2 Samuel 7:11-13, “Also the LORD telleth thee that he will make thee a house. And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee… and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.” Through this Unconditional Covenant (Davidic) the Messiah would come from the house of David.
King David’s lineage is encrypted in the Hebrew text of Genesis 38—in 49-letter intervals, Ruth, Obed, Jesse, and David. Ruth is in the genealogy of Jesus.
Ruth 1:1, “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.” Ruth 1:4, “And they took them wives of the women of Moab; the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they dwelled there about ten years.”
After the death of her husband, Ruth returned to Bethlehem with Naomi. As a Moabite, Ruth was an outsider. Deuteronomy 23:3, “An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of the LORD forever:”
However, there was an exception, “The Hebrew words for “Moabite” and Ammonite” are masculine. Women become a part of whatever tribe or clan they marry into. This is why Ruth became an Israeli when she married Boaz; and this is exactly why a male Moabite, even a God-fearer, could not become an Israeli citizen.”
[Johnson, Ken. Ancient Book of Gad the Seer: Referenced in 1 Chronicles 29:29 and alluded to in 1 Corinthians 12:12 and Galatians 4:26]
The Book of Ruth is a very short book and sometimes dismissed as a rather simple story of Ruth’s devotion to Naomi and the love story between Ruth and Boaz and their Levirate Marriage. However, the book is so much more! The Book is prophetic of Jesus as the Kinsman-Redeemer and the Church as the Gentile Bride. As Boaz redeemed Ruth as his bride and Naomi her land, Jesus has redeemed the Church and He will redeem Israel.
As a Kinsman-Redeemer Boaz had to be a kinsman, able and willing to perform, and must assume all the obligations. As our Kinsman-Redeemer Jesus is our kinsman if we have a personal relationship with him. Jesus was willing to endure torture and an excreting death on the cross for His Church. As wholly man and wholly God Jesus was qualified to be our propitiation, to assume all the obligations.
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