On the day of Nicolae Carpathia's funeral/resurrection, she is killed by the ensuing storm by a painless lightning strike. In Acts of God, Christopher Goodman rallies his followers around the world to gather in Middle East so they can march to Petra to destroy the last stronghold of resistors and liberate the humanity from the oppressive influence of Yahweh so humanity can reach the next evolutionary stage of increased health and psychic powers without Yahweh's obstruction. He orders golden statues of himself to be placed prominently and worshiped three times a day. He also gathers the armies of the world at the valley of Armageddon for the battle with Jesus Christ and his army. He is killed by a lethal head wound from a sword which Rosenzweig had concealed. He is resurrected at the Glorious Appearing, after having reunited with his wife and children in Heaven. To complete his quest for world domination, Carpathia creates the One World Unity Army, composed of all G.C. Security Director Akbar was loyal to Nicolae Carpathia, always zealous to carry about his directives, even though these directives came in a pique or at a whim. With his advisers and counselors, Carpathia forms a successful import-export business which quickly makes him a millionaire. 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. Contents 1 Biography Vicki's parents and her sister all accepted Jesus as their Lord and Savior, along with her brother Eddie in Michigan, while a defiant Vicki refused. Carpathia has the Global Community motto written as "Hail Carpathia, our lord and risin king!". He later kicks Kenny out of the Force after evidence surfaces that indicates that Kenny has "switched sides." Nationality He had sufficient control over his neurology, speech patterns, and body language that he could pass through an advanced lie detector test (not just a polygraph) by answering falsehoods that the computer program recorded as the truth. Later, when Carpathia is assassinated by Dr. Rosenzweig and resurrected as prophesied, Fortunato becomes even more important, and is Carpathia's go-to man and second-in-command. Because of that they start a massive daycare ministry called COT(Children of the Tribulation), which focused on teaching children and trying to show them that Jesus is the only way. During the latter half of the Tribulation, many Global Community citizens bearing Carpathia's mark of loyalty spoke out against him in protests. 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. 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. ), a world government which he ultimately marshals against the followers of Jesus Christ. He has doubted the Bible for most of his life; though he has professed faith in Jesus Christ, he has never truly believed in his heart. Nicolae Jetty Carpathia is the primary antagonist in the Left Behind book series. 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. The trip was meant to last a week but actually lasted around three years. Buck Williams notices that the gunshot sounded similar to the sound of the gun Nicolae used to kill Eli and Moishe. 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. Occupation Biographical information She even counsels Rayford's parents, who are struggling with Alzheimer's, leading them both to salvation before their deaths. In Glorious Appearing, even though he was entrusted to command the overwhelming forces to overrun Petra and Jerusalem of the Global Community One World Unity Army, Suhail was publicly shamed for daring to mention the destruction of New Babylon in front of Carpathia in his underground bunker in Solomon's Stables and was later beaten to death on Carpathia's orders by another Unity Army Officer with a rattan rod. After a feud by e-mail with David, she goes with Rayford, Mac, and Leah Rose to the city of Petra to investigate a disturbance. With Louis Gossett Jr., Kirk Cameron, Brad Johnson, Jessica Steen. He is reunited with his parents in Glorious Appearing. During his address, Carpathia quickly charms and impresses everybody present with his incredible oratory skills, amazing genius-level intellect and memory, as well as his vast knowledge of the United Nations, its members, history, principal organs, and specialized agencies. In the Millennium World, he and his wife go on Rayford's missionary trip to Egypt to help spread the gospel. For those murders, Akbar lent Carpathia his side arm when Carpathia vehemently requested it. Tsion Ben-Judah, pronounced "Zion", is a Jewish rabbinical scholar and former student of Chaim Rosenzweig. Just before this, the Chicago-based Tribulation Force's own leader and teacher, Bruce Barnes, is killed by the Red Horse of the Apocalypse when World War III breaks. She then accepted Christ upon meeting Bruce Barnes, Judd Thompson, Lionel Washington, and Ryan Daley. Chang becomes romantically involved with Naomi Tiberias, but they decide to postpone marriage until a point beyond Glorious Appearing. Author of the underground cyber-magazine "The Truth". He is the origin of evil, and the archenemy of God and His betrayer, and uses Nicolae Carpathia, the Supreme Potentate of the Global Community, as his vessel. Only hours before the Antichrist's resurrection, Tsion had an out-of-body experience, where he witnesses the hosts of Heaven, and the archangel Michael battling Lucifer, in dragon form. The scene closes and Fortunato's suffering is resumed for all eternity. Kenny Bruce Williams is the son of Cameron "Buck" Williams and Chloe Steele Williams, named after martyred believers Ken Ritz and Bruce Barnes. Ritz is badly injured in the Wrath of the Lamb earthquake, when an airplane wing hits the back of his head. 2016 He was hired by Nicolae Carpathia during the last half of the Tribulation period to be his Security and Intelligence chief in control of Peacekeepers and Morale Monitors throughout all the world regions. Graphic He goes under cover for the Millennium Force. Razor is a Mexican military officer in his mid-twenties at the San Diego Tribulation Force fortress. known as the most popular man in Romania, admired, respected, lauded by even his opponents. He also meets Ekaterina Risto and falls in love with her. The events of the Rapture happen; Eleazar listens to Tsion Ben-Judah's television broadcast on the Messiah and is converted. The President of Romania soon resigned in favor of Carpathia, with the unanimous support of that country's parliament. His rage increases exponentially when he hears that an evangelistic effort has succeeded in the greatest harvest of souls that has ever happened. He's the Supreme Potentate of the Global Community and, unlike the Left Behind series, isn't the Antichrist. The main antagonist Nicolae Carpathia (i.e. The Global Community is a fictional worldwide government led by Nicolae Carpathia, who was its Supreme Potentate.It was transformed from the United Nations after the Rapture when Nicolae took power, and moved to New Babylon where its main headquarters were until the plague of darkness from the fifth Bowl Judgment fell upon it. Shortly thereafter, in the chaos following the Rapture, Carpathia is appointed United Nations Secretary-General. He is also the best friend of Ryan Daley. 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. 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. Before the Rapture, Hattie was a senior flight attendant, young and beautiful, working for Pan-Continental Airlines. She was a former Global Community employee working at Buffer who is a believer. Following her parents' conversion, Vicki became even more rebellious and continued to refuse to convert. 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. Mathews is later assassinatedstabbed with icicles from an ice sculptureby the ten "kings" that Carpathia had appointed to lead the world under his rule. He went into charter business, and by the time of the Rapture, he owned a small fleet of aircraft based at Chicago-area airports. 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. Moon begged Carpathia to be the first to bear his mark and swore that he would bear it with endless pride. 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. Ten subpotentates were chosen to rule ten governing districts of . Thus, Nicolae eliminates any obstacles in his path to power. During a UN conference, Secretary-General Carpathia ruthlessly murders both Jonathan Stonagal and Joshua Todd-Cothran with a single gunshot, revealing his true colors. After three and a half years in power Carpathia was assassinated by Chaim Rosenzweig, an Israeli botanist and statesman whom he once pretended to befriend, prophetically suffering a lethal head wound from a blade which Rosenzweig had created himself and concealed in the tubing of his wheelchair after feigning a stroke.Carpathia's demise was short-lived, however, as after three days of lying dead, Carpathia's body was indwelt by Satanhimself, thus making Carpathia appear to rise from the dead and further cement his power. Satan himself agrees to help her make this possible if only she submits to him. Left Behind is a multimedia franchise that started with a series of 16 bestselling religious novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins.It focuses on a seven-year conflict between the Tribulation Force, an underground network of converts, and the New World Order-esque Global Community and its leader, Nicolae Carpathia, who is also the Antichrist.The primary element is a Christian . After Nicolae Carpathia's return, his influence in business and politics grows, and anyone who stands in his way tends to disappear permanently. But the Tribulation Force of . Raymie is the second child and only son of Rayford and Irene Steele. Once Nicolae became a very powerful businessman, he was taken by a demon to the desert, where he was forced to remain without food or water for 40 days. Plank resurfaces shortly after the midpoint of the Tribulation, using the alias Pinkerton Stephens, and a believer in Christ. 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. 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. Falling victim to Fortunato's blackmail, the President of Romania resigns, allowing Carpathia to assume power with the unanimous support of the country's parliament. He is introduced in Armageddon shortly after Chloe Steele Williams disappears. It can also a refer to a group of non-mainstream/not accepted "Christians" called Nicolaitans in Revelation 2:15. Having won the war, and with no government left to oppose him, Carpathia gains full dominion of the earth. By the middle of his address, Carpathia brings the entire crowd to its feet in full voice and applause, press and representative alike. Stupidly they had overloaded the helicopter with loot for starting new lives they were captured and shot dead on Christmas Day, 1989 after being convicted in a hasty show trial. Before Carpathia's eternal sentence is carried out, the Devil is forcibly cast out by Jesus out of the Antichrist, who then kneels before Christ and forcibly declares Him as Lord. Zeke then gives them a new ID. Buck has just become a Christian. Carpathia often informally address his subordinates by their first name, such as "Suhail" or "Walter". Despite his losses, however, he is determined to start anew. Nicolae Carpathia made a great villain. He is a charismatic politician that wins the support of all through the United Nations. Naturally, that led him to politics and soon he was the Supreme Potentate. He, along with, Vicki, Lionel, and Ryan, were the first original members of The Young Tribulation Force. Suhail Akbar's portrayal in the novels was criticized for being anti Muslim.[1]. He goes to New Hope Village Church that night and meets a few other members who were also left behind. Nonetheless, Antichrist Carpathia was an expert at hiding his true colors and long-term goals by offering the world the seemingly glorious peace in the Middle East (especially in Israel), and global disarmament. Her parents smoked, drank, and fought constantly. Israeli botanist and statesman, discoverer of a formula that made Israeli desert bloom, former Global Weekly Man of the Year; murderer of Carpathia; leader of the million-plus Jewish remnant at Petra; witness to the Glorious Appearing; now residing near the Valley of Jehoshaphat. Marilena stays with her husband, Sorin, until the baby is born, insisting that her "son" keep the strong "Carpathia" name. On Earth, the cosmic battle of the ages takes place as the Tribulation ravages the planet. Naomi is one of the "techies" in Petra, and assists Chang Wong in setting up technology within Petra. military presence on the planet. First Appearance Ben-Judah was commissioned by the Israeli government three years before the Rapture to undertake a study as to how the Jews would recognize the Messiah when he comes. He helped Rayford rescue Hattie Durham from a detention center in Colorado in The Mark, using the name Marcus Elbaz. Director Akbar ironically died under similar circumstances for a minor infraction just hours before the Glorious Appearing of Jesus Christ. Marilena stayed with her husband, Sorin, until the baby . Glorious Appearing: an Experience in Sound and Drama, Vanished: Left Behind The Next Generation, In the Dramatic Audio presentations, he is voiced by. In The Remnant, he is given the task of training a legion of wizards, priests and miracle-workers, who are also bestowed with various similar demonic abilities. She is among the few believers left alive when Jesus Christ returns to earth. Bailey Chase as Nicolae Carpathia Corbin Bernsen as Steve Plank David LeReaney as Chaim Rosenzweig Sam Sorbo as Amanda White Braeden Sorbo as Connor Stafford Perry as Dirk Burton Linda Kee as Ivy Gold Paul Cowling as Joshua Todd-Cothran Shawna Pliva McGill as Ana Quintero Jesse Lipscombe as Ted Tossel Production 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. He was best friends with Rayford "Raymie" Steele Jr., Rayford Steele's son, and the two often had much fun together. Very quickly, he becomes a believer in Christ, and is spotted by Mac McCullum in the GC shelter right after the Wrath of the Lamb earthquake. Everybody, including Steve Plank and Buck Williams continued to clap and cheer, never once appearing embarrassed at their loss of detached objectivity. When the steward replied, "or the Most High Reverend Father", Akbar chuckled. 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. Together they have two children, Chloe and Raymie. One thousand years later, a brief glimpse of Carpathia and Leon Fortunato is seen as the Lake of Fire opens to swallow up Satan. She is then convinced of the truth of God's Word, and she becomes a devout Christian. [6] One critic has condemned the silliness of Fortunato's titles as being anti-Catholic and populist. He was in charge of the airstrip that Ken Ritz had used. This occurs in Left Behind when he speaks to Buck Williams, who at the time worked for the same paper as Lionel's mother, Lucinda Washington. Irene and Raymie are among the countless millions of believers who are taken up into the House of God, where the Bema Seat Judgment takes place. 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