The shoe and the unnamed kinsman<title> <meta name="description" content="The relation between Ruth Boaz and oursleves in Christ"> <meta name="keywords" content="Bob, Neumann, kinsman, Lord, Ruth, Naomi, Boaz"> <style>  </style> </head> <body lang=EN-US> <div class=Section1> <p align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>THE SHOE AND THE UNNAMED KINSMAN</span></p> <p> Sometimes when you read a passage of scripture you are looking at the retelling of an event 3000 years old from a modern point of view. Sometimes it just does</p> <p><span class=GramE>not</span> work. Take the passage in Ruth 4...4. <span class=SpellE>Rth</span> 4:4 And I thought to advertise thee, saying, Buy [it] before the inhabitants, and before the elders of my people. If thou wilt redeem [it], redeem [it]: but if thou wilt not redeem [it, then] tell me, that I may know: for [there is] none to redeem [it] beside thee; and I [am] after thee. And he said<span class=GramE>,</span> I will redeem [it].</p> <p>Sometimes there is a job to <span class=GramE>do,</span> and the one who should have been fast and ready to do it....doesn't. <span class=GramE>For whatever reason.</span> A long time ago THE LORD said to me <span class=SpellE>i</span></p> <p><span class=GramE>had</span> not been HIS FIRST CHOICE....sort of humbling if yah think about it. But then <span class=SpellE>i</span> had a choice, whether I would be THE LAST HE WOULD ASK.</p> <p><span class=SpellE>Rth</span> 4:5 Then said Boaz, What day thou <span class=SpellE>buyest</span> the field of the hand of Naomi, thou must buy [it] also of Ruth the <span class=SpellE>Moabitess</span>, the wife of the dead, to raise up the</p> <p><span class=GramE>name</span> of the dead upon his inheritance. </p> <p><span class=SpellE>Rth</span> 4:6 <span class=GramE>And</span> the kinsman said, I cannot redeem [it] for myself, lest I mar mine own inheritance: redeem thou my right to thyself; for I cannot redeem [it].</p> <p>His own <span class=GramE>inheritance....ponder</span> it a moment....he said "MAR". <span class=GramE>As in permanently being marked or perverted.</span> In Hebrew "<span class=SpellE>shachath</span>"....basically being <span class=SpellE>acursed</span>. So why would anyone bother REDEEMING a PAGAN WOMAN?</p> <p><span class=SpellE>Rth</span> 4:7 Now this [was the manner] in former time in <st1:country-region w:st="on"> <st1:place w:st="on"> Israel</st1:country-region> concerning redeeming and concerning changing, for to confirm all things; a man plucked off his shoe,</p> <p><span class=GramE>and</span> gave [it] to his <span class=SpellE>neighbour</span>: and this [was] a testimony in <st1:place w:st="on"> <st1:country-region w:st="on">Israel</st1:country-region> .</p> <p><span class=GramE>Sort of being willing to WALK IN SOMEONE ELSE'S SHOES.</span> </p> <p><span class=SpellE>Rth</span> 4:8 Therefore the kinsman said unto Boaz, Buy [it] for thee. So he drew off his shoe.</p> <p><span class=SpellE>Rth</span> 4:9 And Boaz said unto the elders, and [unto] all the people, <span class=GramE>Ye</span> [are] witnesses this day, that I have bought all that [was] <span class=SpellE>Elimelech's</span>, and all that [was]</p> <p><span class=SpellE><span class=GramE>Chilion's</span></span><span class=GramE> and <span class=SpellE>Mahlon's</span>, of the hand of Naomi.</span></p> <p><span class=SpellE>Rth</span> 4:10 Moreover Ruth the <span class=SpellE>Moabitess</span>, the wife of <span class=SpellE>Mahlon</span>, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the</p> <p><span class=GramE>name</span> of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his place: ye [are] witnesses this day.</p> <p>Old Boaz made sure everyone knew what was being done. But then we get a flashback to another PAGAN WIFE.... </p> <p><span class=SpellE>Rth</span> 4:11 <span class=GramE>And</span> all the people that [were] in the gate, and the elders, said, [We are] witnesses. The LORD <span class=GramE>make</span> the woman that is come into <span class=SpellE>thine</span> house like</p> <p>Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of <st1:country-region w:st="on">Israel</st1:country-region> : and do thou worthily in <span class=SpellE>Ephratah</span>, and be famous in <st1:place w:st="on"> <st1:City w:st="on"> Bethlehem:</p> <p><span class=SpellE>Rth</span> 4:12 <span class=GramE>And</span> let thy house be like the house of <span class=SpellE>Pharez</span>, whom Tamar bare unto <st1:country-region w:st="on"> <st1:place w:st="on"> Judah</st1:country-region> , of the seed which the LORD shall give thee of this young woman.</p> <p>Tamar had to trick <st1:country-region w:st="on"> <st1:place w:st="on"> Judah</st1:country-region> to do his duty. Boaz chose to do his duty...</p> <p><span class=SpellE>Rth</span> 4:14 And the women said unto Naomi, Blessed [be] the LORD, which hath not left thee this day without a kinsman, that his name may be famous in <st1:country-region w:st="on"> <st1:place w:st="on"> Israel</st1:country-region> .</p> <p><span class=SpellE>Rth</span> 4:15 <span class=GramE>And</span> he shall be unto thee a restorer of [thy] life, and a <span class=SpellE>nourisher</span> of <span class=SpellE>thine</span> old age: for thy daughter in law, which <span class=SpellE>loveth</span> thee, which is better to</p> <p><span class=GramE>thee</span> than seven sons, hath born him.</p> <p>So we got a KINSMAN WHO WOULD REDEEM US.</p> <p><span class=GramE>as</span> for redeeming the "time"...? <span class=GramE>something</span> to think on </p> <p>Eph 5:14 <span class=GramE>Wherefore</span> he <span class=SpellE>saith</span>, Awake thou that <span class=SpellE>sleepest</span>, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.</p> <p>Eph 5:15 See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,</p> <p><span class=GramE>Eph 5:16 Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.</span></p> <p>Eph 5:17 <span class=GramE>Wherefore</span> be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord [is].</p> <p>Eph 5:18 <span class=GramE>And</span> be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;</p> <p>Eph 5:19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;</p> <p>Eph 5:20 Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;</p> <p><span class=GramE>Eph 5:21 Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.</span></p> <p> <st1:place w:st="on"> <st1:State w:st="on"> Col 4:2 Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;</p> <p> <st1:place w:st="on"> <st1:State w:st="on"> Col 4:3 <span class=GramE>Withal</span> praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds:</p> <p> <st1:place w:st="on"> <st1:State w:st="on"> Col 4:4 <span class=GramE>That</span> I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak.</p> <p> <st1:place w:st="on"> <st1:State w:st="on"> Col 4:5 Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.</p> <p> <st1:place w:st="on"> <st1:State w:st="on"> Col 4:6 Let your speech [be] <span class=SpellE>alway</span> with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.</p> <p><span class=SpellE><span class=GramE>selah</span></span></p> <p><span class=SpellE><span class=GramE>olddog</span></span></p> <p align="center"><font color="#000000"><a href="neumann face plate.html">Back to Neumann Prophetic Words </a></font></p> </div> </body> </html>