WELCOME TO THE MESSIANIC REVOLUTION

So now that we have a solid grasp of how the laws governing land inheritance in Israel worked, one thing should be pretty crystal clear at this point in our study of Ruth Chapter Four. Naomi did NOT legally possess the land that Boaz and the other redeemer were bargaining over. This point should be […]

No Hebrew ever “owned” land the way we think about land ownership today in the West. Let me share with you a common legal term in the Western world concerning land ownership. It is “Fee Simple”. This real estate term describes a landowner’s complete and total ownership of a piece of land and all properties […]

In order to gain an in depth understanding of what’s happening not only in Ruth Chapter 4 but the entire Bible, there’s one thing about ancient Israel you’ve got to understand. Land was EVERYTHING to them. This shouldn’t come as a surprise because Israel was an agricultural-based society. But it went further than that. The […]

We’re now attempting to discern what was really going on among the Jewish Israelites who were bargaining at the city gates about what to do with Naomi’s land. I remind you if we’re gonna have any hope this side of heaven of being able to correctly understand these passages, we’ve gotta COMPLETELY divorce ourselves from […]

I’ve been working in Japan in the recruiting industry for close to 16 years now. And I’ll never forget the time I was interviewing a Japanese engineering professional who had spent several years working in Israel. During our conversation, he said something I’ll never forget. It went something like this: “The Israelis don’t think like […]