<TITLE>13. Par 49-52</TITLE>L-49 The laws of redemption, a beautiful type, said, and about Ruth, Naomi. The book of Ruth, some people just think... Maybe we'll approach it just a moment. Ruth, or Naomi, she was--lived in Bethlehem of Judaea. Elimelech was her husband. She had two sons. And a drought come on, so she left and went over into the land of Moab, because she heard there was corn over there. A very beautiful picture here, let's unfold it just a minute and look into it, before we close.
And her going away, perhaps not knowing then, a righteous woman, righteous man, going away, not knowing what they were doing. You know, many times we have to walk the way we feel led to walk, regardless of what the outcome of it will be. That's right.

L-50 Did you ever notice when the cattle was bringing the ark down the road, the calves back behind, bawling for their mother, but the cows went down the road, lowing, not bawling. Lowing isn't bawling; lowing's singing. Them old cows pulling that, though going to the rock to be crucified, going down the road, singing, "I am coming, Lord, coming now to Thee," lowing as they're going. That's the way you come. If it's crucifixion, whatever it is, self-denial, go anyhow. The Spirit of God's pulling them down... There it is.
So Naomi went over in the other country, in Moab, and there her sons were married to two Moabite women. and after while she lost Elimelech, her husband, the two boys was--died, and Naomi was left alone with her two daughter-in-laws. So she taken them out, and she kissed them, and said, "I'm returning back to the homelands now," for she heard that God had brought corn again in her own land. So she was returning back after ten years. She'd lost all of her estate, and everything. But she lost her husband, lost her two sons, but she was returning back. So she kissed her daughter-in-laws. And one of them's name was Orpah, and the other one was named Ruth. And said, "Now, you all return to your mother's house, and may God give you peace in your mother's house," said, "in respects of the dead."

L-51 So Orpah kissed her mother-in-law and returned. And now Ruth, the Moabite woman was a beautiful type of the Gentile Bride. This may hurt, a little theology, but, Naomi, being a type of the Jewish church, the orthodox, Jewish church, losing her estate, and Ruth being a type the--the Gentile woman, being a type of Christ, taking the Gentile Church.
So she, when she was on her road, Ruth would not turn back. And she said, "Now, look, I'm old, and if I had sons, you wouldn't wait for it. Go back home, and--and marry, and settle down."
And she said, "No, I will not go back. I..."
She said, "Return to your gods, and to your country."
She said, "I'll go where you go. I'll let your people be my people. Let your God be my God. Where you dwell, there I'll dwell. Where you die, there I'll die. Where you're buried, there I'll be buried." The Gentile Church first, seeing the promise of God, making this statement to sell out from everything to follow Jehovah God. Do you see it?

L-52 She turned, seen she's persistent, on she went, back to the land. And as she came in to Bethlehem of Judaea, when she came in, the people of Bethlehem said, "Here comes Naomi."
She said, "Don't call me Naomi (which is pleasant)," said, "call me Mara (which is bitter), "for the Lord has dealt thus with me."
Now, the beautiful part to look, that when she came back, being the type of the--of the Jewish church, when she came back she brought Ruth with her, and came (listen, get it), she came in barley season. Just at the time of the thrashing of the grain. And that's exactly the way the Church is going back today, just the begin of barley season. She'd seen a season before. But this was a new season after a long, stay of drought. A type of the Gentile or the Jewish church...


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