823 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 2 Part 3 Book 69 - Kinsman Redeemer - Part 3

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 2 * PART 3 * BOOK 69 KINSMAN REDEEMER – PART 3 Revelation 5; Ruth; I Corinthians 15:1-4 Okay, once again we’re ready for program number three. We always appreciate the fact that you all stay to the end. We would like to welcome you to an informal Bible study. We just sort of take most of these things verse-by-verse and precept-upon-precept. I have no agenda. I don’t try to grind any axes. I hopefully never name names. Maybe some people think I should, but no, I don’t want to do that. I feel if I keep teaching what the Book says, and I stay on the Truth, the Word will do everything that needs to be done. Maybe that’s a pacifist approach, but that’s what I feel the most comfortable with, is to let the Word itself speak. Okay, here we’re in a beautiful love story between Ruth the Moabitess out of idolatry, who finally comes into a marriage relationship with a man of Israel who was a next of kin. He was in a position to redeem the land that had been mortgaged. And that was all according to Israeli law. You couldn’t just go in and buy a piece of property and pay the mortgage and go on. It was always according to the inheritances and that it stayed within the family. Now in the Book of Ruth, we’re going to continue on. Forgive me if I take it pretty much reading it verse-by-verse. I’ll never forget, quite a few years ago, a lady wrote and she said, “I’m a Jehovah’s Witness, but I love your reading program.” So, sometimes it doesn’t hurt to read, because after all a lot of people don’t. They just don’t read. Even if they look at it, they don’t read. I’ll never forget years back, I was teaching one of my classes here in Oklahoma. We were just a small group. I was reading a verse of Scripture and one of the ladies looked at me almost in utter shock and said, “Les, I read this, this afternoon, and it didn’t mean a thing like when you read it!” Well, maybe I do have a unique way of reading, so bear with me because I see no other way to teach a book like Ruth, because there aren’t a lot of things that I can go and chase other references. It’s just simply a verse-by-verse love story. Yet we do want to get the impact of how God was in control of everything to bring about a redemption that would then fit with the redemption of Revelation chapter 5. That’s the whole purpose that I’m trying to bring out. All right, come back with me now to Ruth chapter 2 and verse 19. Ruth has now come home to the house of Naomi at the end of the day, up there in Bethlehem. And naturally, I mean these people are just as normal and human as we are. What’s the first question she asks Ruth? Well, how’d it go today? That about right? Sure! How did it go today, Ruth? Did you have a good day? Ruth 2:19 “And her mother-in-law said unto her, Where hast thou gleaned today? And where wroughtest (workest) thou? blessed be he that did take knowledge of thee. And she showed her mother-in-law with whom she had wrought (worked), and said, The man’s name with whom I wrought is Boaz.” Well, that didn’t mean anything to Ruth. She didn’t know of any particular connection. But oh, the lights came on and the bells rang for Naomi! Ruth 2:20 “And Naomi said unto her daughter-in-law, Blessed be he of the LORD, who hath not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead. (What’s she making reference to? The family tree. Her dead husband. Her dead sons, who were all part and parcel of that inheritance - that piece of ground that’s lying there mortgaged.) And Naomi said unto her, The man is (What?) near of kin unto us, one of our next kinsmen.” Hallelujah, Ruth! This means something! This is just the guy that we need. He’s wealthy. He’s next of kin. He’s one of our kinsmen. He’s going to be a kinsman redeemer. Ruth 2:21 “And Ruth the Moabitess said, He said unto me also, Thou shalt keep fast by my young men, until they have ended all my harvest.” In other words, pick up the conversation. Now, you’ve got to read between the lines. Here these two women, the mother-in-law and her young daughter-in-law, are rehearsing the events of the day. She’s come home with an unusual amount of grain for just being a gleaner. Why? How come? Well, the man told me I didn’t even have to wait for the harvesters. I could take part of theirs. And Naomi is just ecstatic. I’m sure she is. Ruth 2:22 “And Naomi said unto Rut, her daughter-in-law, It is good, my daughter, that thou shalt go out with his maidens, that they meet thee not in any other field.” What’s she telling her? You stay on Boaz’s field. Don’t you wander anyplace else, because, hey, things are happening here! God is in control. Now Naomi becomes what we’d call Cupid. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible