Season 10 • Episode 4 Ruth 2 • Acts 10

The Outsider's Harvest

Story Time: Ruth in the Bethlehem Wheat Fields, Boaz's Favor & The Gentile Pentecost

Boaz welcomes Moabite outcast Ruth to his harvest table, foreshadowing the Holy Spirit falling on Gentile outsiders.

Theme Verse (Ruth 2:2): “And Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, 'Let me go to the field and glean among the ears of grain after him in whose sight I shall find favor.' And she said to her, 'Go, my daughter.'”

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Ruth in the Bethlehem Wheat Fields, Boaz's Favor & The Gentile Pentecost

Main Characters in S10E4 (4)

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Simon Peter

The Galilean fisherman who panicked in the storm, pulled back his feet in the Upper Room, and was transformed by the Pentecost fire to preach 3,000 souls into the Kingdom and open the door to the Gentiles.

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Ruth the Moabite

The widowed Moabite outsider who clung to Naomi declaring 'Your people shall be my people, and your God my God,' gleaned in the margins of Bethlehem's harvest field, was redeemed by Boaz, and became great-grandmother to King David in the line of Christ.

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Boaz of Bethlehem

Son of Salmon and Rahab, worthy lord of the harvest in Bethlehem, and Kinsman-Redeemer (Goel) who spread his garment over Ruth the Moabite, paid the price at the city gate, and fathered Obed in the Messianic line.

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Naomi

The Bethlehemite mother-in-law of Ruth who went out to Moab full and returned home empty calling herself 'Mara' — until God used Ruth's loyalty and Boaz's redemption to place baby Obed in her arms.

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Cornelius the Centurion

God-fearing Roman centurion in Caesarea whose prayers and alms ascended before God — and upon whose Gentile household the Pentecost Holy Spirit fell while Peter was still preaching.

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Original Greek & Hebrew Root Words in S10E4

Greek • G3875

Parakletos — “Comforter / Advocate”

Literally 'one called alongside to help'—an Advocate, Intercessor, Counselor, and Comforter who stands with us.

Hebrew • H1350

Goel — “Kinsman-Redeemer”

A near male relative with the legal right and duty to rescue a family member from poverty, debt slavery, or widowhood.

Hebrew • H6285

Pe'ah — “Gleaning the Corners”

The Leviticus 23 law requiring landowners to leave the edges and corners of their harvest fields uncut for the poor and the foreigner.