Ruth II
Obed fathered Jesse, and Jesse fathered David. (Ruth 4:22 ESV)
Ancestors
The Bible is a book of stories. True stories. Delightful stories. Profound stories. Valuable stories. Important stories. Scary stories. Artful stories. Necessary stories.
And every one of them is about Jesus Christ, the Messiah of God’s people.
This is demonstrated here in the book of Ruth. Sure, it is a love story. Sure, it is a story of familiar nobility. Sure, it is a story of obedience. Sure, it is a story of hope fulfilled.
But mostly, it is a story of the ancestral line of the Messiah.
Ruth was the ancestor of David. Who was the ancestor of Jesus.
And we are adopted into that same family.