Rain in the Wilderness

One terrible night in Bethlehem, Rebekah’s infant son is torn from her arms during the brutal slaughter ordered by King Herod.

Thirty years later, the wound has never fully healed.

Now a widow with grown children, Rebekah struggles to keep her family from tearing itself apart in a land suffocating beneath Roman rule. Her son Jonathan serves a Roman centurion in Galilee. Her son Kaleb dreams of a warrior Messiah who will overthrow Rome—and despises his brother for serving the enemy. Her son-in-law Malchus walks the dangerous halls of power under the unscrupulous high priest Caiaphas.

Then a wandering teacher from Nazareth begins stirring hope across Israel. Some call him a prophet. Some call him the promised Messiah. Others call him a deceiver and lawbreaker. 

When this controversial healer restores Jonathan’s life, Rebekah begins to glimpse the peace she has long sought—until discovering that because of the Nazarene, her other son lies dead.

When tragedy strikes her family again, old wounds reopen. Rebekah must confront the question that has haunted her for decades: how can she trust a God who allowed her child to die?