How did Moses know all this centuries before the fact? We know that Moses himself wrote the Torah: Jesus verified that very fact numerous times. Here in the Torah we find the names of the principals of the Book of Ruth, and a delineation of their descendants leading up to the royal line. These names anticipate, five generations in advance, the next five generations climaxing in David, a total of ten generations. 5 It is interesting that hidden within the text of Genesis 38, at 49-letter intervals, are the names of Boaz, Ruth, Obed, Jesse, and David- in chronological order ! note that Hebrew goes from right to left, and the names are coded backwards.) One of the reasons that the sordid tale of Judah and Tamar has been included in the Scriptures is because this incident is included in the family tree of the Messiah. The inheritance of David is here prophesied before the days of Samuel.
Now these are the generations of Pharez: Pharez begat Hezron, And Hezron begat Ram, and Ram begat Amminadab, And Amminadab begat Nahshon, and Nahshon begat Salmon, And Salmon begat Boaz, and Boaz begat Obed, And Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse begat David.
And to emphasize this, the book closes with David's genealogy: 3 The strange remark in Ruth 4:12 was, in fact, a prophecy: the tenth generation from Pharez was none other than David. The Torah provides that a bastard results in being cast out of the congregation for 10 generations. 2 Tamar gives birth to two sons, Zarah and Pharez. When confronted with the evidence, he confesses that his sin was greater than hers. 1 Tamar then resorted to posing as a prostitute and Judah unknowingly got her pregnant. Under Mosaic law, Judah was expected to provide Tamar a brother to raise up issue and failed to do so. In Genesis 38, Tamar had married Judah's firstborn son, Er, who died without having any children. (However, if you are familiar with that sordid episode, you might have been tempted to exclaim, "Same to you, fella!") But there's more to the tale. An apparent reference to the events of Genesis 38.
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