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PROLOGUE

The Book of Ruth begins with Naomi’s family who started off
in Bethlehem (Bethlehem is translated from the Original
Hebrew as “house of bread”), and because of a famine they left
the House of Bread in order to go to Moab to find bread. They
stayed in Moab ten years, and the record shows that it was a
very difficult ten years. Naomi loses her husband, and she loses
her two sons. Then, finally, in the land of Moab she hears that
there is blessing in the House of Bread. She heard that the Lord
had visited His people in Bethlehem. So when she hears that,
her heart is attracted and she begins her trek back to Bethlehem.

When she came back after ten years, she said: “I went out full,
but the LORD has brought me back empty.” When she left ten
years earlier she did not say, “I am leaving full.” When she left
ten years earlier she said, “I am leaving empty.” I am leaving
because there is no bread in the House of Bread. There is a
famine here. But after ten years she discovered that she had left
full at the beginning.
You see, Bethlehem is a picture of Christ, the House of Bread;
the place of fullness. And sometimes, even though we all start
out in Bethlehem, when famine comes or things get a little
tough, we leave fullness (of course, we think it is emptiness) to