The Amazing Ruth

The Book of Ruth is an amazing book and it tells the story of an amazing woman named Ruth. Unpredictably a moabite woman enters the genealogy of Jesus Christ and the question is why?

Weren’t their plenty of Israelite women who could have filled this role? So why Ruth the Moabite woman?

After all God himself did put a curse on Moab…

“An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of the Lord for ever: Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee” Deuteronomy 23:3-4.

So why would God select a woman from Moab to be in his son’s genealogy?

Before we answer this question, gentle reader, note that nothing in the Book of Ruth happened by accident. The famine didn’t happen by accident. The move to Moab was no accident. It was no accident that Elimilech, Mahlon and Chilion died in Moab. And it was no accident that Boaz was selected to be the husband of Ruth instead of the “near relative”

Ruth the Moabite woman was a convert to Judaism and was selected by God because there was no woman in Israel who was as righteous as she was. She was amazingly righteous. Stay tuned.