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Of the types and symbols of the Bible the story of Boaz and Ruth stands out as a beautiful example of love and thus of Christ and His church. She was a Moabite, a people excluded from the house of the Lord. Deut. 23:3 Nevertheless she had made her consecration to the God of Israel. Ruth 1:16 The true Bride of Christ will have made just such a vow and consecration to Him, after all she is His beloved and Bride. The setting of the story is just right, for He took knowledge of her and gave orders to His workmen that they should let her glean in all of His harvests. Ruth 2:21 The church has been called upon to take the Gospel into all the world and then the end will come. Remember, that is the hour of the coming of the Bridegroom for His Bride for the wedding and it spells out for us that the wedding will take place at the midnight hour. Now at the midnight hour Boaz (strength, or to be fleet) awoke to find Ruth (friend, companion) at His feet. There is no more blessed place than at Jesus feet. Oh what joy is to be found there. Ruth 3:8 That encounter started Boaz on the road to redeem Ruth, which of course he did. Christ our redeemer.
Out of the last day revival there will come forth a people who have heard the call of the Spirit to prepare themselves for the marriage of the Lamb. They hear the call of the Lord to awaken from their sleep. We remember also, that in spite of the five wise being prepared with oil, they too slumbered and slept and had to arise and trim their lamps before they went out to meet the Bridegroom. Isaiah cried out to the people of the Lord with a double call of awake, which gives the call strength and greatly emphasizes it. Isa. 52:1 When applying an old testament scripture such as this addressed to Zion and Jerusalem I always feel it is necessary to show that these names are now applied to the church. The scripture spiritualizes these two name and shows most definitely that Sion and Jerusalem are names that are now given to the church. Heb. 12:22-24 We now come to Jesus.
It is time for her to be clothed with the garments of beauty. Isaiah was later to prophesy that these garments are salvation and the robe of righteousness. Garments fitting for a Queen. Isa. 61:10 Also being clothed, outside and inside with the continuing presence and person of the Lord Jesus Christ. Rom. 13:14 Paul called it the new man or person which is created in the likeness of very God with the application of His righteousness and true holiness. Eph. 4:24 Then to give more words of promise and to thoroughly assure the church that this is the intent and purpose of the Lord, Paul wrote to the Ephesians that the church is to be filled with all the fullness of God.
Eph. 3:19 The joy, the blessing, the ecstasy of such a mighty experience is absolutely staggering.