Ruth-the Story of our redemption I. Theme: God’s sovereign intervention as deliverer and redeemer. Ruth is written in the era of the Judges of Israel. This is a time of spiritual and moral darkness. The Book is about God’s mercy that sustains us. A. 1:1-5: The story begins in a famine: spiritual reflection of the devastation of the time in people’s hearts. Bethlehem-house of bread- is without bread: an irony. B. 1:6-18: The death of Naomi’s husband and sons, while devasting for her, is also reflecting the spiritual desolation of Israel, people of the covenant. C. Naomi persuades her daughter-in-laws, both Moabite women, to go back to their homeland (She goes back to Israel). There, they will find husbands, family and children. 1. Vv.15-18-Ruth uses the language of covenant to express her longing to go with Naomi. Ruth is experiencing a type of conve ...