Ruth and Boaz, Odd Couple / God Couple
Boaz and Ruth, Rembrandt - 1643 Is the Book of Ruth about a romance or a marriage of convenience? I think it's more of an arrangement that turns into a romance. Maybe. But that’s the wrong question. The right question is "why do they matter?" Their union is the two poles of the faith of Israel. It blends Ruth’s personal relationship with God, and her personal choice to follow God, so well known here… where you go, I will go, and where you lodge, I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God, my God. Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. Thus may the LORD do to me, and worse, if anything but death parts you and me.” Ruth 1:16-17 …complimented and completed in the Boaz’s adherence to the traditions, laws, and enduring principles of scripture. Their marriage results in the start of the line of King David and Yeshua the Messiah. That is not a quirk of fate. The setting Like the story of the "Akeidah...