The Book of Ruth - Redemption Revealed. (Complete Overview of the Entire Book)

Send us Fan Mail Overview: The book of Ruth is more than a love story set in the days of the Judges. At one level, the story is about Ruth, a Moabite widow who chose to follow her mother-in-law Naomi back to Bethlehem. She was a stranger, an outsider, under the condemnation of the Law — for Deuteronomy tells us that no Moabite could enter the assembly of the Lord. And yet Ruth was redeemed by a near-kinsman. This is the heart of the book: redemption through a kinsman. In Exodus, Israe...