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    The Prophetic Romance
    The Prophetic Romance
    The Prophetic Romance
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    The Prophetic Romance

    By Fuchsia Pickett

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    Hidden deep in the canons of Old Testament scripture is the little book of Ruth, one of the most endearing love stories in recorded history. It captivates hearts and inspires our courage. But could this ancient romance in the harvest fields of Israel have a deeper meaning for the church today? In The Prophetic Romance Fuschia Pickett unlocks a hidden truth-a fresh revelation for the last days. With profound biblical insight from the Holy Spirit, she shows how the book of Ruth is more than a courtship between two lovers. It foreshadows the coming of Jesus and restoration of the church. It's a divine love story with astounding prophetic insight for your life.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCharisma House
    Release dateJun 23, 2014
    ISBN9781629982151
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      HIStory of Redemption

      Tucked away among the massive history books of the Old Testament is the little book of Ruth, one of the most beautiful, historical love stories of all time. Its authentic historical account of a Jewish family’s life rightfully places it with the history books in the canon of Scripture. However, after careful study we must conclude that the book of Ruth is more than an interesting and inspired book of history. It is "HIStory" — the story of Christ — for Christ Himself is clearly foreshadowed in this little book.

      History Redefined

      In the broadest sense, all of history can be characterized as HIStory. We can evaluate all events of the human race, tragic as well as celebrated, on the basis of whether Christ, the revelation of God to man, was accepted or rejected. In this sense history may be defined as the study of mankind whom God made for the purpose of fellowshipping with Himself.

      In this eternal perspective, even the rise and fall of nations throughout history becomes incidental to the great plan of God to redeem mankind. Though other definitions of history are valid, they are limited to man’s temporal, finite parameters of understanding. History is more broadly defined according to the eternal purposes of God for mankind that can only be realized in Christ.

      The Bible is the greatest history book ever written. It candidly describes mankind’s dilemma of separation from God after fellowship was broken through man’s disobedience. As well, it reveals the solution to that dilemma to be found through man’s relationship to Christ. God’s great plan to redeem mankind back to Himself through Christ’s ultimate sacrifice of obedience is clearly outlined. All the Scriptures should be studied in this light, expecting to see Christ on every page revealed to us in His lovely character.

      In Old Testament scriptural accounts, we see Christ prophetically in type, foreshadowed in the life of a biblical character or other historical reality. In the Gospels, we behold Him as He is, the Son of God in His personal dealings with the sons of men. Later, in the Epistles and other New Testament books, we see Him as the head of His church, established through the first apostles who recorded their story for us by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. In the Revelation of John, we get a glimpse of the glorious future of mankind as Christ comes to reign as King of kings. So the history, as well as the future, of mankind is to be understood through revelation of Jesus Christ as He is seen throughout all Scripture.

      The Church Foreshadowed

      The little book of Ruth reveals eternal truths that foreshadow the revelation of the church — the body of Christ — that God was planning to bring to life hundreds of years later. As we watch the redemption of Ruth unfold, bringing her into relationship with her earthly bridegroom, we understand the divinely ordained processes the body of Christ must experience in order to come into relationship with her heavenly Bridegroom, Jesus Christ.

      The concept of a woman foreshadowing the church is not strange to students of the Bible. In the New Testament, the church is referred to in the feminine gender. The Greek word for church, ekklesia, meaning called out ones, carries a feminine ending. The church is also referred to in Scripture as the bride of Christ, a description of the love relationship we are to enjoy with Him. Men should have no more problem with being a part of the bride of Christ than we ladies have considering ourselves to be sons of God. Both of these relationships with God pertain to male and female genders of mankind. They are language pictures that God uses to help us understand relationships that are eternal, not temporal in nature.

      Understanding a Type

      An understanding of typology in Scripture will unlock many of the deeper truths it teaches. As I explained in For Such a Time as This, my book on Esther:

      A careful foundation must be laid for the understanding of type and allegory so that we do not violate the true meaning of the Scriptures. A type is a person, thing or event that represents another, especially another that is to come in the future. Typology, the study of types, can bring to light many precious truths in the Word of God that are otherwise hidden to us. We can discover these truths as silver is discovered: by descending into a dark mine shaft and digging for them. An allegory is a story in which people, things and happenings have not only a literal significance, but a symbolic significance that is often morally instructive as well.

      When Jesus taught about the shepherd who searched for his lost sheep, He was not telling the story of a specific event that happened in Galilee. He was using that natural illustration of a shepherd’s care for his sheep to show the Father’s love and care for each of His children. David portrayed the Lord as a shepherd in the poetic psalm that has spoken comfort to us throughout the centuries. How beautifully these word pictures help to reveal the nature of God to us! In the Old Testament, when animal sacrifices were initiated to atone for men’s sins, God was foreshadowing prophetically the sacrifice of His Son at Calvary, the one death that would accomplish the reality of atonement. Those sacrifices were a type of the reality of Jesus’ sacrifice to come.

      There are three main types, or skeletons, that walk through the book and unlock its truth from Genesis to Revelation. Following these pictures through the Bible provides a beautiful understanding of God’s plan for His church. The first of these types is the picture of the tabernacle or temple. David’s tabernacle and Solomon’s temple reveal to us beautiful aspects of the worship that God desires. The Lord is intent on creating a temple of worship to bring into His presence. Paul admonishes believers, Know ye not that ye are the temple of God? (1 Cor. 3:16). As New Testament Christians, each of us has become a habitation for the Spirit of God, a temple of worship where the King is to be enthroned.

      A second type that unlocks the book is the picture of the human body or anatomy. The Bible depicts Christians as the body of Christ in the earth. Paul exhorts the Corinthians that they are members in particular of the body of Christ, and that God has set everyone in the body as it has pleased Him (1 Cor. 12:18,27).

      The analogy of the bride and bridegroom is a third type that unlocks eternal truths throughout Scripture. Rebekah, Ruth and Esther give us beautiful insight into our relationship to Jesus Christ. God is preparing a bride for His Son to bring to the wedding feast of the Lamb.

      So God communicates infinite, eternal truths through picture language. We learn to look beyond the natural elements of truth in Scripture to receive the deeper allegorical truths they teach. The temple, the body of Christ and the bride of Christ are pictures that can be used like road maps to lead us ultimately to revelation of our heavenly Father, unfolding truth concerning Himself and His purposes for mankind. We can read the Bible for its literal history of recorded events or from a philosophical standpoint. Not opening our minds, however, to parables, parabolic expressions, similes, metaphors, types and allegories will cause us to miss much of the understanding of what God is saying in His Word.

      To properly understand type and allegory, we must realize that it is important not to attempt to make every word in a story fit a divine truth. There will usually be one or two spiritual truths to uncover from the otherwise natural event. We must be careful not to try to find types in every intricate detail of an allegory that was written to reveal a few major truths. No earthly story completely symbolizes an eternal truth. For example, Abraham represents God the Father in Scripture. Yet we see that Abraham sometimes did not act like God. Because of his humanity, he could not be a perfect type of the heavenly Father. Joseph is perhaps the most complete type of Christ in the Bible. There are over three hundred comparisons between his life and the life of Christ, but he was not a perfect man. These men did live out certain truths, however, in their natural lives that help us receive a spiritual message from a spiritual country and King.

      We also must make sure that the truth revealed in the type can go through the cross. That is to say, the truth it teaches must relate without question to God’s eternal plan for the salvation of mankind that was fulfilled through the shedding of Jesus’ blood on Calvary. Each truth that is concealed in a type in the Old Testament is revealed in the New Testament reality of Jesus’ sacrifice for the sin of mankind. Only as types and allegories help us to apply truth to our lives, and as they agree with all other Scripture, are they valid revelation. The ultimate purpose for all revelation must be to transform us into the image of Christ.¹

      A Love Story

      Most of us have undoubtedly read and enjoyed the book of Ruth for its wonderful, historical love story. That is how I read it when I was a girl. For a high school literature course, I wrote an essay about the book of Ruth called The Greatest Love Story. But I have since learned that the book of Ruth is much more than that. As we focus our attention on the allegorical meaning, we will marvel at the wonderful prophetic truths that are hidden in this romance.

      In type, we are beholding the beautiful relationship of the church, the bride of Christ, to the Lord Jesus Christ, our heavenly Boaz. By understanding this divine love story, foreshadowed in the historical narrative, our lives can be changed for eternity.

      New Beginnings

      The book of Ruth is the eighth book in the Bible. In the study of numerology, numbers play a significant role in revealing the plan of redemption. The number eight in the Scriptures represents new beginnings.

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