LOOKING
FROM THE TOP
“Come with me, my spouse, from Lebanon,
look from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon,
from
the lions' dens, from the mountains of the Leopards.” Sos 4:8 (rearranged)
“I will climb up to my watchtower and stand at my guardpost. There I will wait to see what the Lord says and how he will answer my complaint” (Hab. 2:2).
The Bible says,
“Moses
went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which is
across from Jericho. And the Lord
showed him all the land of Gilead as far as Dan, all Naphtali and the
land of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the Western Sea,
the South, and the plain of the Valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, as
far as Zoar” (Deut. 34:1–3, emphasis added).
We don’t need to stand on Mount Nebo to catch a view of that heavenly land. By faith we may gain a view from the top.
What is the Song of Solomon?
The Song of
Solomon is a series of love poems. The Book is in the form of a song addressed
by a man to a woman, and by the woman to the man. The book is attributed to
King Solomon.
These songs have often been interpreted by Jews as a picture of the relationship between God and his people, and by Christians as a picture of the relationship between Christ and the Church.
Amazing invitation- “Come with me”
There has always
been an invitation to you from the master beaconing on you to “come”
If you choose to
go on this journey alone, I want to announce to you that it is a choice for you
to suffer.
Throughout the
Bible we find God calling us to come for so many things
He says so
because He has completely prepared for you.
He’s ready to
satisfy you and meet those demands/needs
He has the
capacity to, because He is the all-powerful God.
He is reliable
and dependable and when he says come you ought to do nothing but to obey Him.
When he says “come” trust him then and “come”
To the Thirsty -Isaiah 55:1
“Listen!
Whoever is thirsty, come to the water! Whoever has no money can come, buy, eat!
Come, buy wine and milk you don’t have to pay, it’s free!” God’s word version
“But those who drink the water that I
will give them will never become thirsty again. In fact, the water I will give
them will become in them a spring that gather up to eternal life”.
John
10:10
“The thief cometh not, but to steal, to
kill, and to destroy; I am come that they might have life and that they might
have it more abundantly.”
Matt. 11:28. “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden and I will give you rest.”
See verse 29 and 30 also.
To the Disciple
Luke 18:22 -“Now when Jesus head these
things, he said unto him, yet lackest thou one thing: sell all that thou hast,
and attribute unto the poor, and thou shall have treat me in heaven; and come,
follow me.”
“Lay not up for yourselves treasures
upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through
and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth
nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For
where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.”
Mark 6:31-32
“And
he said unto them, Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest a
while: for there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as
to eat. And they departed unto a desert place by ship privately.”
To the hungry
John 21:12-13 –“Jesus
saith unto them, come and dine, And more of the -durst ask him, who act thou?
Knowing that it was the Lord. Jesus then cometh, and taketh bread, and Bread,
and giveth then, and forth likewise.”
Matt. 14:29 – “And
he said, come when Peter was came down out of the ship he walked on the water,
to go to Jesus.”
Mark
2:17
“When Jesus heard it, he saith unto
them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are
sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
“I came not to call the righteous, but
sinners to repentance.”
John
11:43
- Jesus called loud voice, “Lazarus come out!” NIV
Whenever God calls or beacons on you, it is time to change your level. His call is an indication that something greater await you ahead. He never ever calls you to something lower or to a lowly enterprise.
His call is always for you to
§ Look up
§ Come up
§ Soar higher
When he called
John; he invited him to come up hither - John 11:12
“And they heard a great voice from
heaven saying unto them, come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a
cloud and their enemies reached them.”
When he calls, a
door would have already been opened for you to walk in.
His voice in his
calls is so soft yet so clear and you will hear it as it were a trumpet talking
with you.
His call is for
ascension (See Rev 11:12) so that you can ‘ascend up’ not for you to “descend
down”
He calls you to
promote you so that your enemies can see it undisputedly.
When
he calls you, he is committed to going with you all the way. You’ll fight the battles together, cruise over to storms together, and
with him, you will certainly never fail the test
that says, “come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, “
Lebanon was a mountain range in the
north of Palestine.
The name signifies white, applied either
on account of the snow which for a great part of the year covers the summit of
the mountain.
-
Cedars
-
Wines
(Hos. 14:7
-
It’s
cool waters (Jer. 18:14
-
It blossoms (Nah. 1:4
- The height of the Lebanon range is about 5000 ft. with its, highest peak at Hermon
As I have said, Lebanon is the source of building materials
‘wood’ for Solomon’s temple (I Kings 5:6) stones for Solomon’s temple ( I Kings 5:14-18) and wood for Ezra’s temple (Ezra 3:7)
Haggai
1:8-11
“Go up to the mountain, and bring wood,
and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified,
saith the Lord. Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to
little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the Lord of
hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own
house. Therefore the heaven over you is
stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.
And
I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn,
and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground
bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the
hands.”
God
has something superior and he’ll
call you at the right time to come to something higher. In spite of the amazing strength of Lions and Leopards, come
away from them to something new. Remember even in Lebanon, there are
lions and Leopards’ that are determined to devour you. Look from the top of
Hermon, the top of Amana, the top of Shenir.
When you look
out on his invitation, you’ll see the horrible Lion’s den and the offensive
school of leopards out to devour you.
“Not
as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow
after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ
Jesus. Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and
reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for
the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.”
You are called to look!
“From
the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries looks down on us”. Napoleon
Bonaparte
Sos 8:14 – “Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon
the mountains of spices.
Num.
21:4-9
And they journeyed from
mount Hor by the way of the Red sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul
of the people was much discouraged because of the way. And the people spake
against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to
die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and
our soul loatheth this light bread. And the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people,
and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have
spoken against the Lord, and against thee; pray unto the Lord, that he take
away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people. And the Lord said
unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and
it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it,
shall live. And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it
came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent
of brass, he lived.
“Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the
ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.”
§ you will see people trusting the Lord
§ you will see people taking steps of faith,
§ you will see people coming together in small groups
and ministering to one another when there used to be nobody to minister to
them.
§ you will see something that was near death brought
back to life,
§ you will see the glory of God being radiated from the
people of God.
When
Moses saw God in his glory on the mountain top, his face radiated God’s glory.
Exo. 34:29
“When Moses came down from Mount Sinai
with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands, he was not aware that his
face was radiant because he had spoken with the LORD.”
When we experience the
spiritual mountaintop, we can radiate God’s glory by the things we do and thus
glorify the Lord even more. There is one final thing we see in the passage that
we need to do if we are going to experience the spiritual mountain top and that
is to Listen to
Jesus’ Words to Us - Come with me From .
. . and Look from the Top . . .”
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