As Jesus laid out his crimes against humanity and the will of God, he pleaded for mercy and forgiveness, even attempting to reject Carpathia and Satan, pledging allegiance to him. She is eventually killed by Leon Fortunato, who calls down a bolt of lightning to vaporize her. After his address Carpathia quickly becomes a celebrity, and People magazine named him their newest Sexiest Man Alive. His rage increases exponentially when he hears that an evangelistic effort has succeeded in the greatest harvest of souls that has ever happened. He, along with, Vicki, Lionel, and Ryan, were the first original members of The Young Tribulation Force. When Carpathia created the Global Community, he appointed Leon to the position of Supreme Commander, the deputy to Nicolae's Supreme Potentate. Zeke and his father were first introduced in Assassins. In May 2000, after more than six months of waiting, readers finally got to find out who killed Nicolae Carpathia. Naturally, that led him to politics and soon he was the Supreme Potentate. She also appears briefly in Kingdom Come, as she is among those present at Mac McCullum's thousandth birthday party and is assumedly with the rest of the Trib Force as they gather to watch the end of the Millennium. Suhail Akbar is a supporting antagonist in the Left Behind series. 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. Nicolae Jetty Carpathia is a fictional character and the primary antagonist in the Left Behind book series written by Timothy LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins. Director Akbar ironically died under similar circumstances for a minor infraction just hours before the Glorious Appearing of Jesus Christ. Razor is a Mexican military officer in his mid-twenties at the San Diego Tribulation Force fortress. Kenny is the first child in COT. Carpathia is still writhing in agony as he is tortured in fire and brimstone, repeating over and over that Jesus is Lord. Ben-Judah essentially took his place to teach, now reaching out to a worldwide cyber-audience. She is present at the final battle at the end of the Millennium where Christ overthrows evil once and for all and welcomes all believers into the Kingdom of Heaven for eternity. Plank next appears in The Remnant, when the GC brass order all personnel without Carpathia's mark of loyalty obtain it immediately. Thus, both Antichrist Carpathia and False Prophet Fortunato are punished accordingly by Jesus Christ, who has them hurled into the bottomless and ineffably terrifying Lake of Fire for all eternity. When the steward replied, "or the Most High Reverend Father", Akbar chuckled. Unlike Carpathia, who accepted his fate, Leon struggled with Michael as the archangel threw him into the lake of fire. 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. [9] He is the only son of Gustaf Zuckermandel Sr. (aka: "Big Zeke"). The only one he could connect with was his Uncle Andr, who would turn into a drunk and a gambler one week and a "devout Christian" the next. His mother, Marilena, is unwittingly convinced by Sataniststo become the mother of a child who, they assure her, will change the face of the world. ; Book Burning: Or rather, Bible burning, as the furnace inside the giant Carpathia statue constructed in New Babylon is fueled by onionskin paper found in Bibles.Otherwise, the Antichrist doesn't seem to be doing much to keep people from reading God's Word. With Louis Gossett Jr., Kirk Cameron, Brad Johnson, Jessica Steen. Vicki grew up in a trailer park, and hated it because people regularly made fun of her and the others who lived in Prospect Gardens, calling them names such as "Trailer Trash". Carpathia established "Carpathianism" as the only legal religion on Earth and, following the events in the Book of Revelation, decreed that all were required to bear a mark (the biblical Mark of the Beast) signifying their loyalty to him and the Global Community in order to buy or sell. Hattie is resurrected at the Glorious Appearing of Jesus Christ, to the great delight of Rayford and the rest of God's followers. Carpathia then brainwashes everyone in the room (except Buck, who was protected by God) into believing that it was Stonagal who shot himself and Todd-Cothran in remorse for the assassinations. Buck Williams notices that the gunshot sounded similar to the sound of the gun Nicolae used to kill Eli and Moishe. At the end of the Millennium, Tsion is welcomed into Heaven with the rest of the believers. 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. Caucasian Romanian When Kenny goes to France, he meets up with the Johpins and their other cousin, Nicolette. With his advisers and counselors, Carpathia formed a successful import-export business, which quickly made him a millionaire. The final straw for Carpathia was his failure to promptly terminate a hijacked broadcast of Tsion Ben-Judah delivering a message from Global Community's own television network. Carpathia just look away, and that convince Chang that Nicolae cannot know his thoughts. T also helped Buck Williams and Chaim Rosenzweig escape from Israel on a plane that crashes in Greece, killing him. Shortly thereafter, in the chaos following the Rapture, Carpathia is appointed United Nations Secretary-General. Jonathan Stonagal begins to grow regretful with his involvement with Carpathia, fearing that the youngAntichristis already out of his control. She is described as having short black hair and being athletically built. Before she died, she wrote him a letter saying how she felt like there was somebody back home that he loved. The religion lasts for three and a half years before meeting its downfall at the Second Coming of Christ. Apparently, Carpathia does not care to remember his subordinates, whom he considers expendable. Jesus declares that as the Antichrist, Carpathia is the most evil person of all time, and has brought about more destruction than any other person in history. In Kingdom Come, Irene and her husband lead a missionary trip to Egypt, where they lead many to salvation during the Millennium World. As the four earned a liking to each other, they formed The Young Tribulation Force. He is assumedly present at Cameron's estate during the final battle of the Millennium. When she woke up the next morning, all her family were gone because they had been raptured. The Left Behind series series portrays Carpathia as a man who craves the reverence and adulation of his subjects, even composing a hymn that glorifies himself and demanding that his subjects worship his image three times a day. known as the most popular man in Romania, admired, respected, lauded by even his opponents. 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. Clips taken from Left Behind: The Movie (2000), Left Behind II: Tribulation Force (2002), and Left Behind: World At War (2005). For instance, he had Ipswich beaten to death for addressing him as "sir" and not giving a sufficiently abject apology to him. (This was hinted at with the name of the artificial insemination project, Project People's Victory.) She and David get engaged but can't marry till they escape. Ritz is badly injured in the Wrath of the Lamb earthquake, when an airplane wing hits the back of his head. He also ordered GC security to occupy the GCCNN building in Al Hillah to shoot the the highest administrators from the chain of command there every minute until Chaim Rosenzeig was taken off the air from a pirated broadcast. Hassid works in communications and is considered one of the top computer experts alive. 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. Chang is pressured by his parents, who are Carpathia loyalists, to take the mark, but Chang violently protests this as he is a believer in Jesus Christ. He allowed Vicki, Ryan, and Lionel to stay at his house until they were forced to flee because of the Global Community. He is also the best friend of Ryan Daley. Refusal to do either of these activities is made punishable by public execution. While in a discussion with Loren Hut, the head of the Morale Monitors, on how to deal with dissidents in Jerusalem, Carpathia revealed on his own sadistic recommendations on how to give them painful deaths by shooting them nine times, twice on hands, knees, feet, shoulders, with the final blow in the forehead where the mark should be. 33 years before Rapture Hannah Palemoon is a fictional character in the Left Behind series of novels created by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins. After the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, Irene and the rest of the raptured saints wait and enjoy life in Heaven. They head to Jordan where Kenny is seen by Abdullah Smith. He was raptured, along with his mother, when Jesus returned before the Tribulation. They go on to establish a branch of COT in Greece, as was Kat's lifelong dream. Christopher then boasts anticlimactically to Jesus that the gathering before him were intended to become Jesus' bride but became his "whores and sluts". Chloe Steele Williams, daughter of Rayford Steele and wife of Buck Williams, was a former college student. Within two weeks of the Rapture, Plank accepts a post as press secretary for rising international political leader Nicolae Carpathia, and nominates Buck to take his place as senior editor. The world falls into chaos as Nicolae Carpathia detonates nuclear devices across the globe and stages multiple devastating attacks against both the Tribulation Force and an international militia, led by U.S. President Gerald Fitzhugh. By that point, they had assumed the worst and knew she had been captured. She lost her mother and brother in the rapture, became a believer in Christ, married Buck and had a son called Kenneth Bruce Williams after Ken Ritz, the pilot, and Bruce Barnes, who led Buck, Rayford, and Chloe (CEO of the International Commodity co-op) to Christ. He is taken care of by his grandfather, Rayford Steele, when Buck goes to Jerusalem to help defend it in Armageddon. Manipulation: The Antichrist Nicolae was able to manipulate anyone at ease. Thus, Carpathia declares himself to be God, and demands worship. David (at some point during this time) vomits on Carpathia during a meeting. Condemned Even though Bruce is killed relatively early in the Tribulation, the Force he helped establish becomes a driving presence during the global war. Carpathia quickly began effecting changes to the U.N., converting it into the cruel and purely malevolentGlobal Community and appointing himself as that evil government's Supreme Potentate. He had the esteem of the Supreme Potentate that he was entrusted with organizing "the most massive offensive in the history of mankind" to drive the Christians and Jews from Jerusalem and Petra. 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. 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. While Carpathia's forces seek to destroy the Tribulation Force once and for all, the world teeters on the brink of the ultimate battle: Armageddon. During this time, Nicolae proudly announces to Rayford and Amanda Steele that Hattie is pregnant with his child and they are engaged. When one of the workers, Cendrillon Jospin dies at one hundred, It creates an uproar among the believers since only unbelievers die. They started going to a secret church in Arlington Heights and running a black market gas station. Eighteen months later, his wife and teenage stepchildren were horribly slaughtered and Ben-Judah, the chief suspect, was forced into hiding. After that, he is then returned to Romania. Judd Thompson, Jr is a fictional character and one of the four main protagonists in the Left Behind: The Kids series of novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins. After helping rescue Chang from New Babylon they become very close, but decide to postpone marriage until the Millennium Kingdom. Prior to the Rapture, Plank is the executive editor of Global Weekly magazine, and the boss of Cameron "Buck" Williams. In accordance with the series' interpretation of biblical prophecy, Jesus Christ Himself defeated Antichrist Carpathia right after theSecond Coming. Hattie is eventually sent to the Belgium Facility for Female Rehabilitation (BFFR, or "Buffer") when Carpathia realizes she would be a liability to him. Nicolae Carpathia is most likely based on former Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu. He went into charter business, and by the time of the Rapture, he owned a small fleet of aircraft based at Chicago-area airports. He disappears for several years, presumably lost in the Great Wrath of The Lamb earthquake when the Global Community Headquarters in New Babalyon collapsed. 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. For his mark, he got a giant black 42 that dominated his forehead. He helped Rayford rescue Hattie Durham from a detention center in Colorado in The Mark, using the name Marcus Elbaz. 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. 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. In a final surge for complete domination of Earth, Carpathia created the One World, composed of all G.C. He also admits, at the feet of Jesus, that his entire life was a waste and that he rebelled against a God that he never knew loved him. This touches on the golden calf story found in both the Old Testament and the Quran. Graphic Author of the underground cyber-magazine "The Truth". After being expelled, Fortunato grew fond of becoming a kingmaker, preferring to work behind the scenes to elevate his chosen candidates to any positions of power they wanted. 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. Two weeks later, when United Nations secretary-general and Antichrist Nicolae Carpathia and a host of American and Israeli delegates arrived in Israel to sign a seven-year treaty of peace, and at the behest of Buck Williams, Ben-Judah guided Buck (Kirk Cameron) to the Western Wall so that he could speak with the two prophets, Eli and Moishe, men resurrected from Biblical times to bear witness to Christ and begin converting 144,000 Jews to become witnesses for Him. He appears twice, albeit briefly, in the final novel Kingdom Come, when he gives Abdullah Smith advice on how to go about infiltrating The Other Light, and later when both he and his father are present at Mac McCullum's thousandth birthday party. He was one of the few believers left alive when Christ, with his armies, returned to earth. He came to stay in Petra after the marriage of Judd and Vicki where he was best man. Nicolae Carpathia is one of the believers in Christ in the Left on Earth series. Now, all that is left is to find out how the "conference" is going to go. When the Rapture takes place and his wife and three children are taken to Heaven, Bruce almost falls into depression and total disbelief. At the end of the series he went to Jerusalem with the other believers. Kenny later marries Kat and they have eight sons and six daughters. Formerly assigned to Global Community Headquarters Palace, New Babylon, United Holy Land States as Director of Purchasing; oversees all purchases for the GC and the hangar and cockpit crew of the Condor 216 and the Phoenix 216. In the weeks before the Rapture, Carpathia assigns Fortunato to orchestrate President of Romania, Ghregore Vasile's leave of office. He faked a stroke, got a wheelchair, and hid a hand-filed blade in the handle. He was also able to emit a faint glowing aura that gave limited visibility to both him and whoever was close to his personal vicinity during the fifth Bowl Judgment. Viv Ivins (spiritual mentor, deceased) Satan (spiritual mentor, Defeated) After losing some friends in the rapture she began searching but became a fan of Nicolae Carpathia. Carpathia outlines his plan to get the UN back on track; re-arranging the Security Council, and organizing 10 regions to encompass the entire world with the Leaders of each nation reporting to each leader of the 10 regions. The Dragon was cast down to Earth near the end of this experience. He is present at the final battle of the Millennium, watching from a safe distance in Jerusalem with the rest of the Tribulation Force. He married his wife Chloe in a double wedding with Rayford Steele (his new father-in-law) and Amanda White, has one son Kenny Bruce Williams. 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