The Mystery of History (Part 1 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 17 July 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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The whole Bible is about Jesus. So what does the Old Testament story of a Moabite girl gleaning in a barley field have to do with Christ? Discover God’s hand in the ordinary events of ordinary men and women. Listen to Truth For Life with Alistair Begg.
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| 0:00.0 | The whole Bible is a story about Jesus. |
| 0:27.9 | So how does the Old Testament story of a Moabite girl who was gleaning barley in a field point us to Jesus? |
| 0:35.7 | Well, today on Truth for Life, Alistair Begg demonstrates how God is often found in the most unexpected places |
| 0:41.6 | in the ordinary events of ordinary men and women. |
| 0:50.2 | Well, can I invite you to turn again to Ruth Chapter 4? |
| 1:01.7 | Ruth Chapter 4? Ruth Chapter 4? So Boas took Ruth, and she became his wife. |
| 1:07.7 | Then he went to her, and the Lord enabled her to conceive, and she gave birth to a son. |
| 1:14.1 | The woman said to Naomi, Praise be to the Lord who this day has not left you without a kinsman redeemer. May he become famous throughout Israel. He will renew your life |
| 1:21.3 | and sustain you in your old age. For your daughter-in-law who loves you and who is better to you than seven sons has given him birth. |
| 1:31.7 | Then Naomi took the child, laid him in her lap, and cared for him. |
| 1:36.2 | The woman living there said Naomi has a son, and they named him Obed. |
| 1:41.1 | He was the father of Jesse, the father of David. |
| 1:45.0 | This then is the family line of Perez. |
| 1:48.0 | Perez was the father of Hezran. |
| 1:50.0 | Hezran the father of Ram. |
| 1:52.0 | Ram, the father of Aminadab, the father of Nation, |
| 1:56.0 | Aminadab the father of Nation, |
| 1:59.0 | Nation the father of Salman, Salman the father of Boas, |
| 2:03.7 | Boaz the father of Obed, Obed the father of Jesse, and Jesse, the father of David. |
| 2:11.5 | And when you go into the New Testament and into Matthew's genealogy, you discover that wonder of wonders, |
| 2:19.8 | this genealogy leads right to the person of the Lord Jesus Christ himself. Thanks be to God for His Word. We come to our final |
| 2:30.2 | study of what must be one of the loveliest short stories that has ever been written, |
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