Under Whose Wings You Have Come - Lesson 6

Ruth 2:1-23

Lesson 6

Under Whose Wings You Have Come

Not chance

Two would meet

Not by coincidence

An eternal purpose would be fulfilled.

Law of land

Designed a field

Where provision would be made

For generous souls

Both giving and receiving.

All in God’s plan

No greedy notion

only virtue is shown.

Law of honor and nobility

Ushered in its privileged position

A lineage to the throne.

Not by chance

Nor by coincidence

Faithful hearts would meet

Filling God’s destiny of purpose

Under whose wings you have come.

God’s Story

God’s story goes from ever to forever, before the beginning of time to the end of time. Paul writes in Romans 11:1-36 “Has God cast away His people? Certainly not! For I also am an Israelite of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin… For of Him and through Him and to Him are all things, to whom be glory forever. Amen.”

To whose field you have come. God has brought Israel to His field. The place that Naomi would come was in proximity of God’s purpose. God’s purpose being - sending His only Son to redeem His people. Israel understood that the Messiah would come, the Holy One of Israel. God would used Boaz, a picture of Christ and as a near kinsmen to accomplish his story.

By the law of Moses, he would protect the relationship between His Son and His people. That which came from heaven and that which came from earth  - How can two  meet? How can two produce an offspring?

The law gave Israel permission to marry a Moabite. 

Israel’s Story – (Naomi)

Survival -  Naomi knew the law. It would be the law that would protect her and Ruth. It would be the law that would feed them. Even strangers get to eat; Even a Moabitess  could be feed.

Gentile’s Story – Ruth

Ruth’s history was from the progeny of her father, beginning with Lot. From the beginning, the flesh was cursed. Her history had no root, only Naomi’s line. Ruth was a stranger to the commonwealth of Israel. Her people were enemies to Naomi’s people.

God brings the two into His field.

It was Ruth’s obedience to serve and take care of Naomi (Israel). The field today is the current day, the Gentile not only protects the seed of Israel, she is carrying it until such time as it’s fullness and Naomi (Israel), God’s wife comes back to Him.

It brings in the church age with spiritual promises and gifts. She carries the promise and God’s gift in her womb. We carry these in our hearts.

Boaz’s Story – Kinsman Redeemer

Boaz’s name means fleetness, swiftness, to flow, run, to change position, poet, evanescent, tending to fade out of site, to vanish, transitory. He is the picture of Jesus. He is the Wings under which we come. He is the answer for the abundant life. He will set himself aside, his name, wealth, property to give to Naomi (Elimelech’s seed) 

Faith Lessons

Ruth’s total submission to her commitment when she began her journey from Moab with Naomi and that she would follow her god and her people and turn from her homeland and her god. Ruth entered into Naomi’s history, (The Old Testament), and by faith in the promise God made to Abraham, she understands her inheritance in the commonwealth of Israel.

Ruth surrendered herself to the purpose of Naomi (Israel), God’s wife. She takes care of Naomi, and the kinsmen redeemer takes care of Ruth. The seed that would impregnate Ruth in her faith; became her redeemer, (Jesus).

Her story is based on her willingness to leave her country and enter into another’s country. We do that when we surrender to God’s kingdom, the Kingdom of Heaven through faith in God’s salvation and answer. Through that step of faith, we enter into a spiritual kingdom, spiritual principals, spiritual gifts.

Principles in Relationships

A three fold friendship

Did Boaz draw her?

How did she come?

Everyone looked to the other’s need.

Did she know anything but her relationship with Ruth?

Was she expecting pay for her obedience?

Was she expecting a husband from her duty?

Did she have anything but her loyalty to Naomi?

Could she see anything outside of her faith in Naomi’s God and country?

The land and the law protected her. How?

Boaz told her to stay in his field. Was Boaz aware of her behavior?

What did her behavior say to Boaz?

He wanted to protect her and sustain her with his wealth.

Chain of Events

Romans 9,10,11,12 – Gifts given to the Church through the promise of Jesus. Read Ephesians 1, Ephesians 4, 1 Peter 4, 1 Corinthians 12, Romans 12

Cameo – The Story

Sometimes when there is only a need, it takes us to another place.

Ruth said to Naomi, “We need to think about what we should eat.”

Naomi responded, “Yes, we can not worry how anyone is seeing us right now. I know there is prejudice because I walked away with Elimelech ten years ago and left everything I had. I now have come home with you. You are looked upon as an enemy, but I know you different. I have come to appreciate and understand you as my friend.”

“Naomi, I want to take care of you, let me do that. Let me go to the field and glean the grain that has been left behind. By chance I might find favor.”

Ruth readied herself. In the back of her mind she remembered Mahlon’s words. “Our God will lead us. We have to be willing to trust Him and lead us to where we should be.”

Ruth meditated on Mahlon’s words as she walked down the dirt road. The field she found herself in was the field that belonged to Boaz, a close relative of Elimelech. 

The field had been harvested by Boaz’s workers but she noticed the wheat which had been left behind. Ruth bent over and began to gather the left behind grain.

The shawl she wore from Moab quickly became a basket to contain the harvest. Ruth busied herself, not looking up but only understanding the law of the land. The law protected her, it was for her benefit. She knew she had the right of a stranger only. It was the generosity of Naomi and Mahlon’s God that gave her the courage to glean from someone else’s field.

The god she once served, Chemosh stripped the people in greed of their rights and children. The God of this land protected the right of every person whether stranger or sojourner.

Ruth didn’t notice the other reapers in the field. Her mind was on Naomi. Naomi was going to be so surprised as to what she had gathered and what she could carry.

The other reapers in the field were fascinated with the young woman. She worked hard only to return the next day.  She noticed the man from afar. He was watching her and she perceived he must be the owner of the field.

Boaz called one of the workers to himself. “Who is this woman who is gathering?”

“She is the young Moabite who came with Naomi from the country of Moab.”

Baoz was taken back by Ruth’s diligence in caring for Naomi. The servant in charge of the reapers said quickly. “She ask me to let her glean and gather

After the reap ers among the sheaves.” I told her, “Yes, it was the law and also I worked for a generous land owner.”

“Her name is Ruth, she has come back every morning until now and has rested little.”

Study Lesson 6 – Ruth 2:1-23

1.     How do you think Ruth found the field of a relative  to Elimelech? ________

2.     What does the field represent? ______________________________

3.     Who does Boaz represent? ____________________________

4.     How does the kingdom law protect us? Look at Ephesians 6:12-20

5.     Name the kingdom law from Matt 5,6,7 and expound on its principles.

           and how it protects the one who operates in its benefit?  _________

     6.  Don’t go to another field, why did Boaz instruct her about that? ____

     7. Stay by the other young women. What did Boaz have in mind? ________

8.     Boaz’s protect and wealth was put into Ruth. How do we line it up with the wealth we have in the Kingdom? ______________________________

     9. Study together the gifts. How does that work in us as the Church? _______