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Caption transcript for Ruth: “The Covering” (1/8)

• 00:06 IT WAS A JOURNEY NO ONE EXPECTED.
• 00:10 FAMINE IN JUDAH HAD BROUGHT THEM TOGETHER IN MOAB
• 00:13 AND NOW...
• 00:15 NOTHING COULD TEAR THEM APART.
• 00:19 FOR NAOMI THE RETURN TO BETHLEHEM WAS A BITTER ONE.
• 00:23 BEHIND HER LAY HER HUSBAND AND TWO SONS BURIED IN FOREIGN SOIL.
• 00:30 FOR RUTH...
• 00:31 A NEW LAND...
• 00:34 A NEW PEOPLE...
• 00:37 A REDEEMER...
• 00:39 AND AN EXTRAORDINARY JOURNEY OF UNYIELDING DEVOTION.
• 00:43 A LOVE STORY FOR THE AGES.
• 00:56 SHALOM
• 00:57 AND WELCOME TO OUR SHOW.
• 00:58 I AM MYLES WEISS
• 00:59 AND THIS IS MY WIFE
• 01:00 AND CO-HOST,
• 01:01 KATHARINE WEISS.
• 01:03 WE ARE THRILLED TODAY TO BRING YOU OUR NEW SERIES ON THE BOOK OF RUTH,
• 01:06 "YOUR PEOPLE SHALL BE MY PEOPLE."
• 01:08 YOU KNOW, RUTH IS A SMALL BOOK
• 01:10 BUT IT'S PRACTICALLY A PROPHETIC BOOK
• 01:12 BECAUSE IT SPEAKS SO MUCH ABOUT THE MESSIAH, THE CHURCH AND ISRAEL.
• 01:16 AND...IT'S A TIMELY RECOGNITION OF THE ROLE OF WOMEN IN THE BELIEVING COMMUNITY.
• 01:21 IT TAKES PLACE AT THE TIME OF THE JUDGES,
• 01:23 1300 TO 1000 YEARS BEFORE THE COMING OF MESSIAH.
• 01:27 AND IT WAS A TIME WHEN EVERYONE DID THAT WHICH WAS RIGHT IN THEIR OWN EYES.
• 01:31 IN FACT THE BOOK OF JUDGES ENDS WITH THE FACT
• 01:33 THAT THERE WAS "LO MELECH", "NO KING" IN THE LAND.
• 01:37 I'M THRILLED TODAY TO BEGIN THIS SERIES IN THE BOOK OF RUTH
• 01:40 BECAUSE AS YOU KNOW IT'S ONE OF MY FAVORITE BOOKS.
• 01:43 I THINK THE WHOLE BIBLE IS WONDERFUL
• 01:45 BUT THE BOOK OF RUTH
• 01:47 REALLY EMPHASIZES
• 01:48 THAT GOD IS A RESTORER.
• 01:50 AND YOU SEE TWO WOMEN SUFFERING GREAT LOSS
• 01:54 BUT THROUGH THE GREAT LOVE OF GOD COMING AND JOINING THEM TOGETHER
• 01:59 GOD GIVES THEM A LEGACY. THAT'S RIGHT.
• 02:01 SO LET'S BEGIN OUR STORY OF "RUTH, YOUR PEOPLE SHALL BE MY PEOPLE"
• 02:05 WITH CHAPTER 1, VERSE 1
• 02:07 AS WE LOOK THROUGH THIS ENTIRE BOOK CHRONOLOGICALLY.
• 02:14 NOW IT CAME TO PASS IN THE DAYS WHEN THE JUDGES RULED
• 02:17 THAT THERE WAS A FAMINE IN THE LAND OF JUDAH.
• 02:21 ELIMELECH AND HIS WIFE NAOMI LEFT BETHLEHEM AND JOURNEYED TO MOAB...
• 02:26 ABOUT A 3 OR 4 DAY TREK THROUGH THE RUGGED MOUNTAINS AND ARID PLAINS SURROUNDING THE DEAD SEA.
• 02:33 AND THEY WERE JOINED BY THEIR TWO SONS, MAHLON AND CHILION.
• 02:45 GREETINGS FROM THE DESERTS OF ISRAEL.
• 02:47 IT IS A THRILL TO BE HERE WITH YOU AND TO BRING YOU THE BOOK OF RUTH.
• 02:51 YOU KNOW, THIS STORY TAKES PLACE ON THE ROAD FROM MOAB TO BETHLEHEM.
• 02:56 I'D LIKE TO START TODAY BY OPENING THE SCRIPTURES
• 02:58 AND STARTING WITH RUTH, CHAPTER 1, VERSE 1 IN THE HEBREW.
• 03:02 IT SAYS,
• 03:03 [SPEAKING HEBREW...]
• 03:18 THIS IS AN AMAZING STORY THAT TAKES PLACE BETWEEN 1300 AND 1000 BC. BEFORE THE COMMON ERA:
• 03:25 BEFORE THE TIME OF YESHUA-JESUS.
• 03:28 IT'S REALLY A STORY OF REDEMPTION.
• 03:30 IT'S A STORY OF LOVE.
• 03:32 IT'S AN AMAZING PICTURE OF HOW GOD CAN ORCHESTRATE EVERYTHING, INCLUDING A FAMINE,
• 03:38 TO BRING ABOUT HIS DESTINY IN PEOPLE'S LIVES.
• 03:40 YOU KNOW, THERE ARE 13 FAMINES IN THE BIBLE.
• 03:44 AND YOU CAN KNOW THAT GOD USED THE FAMINE FOR ABRAHAM, FOR ISAAC, FOR JACOB,
• 03:49 AND CERTAINLY FOR JOSEPH
• 03:51 TO BRING ABOUT HIS DESTINY IN EACH OF THEIR LIVES.
• 03:54 SO IT IS WITH RUTH AND HER COMPATRIOTS.
• 03:57 THIS IS THE STORY OF NAOMI, HER HUSBAND AND SONS, AND THEIR 2 DAUGHTERS-IN-LAW,
• 04:03 AND HOW THEY JOURNEYED FROM MOAB TO BETHLEHEM,
• 04:06 AND FROM BETHLEHEM TO MOAB
• 04:08 LOOKING FOR THE PURPOSE AND THE DESTINY THAT GOD HAD FOR THEM.
• 04:11 THEY DIDN'T KNOW THAT.
• 04:13 THEY WERE FLEEING A FAMINE IN THEIR OWN LAND IN ISRAEL, AND THEY WERE ON THEIR WAY TO MOAB.
• 04:19 WHEN THEY GET THERE WE'LL FIND OUT WHAT TAKES PLACE.
• 04:23 THIS IS A LOVE STORY.
• 04:26 IT'S A STORY OF COVENANT LOVE;
• 04:27 IT'S A STORY OF ROMANTIC LOVE;
• 04:30 AND THE STORY OF FRIENDSHIP LOVE.
• 04:31 IN THIS STORY WE'RE GOING TO SEE SOME AMAZING TURNS OF EVENTS
• 04:35 AS GOD ORCHESTRATES PEOPLES' LIVES TOGETHER FOR HIS PURPOSES.
• 04:40 YOU KNOW, RUTH WAS A MOABITESS
• 04:43 AND THE MOABITES WERE CURSED OF GOD.
• 04:45 THEY WERE GIVEN NO QUARTER WITH ISRAEL.
• 04:47 THERE WAS NO REASON FOR GOD TO KNIT HER INTO THE DESTINY OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 04:52 AND YET, IN HIS MERCY, IN HIS GRACE, HE TOOK THIS GENTILE, THIS MOABITESS,
• 04:57 AND KNIT HER INTO NOT ONLY THE COMMONWEALTH OF ISRAEL,
• 05:00 BUT TO THE VERY LINEAGE OF JESUS CHRIST-YESHUA HA-MASHIACH.
• 05:05 HOW AWESOME IS GOD THAT HE CAN TAKE SOMEONE FROM WITHOUT THE BLESSING OF GOD AND BRING THEM IN?
• 05:12 MAYBE THAT'S YOU TODAY.
• 05:13 MAYBE YOU ARE SOMEONE WHO HAS FELT LIKE YOU ARE OUTSIDE THE BLESSING OF GOD
• 05:17 AND I WANT TO SAY TO YOU, THAT THROUGH YESHUA, THROUGH JESUS,
• 05:20 YOU CAN BE BROUGHT INTO THE BLESSING OF THE LORD.
• 05:24 HE CAN BRING YOU INTO YOUR PURPOSE, YOUR DESTINY, YOUR FUTURE,
• 05:27 JUST AS HE DID WITH RUTH.
• 05:29 SO LET'S LOOK AT THIS AMAZING STORY.
• 05:30 HERE WE HAVE NAOMI, A JEWISH LADY
• 05:34 AND THEY'RE TRAVELING TO MOAB TO FLEE THIS FAMINE WITH THEIR SONS.
• 05:38 AND THEY ARE ON THE ROAD IN THIS INCREDIBLE DESERT SCENE YOU SEE BEHIND US.
• 05:44 CAN YOU IMAGINE WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO BE TRAVELING ALONG THIS ROAD BACK IN THE DAY?
• 05:49 HERE WE ARE IN THE COMFORTS OF THE MODERN LIFE TODAY HERE IN ISRAEL,
• 05:54 AND YET YOU CAN SENSE WHAT AN INCREDIBLE JOURNEY
• 05:57 AND WHAT HARDSHIP IT MUST HAVE BEEN FOR THEM
• 05:59 AS THEY WENT FROM BETHLEHEM TO MOAB AND THEN BACK AGAIN.
• 06:04 WHAT AN AMAZING STORY WE HAVE HERE.
• 06:08 GOD IS IN THE BUSINESS OF ORDERING OUR LIVES IF WE'LL ALLOW HIM TO
• 06:14 AND SO WE SEE THAT HERE.
• 06:16 RUTH - HER NAME MEANS "FRIEND".
• 06:20 THE OTHER DAUGHTER-IN-LAW, ORPAH - HER NAME MEANS "BACK OF THE NECK".
• 06:22 AND WE'RE GOING TO SEE VERY SOON
• 06:24 HOW THOSE TWO NAMES HAVE SO MUCH MEANING.
• 06:26 YOU KNOW, I LOVE NAMES AND THE MEANING OF NAMES IN THE BIBLE.
• 06:30 WHEN WE GET TO THIS NEXT STORY,
• 06:33 I'M GOING TO SHOW YOU A LITTLE BIT ABOUT HOW THE NAMES WORK TOGETHER TO DESCRIBE HOW GOD MOVES THIS STORY FORWARD.
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• 07:43 NOW NAOMI AND HER TWO SONS DWELLED IN THE LAND OF MOAB FOR 10 YEARS.
• 07:49 CHILION MARRIED ORPAH
• 07:52 AND HIS BROTHER MAHLON MARRIED A WOMAN NAMED RUTH.
• 07:57 AND NAOMI'S HUSBAND, ELIMELECH, DIED THERE IN MOAB
• 08:02 LEAVING NAOMI ALONE
• 08:04 WITH LITTLE MORE THAN MEMORIES OF THE WAY THINGS USED TO BE.
• 08:15 NAMES ARE PROPHETIC IN THE BIBLE
• 08:17 THEY HAVE A MEANING.
• 08:19 NAOMI MEANS "PLEASANT".
• 08:21 IN A LITTLE WHILE SHE'S GOING TO BE ASKED TO BE CALLED MARA, WHICH MEANS "BITTER",
• 08:24 BECAUSE TRAGEDY HAS BEGUN TO BEFALL THEM.
• 08:27 HER HUSBAND, ELIMELECH, WHOSE NAME MEANS "GOD IS MY KING", HAS DIED.
• 08:32 AND YET GOD IS GOING TO SHOW THAT HE IS THE KING.
• 08:35 HE'S GOING TO SHOW HIMSELF MIGHTY ON BEHALF OF OUR COMPANY.
• 08:39 THE SON'S NAMES - MAHLON MEANS "ILL" OR "SICK",
• 08:43 AND THE OTHER SON'S NAME "PUNY" OR "DISAPPEARING".
• 08:46 IN FACT THEY WILL BE DISAPPEARING FROM THE SCENE.
• 08:50 WE'VE BEGUN TO TASTE DEATH AND WE SEE THAT TROUBLE IS COMING TO OUR COMPANY.
• 08:56 BUT, AS I SAID, GOD IS GOING TO REDEEM.
• 08:59 HE'S GOING TO SHOW HIMSELF MIGHTY ON THEIR BEHALF.
• 09:02 THE TIME OF FAMINE SPEAKS OF SEVERAL THINGS.
• 09:06 IT'S NOT ONLY A TIME OF THE FAMINE PHYSICALLY,
• 09:09 BUT IT ALSO SPEAKS OF A FAMINE OF THE HEARING OF THE WORD.
• 09:12 SOMETIMES TODAY IT SEEMS LIKE WE'RE IN A SEASON LIKE THAT
• 09:16 WHERE ALL AROUND THE WORLD... THE WORLD IS DIVIDING INTO TWO CAMPS...
• 09:21 THOSE WHO FOLLOW THE WORD OF GOD AND THOSE WHO DO NOT...
• 09:24 SO WE NEED A RENEWAL.
• 09:26 WE NEED SOMETHING TO OVERCOME THE FAMINE OF THE HEARING OF THE WORD IN OUR LIVES TODAY.
• 09:45 ♪WHEN WE'RE THERE, WHEN WE'RE THERE, IN THE LAND OF ZION♪
• 09:48 ♪NEXT YEAR IN JERUSALEM♪
• 09:50 ♪L'SHANAH HA'BA' AH B'YERUSHALAYIM♪
• 09:53 ♪NEXT YEAR IN JERUSALEM♪
• 09:55 ♪O LORD WE'LL BE WITH YOU AND NO MORE TEARS♪
• 09:58 ♪O LORD THY KINGDOM COME, THY WILL BE DONE NEXT YEAR♪
• 10:00 ♪L'SHANAH HA'BA' AH B'YERUSHALAYIM♪
• 10:04 ♪NEXT YEAR IN JERUSALEM♪
• 10:06 ♪L'SHANAH HA'BA' AH B'YERUSHALAYIM♪
• 10:09 ♪NEXT YEAR IN JERU...SA...LEM♪
• 10:23 KATHARINE AND I HAVE BEEN TO ISRAEL SO MANY TIMES
• 10:25 HOSTING FOLKS ON THEIR PILGRIMAGE TO ISRAEL.
• 10:27 I DON'T THINK THERE'S ANY GREATER WAY TO UNDERSTAND THE DEPTHS OF THE BIBLE
• 10:30 THAN BY WALKING THROUGH THE BIBLE LANDS.
• 10:33 SO WE REALLY WANT TO INVITE YOU TO COME WITH US.
• 10:35 IN FACT, I'M SO GRATEFUL TODAY
• 10:37 TO HAVE OUR TRAVEL MANAGER, TRACIE, WITH US.
• 10:39 TRACIE, TELL US ABOUT THE NEW THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING ON THE TOURS.
• 10:43 I ACTUALLY LOVED YOUR INTRODUCTION MYLES
• 10:45 BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE I HAVE
• 10:46 A LITTLE BIT OF A UNIQUE PERSPECTIVE
• 10:48 WHEN IT COMES TO ISRAEL
• 10:49 BECAUSE I'VE ACTUALLY WORKED
• 10:50 IN MINISTRY ABOUT 20 YEARS,
• 10:52 WENT DALLAS SEMINARY FOR 5 YEARS.
• 10:54 BUT I TELL YOU WHEN I STEPPED MY FOOT IN ISRAEL THERE WAS AN EXPERIENCE.
• 10:57 I WROTE AN ARTICLE ABOUT 3 MONTHS AGO
• 10:59 THAT MY RELATIONSHIP WITH THE LORD WENT FROM A DATING TO A MARRIAGE RELATIONSHIP.
• 11:03 THE INTIMACY WHEN YOU'RE AT THE WAILING WALL,
• 11:06 WHEN YOU GET BAPTIZED IN THE JORDAN RIVER THERE IS NOTHING LIKE IT.
• 11:09 AND I WOULD TRADE ALL MY YEARS OF MINISTRY EXPERIENCE FOR 10 DAYS IN ISRAEL.
• 11:13 AND I BET YOU FEEL THE SAME WAY.
• 11:15 I ABSOLUTELY DO. I'VE NEVER BEEN THE SAME SINCE I STARTED GOING THERE.
• 11:17 WHAT I LOVE ABOUT OUR TOURS IS THEY RUN SO SMOOTHLY.
• 11:20 WE'VE BEEN GOING FOR 28 YEARS, 3 TIMES A YEAR...
• 11:23 NEVER CANCELED ONE TOUR.
• 11:24 WE HAVE ABOUT 5 OR 6 STAFF ON EACH BUS.
• 11:27 WE TAKE CARE OF THE LOGISTICS
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• 11:30 WE INVITE YOU TO COME WITH US.
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• 11:37 HE WAS ACTUALLY THE 2004 TOUR GUIDE OF THE YEAR IN ISRAEL
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• 12:03 NOW...OUR OFFER OF THE WEEK
• 12:05 IS "WOMAN BY DIVINE DESIGN".
• 12:07 THIS BOOK BY DR. JEFFREY SEIF
• 12:08 AND SANDRA LEVITT
• 12:10 IS A REALLY CLEAR AND ORIGINAL
• 12:11 VIEW OF THE WAY GOD,
• 12:14 YESHUA AND PAUL SEE WOMEN.
• 12:17 I THINK IT WILL REALLY
• 12:18 TURN YOUR HEAD AROUND REGARDING
• 12:19 SOME OF THE MISINFORMATION
• 12:20 THAT'S BEEN IN THE CHURCH.
• 12:22 YOU'LL WANT TO PICK ONE OF THESE UP AS WELL THIS WEEK.
• 12:24 SO LET'S GET BACK TO OUR STORY
• 12:27 AS WE CONTINUE CHRONOLOGICALLY THROUGH THE BOOK OF RUTH.
• 12:33 AND RUTH'S HUSBAND, MAHLON, DIED IN MOAB
• 12:37 AS DID CHILION, ORPAH'S HUSBAND.
• 12:40 HEARING THAT THE FAMINE IN JUDAH HAS PASSED
• 12:43 NAOMI AND HER DAUGHTERS-IN-LAW BEGIN THEIR JOURNEY TO BETHLEHEM, JUDAH.
• 12:53 EACH STEP BRINGS NAOMI CLOSER TO HOME
• 12:57 BUT FURTHER FROM HER CLOSEST LOVED ONES
• 13:00 NOW LAID TO REST IN A FOREIGN LAND.
• 13:24 NOW WE'RE ON THE ROAD TO BETHLEHEM
• 13:26 AND NAOMI HAS ASKED THE DAUGHTERS TO GO BACK,
• 13:29 BUT THEY ARE ARGUING OVER WHETHER THEY WILL GO BACK OR NOT.
• 13:33 THIS IS AN AMAZING TURN OF EVENTS.
• 13:35 THERE MUST HAVE BEEN SOMETHING ABOUT NAOMI THAT MADE RUTH WANT TO STAY WITH HER.
• 13:39 THERE MUST HAVE BEEN SOMETHING ABOUT HER.
• 13:41 I WANT TO SUGGEST TO YOU THAT TODAY THERE'S A PROPHETIC PICTURE IN THIS FOR US.
• 13:46 THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT NAOMI PICTURING THE JEWISH PEOPLE THAT SHOULD DRAW US
• 13:51 AND SHOULD ENTREAT US TO KNIT OUR LIVES TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE AS WELL.
• 13:55 EVEN IN A TIME OF FAMINE,
• 13:56 EVEN IN A TIME WHEN THERE'S DIFFICULTY HEARING THE WORD,
• 13:59 THIS IS A TIME WHEN WE NEED TO STAY TOGETHER
• 14:01 AND GOD IS BRINGING JEWS AND CHRISTIANS TOGETHER IN A WAY THAT HE NEVER HAS BEFORE.
• 14:08 RUTH IS A PICTURE OF COVENANT LOVE.
• 14:10 GOD DID SOMETHING IN RUTH'S HEART THROUGH NAOMI
• 14:13 TO CAUSE HER TO WANT TO LEAVE HER PEOPLE AND THE GODS OF HER PEOPLE
• 14:18 AND FOLLOW AFTER NAOMI TO A PLACE THAT SHE DID NOT EVEN KNOW;
• 14:22 A PLACE THAT WAS FAR AWAY.
• 14:24 AND BECAUSE OF THIS COVENANT LOVE
• 14:26 SHE WAS WILLING TO LET GO OF HER FAMILY AND HER TIES
• 14:29 AND MOVE TO A ROAD BEYOND WHICH WAS PLEASANT FOR HER,
• 14:34 BEYOND WHICH WAS A PLACE WHERE SHE KNEW WAS FAMILIAR.
• 14:37 GOD DID SOMETHING IN THIS LOVE CONNECTION BETWEEN RUTH AND NAOMI
• 14:41 THAT CAUSED HER TO COME TO A SURRENDER IN HER HEART.
• 14:44 SHE MADE A COMMITMENT TO NAOMI ON THE ROAD TO BETHLEHEM THAT SHE WAS DETERMINED TO KEEP.
• 14:50 IT'S A COMMITMENT THAT WAS BETWEEN ONE WOMAN AND ANOTHER,
• 14:54 BUT IT'S OFTEN QUOTED IN WEDDING CEREMONIES TODAY.
• 14:58 IT'S A PHRASE THAT WE CAN HEAR TIME AND TIME AGAIN...
• 15:01 "YOUR PEOPLE SHALL BE MY PEOPLE AND YOUR GOD MY GOD."
• 15:04 IT'S AN ELOQUENT EXPRESSION OF LOVE AND LOYALTY BETWEEN A SPOUSE,
• 15:09 BUT IT'S ALSO BETWEEN NAOMI AND RUTH.
• 15:12 WE SEE THE UNFOLDING OF FRIENDSHIP.
• 15:15 WE SEE THE UNFOLDING OF GIVING OF ONES' SELF.
• 15:18 RUTH HAD NO WAY OF KNOWING THAT HER LIFE
• 15:21 AND GIVING UP OF HER LIFE WOULD BENEFIT HER IN THE END.
• 15:25 YOU KNOW THIS REMINDS ME OF A SCRIPTURE.
• 15:27 "IF YOU SEEK TO SAVE LIFE,"
• 15:28 "YOU'LL LOSE IT,
• 15:29 "BUT IF YOU LOSE YOUR LIFE"
• 15:30 "FOR MY SAKE,"
• 15:31 "YOU'LL FIND IT."
• 15:32 THIS STORY HAS SPECIAL MEANING FOR US
• 15:34 BECAUSE 25 YEARS AGO THIS MONTH
• 15:37 WE WERE MARRIED
• 15:38 AND AT OUR WEDDING
• 15:39 THE SONG OF RUTH WAS SUNG.
• 15:41 AND KATHARINE, THE GENTILE
• 15:43 COMMITTED TO MYLES THE JEW
• 15:44 AND SAID -
• 15:45 "YOUR PEOPLE SHALL BE MY PEOPLE"
• 15:47 "AND YOUR GOD MY GOD."
• 15:48 I THINK THAT'S THE CALL
• 15:49 THAT'S ON THE CHURCH TODAY.
• 15:50 THE CALL THAT'S ON BELIEVERS TODAY
• 15:52 IS TO NOT ONLY KNIT OURSELVES TO THE GOD OF ISRAEL,
• 15:55 BUT ALSO TO THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL.
• 15:57 THAT'S PART OF WHAT WE'LL SEE IN THE STORY OF RUTH
• 15:59 IS THAT THE CALLING IS NOT ONLY TO THE GOD OF ISRAEL,
• 16:02 BUT ALSO THE PEOPLE.
• 16:04 SO OFTEN PEOPLE IN THE BODY, IN THE CHURCH AROUND THE WORLD,
• 16:07 THEY LOVE THE GOD OF ABRAHAM
• 16:09 AND THEY LOVE THE GOD OF ISRAEL,
• 16:10 BUT THEY DON'T STAND WITH THE ISRAELIS.
• 16:13 THEY DON'T STAND WITH THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 16:15 THAT'S WHY IT'S SUCH A THRILL FOR US TO BE PART OF THIS MINISTRY
• 16:18 AND TO BE ABLE TO CALL YOU ALONG WITH US
• 16:21 TO STAND WITH ISRAEL AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 16:23 THAT IS THE CALLING THAT IS ON THE CHURCH TODAY.
• 16:26 YOU KNOW NAOMI WAS A WIDOW AT THIS POINT.
• 16:29 HER HUSBAND HAD DIED
• 16:31 AND DEATH HAD REALLY BEEN A TASTE IN ALL OF THEIR LIVES
• 16:34 BECAUSE NOW WE KNOW THAT HER SONS HAD DIED TOO.
• 16:37 ITS ONE THING TO LOSE A HUSBAND,
• 16:39 BUT IT'S ANOTHER THING TO LOSE YOUR ONLY TWO SONS.
• 16:43 SO SOMETHING THAT RUTH WAS ABLE TO DO BY LETTING GO OF HER FAMILY TIES
• 16:48 AND MOVE ON WITH NAOMI WAS A BEAUTIFUL THING.
• 16:51 ORPAH BEGAN THE JOURNEY, BUT SHE GOT ONLY HALF WAY.
• 16:55 THERE WASN'T QUITE ENOUGH FOR HER TO CONTINUE ON ALL THE WAY TO BETHLEHEM.
• 17:00 THERE'S A TEACHING IN THE BIBLE ABOUT THE REDEMPTION OF PEOPLE WHO ARE WIDOWS.
• 17:06 GOD'S ALWAYS AFTER US IN OUR HEARTS TO TAKE CARE OF WIDOWS AND ORPHANS.
• 17:10 RUTH IS ONE OF THE MOST AMAZING PICTURES OF HOW GOD TAKES CARE OF THE WIDOWS.
• 17:16 THIS IS WHAT WE'RE GOING TO SEE WHEN THEY GET TO BETHLEHEM.
• 17:20 GOD IS GOING TO ORCHESTRATE ALL OF THEIR LIVES TO BRING THEM INTO CONTACT WITH THE GOEL,
• 17:25 THE KINSMAN-REDEEMER, WHO IS A PICTURE OF THE MESSIAH -
• 17:29 A PICTURE OF THE KINSMAN-REDEEMER
• 17:31 WHO CAME TO EARTH TO REDEEM YOU AND ME.
• 17:34 SO THIS LOVE STORY IS NOT ONLY ABOUT ROMANTIC LOVE.
• 17:37 IT'S NOT ONLY ABOUT A DAUGHTER-IN-LAW AND A MOTHER-IN-LAW
• 17:39 BUT IT'S A COVENANT LOVE STORY.
• 17:42 THIS LOVE STORY WAS PLAYED OUT ON A HILL FAR AWAY
• 17:45 2,000 YEARS AGO ON A CROSS,IN BLOOD, FOR YOU AND FOR ME.
• 17:51 WHEN GOD SENT HIS ONLY SON TO THE CROSS TO DIE FOR YOU AND FOR ME:
• 17:56 THAT'S THE PICTURE OF THE KINSMAN-REDEEMER
• 17:59 WHO NOT ONLY IS GOING TO REDEEM THE FAMILY OF RUTH AND NAOMI,
• 18:02 BUT OUR KINSMAN-REDEEMER, YESHUA HA-MASHIACH,
• 18:05 JESUS THE MESSIAH IS THE REDEEMER
• 18:08 WHO CAME TO REDEEM THE ENTIRE EARTH TO HIMSELF - TO WHOSOEVER WILL.
• 18:13 AND THAT'S WHAT'S PICTURED HERE IN RUTH.
• 18:15 IT'S A BEAUTIFUL STORY OF THE REDEMPTION THAT GOD HAS IN HIS MIND AND HEART
• 18:19 FOR ALL WHO WILL SAY "YES" TO HIM.
• 18:23 THAT'S WHAT WE'RE GOING TO SEE UNFOLD HERE.
• 18:25 IT'S AN ARDUOUS JOURNEY FROM MOAB TO BETHLEHEM AND THEY'RE ON THEIR WAY.
• 18:30 THEY'RE GOING TO COME INTO THE LAND AND GOING TO BE REINSTATED
• 18:34 IN THE CUSTOMS OF THE TIME AND WITH THE PEOPLE OF THE LAND
• 18:38 IT'S GOING TO BE AN AMAZING CHANGE FOR THEM HAVING COME FROM MOAB,
• 18:42 AFTER BEING THERE FOR 10 YEARS
• 18:43 THEY'RE GOING TO COME INTO BETHLEHEM.
• 18:45 AND IN COMING INTO BETHLEHEM
• 18:47 THEY'RE GOING TO ESTABLISH GEOGRAPHICALLY THE PLACE THAT THE MESSIAH WOULD BE BORN
• 18:52 BECAUSE MICAH, IN CHAPTER 5, VERSE 2 SAID,
• 19:06 AND SO WE'VE GEOGRAPHICALLY, BY THE STORY OF RUTH,
• 19:08 WE PLACE THE BIRTHPLACE OF MESSIAH, BEN-DAVID,
• 19:12 OF YESHUA HA-MASHIACH, JESUS CHRIST, IN BETHLEHEM.
• 19:16 SO RUTH IS BEING KNIT INTO THE LINEAGE OF JESUS CHRIST.
• 19:22 LET US TAKE COURAGE IN THIS SCENE AND IN THESE MOMENTS,
• 19:26 AND LET US NOT BE LIKE ORPAH
• 19:28 WHO DISAPPEARS INTO HISTORY,
• 19:30 BUT LET US BE LIKE RUTH
• 19:31 THAT CLINGS TO THE GOD OF ABRAHAM
• 19:34 AND TO THE PEOPLE OF ABRAHAM.
• 20:13 ♪BASHAMAIM MAL'ACHIM SHARIM♪
• 20:18 ♪MEZAMERET ERETZ M'SIMCHA♪
• 20:24 ♪KI YESHUA KAM MIN HAMETIM♪
• 20:28 ♪ET HAMAVET HU HICHRI'A♪
• 20:34 ♪HASHAMAIMA BEDAMO ALA♪
• 20:39 ♪HASHOVET BERACHAMIM NIMLA♪
• 20:45 ♪SHA'AREI MALCHUTO PATACH♪
• 20:49 ♪L VA ECHYE CHAYEI NETZACH♪
• 20:56 ♪HALLELUJAH...♪
• 21:01 ...HALLE...LUJAH♪
• 21:06 ♪HALLELUJAH,♪
• 21:11 ♪ANI ECHYE LE'OLAM♪
• 21:17 ♪HALLELUJAH...♪
• 21:22 ...HALLE...LUJAH♪
• 21:28 ♪HALLELUJAH,♪
• 21:33 ♪B'ADI HU MAFGI'A♪
• 21:38 ♪HALLELUJAH♪ ♪(Hallelujah...Hallelujah)♪
• 21:44 ♪...HALLE...LUJAH♪ ♪(Hallelujah...Hallelujah)♪
• 21:49 ♪HALLELUJAH♪ ♪(Hallelujah...Hallelujah)♪
• 21:54 ♪ANI ECHYE LE'OLAM♪
• 22:00 ♪HALLELUJAH♪ ♪(Hallelujah...Hallelujah)♪
• 22:05 ♪...HALLE...LUJAH♪ ♪(Hallelujah...Hallelujah)♪
• 22:11 ♪HALLELUJAH♪ ♪(Hallelujah...Hallelujah)♪
• 22:16 ♪B'ADI HU MAFGI'A♪ (♪Hallelujah...Hallelujah)♪
• 22:23 ♪HAL...LE...LU...JAH♪ ♪(Halle...lujah♪)
• 22:29 ♪HAL...LE...LU...JAH♪ ♪(Halle...lujah)♪
• 22:34 ♪HAL...LE... LU...JAH♪ ♪(Halle...lujah♪)
• 22:38 ♪HAL...LE...LU...JAH♪
• 22:46 THAT MUSIC WAS FROM SASHA AND ANYA, OUR RUSSIAN ISRAELI FRIENDS.
• 22:50 AND YOU WILL BE HEARING MORE OF THEIR MUSIC LATER IN THIS SERIES.
• 22:53 AND NOW...A SPECIAL TEACHING FROM OUR FRIEND IN ISRAEL ARIE BAR DAVID,
• 22:57 A SECOND GENERATION MESSIANIC BELIEVER, WAR HERO...
• 23:00 KATHARINE AND I HAD A CHANCE TO SPEND SOME TIME WITH HIM WHILE WE WERE THERE LAST TIME
• 23:04 AND HE'S JUST AN AMAZING MAN
• 23:06 WHO HAS A LEGACY OF BELIEVING IN THE LORD IN THE FACE OF ALL KINDS OF CIRCUMSTANCES,
• 23:12 THROUGH THE WARS OF ISRAEL,
• 23:13 HE LEADS TOURS THROUGH ISRAEL
• 23:15 AND HE'S GOT A UNIQUE INSIGHT INTO THE LAY OF THE LAND.
• 23:19 AND SO HE'S GOING TO TEACH US ABOUT THE TOPOGRAPHY.
• 23:22 HE'S GOING TO TEACH US ABOUT THE DISTANCE BETWEEN MOAB AND JUDAH AND BACK.
• 23:26 SO WATCH CLOSELY.
• 23:29 THE BEAUTIFUL STORY OF RUTH
• 23:32 TOOK PLACE IN A CERTAIN COUNTRY.
• 23:35 AND THE COUNTRY IS
• 23:36 THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
• 23:38 LET US LOOK AT THE MAP TO BE BETTER ORIENTED.
• 23:41 WE HAVE THE BLUE COLORS WHICH REPRESENTS THE WATERS,
• 23:45 THE MEDITERRANEAN...THE BIG SEA.
• 23:48 AND ON THE OTHER SIDE, THE JORDAN RIFT
• 23:51 WITH THE SEA OF GALILEE AND THE DEAD SEA.
• 23:55 OUR STORY HAPPENS ON THE WEST BANK AND ON THE EAST BANK OF THE DEAD SEA.
• 24:02 LET US LOOK...
• 24:04 WHAT ARE THE MAIN NATIONS THAT WE HAVE HERE?
• 24:06 WE HAVE ISRAEL WHICH WAS EPHRAIM IN MANASSEH.
• 24:09 WE'VE GOT GALILEE IN THE NORTH.
• 24:11 WE'VE HAVE THE PHILISTINES THAT WERE HERE.
• 24:13 ON THE OUTER SIDE WE HAVE AMON AND MOAB,
• 24:16 THE TWO NATIONS WHICH ARE NAMED BY THE TWO SONS OF LOT.
• 24:23 NOW THE MOST IMPORTANT FOR US IS THE NATION OF JUDAH.
• 24:28 JUDAH WAS LOCATED HERE SOUTH OF BETHLEHEM.
• 24:32 OUR STORY IS TAKING PLACE ACTUALLY IN BETHLEHEM AND THE FIELDS OF MOAB.
• 24:40 THEY ARE JUST ONE NEXT TO THE OTHER.
• 24:43 EVERY EVENING STANDING HERE WHERE THE SUN IS BEHIND YOU,
• 24:47 YOU CAN SEE IN FRONT OF YOU, THE MOUNTAINS OF MOAB.
• 24:52 OPPOSITE WHEN YOU ARE STANDING ON MOAB MOUNTAINS, EARLY IN THE MORNING, LOOKING WESTWARD
• 25:00 YOU SEE SO BEAUTIFUL THE RANGES IN THE MOUNTAINS OF JUDAH.
• 25:18 MYLES, I MENTIONED EARLIER ABOUT HOW THIS BOOK REPRESENTS 3 THINGS FOR ME...
• 25:22 A THEME OF LOSS... LOVE...AND LEGACY.
• 25:25 AND WE BEGIN TO SEE HOW THE LOSS HAS REALLY COME TO HIT HOME FOR NAOMI AND RUTH.
• 25:31 ELIMELECH HAS DIED AND THE TWO SONS,
• 25:35 SO NAOMI IS NOW LEFT WITH NOT A HUSBAND OR HER TWO SONS
• 25:39 AND SHE HAS ONLY ORPAH AND RUTH TO COMFORT.
• 25:43 SHE'S A LITTLE OVERWHELMED AT THIS POINT.
• 25:46 REALLY...SUCH AN INHOSPITABLE LAND.
• 25:48 YOU REMEMBER BEING IN THE WADI QELT NEAR WHERE THE LAND OF MOAB WOULD BE
• 25:52 AND IT'S JUST SO HOT AND DRY AND DIFFICULT.
• 25:55 AND IN THE THOSE DAYS THE MEN NEEDED TO BE WITH THE WOMEN FOR PROTECTION.
• 25:59 REMEMBER THERE WAS NO KING IN THE LAND
• 26:02 SO THERE WAS A LAWLESSNESS GOING ON.
• 26:04 SO YOU CAN IMAGINE HOW DIFFICULT IT WAS FOR THEM TO BE ALONE AT THAT TIME.
• 26:07 AND IT'S INTERESTING THAT IT SORT OF BEGINS WITH NO KING
• 26:11 AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO FIND OUT THAT IN FACT THE STORY IS ALL ABOUT THE KING.
• 26:15 ALSO IN THE HEBREW SCRIPTURES A WIDOW LITERALLY MEANS "A WOMAN WITHOUT A VOICE".
• 26:22 SO HERE IS NAOMI, RUTH AND ORPAH FEELING SO LONELY, SO LOST
• 26:27 AND ALMOST AT THE END OF THEMSELVES AT THIS POINT.
• 26:31 IT'S REALLY AN AMAZING STORY...
• 26:32 AN INCREDIBLE DRAMATIC OPENING.
• 26:34 AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO SEE IN THE COMING WEEKS
• 26:37 HOW GOD HAS HIS WAY IN KNITTING THEIR LIVES TOGETHER
• 26:40 IN AN AMAZING STORY THAT POINTS TO YESHUA.
• 26:44 SO BE WITH US NEXT WEEK.
• 26:45 DON'T MISS THIS SERIES...
• 26:47 IT'S GOING TO BE INCREDIBLE.
• 26:48 AND UNTIL THAT TIME...
• 26:49 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM
• 26:51 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM