The Book of Ruth provides God’s people a delightful story of wisdom and salvation. Our Promised King came to us through God’s amazing and merciful acts in the lives of regular, even unlikely people, to praise the glory of his grace. It inspires us to have our trust in God in our everyday lives and be a part of God’s plan and share his love to others. This is a touching beautiful story, centring in of Naomi, Ruth and Boaz. This story comes in a redeeming contrast after the dark times of the book of Judges. It is such a fascinating story coming from where we least expect it. The Book of Ruth shows us that in the middle of the general wickedness there were occurrences of noble love and godly loyalty and high ideal. It illustrates a noble devotion of a young Moabites widow for her widowed Hebrew mother-in-law, and the God-given reward by which her self-sacrificing devotion was afterward crowned.
The theme of movement from fullness to emptiness, back to fullness is depicted in the beginning of the Book of Ruth where Elimelech’s (means “my God is my King”), a Hebrew man with a birthright in Bethlehem (house of bread), sought short-term refuge in the land of Moab, together with his wife, Naomi (pleasantness, sweetness, favour), and their two sons Mahlon (joy or song) and Chilion (ornament or perfectness) because of the famine in their land. At this stage of …show more content…
This is an evidence that there was a Moabites link in the chain of his genealogy. King David, the seventh son of Jesse, was the great grandson of Boaz and Ruth. The significance of the book of Ruth is that Boaz took Ruth the Gentile into the David’s ancestry and the line of the messiah as Ruth passes into that line she representatively takes all the Gentiles with her, so that now both Jews and Gentiles share common hope in the coming of Jesus. The story begins with famine, death, and mourning but end with fullness, new life and
The theme of movement from fullness to emptiness, back to fullness is depicted in the beginning of the Book of Ruth where Elimelech’s (means “my God is my King”), a Hebrew man with a birthright in Bethlehem (house of bread), sought short-term refuge in the land of Moab, together with his wife, Naomi (pleasantness, sweetness, favour), and their two sons Mahlon (joy or song) and Chilion (ornament or perfectness) because of the famine in their land. At this stage of …show more content…
This is an evidence that there was a Moabites link in the chain of his genealogy. King David, the seventh son of Jesse, was the great grandson of Boaz and Ruth. The significance of the book of Ruth is that Boaz took Ruth the Gentile into the David’s ancestry and the line of the messiah as Ruth passes into that line she representatively takes all the Gentiles with her, so that now both Jews and Gentiles share common hope in the coming of Jesus. The story begins with famine, death, and mourning but end with fullness, new life and