Monday, December 14, 2009

Making Bread and decoration!

Niamh has been begging to help Eden make the bread in the morning, so I decided it was time to teach her how to do it herself. Now I will have two volunteers to make the bread in the morning :D
Our reading and decoration today is:

Ruth and Boaz
So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife; and when he went in to her, the LORD gave her conception, and she bore a son. Then the women said to Naomi, “Blessed be the LORD, who has not left you this day without a close relative; and may his name be famous in Israel! And may he be to you a restorer of life and a nourisher of your old age; for your daughter-in-law, who loves you, who is better to you than seven sons, has borne him.” Ruth 4:13-15

Boaz in this picture is a type of Christ, in that he is a kinsman redeemer.
There are more types in this story:
Naomi left the land and went out to exile picturing Israel's departure from God.
Ruth is a picture of gentiles joining themselves to the Jewish people, yet still remaining gentiles, and claiming the God of Israel, and Israel's Messiah, as their own.
Boaz is a picture of Christ, the Kinsman Redeemer;
The brother of Boaz is a picture of the law that cannot redeem
Eden enjoyed doing this sketch of a sheaf of wheat and then painting it with watercolours.

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