S.S. 4:8 “Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, may you come with me from. Journey down from the summit of a Amana, from the summit of Senir and Hermon, from the dens of Lyons, from the mountains of leopards.”
An important spiritual principle to learn is that in the context of powerful encounters with God, you can be at your most vulnerable to spiritual warfare. Lebanon in the Song of Solomon always speaks of the place of new creation and transformation. After being affirmed by the Lord for her spiritual growth, the lovesick maiden retreats to the secret place where she longs for Jesus to do a greater work of death to self in her life, and the coming forth of a greater experience and expression of the new creation she is in Christ. I believe metaphorically at the mountain of myrrh and they hill of frankincense are on the mountain range of Lebanon. Again, metaphorically, the summits of Amana and Senir and her Hermon represents the spiritual realities that happen on the mountain range of Lebanon, where she experiences the Cross and the resurrection in her own personal life in deeper ways. In other words, these summits represent the kind of spiritual experiences she has in the secret place. The word Senir means tuth, while the word Amana means bear the light, and the word Hermon means heart of the Son. The secret place is a place where you experience truth and light, and the heart of the Son is revealed to you. It is interesting, that in the place of revelation and encounter, lions and leopards also live there. Of course, the lions and leopards speak of spiritual warfare, and the reality is that every time God encounters us in the secret place the lions and the leopards are there to attack, wanting to steal what God has revealed to us. You see, satan wants to steal, kill, and destroy anything but God is doing in our lives, but God allows the warfare that comes after every revelation, because He wants the word to take root in us, so that it’s not just something that we hear and invokes emotions in us, but instead it becomes a part of who we are, and therefore changes us.