Hey guys, my name is Johnny Ardavanus, and this is Dial-in.

In this episode, we continue our series through the Book of Ruth

and look at the second chapter of this wonderful Old Testament story.

If you haven't already listened to the first couple episodes of the series,

I would encourage you to go back and do that now

as the introduction to this book sets the stage for all that God is going to do.

For everyone else, let's dial in.

Now remember, in chapter one, we witnessed the Crossroads conversation with Naomi and her two

daughter-in-laws. They had each experienced

much heartache and pain. They were not the matriarchs of three thriving families, but the

widows of three dead husbands. Naomi urged them to return to their home country, and after

vacillating for some time, Orpa, Ruth's sister-in-law returned to her native land

and to her native gods but ruth stood and looked naomi in the eyes and said these memorable words we

studied in her last episode she said where you go i will go and where you lodge i will lodge your people

shall be my people and your your God, my God.

These words serve not merely as a sign of human commitment, but as a testimony of Ruth's

devotion to Jehovah.

Ruth was no longer a stranger to the truth.

She was a child of God.

Ruth and Naomi traveled back to Bethlehem because they had heard

that God had broken the famine and that the city of Bethlehem, which literally means house

of bread, had bread once again. A harvest had begun. The story that had been conducted in a minor

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