Carpathia is the Antichrist, and leader of the Global Community, a world government which he ultimately marshals against the followers of Jesus Christ . Bruce befriends Rayford Steele, whom he supplies with a copy of the video. 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. Bruce and Judd go on a few international trips, the last of these was taken shortly before Bruce's death. 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. After his address Carpathia quickly becomes a celebrity, and People magazine named him their newest Sexiest Man Alive. However, she declines, thinking he has gone crazy after losing his wife and son, and leaves without him. After his death and resurrection, Carpathia proclaims himself God in the desecrated Temple of the Holy of Holies, an act that is considered blasphemous in all three Abrahamic religions. He helped Rayford rescue Hattie Durham from a detention center in Colorado in The Mark, using the name Marcus Elbaz. The Dragon was cast down to Earth near the end of this experience. 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. Former businessman, former President of Romania, later Secretary-General of the United Nations, then Supreme Potentate of the Global Community, His Excellency, de facto ruler of the world, the Antichrist Viv Ivins (spiritual mentor, deceased) Satan (spiritual mentor, Defeated) He's a little egocentric and tends to think of himself as a god to be worshiped. 2000s 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. He then kneels before Christ and declares him the Christ after Jesus judged him for all his crimes and sins against humanity and God. Carpathia allows his enemies to start the war so that the Community can "retaliate" by destroying them. in imitation of a command that Jesus Christ gave to Lazarus. Also, both hail from the country of Romania, and moved up the political ladder in that country with incredible speed and ease. Ben-Judah, believing himself to be protected by God's power, insisted on returning to Israel to meet with most of the 144,000 witnesses, in order to teach them. Nicolae is the third book in Left Behind series written by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins, and is preceded by book one, Left Behind, and book two, Tribulation Force.. Nicolae Carpathia becomes the focus as he continues to consolidate his power, unifying political states ("Global . Hassid's love interest, Phoenix 216 cargo chief Annie Christopher dies as a result of False Prophet Leon Fortunato's Satan-imbued ability to call down lightning from heaven to kill any non-Carpathianist. This event of the book series would not follow the actual, Last edited on 19 November 2022, at 17:52, Learn how and when to remove this template message, "Prophecy, Politics, and the Popular: The, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Left_Behind_characters&oldid=1122779669, This page was last edited on 19 November 2022, at 17:52. Leah also helps Rayford Steele in Glorious Appearing after an almost fatal ATV wreck. Kat finally goes to talk to Kenny and realizes that he is innocent. 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. Carpathianism draws heavily from the narratives and traditions of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. 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. He has statues of himself built around the world, which all people are required to bow to. 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. Chang said to Carpathia in his mental voice that "You are evil in the flesh, the total opposite of the loving God I serve." 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. In the Millennium World, he and his wife go on Rayford's missionary trip to Egypt to help spread the gospel. She goes back to the US and stays with a co-op flyer and his wife till she moves to Petra with Leah, where she helps tend the wounded with her medical expertise. 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. Glorious Appearing: an Experience in Sound and Drama, Vanished: Left Behind The Next Generation, In the Dramatic Audio presentations, he is voiced by. 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. When Carpathia created the Global Community, he appointed Leon to the position of Supreme Commander, the deputy to Nicolae's Supreme Potentate. Lucifer even says this while he is being judged by the angels after the Glorious Appearing. After her mother's death, Darrion remains with members of the Young Trib Force until Glorious Appearing. As her son Nicolae comes of age, Stonagal becomes one of his mentors, financing his rise in the corporate world. In New Babylon she became a believer and meets David Hassid. He is resurrected in Glorious Appearing with the other martyred saints. In contrast to Jesus's temptation, Nicolae falls for all three temptations, thus fully confirming that he will soon be the Antichrist. Ming helps Leah avoid suspicion and incarceration, and Leah returns to Illinois. In the kids series book The Rise of False Messiahs, Chang Wong looked at Carpathia while Carpathia was in the courtyard of the GC Palace. She spent the next seven years proselytizing, which included interrupting a concert by Z-Van (lead singer of the Four Horsemen and one of Nicolae Carpathia's false messiahs) and speaking to the crowd of thousands. In Left Behind: The Kids, Bruce mentors four teenagers, Judd, Lionel, Ryan, and Vicki, who are left behind at the Rapture. 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. He was introduced as the main antagonist, but as more books were written, it is revealed to be a misinformation campaign to hide the series's true main villain. She appears in Glorious Appearing with Rayford's first wife Irene. When Vicki was twelve, a man asked to speak at the dance. Antichrist Carpathia was finally defeated by Jesus for his actions, and his ultimate defeat marks the end of the Tribulation. 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. (This was hinted at with the name of the artificial insemination project, Project People's Victory.) He eventually goes in order to warn the kids about Wormwood. 2016 He was raptured, along with his mother, when Jesus returned before the Tribulation. 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 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. Before the Rapture, Irene is married to the series' chief protagonist, Rayford Steele. He, along with, Vicki, Lionel, and Ryan, were the first original members of The Young Tribulation Force. Before she died, she wrote him a letter saying how she felt like there was somebody back home that he loved. His whole family were the most devout Christians he knew, and he pretended to go along with them. Williams also suspects Todd-Cothran had framed him for the car bomb murder of Scotland Yard agent and close friend Alan Tompkins, who had grown suspicious of Todd-Cothran's practices. He is present at the final battle of the Millennium, watching from a safe distance in Jerusalem with the rest of the Tribulation Force. Carpathia, wanting to enter politics himself, employed Leon on his staff, and grew to value the man's counseling; although Leon tended to be clingy and sycophantic, he taught Carpathia humility (or more specifically, how to feign humility) which proved to be very valuable on the world political stage. The second day after the Rapture, Ritz provides Buck Williams with a flight as close to New York City as possible. Nicolae Carpathia [ edit] We are about to turn this planet into a paradise, unimaginable only a few short weeks ago. However, on April 15, Carpathia left on a flight to the ATLANTIS-aligned United Kingdom on a highly secretive Gnosis mission. Ming Toy is the older sister of Chang Wong. She and Leah also serves as a nurse during Operation Eagle. Hattie is resurrected at the Glorious Appearing of Jesus Christ, to the great delight of Rayford and the rest of God's followers. At the end of the Millennium, Tsion is welcomed into Heaven with the rest of the believers. From this office, he converts the U.N. into the Global Community, appointing himself as that government's Supreme Potentate. 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 was the sort of character we love to hate. A true global community, a true world.of peace. 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. Carpathia arrives at the UN Headquarters to deliver his long and comprehensive speech, addressing the United Nations. Plot summary. Marilena stays with her husband, Sorin, until the baby is born, insisting that her "son" keep the strong "Carpathia" name. 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. Spiritual State He also told Hut that their corpse should be taken to a guillotine and decapitated to make it clear that the consequences of the refusal to take the mark of loyalty. 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. On his own initiative, he also ordered the execution of two fighter pilots who failed to incinerate the stronghold of Petra due to divine protection of the inhabitants, even though the pilots hit their targets and the bombs detonated. Born in the small village of Cluj, Romania, Carpathia's birth was the product of a genetic engineering and artificial insemination project, known asProject People's Victory. And he had become Being born as a result of the genetically engineered Project People's Victory, Carpathia possessed many incredibly desirable traits, and was extremely handsome and dashing; piercingly blue-eyes and blonde hair, like the original Romanians. In the remake series, he is played by Lance E. Nichols in the remake, Charles Andrew Payne in Left Behind: Rise of the Anti-Christ and William Gabriel Grier in the spin-off Vanished Left Behind: Next Generation. Many vie for Carpathia to become the new Secretary-General. During the Millennium World, Chloe and Buck are in charge of a massive childcare center, whose speaking guests include Noah and King David. As he had a Glorified Body, he never aged, while his nephew did and became older. Leah's first Trib Force undercover mission, at the midpoint of the Tribulation, takes her to Belgium to try to communicate with Hattie at the Belgium Facility for Female Rehabilitation (BFFR), or "Buffer." Gerald Fitzhugh is the President of the United States at the time of the Rapture. This marks the beginning of our seven years of peace. 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. 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