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@Livingwater Study10B...His return.. Song of song 8:14 Here, then, is the picture of the Bridegroom. He is altogether lovely, He is the outstanding one among ten thousand, He is the Beloved One, He is preparing a home for all who love and belong to Him, and He is soon coming to take them to that heavenly Home. Now see the picture of the waiting bride. 2 . HOW THE BRIDE IS DESCRIBED What are we told about the bride? (and remember the Bride is the Church, which is composed of individual believers). (1) Her overflowing joy. First, we are told that as she waited for her lord she waited “”joyfully””, and this should be the experience of each one who is waiting for the Lord Jesus to come again. We should be filled with the joy that comes through sins forgiven (1 John 2:12); through humble obedience to our Lord (Acts 13:52); and through the knowledge that our names are written in Heaven (Luke 10:20). Are we joyful as we anticipate His return? –- look up 1 Peter 1:8, and compare the

@Livingwater Study 10A. LOOKING FOR THE BRIDEGROOM’’S RETURN THE SONG OF SOLOMON Key-verse: ““Come away, my lover, and be like a gazelle or like a young stag on the spice-laden mountains”” (Song of Songs 8:14) It is surely a very significant thing that in the Song of Songs, which portrays Christ as the heavenly Bridegroom and the Church as His Bride, the closing verse links up with the glorious truth of the Second Advent. The Bible ends in exactly the same way (Revelation 22:20) –- ““He who testifies to these things says, ‘’Yes, I am coming soon.’’ Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.”” This is the cry of the waiting Bride for her Bridegroom. This is what the bride of old said, “”Come away, my lover, and be like a gazelle or like a young stag on the spice-laden mountains.”” The rendering of this in the Amplified Bible reads like this:- “”(Joyfully the radiant bride turned to him, the one altogether lovely, the chief among ten thousand to her soul, and with unconcealed eagerness to begin he