J Botha (9 May 2005)
"THE RUTH CHURCH"


Shalom in the wonderful name of Yahushua Messiah.
 
Visit the doves regularly to see what you are all thinking and dreaming and how God is moving and reproving us all at this time.   Would like to share what The Mighty One of Israel has taught us from the book of Ruth as we search for Truth and reason in a world gone mad in apostasy.
 
"Ruth is a prophecy, than which none could be more beautiful and engaging, of the entrance of the heathen world into the kingdom of God.   She comes forth out of Moab, an idolatrous people full of wantonness and sin, and is herself so tender and pure.   In a land where disolute sensuality formed one of the
elements of idol worship.   A woman appears, as wife and daughter, chaste as the rose of spring and unsurpassed in these relations by any other character in Holy Writ ... Ruth's confession of God and His people originated in the home of her married life.   It sprang from the love with which she was permitted to embrace Israelites  ... The conduct of one Isralitish woman (Naomi) in a foreign land, was able to call forth a love and a confession of God like that of Ruth .. Ruth loves a woman, and is thereby led to the God whom that woman confesses". (Lange's Commentary)
 
The Book of Ruth is a picture of "the church" being grafted in among them.   Both Naomi and Ruth were married to Israelite men and were both goyim or gentile brides very much like the church today we are redeemed and come into covenant with God through the Blood of Messiah being a people separated from Christ excluded from all part in Him; utterly estranged and outlawed from the rights of Israel as a nation, and strangers with no share in the sacred compacts of the Messianic promise - with no knowledge of or right in God's agreements, His covenants.   And you had no hope - no promise; you were in the world without God.  But now in Christ Jesus, you who once were so far away, through by,in the blood of Christ have been brought near. (Eph 2 :12 13)
 
Orpah was married to an Israelite (born again to Jesus) and Ruth aswell - Ruth chose to go with Naomi to the promised land even though it would cost her everything.
 
Much the same today - you have the church standing with Israel at this time and the church that is totally against her.
 
Therefore Wheat = Israel
Barley               = Goyim (gentiles)
 
Joel 3 sais - 1-3
"For, behold, in those days (today) and at that time, when I shall reverse the captivity and restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, I will gather all nations,and will
bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and there will I deal with and execute judgment upon them for their treatment of My people and of My heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and because they have divided My land. And they have cast lots for My people, and have given a boy for a harlot , and have sold a girl for wine, and have drunk it."
 
The Bride is Veiled - (for the sake of the goyim - how we should be grateful to the Jewish Nation who have written the very bible we read in Jewish Blood) - truly said "How odd of God to choose the Jew, But not so odd as those who choose The Jewish God and hate the Jew"!
 
Isaiah 25 from verse 6 sais "and on this Mount (Zion) shall the Lord of hosts make for all peoples a feast of rich things (Symbolical of His coronation festival inaugurating the reign of the Lord on earth, after the background of gloom, judgment and terror), a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.   And He will destroy on this mountain the covering of the face that is cast over the head of all people in mourning, and the veil of profound wretchedness that is woven and spread over all nations   He will swallow up death in victory - He will abolish death forever; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces; and reproach of His people He will take away from off the earth; for the Lord has spoken it.   It shall be said in that day, Behold our God upon Whom we have waited and hoped that He might save us! This is the Lord; we have waited for Him, we will be glad and rejoice in His salvation.
 
Blessings to all -
J Botha