Said, “Who is she? Where’d she come from?” And when the harvest was over, the great lord of the harvest, which was Boaz, a representative of Christ to the church…He’d fallen in love with her, and he wanted to marry her. But before he could marry her, he had to redeem Naomi’s lost estate. And before he could redeem her estate, the law, Levitical law was, he had to be a kinsman, a near kinsman. When I think of that…The law required him to be a near kinsman, her closest kinsman. And he must be worthy, a man of honor. And he must be able to do it financially. And then he must make an ensign if he’d redeemed all she had. Notice, a kinsman. God…Man was made in the image of God first. And God is a Spirit. And then, in order to redeem that man, God had to come down in the form of sinful flesh and become a Kinsman. Christ (Amen.); Christ was made a Kinsman. God was made a Kinfolks to us; flesh and blood like we are. Amen. What a beautiful story. The whole Bible just ties together everywhere; nothing of It out of the way: all ties right together.

An Ensign, 1953-06-06, Connersville, IN, §18