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Why did our heavenly Father permit the Song of Solomon (Canticles, Song of Songs) to get squeezed into the Bible? It’s sexually sensual! It
makes no mention of God, “righteousness,” “obedience,” “covenant,” “justice,” not even of “grace.” And the “law” is absent.
It’s just heterosexual love. Would any church board vote to include it? Would any

church school or academy have teens study it word for word? (They don’t, and maybe they’re missing something God put there to help
solve the teens’ sex problems.)

Yet Jesus Himself quotes it several important times. For example, John 7:37, 38/4:15; Rev. 3:20/5:2-6; Eph. 5:27/4:7). The reference to the
“knocking at the door” is from the Greek Old Testament (the Septuagint). Christ and the apostles frequently used that version just
as we use different Bible versions today. Any book of the OT that the NT quotes approvingly demonstrates it’s right to be in the Bible.

So, the Song of Solomon is undeniably part of the Word of God that is “living and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing
even to the division of soul and spirit, . . . a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart,” “profitable for doctrine, . . .
for correction, for instruction in righteousness” (Heb. 4:12, 2 Tim. 3:16).  What value is there in such a sexually explicit book?

SS owes its place in the Bible to Revelation 19:7, 8. Two verses explain why the Lord God created us in the Garden of Eden to be “male
and female.” The rain-soaked Bridegroom-to-be who “knocks on the door” of the beautiful girl at night and she ignores Him (SS 5:2-6), turns
out to be Christ Himself; and the fiancee who has not “made herself ready” for the marriage turns out to be the “remnant” church of
Rev. 12:17. Her long refusal to get up out of her comfy bed and let Him in breaks His heart, and He leaves disappointed beyond description (SS
5:6).

But there’s Good News in the Bible: He still loves her (7:6), and she will yet “make herself ready” for “the marriage of the Lamb.”
Then at last “the Hallelujah Chorus” breaks out exuberant (Rev. 19:6).

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