I will get me to the mountain

The mountain is the place of dealings before transformation.

The mountain is the threshold of transformation

The mountain is the place of beholding the Transforming Lord Spirit with unveiled face the glory of the Lord, to be transformed into His Image from glory to glory

The mountain is the place to enjoy and experience the sweet death of Christ

The mountain is the place where we are confronted with the reality of the cross to bring us into a deeper enjoyment of Christ

The mountain is the place where our outer man is consumed, is decaying, and our inner man is renewed with the resurrection life and power of the Spirit.

The mountain is the place where we are conformed to His death.

The mountain is the place where our soul-life is consumed

The mountain is the place where the practices of the body are put to death.

The mountain is the valley of the shadow of death

To go to the mountain is to abide in Christ, to remain in Christ to experience and enjoy Him as the Life-giving Spirit in His sweet death, fragrant resurrection, and transcendent ascension

To go to the mountain is to go to Christ. Actually Christ is on the mountain, skipping and leaping (Song of Songs 2:8). The mountain is where we find the resurrected Christ leaping and skipping with resurrection power, ascension power over all the troubles, barriers and difficulties.

The solution to all our problems is to go to the Christ on the mountains.

He encourages us to rise up from our low situation and come away with Him on the mountain.

He is on the mountain and wants us to be with Him there.

We don’t need our low situation to change before we come away to Him.

In the midst of our low situation we can turn, rise up and go to Him on the mountain

“2Co 3:18 1But 2we all with 3unveiled face, 4abeholding and reflecting like a 5bmirror the 6cglory of the Lord, are 7being dtransformed into the 8same eimage 9from glory to fglory, even as 10from the 11Lord Spirit. ”

“2Co 4:16 Therefore we do not lose heart; but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day.

2Co 4:17 For our momentary lightness of affliction works out for us, more and more surpassingly, an eternal weight of glory,

2Co 4:18 Because we do not regard the things which are seen but the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal. ”

DEALINGS is what happens before transformation

The sequence is dealings, transformation, conformation and maturity

How long we will be on the mountain, how long the dealings last is determined by us and not the Lord.

Dealings should be a momentary lightness of affliction, a very short period of affliction for deeper death and conformation to the cross.

However it is sad that we often refuse to take the way of dealing, the way of the mountain willingly, abnormally extending this period. Sometimes we extend it for years, for decades.

Although I cannot put a definite time limit, I know from the Lord’s side it should be a short period.

Sometimes a work that can be done in 1 hour gets done in 8 hours or even more.

We waste the time.

Don’t fight your destiny. Don’t resist, don’t oppose, don’t postpone the inevitable

Either you cooperate with the Lord to do it in a short period of time now, or He will be forced to do it in a thousand years during the millennial kingdom.

The sequence of dealings, transformation, conformation, maturity is also portrayed in the experience of the Lover of Christ in Song of Songs

“Song of Songs 4:6 Until the day dawns and the shadows flee away, I for my part, WILL GO TO THE MOUNTAIN of MYRRH / And TO THE HILL OF FRANKINCENSE. ”

Correction: The loving seeker was willing to enter into the next stage of her pursuit at the end of 3:5 (... until she pleases), not 3:9.

Then from 3:6 on, she lives in union with Christ in His death (myrrh), resurrection (frankincense), and ascension (4:8, mountains of Lebanon). She becomes His sister (4:10, one in nature), and an enclosed garden and orchard (4:12, 6:11), growling fresh green things for her Beloved's private enjoyment (4:16). She becomes transformed into an overcomer (4:13, shoots in an orchard). She then becomes His co-worker, sojourning in the churches throughout the entire world, caring for others' growth and maturity in life out of her first love for Him (7:11-13), for the building up of the Body of Christ. Finally she hopes to be raptured to meet Him face to face (8:2-4), upon the mountains of spices of all our experiences of Him for Him to establish His kingdom on earth.

Thank you Daniel for the detailed explanation from Song of Songs!

In Chapter 2:8-14 of the Song of Songs, the seeker was not one who remains in the death of Christ to live in resurrection (Galatians 2:20). Her Beloved reveals Himself to her as the resurrected One who, like the gazelle, leaps over the mountains and the hills (v. 8-9), that is, over the clefts of the rock and the covert of the precipice (v. 14), signifying the cross of Christ. Here He was only speaking to her behind a separating wall through the windows and the lattices (v. 9), and she was not yet willing.

However, under her Beloved's calling (2:14), she was pleased to enter (3:9) into the next stage in her pursuit of the union with Christ in His death and resurrection. By 4:6, she was willing to get herself to go to the mountain of the spices of myrrh (death of Christ), and of frankincense (resurrection of Christ), as God's new creation. She wants to remain there until the day dawns and the shadows flee away (4:6), that is, until Christ returns. She is now living in ascension on the mountains of Lebanon, over the power of Satan (lion's den and leopard's mountains - 4:8).

By lingering on the mountain of myrrh and on the hill of frankincense, she gains an abundance (mountain) of experiences and enjoyment of her Beloved, who will return to her at the mountain of spices (8:14), because she is now the same as he is in life and in nature (not in the Godhead) to match Him (Solomon) as the Shulammite (6:13).

The Spirit of Christ always leads us to live a crucified life, conforming us to the death of Christ. In Philippians 3:10 Paul said that He desired to know Christ, the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death. The wonderful Spirit works to conform us to the death of Christ.

The cross of Christ is applied to us by the Spirit (Rom. 8:13b). In the Spirit, there is the killing element of the cross. When we live by the Spirit, the Spirit within us will kill all the negative things, such as sin, Satan, the world, me, the old man, and all the differences due to ordinances. We need to apply the cross of Christ to our flesh with the passions and the lusts through the cooperation with the Spirit (Gal. 5:24).

The experience of the cross of Christ issues in the abundance of the Spirit of life. According to Galatians 2:20, the more we experience the cross of Christ, the more Christ lives in us. John 12:24 shows that the Lord’s death as a grain of wheat issued in much fruit. When we experience the death of Christ, the issue is the multiplication of life. Furthermore, we boast in the cross of Christ (Gal. 6:14a). The cross was really an abasement, but the Apostle Paul made it his boast.

The Spirit brings us to the cross. If we take the cross, the cross will issue in more of the Spirit. Before Christ went to the cross, the Spirit was always leading Him. This leading Spirit always led Him to the cross. The entire life of Christ was a life led by the Spirit to the cross. Christ lived a crucified life, a life under the cross for thirty-three and a half years. Every day of His life, He was being crucified by the Holy Spirit. Even when He went to the physical cross for six hours, He went there by the eternal Spirit of God and offered Himself to God through this Spirit (Heb. 9:14). Therefore, the Spirit comes first and then the cross. When we were saved, the first thing we received was the Spirit. Then from that time onward, this Spirit leads us to the cross. We have to undergo the process of being crossed out all the time by allowing the Spirit to bring us to the cross, so that the cross can issue in more of the Spirit.

- The Spirit. ch. 12

In our early revelation of Christ as seen in the Song of Songs, we see Him as one moving upon the mountains and the hills (2:8). We only see with appreciation, but have so little experience. There comes a point when we need to be with Him, in His experiences. Who He is and what He has done is no longer something distant, but we enter until every shadow in our life disappears (4:6). The negative shadows or the positive ones flee away and we have Him with His death and His resurrection! We begin to match Him!