The name of the Book Ruth comes from chief character whose name means “friendship”. She is a young Moabite who in spite of her pagan heritage proves faithful to God during a time in which the nation was faithless. In this book we are introduced to a new term “goel” mentioned 13 times the meaning of the word is “kinsman-redeemer”. This little four-chapter book of Ruth that took place during the 335 years of the book of Judges (Ruth 1:1). The “dark ages” of the nation where the failure was due because they chose to live according to what was described in the final sentence of the book Judges (21:25, “everyone did what was right in his own eyes.” Yet the story of Ruth is love, friendship, redemption and romance and serves as a reminder that even in the darkest of days of rebellion when the nation was forsaking God and turning to idolatry God was still at work redeeming those from idolatry to a relationship with Him.
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