Ruth, Naomi, Boaz, and a Cosmic Redemption

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Christianity, Old Testament, Torah, Theology, New Testament, God, Demons, Tim Mackie, Bible Study, Angels, Bible, Jesus, Spiritual Beings, Jon Collins, Religion & Spirituality, Spirit, Satan

4.8 • 18.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Redemption E4 — During a dark time in ancient Israel, idolatry, injustice, and death ruled the land and its people. In the midst of a famine, a destitute widow tragically loses her husband and adult sons and is left alone with her immigrant daughter-in-law. It’s a horrible situation, but God uses the faithful, loving, and generous acts of ordinary community members to redeem the widow’s story. In this episode, Jon and Tim explore the cosmic redemption playing out in the short but profound story of Ruth.

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0:00.0	We're in a series on the theme of redemption.
0:05.0	A redemption is simply the transfer of possession, where something currently is to where it truly belongs.
0:14.0	In the story of the Bible, humanity belongs to God, but something else has claimed ownership of us.
0:21.4	The Bible calls this sin and death.
0:24.2	The moment that humans choose not to live by the wisdom of God, but by listening to the voice of the deceiver,
0:30.9	they're exiled from the realm of abundant life and out in the land of death.
0:35.8	But God loves humanity, and he's determined to take us back into his possession, to redeem us from death.
0:42.3	Death doesn't have a right to human life because God intended life for life.
0:47.3	It's a way of thinking about kind of a cosmic frame for the biblical story.
0:51.3	Redemption is God taking back life from death.
0:56.3	Now, today is really special. We're going to look at the theme of redemption in the story of
1:01.5	Ruth, because at the core of this story is a question. How can a family who has lost everything
1:08.3	get restored back into the life of community.
1:11.6	The Ark of Ruth is all about a woman loses her family inheritance and her future of her family,
1:18.6	and how God is going to restore Eden and seed to the life of this woman.
1:26.6	The woman in question is Naomi,
1:28.9	whose name means sweet delight,
1:31.3	but she's lost everything, her husband, her sons, her family land.
1:36.7	But...
1:37.2	By the end of the story, sweet delight is going to receive back new sons and her family land.
1:55.0	One character who's crucial to her redemption is Boaz, an extended family member who takes it on himself to restore Naomi and Ruth back into life. Boas becomes the vehicle of redeeming Naomi and Ruth and the family land from slavery, poverty, and destitution.
2:04.6	And all of this can be summed up with the word redemption.
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