RUTH:
EVIDENCE OF BIBLE INSPIRATION
In
Genesis 19:30-38 the daughters of Abraham’s nephew, Lot, got him drunk and had
children by him who became the tribes of Moab and Ammon.
In
Deuteronomy 23:3 Ammonites and Moabites were forbidden to join with Israelites for
ten generations.
Deut 23:3 An Ammonite or Moabite shall
not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to their tenth generation
shall they not enter into the congregation of the LORD for ever.
In
the book of Ruth a man of Judah, Elimelech, allowed his two sons to marry
Moabite women (Ruth 1). After Elimelech and his two sons had died in Moab,
Naomi, Elimelech’s wife, brought the Moabite woman, Ruth, back to Judah where
she re-married Boaz. Ruth became the mother of Obed, the father of Jesse, the father
of David and a descendant of Jesus Christ (Ruth 4:17).
Why
was this allowed? The genealogy of Jesus in Matthew lists exactly ten (10)
generations before Boaz from Abraham: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Judah, Pharez,
Ezrom, Aram, Abinadab, Nasson, Salmon (who married the harlot Rahab of Jericho)
and Boaz.
It
is hard to believe that Bible writers deliberately manipulated these names in
order to justify allowing a Moabite back into the fellowship of Israel – much
less into the genealogy of King David.
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