Bible Challenger Clues-03-March V.08
1. Acts; 2. 2 Chronicles; 3. 2 Samuel; 4. Nehemiah; 5. Daniel; 6. Acts; 7. Mark; 8. Acts.
Questions and Answers
QUESTION: In Matt. 22:24 Moses said if a man die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife and raise up seed unto his brother. In Matt. 1:5 it says that Boaz begat Obed of Ruth. Boaz said he was taking Ruth to be his wife to raise up the name of the dead, Mahlon, upon his inheritance (Ruth 4:10). It seems Mahlon's name was lost and the name of Boaz is the only one remembered.
ANSWER: Boaz purchased all that his kinsman had sold, and took Ruth, and she became his wife. He fulfilled the intent of the Scriptures by raising up the name of the dead upon his inheritance.
QUESTION: It is said of the Lord: "In His humiliation His judgment was taken away: and who shall declare His generation?”
ANSWER: "Concerning His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh; and declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead." Rom. 1:3, 4.
As Obed was born to Naomi, so was Jesus born to the remnant in Judah. Shepherds abiding in the field at night were the first to hear the joyful news. "For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord.”
Thus the son of Boaz and Ruth is accounted as the son of Naomi: that is, Judah's child and son. Although a son, yet he bore the relationship of redeemer to Naomi. Did not the women say, "He shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher of thine old age"? As each year rolls by, this has been fulfilled a thousand times.
W. Bothwell
Affliction
Affliction quickens the spirit of prayer; Jonah was asleep in the ship, but in prayer in the whale's belly.
Perhaps in a time of health and prosperity we pray in a cold and formal manner putting no coals to the incense; we are careless about our own prayers, and how could we expect God to answer them? Then God sends some trial or other, to make us take hold of Him. "They poured out a prayer when Thy chastening was upon them." Isa. 26:16. Now their prayer pierced the heavens.
In times of trouble we pray feelingly, and we never pray so fervently as when we pray feelingly. When God puts His children in the school of affliction, He deals with them tenderly, because He does not leave them without a promise. "God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able." 1 Cor. 10:13.
He will not lay a giant's burden upon a child's back, nor will He stretch the strings of the instrument too much, lest they should break. If God sees it good to strike with one hand, He will support with the other. Either He will make the faith stronger, or make the yoke lighter.