The Song of Songs 8:5
The Awakening of Love
The Maidens about His Beloved:
8:5 Who is this coming up from the desert,
leaning on her beloved?
The Beloved to Her Lover:
Under the apple tree I aroused you;
there your mother conceived you,
there she who bore you was in labor of childbirth.
Deuteronomy 8:2
8:2 Remember the whole way by which he
has brought you these forty years through the desert
so that he might, by humbling you, test you to see if you have it within you to keep his commandments or not.
Isaiah 43:19
43:19 “Look, I am about to do something new.
Now it begins to happen! Do you not recognize it?
Yes, I will make a road in the desert
and paths in the wilderness.
Jeremiah 2:2
2:2 “Go and declare in the hearing of the people of Jerusalem:
‘This is what the
Lord says: “I have fond memories of you,
how devoted you were to me in your early years.
I remember how you loved me like a new bride; you followed me through the wilderness, through a land that had never been planted.
Jeremiah 31:2
Israel Will Be Restored and Join Judah in Worship
31:2 The Lord says,
“The people of Israel who survived
death at the hands of the enemy
will find favor in the wilderness
as they journey to find rest for themselves.
Revelation 12:6
12:6 and she
fled into the wilderness
where a place had been prepared for her
by God, so she could be taken care of
for 1,260 days.
Revelation 12:14
12:14 But
the woman was given the two wings of a giant eagle so that she could fly out into the wilderness,
to the place God
prepared for her, where she is taken care of – away from the presence of the serpent – for a time, times, and half a time.