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A Nation of Ruth's ...Part VIII  

Hiz4Ever
7/30/2006 5:02 am
 As we continue through the Book of Ruth we see that Ruth and Naomi come back to Bethlehem ‘in the beginning of the barley harvest’ (Ruth 1:22).

Barley was the lowliest of the grains. Barley was 'poor-man’ bread. This harvest represents Messiah’s harvest of the lowly and humble of heart, and represents our generation in which Israel has been restored at the time of the great endtime harvest. To make ends meet, Ruth begins to beg for barley for herself and Naomi in the field of a rich and mighty and spiritual
man named Boaz. This represents the true Church interceding on behalf of Israel – that God would save her, giving her the precious bread of life.

Boaz’s name means ‘in Him is strength.’ He is a close relative of Naomi and is a type of the Messiah Yeshua. Boaz notices Ruth gleaning in his fields and finds out she is Naomi’s Gentile daughter-in-law who has been good to Naomi. So he tells her she should glean (or pick up food) for herself and Naomi from his field and not from another. He gives her protection and
heaps favours upon her to glean among the sheaves and not the fallen pieces, and to eat and drink with his harvesters. Naturally Ruth asks Boaz, ‘Why have I found grace in your eyes that you should take knowledge of me, seeing
I am a stranger?’ (Ruth 2: 10).

Boaz answers her: "It has been fully reported to me, all that you have done for your
mother-in-law since the death of your husband, and how you have left your father and your mother and the land of your birth, and have come to a people whom you did not know before. The Lord repay your work, and a full reward be given you by the Lord God of Israel, under Whose wings you have come for refuge". (Ruth 2: 11-12)

*To Be Continued*

With Great Love,

Hiz4Ever †


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