UNSEEN BATTLE SERIES · BIBLE CARD 8 OF 39
Ruth
Rut — “Friend, companion”
HISTORY
- Author / Era
- Likely Samuel (traditional) · events during Judges, approx. 1100 BC
- Setting
- Bethlehem and Moab. A famine, a widow, a foreign daughter-in-law, a redeemer.
- Key Figures
- Ruth, Naomi, Boaz
- Watch For
- Boaz as kinsman-redeemer (go’el) — every step he takes is a picture of Christ.
- Connects To
- Matthew 1:5 (Ruth in Jesus’ lineage) · Ephesians 1 · Galatians 3:13
Key Verse
“Whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.”— Ruth 1:16
Points to Christ: The Kinsman-Redeemer
Boaz pays the price to bring an outsider into the covenant family. Christ does the same for us.
For the Fire Pit
In the darkest stretch of the Old Testament — the days of the Judges — God is quietly writing the lineage of David. And of Christ. Through a Moabite widow.
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