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"I am my beloved, and my beloved is mine" (Song of Solomon 2:16; 6:3) is arguably one of the most radical passages about love in the Bible because it has dual p'shat and drash meanings:
- 1. It is describing, on a p'shat or literal level, the complete adoration of a husband for his wife, and a wife for her husband, as also the perfect, full, complete ahavah/chesed/agapé love that literally exists between Yahweh and His Own literal heavenly Bride, the Sevenfold Ruach haQodesh/Holy Spirit, our Heavenly Mother: and
- 2. This picture is in turn used by Elohim (God) as a drash or allegory of the perfect relationship between our Heavenly Father Yahweh and His former Old Covenant people Israel, and between His Son, Yah'shua the Messiah/Jesus Christ and His now fully Redeemed New Covenant people Israel - Messianic Israel, the saved/regerated, Torah-obedient qodeshim (saints, holy ones, set-apart ones) who fully trust in Him and obey His mitzvot (commandments) - the Messianic Bride or the Bride of Christ.
This is the Divine Tavnith or Pattern and the reason why marriage is so prominent in the Bible. It literally defines everything.
The point is that this Echad Union brings a COMPLETE TRANSFORMATION and is the whole purpose of our creation and eternal existence. We were designed to be in such a relationship and can never be complete until we have so entered it.
This is the Mystical Marriage of Christ and is the Divine Signature of the Cosmos. Find out more in NCAY's seven marriage-related websites below.
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