Caption transcript for Ruth: “Kinsman Redeemer” (6/8)

• 00:05 IT WAS A JOURNEY NO ONE EXPECTED.
• 00:08 FAMINE IN JUDAH HAD BROUGHT THEM TOGETHER IN MOAB
• 00:12 AND NOW...
• 00:14 NOTHING COULD TEAR THEM APART.
• 00:18 FOR NAOMI THE RETURN TO BETHLEHEM WAS A BITTER ONE.
• 00:22 BEHIND HER LAY HER HUSBAND AND TWO SONS BURIED IN FOREIGN SOIL.
• 00:28 FOR RUTH...
• 00:30 A NEW LAND...
• 00:32 A NEW PEOPLE...
• 00:35 A REDEEMER...
• 00:37 AN EXTRAORDINARY JOURNEY OF UNYIELDING DEVOTION.
• 00:41 A LOVE STORY FOR THE AGES.
• 00:55 SHALOM AND WELCOME TO OUR SHOW.
• 00:57 I AM MYLES WEISS...
• 00:58 THIS IS MY CO-HOST AND MY WIFE KATHARINE
• 01:00 WE HAVE ANOTHER WONDERFUL SHOW MYLES.
• 01:03 I'M SO EXCITED TO GET STARTED TODAY.
• 01:05 WE'RE IN THE BOOK OF RUTH, YOU'RE PEOPLE SHALL BE MY PEOPLE
• 01:08 AND WE'VE BEEN SEEING THE TENSION GROW.
• 01:11 WE'VE BEEN SEEING THIS INCREDIBLE STORY OF LOSS, LOVE, AND LEGACY
• 01:15 AS RUTH AND NAOMI HAVE TRAVELED FROM MOAB TO BETHLEHEM.
• 01:19 THEY'VE COME TO MEET BOAZ, THE KINSMAN REDEEMER.
• 01:22 BUT NOW THERE IS THIS DRAMA OF WHETHER HE IS IN FACT THE KINSMAN REDEEMER
• 01:27 WHO CAN TAKE RUTH AND NAOMI TO HIMSELF AND PROVIDE FOR THEM FOR THE YEARS TO COME.
• 01:33 THE DRAMA HAS GOTTEN MORE TENSE
• 01:35 BECAUSE THERE IS ANOTHER KINSMAN WHO IS CONTENDING FOR RUTH IN THIS.
• 01:41 WE DON'T KNOW HOW IT'S GOING TO TURN OUT.
• 01:43 SO REALLY WE'RE SEEING THE DRAMA UNFOLD IN A FRESH AND LIVELY WAY
• 01:47 AND THE BIBLE IS REALLY COMING ALIVE NOW IN THE STORY OF ROMANCE AND REDEMPTION.
• 01:51 SO LET'S GET TO IT RIGHT NOW.
• 02:56 AND RUTH LAY AT HIS FEET UNTIL MORNING...
• 03:00 ARISING EARLY, LEST SHE BE RECOGNIZED.
• 03:58 AND BOAZ MEASURED OUT SIX MEASURES OF GRAIN
• 04:02 AND GAVE IT UNTO RUTH TELLING HER TO BRING IT HOME TO NAOMI.
• 04:07 IT WAS MORE THAN A KIND GESTURE.
• 04:10 IT WAS PROOF THAT BOAZ WAS CONCERNED ABOUT NAOMI'S WELFARE
• 04:16 AND THAT HE CARED DEEPLY FOR RUTH.
• 04:31 THE DRAMA IS UNFOLDING BETWEEN BOAZ AND RUTH
• 04:33 AND IT'S ABOUT TO TAKE AN INTERESTING TURN.
• 04:35 YOU KNOW...THE MUTUAL HONOR
• 04:36 THAT'S SHOWN HERE
• 04:38 IS REALLY QUITE AMAZING.
• 04:39 THERE IS RUTH IN HER BOLDNESS
• 04:41 COMING INTO A THRESHING FLOOR
• 04:43 OF MEN...
• 04:44 AN UNHEARD OF IDEA
• 04:45 IN THE TIME,
• 04:47 IN THE CULTURE OF THE DAY.
• 04:48 AND BOAZ, HIS ABILITY TO COVER HER,
• 04:51 AND NOT ONLY TO COVER HER...
• 04:52 TO EXTEND HIS SKIRT OVER HER
• 04:54 WHICH HAS SUCH SPIRITUAL MEANING.
• 04:56 BUT THEN TO TELL HER,
• 04:57 ESHET CHAYIL'OT, IN THE HEBREW.
• 04:59 YOU ARE A VIRTUOUS WOMAN.
• 05:02 AND NOT ONLY SO, BUT HE SAYS,
• 05:13 WHAT A GREAT TESTIMONY FOR RUTH
• 05:15 THAT BOAZ IS CONFIDENT THAT THE WAY SHE HAS CARRIED HERSELF,
• 05:19 HER TREATMENT OF NAOMI,
• 05:20 HER MANNER, IS SO AMAZING...
• 05:23 HE SAID TO HER,
• 05:25 I'VE SEEN THAT YOU HAVEN'T GONE AFTER THE YOUNG MEN, WHETHER THEY'RE RICH OR POOR.
• 05:29 YOU'VE SAVED YOURSELF.
• 05:30 YOU'VE KEPT YOURSELF.
• 05:32 HE'S TELLING HER ABOUT HER VIRTUE AND HE'S REMINDING HER THAT THE WHOLE CITY KNOWS THAT.
• 05:36 IT'S A REALLY WONDERFUL COVERING THAT HE'S EXTENDING OVER HER.
• 05:39 SOME PEOPLE SPECULATE THAT PROVERBS 31 MAY BE RELATED TO THE BOOK OF RUTH.
• 05:45 FOR INSTANCE, EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT AT SHAVOT, WE SING TO ONE ANOTHER.
• 05:50 THE HUSBAND SINGS TO THE WIFE.
• 05:52 THE WIFE SINGS TO THE HUSBAND. AND WE BLESS EACH OTHER.
• 05:54 I SUGGEST YOU TRY THIS AT HOME.
• 05:56 DON'T WAIT FOR FRIDAY,
• 05:57 YOU CAN DO IT ANY DAY.
• 05:58 BUT WE SING OVER ONE ANOTHER BLESSING.
• 06:01 THE HUSBAND'S BLESSING OVER THE WIFE IS FROM PROVERBS 31.
• 06:05 HE ASKS THE QUESTION VERY SIMILAR TO THIS PHRASE IN RUTH.
• 06:09 HE ASKS,
• 06:15 BOAZ CALLS RUTH A VIRTUOUS WOMAN.
• 06:17 WE ASK ON FRIDAY NIGHT, WHERE CAN ONE FIND A VIRTUOUS WOMAN?
• 06:21 AND WE TELL OUR WIFE ALL THAT PROVERBS 31 SAYS ABOUT HER.
• 06:25 IT'S A WONDERFUL TIME.
• 06:27 AND THEN THE WIFE IN TURN READS PSALM 1 OVER THE HUSBAND,
• 06:30 OR SPEAKS A PSALM LIKE THAT TO HIM - SINGS TO HIM,
• 06:33 AND LETS HIM KNOW THAT HE'S BLESSED IF HE WALKS IN THE COUNSEL OF THE GODLY...
• 06:37 AND IF HE WALKS AFTER THE LORD AND STAYS CLOSE TO THE LORD, FUELS HIS PASSION FOR THE LORD.
• 06:41 THERE'S A MUTUAL BLESSING.
• 06:43 THEY BLESS ONE ANOTHER.
• 06:44 THEY BLESS THE CHILDREN.
• 06:46 AND ANY ONE WHO COMES INTO THAT CIRCLE GETS THE OVERFLOW OF THAT BLESSING.
• 06:50 IT'S A WONDERFUL TIME.
• 06:51 WE SORT OF SEE THE ROOTS OF THAT HERE IN THE STORY OF RUTH, DON'T WE?
• 06:54 WHERE RUTH IS BEING CALLED ONE WHO IS A VIRTUOUS WOMAN
• 06:58 AND BOAZ IS SAYING THAT SHE'S KNOWN IN THE CITY BY HER TESTIMONY, BY HER REPUTATION.
• 07:05 BUT THERE'S ABOUT TO BE A VERY INTERESTING TURN
• 07:07 AND THE DRAMA IS GOING TO GET THICKER
• 07:09 BECAUSE BOAZ LETS HER KNOW THAT THERE IS ANOTHER GOEL.
• 07:13 THERE IS ANOTHER KINSMAN,
• 07:14 ANOTHER RELATIVE WHO IS NEARER, WHO IS CLOSER THAN BOAZ
• 07:18 AND ACTUALLY HAS THE FIRST RIGHT TO REDEEM RUTH AND NAOMI.
• 07:23 NOW IF THIS WAS A HOLLYWOOD DRAMA
• 07:26 HE WOULD BE THE SORT OF A VILLAINOUS CHARACTER
• 07:28 AND BOAZ THE HERO PERHAPS.
• 07:30 BUT HE HAS THE RIGHT TO REDEEM RUTH AND BOAZ KNOWS THAT.
• 07:35 ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF THE TORAH,
• 07:37 HE KNOWS THAT THIS OTHER MAN HAS THE FIRST RIGHT TO THE REDEMPTION.
• 07:41 SO HE LETS RUTH KNOW THAT THIS IS A VERY SERIOUS THING
• 07:45 BECAUSE THEY ARE OBVIOUSLY BEING VERY CLOSELY DRAWN TO ONE ANOTHER.
• 07:48 IT'S GETTING TO BE AN INTIMATE AND A LOVING, ROMANTIC, BEAUTIFUL UNFOLDING.
• 07:54 YET HERE'S THE HIGH POINT IN THE DRAMA IN A SENSE,
• 07:58 THAT THIS OTHER KINSMAN COULD COME IN FIRST AND SAY, NO, I WANT RUTH.
• 08:03 AND IT WOULD TAKE AWAY THE ENTIRE STORY.
• 08:06 IT WOULD CHANGE EVERYTHING.
• 08:09 REMEMBER THAT THE KINSMAN, THE GOEL, HE HAD TO BE A RELATIVE.
• 08:13 HE HAD TO BE WILLING TO PERFORM.
• 08:17 HE HAD TO BE ABLE TO PERFORM THE REDEMPTION.
• 08:19 AND HE HAD TO BE WILLING TO ASSUME ALL THE OBLIGATIONS
• 08:23 THAT COME WITH REDEEMING THE RELATIVE...
• 08:25 REDEEMING RUTH IN THIS CASE.
• 08:28 AND SO BOAZ LETS RUTH KNOW THAT HE IS DISTURBED IN HIS SPIRIT YOU COULD SAY.
• 08:33 HE IS CONCERNED THAT THIS OTHER GOEL MAY COME IN AND TAKE HER AWAY FROM HIM.
• 08:39 WE'RE DRAWN IN, IN THE STORY OF RUTH BECAUSE WE'RE ROOTING FOR BOAZ AND RUTH TO COME TOGETHER.
• 08:45 AND WE'RE GOING TO SEE HOW GOD ORCHESTRATES THIS.
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• 10:05 THE PLOT THICKENS.
• 10:07 RUTH AND NAOMI GET BACK TOGETHER
• 10:09 AND NAOMI IS SO CURIOUS
• 10:11 TO FIND OUT WHAT HAS TRANSPIRED
• 10:12 BETWEEN RUTH AND BOAZ.
• 10:15 SHE ASKS HER AND RUTH SAID,
• 10:34 IN HEBREW IT SAYS, ...
• 10:39 THE MAN WILL NOT REST UNTIL HE SETTLES THE MATTER THIS DAY.
• 10:42 THESE ARE SIGNIFICANT STATEMENTS FROM BOAZ TO RUTH TO NAOMI
• 10:47 AND ESPECIALLY FOR NAOMI'S EARS.
• 10:50 SHE'S HEARING SOMETHING THAT YOU AND I MIGHT NOT PICK UP RIGHT AWAY.
• 10:53 DO YOU REMEMBER WAY BACK IN CHAPTER ONE, VERSE 21...
• 10:56 NAOMI, WHEN SHE'S ASKING TO BE CALLED BITTER
• 10:59 BECAUSE SHE FEELS THAT THE LORD HAS DEALT HARSHLY WITH HER...
• 11:02 HER LIFE HAS COME TO SUCH A BITTER PLACE,
• 11:05 SHE SAYS CALL ME MARA, BITTER, INSTEAD OF NAOMI, PLEASANT.
• 11:09 YET HERE WE SEE GOD OVERTURNING THAT TESTIMONY THROUGH RUTH.
• 11:14 TAKING BOAZ, USING BOAZ TO OVERTURN THE TESTIMONY OF EMPTY AND FULL AND REVERSING IT.
• 11:21 WHEREAS NAOMI FELT THAT SHE HAD COME BACK EMPTY INTO THE LAND,
• 11:27 NOW RUTH IS GOING TO COME FULL FROM BOAZ.
• 11:31 AND WHAT A BEAUTIFUL PICTURE THAT IS OF OUR ENCOUNTERS WITH YESHUA AND HOW HE FILLS US.
• 11:37 HE FILLS OUR LIFE WITH MEANING,
• 11:39 WITH PURPOSE,
• 11:40 WITH EVEN DESTINY.
• 11:42 I WANT TO ENCOURAGE YOU TODAY TO ASK HIM TO FILL YOU TO FULLNESS.
• 11:46 AND THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS TO RUTH.
• 11:47 IT'S A WONDERFUL STORY.
• 11:49 IT'S A WONDERFUL TIME IN THEIR ENCOUNTER BETWEEN RUTH AND NAOMI.
• 11:54 THEY'RE BACK TOGETHER.
• 11:56 THIS REVERSAL HAS TAKEN PLACE
• 11:58 AND THERE'S A SECRET CODE HERE FOR NAOMI.
• 12:01 I BELIEVE THAT
• 12:02 EVERY HEBREW NUMBER HAS A MEANING.
• 12:05 NONE OF THEM ARE WITHOUT MEANING.
• 12:07 THE NUMBER SIX SPEAKS OF THE FULLNESS OF CREATION BEFORE REST COMES ON THE SEVENTH DAY.
• 12:14 IT REALLY SPEAKS ABOUT THE SIX DAYS OF CREATION.
• 12:16 IT'S ALSO THE NUMBER OF MAN.
• 12:18 BUT NAOMI IN HER HEARING, SHE TIES THIS TO THE GIVING OF SIX MEASURES OF BARLEY.
• 12:24 IT WASN'T FIVE, IT WASN'T SEVEN.
• 12:26 IT WAS SIX MEASURES OF BARLEY.
• 12:28 AND THE SIGNAL TO NAOMI IS THIS MAN IS GOING TO HAVE HIS CREATION.
• 12:34 HE'S GOING TO SEE THE FULLNESS OF CREATION COME AND THEN HE WILL REST.
• 12:38 IN OTHER WORDS BOAZ IS SIGNALING HER,
• 12:40 I WON'T REST UNTIL I HAVE THE REDEMPTION THAT I BELIEVE GOD HAS PUT BEFORE ME.
• 12:46 IN OTHER WORDS, I AM TO BE THE KINSMAN REDEEMER.
• 12:48 AND IT'S A PICTURE OF THE FULLNESS OF REDEMPTION.
• 12:51 YOU KNOW IT'S LIKE THE SEAMLESS ROBE OF YESHUA.
• 12:54 IT'S LIKE THE WAY THAT THE ROBE WAS PLACED OVER RUTH.
• 13:00 IT REMINDS ME OF THE SEAMLESS ROBE OF YESHUA.
• 13:03 THAT EVEN WHEN HE WAS ON THE CROSS,
• 13:05 WHEN THE SOLDIERS WERE GAMBLING OVER THE ROBE,
• 13:08 THEY WOULD NOT TEAR IT APART.
• 13:10 THEY WOULD NOT TAKE IT TO PIECES
• 13:12 BECAUSE IT HAD SUCH AUTHORITY IN THEIR MINDS.
• 13:14 IT WAS CONNECTED TO ONE OF GODLY AUTHORITY.
• 13:17 AND THEY KNEW THAT.
• 13:18 THEY KNEW HE WAS INNOCENT.
• 13:19 THEY KNEW HE WAS GODLY, AND THEY KNEW THAT HE WAS SENT FROM GOD.
• 13:22 AND SO THEY GAMBLED OVER THE ROBE,
• 13:24 THE ROBE SYMBOLIZING THAT SKIRT, THAT HEM,
• 13:26 THE FULLNESS OF HIS GARMENT THAT COULD BE EXTENDED TO YOU AND TO ME.
• 13:31 NOT ONLY SO, THAT ROBE WAS NEVER TORN,
• 13:34 AND YET AT THE CROSS, THE VERY VEIL IN THE TEMPLE WAS TORN,
• 13:39 SYMBOLIZING AND SIGNALING THE END OF THE PRIESTHOOD OF MAN
• 13:44 AND THE BEGINNING OF THE FULLNESS
• 13:46 OF THE PRIESTHOOD OF YESHUA HA-MASHIACH, OUR HIGH PRIEST.
• 13:49 THAT VEIL BEING RENT WAS A SIGNAL,
• 13:52 JUST AS THE SIGNAL FROM BOAZ TO NAOMI, THROUGH RUTH
• 13:55 WAS THAT FULLNESS HAD COME, REDEMPTION WAS COMING.
• 13:58 WELL SO IT WAS AT THE CROSS FOR YOU AND FOR ME.
• 14:02 WHEN THAT BLOOD WAS SHED,
• 14:03 WHEN THAT FULLNESS CAME,
• 14:04 THE VEIL IN THE TEMPLE WAS RENT,
• 14:07 AND THE PRIESTHOOD OF YESHUA WAS INSTITUTED FOREVER IN ETERNITY.
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• 16:38 "RUTH, YOUR PEOPLE SHALL BE MY PEOPLE"
• 16:40 THE VERY SERIES THAT WE'RE SHOWING RIGHT NOW.
• 16:42 LET'S GET BACK TO THE STORY
• 16:44 AS WE FIND OUT WHETHER BOAZ ACTUALLY HAS A LEGAL RIGHT TO BRING RUTH TO HIMSELF.
• 16:53 SO BOAZ WENT TO THE GATE OF THE CITY, A COMMON MEETING PLACE FOR THOSE LIVING IN BETHLEHEM.
• 16:58 AND THERE HE MET THE OTHER KINSMAN REDEEMER,
• 17:01 THE ONE THAT BOAZ HAD SPOKEN OF TO RUTH.
• 17:04 BOAZ WAS COMMITTED TO RESOLVING THE QUESTION AS TO WHO RIGHTLY SHOULD ACQUIRE ELIMELECH'S LAND
• 17:11 AND,MORE IMPORTANTLY,
• 17:13 WHO SHOULD BECOME RUTH'S KINSMAN.
• 17:16 IN HIS HEART HE CARED FOR RUTH.
• 17:19 BUT ACCORDING TO THE CUSTOM OF THE DAY,
• 17:21 HE COULD NOT PURSUE HER AS HE WAS NOT THE CLOSEST LIVING RELATIVE OF ELIMELECH.
• 17:26 HIS HEART'S DESIRE COULD WITHER AWAY HERE AT THE CITY GATE.
• 17:30 AN IMPORTANT MEETING SUCH AS THIS DESERVED A PROPER HEARING
• 17:35 BY BETHLEHEM'S MOST RESPECTED ELDERS.
• 17:38 NONE OF THEM KNEW IT, BUT THEY WERE ABOUT TO WITNESS A DECISION
• 17:42 WHICH WOULD AFFECT THE FUTURE OF ALL ISRAEL.
• 17:46 BOAZ'S GOOD STANDING IN THE COMMUNITY COULDN'T HELP HIM HERE, NOR COULD HIS WEALTH.
• 17:52 IT WAS ALL IN THE HANDS OF THE LORD.
• 18:32 IN THE ANCIENT WORLD THE GATES OF THE CITY WAS THE PLACE WHERE JUSTICE WOULD BE ADMINISTERED.
• 18:37 THE ELDERS OF THE CITY, MEN OF NOTE,
• 18:39 MEN WHO WERE PROMINENT IN THE CITY, WEALTHY, AND MEN OF CHARACTER,
• 18:43 WOULD GATHER AND DISPENSE JUSTICE FOR THE WHOLE TOWN, OR THE WHOLE AREA.
• 18:47 NO DOUBT BOAZ WAS ONE OF THOSE MEN.
• 18:49 HE WAS A WEALTHY LAND OWNER.
• 18:51 HE WAS A MAN OF STATURE
• 18:52 AND KNOWN CHARACTER.
• 18:54 AND SO WE SEE HIM
• 18:55 GATHERING ELDERS
• 18:57 IN THE GATES OF THE CITY
• 18:58 IN ORDER TO HAVE THIS WITNESS
• 19:00 FOR THE ADJUDICATION OF THE SITUATION WITH RUTH AND THE NEAR KINSMAN.
• 19:06 THERE'S A NEARER KINSMAN
• 19:08 AND BOAZ IS GOING TO BE VERY, VERY FAIR AND VERY, VERY HONEST
• 19:13 IN GIVING THE OPPORTUNITY TO HIM FIRST
• 19:16 BEFORE BOAZ GETS THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE THE REDEEMER.
• 19:19 YOU KNOW, THE NUMBER TEN IS SIGNIFICANT.
• 19:22 THERE ARE 10 COMMANDMENTS.
• 19:23 10 IS THE NUMBER OF TESTING.
• 19:25 10 MEN MAKE UP A MINION, OR A PRAYER GROUP FOR THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 19:30 WHEN REBECCA WAS GOING TO MEET HER ISAAC IN THE FIELDS OF THE LORD,
• 19:35 IT WAS ON 10 CAMELS SHE WENT.
• 19:37 THAT NUMBER IS USED OVER AND OVER AGAIN TO SPEAK OF TESTING.
• 19:40 TO SPEAK OF TESTIMONY, OF WITNESS.
• 19:42 RUTH AND NAOMI WERE IN MOAB FOR 10 YEARS.
• 19:46 SO WE SEE THIS SCENE UNFOLDING IN THE GATES OF THE CITY.
• 19:50 HERE WE HAVE BOAZ AND HIS CHARACTER DISPLAYED.
• 19:54 HIS EYE HAD CLEARLY BEEN ON RUTH AND HIS HEART HAD BEEN FOR HER.
• 19:58 HER EYES HAD BEEN ON THE LORD WHICH HAD BROUGHT HER TO A PLACE
• 20:01 OF HAVING HER EYE ON HIM TOO.
• 20:04 BUT HE KNEW HE NEEDED
• 20:05 TO COME ABOUT IT
• 20:06 ACCORDING TO THE TORAH.
• 20:08 HE KNEW THAT THERE WAS
• 20:09 A NEXT IN LINE
• 20:10 AND HE NEEDED TO BRING IT
• 20:12 BEFORE THE ELDERS OF THE GATES
• 20:13 TO MAKE SURE THAT HE HAD DONE IT
• 20:15 ACCORDING TO THE SCRIPTURE.
• 20:16 SO HE BRINGS THIS MATTER AND HE BRINGS IT BEFORE THE MAN
• 20:19 AND HE SAYS, ARE YOU WILLING TO BUY BACK ALL OF THE LAND OF NAOMI
• 20:23 AND TO BUY ALSO RUTH, A MOABITESS.
• 20:27 HE PUTS THE CARDS ON THE TABLE
• 20:29 THAT THE WOMAN THAT HE WOULD BE PAYING FOR
• 20:31 AND THE LAND HE'D BE ACQUIRING
• 20:34 WOULD COME WITH A MOABITE WIFE.
• 20:36 YOU SEE BOAZ IN HIS LINEAGE, HE IS CONNECTED.
• 20:40 WE CAN KNOW IN MATTHEW, HE'S CONNECTED TO ALSO A GENTILE,
• 20:44 HIS MOTHER IS RAHAB.
• 20:46 IT'S QUITE FUNNY
• 20:48 HOW GOD IS INTERWEAVING THESE JEWS AND GENTILES
• 20:51 IN HIS HOLY PLAN.
• 20:53 IT'S SPEAKING ON A PERSONAL NOTE OF JEWS AND GENTILES.
• 20:56 BACK WHEN I WAS FALLING IN LOVE WITH YOU,
• 20:59 THERE WERE OTHER SUITORS IN LINE.
• 21:00 THERE WERE OTHER GENTLEMEN WHO WERE IN LINE
• 21:02 WHO WERE ACTUALLY TRYING TO WED YOU, MARRY YOU.
• 21:04 AND I HAD TO REALLY GIVE IT TO GOD.
• 21:06 AND I THINK BOAZ IS REALLY PICTURING FOR US AS BELIEVERS.
• 21:10 WE UNDERSTAND THAT HE IS A TYPE OF MESSIAH,
• 21:12 BUT HE'S ALSO SHOWING US THE WAY THAT WE NEED TO,
• 21:15 WHEN WE KNOW WHAT WE WANT, WE STILL NEED TO LAY IT BEFORE THE LORD AND SAY, GOD, YOUR WAY NOT MINE.
• 21:20 IF IT BE YOUR WILL,
• 21:21 IF IT'S SOMETHING YOU WANT FROM ME, SO BE IT.
• 21:23 IF NOT, I KNOW YOU HAVE SOMETHING BETTER FOR ME,
• 21:25 OR SOMETHING DIFFERENT FOR ME, AND I TRUST YOU.
• 21:28 I THINK IT REALLY PICTURES FOR US THE SACRIFICE OF YESHUA AT THE CROSS.
• 21:32 HE CAME FROM HEAVEN.
• 21:34 HE HAD EVERYTHING TO LOSE, EVERYTHING TO GIVE UP,
• 21:36 AND YET PHILIPPIANS TELLS US HE MADE HIMSELF OF NO REPUTATION AND WENT TO DEATH...
• 21:41 NOT ONLY DEATH, BUT THE DEATH OF THE CROSS,
• 21:43 THE MOST HORRIBLE DEATH CONCEIVABLE SO THAT YOU AND I COULD HAVE CHOICE.
• 21:47 SO THAT YOU AND I COULD CHOOSE TO LOVE HIM, SERVE HIM, AND BE WITH HIM
• 21:52 BOTH ABUNDANT LIFE HERE AND IN ETERNITY FOREVER.
• 21:55 IT'S AN AMAZING PICTURE OF WHAT GOD HAS FOR US
• 21:59 IF WE WILL TRUST IN YESHUA HA-MASHIACH.
• 22:06 ATA RAUI LEKABEL ET KOL HA'KAVOD♪
• 22:14 ATA RAUI LEKABEL ET KOL HATIFERET♪
• 22:22 ATA RAUI LEKABEL ET KOL HA'KAVOD♪
• 22:30 ATA RAUI LEKABEL ET KOL HATIFERET♪
• 22:38 AT KEN LIBENU NIMLA♪
• 22:43 HALEL VE' SIMCHA♪
• 22:47 LACHEN BE'TODA NEHALEL OTCHA♪
• 22:56 YESHUA...♪
• 23:00 ADONAI♪
• 23:04 YESHUA...♪
• 23:08 ELOHAI♪
• 23:12 YESHUA...♪
• 23:16 MELECH♪
• 23:19 MELECH HA'M'LACHIM♪
• 23:32 YE...SHU...A♪
• 23:38 GREAT MUSIC FROM SASHA AND ANYA.
• 23:41 YOU MAY WONDER
• 23:42 WHAT HOME LIFE WAS LIKE
• 23:44 AT THE TIME OF RUTH AND NAOMI.
• 23:46 HERE'S ARIE.
• 23:50 HOW BEAUTIFUL IS IT
• 23:51 TO SIT AROUND THE TABLE
• 23:53 IN A WALLED CITY
• 23:54 IN A STONE HOUSE
• 23:56 WHERE YOU HAVE THE PITA BREAD,
• 23:57 YOU HAVE THE OLIVE TREES IN FRONT OF YOU?
• 24:00 WE'RE NOW IN A TYPICAL HOUSE OF BETHLEHEM.
• 24:04 BETHLEHEM, THE CENTER OF FOOD.
• 24:08 IN HEBREW "LEHEM" IS BREAD.
• 24:10 IN ARABIC "LAHEM" IS MEAT.
• 24:13 IN OTHER WORDS, THIS IS A TENT OR MARKET WHERE PEOPLE COULD COME AND FIND FOOD.
• 24:19 LIVING INSIDE A HOME LIKE THIS,
• 24:21 LOOK AT THE WALLS MADE OF STONES.
• 24:25 THIS IS LIMESTONE.
• 24:27 IT IS THE MAIN ROCK HERE ON THE MOUNTAIN.
• 24:29 IT'S ROOFED WITH LOGS AND SOME PLASTERING ON THE WALLS
• 24:34 TO PROTECT FROM THE SUN, FROM THE RAIN.
• 24:36 WHEN YOU'RE TIRED AND YOU WANT TO SLEEP ON THE GROUND,
• 24:40 YOU JUST PUT A MAT ON THE GROUND AND YOU SLEEP.
• 24:44 LOOK, YOU DON'T LOSE SPACE FOR BEDS.
• 24:48 WHAT A DIFFERENCE FROM LIVING HERE IN A HOME LIKE THIS AND BEING OUTSIDE IN THE FIELDS.
• 24:57 LET'S REMEMBER, RUTH, SHE WAS OUTSIDE IN THE FIELDS OF BETHLEHEM.
• 25:03 IT'S CALLED EFRATA.
• 25:05 BUT AT THE SAME TIME NAOMI WAS IN A HOUSE LIKE THIS, IN A HOME, ALL DAY THINKING ABOUT RUTH.
• 25:13 AND THEN IN THE EVENING TIME,
• 25:16 RUTH LEFT THE FIELDS AND SHE BROUGHT SOME OF THE GLEANING MATERIAL WITH HER TO THE ROOM.
• 25:23 WHAT A JOYFUL MEETING IT WAS AROUND THE BED WHEN NAOMI COULD TAKE THE GRAINS
• 25:29 AND MAKE OUT OF THIS FLOUR
• 25:31 AND THEN BAKE PITA BREAD FOR BOTH OF THEM.
• 25:37 AT THIS POINT IT APPEARS THAT BOAZ IS BEING CHALLENGED BY ANOTHER KINSMAN, MYLES.
• 25:43 I KNOW, AND WHAT'S AMAZING IS THAT THEY'RE DOING THIS ACCORDING TO THE TORAH.
• 25:46 THEY'RE REALLY TRYING TO HONOR GOD IN THE WAY THEY DO THIS. BOAZ
• 25:50 BOAZ AND THE OTHER KINSMAN.
• 25:52 THEY'RE WORKING IT OUT.
• 25:53 THE CHALLENGES COME.
• 25:54 WE REALLY DON'T KNOW WHERE IT'S GOING. RIGHT
• 25:56 ON OF MY FAVORITE PARTS HERE IS THAT WE'VE SEEN NOW THAT,
• 25:59 NOT ONLY HAVE WE SEEN BOAZ AS THE TYPE OF MESSIAH TYPE OF JESUS,
• 26:03 BUT REALLY NOW WE'RE SEEING RUTH AS THE BRIDE ARISING
• 26:06 AND THE CHARACTER OF THE BRIDE IS STARTING TO COME FORWARD.
• 26:09 HE CALLS HER A VIRTUOUS WOMAN IN THESE SCENES.
• 26:12 WE UNDERSTAND THAT IT'S VERY POSSIBLE
• 26:15 THAT THE WRITER OF PROVERBS WAS ACTUALLY REFERRING TO RUTH WHEN PROVERBS 31 WAS WRITTEN.
• 26:21 WE SAY THAT EVERY SHABBAT, WE SPEAK IT OVER THE BRIDE
• 26:24 AND I THINK IT IS VERY POSSIBLE THAT THAT WAS THE PERSON ON WHOM IT WAS BASED.
• 26:30 SO, THE DRAMA WILL CONTINUE.
• 26:32 WE'LL MEET NEXT WEEK TO SEE MORE OF THIS.
• 26:34 UNTIL THAT TIME WE WANT TO SAY TO YOU...
• 26:37 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM
• 26:39 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM