Ruth - 6

The Kinsman Redeemer

Ruth means Friendship

Ruth was a Moabite

• Moab was cursed by God because they rejected the true and living God
• Genesis 19:37
• Numbers 22 to 25
• Judges 3

Moab oppressed Israel during the period of the Judges

Saul, the first King of Israel, defeated Moab

• I Samuel 14:47

David enjoyed both a peaceful and troubled relationship with the Moabites

• I Samuel 22
• II Kings 3

God pronounced a curse on Moab

• Bad beginning
• Rejection of the true God
• Idolatry
• Child sacrifice

Insight into the curse on Moab

• Isaiah 15 to 16
• Isaiah 16:13-14
• God is going to give Moab three more years and that is the end
• About 715 B.C.  About 300 years after David
• Judgment of Sargon, Assyrian king, utterly destroyed Moab

Insight into the curse on Moab because of continual rejection

• Jeremiah 48:11-13
• Going through trouble and trouble has the ability to drain out the bitterness of life
• Moab hadn’t had trouble, therefore, they had retained all of their original bitter flavor
• Jeremiah says there’s going to come some serious judgment
• Jeremiah 48:42-43
• Moab has become arrogant toward the Lord

Insight into the curse on Moab because of continual rejection

• Devastating judgment on this cursed people.
• Ezekiel 25:8-11
• Amos 2:1-3
• Summation of the curse on Moab
  • Deuteronomy 23:3
  • Nehemiah 13:1-2