"The Book of Ruth"

by James Jacob Prasch

The book of Ruth tells the story of a rich powerful Jewish man who takes a Gentile Bride and exalts her, the way that Jesus, on the day of Pentecost, raised up the Gentile church, as the Bride of Christ.

  1. Introduction
  2. Ruth's Loyalty
  3. Ruth Gleans in the Fields of Boaz
  4. Boaz Will Redeem Ruth
  5. The Marriage of Ruth
  6. The Line of David Began Here
  7. Why Us?
  8. Something Special
  9. Orpah
  10. Ruth
  11. Levirate Marriage
  12. Imortance of Genealogy
  13. Gleaning
  14. I Will Bless Them That Bless Thee
  15. Sacrificing Babies to Demons
  16. Learning from Israel's Mistakes
  17. Second-Class Christians
  18. A Woman of Excellence
  19. The Key to Their Redemption
  20. Take the Grain to My People
  21. Redeemer and Restorer
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Second-Class Christians

"I have commanded my servants not to touch you," says Boaz. Where they eat, you eat. What they drink, you drink.

The Hebrew word to “bow down” and “to worship” is the same word. When you see a Roman Catholic bowing down before a statue and praying, that is idolatry in the Hebrew language. That is why the Roman Catholic church took the second commandment out of their catechism for so many centuries. You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth. You shall not worship them or serve them (Dt. 5:8).

I lived on Mt. Carmel in Galilee. At Mount Carmel they have apparitions of Mary, the same as in Fatima and many other places – demonic apparitions. The people there carry a statue of Mary from her summer home to her winter home. Why? Mary does not like the cold weather! Twice a year they carry the statue down the mountain and put it in the church in the middle of Haifa. They bow to it, pray to it, burn incense to it, and sing to it. I had a friend who was a Charismatic Catholic monk. He would come to our meetings, waving his hands, and be one of us, “Hallelujah!” Then, when they carried the statue down, he would be there with the rest of the idolaters, singing, burning incense, bowing down and worshipping the statue!

When the Jews and Moslems saw this idolatry, they thought that was Christianity. The born again Christians, the Messianic Jews, had to explain to them that it was not. Satan's first tool for getting Jews into hell is false Christianity – Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, idolatry.

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