“Come, my Beloved, let us go into the field.” (Song of Songs 7:12)
God asks His beloved to go with Him to the field where
His redeeming love makes everything flourish and blossom. This field is another
clear reference to the Messianic times, when the material world will share the
same dimension with the spiritual heavens. The earth will return to its original
state as the Garden of Eden, also known as “the field of God”.
“Let’s us lodge in the villages, we rise early to the vineyards, to us
see if the vine has budded, the blossom has opened, the pomegranates have
blossomed. There, I shall give My loves to you. The mandrakes yield fragrance,
and at our doors [are] all precious fruits, new and old, I have hidden for you
My beloved.” (7:13-14)
The Creator continues introducing the coming Messianic times. In this
part the poem mentions villages (lit. towns) and not cities, referring to new
ways of fathoming, reasoning, thinking and feeling what He reserves for us.
“He has made everything beautiful in
its time. He has also set eternity in their heart, but man can’t fathom the
work that God has done from the beginning to the end.” (Ecclesiastes
3:11)
These are the new dwellings of the divinely redeemed human
consciousness. From there God’s love and Israel's love will partner promptly
(“rise early”), guiding and directing the nations and humankind as vineyards.
The new trends in the new human consciousness will yield their produce as their
budding, blossoming and ripening of their fruits as deeds and actions to build
the renewed earth.
“The peoples will thank You, O God; all the peoples will thank You. The
nations will be glad and sing for joy; for You will judge the peoples with equity,
and lead the nations on earth forever. The peoples will thank You, O God; all
the peoples will thank You, for the earth will have yielded its produce. And
God, our God, will bless us; and everyone from all the ends of the earth will
revere Him.” (Psalms 67:4-7)
In these joined partnership, God will share with Israel the unrevealed
hidden ways, means and attributes of His love (“My loves”).
“And all your sons shall be taught from
the Lord, and abundant is the peace of your sons.” (Isaiah 54:13)
“(…) For they all shall know Me, from
the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord (…).” (Jeremiah
31:34)
“As in the days of your coming forth
out of the land of Egypt, I will show them marvelous things.” (Micah
7:15)
All these are about the endless journey of knowing our Creator, who will
give us a new consciousness capable to guide us in this path.
“I have given them a heart to know Me,
for I am the Lord. And they have been My people and I will be their God for
them to return to Me with all their heart. (…) I have given My Torah in their innards
and in their heart will I write it. And I have been a God for them, and they
have been My people.” (Jeremiah 24:7, 31:33)
We will smell the concealed fragrances of odorless plants, the hidden
nurturing qualities of fruits (“new and old”) God has stored for Israel after
her final redemption and in Messianic times.
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