THE STORY OF RUTH

(Taken from the Book of Ruth)

A Messianic prophesy from Isaiah 11:1-2 reads: “And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse and a branch shall grow out of his roots, and the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him. The spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord”.

Ruth, the Moabite woman, daughter-in-law of Naomi of Bethlehem, Judah. Ruth, the mother of Obed; Obed, the father of Jesse; Jesse, the father of David, King David from whose human seed came the long awaited Messiah, Jesus Christ.

Often in the Old Testament it was prophesied that the Messiah would be a light to the Gentiles. God often works in mysterious ways and he allowed this Gentile, Ruth to have her blood mixed with the blood of the Hebrews, His chosen people, to make up the lineage from which His son was to someday come. Though a Gentile, Ruth tells how she came to be a Mother of Israel, a life giver to the family of the Living God.