PHYSICAL REVERSAL TO SPIRITUAL REVERSAL
Song of Solomon 1:9–10 (ESV) – I compare you, my love, to a mare among Pharaoh’s chariots. Your cheeks are lovely with ornaments, your neck with strings of jewels.
Song of Solomon 4:1–2 (ESV) – Behold, you are beautiful, my love, behold, you are beautiful! Your eyes are doves behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats leaping down the slopes of Gilead. Your teeth are like a flock of shorn ewes that have come up from the washing, all of which bear twins, and not one among them has lost its young.
Song of Solomon 6:4–7 (ESV) – You are beautiful as Tirzah, my love, lovely as Jerusalem, awesome as an army with banners. Turn away your eyes from me, for they overwhelm me—Your hair is like a flock of goats leaping down the slopes of Gilead. Your teeth are like a flock of ewes that have come up from the washing; all of them bear twins; not one among them has lost its young. Your cheeks are like halves of a pomegranate behind your veil.
Song of Solomon 7:1-2 (ESV) – How beautiful are your feet in sandals, O noble daughter! Your rounded thighs are like jewels, the work of a master hand. Your navel is a rounded bowl that never lacks mixed wine. Your belly is a heap of wheat, encircled with lilies.
SHADOW AND SUBSTANCE: THE GREATER SOLOMON
Luke 24:27 (ESV) – And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.
Luke 24:44 (ESV) – Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.”
JESUS REVERSES SIN’S DEFILEMENT
Song of Solomon 7:6–7 (ESV) – How beautiful and pleasant you are, O loved one, with all your delights! Your stature is like a palm tree…
JESUS REVERSES SIN’S DESIRES
Song of Solomon 7:10 (ESV) – I am my beloved’s, and his desire is for me.
Genesis 3:16 (ESV) – To the woman he said, “I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be contrary to your husband, but he shall rule over you.”
Genesis 4:6–7 (ESV) – The LORD said to Cain, “Why are you angry, and why has your face fallen? If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is contrary to you, but you must rule over it.”