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Moved by the Holy Spirit, Solomon’s Impulsion for Designing the Young Shulamite Bride

Psa 119:103  How sweet are Your Words to my taste! More than honey to my mouth!

[Study Aired May 30, 2026]

The Introduction Studies thus far have outlined the Bride’s journey from Eden to these apparent last days, in learning Christ’s Song of Songs to becoming the New Adam in Christ, his Wife. And now that we see clearly the two overarching, linked themes arising from their gender-specific curses, which directly establish man’s deafness and blindness to spiritually understanding the New Covenant, Christ’s Song of Songs, to accelerate the preeminent theme of Spiritual Intimacy Avoidance. That ridiculously simple order of themes centred on Adam and Eve’s respective curses is:

1 – Adam’s injured privy and stones

Establishing:

2 – Eve’s wounded breasts

Finally, establishing the Preeminent Theme Indicative of the Woman (mankind in churches) for the entire Bible, a very reasonable carnal rationale that of,

– Intimacy Avoidance (Avoidant Attachment)

In psychology, this refers to an attachment style in which an individual instinctively pulls back from deep intimacy and vulnerability to maintain independence.

Here are some verses establishing Old Israel’s and our former Babylonian avoidant attachment style with Christ, our Husband.

Num 14:11  And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them?

Jer 2:11  Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.
Jer 2:12  Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD. 
Jer 2:13  For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out [for themselves] cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water. 

Those “two evils” are directly related to Adam’s signified self-emasculation, which dreadfully inhibits his ability to head and lead his wife, Eve. It leaves Eve and all women and wives spiritually directionless, trying to save themselves, taking the lead now by her drawing of what ravishes her from a broken Adamic cistern without water, substituted romantically in marriage.

Isa 3:1  For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water, 
Isa 3:2  The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,
Isa 3:3  The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.
Isa 3:4  And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them. 
Isa 3:9  The shew of their countenance doth witness against them [Impudent faces against headship]; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.
Isa 3:10  Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings [And carnal wives and women in trying to mend their cisterns by their methodology, receive only fleeting, unsatisfying, sensual joy since their house is built on sand, destroying all spiritually ravished incitements]. 
Isa 3:11  Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.
Isa 3:12  As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

Pro 5:18  Let thy fountain [H4726] be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

Fountain H4726 – spring. Source of life, joy, purification. (It is directly associated with one’s wife’s monthly menstrual blood, denoting her fertility and fruitfulness, initially designed to be wholly connected to her husband in mind, body and spirit).

Pro 14:27  The fear of the LORD is a fountain of [spiritual] life, to depart from the snares of death.

That fountain of life, physically, was originally designed, yet and after leaving Eden, never got to be properly realised, to be the unified connection with a wife whose heart isn’t snares and nets and the resultant death of enthusiastic intimacy. So, and on the carnal account, yes, a fountain does send forth at the same place sweet and more bitter than death.

Jas 3:11  Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?

Ecc 7:26  And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.

However, the Bride’s fountain is temporarily virginal and sealed.

Son 4:12  A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.

Solomon profoundly understood the machinations of women and wives, as he experienced firsthand in his interactions with his 1,000 wives. However, as a consequence of the curses of Adam and Eve that led to his wives opposition towards him, and all wives to their husbands, it appears that he did not explicitly associate their opposition to men and husbands as the outcome of Adam’s wounded privy and stones, which caused women and their wives to be inherently ‘against masculine, and particularly a husband’s authority and headship,’ as a direct consequence of their ingestion of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. All he seemed to know was the resultant experience of evil. Had he had the holy spirit of all wisdom and understanding, he wouldn’t have had to try and solve the riddle by starting afresh with the design of a prepubescent young girl, but have an Abishag-like mature young woman with breasts his heart and spirit could lie betwixt always (Son 1:13).

1Sa 8:7  And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them. 

Luk 10:16  He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me.

Furthermore, a verse that signifies those same methods of evading our Lord’s marital intimacies, and is directly correlated with and highly indicative of the state of our hearts beneath our breasts.

Hos 2:1  Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi [nation, people]; and to your sisters [Judah & Ephraim], Ruhamah.

Ruhamah means, 1. to love, love deeply, have mercy, be compassionate, have tender affection, have compassion— [and where do those emotions arise, of course, beneath our breasts!].

Hos 2:2 [Saying,] Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

Hosea, in saying, ‘She is not my wife’, although directly relates to her whoredoms, covertly highlights that Avoidant Attachment style, where her self-centred focus to save herself sensually, is directly nursed in her wounded breasts, is deliberately designed by God to not be devoted to Him. It is the very reason Solomon dedicated himself to creating a young wife, her pattern unwittingly of the heavenly, for himself, who would be of the same mind to sequentially celebrate coitally that mirrors Christ with his Bride today.

The Bride of Christ has already been imprinted, essentially from birth, trained by her wise mother in the highest commission of being a helpmeet wife, in the art of an Abishage-like ministering to her future husband. Because of Adam and Eve’s curses, Old Israel and we were a child left to herself for four thousand years, further indicting our old adulterous mother with additional “shame”.

Pro 29:15  The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame. 

From time to time in the Introductory Studies, we have seen that the Shulamite, having been “spoken for” in being chosen by Christ, and in the very first verse of the SoS, initiates the reversal of “her adulteries from between her breasts” by opulently ravishing him with the next step of physical sexual arousal. She says,

Son 1:2  Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine.

Those kisses are not perfunctory! They are deliberately provocative H5400 style kisses, meaning – “to kindle, burn, to make a fire”! And no quicker way to make a husband burn with passion for his Bride is to know that her dream, her mother taught her, is a song in harmony with the very same dream as his, vastly amplifying the anticipation with the following inflaming imagery. The spiced wine OF the juice of her pomegranate connects with the wine in the opening verse of the SoS, highlighting the singularly deep connection of her emblematic wine with the exact same spirit in her kisses, as her Husband’s, thus soundly reversing her curse.

Son 8:1  O that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother! when I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, I should not be despised. 
Son 8:2  I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother’s house, who would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate.

Who do you think would despise her? Her 1,000 suffergett-like sisterhood, the world and Babylon, of course. They are alarmed that she is, in essence, a demagogue against Babylon’s orthodox ways, as is her Husband, overturning their 4,000-year-old established norms of the Mosaic Law (Rom 3) that never changed the “queens and concubines” hearts, striking both fear, wonder and praise in their breasts and minds.

Eph 4:22  That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
Eph 4:23  And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
Eph 4:24  And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

Son 6:9  My dove, my undefiled is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the choice one of her that bare her. The daughters saw her, and blessed her; yea, the queens and the concubines, and they praised her.

Accordingly, the Introductory Studies were a brief summary of the Bride’s sordid journey, now converging on Solomon’s impulsion for designing his blueprint of the perfect wife, unwittingly, to the precise pattern of Christ’s blueprint, the Heavenly Temple, her magnum opus response to Him! A magnum opus is a Latin phrase that literally translates to “great work.” It refers to the single greatest masterpiece or crowning achievement in a creator’s career, commonly used in reference to art, literature, music, or film, and is a near-perfect description of Christ for his creation of His Bride, spiritually, his greatest work, as is He, the Father’s greatest work! 

Hab 1:5  “Look at the nations and observe— be utterly astounded! For I am doing a work in your days that you would never believe even if someone told you(BSB). (representing a “great work” including the multitude of miracles and signs, particularly spiritually)

Joh 20:21  Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you. 
Joh 20:22  And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: 
Joh 20:23  Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.

Christ’s ravished intent was to construct her perfectly, which led him to start with a clean sheet, being remade with a cursory connection to the clay of the same lump of her past, bar the troublesome fact that she was still corruptible flesh (Ecc 7:29).

Son 6:13  Return, return, O Shulamite; return, return, that we may look upon thee. What will ye see in the Shulamite? As it were the company of two armies.

Signified by the near-perfect as perfect as the mindset of carnal flesh can be in Abishag, and no doubt highly trained in the art of husbandly ministrations, she was unable, and was never meant to revive the dying King David’s enthusiasm from her virginal youth, to defibrillate the Old Covenant. This is why Solomon saw her as signifying a second army, a type of New Covenant that was seen in Eccl 7:29, he knew would be a repeat of what carnal flesh does best by ‘inventively’ finding ways to twist God’s word to meet the idols of their hearts by believing that in doing so, ‘they would not surely die’—the very doctrine of Orthodox Christianity.

Gen 3:4  And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: 
Gen 3:5  For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

Pro 22:5  Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them.
Pro 22:6  Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. (Again, a kind of imprinting)

Jer 29:11  For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
Jer 29:12  Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.
Jer 29:13  And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart. 

Solomon, in response to God for being chosen in the natural succession to his father, King David, to rule Israel, asked for an understanding appropriate to a king, as close as possible to God’s own, for insight and discernment to govern Israel righteously. Solomon’s additionally given God-like wisdom reflects the Elect’s like God-given wisdom today, only with the holy spirit. It was the most crucial element missing from Solomon’s carnal wisdom, ultimately and unwittingly causing him immense vexation, as he could not understand why his Shulamite creation in the SoS would be any different from the ministrations of his 1,000 miserable comforter wives. It is why, and at the very end of his Song in Chapter 8, he, with analysis paralysis, concluded that he had to start from scratch with a pre-pubescent girl without breasts, in reality, from birth to train her up as perfect as flesh could be in the way she should go to be that ‘perfect’ Bride.

1Ki 3:1  And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh’s daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of the LORD, and the wall of Jerusalem round about.
1Ki 3:2  Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto the name of the LORD, until those days.
1Ki 3:3  And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places. 
1Ki 3:4  And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place: a thousand burnt offerings did Solomon offer upon that altar.
1Ki 3:5  In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee.
1Ki 3:6  And Solomon said, Thou hast shewed unto thy servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.
1Ki 3:7  And now, O LORD my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father: and I am but a little child: I know not how to go out or come in. 
1Ki 3:8  And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.
1Ki 3:9  Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people? 
1Ki 3:10  And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.
1Ki 3:11  And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life; neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine enemies; but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern judgment;
1Ki 3:12  Behold, I have done according to thy words: lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart; so that there was none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee. 
1Ki 3:13  And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches, and honour: so that there shall not be any among the kings like unto thee all thy days.
1Ki 3:14  And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days.
1Ki 3:15  And Solomon awoke; and, behold, it was a dream. And he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and offered up burnt offerings, and offered peace offerings, and made a feast to all his servants.

Now, Solomon, and by his own words and wisdom, among a huge volume of sage proverbs for truth, said that great wealth brings a person to poverty, and concerning his 1,000 wives, he proved his and their impoverishment most vexingly, their disconnectedness in mind and spirit, experienced thousands of times theoretically, coitally—with no lasting fulfilment (meaning carnal dying flesh’s craved sensuality representin the spiritual) whatsoever! Regarding that celebrated sensual state, believing that it won’t die but is a type of saviour, we can’t repeat Romans 1 often enough: by our carnality, “invisibly,” we represent every detail of its spiritual representations to be fully realised in the actual SoS and ultimately in life eternal.

Rom 1:20  For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
Rom 1:21  Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
Rom 1:22  Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
Rom 1:23  And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
Rom 1:24  Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
Rom 1:25  Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
Rom 1:26  For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

Solomon concluded that for his new wife to have a focused desire for him above all other influences, she must be imprinted in the art of husbandly ministrations, unwittingly first centred sexually, appropriately in all purity, and increasingly from a young age, virginally and enthusiastically waiting for the day she is spoken for.

Our former foolish hearts were darkened by our Adamic curses of emasculated headship, resulting in wounded breasts avoiding marital intimacies from a pathetically weak husband, who was devoted to willingly ingratiate his wife’s insistent romantic needs to ultimately obfuscate the shame of his sexual needs. That shame theme stemming from the psychology of his ‘injured privy’, so easily shocks the blind, trying to keep our Lord pure by their standards in the same vein as their belief that ‘God wouldn’t create evil’: that Adam’s and all men’s unrighteous lusts mirror many of the same lusts, although righteously, our Husband desires of us spiritually! The Shulamite Bride is given to enthusiastically reverse that with the astonishing epiphany that her focus is to be on her Husband’s needs—soundly understanding for the first time in 4,000 years that indeed, she is made for Him, and not he, for her! 1Cor 11:1-12.

1Pe 1:3  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
1Pe 1:4  and into an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, reserved in heaven for you, 
1Pe 1:5  who through faith are shielded by God’s power for the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time. 
1Pe 1:6  In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in various trials
1Pe 1:7  so that the proven character of your faith—more precious than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. 
1Pe 1:8  Though you have not seen Him, you love Him; and though you do not see Him now, you believe in Him and rejoice with an inexpressible and glorious joy,
1Pe 1:9  now that you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls. 
1Pe 1:10  Concerning this salvation, the prophets who foretold the grace to come to you searched and investigated carefully,
1Pe 1:11  trying to determine the time and setting to which the Spirit of Christ in them was pointing when He predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories to follow.
1Pe 1:12  It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves, but you, when they foretold the things now announced by those who preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven. Even angels long to look into these things.
1Pe 1:13  Therefore, prepare your minds for action [Make yourself ready by arousing Him by our enthusiasm He has imbued us! Rev 19:7]. Be sober-minded. Set your hope fully on the grace to be given you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
1Pe 1:14  As obedient children, do not conform to the passions of your former ignorance. [Our former ideologies for demanding to be aroused our way!]
1Pe 1:15  But just as He who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do,
1Pe 1:16  for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.”
1Pe 1:17  Since you call on a Father who judges each one’s work impartially, conduct yourselves in reverent fear during your stay as foreigners [in transition in becoming Christs].
1Pe 1:18  For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life you inherited from your forefathers,
1Pe 1:19  but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or spot.
1Pe 1:20  He was known before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in the last times for your sake.
1Pe 1:21  Through Him you believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and glorified Him; and so your faith and hope are in God.
1Pe 1:22  Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have a genuine love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from a pure heart.
1Pe 1:23  For you have been born again, not [and for this cause, ravished to produce the…] of perishable seed, but [Shulamite-like ravished to receive the…] of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.
1Pe 1:24  For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,
1Pe 1:25  but the word of the Lord stands forever.” And this is the word that was proclaimed to you.

Correspondingly, as well as the means of creating God as numerous as the stars of heaven, that is the purpose God made the woman for the man: to mirror the Bride for Christ spiritually, her unrivalled enthusiasm for spiritual intimacy,and IS his “impulsion for designing the young Shulamite Bride—a wife with the same mind and passion in perfect spiritual unity with his.

Likely, to conceal God’s spiritual word from everyone except his Bride, this study’s caption verse of Psa 119:3, states quite passively to the world and the Shulamite’s 1,000 sisters, with only exclamation marks, “How sweet are Your Words to my taste! More than honey to my mouth!” Consequently, the Bride’s primaeval ravishment emanating from her breasts for the kisses of his word (again, expressed impassively, seemingly blandly…) “is better than wine”, is more covertly seen, although in similar tones, hiding the underlying intense arousal, to action, directly akin sexually, is seen in Mat 13:44, “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.” In poetic Shulamite-like visionary passion, the Elect clearly feel that fervour flowing back and forth from her breasts viscerally and pelvicly for buying that field, the world, by first being married to her Lord and Husband.

That ravishment felt in the Bride’s heart beneath her breasts, felt viscerally and radiating out to her every neuro-sensitivity’s elation, is the physical and psychological result of what the young virginal Bride had been taught, in meticulous detail, of husbandly ministrations by her dedicated mother. Classically, a young virgin woman’s dream, in immense anticipation and barely contained ravishment, and long-awaited vision to fulfil her God-given reason for being created to be with her husband, is drawing near. She is highly conscious of what her mother inevitably taught her to avoid, in modern terms, the over-arousal of her male counterpart called epididymal hypertension, which, incautiously, can be fornication—is the painful physical effect an overly aroused male can feel, that for the female equivalent is called pelvic congestion or hypertension resulting from righteous or unrighteous thirsting sensually—of course, always understood spiritually akin to being drunk on the spirit of God’s word.

That panting or thirst both fiancé’ feel is seen in the Strong’s, meaning “Thirsteth” H6770 – Strongs’, meaning to “suffer” of overly dreaming of her commission in typically detailed female ways, naturally accentuating lust—the desirable and naturally increasing of ‘imprinting’ sexually, as is the Bride today, spiritually on her Husband (Psa 63:1. Son 3:1-3. Psa 42:1-2). In part, and to be studied in the actual SoS, this is why she thrice sternly rebukes her sisters in the Song of Solomon, “I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.”

Psa 42:1  To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah. As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.
Psa 42:2  My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?

The entire Bible is primarily devoted first to the Bride’s experience, spiritually signified in Christ’s Song of Songs, only She knows and joyfully sings, as she dies with her Lord and husband at the end of the Sixth Day, raised in marriage for the Seventh Day to judge with Him, on the Eighth Day.

That concludes the primary reasons why Solomon had to start afresh in Chapter 8 of his Song with a “little sister without breasts” if he was to unwittingly signify Christ actuating the Father’s plan since before creation to construct a wife for himself who would be depicted first physically and psychologically immensely aroused for her Husband to present to himself spiritually.

Next week, Lord willing, we will study the details of how the Bride ‘makes herself ready’ for her Husband before getting into the much anticipated study of The Song of Solomon.