She and Hannah Palemoon move to Petra and help run the hospital there. Refusal to do either of these activities is made punishable by public execution. Tsion Ben-Judah, pronounced "Zion", is a Jewish rabbinical scholar and former student of Chaim Rosenzweig. Many Israelis and Jews worldwide were outraged at Ben-Judah, but he began to teach and meet with Jews all around the world, as more and more began to convert to Christ. Christopher then boasts anticlimactically to Jesus that the gathering before him were intended to become Jesus' bride but became his "whores and sluts". This is evidenced by both Carpathia's and Ceausescu's use of cult of personality in their rules. Carpathia attempted to regale Hut with the detail that one's heart can beat for more than a half an hour after decapitation, but Carpathia realized that was moot if someone actually shot a victim in the manner he described. Over the course of a few years, Carpathia rises to power within the Romanian government, becoming a member of the Romanian House of Deputies (the government's lower house). Through the counseling of her friend Jackie, Irene tries to turn the rest of her family towards Christ, but to no avail. Engaged and married on the same day as Chloe and Buck. Plank next appears in The Remnant, when the GC brass order all personnel without Carpathia's mark of loyalty obtain it immediately. Appearance-wise, in the original release of Left Behind, Nicolae Carpathia was said to resemble a young Robert Redford, while in the later release, he was said to resemble a young Brad Pitt. A true global community, a true world.of peace. 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. She died in a plane crash in Soul Harvest. Naomi is one of the "techies" in Petra, and assists Chang Wong in setting up technology within Petra. Terrified from the events, Hattie informs Rayford about the event, thinking he does not know what has just happened. So influential, in fact, that award-winning journalist Cameron "Buck" Williams believes he is responsible for having many professional acquaintances assassinated. Leon is revived, and then becomes more faithful than ever to Carpathia, believing that Carpathia is a god incarnate. 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. Prior to the Rapture, Plank is the executive editor of Global Weekly magazine, and the boss of Cameron "Buck" Williams. She helps out at Operation Eagle as a nurse, and then goes to live with a co-op pilot and his wife when the Chicago safe house is compromised. Rayford Steele and Albie encounter him in The Mark working undercover as a GC operative in Pueblo, Colorado. 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. [7] There have also been complaints about the farcical characterization of Leon Fortunato when he suffers from the pain of a hemorrhoid in Desecration.[8]. But the Tribulation Force of . Zeke and his father were first introduced in Assassins. The brother of Ming Toy, he is 17 at the time of Global Community Supreme Potentate and Antichrist Nicolae Carpathia's temporary death, he is groomed by David Hassid to replace him as the Tribulation Force's mole in the GC Headquarters Palace in New Babylon. He was fond of dressing in ornate and flowing robes and strutting all over his college campus. In Tribulation Force, with his power and countries independence fading, Fitzhugh plans with the British and Egyptian governments to launch a worldwide offensive against Carpathia and the Global Community, with help from various militias. However, he manages to brainwash everybody present by convincing them that what they had actually seen was the two individuals murdering each other. Cameron ("Buck") Williams, is an award-winning journalist, former senior publisher of Global Community Weekly, who became a believer before the murder of Jonathan Stonagal. Everyone was first irritated, and then quiet as he told all present that Jesus had loved them enough to die for them and He wanted everyone to accept His gift of grace and eternal life. She later fell in love with and married Ree Woo in "Armageddon". She seemed to be attracted to Pan-Con pilot Rayford Steele, perhaps wanting an affair with him. Kniha zan s protagonistou Rayford Steele uvauje o zabjen globlnho spoleenstv Nejvyho potentt a Antikrist Nicolae Carpathia .. Prolog je posledn ti strnky Apollyonu .. Shrnut spiknut . She is one of the Tribulation Force members still alive at the Glorious Appearing. He was genuinely frustrated and surprised when the Unity Army were unable to inflict harm on the inhabitants of Petra and capture Jerusalem. After becoming a born-again Christian, Irene becomes desperate for her family to have the same salvation she has. Viv Ivins (spiritual mentor, deceased) Satan (spiritual mentor, Defeated) He is also the best friend of Ryan Daley. Antichrist. In Left Behind: World at War, he displays the same ability as an Angel to let bullets pass through him without losing momentum and hit the person behind him. [6] One critic has condemned the silliness of Fortunato's titles as being anti-Catholic and populist. Carpathia is still writhing in agony as he is tortured in fire and brimstone, repeating over and over that Jesus is Lord. 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. On the night on the rapture, Judd decided that he was going to run away. His rage increases exponentially when he hears that an evangelistic effort has succeeded in the greatest harvest of souls that has ever happened. All the demands are met, and Carpathia is elected as the new Secretary-General of the United Nations. He is killed by a lethal head wound from a sword which Rosenzweig had concealed. In Kingdom Come, he works in Jerusalem with his older sister, Chloe Steele, who was executed during the Tribulation for her belief, and her husband, Buck Williams, who also died during the Tribulation during the final battle in Jerusalem. Zeke then gives them a new ID. Chang becomes romantically involved with Naomi Tiberias, but they decide to postpone marriage until a point beyond Glorious Appearing. He was the last one out of the four to become a believer due to his atheist background and grief in his parents loss. Carpathia represents the forces of opposition to this crazy deity. Shortly after, he is reunited with his father, who returned from heaven with the armies of Christ. With his reign secure, he ordered that golden statues of himself be constructed in every locale possible, and commanded that all worship these statues three times a day, with death as the penalty for failure to obey. She then accepted Christ upon meeting Bruce Barnes, Judd Thompson, Lionel Washington, and Ryan Daley. The President of Romania soon resigned in favor of Carpathia, with the unanimous support of that country's parliament. Glorious Appearing: an Experience in Sound and Drama, Vanished: Left Behind The Next Generation, In the Dramatic Audio presentations, he is voiced by. Satan himself agrees to help her make this possible if only she submits to him. However, he did not have the supernatural ability of universal speech, where he can say something in one language but have listeners from other languages understand him in their language. She and Leah also serves as a nurse during Operation Eagle. After a devastating earthquake sends the world into chaos, Nicolae Carpathia institutes a worldwide rebuilding campaign in an effort to restore order and control. Kenny later marries Kat and they have eight sons and six daughters. Left Behind (publishing order)The Rising (canonical order). Carpathia then ordered Suhail Akbar, the Global Community Director of Security and Intelligence, to assassinate the heads of Libya and Ethiopia and their entire senior cabinets in order to send a message to the sub-potentate of the United African States by the time the sub-potentate wakes up in the morning. Joshua Todd-Cothran is the head of the London Stock Exchange and, like his colleague Jonathan Stonagal, is a highly influential financier. In the end, Supreme Potentate Carpathia marshals the "Ten Kingdoms" against the followers of Jesus Christ, and besieges Jerusalem in the final Battle of Armageddon. The conversation they share is instrumental in the start of Ritz's journey to salvation, although the novels do not indicate any further services by Ritz to Buck until some 18 months into the Tribulation. Fortunato is writhing in pain and shouting "Jesus is Lord!" One night she came back from partying to find the house quiet and was under the impression that they had fallen asleep waiting for her. Carpathia has the Global Community motto written as "Hail Carpathia, our lord and risin king!". This touches on the golden calf story found in both the Old Testament and the Quran. On arrival at the safe house to begin the flight to Denver, he shows that he has become a believer. The religion lasts for three and a half years before meeting its downfall at the Second Coming of Christ. This references both the early Christian belief that the Antichrist would come in the form of a Roman emperor, as well as the current Pre-Millennialist Christian view[citation needed] that the Antichrist will emerge from a "New Roman Empire"[citation needed]. A very impressed reporter Cameron Williams (who was previously known to be a skeptic) even refers to him as the "Carpathia Juggernaut." Through his parents, Carpathia possesses a unique bloodline dating back to Ancient Rome, so he can actually claim to be a Roman descendant. They head to Jordan where Kenny is seen by Abdullah Smith. Manipulation: The Antichrist Nicolae was able to manipulate anyone at ease. He was best friends with Rayford "Raymie" Steele Jr., Rayford Steele's son, and the two often had much fun together. Four million people attend his funeral. During The Meeting of The Witnesses, Carpathia had to have interpreters in order to speak to the diverse audience who came from throughout the world, but Tsion Ben-Judah was able to address the audience simultaneously, with everyone understanding his message. In Tribulation Force (Book 2), Carpathia tells Williams that he was named the sole beneficiary in Stonagal's will, though Stonagal's family members will receive massive payoffs to silence them. As the four earned a liking to each other, they formed The Young Tribulation Force. Jesus had come back and he had been left behind. He is a charismatic politician that wins the support of all through the United Nations. Caucasian Romanian Apart from controlling most of the world's largest financial institutions and being the richest man in history, he also owns the genetic engineering company that artificially inseminated Nicolae Carpathia's mother Marilena. Before his eternal sentence is carried out, Satan is cast out of Carpathia, rendering Carpathia to his rotting corpse-like remains, the state his body would have been in had Satan not resurrected him prior. As the Antichrist, Carpathia is directly responsible for the terrifying 7-year-long Tribulation, and the ultimate Battle of Armageddon. The second wife of Rayford Steele, whom married him in Tribulation Force. Nicolae Carpathia. He is the archenemy of Rayford Steele and Tsion Ben-Judah. Once a commercial airline pilot, Ritz was sacked because he was too much of a stickler for safety. He, like other believers, is welcomed into Paradise at the end of both the Millennium and time itself. In the Left Behind films, he is portrayed by Colin Fox and David LeReaney. Jonathan Stonagal is a powerful, corrupt, and highly influential American financier with links to Viv Ivins' Luciferian organization. Tyrola Mark Delanty became a believer and a member of the Tribulation Force. Leon Fortunato has been described as Nicolae Carpathia's sidekick. At first, Irene is nervous when her works are tested by the fire because of her short time as a Christian, but her efforts are ultimately praised by Jesus. Carpathia is the prophesied Antichrist (also known as the Beast from the Sea, the Man of Sin, and the Son of Perdition), and the most purely malevolent, egregious, and evil person the world has ever known, compared to whom all of the great dictators and tyrants of the past pale. A few spoke defiantly towards him, such as Loren Hut, Raman Vajpayee, and General Slovak (named in Glorious Appearing: an Experience in Sound and Drama), but they were often killed by Carpathia. 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. According to the plot, Carpathia was born in Cluj County, Romania, the product of genetic engineering and artificial insemination. Afterwards, Judd got off his plane and met up with Bruce Barnes. 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. Months before the battle, when the protagonist Decker Hawthorne confronts Christopher Goodman, Christopher confesses that he expects to be thrown into hell, but that his spite towards God and his desire to sadistically relish in other people's hatred towards him motivates him to deceive the world to deprive God of the souls He intends to save. However, Akbar had no qualms in killing his pilots once Carpathia expressed his disappointment in their performance and when they pridefully refused to conform to party line of the Global Community that they missed their target due to pilot error because they insisted that execution of the attack was impeccable but the Christians survived due to some kind of miracle. Dishelved with the death of a fellow co-worker at the age of one-hundred, Raymie founds the Millennium Force, a small group dedicated to sharing the Word of God with the undecideds during the Millennium World. He had stolen money from his father's credit card and lied to both of his parents, telling them that he was going to the library to study for his schoolwork. Carpathia's aim in defeating the remnant in Petra and capturing Jerusalem in the Battle of Armageddon is to usurp God's place and ascend to his throne in the heavens (Isaiah 14:13-14). He is portrayed in the films by Kirk Cameron, Chad Michael Murray in the 2014 film, and by Greg Parrow in Left Behind: Rise of the Anti-Christ. 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 had been buried and crushed in the rubble of the GC headquarters complex and his mother was calling him home, when he heard a voice Carpathia's calling out: "LEONARDO, COME FORTH!" Leah and Rayford Steele clash as they stumble at trying to work together, their personalities colliding. Eleazer Tiberias is one of the elders at Petra, who helps Micah (aka Chaim Rosenzweig) run the operations of the city of the remnant. Within the series, Carpathia is the Antichrist, and leader of the Global Community (G.C. Died Instead, Judd went to the O'Hare airport and boarded a plane that was heading to London, England. While others, such as Carpathia's secretary Krystall Carney and Loren Hut, became disillusioned with his behavior and personality, others in his inner circle were sycophantic around him, trying to curry his favor. 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. In the Left Behind PC games, he is portrayed by Trevor Parsons. He faked a stroke, got a wheelchair, and hid a hand-filed blade in the handle. The name says it all. At Cendrillon's funeral, Kenny (who has the only non-glorified body of the four) meets Cendrillon's cousins from France, who are in deep with TOL (The Other Light), a secret organization that worships Lucifer. Carpathia expressed his disappointment with him when he expressed some misgivings to Carpathia's plans to attack the Christians and Jews who are assembled at the Mount of Olives, Mizpe Ramon, Masada and Petra by referring to Micah's threat that an attack would bring back the plague of the sores or turn the waters of the world into blood. In Left Behind: The Kids, Bruce mentors four teenagers, Judd, Lionel, Ryan, and Vicki, who are left behind at the Rapture. He has statues of himself built around the world, which all people are required to bow to. Marilena Carpathia (mother, deceased), Sorin Carpathia (biological "father", deceased), Baduna Marius (biological "father", deceased), Viviana Ivinisova, a.k.a. Hattie begins working for Secretary-General Nicolae Carpathia as Head of Security, and later as personal assistant. He is described as a "fleshy" young man in thick-soled, square-toed, black motorcycle boots, black jeans, black T-shirt, and black leather vest. Their mission is to help the lost find Christ and prepare for God's Judgement that is to follow the peace agreement between the Antichrist and Israel. In the film Left Behind: World at War, Fitzhugh is played by Louis Gossett Jr. Leon Fortunato is the False Prophet, and he is a key member of the inner circle of Nicolae Carpathia, businessman, financier, politician, and Antichrist. According to the plot, Carpathia was born in Cluj County, Romania, the product of genetic engineering and artificial insemination. 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