Kissing has both a positive and a negative sense in the Word

 "Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him" (1 Kings 19:18).

As is typical in the Word, a term like "kiss" or "to kiss" has good or evil expressions depending on context. The kissing in the verse above represents the polar opposite of the kissing in the verse below:

"Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him" (Psalms 2:12).

The kissing in question represents conjunction when the symbol is positive; and when it is negative -- as in the kissing of Baal -- then it represents disjunction. We have often times seen mention of the bride and bridegroom sounding joyously versus sounding no longer as representing this contrast between conjunction and disjunction. This is to remind people that this Full vs Empty symbolism is to be watched for throughout scripture; for numerous Biblical images and pairs of imagery have their distinct place in this sort of fuel gauge or cuckoo clock of love, the prophesying of God.

47 And while he yet spake, lo, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and elders of the people.

48 Now he that betrayed him gave them a sign, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he: hold him fast.

49 And forthwith he came to Jesus, and said, Hail, master; and kissed him (Matthew 26:47-49).

This particular kiss, known as the (or a) Judas kiss, represents disjunction in the Jewish Church, which is the adulterous relationship of rendering the commandment of God of none effect and there being no more faith on earth; that is, no more faith in the Church. That is why the Gospel account particularly holds up the Pharisees' rendering the commandments of none effect through their tradition for the reader to see; and as well holds up the spiritual bankruptcy of the Sadducees whom God revealed to know neither the scriptures nor the power of God. Because these two things side by side are the breakage of the covenant and the death of the Church and the Judas kiss and the witnesses slain and the bride and bridegroom sounding no longer and the sound of the millstone not being heard and the earth being full of satyrs and djinn, etc.

And also in the sky they are the stars which are spiritual information about righteousness and understanding which fall down; and the sun turning black as sackcloth of hair and the moon turning to blood, and idols of gold and silver being worshipped are the degenerations in practice and understanding which increasingly preclude the Church's being properly facilitative of regeneration, till it is but anti-Church and harlot and facilitates not at all. All these things are markers in the cuckoo clock of God of utmost degeneration in His Church, the pitch black of its finally cooling love.

And all of them, it does to be said, can roughly speaking be in our souls you and I. For everything said about the Church applies to the individual as a Church; and everything that is said about the anti-Church applies to the individual as an anti-Church. For the Kingdom of Heaven is the conjunction of righteousness and understanding and with the Lord within us; just like in the broader Church about which so many things are said as it perennially degenerates and cools in love and dims in light; that is, especially in the prophecies.

Every remotely healthy interpretation of prophecy is going to fit Jesus' helpful tip here: "On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets" (Matthew 22:40). If the interpretation does not fit this statement like a glove, you can safely and rationally ask yourselves 'What's the bottom line here? Where's the compassion and the sense and growing in these? Where's the turning from idols of gold and idols of silver?' This is not Cosplay, this is in deadly earnest. The Church exists to facilitate this turning from such idolatry of the darkened sun and bloody moon to the sun that shines sevenfold and the moon that shines as the sun collectively and individually. If the Church often says things that are more like the roof of the Sistine Chapel than the pages of a scientific textbook, then are we... surprised? Of course not. The Writings and the Bible are meant to facilitate regeneration, and to accomplish this they deploy ornate and elaborate beauty which sometimes makes less than perfect sense; but never fear, let there be no obscurity or puzzlement: at bottom it is all about pouring fertiliser on compassion and enlightenment.