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A
Jew, Gentile, and Kinsman Redeemer:
The Ultimate Plan of God
This
book examines covenant relationships with God in light of
Scripture as well as ancient Jewish writings and other works
of some of our early church fathers...
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A
Jew, Gentile, and Kinsman Redeemer:
The Ultimate Plan of Godaith
The
Biblical story of Ruth takes place during the time of the
Judges and tells of a Moabite (Gentile) woman who marries
into a Jewish family and becomes a direct ancestor of King
David and Jesus. Is it a premonition of what would take place
in the Church Age when salvation becomes available to all
Gentiles? If so, how would the Jews respond to this major
religious change? The relationship between the Jew and the
Gentile in the current age may be illustrated in this account
between Naomi (a Jew), Ruth (a Gentile), and Boaz (a kinsman
redeemer). One may look at this account as an allegory, similar
to Major Ian Thomas’s great work “If I Perish, I Perish,â€Ø
which takes the book of Esther and recognizes the major players
in the story as a picture of the new covenant warfare taking
place inside each believer in his pursuit of knowing Christ.
I
grew up in a single-parent home with no direction or guidance
from my human father. The mainline Christian denomination
that taught me about God left me wanting as a new college
student, searching for the truth and an understanding of God’s
love. The new covenant relationship with Jesus is not religious,
as if through some set of rites or sanctioned activities,
but a discovery of the love that God has for each one, demonstrated
by Jesus’s suffering, death, burial, and resurrection (Romans
5:8). First-century believers, both Jew and Gentile had to
reconcile their own limited knowledge of God with a new revelation,
explained most profoundly by the Apostle Paul. The relationship
that existed between Ruth, Naomi, and Boaz provides a framework
for the new covenant experience with God.
This
book examines covenant relationships with God in light of
Scripture as well as ancient Jewish writings and other works
of some of our early church fathers, who were instrumental
in the establishment of the church after Christ’s death.
From this examination, believers will more fully appreciate
the depth that is available to comprehend what is the breadth
and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ
which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all
the fullness of God (Ephesians 3:18-19). It also addresses
relevant subjects of today, including antisemitism and Rabbinic
Judaism.
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About
Pastor Bill - Writer/Author, Preacher of the Finished
Work of Christ, Conference Speaker
R.
W. (Pastor Bill) Alderson is a Maryland Bible College & Seminary
graduate and an ordained minister since 1994. He planted a
church in the Cleveland, OH, area in 1998 and was its pastor
for 12 years. He has also spent many years ministering in
nursing homes and teaching residents at the Salvation Army.
Pastor Bill has a passion for studying
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the
Word of God intensely and has received divine inspiration,
especially on the subject of the new covenant. He has self-published
two books dealing with the believer's faith in the personal
God of the Bible. He currently teaches Bible studies at nursing
homes and senior centers and ministers the Gospel weekly in
the streets of Harford and Cecil counties (MD). He has recently
begun a new church fellowship in Baltimore County. He and
his wife have six children and ten grandchildren living in
Havre de Grace, MD.
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