<TITLE>11. Par 122-133</TITLE>L-122 And notice, just as Naomi, who'd lost everything she had, and was returning back just in barley season...
And Palestine today, is becoming to blossom like a rose. Some of the greatest things is found, riches of all the lands in the world; chemicals found in the Dead Sea, that's priceless to mention. Palestine, greatest citron country, lemons that'll weigh five pounds a piece nearly, raised there. Think of it, all fulfilling God's Divine Word. Going home, the Jews, returning in barley season...

L-124 She raised up her hands and wept. And they said, "Here comes Naomi."
She said, "Don't call me Naomi, for God has dealt with me bitterly," not knowing what she was bringing with her. Little does the Jew know that his rejecting of Jesus only give the Gentile a place to come in. Oh, I just love it. Notice, then when she lifted up her eyes and wept...

L-126 And notice, then they had to get... All of her inheritance had been taken away from her, so they had to make a living. Ruth, being a young, beautiful woman, went out into the fields of Boaz to glean. That was what the peasants did, the poor.
Want you to notice the type the Church is. It's a poor Church. Ruth, being a type of the Gentile Bride now, she went out behind the harvesters to pick up a few straws that had some wheat on it, shuck it off like that, in a sack, for a living. Gleaning, barefooted, in the fields of Boaz...
And Boaz was the lord of the harvest, representing Jesus Christ the Son of God. Notice the great Lord of the harvest. And he came out to look upon his fields. He saw the gleaners out there; he saw the reapers. And when he cast his eyes towards Ruth, he fell in love with her: Christ with His Church.
He said, "Who is this damsel that gleans in the field?"
They said, "Ruth brought her back."

L-129 The Jewish church, under the leading of the Pillar of Fire under the leading of Jehovah made a way of the Old Testament, for the Holy Ghost Christian of the New. Brought Her with them... Oh, we had time to rest on this a little bit.

L-130 Notice, coming back. Then he said, "Have her to come over and set under the shade, and eat some of the food with us." Oh, if we had time to put some emphasis on that.
Notice, then Boaz looks upon her, seen she's a virtuous woman. That surely must've been holiness. So he walked around and said to all of the reapers; he said, "Now, you, when this young lady is coming behind you," not letting her know it, said, "but now when she gets behind you, every once in a while, drop a extra handful so she can get it." Oh, my.

L-132 Going around, having a little meeting over here, and a cottage prayer meeting, laughed at, made fun of by the others, the other reapers, picking up a straw here and there and shucking it out, getting a little blessing here, and driving fifty miles for another; but I'm so thankful for a great big handful, once in a while the little born again Church finds at an old fashion revival, a handful.

L-133 She'd picked this up, I guess, and say, "Bless the Lord." Shucked it out. And at nighttime she had a sack-full.
Boaz, representing Christ, goes to the city, quickly. He didn't want this girl to get away. Said, "Who does she belong to?"
Said, "Naomi."
And the orthodox Jewish church gave birth to the Gentile Church. That's right.
Said, "Who is she?"
Said, "She's Naomi." So she goes...
Then he goes down. He said, "Now, I have got to redeem all of her possessions." Now, the law of redemption in the Old Testament, that it must be a kinsman redeemer. The--the law required, not any person could redeem a lost estate, but it had to be somebody that was kinfolks; and then somebody that was able to redeem, worthy enough to redeem, financially able.


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