Post by mary on Oct 8, 2017 21:26:38 GMT
Typology in Book of Ruth: Boaz, Ruth, Naomi, Obed
new 19 Feb 2018 from 1988 notes. w19feb2018 upd 17apr2018
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The story of Ruth and Boaz and Naomi and Obed parallels the prophesied obtaining of the Bride, the Church, and the restoration of the Jews and their land. The offspring of the Church and her Lord, is revealed in Obed, whose name means "serving," fulfilled in the 144,000 sealed Jewish male evangelists, "servants."
Naomi fits the history of Israel in many ways: blessed in land given by God, dispersed and living away from the land, suffering great losses in family. Israel is blessed by the Christians. In the story this is portrayed in the story of Naomi and her daughter-in-law Ruth, as they return to Bethlehem Ephrata. Naomi's wisdom is shared, she is provided for, restored to her land, and in the end fully blessed and no longer bitter. Naomi's name means "pleasantness."
Amos 9:9 For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.,
The Church has learned much from Israel, just as Ruth learned from Naomi. Ruth chooses to follow Naomi's God, leaving her father and mother we are told, and she follows Naomi to the "house of bread" (Bethlehem) and "praise" (Judah). Ruth is young and strong and Naomi is old, her sons and husband all dead.
Boaz, kinsman of Naomi's husband Elimelech, is rich, with land and fields and workers, (and so is our Lord).
Ruth comes out of a place of famine (Moab, an accursed place), just as we believers come out of the world when we come to the Lord. (Orpah seems to fulfill the type of those who go back into the world). The Church like Ruth, provided for, chooses and is chosen, engaged, married and has a child, and loves and shares with Naomi, who, like Israel, is restored.
Boaz notices the way Ruth has behaved in caring for her mother-in-law (just as also the Church is told to pray for Israel and to treat Jesus's brethren, the Jews, with love). Boaz sees how she behaves as she works among the men in the field to obtain food for herself and Naomi. So does the Lord observe our lifestyle among men. Boaz keeps the Law given in Leviticus 23 as he generously allows Ruth to glean the unharvested "corners" in his fields, and instructs his men about this. When Ruth eats with Boaz in the field, he gives her wine and parched grain to eat (just s the Lord provides for us in His field as we work with Him). This brings to mind the daily fresh manna which God provides.
First, Ruth gathers and takes home to Naomi "about an ephah of barley" which is about 19.8 pints, enough to last her and Naomi for a number of days.
Boaz tells Ruth to hold out her veil and he measures in "6 measures" (Jamison Faucet Brown says this is "seahs" of 2 1/2 gallons each for a total burden of about 15 gallons -- 128 ounces per gallon x 15 gallons is 1920 ounces or 120 pounds!?) of barley and he "laid it on her" and she went into the city. Another source states that a seah is 7.7 quarts, so 11.5 gallons. Ruth then reports to Naomi that Boaz has told her, "go not empty to thy mother-in-law." Ruth 3:15 Also he said, Bring the vail that thou hast upon thee, and hold it. And when she held it, he measured six measures of barley, and laid it on her: and she went into the city.
Naomi tells Ruth, "Behold, he winnoweth barley to night in the threshingfloor," Ruth 3:2. Naomi advises Ruth to wash, anoint and dress herself, Ruth 3:3 She tells Ruth to go and lie at the feet of Boaz who is sleeping on the threshing floor. Ruth goes and lies at his feet as he sleeps. Boaz had been winnowing, had a heap of grain, and was merry.
Ruth 3:9 And he said, Who art thou? ... I am Ruth thine handmaid: spread therefore thy skirt over thine handmaid; for thou art a near kinsman. 10 And he said, Blessed be thou of the LORD, my daughter: for thou hast shewed more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, inasmuch as thou followedst not young men, whether poor or rich. 11 And now, my daughter, fear not; I will do to thee all that thou requirest: for all the city of my people doth know that thou art a virtuous woman. 12 And now it is true that I am thy near kinsman: howbeit there is a kinsman nearer than I. 13 Tarry this night, and it shall be in the morning, that if he will perform unto thee the part of a kinsman, well; let him do the kinsman's part: but if he will not do the part of a kinsman to thee, then will I do the part of a kinsman to thee, as the LORD liveth: lie down until the morning. 14 And she lay at his feet until the morning: and she rose up before one could know another. And he said, Let it not be known that a woman came into the floor.
Boaz then goes and makes the arrangements as soon as it is morning, and publicly says he will marry her.
I think we are being shown a picture of the Lord promising that He will come for His Church.
Perhaps the story also shows that the Church will leave behind a great provision of Scripture for Israel for the time Israel is dealt with. This grain will be from the Lord's field, from His bounty, for Israel. The grain for bread would be the New Testament, and the witness which has been given by the believers who love Israel.
We then read in chapter 4, verse 13, "So Boaz took Ruth.... and she bore a son." The elders bless Boaz and say, "make the woman like Leah and Rachel" -- expressing the hope that she will have 12 sons, building Israel. Ruth lives with Boaz (just as the raptured Church will be honeymooning in the Lord's house) and I think Naomi stays in her house, and eats of the 6 measures (120 pounds, seemingly) of barley that Boaz had caused to be sent to her and which Ruth carried to her.
At first Ruth takes a small amount of grain to Naomi. The later very large amount which Boaz had Ruth take to Naomi to sustain her reveals that it is for a long period comparatively. It causes me to think of the seven year tribulation period when Israel will be dealt with by the Lord and brought to a knowledge of salvation.
I recall tht Ezekiel was permitted to eat daily about 1 quart of grains mixed with oil and water during a year. The 11 or so gallons would last Naomi quite a while and implies that she wouldn't be living in the home of Boaz but rather remaining in the city for a time.
Since Boaz was still in the threshing floor when he made the arrangement for Ruth, it can't have been the day of Pentecost or else he would have been making the 6 miles trip in to Jerusalem as required (which must be done prior to the feast day of Pentecost), and also Pentecost lasted for several days. (Jamison Faucet Brown also indicates that the harvests start about early April and in in June). The threshing was done in the evening and night breezes and the floor was an area of ground which had been leveled and prepared with chalk so that there would be no weeds or cracks in the soil. The master himself participated in the winnowing which consisted of throwing the grain which had been trodden up on a shovel and permitting the wind to carry away the chaff, and the master would sleep amidst this harvest and guard it.
Soon, the Bride Church will lie at her Lord's feet, washed and fragrant and in clean raiment just as Ruth did, submitted, and He will swear as Boaz did, to fulfill the part of the kinsman-redeemer, and He will then quickly fulfill this. While we are still here on earth and it seems dark, we, like Ruth, will have a joyous awareness of the promise of the coming of the Lord. The blessed hope is very like this promise!
In time, the wedding of the Church and the Redeemer will produce the birth of the entime Jewish evangelists in Israel. The picture of Naomi becoming the nurse to Obed and being full of joy (after losing husband and both of her sons, and having no hope) brings us to the time of Israel's full restoration as a people serving God, on the earth. No doubt there is another story in which many more specific details are shown -- I think the story of Deborah and Barak and Jael may give more details about the final events on the plains of Israel. The story of Ruth focuses on the Bride, her attributes, her betrothal, marriage, and her fruit.
The name Ruth means "satisfied." The name Boaz means "in him is strength." Better names for the Bride of Christ and her Lord could not be found. The Church is satisfied and submitted, and in the Lord is all strength -- with ability to provide, ability to keep His promises, and all goodness. A perfect husband.
Obed, son of Boaz and Ruth, depicts the 144,000 Jewish evangelists and their converts, and is shown in the late summer grain harvest of August which was planted four months before.
The name Obed means "serving" and it reminds me of the 144,000 Jewish, male virgin evangelists who will be sealed servants, given mighty protection by God, and who will convert many. These will be heroic Jewish men who will put the love of the Lord Jesus above all and will serve the Lord as the greatest men in the Scriptures did. Many believers have been praying for Israel for centuries following the scriptural injunctions. Old Naomi-Israel will truly be "pleasantness" as her name means, and not "bitterness" as she said she should be called.
Scripture says in Isaiah 61, "Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken, neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate; but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah; for the Lord delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married. For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee."
When the fire fell upon the believers, I think it was God visibly germinating the wheat and that the fire was like the spark of life that only He can give. In Prophecy in the News newsletter, I read where Dr. Kevin Clarkson in Kevin's Korner wrote: "Just this year, scientists were amazed to see a human egg fertilized in real time. At the joining of the sperm to the egg, the very moment of conception, a flash of light occurs. It has been photographed."
About two weeks after the barley harvest, the wheat harvest occurred, soon after the Feast of Firstfruits.
Careful research revealed that in spring in Israel, a second crop of wheat was planted, hard wheat for bread, and it was harvested in August, four months after planting.
Threshing can be done by hand by whacking stalks in a barrell, or beating with a stick. It can also be done by oxen, driven over, dragging a sledge.
A fuller harvest of wheat will be yet to come, and will compare to the use of the Tribulum, a threshing sledge with embedded rough stones which will be dragged over the wheat that is more difficult to harvest.
Isaiah 41:14 Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. 15 Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff. 16 Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the LORD, and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.
The marriage will take place well before the later harvest of crushing of grapes. Boaz said, "this day" when he spoke of dealing with the kinsman who had a claim.
The marriage of the Redeemer and His Bride will produce a child, Obed, who can be compared to the 144,000 male Jewish believers upon the earth, servants of God.
As in the story of Ruth, Naomi was nurse to the baby, so this offspring will be given for nurturing to Israel, and they will be a great blessing to Israel of the end-times, causing those friends of Israel who actually see it and understand to marvel at how blessed Israel is because of the evangelizers, and I made a note about this in 1988. They will bring in a great harvest, fulfilling Jesus's words about the Sower, some a hundred fold.
Ruth 4:14 "And the women said unto Naomi, Blessed be the LORD, which hath not left thee this day without a kinsman, that his name may be famous in Israel. 15 And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher of thine old age: for thy daughter in law, which loveth thee, which is better to thee than seven sons, hath born him. 16 And Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse unto it. 17 And the women her neighbours gave it a name, saying, There is a son born to Naomi; and they called his name Obed."
Although the time of His coming for us will remain secret, the year will come when the Church will be gone from the earth and the Jews who gather in Jerusalem for the fall feasts will know, "The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved," (Jeremiah 8:20) I pray they will all earnestly seek the Lord and be guided and protected.
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Some supporting Scriptures:
Amos 9:9 For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.
Joel 1:11 Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished. [This denounces those who were to care for God's people of His fields and vineyard and did not. I believe that this verse tends to confirm that the Church, like the wheat and barley crops of spring, has been gathered, and the Jews have been left.]
The harvest is perished. [These Jews haven't been included in the harvest of souls. A silent harvest of the world has been accomplished, but the fields of Jewish souls without Jesus stand desolate, out in the open. This brings to mind the Scripture, "The summer is past, the harvest is over and we are not saved." Jeremiah 8:20]
revised June 28, 1988 - new version, 17 Apr 2018
Regarding interpretation, on February 19, 2018, I found the following article, and an encouraging quote from Dr. Mitchell L. Chase, regarding typology and the book of Ruth:
"The NT authors never claimed to exhaust all that one can see of Christ in the OT, nor did they forbid their readers from imitating their hermeneutics. During his post-resurrection conversations with his disciples, Jesus taught how the Law, Prophets, and Writings pointed to himself (see Luke 24:44-45; Acts 1:3).
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I first was thrilled about Bible prophecy in May, 1948, when I traveled to visit my widowed Grandma and she told me, "Israel has just become a nation. That's in the Bible!" She told me a bit more, and told me that the Bible says that someday Russia will come down and invade Israel.
new 19 Feb 2018 from 1988 notes. w19feb2018 upd 17apr2018
***
The story of Ruth and Boaz and Naomi and Obed parallels the prophesied obtaining of the Bride, the Church, and the restoration of the Jews and their land. The offspring of the Church and her Lord, is revealed in Obed, whose name means "serving," fulfilled in the 144,000 sealed Jewish male evangelists, "servants."
Naomi fits the history of Israel in many ways: blessed in land given by God, dispersed and living away from the land, suffering great losses in family. Israel is blessed by the Christians. In the story this is portrayed in the story of Naomi and her daughter-in-law Ruth, as they return to Bethlehem Ephrata. Naomi's wisdom is shared, she is provided for, restored to her land, and in the end fully blessed and no longer bitter. Naomi's name means "pleasantness."
Amos 9:9 For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.,
The Church has learned much from Israel, just as Ruth learned from Naomi. Ruth chooses to follow Naomi's God, leaving her father and mother we are told, and she follows Naomi to the "house of bread" (Bethlehem) and "praise" (Judah). Ruth is young and strong and Naomi is old, her sons and husband all dead.
Boaz, kinsman of Naomi's husband Elimelech, is rich, with land and fields and workers, (and so is our Lord).
Ruth comes out of a place of famine (Moab, an accursed place), just as we believers come out of the world when we come to the Lord. (Orpah seems to fulfill the type of those who go back into the world). The Church like Ruth, provided for, chooses and is chosen, engaged, married and has a child, and loves and shares with Naomi, who, like Israel, is restored.
Boaz notices the way Ruth has behaved in caring for her mother-in-law (just as also the Church is told to pray for Israel and to treat Jesus's brethren, the Jews, with love). Boaz sees how she behaves as she works among the men in the field to obtain food for herself and Naomi. So does the Lord observe our lifestyle among men. Boaz keeps the Law given in Leviticus 23 as he generously allows Ruth to glean the unharvested "corners" in his fields, and instructs his men about this. When Ruth eats with Boaz in the field, he gives her wine and parched grain to eat (just s the Lord provides for us in His field as we work with Him). This brings to mind the daily fresh manna which God provides.
First, Ruth gathers and takes home to Naomi "about an ephah of barley" which is about 19.8 pints, enough to last her and Naomi for a number of days.
Boaz tells Ruth to hold out her veil and he measures in "6 measures" (Jamison Faucet Brown says this is "seahs" of 2 1/2 gallons each for a total burden of about 15 gallons -- 128 ounces per gallon x 15 gallons is 1920 ounces or 120 pounds!?) of barley and he "laid it on her" and she went into the city. Another source states that a seah is 7.7 quarts, so 11.5 gallons. Ruth then reports to Naomi that Boaz has told her, "go not empty to thy mother-in-law." Ruth 3:15 Also he said, Bring the vail that thou hast upon thee, and hold it. And when she held it, he measured six measures of barley, and laid it on her: and she went into the city.
Naomi tells Ruth, "Behold, he winnoweth barley to night in the threshingfloor," Ruth 3:2. Naomi advises Ruth to wash, anoint and dress herself, Ruth 3:3 She tells Ruth to go and lie at the feet of Boaz who is sleeping on the threshing floor. Ruth goes and lies at his feet as he sleeps. Boaz had been winnowing, had a heap of grain, and was merry.
Ruth 3:9 And he said, Who art thou? ... I am Ruth thine handmaid: spread therefore thy skirt over thine handmaid; for thou art a near kinsman. 10 And he said, Blessed be thou of the LORD, my daughter: for thou hast shewed more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, inasmuch as thou followedst not young men, whether poor or rich. 11 And now, my daughter, fear not; I will do to thee all that thou requirest: for all the city of my people doth know that thou art a virtuous woman. 12 And now it is true that I am thy near kinsman: howbeit there is a kinsman nearer than I. 13 Tarry this night, and it shall be in the morning, that if he will perform unto thee the part of a kinsman, well; let him do the kinsman's part: but if he will not do the part of a kinsman to thee, then will I do the part of a kinsman to thee, as the LORD liveth: lie down until the morning. 14 And she lay at his feet until the morning: and she rose up before one could know another. And he said, Let it not be known that a woman came into the floor.
Boaz then goes and makes the arrangements as soon as it is morning, and publicly says he will marry her.
I think we are being shown a picture of the Lord promising that He will come for His Church.
Perhaps the story also shows that the Church will leave behind a great provision of Scripture for Israel for the time Israel is dealt with. This grain will be from the Lord's field, from His bounty, for Israel. The grain for bread would be the New Testament, and the witness which has been given by the believers who love Israel.
We then read in chapter 4, verse 13, "So Boaz took Ruth.... and she bore a son." The elders bless Boaz and say, "make the woman like Leah and Rachel" -- expressing the hope that she will have 12 sons, building Israel. Ruth lives with Boaz (just as the raptured Church will be honeymooning in the Lord's house) and I think Naomi stays in her house, and eats of the 6 measures (120 pounds, seemingly) of barley that Boaz had caused to be sent to her and which Ruth carried to her.
At first Ruth takes a small amount of grain to Naomi. The later very large amount which Boaz had Ruth take to Naomi to sustain her reveals that it is for a long period comparatively. It causes me to think of the seven year tribulation period when Israel will be dealt with by the Lord and brought to a knowledge of salvation.
I recall tht Ezekiel was permitted to eat daily about 1 quart of grains mixed with oil and water during a year. The 11 or so gallons would last Naomi quite a while and implies that she wouldn't be living in the home of Boaz but rather remaining in the city for a time.
Since Boaz was still in the threshing floor when he made the arrangement for Ruth, it can't have been the day of Pentecost or else he would have been making the 6 miles trip in to Jerusalem as required (which must be done prior to the feast day of Pentecost), and also Pentecost lasted for several days. (Jamison Faucet Brown also indicates that the harvests start about early April and in in June). The threshing was done in the evening and night breezes and the floor was an area of ground which had been leveled and prepared with chalk so that there would be no weeds or cracks in the soil. The master himself participated in the winnowing which consisted of throwing the grain which had been trodden up on a shovel and permitting the wind to carry away the chaff, and the master would sleep amidst this harvest and guard it.
Soon, the Bride Church will lie at her Lord's feet, washed and fragrant and in clean raiment just as Ruth did, submitted, and He will swear as Boaz did, to fulfill the part of the kinsman-redeemer, and He will then quickly fulfill this. While we are still here on earth and it seems dark, we, like Ruth, will have a joyous awareness of the promise of the coming of the Lord. The blessed hope is very like this promise!
In time, the wedding of the Church and the Redeemer will produce the birth of the entime Jewish evangelists in Israel. The picture of Naomi becoming the nurse to Obed and being full of joy (after losing husband and both of her sons, and having no hope) brings us to the time of Israel's full restoration as a people serving God, on the earth. No doubt there is another story in which many more specific details are shown -- I think the story of Deborah and Barak and Jael may give more details about the final events on the plains of Israel. The story of Ruth focuses on the Bride, her attributes, her betrothal, marriage, and her fruit.
The name Ruth means "satisfied." The name Boaz means "in him is strength." Better names for the Bride of Christ and her Lord could not be found. The Church is satisfied and submitted, and in the Lord is all strength -- with ability to provide, ability to keep His promises, and all goodness. A perfect husband.
Obed, son of Boaz and Ruth, depicts the 144,000 Jewish evangelists and their converts, and is shown in the late summer grain harvest of August which was planted four months before.
The name Obed means "serving" and it reminds me of the 144,000 Jewish, male virgin evangelists who will be sealed servants, given mighty protection by God, and who will convert many. These will be heroic Jewish men who will put the love of the Lord Jesus above all and will serve the Lord as the greatest men in the Scriptures did. Many believers have been praying for Israel for centuries following the scriptural injunctions. Old Naomi-Israel will truly be "pleasantness" as her name means, and not "bitterness" as she said she should be called.
Scripture says in Isaiah 61, "Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken, neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate; but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah; for the Lord delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married. For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee."
When the fire fell upon the believers, I think it was God visibly germinating the wheat and that the fire was like the spark of life that only He can give. In Prophecy in the News newsletter, I read where Dr. Kevin Clarkson in Kevin's Korner wrote: "Just this year, scientists were amazed to see a human egg fertilized in real time. At the joining of the sperm to the egg, the very moment of conception, a flash of light occurs. It has been photographed."
About two weeks after the barley harvest, the wheat harvest occurred, soon after the Feast of Firstfruits.
Careful research revealed that in spring in Israel, a second crop of wheat was planted, hard wheat for bread, and it was harvested in August, four months after planting.
Threshing can be done by hand by whacking stalks in a barrell, or beating with a stick. It can also be done by oxen, driven over, dragging a sledge.
A fuller harvest of wheat will be yet to come, and will compare to the use of the Tribulum, a threshing sledge with embedded rough stones which will be dragged over the wheat that is more difficult to harvest.
Isaiah 41:14 Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. 15 Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff. 16 Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the LORD, and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.
The marriage will take place well before the later harvest of crushing of grapes. Boaz said, "this day" when he spoke of dealing with the kinsman who had a claim.
The marriage of the Redeemer and His Bride will produce a child, Obed, who can be compared to the 144,000 male Jewish believers upon the earth, servants of God.
As in the story of Ruth, Naomi was nurse to the baby, so this offspring will be given for nurturing to Israel, and they will be a great blessing to Israel of the end-times, causing those friends of Israel who actually see it and understand to marvel at how blessed Israel is because of the evangelizers, and I made a note about this in 1988. They will bring in a great harvest, fulfilling Jesus's words about the Sower, some a hundred fold.
Ruth 4:14 "And the women said unto Naomi, Blessed be the LORD, which hath not left thee this day without a kinsman, that his name may be famous in Israel. 15 And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher of thine old age: for thy daughter in law, which loveth thee, which is better to thee than seven sons, hath born him. 16 And Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse unto it. 17 And the women her neighbours gave it a name, saying, There is a son born to Naomi; and they called his name Obed."
Although the time of His coming for us will remain secret, the year will come when the Church will be gone from the earth and the Jews who gather in Jerusalem for the fall feasts will know, "The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved," (Jeremiah 8:20) I pray they will all earnestly seek the Lord and be guided and protected.
***
Some supporting Scriptures:
Amos 9:9 For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.
Joel 1:11 Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished. [This denounces those who were to care for God's people of His fields and vineyard and did not. I believe that this verse tends to confirm that the Church, like the wheat and barley crops of spring, has been gathered, and the Jews have been left.]
The harvest is perished. [These Jews haven't been included in the harvest of souls. A silent harvest of the world has been accomplished, but the fields of Jewish souls without Jesus stand desolate, out in the open. This brings to mind the Scripture, "The summer is past, the harvest is over and we are not saved." Jeremiah 8:20]
revised June 28, 1988 - new version, 17 Apr 2018
Regarding interpretation, on February 19, 2018, I found the following article, and an encouraging quote from Dr. Mitchell L. Chase, regarding typology and the book of Ruth:
"The NT authors never claimed to exhaust all that one can see of Christ in the OT, nor did they forbid their readers from imitating their hermeneutics. During his post-resurrection conversations with his disciples, Jesus taught how the Law, Prophets, and Writings pointed to himself (see Luke 24:44-45; Acts 1:3).
---------------------
I first was thrilled about Bible prophecy in May, 1948, when I traveled to visit my widowed Grandma and she told me, "Israel has just become a nation. That's in the Bible!" She told me a bit more, and told me that the Bible says that someday Russia will come down and invade Israel.