CHRISTIAN LOVE IN ACTION

The book of Ruth, Author, Samuel. Only four Chapters, but a great deal of  help full Information: for Christian Women  of today, are found in  the book of  Ruth. Whose virtues and godliness, in the face of testing and adversity. Her purity, humility, honesty, and fidelity should be a example to all Christian women. And  Boaz, for the Christian Man. A model of god given Strength, honor and Compassion and Encouragement for the believing Man; this is the way to go. The kindness of Boaz, to word Ruth the Moabite, a widow and childless, Boaz married her and she bore a son who became the grand father of Judah’s greatest King David who Conquered Moab. The Union of Boaz the Hebrew and Ruth the Moabites became the Avenue; of God gracious purpose. In relations to the whole message of the Scriptures: The genealogy of King David. Whose line the promise of a Savior was given; the Inclusion of the Moabite ancestress, meaning the Savior is not only for the Children of Israel but for the whole Human Race.

Ruth 1: Elimeleck and Naomi  had two sons, Mahlon and Chilion, there was a famine in there Land. They came from Beth- lehem-judah and went to live in Land of Moab with there sons. Elimeleck died after a while; and the two Sons took wife’s from the women of Moab; Orpah and Ruth. After about ten years the the Sons died also. Naomi was not please with God at all. But even though she was angry, she want to go back home, she heard that the famine was over, so she called  her two daughters in law and told them to Return  to there mothers house; she spoke kindly to  them and kissed them, and bid them good by. Both, lift up there voice and cry, Then Orpah leave; but Ruth said to Naomi Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee, for where thou goest I will go and where thou lodgest, I will lodge.your people will be my people will be my people, and your God my God. Where thou diest I will die, and where thou berried; there will I be berried. When she could not persuade her, to change her mind and   stop speaking.

So they both went un till they came to Bethlehem, when the people saw her,they said is this Naomi? she said don’t call me Naomi; call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me. I went a way full, and came back Empty: Ruth 2: Boaz was a wealthy Man, of the family of Elimelech; Naomi’s husband, Ruth say to Naomi, let me go to the field and get some food, she said go. [In those days when the reapers go through the field and reap the first crop the poor could go behind them and reap for them self, also what fall on the ground they could pick them up.]God directed her to the field of Boaz; He came in from Bethlehem; Boaz great the Reapers,The Lord Bless you: and the said the Lord bless thee. When he saw Ruth he said; to the Servants who is this? they said she is the Damsel that came back with Naomi. Boaz said to the Reapers, let some fall to the Ground for her. Ruth said to Boaz, I pray thee let  me   glean in your field, among the Sheaves.

Boaz said to Ruth, don’t go to another field; stay here with my maidens. Ruth said why do I fiend grace in your Eyes seeing I am not one of you?  Boaz said because you have have been good to your dead husband and your Mother in law: The Lord Recompence your work. When she went home,Naomi said, where did you glean today? Ruth told her; Boaz field, She said to Ruth He is a Near Kings Man. Wash your self and anoint thy self and put on your Raiment; and go down to the threshingfloor to night. Ruth did all that her Mother in law told her to do. So Boaz said I am a near Kings Man: but there is  another before me. So Boaz took Ten Men of the Elders; and said to the Man; Naomi has a parcle of Land for sale; would you like to buy it since you are a near Kings Man, he said he would buy it. Boaz said on the Day you Redeem this field you must all so redeem Ruth The Moabites the dead Man wife to raise up the name for the Man Inheritance according to the law. He said; I cannot redeem it. The Man took off his shoe and give it to Boaz and said you redeem it. Boaz took Ruth as his wife, they had a Son and called  his name Obed.King David Grandfather. Ruth4:9-22

NIALED TO the GROUND BY A WOMAN

Judges author may be Samuel, This book tells 0f the failure of the children of Israel to maintain the high spiritual Standard,handed down by Moses and Joshua. They not only failed to conquer the Land of Canaan; as God said: but they also fell into idolatry and sinful practices, of the Canaanites. there growing disobedience brought oppression on them self, Judges 2: 7, The people served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the Elders that out lived Joshua, who has seen all the great works of the Lord. The newest generation, did evil in the sight of the Lord. After Joshua died, they forsook the Lord; and serve Baal, and Ashtaroth. In those  days there was no King in Israel; Every one does what was right in there one eyes. The Lord raised up Judges, After the Judges died, the people return to there corrupted and Stubborn way.

After serving false god, and give there daughters to the  Hittites, Amorites,  Preizzites,  Hivites, and the jebusites, and took there daughters for wifes, and served Baal and the groves. They were sold into the hand of Chushan, King of Mesopotamia: they cried unto the Lord, and the Lord give them Othniel,  he was there Judge ,for forty years they had restfrom there trubbles; then he died. Over and Over, they sinned, they were punished, they cried to God   He forgave them. As they served  Eglon the King of Moab for Eighteen yours, Ehud,the son of Gera made him self a dagger, end the life of Eglon.  Judges 3: 12-26, after Ehud died, there was Deborah, the prophetess.then Barak, he fight against Sisera, he ran  and came tothe house of Jael; the wife of Heberthe Kenite. Jael met him, and said come in,  fear not; he went in and ask for a drink of water, she gave him a glass of milk and covered him.

He gets comfortable and ask her to stand at the door and let no one in. Then Jael Heber’s wife Took a Nail of the tent and smote it in the Ear of his temple and fastened it to the ground; so he died there that day. Then you have Samson the feast, and  the Riddle. Samson was a hero of   Israel, his life was a Lesson of Tragedy, of self  will. His marrige was   a Violation of the Law. God bring out the good, according to His purpose and for Israel sake. most of his life he fall short of God Standard.His life is a warning of the danger of self indulgence. Ch. 6: 12, The Angel of the Lord appeared to Gideon, and said the Lord is with thee thou mighty man of valour. He said to the Angel, Oh my Lord; if the Lord is with us,  why then is all this befallen us? where is all His Miracles which our father told us a bout.  When the Angel said peace be with thee;  fear not; you will not   die. he built on alter unto the Lord.  22- 28, Gideon ask for sign 36-40, God gave him signs. the people were pleased with his rule   God work through Gideon untill his death in Ch. 8: 33-35,

THE SUN STAND STILL

The book of Joshua, He is the author of most of this book. After the death of Moses, Joshua took over to lead the people to the promise Land. God said to Joshua, Moses my servant is dead; arise go over this Jordan, thou and all this people. No one shall stand in your way, as  was with Moses, I will be with you. Be strong and of a good courage, for unto this people shall thou divide for an inheritance. only be thou strong and very courageous,  that they observe to do according to all the law, which Moses commanded thee. And Joshua send out spy secretly,saying go and spy out the land,even to Jericho, and they went and came to Rahab the harlel’s house, and the king was told; and he send Men to Rahab’s house saying, bring the Men that came to  your house, because they are spies, they came to search out the country, she told the men, that the two Men that came to her house left, go quickly she said, you might over take them the men left at her saying.

She hid the men on the roof till it was dark, and the gate closed. she said to the two spies, I know that the Lord hath given you the Land; and that terror is fallen upon us, and the inhabitants of the Land faint because of you. for we heard how the Lord your God; dried up the water, of the Red Sea for you; when you came out of Egept. and when we heard it, our hearts did melt; neither was any courage remain in us , because of you. The Lord your God He is God, in Heaven above, and in Earth beneath. Joshua 2:4-20, Now I pray that you show kindness, to  me and my father’s house. so they said when we come into the Land thou shall bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which you let us down with. And you shall bring your Father,  your mother, and thy brethren, and all your fathers house to your home.

Joshua 6: The Lord said unto Joshua, see I have given Jericho in your hand; you shall compass the city, all the men of war; and go round about the city once. thou shall do this six days.on the  seventh day the  priests shall bear before thee the Ark, seven trumpets, of Ram’s horn: on the seventh day you shall compass the city seven times, and the priest shall blow with the trumpets.6: 20, so the people shouted when the priest blew with the trumpets:they shout with a great shout. And the walls of Jericho fell down flat, the people took the city, and save Rahab and all her fathers house. 7: 19 -26  Achan and his house hold, was stoned to death for stealing. you connot serve God in your heart if you are serving strange god. 24: 28- 29, so Joshua let all the people depart to there inheritance. so Joshua the son of Nun  the servant of  the  Lord died; being one hundred and ten years old. and they buried him.

I AM THE LORD YOUR GOD WHICH BRUUGHT YOU OUT OF THE LAND OF EGEPT

Deuteronomy, the last of five books Moses wrote, it summarize   and bring out the message in the other four books. Events which have been given in Exodus, and Numbers, were summarize, in Deuteronomy. A lot of Spiritual lesson relates, to there walk with God.  After Thirty eight Years in the Wilderness, Moses gather the people to gather, and speak to them. a bout obedience, and that the Lord is one God. And He punishes disobedient and Transgressions.Joshua is selected as the successor to Moses and to  lead the people to the Land of Canaan. in 31: Moses give encouragement to the people. He told them that he was one hundred and twenty  years now, he can no more go out and come in: also the Lord told him that he could not go in over this Jordan. The Lord thy God will go with You, and Joshua, he shall go over before you as the Lord said. be strong and be of good courage, do not be afraid. the Lord will not fail you.

Then Moses called Joshua, and said unto him, before the people, be Strong and of good courage: for thou must go with the people, unto the Land which the Lord hath sworn unto your Fathers to give them; and thou shalt cause them to inherit it. And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it to the priests the son of Levi, which bare the Ark of the covenant of the Lord.  Deuteronomy records Moses final words to the People, he offers his blessings to the Multitude  and prepare them to enter the promised Land. Now forty years have passed since God handed down his laws on mount Sinai, so the new Generation was reminded of there Journey, and the disobedience of there four Fathers. When they fail to thrust God. So Moses died been  one hundred and twenty years old. and God buried him, in the valley in the land of Moab; no man new where his Sepulchre is. And they mourn for Moses, the servant of God, thirty days, 34: 5-6,

  some  of Moses last words say there is none like unto God of Jeshurum, who rideth upon the heaven, and  in His Excellency on the sky. The eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are His Everlasting arms.Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hand upon him: there was no prophet in Israel like Moses.whom the Lord knew faces to face. God promise was directed to the descendants  of Abraham it is a covenant Relationship, a people redeem from slavery and bound to God by covenant  who needed some guide lines, for a life of fellowship with God, and one another. God is the rock His work is perfect. A God of truth, and without iniquity, just and right is He.

WATER FROM THE ROCK.

The book of Numbers described years of Wondering in the Wilderness, which required  years of Special  Divine provision of food and water.God is presented as Sovereign,Who Demands Absolute Obedience to His Holy Will.He choose to deal with Men through Mediators. Numbers,9: 11- 14, when they eat the passover, 20: 7-15 When the people drank water from the rock. 12: 1-16, when Miriam and Aaron, Spoke against the Ethiopian woman, because he Married to her. God was despleased with them, and said, here now My Words: If there be a prophet among you, I the Lord will make MY SELF known unto him in a vision, and will speak to him in a dream. MY Servant Moses is not so who is faith full in all mine house. I Spoke to him Mouth, to Mouth. God departed from them, and Miriam, became a Leprous, Aaron said we have done foolishly, We have sinned, Moses prayed for her, she was healed he command that she was to be shut a way for seven days from the Camp. After which the ten tribe start on there Journey again, with Miriam and the people to the wilderness of Paran

The Lord spoke to Moses, saying every tribe should send a man, to spy out the Land of Canaan. ten men went two came back with good report while eight came back with evil report.  Moses, we came to the Land where you send us, and surely the Land is flowing with milk and honey, and these large grapes that we brought here. But Moses there are big Giants in the Land, great big Giants. when we saw them we were like grasshoppers in our own Sight, and we were the same in there sight. 14:1, And all the congregation with one voice,started to cry,and they  wept and murmured against Moses and Aaron.  Joshua and Caleb said if the Lord delight in us, then He will Bring us into the Land, and give it to us. Its a Land that floweth with milk and honey. Only do not rebel against the Lord. Moses ask God to forgive the people, God said I have pardon according to your word:

But as truly as I live, because those men have seen My Glory and My Miracles, which I did in EGEPT, and in the wilderness, and they have not hearkened to my voice, they will not see the Land. Only Caleb and Joshua, And All the Children twenty years and younger, will I bring into the land. All the others over twenty years old  shall wonder in the wilderness for forty years,untill all died there, because they rebelled against the Lord.  Balaam,  and the   Talking   Donkey.  Numbers 22The people of the old Testiment believe in Curses and blessings, Balak and the Moabites wanted the Sorcerer Balaam   to curse the Israelites, and halt there progess into Canaan. God Intervene and try to stop Balaam, he was determine to go,so God allow him to go, but God was not please so God turn the cursing into blessing, but on his way, the Angel of the Lord stood in the way with drawn Sword in his hand     God open the eyes of the Donkey, and the Donkey turn a side because he saw the Angel and Balaam’s foot crushed against   the wall. 

Balaam was angry, he hit the Donkey, and the donkey said to Balaam; why have you smote me these three times? and Balaam said to the horse because you have mock me. The Horse said to Balaam am I not your horse, upon which you have Ridden. Then the Lord open Balaam Eyes, and he saw the Angel of the Lord standing there with drawn sword in his hand. and the Angel of the lord said, if the horse did not turn I would have Slain thee, and save the horse life. Balaam said I have sinned. I will go back. The Angel said go with them: but only Speak what I shall say to thee. And on the Marrow, that Balak took Balaam into the high places and Build seven alters, and prepare seven oxen, and bullock and Ram. And God met Balaam’s mouth, So God turn the cursing of the people into blessing. Balaam said to Balak, I cannot  reverse it.