The good guys are a rotating group (due to the inherent high mortality rate associated with living in the End Times and fighting the Prince of Darkness) of 4-5 who call themselves the Tribulation Force. Jim Hickman was his predecessor. Annie is also mentioned in Left Behind: The Kids when Judd and Lionel are at Carpathia's funeral, and Judd witnesses her death by lightning. The main antagonist Nicolae Carpathia (i.e. Nicolae is not omniscient, even when indwelt by Satan, since that ability is only reserved for God. His middle name refers to the "jet-black" night on which he was born.)[2]. Fictional bio Irene returns with the heavenly hosts at the Glorious Appearing of Christ, reuniting with her husband, her daughter, and her young grandson, Kenny Bruce Williams. Judd fell in love with her very early in the series and the two were married around a year before the Glorious Appearing, shortly following Vicki's twentieth birthday. Director Akbar at first thought Carpathia was using hyperbole and said that he would talk to sub-potentate about the issue, but Akbar got clarification that Carpathia literally wanted the leaders and their cabinet dead. While she was in the air going to New Babylon to work for him, the Wrath of the Lamb earthquake hit killing all her family. Hattie is played by Chelsea Noble in the films, Nicky Whelan in the 2014 film, and Kathryn Kohut in Left Behind: Rise of the Antichrist. Peter Mathews was the archbishop of Cincinnati, Ohio, at the time of the Rapture. Zeke became a disguise specialist/master forger for the Tribulation Force and later joined them in Chicago, after his dad was arrested for black marketeering. She traveled to China under the guise of a Global Community Peacekeeper officer named Chang Chow in order to find her parents who became believers, and discovered that while her mother was still alive, her father died a martyr. After this, Nicolae was returned to Romania by Satan. Not wanting anyone to follow Cendrillon's path, but knowing many will, Kenny, Raymie Steele, Bahira Ababneh, and Zaki Ababneh form the Millennium Force, a branch off of the Tribulation Force. In contrast, Christopher Goodman, the Antichrist of the Christ Clone Trilogy, had less of an appetite for the devotion of the world, but he captivates others to follow his cause through flattery, the promotion of new age ideology that promises the collective evolution of humanity and libertine morals, and their odium towards God. She was a former Global Community employee working at Buffer who is a believer. His popular message of unity -- "We must disarm, we must empower the United Nations . Marilena stays with her husband, Sorin, until the baby is born, insisting that her "son" keep the strong and noble "Carpathia" name. Leon is revived, and then becomes more faithful than ever to Carpathia, believing that Carpathia is a god incarnate. Plot summary. She is grief-stricken to find that David was killed by two MIA GC soldiers, and has a hand in killing both men so as to keep Petra safe for the Remnant to move in. He manages to fly Buck and Chloe back to Chicago, and is shortly afterward employed to take Buck to Denver to pluck Hattie Durham from the GC. In a Brazilian series from 2012 about the end times called Decode, a similarly named character appears as Nicolai Carpathia. There, he is prayed for by Tsion and others, and his mark of loyalty is miraculously removed by God. However, given the urgency of the circumstances, he flies Buck to Minneapolis to rescue Chloe Steele Williams before she is taken by Global Community operatives to be used as a bargaining chip. Mathews is later assassinatedstabbed with icicles from an ice sculptureby the ten "kings" that Carpathia had appointed to lead the world under his rule. Kenny is the first child in COT. Spiritual State Eleazar's wife was converted to Christianity before she died of an illness, and Eleazar, who otherwise loved his wife greatly, rejected his dying wife's pleas to convert, and instead disowned her and slipped into depression. the Antichrist) in turn is a very thinly veiled spoof/ripoff of the infamous Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceauescu, as both are Romanian politicians of short stature with large egos (although Ceauescu's positions on abortion weren't far from that of most Left Behind fans). He was "The Antichrist," born from an ancient Roman lineage, remarkably intelligent and athletic, manipulative and unbelievably successful in business. Chloe Steele Williams, daughter of Rayford Steele and wife of Buck Williams, was a former college student. Satan himself agrees to help her make this possible if only she submits to him. This touches on the golden calf story found in both the Old Testament and the Quran. Leon Fortunato has been described as Nicolae Carpathia's sidekick. He is resurrected in Glorious Appearing with the other martyred saints. Fortunato resorts to several threats before calling in a bomb threat at Vasile's grandchildren's school and a fire at his son's farm which ultimately cause Vasile to step down. As Christopher's army was marching towards Petra, Jesus appears on a ridge and Christopher meets him there. His handlers arrange for his mother to be eliminated, and Nicolae himself eventually demands the dispatch of his "father", a key to his rise to power. Their mission is to destroy the remnant stronghold of Petra and take over the city of Jerusalem as the world's new capital, following the supernatural destruction of New Babylon. Fortunato's "glory days" are short-lived, however, ending in Glorious Appearing with the return of Jesus. Carpathia said to Director Akbar that the practically limitless monetary and military resources afforded to him for this endeavor would make every other historical military strategist hang his head in shame. As her son Nicolae comes of age, Stonagal becomes one of his mentors, financing his rise in the corporate world. Nicolae Carpathia is one of the believers in Christ in the Left on Earth series. It is hinted later in the series that Bruce was poisoned by Nicolae Carpathia's agents and may have died prior to the actual hospital bombing. Following her parents' conversion, Vicki became even more rebellious and continued to refuse to convert. He is introduced and warmly greeted by Secretary-General Mwangati Ngumo and Chaim Rosenzweig. Shortly after returning to the U.S. from a missions trip to India, Bruce is killed when the hospital he was being treated at for an overseas bug gets bombed by the Global Community in order to decimate a nearby rebel compound. He knelt before Jesus and acknowledged him as Lord without hesitation. Before the Rapture, Hattie was a senior flight attendant, young and beautiful, working for Pan-Continental Airlines. Bruce acts as a spiritual mentor and adviser to the Tribulation Force, explaining the foretold prophecies of what is to come in the final days. Hassid and Blod clash, but eventually, Hassid realizes he must get along with Blod or risk discipline and possible exposure as a Tribulation saint; also, it is not very Christ-like to be promoting enmity. He was a prominent member of the Global Community who was promoted to the role of Supreme Commander after Leon Fortunato's promotion to High Reverend Father of Carpathianism and Jim Hickman's death. Thus, Nicolae eliminates any obstacles in his path to power. Carpathia is the Antichrist, and leader of the Global Community, a world government which he ultimately marshals against the followers of Jesus Christ . She later fell in love with and married Ree Woo in "Armageddon". He is later drugged by his father, who forces the mark on Chang while the young man is incapacitated; Chang fears for his soul as a result of this, although he is reassured that he cannot be held responsible for taking the mark since it was forced on him against his will. All of his family disappeared in the Rapture except Andr, who died after being shot by LeRoy Banks and being caught up in a fire in his apartment complex. [3] He also finances an attempted invasion of Israel which is thwarted by God. As a young child, Carpathia shows remarkable intelligence and athletic ability, and also proves to be extraordinarily manipulative, able to bend others to his will with relative ease. Carpathia has the Global Community motto written as "Hail Carpathia, our lord and risin king!". The scene closes and Fortunato's suffering is resumed for all eternity. She is described as having short black hair and being athletically built. A few days later she arrives at his house, pleading for him to come with her, but he tells her he found what he was missing, Jesus Christ, and that the disappearances was the Rapture. (This was hinted at with the name of the artificial insemination project, Project People's Victory.) He allowed Vicki, Ryan, and Lionel to stay at his house until they were forced to flee because of the Global Community. Chang said to Carpathia in his mental voice that "You are evil in the flesh, the total opposite of the loving God I serve." After Carpathia establishes the Global Community, the governments of the United States, United Kingdom, and Egypt launch an uprising against him, resulting in World War Three. The second wife of Rayford Steele, whom married him in Tribulation Force. Unlike Fortunato, who attempted to struggle with Michael the Archangel out of his sentence, Carpathia accepted his fate out of his own guilt and shame, and simply covered his eyes as he passively allowed the archangel to throw him in. He went into charter business, and by the time of the Rapture, he owned a small fleet of aircraft based at Chicago-area airports. Ben-Judah essentially took his place to teach, now reaching out to a worldwide cyber-audience. As the Antichrist himself, Nicolae Carpathia (Gordon Currie), uses his newfound powers as head of the world government to bring war and plague on every nation, the American president (Louis Gossett Jr.) teams with a Christian resistance fighter (Jessica Steen) to try to stop him. Upon hearing this heartrending realization, the gathering then starts to fight amongst themselves and were killed by a plague. He helped Rayford rescue Hattie Durham from a detention center in Colorado in The Mark, using the name Marcus Elbaz. When the steward replied, "or the Most High Reverend Father", Akbar chuckled. After being accused of switching loyalties, he is kicked out of the Millennium Force, deserted by Ekaterina, and hardly believed by his parents. He says that he had already been convinced before the earthquake, and that he "was praying the prayer as the building came down.". His father's last name, Carpathia, comes from the Carpathian Mountains, a mountain range in Romania. As a young child, Carpathia showed remarkable intelligence (easily mastering many languages), beauty and athletic ability, and also proved to be extraordinarily manipulative, able to bend others to his will with relative ease. In reference to the Book of Revelation, Carpathia introduces the mandatory mark known as the Mark of the Beast. Ben-Judah was beginning to conclude that Jesus of Nazareth met the descriptions of prophecy, but had not committed himself when Christ raptured His church. Nicolae Jetty Carpathia is the primary antagonist in the Left Behind book series. Hattie, who convinced Buck to introduce her to Nicolae Carpathia, eventually becomes Carpathia's personal secretary, and later his lover. Together they have two children, Chloe and Raymie. Nicolae's Satanist handlers arranged for his mother to be eliminated, and Nicolae himself eventually demanded the dispatch of his "fathers," a key to his rise to power. He is introduced in Armageddon shortly after Chloe Steele Williams disappears. In the first novel, he is shown to be openly welcoming of Nicolae Carpathia, but gradually become more suspicious. Later, Chloe and Buck name their child Kenneth Bruce Williams in honor of Ken. He's the Supreme Potentate of the Global Community and, unlike the Left Behind series, isn't the Antichrist. Carpathia allows his enemies to start the war so that the Community can "retaliate" by destroying them. 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