Love Letters of Jesus and His Bride, Ecclesia: Based on Song of Songs by Solomon: Bible Text Studies, #4

By Katheryn Maddox Haddad

This book with its over 400 footnotes connecting the bride to the church can be a study book. It can also be a gift book.

The Song of Songs written by King Solomon is a love story between a man and woman but overflows with the symbolism of Jesus Christ and his love for his Bride, his Church, his Ecclesia.  Come along with me now in this expansion of the greatest love story in the universe. Look over their shoulder at their love letters to each other beginning with the time he finds her in the clutches of Satan and pays the terrible ransom to free her. He takes her to their Garden and they fall even more in love. Then on to the times she wanders away and he follows her to bring her back to him. Their story ends in Revelation with Ecclesia calling to him. He replies, "I am coming soon." That, indeed, is what our Lord is called out to us today. He is coming! Soon he is coming!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Northern Lights Publishing House
• Release date: Sep 26, 2018
• ISBN: 9781952261015

Katheryn Maddox Haddad

Katheryn Maddox Haddad spends an average of 300 hours researching before she writes a book-ancient historians such as Josephus, archaeological digs so she can know the layout of cities, their language culture and politics. She grew up in the northern United States and now lives in Arizona where she doesn't have to shovel sunshine. She basks in 100-degree weather, palm trees, cacti, and a computer with most of the letters worn off. With a bachelor's degree in English, Bible and social science from Harding University and part of a master's degree in Bible, including Greek, from the Harding Graduate School of Theology, she also has a master's degree in management and human relations from Abilene University. She is author of forty-eight books, both non-fiction and fiction. Her newspaper column appeared for several years in newspapers in Texas and North Carolina ~ Little Known Facts About the Bible ~ and she has written for numerous Christian publications. For several years, she has been sending out every morning a daily scripture and short inspirational thought to some 30,000 people around the world. She spends half her day writing, and the other half teaching English over the internet worldwide using the Bible as textbook. She has taught over 6000 Muslims through World English Institute. Students she has converted to Christianity are in hiding in Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Uzbekistan, Somalia, Jordan, Pakistan, and Palestine. "They are my heroes," she declares.

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Love Letters

ofJesus and his Bride ~

Ecclesia

Based on Song of Songs

by King Solomon

Katheryn Maddox Haddad

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Copyright © 2018  Katheryn Maddox Haddad  978-1-952261-01-5

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Table of Contents

How I Wrote This Book

His Proposal

My Dearest Lord Jesus ~

Chapter 1

My dearest Lord Jesus ~

My Precious Ecclesia ~

My Dearest Lord Jesus ~

My Precious Ecclesia ~

My dearest Lord Jesus ~

Chapter 2

My Precious Ecclesia ~

My dearest Lord Jesus ~

My precious Ecclesia ~

My dearest Lord Jesus ~

My dearest Lord Jesus ~

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

My precious Ecclesia ~

My dearest Lord Jesus ~

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

My precious Ecclesia ~

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

My precious Ecclesia ~

My dearest Lord Jesus ~

My precious Ecclesia ~

Scriptures about the Church ~ Ecclesia

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How I Wrote This Book

THE SONG OF SONGS IS a series of love poems without much plot.  Basically, it begins with her telling him how much she loves and adores him. It moves on from there to numerous times when they look for each other. It ends in chapter 8 with everything up in the air as she calls out for him.

The S of S is full of symbolism. It is an allegory that can be handled in many different ways.  I chose to handle the continual looking for each other as Ecclesia (the church) staying true a while, then wandering away, then Jesus looking for her and brining her back.  A history of the church shows this to be a pattern through the centuries.

Each of my eight chapters corresponds with the chapters in the Song of Songs. Remember, it is all allegorical.  I include numerous footnotes (419) that further explain the symbols.

In spirit, my narrative begins with the gospels where Jesus ransomed us from Satan with his blood, moves on to Acts of the Apostles, then follows the inspired letters of Jesus’ disciples as they wrote of the many ups and downs of the church. It ends with the book of Revelation in the Bible.

I conclude my narrative in the same way it was written in the scripture. Ecclesia is in prison for her faith and calling out for her betrothed. He calls out to her, I am coming soon.

His Proposal

My Dearest Lord Jesus ~

I HAVE BEEN THINKING so much lately about how we met and what you did for me those years ago. How could I ever forget?

I had been taken captive by the Special Forces of Evil. I was held for ransom.  I could not pay it. None of my friends could pay it. The price was too high.[1]

I gave up all hope. I was doomed to spend the rest of my life in slavery to the Evil One and a living death.[2]  That seemed like an eternity to me.

They were threatening to chain me in a terrible pit that I could never leave.  In there, I would have heard only crying and agony.[3] I would have been constantly hungry and thirsty[4]  They warned me there was only black darkness and cold[5] there, and the smell was terrible[6] I would have been constantly falling[7] continually being told how bad I was.[8]

Oh, my Lord. I was helpless to do anything about it. I was trapped.  I cried day and night as I awaited my unbearable fate within that shadowy holding cell. 

Odd thing is that there were others in the holding cell with me.  They thought it was funny. They said it would never happen. They thought our captors were