I Samuel 18:1-II Samuel 1:25-26
(I Samuel 18:1,3) After David had finished talking with Saul, Jonathan became one in spirit with David, and he loved him as himself. And Jonathan made a covenant with David because he loved him as himself.
(20:15) "And do not ever cut off your kindness from my family--not even when the Lord has cut off every one of David's enemies from the face of the Earth."
(20:16-17) So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, "May the Lord call David's enemies to account." And Jonathan had David reaffirm his other oath out of love for him, because he loved him as he loved himself.
(20:41-42) ...Then they [David and Jonathan] kissed each other and wept together--but David wept the most.
(23:17-18) Jonathan said, "Don't be afraid. My father Saul will not lay a hand on you. You will be king over Israel, and I will be second to you. Even my father Saul knows this." The two of them made a covenant before the Lord....
(II Samuel 1:25-26) How have the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! Jonathan is slain on your high places. I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan; you have been very pleasant to me. Your love to me was more wonderful than the love of women.
Both David and Jonathan loved the Lord our God, and they gave His love to one another. From the time Jonathan met David, when Saul interviewed him, he recognized God's love in him, and loved him as himself. Their friendship never did have any arguments or misunderstandings, even though Jonathan's father was King Saul, Israel's first king. Had Saul followed the Lord as his son did, God would have allowed his dynasty to continue, and Jonathan would have been the next king. But Saul thought he knew better than what Samuel told him God wanted him to do, and set his own understanding above God. So God rejected him and chose David to head the dynasty that would rule Israel and beget the Savior, because he was "a man after God's own heart." Jonathan knew that God had chosen David, and he wanted what God decided more than what would be "best" for himself politically. This is real love, not any imitation, like David saw in his wives. They did not love him, and even Michal, Saul's daughter that thought she loved him, only loved her idea of what she wanted him to be, and when he took off his royal robes to dance before the ark of God wearing the common garment of the Levites, she considered him "naked" of his dignity, and despised him. So Jonathan's love was the only true, pure love David knew, other than God's own love for him.
It distresses me to see how wicked people have twisted this pure, true love into a perverted homosexual liaison. Love is not sex; God loves us and parents love their children, and there are numerous other examples of pure love not involving a physical intimacy. God gave us sex as "the marital act," to validate a marriage between a husband and a wife by becoming "one flesh," a physical act. Two people who are the same gender cannot perform this "one flesh" act so they cannot consummate a marriage; even though they may have a wonderful friendship, it's only friendship, not marriage.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
