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- Welcome to the Rapid Bull, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications.
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- This is a ministry of striving for eternity. The book of Ruth.
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- This is the first of two books that are named after a woman, and this is important because we will see that Ruth is the great grandmother of King David, and that is probably why this book, also assumed to have been written by Samuel, makes interesting content because Samuel is trying to argue for the line of David and his kingdom, and this book is very important because what you have historically is
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- Naomi, Ruth's mother -in -law, and her husband go into Moab because of famine in Israel, the husband dies, both of the sons die, and Ruth returns with her mother -in -law to Israel.
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- Being in Israel, she finds a young man, well, actually an older man, but he is a kinsman redeemer, and that becomes the important thing that we see in this book.
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- This book is going to be talking about Ruth, who is a Moabite, as she becomes the object of Boaz.
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- Boaz is going to want to marry her, now with a kinsman redeemer, the way this would work is that if a brother dies, then his next of kin, or I should say if a man dies, his next of kin would inherit everything if there's no one to pass it on.
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- Well, Boaz is not the next of kin, but he was close, and he ends up redeeming all the lands and in turn also having
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- Ruth as a wife, so he is the kinsman redeemer. This podcast is part of the
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- Striving for Eternity ministry. For more content, or to request a speaker or seminar to your church, go to strivingforeternity .org.
