The Romance of Redemption - Session 1 - Chuck Missler - Body Builders #3

[Music] [Music] well hello there welcome to our study of the Book of Ruth and whenever we enter the Word of God we want to do it with prayer so let's bow our hearts father we thank you for this precious book we thank you for this time together and we solicit the Holy Spirit to open this book and our lives to your word that we might grow in Grace and the knowledge of our precious Savior and whose name we commit this time in Jesus name indeed amen the Book of Ruth and who are in the first four sessions and it's very strange if somebody asks you what's my favorite book of the Bible there's a lot of good candidates Genesis revelation whatever but I have to say that very likely the Book of Ruth would be the top of the list that may sound strange a little tiny for chapter book this little book is venerated even in secular college literature classes it's considered one of the most elegant love stories in writing but it also encapsulate that which we called the romance of redemption but one of the things we'll need to do in order to really understand this book is to lay it against the fabric of ancient Israel there are three groups of laws that we that are very strange that we need to understand and about Redemption gleaning and the lover right marriage so we'll get into those as we go but to be prepared for some surprises and why this particular book you know it's interesting that this book little fourth chapter narrative a little love story is one of the most dramatic books of prophecy in the Bible and the ancient Jewish Scriptures often included the Book of Ruth with the book of the prophets and that may surprise you but it we regard this book as an essential prerequisite to a study of the book of Revelation by the way and one of our one of my basic themes in my ministry as you know is that the sixty-six books we call the Bible or a single message system intricately designed every detail is there deliberately by design and we're going to see some of that unfold as you go forward here now in Ruth every detail not only carries the romance along but it carries along the romance of redemption we need to understand what do we mean by redemption and so it's going to give us you and me it's going to give us a perspective of God's plan for us you and I are gonna be profiled here you know it's a very surprising way we're going to discover a concept called the go Allan Hebrew it's called the kinsman redeemer what is that really all about and you won't understand Revelation chapter 5 unless you really understand this background you're also going to see the distinctives between Israel and the church one of the tragic byproducts of Christianity today is confusion on that subject God has a specific plan for Israel a specific plan for the church and they're in a certain sense mutually exclusive they're parallel but separate and so one of the things we also want to adjust ourselves to is that there are multiple levels of understanding there's of course typically a primary application historical an event that actually happened it occurred in the time of the judges we want to understand the period during which this these events take place and that's the historical sense but there's another aspect to our study and that's what we'll call practical or homiletic if you will how do you apply it to our own lives there's going to be things here that we'll want to be sensitive to we're also going to discover some prophetic revelations some mystic or prophetic insights that will come up that may surprise you and then of course in in the Hebrew hermeneutic they have an area called the remiz that's a hint of something deeper sometimes there will be a little issue that will open the door to a whole another perspective and we'll see some of that occurring here too hermeneutics is the theory of interpretation and as I pointed out earlier that there are over 200 rhetorical devices or figures of speech in the Bible and we notice in hosea chapter 12:10 God says I have spoken by the prophets and I have multiplied visions and used similitudes by the Ministry of the prophets similitudes are just one of 200 different kinds of rhetorical devices you find in the scripture we tend to think in greek terms which is prophecy is a prediction and fulfillment that's what we think of as prophecy that's the Greek mind at work a prediction and its fulfillment that's not the Hebrew model the Hebrew model is a little different prophecy is pattern one of the things you'll discover as you study the Hebrew literature is they continually see patterns the patterns of the Messiah profiled in Israel and vice versa they're very very oriented to patterns and we're going going that we we we see that when we study Genesis 22 the ikeda it's that a pattern where Abraham knows he's acting out prophecy that several thousand years later on that very spot another father did offer his son and so forth and so prophecy is pattern we're going to see one of the most phenomenal patterns in the Bible in these little four chapters and so they're going to be critical links in the chain we're gonna look at we're gonna see Bethlehem why is Bethlehem relevant why is Bethlehem associated with the house of David we take that for granted but why because of our Christmas cards maybe right because of Micah 5:2 and so on the cross of course is the pivotal event in the entire universe and the crown that Jesus is destined to wear is also in the picture here the throne of David will be a topic we'll discuss and the issues that will come of course will be the kinsman redeemer what do we really mean by that and of course the distinction between the church and Israel we want to be sensitive to those issues the Book of Ruth it opens up with a phrase in the days the judges ruled we need to understand that this is a period after Moses but before the King there's an era there in which the judges ruled it was not a good time it was one of the spiritual valleys if you will in their history but within that dark period when the judges ruled we're going to see the ultimate love story it's a love story at the literary level it'll be a love story at the prophetic and personal levels and it's strangely enough this book is probably from an in the Old Testament the most relevant book for the church that sounds like a contradiction but it's interesting that even the Jewish community always reads it at the time of show vote now what is about to vote all about it's the only place that Moses in the feasts of Moses where they use leavened bread what's all that about there's something strange going on that even most Jews don't realize we'll talk about but but clearly when you speak of the church prophetically or dispensational II the Book of Ruth will surface because it's so clearly profiles the role and the mission of the kinsman redeemer what is all that about and as I say it's an essential prerequisite Book of Revelation so we're in Chapter 1 we're gonna see loves resolve and that's where Ruth's decides to claimed in the Oh me in Chapter 2 we'll see love's response and that's where Ruth cleans for Naomi and chapter 3 as loves requests and we have this very strange widely misunderstood scene of the threshing floor most secular people reading that have no grasp what on earth is going on there and then the fourth the big climax is love's reward so chapters 1 2 3 & 4 are it Love's resolve its response its request and its reward and so that's the redemption both the land to Naomi and the bride to Boaz and that's that that's the the big plot issue that will unravel here so this session we're going to jump into now is chapter one loves resolve it introduces the characters and what's going on here and so now one of the things the more you understand the Jewish feasts the stranger it is that this scroll the Book of Ruth is always read in Jewish communities at the time of cheveux at the feast of weeks and you ask them why do they do that well they say it's sort of associated with harvest and so forth maybe there's something far deeper going on here and when you study the seven feasts of Moses this is the unique one it's the only feast in the Bible in which leavened bread is is used and we'll explain why later and so forth so let's just jump in Ruth chapter one verse one now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled that there was a famine in the land and a certain man of Bethlehem Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab he and his wife and his two sons okay this first sentence tells you what the incident is where it took place when it took place and generally how it took place okay and when the judges ruled that was a dark time not a spiritual high time and the whole Ruth event takes place during this very dissapointing era and that's the pre of time after Joshua conquered the land but before they had a king there's a a window in there and so between joshua and the monarchy rulership was under the judges it was a time of scandals a promise prominent player that was with samson colorful lots of mischief but pointless really a spiritually a disappointment and so and we find that there was a famine in the land their famines are an issue here if there's 13 of them in the Bible and that's the reason why the family Naomi and little ik and the two sons leave Judea they go east to Moab because they there's food there and so this is the that's their response to God's judgement apparently fam may be a response to the spiritual condition of the country at the time and famines we know took place during the times of Abraham Genesis 12 David and second Samuel 21 Elijah first King 17 and Gideon and judges severely they happen frequently and so we think this story probably occurred during specifically the time of Gideon drought and famine were among the judgments God would come upon the land as a result of failure to keep the law there's these note these references are in your notes so you can double back on this at your leisure and the book of Judges provides ample evidence of their failure to keep the law that brought about the famine in the days of Gideon so it had to last for several years in order to compel them to leave the land and go to Moab now strangely enough the whole process of redemption will hang on the fact that he only left the land she may become a a type if you will of a diaspora and that's going to get significant if that's true as we go ten years would pass before Naomi would hear that the famine had ended in other words they left went to Moab lived there 10 years before she heard that it was worthwhile to go back home but a lot of transpired by then we'll get into that here in a minute so the the Midianites we know oppressed Israel for about seven years and the oppression includes the destruction of the produce from the soil from the famine that would naturally follow and so that's all in judges 6 and so on but ok a certain man from Bethlehem Judah see there's a couple of Bethlem by the way there's there's a bet there is a Bethlehem in Zebulon but when we talk of Bethlem we mean Bethlehem Ephrathah or Bethlehem Judah if you will and so this is the guy that is going to be the center of our story and so he went to sojourn in the country of Moab and so forth and it is this by the way this book that links David to the city of Bethlehem is the point and he went to sojourn and that means to be a resident alien and the live among people are not blood relatives as a foreigner because they would be among the Moabites foreigners if you will and so yeah and Moab of course was the son of lot the evil fruit of an ancestress relationship with one of his daughters and there's a pretty dismal background here the Moabites had hired Balaam to curse Israel during Israel's pilgrimage to Canaan and numbers 22 and in under normal circumstances the Mobile's were barred from participation in the national corporate life of Israel they were very very separate in other words okay and but they were friendly pretty much the relationships between some of the individual Israelites and Moabites was it was good and the when when fleeing the wrath of Saul David found a friend among in the king of Moab so even though they're separate there have been occasions whether they were friendly so now the name of the man here was a limo lek and the name of his wife in the old me and the name of his two sons Mayland Killian one of the things we can infer from the second verse that names are relevant to the story we generally don't necessarily attribute relevance to names or just labels but we notice here especially that these labels are very very descriptive and so the limo lek means God is my king at a strange time when they had no king Naomi means pleasant she's going to suggest they call her bitter rather than Pleasant before it's all over but that's her name actually means Pleasant and one of the synonyms for Israel is pleasant land so we can almost see this set up here where Naomi will tend to be to typify the nation Israel and so and Mahlon from the root of Kerala which means to be sick unhealthy sickly that's a tough label to go through school with in it well his brother is no better Kilian means wasting or pining these are the names of the two son but Elimelech Nanda's so she's now a widow and she was left and her two sons get the pictures he's in a foreign country her husband's died it died then when they when they left Judea they forfeited that by bid departure his inheritance so they had she had nothing she's a widow in a foreign country with two sons and the two sons are gonna die here we'll see okay and they took them wives of the women of Moab the name of one was ARPA and the name of the other roof and they dwelled there about 10 years now the law of Moses in Deuteronomy 7 did not actually forbid marriage with the Moabitess as it forbade marriage with Canaanite women but in Deuteronomy 23 the law did forbid the reception of Moabites into the congregation of the Lord until the 10th generation but we're gonna see grace we'll get around all that but that's the general rule now Moab is my wash pot is occurs twice in the psalm so mo heaven is not a very complimentary label here and Gentile marriage is forbidden in Deuteronomy 7 and in Deuteronomy 23 and so now Orpah her name itself means fallen or gazelle and Ruth means friendship or desirable reasonably reasonably enough now the two sons married these two gals Michael Annett married Ruth Killian married oppa we don't find out the linkage until we get fourth chapter but it's incidental to our story anyway and so now by the way in Moses day it was the Moabite women who seduced the Jewish men in the immorality and idolatry and as a result that twenty four thousand people died that's all in numbers 25 and so Jews are forbidden to marry Gentile women especially those from Ammon and Moab and that's all through the Torah if you will and so now Malin achillion died also both of them picture that the destitute situation of Naomi her husband's dead then who two married sons there having married foreigners they've died and she's left then ever of her two sons and her husband and so the land was lost and part of the story here will be in the only regaining the land she lost okay and when lemon like left Bethlehem he lost his property he either sold it or had lost - indebtedness we don't know but that's a loss to the family obviously and so okay and then she arose with her daughters-in-law that she might return from the country of Moab for she had heard in the country of Moab how that the Lord had visited his people and giving them bread in other words they're living for ten years in Moab her husband dies the two sons died she now hears that things are better back home so she decides to go back to her own people okay and so that the Lord had visited people in giving them bread and what's the name for bread in Hebrew well FM Bethlehem means the house of bread you see this thing is weaving in do you see the design going on here these names are not accidental Bethlehem the house of bread wherefore she went forth out of the place where she was and her two daughters-in-law with her and they went on the way to return unto the land of Judah and the owe me said unto her two daughters-in-law go return each to your mother's house her mother's house and the Lord deal kindly with you as he of dealt and with me so in the omens leaving she's going home she's telling the two gals to stay in their homeland and somehow you know make that work and so she says the Lord grant you that G me find rest each of you in the house of her husband then she kissed them and they lifted up their voice and wept and they said unto her surely we will return with thee unto thy people so they want to go along with Naomi their mother-in-law to back to Judea okay Naomi said turn again my daughters why will you go with me are there yet any more sons in my womb that they might be your husband's as as Naomi starts to argue with them you I regret that I don't have the gift of these these ability to imitate the the Jewish inflections here you almost have to read this with a good New York Jewish accent to hear the the the ironic logic here why would you go with me are there any yet any more sons in my womb they may be your husband's turning in my daughter's going away for I am too old to have a husband and if I should say I have hope if I should have a husband also tonight and should also bear sons would you tarry for them until they're grown would you stay with them for having husbands name I daughters for agree with me much for your sakes that the hand of the Lord has gone out against me so we that she tries to talk them out of it notice though she attributes all of this to the Lord of it the Lord's hand being against her and she realized he recognized that it wasn't pure chance and they lifted up their voice and wept again and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law but Ruth Clavin her in other words Orpah agrees with me only and she stays but Ruth does just the opposite okay see or opera goes back into oblivion we know nothing else love her but Ruth sat clave to her and boy that's a big deal the actual Hebrew word is debauch which means to stick like glue and this is the very same clause that induced Orpah to return home is what caused Ruth to stay the fact that Naomi will no longer have a husband or sons meant that she needed someone to take care of her and that's what motivated Ruth to stay if she motivation was to take care of Naomi and I don't know how many of you girls feel that way about your mother-in-law but we'll move on here and she said behold thy sister-in-law has gone back unto her people and unto her God's returned thou after thy sister-in-law Naomi still trying to talk Ruth into staying bent in Moab she's gone back to her people and unto her gods you need to understand the Moabites worship a different God and they were shamash and the the the national god of Moab was shamash you find that in numbers 21 in first Kings 11 and incidentally they Shamu she accepted human sacrifices you're dealing with heavy paganism here that was the gods that ARPA and Ruth grew up with and so that's why it it makes sense in a sense for ARPA to stay with that culture that's what she's used to but it's astonishing that Ruth it feels quite distinctively different and by the way all of a lot of this is on the famed Moabite stone by the way and the MobileLite stone was discovered in 1868 by a german missionary and it is in it's about four feet high contains about thirty four lines in an alphabet very similar to ancient hebrew and it was probably erected about 850 BC by King Mesha of the male king and it celebrated his overthrow of the nation Israel and the biblical account makes it clear that Israel is actually victorious so there's a discrepancy there but in any case Misha honors his God shamash in terms similar to the Old Testament reverenced and Lord you know it's interesting how that always happens when I was in Egypt I was startled how they celebrate their victory in the in the Yom Kippur a war they got clobbered but they celebrated as if it's of it you see there's they try to create the impression of the people that that was a victory for them and so in here the mobile thing the inhabitants of entire cities apparently we're slaughtered to appease this deity and but anyway let's get on here the the its it there's profound biblical evidence in the mobile stone it confirms Old Testament accounts it's valuable geographically because it mentions no less than 15 sites of the Old Testament are mentioned in the mobile stone so it's a very valuable find from that point of view and so and it's it's of course the paleo-hebrew but let's get back to verse 16 they always trying to talk roofs into staying in Moab and she said and it says and Ruth said entreat me not to leave thee or to return from following after thee and here is the famous declaration probably the most famous declaration in the book who says for whither thou goest I will go and where thou lodgest I will Lodge thy people shall be my people and thy God my god think about that she was raised movin idol-worshipping Gentile country she was abandoning everything and so where thou Dyess twill I die and there will I be buried the Lord do so to me and more also if aught but death Part V and me what a declaration what a declaration the Lord do so to me the only I mean Ruth is using the vocabulary of Yehovah she invoked the name of God in her oath and not the name of shamash the maw of God understand how she has converted her perspective here there's a Sevenfold decision says that for whither thou goest I will go where thou lodgest I will Lodge thy people shall be my people thy God my God without Dyess will I die and there will I be buried and the Lord do so to me and more also if auto death part V and me and so this Sevenfold statement by the way is interesting to see that fabric throughout the entire Bible it's amazing how many passages when you dissect it and they're always a Sevenfold declaration okay and this form formula is used seven times in the book of Samuel and the kings by Eli concerning Samuel by Saul of Jonathan's execution Jonathas friendship with David David concerning an avowal David concerning Amasa Ben hey Dad and so these things yeah I fascinated with these things because they evidence deliberate design because even though there's different authors different books they have a single author the Holy Spirit and so we have these seven occasions okay in Deuteronomy 23 it says an ammonite or more by shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the Congress it takes 10 generations to get the residency so to speak if I can put it that way remember that tenth generation because it's going to be important as we unfold when we get to chapter four how could Ruth enter into the congregation of the Lord by trusting God's grace and throwing herself completely on His mercy which is exactly what she did and that's what exactly worked here the law may exclude us from God's family but grace includes it if we put our faith in the kinsman redeemer that's the lesson that lurks in this entire fabric here and so the genealogy of Genesis Christ in Matthew four includes the name of five women four of whom have very questionable credentials Tamar committed incest with her father-in-law and we'll talk about that in session for Rahab was a Gentile harlot and Rahab was the mother of Boaz by the way he will discover Ruth was an outcast and outcast Gentile mo- and the wife of Uriah which is the way Sheba's mentioned in the genealogy in Matthew 4 was an adulteress so four of the five women there that are mentioned in the genealogy of Christ were had rather cloudy reputations and so okay the sovereign mercy and grace of God one of the things that fascinates me is God has gone to such extremes for you and me and yet when all is said and done God does not get what he wants what no remember God says he's long-suffering toward us not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance do all come to repentance no so despite his extreme reach for our behalf he doesn't get what he really wants I find that provocative anyway how did they all become part of the family tree the same way we did okay verse 18 and when she saw that is when they owe me saw that Ruth was steadfastly minded to go with her she left speaking on her words she she let that go okay now they would have to go about seventy five miles and that's not in a straight line because they'd have to send the Moabite Highlands to the Jordan River from the Highlands to the Jordan Valley and descend about forty five hundred feet followed by an by an ascent to Bethlehem about thirty seven hundred fifty feet walking through desert territory through the wilderness of Judah so we in just that one verse we're now going to find ourselves in Bethlehem because they made that trip but you need to understand this they had quite a journey the two of them on their own okay so they two went until they came to Bethlehem and it came to in a hot brought an appropriate name the house of bread that's why they're going there and they by doing this make Bethlehem famous in a lot of ways we'll see and it came to pass when they were come to Bethlehem that all the same was moved about them and they said is this and they owe me and she said to them call me not Naomi call me Mara for the almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me now seeing the owe me really means Pleasant don't call me Pleasant call me bitter Mara means bitter and so for the almighty eating of every word she uses hear the word all idea out she died and shed I it actually means the breast the provider we'd read translated almighty but it's actually a label we as the source of nourishment if you will and so the name of God it she's 40 times in the Old Testament although 31 of those are in the book of Job alone I went out full Naomi says and the Lord hath brought me home again empty why then call me Naomi seeing the Lord have testified against me and the almighty have afflicted me so Naomi returned and root the mall - her daughter-in-law with her which returned out of the country of Moab and they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of the barley harvest now that little closing phrase is intended to be a pick up the barley harvest is a this is an upbeat and one of the things that you're going to need to have a a flavor for is the calendar if you're going to study your Bible the barley ripened before the wheat and began to be reaped sometime as early as March but generally in April or a Biba and so the barley harvest is the first hint of something joyful up till now this whole experience has been pretty dark because of a famine they leave their homeland when they get to this strange country the husband dies the sons who get married they die it's a it's a dismal tale so far but there's a change coming and they arrive there at the beginning of the barley harvest now one of the things that rabbi said many years ago it's very interesting says the Jews Catechism is its calendar if you're going to understand Jewishness the Jewishness of you of the Bible you need to have a feeling for their calendar and the whole idea is that the kept their calendar is their catechism they have a hepatic calendar except a sevenfold they have a week of days most of us recognize that the seventh day is Shabbat they also have a week of weeks that's called cheveux when they celebrate that they have a week of months the religious year is a seven month cycle and the seven the week of years is the sabbatical year did you know that the one one year and seven the ground is to be let rested and so forth when you take seven weeks plus one you have the jubilee year all land return reverts to its owners all slaves go free all debts are forgiven and the time of the and and Peter uses the phrase the time of restitution of all things to speak of the Jubilee year one thing you need to understand you didn't sell land we think of selling land as fee simple or you get title of a land they didn't do that way the land belong to the Lord he was blind Israel what you could sell was your right to use the land we would call that a lease but they would when they sold land they sold it's used for a certain number of years and if it was sold as out of desperation so forth a relative could come and redeem the land by paying the part that was still viable if you will and so that's what they call a redeeming the land and we're gonna see that in a limo like obviously it forfeited his land but what's going to transpire here is a way for that land to be regained for Naomi's benefit and we need to understand how that works for a lot of reasons so now it's interesting when you study the Torah in Genesis chapter one says God said let there be lights in the firmament of heaven to divide the day from the night and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and for years that's in your English translation the word for seasons there is Hamoui Dean which really means the appointed times the lights in the firmament set certain for signs and for highlighting the appointed times now the appointed times it turns out any Jew would know there are 70 of those there are 52 Saturdays 52 Sabbath's as we would think of it there are seven days of Passover when you include it's related feast days then there's a vote yom teruah Feast of Trumpets then Yom Kippur of the Feast of the Day of Atonement seven days of Sukkot the Feast of Tabernacles and the simony at Surat the eighth day of assembly when you add that up any Jew knows that he has seventy a point huh Moya deem appointed times now something very strange is if you take the Hamoui deem the appointed times as an equidistant letter sequence you discover surprisingly it only occurs once in the book of Genesis it's statistical expectation you think about five times if you go at it statistically but it does it doesn't show the blowing once the interval it shows up is seventy and it is centered on Genesis 1:14 now how did all that happen accidentally of course not it is another one of these strange things that evidence design the chance of this happening accidentally is one chance in 70 million to one and so but something else I want you to be sensitive to as we go through Ruth is the agricultural calendar we are used to the a Gregorian calendar at the march/april time period on the Jewish calendar the first month of the religious year is in the Sun and the farming calendar is that it's that's where the later rains the barley harvest the flax harvest occurs the special days in that area is Nisan 14 which of course is Passover and the feast of unleavened bread and the feast of firstfruits those three feasts together collectively are called petit they're associated with Passover and so this arm of the the feast of firstfruits is always the Sunday following Shabbat following Passover very strange formula said always on a Sunday by the way interestingly enough but the the the next month on the Jewish calendar would be our which is that when the dry season begins and then you get to may june the third you have on the early figs ripen and the vine tending occurs the special days there are Shevat that's 50 days after the feast of firstfruits in the jewish liturgy the scroll of ruth is always read on Shabbat the feast of weeks the interesting left when you understand Shevat it's very appropriate because that's really the thing that celebrates that the what we call it the feast of Pentecost interesting what happened in Acts chapter 2 moving on the the fourth month would be Tammuz and the farming calendar would be the wheat harvest and that's the first ripe grapes notice that's in the June July time period and so then we the fifth month we get July August and we have the group the grape harvest if you will and July August now the ninth of AAB is the traditional date that there's bad always bad new whatever bad happens in Israel it's always on the ninth of AAB interestingly enough a small point to make note here is that the grapes are harvested in that fifth month the month of AAB or our July August time period which tells you what for one thing where they in a culture that has no refrigeration there's no way you can get grape juice in the spring because it has its own way of protecting itself called fermentation so I'm always amused by that all these people let's try to use grape juice at communion that's fine to do for a number of reasons but you need to understand that wasn't biblical they had wine but we'll move on the august/september time period the sixth thing is the Feast of a little and that's where the dates in the summer figs are harvested and then we get to September October this the month of Tishri which is the that's the first month of the Jim calendars the 7-month on the the exodus calendar but the early rains and the special days then of course the Feast of Trumpets Yom Kippur and Sukkot the Feast of Tabernacles so that is the quick perspective of the Jewish calendar you need to have a grasp of that as you read your Bible because it's a unless you have an agricultural route you wouldn't be sensitive to that but hopefully that will be useful to you so just to summarize where we have been in Chapter 1 we have Ruth's cleaving it was in the days that judges ruled the famine drives the family to Moab Elimelech dies Naomi is left destitute Meilin and Killian the unhealthy and puny sentence her are have passed on and so the only deters her daughters-in-law from following Orpah ultimately does return to her own people but Ruth clings to Naomi and her very name means a desirable so that all sets the stage for the very peculiar events that occur in chapter 2 so for your next session I want you to study carefully Ruth chapter 2 and if you get the time you can also study the law of gleaning they have a very strange way of dealing with what you and I would call welfare the the law bei in Leviticus 19 and Deuteronomy 24 the concept was very simple a land owner with his harvesters could pass through his land once and only once what they missed was left for the destitute the widows and orphans and so that was the way they were operated you could you owning the land could make a pass and take your harvest but what what you missed what fell at the wayside you left because following your professionals would come the widows and orphans taking what they could and that was their way of providing for the destitute they called that the law of gleaning and Ruth obviously is taking care of Naomi and earning quite a reputation for her turns out but she goes to glean it's harvest time so she'll follow the harvesters and as a way of gathering produce for Naomi except something very unusual happens the the field that she happens to glean on happens to be a field of a relative of Elimelech and there in starts the plot starts to unfold and we'll watch that next time so let's bow our hearts for a word of Prayer father we thank you for the word that you've given us this precious precious book of Ruth we pray father that you would help us understand the predicament they faced and how they dealt with it and father we pray that you would help us understand the unique role of the kinsman redeemer as we endeavor to understand better our kinsman redeemer we thank you Father for this book we thank you for what's teaching we pray father through your Holy Spirit you would help us appropriate what you have for us to hear and what you would have us do in response to these things that you've provided for us as we commit ourselves into your hands in the name of Yeshua our kinsman redeemer indeed amen [Music] you

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