“May he kiss me with the kisses of his mouth!
For your love is better than wine. (Song of Solomon 1:2)?
BQ. What is the symbolism for wine in the scripture?
BQ. What is the symbolism for kiss and or kisses in the scripture?
BQ. Jesus turns the water into wine but yet love is higher why? (see below)The inspired text from where these thoughts came from: SEE BELOW
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Dose,’ Song of Solomon 1:2 and this Miracle at Cana tie together in anyway at all?
Miracle at Cana
On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there; 2and both Jesus and His disciples were invited to the wedding. 3When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to Him, “They have no wine.” 4And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does that have to do with us? My hour has not yet come.” 5His mother said to the servants, “Whatever He says to you, do it.” 6Now there were six stone waterpots set there for the Jewish custom of purification, containing twenty or thirty gallons each. 7Jesus said to them, “Fill the waterpots with water.” So they filled them up to the brim. 8And He said to them, “Draw out now and take it to the headwaiter.” So they took it. 9When the headwaiter tasted the water which had become wine, and did not know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the headwaiter called the bridegroom, 10and said to him, “Every man serves the good wine first, and when have drunk freely, the poorer you have kept the good wine until now.” 11This beginning of signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and manifested His glory, and His disciples believed in Him. http://nasb.scripturetext.com/john/2.htm
BQ. Jesus turns the water into wine but yet love is higher why?
BQ. What is the symbolism for wine in the scripture, what spiritual has taken place? (Are not the same answer as above.)
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Yes Carey indeed, may we evermore be kissed by the lips of Jesus Christ, for in we receive as the Psalmist put it so well ..
"Mercy and truth are met together righteousness and peace have kissed each other" (Ps. 85:10)
For us righteous and peace from our Father has kissed us, also we kiss ardently as one through Jesus Christ. In this kiss of love, we become as Divine love affection-ates us ` for all the glory of Christ's love enters us within and in truth we enter into a new life. Kisses are greetings of agape, philo, and romantic love... Another psalm serves us well how our Father wants us to regard,desiring Jesus Christ, as well as His Kingdom established, on earth as it is in heaven, and in the hearth of our hearts... see.
"Serve Jehovah with fear. Kiss the Son, lest He be angry, and ye perish in the way, for His anger will soon be kindled. Blessed are all they that put their trust in Him "(Ps. 2:11, 12). In this marriage of our souls to His we become the Bride and He our Bridegroom. Our ardency is one of sweet longings or His presence, and so we receive His Spiritual Kisses as His affectionate greetings revealing to us, His acceptance and divine love for us.
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When we take a close look at the wedding feast in Cana, there are many spiritual things to view Carey. Wedding feasts lasted seven days, The wine in question would be fermented wine, diluted with water.
Even for people who were plain and poor, expected to provide plentiful food and wine for weddings ~ to run short would be a serious embarrassment for the host parents and newlyweds ~ Mary is merciful asking Jesus to provide. What most of us are unaware of in our studies, is that water is a symbol of Jewish purification! The six jars, are made of stone, and stone jars are used for purification, also, the six stone water pots stand for all the imperfections of the Jewish law. Each jar, holds two or three measures … (120-180 gallons) so we see the overwhelming grace Jesus avails them and us.
"You have kept the good wine until now."
In this Gospel, people often say things that have a deeper meaning than they realize. In this case, the deeper meaning is that Jesus is the good wine (compared with the old wine of the law). See how this all shows us the glory of Our Lord, who responded in love, so we who are dulled by the wine of life can enter in and have enter course, with all that Our Father offers us in Jesus Christ.
Now Carey, wine can intoxicate us, but the kind of wine the world and and laws create, has no comparison to the ecstasies being in Spirit with Jesus give us, so beautiful is His love completing us as it purifies us. If people think they know good wine, they have not tasted the fruit of God’s vine, Jesus Christ. This beginning of his signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him. There is so much more to this passage of scripture, and space does not permit.
Now lets journey back Carey, into this wonderful ecstasy we have in Jesus, He said…
"I have come that they may have life, and have it abundantly" (John 10:10). "These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full" (John 15:11).
These words describe to us, how our husbandry we see in Jesus Christ, cares for us, he wants us to be ecstatic in HIM ~ to experience ex –static, which means to live away from our old places, to come with HIM into Divine awareness of His Everlasting love… so we come into adoring intimacy and Know his everlasting love, as the Bride, who greets her Bridegroom with the Kiss of Eternal Love.
Our Father wants to see the Bride of Christ to be full of the kind of Radiance and intoxicating joy and hope that fulfils our deepest heart longings, and Jesus Christ yearns for her Home Coming... He is coming soon and will be knocking... announcing He has arrived.
Lovely question... Care ere...
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God bless us as we come bearing gifts one to another.
Love
Kar
The Bible book The Song of Solomon indicates that some fitting expressions of endearment had been exchanged between the Shulammite maiden and the shepherd boy she loved and would soon marry. (Song of Solomon 1:2; 2:6; 8:5) Composed some 3,000 years ago by wise King Solomon of Israel, this “superlative song” (1:1) The girl was from the village of Shunem (Shulem). With all his wealth and splendor, the king was unable to win the Shulammite’s love, for she was loyal to her beloved shepherd. God saw this as a fitting example for us today of an outstanding example of loyalty
Why is the remembrance of the shepherd boy’s expressions of endearment like wine and his name like oil? Just as wine makes the heart of a man rejoice and the pouring of oil on the head is soothing, the memory of the boy’s love and his name strengthened and comforted the maiden.
Wine gladdens the heart and strengthens the depressed soul. (Psalm 104:15; Proverbs 31:6) Oil was poured out on favored guests for its soothing properties. (Psalm 23:5; Luke 7:38) Thus the distressed Shulammite was strengthened and comforted by recalling the shepherd’s “expressions of endearment” and his “name.” Solomon would have decked the Shulammite with “circlets of gold” and “studs of silver,” but she resisted these material temptations and affirmed her unfailing love for the shepherd.
The expression “love is better than wine.” (Song of Sol. 1:2, 4; 4:10) Are exactly this, expression of the feelings of this girl conveying her inner most feelings and are in no way related to the use of alcohol in the other books of the bible. Often people in bible times would contrast their feelings with the things around them just as Christ himself would give parables to people about things they were familiar with and could identify with.
WINE IN BIBLE TIMES
There are a number of original-language terms that usually designate some kind of wine (Heb., ti‧rohsh′ [Ge 27:28, 37; Ho 2:8, 9, 22]; Heb., che′mer [De 32:14; Isa 27:2] and its corresponding Aramaic term chamar′ [Da 5:1, 2, 4, 23]; as well as Gr., gleu′kos [Ac 2:13]). But the Hebrew word ya′yin is found most frequently in the Scriptures. It first appears in Genesis 9:20-24, where the reference is to Noah’s planting a vineyard after the Flood and then becoming intoxicated on the wine therefrom. The Greek word oi′nos (basically corresponding to the Hebrew term ya′yin) first occurs in Jesus’ comments on the inadvisability of using old wineskins for new, partially fermented wine, as the pressure developed through fermentation would burst the old wineskins.—Mt 9:17; Mr 2:22; Lu 5:37, 38.
Various strong alcoholic liquors, apparently derived from pomegranates, dates, figs, and the like, were usually designated by the Hebrew term she‧khar′. (Nu 28:7; De 14:26; Ps 69:12) The Hebrew word ʽa‧sis′, at The Song of Solomon 8:2, refers to “the fresh juice” of pomegranates, but in other passages the context points to wine. (Isa 49:26; Joe 1:5) Beer may have been designated by the Hebrew word so′veʼ.—Isa 1:22; Na 1:10.
lt should be noted though, alcoholic beverages are not a necessity. For forty years the Israelites drank no wine or strong drink. (Deut. 29:5, 6) After refraining from drinking wine for nearly 300 years the Rechabites were commended for their faithfulness. (Jer. 35:2-19) Abstinence while living the life of a Nazirite did not impair the health and strength of either strong man Samson or rugged John the Baptist.—Num. 6:1-4; Judg. 16:17; Matt. 11:18; Luke 1:15; 7:33.