Welcome to a year in the Bible with daily grace. The Bible tells one big story of

redemption and we want to spend five minutes every day journeying through the Bible from start to finish, and exploring how all of it

points to Jesus. Hey friends and welcome back to a year in the Bible with daily grace.

My name is Shelby Turner. I'm one of your hosts for this podcast and today we're

beginning a new book of the Bible and it is a doozy song of

Solomon. Before we get started I do want to let you know that if you have little

ones present you may want to pause this episode and listen to it later.

Not all this content is suitable for children.

Okay, now that we got that out of the way,

let's talk about Song of Solomon.

This book is classified as love poetry, and there are several different ways to interpret this book of the Bible,

and for centuries there's been much debate over which one is the correct way to interpret and apply it.

Some believe that this book is a picture of God's love for Israel.

Some believe it's a picture of Christ's love for the Church.

Others believe that it's just a random

collection of beautiful poems, but what we see as the most widely accepted

and validated interpretation of this book is that it is a collection of poems that

has the story of a shepherd and shepherdess who are engaged kind of woven in and out of

it and the shepherd and Sheppardis are eagerly awaiting their marriage

and specifically the physical union that it will bring.

While this book is called Song of Solomon, it's unlikely that Solomon is the author or even the main character in the story.

Naming it song of Solomon probably meant that it was written in the wisdom tradition of Solomon. Solomon had 700 wives,

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