Goodbook vision
In association with Fishy Writers
Presents
40 days
Based on a true story
40 days till the volcanoes blow. Will Auckland repent?
The hellhole of the Pacific – Auckland City, is on the verge of collapse. One man, Jonah is called to preach God’s Word to a city that harbours gamblers, drunks and prostitutes. Will anyone listen?
Jonah is a man on a reluctant mission. He is sent to Auckland when he would rather have spent a relaxing cruise holiday in Rarotonga. But on his way there, divine things happen that make it clear God really wants him to go to Auckland.
The people of Auckland are not where God wants them to be. Aucklanders are caught in the grip of consumerism through buying and selling property, having just built the biggest gambling complex in the nation and a new motorway means more cars clog an increasingly congested and polluted city. There are pride parades, constant drunken parties, and the red light district is doing a roaring trade.
False churches prey on the poor for more money, we meet youth who cannot get jobs and solo mothers whose partners have abandoned them and become addicted to gambling. Other children never see their parents who are working overtime to pay the rising rates on their houses. Retirees sell up and run off with the cash, to spend on expensive overseas holidays.
The Mayor has an affair with his secretary and then does not quit his job but continues to get rich from council perks.
Jonah wants no part of Auckland City. He doesn’t want to preach there. If the volcanoes blow in 40 days as God says unless people repent, he wants to watch from a safe vantage point.
However by miracle something happens as the Word gets round….Aucklanders don’t want their city destroyed like Christchurch! And they don’t want to leave in a mass exodus. Jonah can’t believe his eyes when he sees Aucklanders repenting and starting to love one another as Jesus commands.
Rated BG
Some content may offend. Biblical guidance recommended.
