Shulamithe: the fairest among women (2)

“Son 4:7  Thou art all fair, my love; And there is no spot in thee.”  The bridegroom did not find any imperfection in the Bride. “Eph 5:25  Husbands, love your own wives, even as the Christ also loved the assembly, and has delivered himself up

for it, Eph 5:26  in order that he might sanctify it, purifying it by the washing of water by the word, Eph 5:27  that *he* might present the assembly to himself glorious, having no spot, or wrinkle, or any of such things; but that it might be holy and blameless.”  “Col 1:21  And you, who once were alienated and enemies in mind by wicked works, yet now has it reconciled Col 1:22  in the body of his flesh through death; to present you holy and unblamable and irreproachable before it.”

The bride has to be perfect, there's no debate about that. And he that brings that perfection is not the bride herself by her own strategies, but the bridegroom himself by his grace and mercy, he gave himself up for her to sanctify her and cleanse her with the water of the word. It was therefore necessary that the entire word be restored by the ministry of Elijah the prophet for the Bride to be completely washed and stripped of all false doctrines wherewith the great prostitute had intoxicated all the earth. Perfection was impossible before this ministry. All those who went before us were justified, sanctified, they received the gift of the Holy Spirit; but they could not reach perfection without us: “Heb 11:39  And these all, having obtained witness through faith, did not receive the promise, Heb 11:40  God having foreseen some better thing for us, that they should not be made perfect without us.” So it is with the Bride of last age that the whole body reaches perfection, for it is she who is purified from all filthiness through the restoration of the entire word as it was in the beginning.

It is at this time of perfection that Christ the Greater-than-Solomon watches the Greater-than-Shulamite and says: "Thou art all fair, my love, and there is no spot in thee," or "This time this is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh." The virgins of all previous ages were in the process of development and could not reach perfection without us. But with the restoration of all things, the bridegroom sees the perfect beauty of the bride and compliments: "O thou fairest among women." Here is also the final stage of the selection process and the proclamation of the Shulamite as the fairest among all women. The largest group is "all women." We saw that most of them are prostitutes. Thus, we distinguish between women prostitutes and virgins. And amongst virgins the "all fair" or "fairest among women" is chosen.

Now all men will agree with me on this dilemma: suppose a beauty pageant is organized in a large country like the Democratic Republic of Congo which, according to its Constitution, has 24 provinces, and each province is asked to select 100 most beautiful girls in the province, and all of them are sent to Kinshasa, the capital: there will be a total of 2,400 young girls the most beautiful in the country. Of these 2,400 still a very objective jury selects the 100 most beautiful girls, and takes them to a man. Now he is asked to choose the most beautiful among them to be his wife. I personally would be in trouble because I would find that all 100 are stunningly nice, I would like the first one, but also the second, but also the third, etc., and finally, only the one that has my favour will be retained as my princess. Hence the English say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

The virgin who gets this favour must have a particular secret to please the bridegroom who makes the last selection. This is the secret that Esther had, and this is the secret all other virgins failed in the competition. According to Esther Chapter 2, each virgin went to spend one night with the king. And when she went she was allowed to take anything whatever she wanted, because the king's house is filled with many objects, even those that the king does not use. The other virgins took everything they thought was right without asking questions about what was really pleasing the king or what was not. They thus went in to the king perhaps with scents that the king did not like, etc. But Esther was wise and knew that beauty is rather subjective and not objective (it is in the eye of the one who appreciates), and while going in to the king, took the precaution of asking on the likes and preferences of the king. So she left it up to the direction of Hegai, the king's chamberlain: “Est 2:15  And when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, came to go in to the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king's chamberlain, keeper of the women, appointed. And Esther obtained grace in the sight of all them that saw her.”  That is the secret of Esther which made ​​her the wise virgin among several foolish virgins.

Esther realized that the king would not have placed his eunuch to care for the purification of virgins for nothing, that this eunuch knew the likes and preferences of the king and that only his council would allow a virgin to truly please the king. In other words the king Ahasuerus expressed this same transport of love for Esther “Son 6:8  There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, And virgins without number: Son 6:9  My dove, mine undefiled, is but one; She is the only one of her mother, She is the choice one of her that bore her. The daughters saw her, and they called her blessed; The queens and the concubines, and they praised her.” Esther had the secret of the king Ahasuerus; the woman God made for man had his secret because she was taken out of man and God himself had shaped her; the Shulamite had the secret of Salamon because she was herself the female Solomon.

“Est 2:17  And the king loved Esther above all the women, and she obtained grace and favour in his sight more than all the virgins, and he set the royal crown upon her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti.” Esther was so proclaimed by King 'the perfect one', ‘the all fair’, ‘the one in whom there is no spot’ and ‘the most beautiful among women.’ It must be remembered that Esther got the secret that all other virgins missed, with the king's eunuch. The very fact that all other virgins ignored the role of the king's eunuch was their madness, their barrier to perfection. The king's will, his likes and preferences are only known to his chamberlain and he alone can communicate them to the king’s wives (we'll talk later in great detail, if God grants, about the Profile of Chamberlain).  

Whenever we talk about women, it is necessary for each reader to understand the spiritual language: these are churches, for the Lord says and repeats several times "Let him who has an ear hear what the Spirit says unto the churches." There are so many churches, among them there are prostitutes with Mystery Babylon at their head, and on the other side there are virgins. The virgins left the world and are in the king's palace. Among these virgins, the multitude neglected the advice of Chamberlain to reach perfection, they have selected for themselves whatever they wanted in the message of the restoration and have used it as pleased their own imagination: the foolish virgins.

One virgin, Esther has clung on the counsel of Hegai the Chamberlain, that is “Mat 24:45  … the faithful and prudent bondman whom his lord has set over his household, to give them food in season?”  Among virgins without number, one is wise, one is the dove, the perfect one to the king, all other virgins are crazy and will be left in outer darkness when Salomnon will enter the Shulamite in his chambers: “Son 1:4  Draw me, we will run after thee! --The king hath brought me into his chambers--We will be glad and rejoice in thee, We will remember thy love more than wine. They love thee uprightly.”

The last part of this verse says "They have reason to love you," referring to the foolish virgins who also competed unsuccessfully in the race. Already in the previous verse the Shulamite says: “Son 1:3  Thine ointments savour sweetly; Thy name is an ointment poured forth: Therefore do the virgins love thee.” All virgins who answered the call love the Bridegroom, they love his name and do everything in his name.

We know that, as for prostitutes, they love no person; they have only need of customers and, if posssible, lovers, great of flesh, capable of giving them as much pleasure as possible: “Eze 16:26  And thou didst commit fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh…” But since they are prostitutes, they cannot get to be satisfied: “Eze 16:28  And thou didst commit fornication with the Assyrians, because thou wast insatiable; yea, thou didst commit fornication with them, and yet couldest not be satisfied.” Prostitutes love no person but look for lovers of great flesh to get pleasure, yet cannot get to come. This is true with prostitute churches, they do not love God: “Joh 5:42  but I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you.”  

If anyone loves God, he hears the words of God and keeps his commandments and bends to his expressed will and his every whim. But these prostitute churches do not care about his word and reject the name of Jesus from the starting point which is baptism. They, loving pleasure more than God, seek only lovers of great flesh, namely those who make them properly enjoy the glory of the world: “Joh 5:44  How can ye believe, who receive glory one of another, and seek not the glory which comes from God alone?”  They receive financial and institutional support to enjoy more prestige in the world but they are never satisfied, they still continue to look for more: prostitutes, no lover, whatever his force, will manage to satisfy them. Only the lake of fire prepared for the devil and his angels shall manage to quench for good the shameless insatiable appetites of these prostitutes.

That is the difference between virgins and prostitutes; prostitutes’ desires are turned to lovers, but for the virgins, their desires are turned to the bridegroom. But then, they are not all wise to know what is good and acceptable in order to please the Bridegroom and reach perfection. Esther knew, we saw why and how; the Shulamite also knew, and we see in the next epistle why and how.

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