message from heaven # 31

Robert J. Wieland

A man may love a woman truly, and she make a response to his love and tell him she also loves him truly; and then without provocation, she may turn on him and drop him cruelly:

That is a very painful experience for the man to have to go through. If, O man, you’ve never had to have it, thank the Lord. He never intended that you should have that painful sorrow.

Is it possible that the Lord Jesus Christ has been through that experience of suffering?

Only on a far greater plane than any of us have endured?

What we know for sure from the Bible is that Jesus will be married, for we read a prophecy that “the marriage of the Lamb is come, and His wife hath made herself ready”(Rev. 19:7, 8).

The clear meaning of the prophecy in context is that before this “marriage” takes place, it has been long delayed.

And the long delay was never the intent of the divine Bridegroom. “The disappointment of Christ has been beyond description,”—this we know.

And what we know also is that in the Song of Songs we have a clear prophecy of the divine Bridegroom’s suffering from the callous hardheartedness of the one “woman” whom He loves truly in all the world. It’s chapter 5:2-8 (incidentally, Jesus expressly commended the Song of Solomon as holy “Scripture” in John 7:37, 38).

The “man” (representing Christ) who truly loves the “woman” has just returned from a trip. He has come to her because He loves her, He wants to be with her intimately; but she disdains Him even though He knocks pleadingly on her “door,” telling her it’s raining outside where He is, please let Me in; but she rebuffs Him (read it; it’s there).

It’s one of the most painful pictures in the Bible, there in the Song of Songs.

But finally, she actually “repents”: she stops thinking of her own selfish comfort in her snug, warm bed on a rainy night and begins to think about Him out there in the cold and the wet, and gets up to care for Him.

The story of stories has to end with her repentance; otherwise “heaven” would be no more heaven, but become hell.

That’s how serious living is in this antitypical Day of Atonement during this Judgment hour (cf. Rev. 14:6, 7).