Moral decay, hedonistic lifestyle, political controversy.Characteristics from contemporary culture? For the Hebrew people exiled to Babylon in 539 B. C., those words typified the lifestyle to which they had become accustomed. Imagine being away from your homeland so long that the strange landscape, foreign people, and pagan customs are now familiar and comfortable-and the land of your birth seems nothing more than a distant dream. God's Word and your Jewish faith in Him have faded into memory.This is the regrettable situation the Hebrew people found themselves in. And when the impossible...