The Book of Ruth – God’s Redemptive Plan for National Israel

The Book of Ruth best lays the overview of God’s redemptive plan for Israel. Naomi is the type of Israel, Ruth the Moabite Gentile and her daughter-in-law as a type of the Church, and Boaz the Israelite Kinsman Redeemer as a type of Jesus. Naomi is left husbandless and has no hope without a kinsman redeemer, just as unfaithful Israel is left husbandless when given a writ of divorce by God (Jer. 3:8).

But, Ruth the Gentile by faith declares to Naomi that “where you go, I will go, and where you sleep, I will sleep. Your people shall be my people, and your God, my God. Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD do so to me, and worse, if anything but death separates me from you.” It is through Ruth’s faithfulness to Naomi, and Israel’s God, that God brings about Naomi’s restoration through the law of the Kinsman redeemer (Leviticus 25:25).

When Boaz, Naomi’s Israelite kinsman takes Ruth the Gentile as his bride, Boaz redeems Naomi, and restores her inheritance in God’s eternal covenants.

In the same way, national Israel has been husbandless all these years because of her unfaithfulness, and rejection of her Messianic King, Yeshua, and therefore has been subject to the curses of the Law, persecution, bitterness, and scattering.

But God’s eternal covenants to Israel have yet to be fulfilled, and the process of fulfillment has already begun with Christ Jesus’ death, resurrection, ascenscion, and coming return.

God has already begun the regathering of national Israel into the land of covenant, and through the marriage of the Israelite Kinsman Redeemer and the Church (the remnant of believing Israel & believing Gentiles), will restore national Israel to her inheritance and fulfillment of all the eternal covenants of God.