Good Morning Gorgeous,
It’s a brand new day! A fresh, new start!!! A new day to grow in our knowledge and revelation of Jesus Christ!
Friends, these blog posts on the Names of Jesus have been so revelatory to me.
I have learned so so much digging into the scriptures and learning His Names. My soul feels re energized, my faith feels strengthened, and my spirit feels His Power and Might.
Today, I am going to share Jesus: Our Redeemer with the story of Boaz and Ruth.
And tomorrow the post will be the continuation of the story of Boaz and Ruth as we look to Jesus as the Bridegroom.
These two Names of Jesus are intertwined and related through the story of Boaz and Ruth.
A quick synopsis of the story. The story begins with Ruth’s mother-in- law Naomi and the death of her two sons: Ruth’s husband and also her other son. Women who had been widowed were left vulnerable and without provision unless they remarried or were cared for by their son or other family members. Naomi had no sons left and her daughter in laws had no children. So, she gathered her two daughter in laws together and tearfully released them to go back to their homelands and remarry and she was going to return back to her homeland as well. You can tell there is love between them. One agrees and goes home. And the other is Ruth. She declares full loyalty to her mother in law even though it means she is giving up her chance of a good future. She tells Naomi that wherever she goes, she will go too. She declares that she will join her people and serve her God.

Ruth is not Jewish by heritage, so as she chooses to return with Naomi to her people, it also means that she will be an outsider as well. Ruth is choosing a very difficult life to remain with Naomi..
They head back to Naomi’s homeland and Ruth provides for Naomi by picking barley from the leftovers in Boaz’s field. He takes notice of her and protects her by telling his workers to leave her alone and not harm her as well as to let her continue to glean the fields as much as she wants to. He even instructs them to leave some barley that is easy for her to collect.
And then, through a series of events orchestrated by Naomi, Ruth goes to Boaz and tells him that he is a guardian redeemer to their family.

In those days that meant that Boaz had the right to all of the property of his relative, but to redeem or save it, he also had to take Ruth to be his wife. Which he did willingly and gladly!
He turned Ruth and Naomi’s sorrow into joy when Ruth had a son. And that son was part of the genealogy of Jesus.
To redeem is to pay the price for someone, to restore them, to pay a ransom, or to pay off a debt for someone
Boaz was Ruth’s guardian redeemer because based on Levitical law, the close relative of a deceased man was responsible to pay off all debt to buy back his property as well as receive the man’s widow as his wife so that she would be restored to protection and provision.
The marriage was a new covenant. Boaz redeemed Ruth and restored her dreams as well as those of her mother in law, Naomi.
These two women were destitute, without a family, without provision other than collecting leftovers in the field, and without any children. Boaz redeemed them by marrying Ruth who was a foreigner from the land of Moab.
This was a huge redemption! Through marriage, he grafted her into the Jewish faith AND the lineage of Jesus. She becomes the mother of Obed, and her grandson is Jesse, and her great grandson is King David!!! And, through the lineage of King David, Jesus came!
God used Ruth, a foreign woman, not a Jew to be the great grandmother of David and ultimately in the genealogy of Jesus Christ!
How beautiful is God’s ability to redeem hope when all seems lost.
To redeem and revive lost dreams.
To redeem and revive relationships.
To redeem your story!!!

Ruth had lost everything when her husband died. Whatever land he owned was lost. Any dream of having a new husband was lost when she didn’t return to her own homeland, because for a Jewish man to marry her in that culture was rare. Her first husband was Jewish, but he was living in the land of Moab. Now she was in the Jewish territory of Bethlehem She didn’t fit in. She didn’t belong, and the culture was difficult for foreigners.
But God.
And how amazing is it that she bore a son in Bethlehem, and then many, many generations later another son was born in Bethlehem as well!

Our guardian redeemer was born in that same town of Bethlehem! Our redeemer who would save us from our sins, pay our debt in full, redeem earth by canceling the curse against it, and restore humanity back to original design.

Jesus has redeemed you and me. He has paid our price and restored us. He removed our shame and sorrow and has given us joy in it’s place.

We now have a hope and future in Christ. The Lord has goood plans for us.
When you put your faith in Jesus Christ, you are redeemed. Jesus pays the price to redeem you back.
God has redeemed your story!
Redeemed your past.
Redeemed the trauma.
Redeemed your life and has snatched you from the plans of the enemy and bought you back at a high price so that you can live life and life abundantly!
AND
There is a wedding feast in store for us!!!
Just as Boaz redeemed Ruth by paying the price for her property and redeemed her story by marrying her for all to see. He elevated her status from widow and foreigner to wife, mother, and sealed into the Jewish faith. He saved her and then celebrated her!
Tomorrow’s blog post will be Jesus as bridegroom and we will look at the scriptures about the amazing things ahead for those who love Jesus and have placed their trust in Him!
Dear Heavenly Father,
Your plans are perfect and so beautiful. Thank You Lord that You can redeem anything that we lay down and surrender to You. Thank You Lord for paying the highest price to redeem us from the bomdages of death, sin, and condemnation. That You made a way when it seemed there was no way. Thank You Lord for choosing us and re writing our story to reflect Your perfect plans for us! Thank You for Your goodness, abundance, peace, joy, and the power of the Holy Spirit! Let us remember this Christmas that You came to earth from heaven to redeem us once and forever.
In Jesus’s Name,
Amen.
Blessings and revelation of your redemption through Christ,
Vanessa Lynn
