From Famine to Fullness: The Gospel According to Ruth (Gospel According to the Old Testament)

God does not abandon us to our sin or the effects of other people’s choices. He has acted in Jesus Christ to save you from your sin and to redeem his creation.

God does not enter into relationship with us to give everything that we think we want. He draws us to himself that we might find security, contentment, peace, and joy in him. To get us to that point, he sometimes uses difficult times to show us our dependence. He may use the consequences of our sin or of somebody else’s sin. He may use hardship tha

Perhaps, because of the theologically aberrant climate of the judges period,

Naomi’s theology had apparently become eclectic in Moab.

They would conceivably fare better under the care of the Moabite deity, Chemosh.

Orpah and Ruth should distance themselves from Naomi lest they continue to experience the disfavor of God because of their association with this spiritual pariah.

they were being unavoidably and adversely affected by the outpouring of God’s disfavor on their mother-in-law.

First, in verse 13 Naomi concluded that her present circumstances betrayed Yahweh’s adversarial stance toward her: “It is more bitter for me than for you, because the LORD’s hand has gone out against me!”