His banner over me is love

S.S. 6:4
You are as beautiful, my love, as Tirzah, as lovely as Jerusalem, as terrible as an army with banners.

So Tirzah means Palace and Jerusalem means the city of the Great King. Both of them indicate the new creation. Therefore, while we're more constituted with Him as the duplication of Him, we're beautiful in His eyes. However, this week I was considering the word "banners". More precisely, I want to know what's so special about the banners that terrifies the enemy so much.

The ministry in the week explaining banners as the following.

1). Banners indicate a readiness to fight and also are a sign that the victory is won!

2). An unfurled banner signifies the glory of the victory... Indicates this lady, Christ's corporate lover, has a future that is full of hope, and a life that is absolutely heavenly. She is a victor who constantly triumphs in her victory.

So here we see that on the one hand, the banners as a symbol that we've won the victory, and on the other hand, there's a process that we're winning battles constantly. But I wasn't sure whether I really understand the connections between the two points.

At the same time, another verse came to me,
SoS 2:4 He brought me into the banqueting house, And his banner over me was love. I would like to read several footnotes I came across that I really enjoyed.

In Rom 8:31-39 talks about God loves us so much that He delivered His son for us all, and the Son died and raised and is now at the right hand of God interceding for us. In verse 35, it says "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation or anguish or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword?" Verse 37 "But in all these things we more than conquer through Him who loved us". The reason that we cannot be separated from the love of God is according to Rom 5:5 "And hope does not put us to shame, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us". And the reason why we can "more than conquer" is because such love in our hearts does something special. The love is a motivating power that while God's enemy tries to attack us with all kinds of sufferings and calamities, we respond to the love of God in Christ. Therefore, these attacks have become benefits to us and helped us to be conformed by the Lord Spirit to reach the ultimate goal of this salvation. That is to enter into the incomparable divine glory and be glorified together with God.

So now we know why the banners are so glorious to us and are terrifying to the enemy.

When we see the banner, we are declaring God's unchanging love for us and the fact that Christ has accomplished everything on our behalf, and thus neither tribulation nor persecution can suppress or defeat us. And again when we see the banner, the enemy is really terrified! He sees a group of crazy lovers of Christ who are really crazily loving Christ. Within their heart, the inseparable love of Christ is the motivating power that whenever they meet and go through the difficulties, they turn these difficulties as fuel to accelerate their conformation into the image of God. So in hymn 1198 stanza 4 "And now the Spirit flows, Brings God wherever He goes, All he could do, the foe, was just release the flow. And God just keeps on flowing!"

Praise the Lord for the banner over us declares His unchanging love for us and our crazy love for Christ! This really terrifies the enemy.

*Main references: Rom 5:5 (ft. 1a), Rom 8:37; 39 (ft.) Bible recovery version.