0581. The Departure for Moab

The Departure for Moab

"And they came into the country of Moab, and continued there" (Rth_1:2).

Naomi met many reverses in the land of Moab. There Naomi lost her husband and her two sons. She also lost all of her possessions. She went out full, but she came back empty. She could do no more than sum up all her sorrows in the one word Mara, "bitterness."

This is all a picture of Israel. Israel sinned and Israel was scattered among the Gentiles. For twenty-five hundred years the Israelites have been under the feet of the Gentiles. Even to this day, Israel has been trampled down.

As we pen these words, three thousand years have passed since Naomi sojourned in Moab; and at this very moment the type of Naomi’s sorrows is being fulfilled before our very eyes.

The printing press cannot adequately inform us of the agonies of Israel at this very moment. In Poland and the far East their agonies know no bounds. May our God haste the time of their deliverance.

Autor: R.E. NEIGHBOUR