“Boaz said to Rut, ‘Did you hear that, my daughter? Don’t go to glean in another field, don’t leave this place, but stick here with my working girls'”-Ruth 2:6-8
There’s one misconception about Boaz we need to put to rest.
He was NOT some dashing young prince riding to the rescue of a lovely damsel in distress as seems to be the all too common perception.
Boaz was an old dude.
We can see evidence of this in verse 8 when he says to Ruth…
“Did you hear that my daughter?”
To address someone as daughter in those days was how an elder addressed a much younger person.
“My daughter” obviously didn’t mean his daughter nor did it imply a family connection.
We can also see that Boaz had the heart of a loving father when he offered Ruth the chance to glean in his field full time.
This was huge because it meant she wouldn’t have to jump around from one field to another in order to survive.
Ruth could have been working there for a couple of months when Boaz approached her.
Another thing we know is she arrived during the barley harvest.
Since the wheat harvest normally started at the end of the barley harvest, fresh crops were available to be gleaned.
Now do you recall what the beginning of the barley harvest signifies?
It signifies the kick off of the biblical feast of BIKKURIM, otherwise known as Firstfruits.
And do you know what Firstfruits signifies?
It represents a FRESH START.
It also happened to be the time when Yeshua was resurrected from the dead…
Firstfruits also occurs during the same period of Passover and the Feast of Matzah with Shavuot (Pentecost) arriving 7 weeks later.
As I’ve said before, in God’s universe NOTHING is coincidental.
Ruth is about to experience a FRESH new start in her life…
Or another way to put it, she’s about to be resurrected from the hopelessness of her past life to a new life with Yehovah and His People.
The takeaway is of course the Lord will do the same for you when TRUST and SURRENDER to Him.
Over and out.
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