When questioned by Carpathia about whether the execution of two innocent people bothered his conscience, Akbar said that Carpathia was the "father of truth", reiterating Carpathia's remarks after he finished the lie detector test, where Carpathia reported some obvious falsehoods that were assessed to be truthful replies. She is described as having short black hair and being athletically built. Chaim later became a believer, and led the Jewish Remnant at Petra under the alias "Micah" (made from the letters of his original name). Plank resurfaces shortly after the midpoint of the Tribulation, using the alias Pinkerton Stephens, and a believer in Christ. 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. (This was hinted at with the name of the artificial insemination project, Project People's Victory.) 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]. Kenny Bruce Williams is the son of Cameron "Buck" Williams and Chloe Steele Williams, named after martyred believers Ken Ritz and Bruce Barnes. He orders golden statues of himself to be placed prominently and worshiped three times a day. He became as a prominent government peacemaker, who led a movement of disarmament. Carpathia is the Antichrist, and leader of the Global Community, a world government which he ultimately marshals against the followers of Jesus Christ . 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. The world survived Y2K and the year 2000 partied on like it was 1999. 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. He was described as a very traditional Roman Catholic at this time, although he rapidly embraced dramatic changes to the faith after the Rapture. Ninety-some years later, Kenny is working at COT and is now living on his own. Through his parents, Carpathia possessed a very unique bloodline, dating back to Ancient Rome, so he could actually claim to be of Roman descendant. Carpathianism draws heavily from the narratives and traditions of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. On Earth, the cosmic battle of the ages takes place as the Tribulation ravages the planet. 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. He is the first of many casualties the Tribulation Force suffers during the seven-year Tribulation. Language fluency: Nicolae was able to speak over nine languages, including his own, with impeccable grammar, although he retained an accent and did not use contractions in languages that have them. In the Left Behind PC games, he is portrayed by Trevor Parsons. 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. 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. Ming helps Leah avoid suspicion and incarceration, and Leah returns to Illinois. Carpathia explains to Buck that he was fulfilling his promise to take care of Buck's problem, knowing that Todd-Cothran was responsible for plotting the attempt on Williams' life earlier in the book as well as the assassinations. There, both he and Buck Williams are killed by Unity Army soldiers. Chaim was Carpathia's friend for the first half of the tribulation; Chaim believed in him with all of his heart. The death is not confirmed until the book The Mark when Hannah Palemoon finds her body in the morgue, then takes David to see it. Ten oasis regions, where each delegate is given complete control over his respective area. She seemed to be attracted to Pan-Con pilot Rayford Steele, perhaps wanting an affair with him. Immediately after Carpathia's assassination, Hassid had to work with artist Guy Blod, who was making a huge statue of Carpathia. Rayford Steele met him when the plague of locusts struck, attacking all unbelievers. He realized she meant Vicki. 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. Even though Bruce is killed relatively early in the Tribulation, the Force he helped establish becomes a driving presence during the global war. He was fond of dressing in ornate and flowing robes and strutting all over his college campus. This causes Kenny's life to fall apart, and while he is extremely lonely, he trusts in God to deliver him in the end. Leon Fortunato has been described as Nicolae Carpathia's sidekick. The scene closes and Fortunato's suffering is resumed for all eternity. Hattie, who convinced Buck to introduce her to Nicolae Carpathia, eventually becomes Carpathia's personal secretary, and later his lover. He was best friends with Rayford "Raymie" Steele Jr., Rayford Steele's son, and the two often had much fun together. Despite his losses, however, he is determined to start anew. 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. As the newly appointed President of Romania, Nicolae is invited to speak before the U.N. Once a commercial airline pilot, Ritz was sacked because he was too much of a stickler for safety. Even the Israeli botanist and statesmanChaim Rosenzweig, knew of him,though he did not initially know his name. Carpathia slowly gains complete control of the entire world, first as the Secretary-General of the United Nations, then as the far more powerful Supreme Potentate of theGlobal Community, and, finally,as the self-proclaimed God of Carpathianism (which replaces the Enigma Babylon One World Faith). Later he was ordered to bomb the gathering of Christians and Jews at Petra, planning for a BLU-82 and a "lance" missile to be dropped on them, but the inhabitants there were unharmed. [9] He transformed Chaim Rosenzweig into Micah in Desecration. 33 years before Rapture He was the last one out of the four to become a believer due to his atheist background and grief in his parents loss. Fictional bio Chloe Steele Williams, daughter of Rayford Steele and wife of Buck Williams, was a former college student. 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. Ryan finds a dog and names it Phoenix early on in the series. 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!" Ben-Judah went away from the meeting with much to think and pray about. 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. After hearing about the strange disappearances of his fellow passengers, Judd realized that what he had been told in his church before was true. Carpathia eventually proclaimed himself God in the desecrated Temple of the Holy of Holies, and demanded that everyone on Earth worship him. 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. In Desecration, he got his wish when he received the mark of the beast along with his fellow members of the Global Community cabinet Suhail Akbar and Viv Ivins at the Temple Mount a day before Nicolae Carpathia committed the abomination of desolation. Antichrist. 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. 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. In a Brazilian series from 2012 about the end times called Decode, a similarly named character appears as Nicolai Carpathia. His rage increases exponentially when he hears that an evangelistic effort has succeeded in the greatest harvest of souls that has ever happened. She later fell in love with and married Ree Woo in "Armageddon". In accordance with the series' interpretation of biblical prophecy, Jesus Christ Himself defeated Antichrist Carpathia right after theSecond Coming. 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. At the end of the series he went to Jerusalem with the other believers. In the prequel, it is suggested that his name means "Victory of the People." Pilot for Carpathia; Good friend of Rayford 'Ray' Steele, chief Tribulation Force pilot assigned to Petra; witness to the Glorious Appearing; residing near the Valley of Jehoshaphat. 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. Carpathia is still writhing in agony as he is tortured in fire and brimstone, repeating over and over that Jesus is Lord. 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. Four million people attend his funeral. He goes under cover for the Millennium Force. He received a dark negative six on his forehead for his mark of loyalty. 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. 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. 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 went into charter business, and by the time of the Rapture, he owned a small fleet of aircraft based at Chicago-area airports. Fortunato is writhing in pain and shouting "Jesus is Lord!" Before the Rapture, Hattie was a senior flight attendant, young and beautiful, working for Pan-Continental Airlines. Many vie for Carpathia to become the new Secretary-General. Instead, Judd went to the O'Hare airport and boarded a plane that was heading to London, England. Leon is revived, and then becomes more faithful than ever to Carpathia, believing that Carpathia is a god incarnate. 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. In the Dramatic Audio presentation of Armageddon, Nicolae was able to rip the heart out of Raman Vajpayee's chest with his bare hands when Raman challenged the Antichrist to kill him by calling him "impotent". However, he manages to brainwash everybody present by convincing them that what they had actually seen was the two individuals murdering each other. In Desecration, he received the mark of the beast along with his fellow members of the Global Community cabinet Walter Moon and Viv Ivins at the Temple Mount a day before Carpathia committed the abomination of desolation. When Carpathia created the Global Community, he appointed Leon to the position of Supreme Commander, the deputy to Nicolae's Supreme Potentate. Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Rebelling Against God 1.2 Using the Antichrist 1.3 Preparing for War 1.4 Final Defeat 2 Other Media 2.1 Left Behind III: World at War 3 Personality 4 Quotes 5 Trivia Angela "Annie" Christopher grew up in an atheist home in Canada. In the book "On the Run", Ryan accompanies Judd to Israel where Ryan saves Judd's life after Judd is captured by the GC for having a tape containing the truth about the murders of Tsion Ben-Judah's family. 2016 After losing some friends in the rapture she began searching but became a fan of Nicolae Carpathia. 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. ; 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. He then enforces the loyalty mark, the prophesied Mark of the Beast, which all are required to wear. During the plague of darkness after the Global Community had evacuated New Babylon since it had been crippled by the plague, Carpathia was discussing who is to blame for the failure of the Global Community News Network to retain control over their broadcast from the Tribulation Force's attempts to pirate it. Carpathia is still writhing in agony as he is tortured in fire and sulfur, repeating over and over, "Jesus is Lord!!!". 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