be The Bride if she is faithful and a wall or a Door- SoS 8-8/9.
The drama: Sulamith was seduced by the pomp of the king passing in his country and certainly taken (because of her great beauty) for the harem of the king at that time (3-7to11 and end 1-6), but always she will resist the assaults of this seductive king. Astonishment at the end, she said to Her Beloved Shepherd who seems to appear: "flee" - SoS 8-14 ...
Sulamith awoke with a start when she thought she had heard her Beloved Shepherd, while she was exposed to multiple seduction attempts of the retrograde monarch in his faith: Solomon. In resisting him and remaining faithful to Her Beloved, Sulamith put Solomon on the path of repentance, and he recorded it in writing in this book, the Song of Songs, also in the form of an enigma.
Out of modesty, Solomon veils his repentance there; or, as it is in this hymn to speak about Israel’s fidelity to His God, the Divine Inspirator of the hymn already prophesies what sign will be the Rapture of the Saints in the eyes of Israel.
The holiness and fidelity of Sulamithe to his shepherd was a sign to lead Solomon to repentance,
The holiness of the raptured Church will be a sign to lead 144,000 Jews from the 12 tribes to repentance and consecration to Jesus. The Church is the Bride of Another One, Which is outside the world; Israel will also have to become attached to its God, far from the support of the great people of this world and their seductions.
Sulamith thought to see 13 times his Beloved. She shouted : "Here it comes, come - Come back! - I looked for it - Did you see? - I found - I grabbed him - He knocks - He passed the hand - I opened to my beloved, but he was gone - I looked for him, I called him - That he will you say? That I am sick of love. - My beloved has come down - My beloved, I have kept them for you - Flee.” (Song of Songs 2-8 & 9 & 17, 3-1 & 2 & 3 & 4, 5-2 & 4 & 6 & 8, 6- 2, 7-13) and then 3 times with patience cried out, "Do no not stir up, nor awaken love, until it so desires. " (Song of Songs 2-7, 3-5, 8-4). These 13 + 3 = 16 Nocturnal Alarms were the Expression of Her Perfect Love (16 facets according to 1 Corinthians 13) for His Beloved.
Is Sulamith reprehensible because she claimed to hear, see ... her Beloved?
Would you have her interned in a medical institut, to get rid of this young woman too beautiful and too full in her love?
You prefer her full of meaning and saying: Do not stir up, nor awaken love, until it so desires. Song of Songs 8-4
We can therefore think that the wonderful passage of the Song of songs 2-10/13 about the rapture (rise and come) must be understood to the attention of Israel and new Christians at the end of the Great Tribulation as should be understood Matthew 24-31, 40 and 41 speaking of their preparation for the 2nd “Rapture” (Transport by Angels), before the final judgment of the Day of God intervenes at the end of the Great Tribulation. The first (and only) Rapture will not require the help of the Angels, because God will then proceed to a creation (thus out of time) by transforming the mortal bodies of his children into spiritual bodies.
(See Chapter 52c)
Song of Songs 8-8 We have a little sister. She has no breasts. What shall we do for our sister in the day when she is to be spoken for? 9 If she is a wall, we will build on her a turret of silver. If she is a door, we will enclose her with boards of cedar. 10 I am a wall, and my breasts like towers, then I was in his eyes like one who found peace.
Here are the verses that illuminate the Mystery of the Church and Israel: From the same mother (SION: the body of believers who gives birth to spiritual life a posterity for the Wonderful Creator God - Psalm 87) are Israel (Sulamith) and The Church (the Little Sister), both of whom must be Walls or Gates (Obstacle to the world - Set apart - Holiness) Perfect representation of the Work of Christ and ... Nehemiah.
That is why the construction of the walls of Jerusalem by Nehemiah can speak to us concerning our great concern for the Rapture of the Saints. (see details in Chapter 70)
Song of Songs 8-14 Flee, my beloved! Be like the gazelle or the deer, On the mountains of spices!
This is the verse that illuminates the dilemma faced by the people of Israel as Jacob found himself.
Jacob knew God, but his sons, who had not been transformed by the Spirit of God, were leagued against the only favorite of the father: Joseph. They could inherit the blessing promised to Abraham only if they knew God as Abraham. Their rebellious hearts had to be changed. It was therefore necessary for this "only" son to be sold as a slave and set off for 13 years (from 17 to 30 years - Genesis 37-2 and 41-46) to finally prove himself as the savior first of one people who was not his. And finally, after another 7 + 2 years, He will be revealed as savior of the whole family of Jacob and able to turn the hearts of stone of his brothers into hearts of flesh. The date of his revelation to the world is the most important, Joseph has always remembered his dreams and always believed in quick accomplishment. Did he not say to Pharaoh, "If Pharaoh saw the dream repeat a second time, it is because the thing is stopped by God, and God will hasten to execute it" Genesis 41-32. But he will have to wait 13 + 7 + 2 = 22 years to see the fulfillment (Genesis 45-6).
His faith in God was great and always supported him. His Heavenly Friend was the Source of His Joy.
The part of Israel faithful to God through the ages has made the same prayer to her God and Messiah, the same prayer that Sulamith has made, realizing the state of heart of the majority of the Jewish people: "Flee" ...
So, it was for the eminent ultra-Orthodox rabbi Yitzhak KADURI who died in September 2005 at the age of 108 years. He wrote a short message sealed with the instruction to open it only after his death. In the message he affirmed that the name of the Messiah is Jesus Christ. Only Messiah has the power to change hearts ... And this Rabbi also seemed to say to His Messiah: "Flee", wait again to reveal to us, they are not ready!
Addition wrote on Thursday March 19, 2020 :
An important note to understand this book :
Sulamith believed to see 13 times her Beloved
And then 3 times with patience cried out :
"that you not stir up, nor awaken my love, until He pleases"
These 13+3= 16 Nocturnal Alarms were
the Expression of Sulamith Perfect Love for Her Beloved
Here are her Night Alarms, her Visions :
2) Can we associate a figure with Israel? 11 + 1? 12? 13? 153?
From the cross dated March 15, 29 (the date of rejection of the Messiah by the Jewish people) to the Rapture of the Saints, the triggering event of the conversion to Christ (the one that He pierced) of the first fruits of the Jewish people (The 144,000 of Revelation 7 and 14),
Rapture dated 16 September 2019, 727019 days ago.
727019/153 = 4751.75817 and 4751.75817 / 365.25629 = 13.009 years
Rapture dated 25 September 2019, 727028 days ago.
727019/153 = 4751.817 and 4751.817 / 365.25629 = 13.0095 years
Rapture dated March 15, 2020, 727200 days ago.
727200/153 = 4752.94 and 4752.94 / 365.25629 = 13.0126 years
Strangely, the net filled by Jesus after the resurrection and pulled to the ground by Peter, the Apostle of the Jews, will be filled with 153 large fishes. The disciples in the boat pulled the net full of fishes still in the water (1) for 100 meters. They did not want to bring the fishes into the boat because they were close to the shore. Then these fishes were pulled to the shore (2) by Peter.
These 153 fishes, cannot they be the images, according to these 2 different times (1 and 2):
The Jewish people face 2 possible choices:
Pull into the net of the veil of the law, tied, seeking to establish their own justice.
He who trusts in the law alone for his salvation remains under the curse of the law.
Caught by the Spirit of God in the net of the Gospel of Jesus and raised to the Heaven.
2 Corinthians 3-14 They have become hard of hearing. For until that day the same veil remains when they read the Old Testament, and it does not rise, because it is in Christ that it disappears. 15 Until this day, when Moses is read, a veil is thrown over their hearts; 16 But when hearts are converted to the Lord, the veil is taken away. 17 The Lord is the Spirit; and where is the Spirit of the Lord, there is freedom. 18 All of us who, with our faces uncovered, contemplate as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, we are transformed into the same image, from glory to glory, as by the Lord, the Spirit.
3) The Lord will come at the 12th hour for the Church and at the 13th hour for Israel
Rejection of Jesus at the cross on March 15 of the year 29 + 13,009 x 153 years = 1990.377 years => September 16, 2019
Rejection of Jesus at the cross on March 15 of the year 29 + 13,0095 x 153 years = 1990.45 years => September 25, 2019
Rejection of Jesus at the cross on March 15 of the year 29 + 13,0126 x 153 years = 2020 years => March 15, 2020
Rejection of Jesus on the cross on March 15 of year 29 + 13.01477 x 153 years = March 15 of year 29 + 1991.26 years => June 18, 2020
4) What are figures 153 and 17 for the Jewish People and all the Nations?
a) 153 = 1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9+10+11+12+13+14+15+16+17 - 153 = 3 x 3 x 17
I 53 or Isaiah 53 perfectly resume the Messiah 's Work & Spirit.
Frédéric GODET in his commentary on the Gospel of John in Page 1483 quotes:
The fish would therefore designate Jesus, the Passover Lamb.
The fish would therefore designate Jesus, the High Priest of Judah.
The fish would therefore designate Jesus : the Passover Lamb, the Prophet-King, High Priest of Judah,
who feeds the whole world and gives Eternal Life.
The "53 bones of the head" and the "153 bones of the human body":
The skeleton of an adult comprises 206 distinct bones classified into two systems: the axial skeleton, on the one hand, which can be considered as the true framework of the human body, and the appendicular skeleton, on the other, which groups together the arms and legs. There are 26 bones in the spine, 8 in the skull, 14 on the face, 7 other cranial bones, 25 on the sternum and rib floor, 64 in the upper limbs and 62 in the lower limbs.
Head: There are 8 bones in the skull, 14 on the face, 7 other cranial bones; 29 bones in total.
Body (excluding head): There are 26 bones in the spine, 25 in the sternum and ribs, 64 in the upper limbs and 62 in the lower limbs; that is 51 + 126 = 177 bones in total.
Spine: 24 + 2 bones. The Spine of the man comprises 33 (or 34 according to the individuals) vertebrae: From the head to the coccyx, we find the 7 cervical, the 12 thoracic, the 5 lumbar, (24 separated vertebrae) plus the 5 sacred vertebrae welded which form the sacrum (the sacral region) attached to the pelvis and 4 or 5 welded coccygeal vertebrae that form the coccyx.
If we add the Spine and the Head we have 29 + 24 = 53 bones enclosing the main nerve impulses,
and the body receiving the nerve impulses therefore has 177 - 24 = 153 remaining bones. In total: 53 + 153 = 206 bones
The spine protects the spinal cord that travels in the spinal canal, from its continuity with the brain structures to the level of the first lumbar vertebra where it stops and ends with a set of nerves to the legs and perineum .
The spinal cord encased in the spine is recognized as a complex extension of the brain and cannot be separated from it.
The spinal cord is made up of nerve fibers that carry incoming and outgoing messages that flow between the brain and the rest of the body.
Like the brain, the spinal cord is covered by 3 membranes (meninges) and consisting of white and gray matter.
The central part of the spinal cord, in the shape of a butterfly, consists of gray matter.
The anterior wings (also called horns) contain the motor nerves (neurons), which transmit information from the brain or spinal cord to the muscles, causing movement.
The posterior horns contain the sensory nerves, which transmit sensory information from other parts of the body along the spinal cord to the brain.
The adjacent white matter contains networks of fibers that convey sensory information from different regions of the body to the brain (ascending bundles) and others that propagate motor impulses from the brain to the muscles (descending bundles).