The book of Ruth is a jewel of a book after Judges and before Samuel. No one has claimed to be the writer of this book. My own opinion is that it was written during the time of King David or after king David had died. My reasoning for this is that the Book itself shows that Ruth the Moabitess was in the genealogy of King David. She was a great woman of faith.
A friend of mine when I was 16, Edith Heaton gave me a tape with the following song on it. It is a Lullaby, but it talks about the faith of Ruth.
This was sung by Nancy HoneyTree: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Honeytree
When I think of this song I think of Edith. She used to pray that God would allow her to walk again but she never did. She had a deep evangelical faith from the AOG Pentecostal tradition. She said to me that being in a wheelchair was a way to reach a lot of people with the Gospel, people who were also in her situation.
The Gospel is the good news about Jesus Christ. Paul said;”If you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord and believe in your hear that God raised him from the dead, You will be saved!” (From memory) Added to this the word Gospel ‘euangelion’ has a history. When armies returned from a successful battle it was good news. This was from an Old commentary I read on the Gospel of Mark. (From Memory) Later on if I remember we can look at this.
Anyhow at the moment I am doing some background reading for this lovely book and next week we can start to look into it deeper.
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February 6, 2021 at 5:39 pm |
That was interesting Hasan. I never heard that song before and didn`t know about Edith giving you the tape. It will add to my memories of her.