This summer I'll take some time to preach from the Old Testament books of Ezra and Nehemiah. In case you're not too familiar with them, they are essentially an ancient Hebrew version of a dystopian novel, except that in this case the story is true. George Orwell and Aldous Huxley got the the genre going earlier in the twentieth century with A Brave New World , Animal Farm , and 1984 , but in recent years novels and movies of similar theme have become very popular. The Hunger Games and Divergent series of books and movies are perhaps the most famous of them. This type of novel is set in a future post-apocalyptic world, and features heroes and heroines who struggle against overwhelming odds to maintain or to rebuild some sort of normal existence. The apocalypse that was in the background for these two books was the destruction of Jerusalem in 586/587 B.C. by the Babylonians and the subsequent exile of most of the residents of the kingdom of Judah. Hundreds of miles from h
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