Sunday School

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When Naomi' returned to Bethlehem with her Moabitess daughter-in-law named Ruth, God provided a husband and provider for her and included her in the lineage of Jesus Christ.

The Israelites wanted a king so they could be like all the other nations, but they forgot they were not like the other nations because they served the God of the universe.

The children of Israel did not trust God and gave in to fear when God called them to claim the Promised Land, so God led them to wander in the wilderness until their generation, and their doubt, died off.

"Be strong and of good courage: for unto this people shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give them" (Joshua 1:6).