“You have to leave your past behind to walk into your future.” Ruth 2nd Chapter

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“You have to leave your past behind to walk into your future.”  Ruth 2nd Chapter

Ruth was “of the women of Moab” which made her a Moabites.  The scripture calls her Moabites several times so let’s look at maybe one reason why.  The Moabites were genetically linked to Israel through Lot, the nephew of Abraham (Genesis 11:31). When God destroyed Sodom and Gomorra Lot wife looked back and turned into a pillar of salt.  Lot and his two daughters ran in fear to a cave and stayed there.  They thought that they would not be able to be with a man so that come up with a plan to seduce their father. They God him drunk and his first daughter laid with him and she became pregnant had a son named Moab which later acquired the land of Moab where his nation the Moabites lived.  This was where Ruth lived before she married Naomi son, and they worshipped idol God. Ruth had married the son of an Israelite family while they were living in Moab, but at some point, her father-in-law, her husband, and her husband’s only brother passed away. So Ruth had to make a decision whether to stay in Moab, her home, or to go with her mother-in-law, Naomi, to a land she had never known—Judah. Ruth loved her mother-in-law, and had great compassion for her, seeing that she had lost not only her husband, but both of her sons. Ruth’s sister-in-law, Orpah, made the choice to go back to her people in Moab, but Ruth could not bear to part from Naomi or from the God of Israel that she had come to know.