Ruth1:1"Now it came about...that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the land of Moab with his wife and his two sons."
It seems that whenever there was a famine, then it could be a time that God wanted to move people around to achieve His plans. We've seen that in Joseph's time.
I posted this comment under Gen 19, where I found a connection between Lot and Ruth:
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Lot speaks to me of the family members of the righteous.
There are Christians who will answer God's call and follow God all the way through. But there're also Christians, especially the people who are around those "on fire" kind of Christians, family members, friends, relatives...
They respond to the call of salvation, but they fail to respond to the higher calling of fulfilment in their lives.
When choices come their way, they choose the valley, the easy way, the obvious, common sense way. They don't have the passion to give all their lives for God.
They soon find that the people they're involved with are corrupt people. People with no moral standards. Their lives are full of confusion: they're tempted with worldly temptations but they still keep their moral convictions. They're struggling to make a living at the gate of the city.
It's remarkable that Lot managed to keep his daughters pure in the sinful city.
In the end Lot survived at the place called Zoar, meaning small. He survived the fire of the Hell, but he only lived a small life.
But nevertheless, God's favour and grace extends to the family of the righteousness.
In Ruth 1, we find that Ruth actually came from Moab, so Ruth is a descendant of Lot. By some strange coincidence, Ruth was united back into a family of the Israelites, and she became part of the bloodline family of Jesus. Interesting hey!
