House of Bread - Emma Davis
How extraordinary that Jesus, The Bread of Life was born in a town whose name means ‘house of bread’. The prophetic significance of this tiny town goes back thousands of years.
More than a thousand years previous, in Ruth 1.6 we read that after decades of famine, Naomi chose to return to Bethlehem from Moab because "the Lord had visited them with bread". How beautifully put. Her home town in the promised land was her salvation because ‘the house of bread’ finally had bread again, and the Lord saw to it that in generations to come, Jesus, the True and Living Bread would be born there to fulfil the role of redeemer to man-kind just as Boaz redeemed Ruth a thousand years before.
This Ruler was born of flesh and bone just as all other human beings. Imagine it. The Almighty Creator, Bread from heaven, Light of the World wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a feeding trough in the back shed of an inn.
From before time began, it was the Father’s plan to bring forth a Ruler and Redeemer to Himself. Jesus came not as an answered prayer, nor by the intent of his parents, but at the time ordained by the will for the Father to do the will of the Father. To speak His words, reveal the Father’s glory, perform His wonders, and fulfill the roles of the true Redeemer, King, and Shepherd of which Boaz and King David were a type and shadow, who also came out of Bethlehem.
The incarnation is the ultimate fulfilment of" the Lord visiting His people with bread", declared in Ruth.
The True and Living Bread has come down to conquer death by giving the gift of salvation and eternal life.
Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!
‘But you Bethlehem Ephrathah, Though you are little among the thousands of Judah, Yet out of you shall come forth unto Me, The One who is to be Ruler in Israelwhose origins are of old, from ancient times...’ Micah 5.2
Emma Davis - article & artwork
