Welcome to the 10 Minute Bible Hour Podcast.

Right now we're going through the entire Bible to understand it as one big cohesive story.

We're covering one book each day, and this one is about Ruth.

Hey my friends, it's Matt, this is the 10 Minute Bible Hour Podcast.

I don't remember who assigned it to me, but I had to read a book somewhere when I was

in school called El amor en los tiempos de cholera.

Love in the time of cholera, it's by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, I think a Colombian author.

I don't remember everything about the story, other than it's a very complex love story about

attention, not just between people, but it's also about attention between eras.

This romantic era of your, you know, maybe setting that 19th century and looking backwards,

coming into conflict with a new era, the era of modernity and progress.

And as you can tell by the very compelling title, it's a story about very complicated

love in very difficult times.

This beautiful thing set against the backdrop of this very ugly thing.

That's kind of what you get with Ruth, except I like the love story more in Ruth.

The opening line of the book of Ruth is in the days when the judges ruled that there

was a famine in the land and a man, it goes on to talk about some plot stuff.

We're going to talk about here in just a minute, but it sets it in the age of the judges.

Were you here yesterday when we talked about the judges?

If you were, you might remember that that was not a happy time.

It was worse than cholera, I don't know, I've never had cholera.

I'm guessing it was worse than cholera.

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