Book one in the series presented such
a perfect apocalyptic world building that the readers didn't need back story; it was so unbelievably «never going to happen» far - fetched that it was just an awesome book that sucked us in and made us want to know what happened in The Glade.
As Israel moved through the violence and terror of the years approaching the birth of Jesus the hope for a Davidic King and a
perfected state yielded to the vision of an
apocalyptic shattering of this
world in the final clash of God's power with the power of Satan.