JESUS CHRIST IN THE SONG OF SONGS - TWO ARMIES WITH BANNERS (2025)
JESUS CHRIST IN THE SONG OF SONGS
TWO ARMIES WITH BANNERS
Tuesday Morning Bible Study
November 25, 2025
Song 6:1: Where has your Beloved gone, O you fairest among women? Whither is thy beloved turned aside? That we may seek him with thee?” (The Daughters of Jerusalem are speaking to her.)
The Shulamite then remembers. He said that he was going down into His garden. He must be in His garden! I now know where His garden is! I am His Garden! He is within me! I am His garden and My Beloved lives within!
6:2-3: – My beloved is gone down into his garden to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies. I am my beloved’s and My beloved is mine. He feeds among the lilies. (She is speaking to the Daughters of Jerusalem)
Here is the revelation of the indwelling Christ and the union and communion of the Most Holy Place. The Shulamite learned to love the giver more than the gifts. She had discovered the reality of her Faith in His Word (2 Cor. 5:7). The Covenant has never been broken, for he changes not. The time of feverish seeking is over! The Bride now is quietly resting on His Word and on His changeless Love, a sinking down upon His heart in full assurance of Faith, while trusting Him by the Spirit to apply the power of the Blood which is sprinkled on the mercy-seat, and to bring the whole being into the stillness of peace again. With a voice of a trumpet, she shouts aloud:
6:3: I am my Beloved, and My Beloved is Mine: He feeds among the Lilies.” (She is speaking to them.)
The Daughters had to be in awe. No one had ever spoken such things. But Someone else had heard the proclamation. A strong arm encircled her trembling waist, and a resonant, royal voice whispered in her ear:
6:4: You are beautiful, o My love, as Tirzah, Comely as Jerusalem, Terrible as an Army with Banners.” (He is speaking to her.)
Here we see the Shulamite in her beauty and power. The dunamis (power) of God is inherent with His nature (His love) (Gal. 5:6). She is now ready to demolish the enemy. This introduces the section which describes her head. She has grown up into Him! His nature has been reproduced in her. Tirzah was the royal or capital city of the northern Kingdom of Israel from Jeroboam I to Omri. It was noted for its beauty and proportion. She is likened to the City. Jerusalem was the royal city of the Davidic Kings and speaks of unity in government and worship. She is a Bride wearing combat boots! (Study the Army of God in Eze. 37:10.) Consider the army of Abraham, David, Ezekiel, Joel, and Jesus. Over her flies his flag of Love.
Compare also the thought of Israel’s hosts as they appear in Numbers 2. She has been made an overcomer. She is awesome – a mixture of reverence, fear, and wonder. She is flying the banners of truth and is boldly proclaiming it in the face of man and the devil. There is the intimation of three places in this verse: Tirzah, Jerusalem, and Zion. Tirzah was a city set on a hill and surrounded by olive groves. Her members are walking in orderly rank. The church’s influence upon this planet is in proportion to her union with King Jesus! This whole section (6: 4-13) is life within the veil! She is in union with His character from which flows His Power. The unfurled banners here denote glorious victory.
The Shulamite has passed through deep waters in fellowship with her King, and in consequent brokenness. Her spirit has been freed from much that kept her from the full knowledge of her life in Him. Now He will teach her how to dwell with Him in the father’s bosom and will open to her the life within the veil.
6:5-9: Turn away your eyes from me, for you have overcome me: Your hair is as a flock of goats that appear from Gilead. Your teeth are as a flock of sheep which go up from the washing, whereof everyone bears twins, and there is not one barren among them. As a piece of Pomegranate are your temples within your locks. My dove, my undefiled is but one; (He is speaking to Her) she is not the only one of her mother; she is the choice one of her that bare her. There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines and virgins without number (He is speaking to them).
This verse shows that the Shulamite has power with God. The repetition in verses 5-7 tells us that the many experiences which come to us in the process of moving to higher levels of maturity should be kept and not discarded. In her access to the throne of God, she now stands in the place of power! This maturity of faith can walk blindfold without sight, not seeking to pry into His dealings—within or without. The soul that truly knows God can wait until He pleases to reveal His purposes. She had come to the end of herself. It was at this precise point that He had reappeared, never to leave her alone again.
Verse 8 shows there are various positions of rank or governmental order within the Kingdom of God. The queens are the proud and stately; the concubines only want the benefits; and the virgins are the innocent and young. These others were not willing to pay the price. The determining factor is the quality of the seed (Word of God.) She is but one – His choice One. These 70 queens refused to enter into His rest. So, all these are related to the King in different ways. There are many in the King’s court, but above all these stood His little goat-keeper who became His Bride, His Chosen. He has chosen her to bear His seed.
6:9: He says: 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.
This verse reveals there is a high calling. This is the freewoman who will bear a man-child. Thus, we see her here in a state of exaltation, promotion, and Glory. She wasn’t the only child of her mother, but she was the chosen child of her mother. John saw different companies in connection with the throne (Rev. 19:5). This one has been begotten my Grace, but few allow that Grace to work to its full end and complete accomplishment. That she is blessed and praised shows she is recognized by those believers who are not fully mature or not fully devoted to the Lord.
The King makes a declaration of His Bride to the multitude.
6:10: Who is she that looks forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun and terrible as an army with banners? (He is speaking to them)
The Shulamite has conformed to the image of her Beloved. She has leaned through the latticed windows of 2:9 (the Veil) and has looked forth to the fullness of the Lord within her. She is the dawning of a New Day (the Third Day from Jesus and the Seventh day from Adam). She has ruled during the night seasons in the midst of her enemies. The triumphant Bride is the Army of the Lord. She radiates His Life, Light and Love.
Silence falls over the crowd. This is the Glorious Church in all her glory united as one with the Lord Jesus Christ. The King has purposed from the beginning to be glorified in her. Then the coming of the King fills the sky and then the earth with His glory. He has come to dwell in her heart by faith that she might be filled with all the fullness of God. Now the King leads His Bride forth. She has lost her own identity and merged with His.
The Shulamite is as Mahanaim, the place where God camps or dwells! “Two Armies” = #4624 = Mahanaim; two camps, two hosts, armies, encampments”. She is dancing between the armies of Heaven and the armies of the earth. The dance of Mahanaim is the dance of Victory over all enemies (Rom. 10: 14-15).
“The Bride stands boldly, as an army with banners, but free and liberated to dance without shame (like David) between the Priests. She should be prepared, however, for the same criticism David received and be ready to give the same response. David did not receive the criticism into His spirit but danced harder!”
6:10-13: Who is she that looks forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners? I went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, and to see whether the vine flourished, and the pomegranates budded. Or ever I was aware, my soul made me like the chariots of Amminadib. Return, return, O Shulamite; return, return that we may look upon you. What will you see in the Shulamite? As it were the company of two armies.
Fair as the moon, and clear as the sun – This is the lightning and bright shining of Jesus appearing in his saints. The light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold as the light of seven days, in the day that the Lord binds up the breach of his people, and heals the stroke of their wound. (Isaiah 30:26).
He has come to dwell in her heart by faith that she might be filled with all the fullness of Christ. Now the King leads his bride forth. He went into the garden of nuts looking for signs of new life. He is looking for the fruit of her womb…a son or a man-child who would be his heir and possessor of His name. This is the Third Garden mentioned in the Song. The King is telling her I had to withdraw my presence from your consciousness so that suffering would bring you to the end of yourself and press you into a union of oneness with me. I asked you to go with Me to the mount of myrrh, but you fell asleep. So, I brought the mountain of suffering to you! All of the anguish, heartache, and humiliating shame you have endured was necessary for the glory that is about to be revealed in you! You had to be brought low to feel the need of My people. You have not been brought to My side to sit as a Queen and be served. You and I together must lay down our lives for our people. Our tears must fall with their tears; our hands must be stretched out always to meet the needs of others. We must set the captives free.
The chariots of Amminadib (vs. 12) : “Am” = “a people, tribe, troops, attendants, flock, nation, men; associates, those overshadowed or huddled together: #5068 “Nadab” = “to impel; to volunteer (as a soldier) or to present spontaneously; offer freely” “Amminadib can also be rendered as people or liberality, people of willing generosity, my people in abundance.”
Commentators are unanimous that this verse is the most difficult in the Song and one of the most difficult in the Old Testament to make sense of. The difficulty is if He or She is speaking in verse 12. Whatever the position one takes, I would conclude they have been made one with purpose and vision. The word chariot speaks of a vehicle for movement. – The chariot throne of God is described in the Book of Ezekiel in motion, the release and administration of His Kingly authority.
The King now guides the steps of his Beloved leaving out of town. A few steps behind the royal couple walked their friends. They remembered her from the experiences in the House of Wine and the midnight parade in her honor. But their hearts were heavy as they saw the Lord and His Bride walking away from them. Soon the royal couple began to disappear over the hill. In anguish and desperation, the Daughters of Jerusalem cry after her.
6:13: Return, return o’ Shulamite; return, return, that we may look upon you.
By this time the royal couple is almost out of the sight of the Daughters of Jerusalem. The Daughters had not permitted Him to be King over their lives, and now they must accept Him through one who had given Him a temple in which to reign! The Lord and His Bride still stood in the road. The Daughters begin to praise her:
7:1 How beautiful are your feet with shoes, O Prince’s Daughter! The joints of your thighs are like Jewels. The work of the hands of a cunning workman. (The Daughters of Jerusalem are speaking to her).
Here the Daughters sing her praises from head to foot. Her feet represent her walk and her thighs are power to create.
I had a vision years ago of the Lord placing on my feet silver slippers. He spoke to me saying, “Your Faith has been purified in the fire seven times, go and teach it.” Psalm 12:6: The words of the Lord are pure words; as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
The Jewels speak of the wisdom and knowledge of the Spirit by which she does the work of the Lord.
A passage in Psalms 45: 9-17 draws attention to this portion of the Song:
King’s daughters were among the honorable women: upon your right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir. Hearken O daughter, and consider and incline your ear; forget also your own people, and your father’s house; so, shall the king greatly desire your beauty; for he is your Lord; and worship though him. And the daughter of Tyre shall be with a gift; the rich among the people shall entreat your favor. The King’s daughter is all glorious within; her clothing is of wrought gold. She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework; the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto you. With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought they shall enter into the king’s palace. Instead of your fathers shall be your children, who you may make princes in all the earth. I will make your name to be remembered in all generations: therefore, shall the people praise you for ever and ever.
Jesus’ Bride is adorned with shoes, and she is faithful. She trusts not in her beauty. She is the finished work. Her feet are “shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace.”
Song 7:2-9: Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wants not to liquor; your belly is like a heap of wheat set about with lilies. Your two breasts are like two young roes that are twins. Your neck is a tower of ivory; your eyes like the fish pools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: Your nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looks toward Damascus. Your head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of your head like purple; the king is held in the galleries. (The Daughters of Jerusalem are speaking). How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights! This your stature is like to a palm tree and your breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of your nose like apples; and the roof of your mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goes down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak. (The King is speaking).
The words continue to pour forth from hearts that have recognized the Shulamite as the Bride of Christ. These descriptions are metaphorical of a submitted will, anointed vision, and keen discernment. Her headship and her submission to his Headship is evident. Some have rendered Carmel to mean “Crimson.” Purple speaks of royalty. These are the throne rights of Revelation 12:5. The King is captivated by her dedication, separation, and loyal submission. She is anointed, like Elijah, to bring people back to God. The principle of the Crown is here also. Carmel is the Crown of Glory and Purple is the Crown of Suffering (Rom. 8:17).
She has power with God. Heshbon means, “stronghold.” Bathrabbim means, “daughter of many.” Fish pools are references to two pools which were fitly placed at the entrance to the gate of the city.
Solomon built buildings in Lebanon. No doubt, he built towers there as well. I am sure this tower was the most beautiful tower of all.
Though the Daughters have praised her well, they still see her and her King as two and not one.
The King had been listening as the Daughters sang. He lifts it back into even a higher key.
7:7: This your stature is like to a palm tree, and your breasts to clusters of grapes. (The King is speaking to her).
The palm tree is a special tree in the bible. In Psalms 92:12, it is associated with righteousness. The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree; he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. Plant the righteous anywhere; they will grow, prosper, bear fruit, and be a haven of blessing for those who seek them. Later that same Psalm speaks of the Lord being upright and then says: there is no unrighteousness in Him (vs. 15). What He finds in the Bride is the character of a righteous person.
The palm branches in the hands of the redeemed declare God gave them salvation and deliverance from the Law and the flesh. This deliverance is the key to the Song.
When the multitudes carried palm branches into Jerusalem, they were symbolic that the holder possesses righteousness like the palm tree. (C.R. Oliver – Solomon’s Secret)
The clusters of grapes is described in Isaiah 65:8: Thus saith the Lord, as the new wine is found in the cluster, and one says, Destroy it now; for a blessing is in it; so will I do for my servants’ sakes, that I may not destroy them all.
The new wine of the wedding feast, the wife of the New Covenant in His blood, and the true communion of the Lord’s supper are all present in this analogy.
The wedding feast of Cana was on the third Day. Her mouth reveals her heart. There are a people who will run the last leg of this relay race. When they win, everybody wins!
For the importance of the tongue that speaks life, see James 3. the royal couple has already tasted of the third dimension, and out of that union will roar the man-child from Zion!
Song 7: 10-13: I am my beloved’s and his desire is toward me. Come my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages. Let us get up early to the vineyards; Let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: There will I give you my loves. The mandrakes give a smell and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.” (She is speaking to Him) .
The Shulamite had been made ready to be a co-laborer with her Bridegroom. She was not able to initiate a work in His behalf. She may not, dare not, go on without Him. she is now ready to go forth with Him into the fields of the world! The field is the world. Now that the Bride and the Bridegroom have become one, all creation will feel the impact of that union! The Song has come full circle: In the beginning, He was drawing her; now she is drawing Him! She who was invited now offers the invitation! This is the more excellent ministry which operates by the creative spoken word in the areas of forgiveness and blessing. They will continue in that priesthood for it is immutable and unchangeable! The field is ripe!
The royal couple continue walking down the road. The Daughters are following, but at a distance. But the King and His Bride know where they are going. They honeymoon house is near. It stands beside the road; the door is still open as she had left it when she fled in panic to find her Lord. The gate is open to the front yard. All manner of fruit bearing plants are growing here and bask in the morning sun. She points out the mandrake. This plant was believed to have been an aid in bearing children. The mandrake indicates that it is time for the Bride to become the mother of the King’s child. The moon is under her feet and on her head is a crown with twelve stars. This son is the hope of a groaning creation.
8:1-3: O that you were as my brother that sucked the breasts of my mother! When I should find thee without. I would kiss you. Yea, I should not be despised. I would lead you and bring you into my mother’s house, who would instruct me: I would cause you to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate. (She is speaking to Him).
The Bride had to leave her mother’s house to find Him. But now, as she groans for full deliverance, she desires for the whole creation to be released. That includes her mother and stepbrothers! She desires for others to have the meat and the wine of His Kingdom.
Now the King speaks to the Daughters who have finally caught up with them as they stood talking in the yard. He will have nothing disturb His bride at this point! He charges them:
8:4: I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem that you stir not up, nor awake my love, unto he please. (He is speaking to them).
The King closes the door between the royal couple and the Daughters. It will be when she appears again…much, much later, and accompanied by her son…that they will understand God’s eternal purpose. The Lord and the Shulamite are left in seclusion. The Holy parents slip into the wilderness, remaining unseen with the son until the day he is to be manifested in the land. For many months, the Daughters wait for the bride to reappear, but she is gone from them. But the parents and the child are not idle: they are walking up and down through the vineyards (churches), fields and forests, hand in hand but still unobserved.
As the Daughters of Jerusalem wait and wait and wait, one day there seemed to be someone walking up the highway. It was more than one person...it looked like two people...and again it looked like three people! It could have one, two, or three. It is hard to tell. ‘It is the King!!!” The Daughters cry. He has returned!!! The Shulamite is clinging to His arm so closely that the two appear to be one!
8:5: Who is this that comes up from the wilderness, leaning upon her Beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there your mother brought you forth: there she brought you forth that bare thee. (The Daughters of Jerusalem are speaking).
This sounds like a child was born to me. Moffatt; The King (Jesus) is the Apple Tree, the Tree of Life; “Mother”= Shulamite. “Brought forth” – to travail to bring forth (in birth).
A man, a maid, and a man-child. Just like Abraham, Sarah, and Isaac; just like Boaz, Ruth and Obed; so, we have the King, the Shulamite and a man-child. The man child is the Joseph Company, David Company, Joel’s Army, the overcomer, the 144,000, the Benjamin Company, etc.
8:6: Set me as a seal; upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: The coals thereof are coals of fire, which has a most vehement flame.
“the flashes thereof are flashes of fire, a very flame of the Lord.” “For mighty as death is love, exacting as Hades is jealousy”: Rotherham. “As for passion, its bolts are belts of fire, furious flames:” Goodspeed.
This verse reveals the principle of sealing. There were three signets or seals on the garments of the High Priest (Duet. 16:16). The first seal is the seal of water baptism in the Name of the Lord (breastplate); the second seal is the seal of the Holy Ghost Baptism (the two onyx stones); the third seal is the full mind of the Lord (gold plate = forehead). This is the Mark of the Lord as contrasted with the mark of the beast. The image upon the heart would result in it having first place in the affections. The arm is the seat of strength.
The son and heir is speaking to the Daughters—representatives of the bondage-ridden creation--- He says, The Lord, the Spirit, and the Bride said, “Come”, but you did not come. Their redemptive work is finished, and all the creation has been handed over to the Father. The “Son” was chosen from the foundation of the world to fulfill the mysteries of God. “Set you heart and attention on me!” I am sent forth to bring you deliverance. Love can overcome every obstacle. Undivided devotion will burn as the flame of God’ fire.
8:7: Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: If a man would give all the substance of His house for love, it would utterly be condemned.”
This is the message of the sons of God in their manifestation: the Love of God! The word and ministry of reconciliation. The first work of restoring this groaning creation starts with the Daughters! Then on to the residue of men. But most of the creation is so undeveloped, there is much to be done. It is a great challenge.
8:8: We have a little sister, and she has no breasts: What shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for? If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she be a door, we will enclose her with boards of cedar.
We cannot be double minded. The walls are salvation. God is apostolic before he is pastoral; that is, He is a builder, and he desires to build himself within a people even before he desires to meet their needs! The King wants to build a tower. These are not words of condemnation or reproof for the little sister.
The King is jubilant…the Bride is radiant…the son is magnificent…the Daughters are joyous…the little sister is resplendent in shining silver...and the rest of creation stirs itself in the chains of corruption.
The redeeming work goes at a fast pace. The enemy is being removed by the outshining or the glory of the Holy Family: King Jesus, His Bride/Church and their joint ministry. The apostate system of worship is destroyed. The houses of women are torn down. Multitudes come and are delivered from their bondages. Sickness, disease, sin, death, fear and all things that are not of God are removed from His Kingdom. The wicked are removed and the righteous shine forth in the realm of the King. The time of darkness gives way to the light, and the redeemed come from all over the earth to hear her tell again and again the story of her life. She was the one who opened the way and brought forth the seed that had bruised the head of the enemy. She has a place at the King’s side that no other may have. She is eternally the Bride of the Lamb of God.
8:10: I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favor. (She is speaking). She is telling her story. Tears fill their eyes as she rehearses those long, lonely years spent in the desert where she had learned the lessons of obedience and faithfulness. The part at the banqueting house… the fearful search in home… the midnight parade through the streets of the city… the wedding reception… the green room… the nightmare… her discovery of Him in His garden! All this was the pruning knife of the vinedressers.
C. R. Oliver – Consumed with Fire – page 15: “God’s type of glory becomes the consuming fire which raises one’s vision to that of the “Beloved.” (In the Song of Solomon, the Shulamite finally took possession of the glory of His presence and joined him in it, as must every saint who dares hope for the crowning marriage.
8:11: Solomon had a vineyard at Bal-Hamon; he left out the vineyard unto keepers; everyone for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver.
Some say the thousand pieces of silver are souls. Others say this is in reference to a vast amount of prosperity. The supplier of every need, the bastion against all storms, and the cry against every creditor stands before her. He has a vineyard and she has a vineyard.
8:12: My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: thou, o Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred. (She is speaking).
“Keep the Fruit” points back to Eden and Man’s dominion of the earth! Two Hundred is 5 x 40 = Grace in Trial and Testing. The King is her Benjamin’s Feast (5 times as much!) (Gen. 43:34). She did all this because of Grace and not Law
8:13: You that dwell in the gardens, the companions hearken to your voice, cause me to hear it. (He is speaking to her.)
The King tells her, “your little sisters and the Daughters of Jerusalem are listening to the words you are teaching. Your words are words of power, wisdom, authority, and love to them. My Glorified goat-keeper, I love the sound of your voice.”
8:14: Make haste, my beloved, and be you like to a Roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices. (She is speaking to Him).
The mountain of spices is metaphorical of the fullness of earthly love and Agape love.
We again see Jesus in the power of His resurrection. Her heart cry, joins the cry of all the redeemed of the ages: “Come, Lord Jesus that all the Kingdoms of this world may become the Kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ - Rev. 11:15). This is her desire to see Him in His second coming!
Hallelujah – the King is Here and He is Coming!!!!
C. R. Oliver – Consumed with Fire – page 15: “God’s type of glory becomes the consuming fire which raises one’s vision to that of the “Beloved.” (In the Song of Solomon, the Shulamite finally took possession of the glory of His presence and joined him in it, as must every saint who dares hope for the crowning marriage.)
Carolyn Sissom, Pastor
Eastgate Ministries Church. 10115 West Hidden Lakes Lane, Richmond, TX
I entered into the labors of “Solomon’s Secret” by C. R. Oliver and Principles of Present Truth by Kelly Varner. Quotes from King James Bible. Vision given to Carolyn Sissom of the silver shoes. Comments and conclusions are my own and not meant to reflect the views of those who I entered into their labors.