Hassid is a Jew who worked in New Babylon in the global government headed by Supreme Potentate and Antichrist Nicolae Carpathia. After being accused of switching loyalties, he is kicked out of the Millennium Force, deserted by Ekaterina, and hardly believed by his parents. (Carpathia would prefer others to worship him and deprive God of worship, not to have other souls despise him in hell.) 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. By that point, they had assumed the worst and knew she had been captured. Left Behind (publishing order)The Rising (canonical order). He is resurrected at the Glorious Appearing, after having reunited with his wife and children in Heaven. Nicolae Carpathia is one of the believers in Christ in the Left on Earth series. She and David get engaged but can't marry till they escape. He goes under cover for the Millennium Force. 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. She is then convinced of the truth of God's Word, and she becomes a devout Christian. 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. 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. Hattie is played by Chelsea Noble in the films, Nicky Whelan in the 2014 film, and Kathryn Kohut in Left Behind: Rise of the Antichrist. Left Behind Wiki is a FANDOM Books Community. He was fond of dressing in ornate and flowing robes and strutting all over his college campus. Carpathia orders cities around the world, including neutral ones, to be obliterated to serve as an example to his enemies. Manipulation: The Antichrist Nicolae was able to manipulate anyone at ease. Carpathia found reasons to travel, establishing alliances with heads of state who would not have thought to grant an audience to someone from the Romanian lower house, except that he was so persuasive. known as the most popular man in Romania, admired, respected, lauded by even his opponents. The religion lasts for three and a half years before meeting its downfall at the Second Coming of Christ. In accordance with the series' interpretation of biblical prophecy, Jesus Christ Himself defeated Antichrist Carpathia right after theSecond Coming. The book begins soon after Nicolae Carpathia is assassinated, and tells more on the end of the Gala, the midpoint of the Tribulation and the opening of the Great Tribulation.. After having lost his mother and two younger sisters in a fire the night of the rapture, he and his father were converted by a trucker stopping at their gas station. 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. During this time, Nicolae proudly announces to Rayford and Amanda Steele that Hattie is pregnant with his child and they are engaged. 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. Carpathia arrives at the UN Headquarters to deliver his long and comprehensive speech, addressing the United Nations. Razor is a Mexican military officer in his mid-twenties at the San Diego Tribulation Force fortress. With his advisers and counselors, Carpathia formed a successful import-export business, which quickly made him a millionaire. 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. 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. 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". The world survived Y2K and the year 2000 partied on like it was 1999. He may have complied with Carpathia's directives out of personal and professional expediency instead of sincere reverence because loyalty to Carpathia is what had advanced his career to the point where he became the Director of Security and Intelligence to the Global Community. Carpathia also believes that he can usurp God's exalted position in the heavens and rule over creation though an extravagant scheme of destroying the Christians and Jews of the world and capturing Jerusalem with overwhelming military force. 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. 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. During the latter half of the Tribulation, many Global Community citizens bearing Carpathia's mark of loyalty spoke out against him in protests. Buck was guided to him with hints from the two witnesses at the Wailing Wall, and secretly conducted Ben-Judah out of Israel by way of Egypt, to be flown back to the United States for exile and sanctuary. In The Remnant, in region 7, the United African States, the Global Community massacred a crowd of protesters who were dismayed at the lack of a semblance of a justice system under Carpathia's rule. After his incredible resurrection from the dead (after 3 days), Antichrist Carpathia is willingly possessed by the Devil, gruesomely desecrates the Jewish Holy Temple, declares himself to be God, and brutally enforces the diabolical new religion of Carpathianism by forcibly branding people with the Number of the Beast, and brutally executing Christians. 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. The very word send shivers through us. (This was hinted at with the name of the artificial insemination project, Project People's Victory.) In Apollyon, Ritz is killed by a GC bullet to the head while racing with Ben-Judah, Chloe, and Buck to board a waiting plane at Jerusalem Airport to return to the United States. He is able to continue as the Trib Force's mole until God strikes New Babylon with darkness; then he is rescued and relocated to Petra to work with the Remnant of Israel. Antichrist Carpathia was finally defeated by Jesus for his actions, and his ultimate defeat marks the end of the Tribulation. 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 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. Also, both hail from the country of Romania, and moved up the political ladder in that country with incredible speed and ease. Ninety-some years later, Kenny is working at COT and is now living on his own. In the weeks before the Rapture, Carpathia assigns Fortunato to orchestrate President of Romania, Ghregore Vasile's leave of office. in imitation of a command that Jesus Christ gave to Lazarus. At the end of the Millennium, Tsion is welcomed into Heaven with the rest of the believers. Hassid begins grooming Chang Wong, a young man from China who is also very technically gifted, as his protg and replacement when Hassid must leave; the mark of loyalty is now required of employees in New Babylon, and Chang, given the mark unwillingly, has both the mark of the Beast and the mark of God's on his forehead. 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. He was one of the few believers left alive when Christ, with his armies, returned to earth. There, both he and Buck Williams are killed by Unity Army soldiers. He also warns all of the Christians present that the Great Tribulation, the 3.5 worst years in human history await them all. As the Antichrist, Carpathia is directly responsible for the terrifying 7-year-long Tribulation, and the ultimate Battle of Armageddon. After helping rescue Chang from New Babylon they become very close, but decide to postpone marriage until the Millennium Kingdom. Upon hearing this heartrending realization, the gathering then starts to fight amongst themselves and were killed by a plague. 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. In New Babylon she became a believer and meets David Hassid. Once a commercial airline pilot, Ritz was sacked because he was too much of a stickler for safety. Carpathia frequently manipulated people and events for his own personal gain, and often resorted to murder and blackmail in order to achieve these goals. Hassid and Blod clash, but eventually, Hassid realizes he must get along with Blod or risk discipline and possible exposure as a Tribulation saint; also, it is not very Christ-like to be promoting enmity. In the first novel, he is shown to be openly welcoming of Nicolae Carpathia, but gradually become more suspicious. She joined the Tribulation Force in "The Mark", escaping Buffer when the "mark of loyalty" was being tested out on prisoners. 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. T also helped Buck Williams and Chaim Rosenzweig escape from Israel on a plane that crashes in Greece, killing him. In the third film based on the books, Left Behind: World at War, Bruce dies from being infected with a virus, and most of the Tribulation Force (all except for Buck) is at his bedside when he dies. Due to their disagreements Vicki lets him and Lionel go to the Gala in Israel. 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. Immediately after Carpathia's assassination, Hassid had to work with artist Guy Blod, who was making a huge statue of Carpathia. Carpathia said to Director Akbar that the practically limitless monetary and military resources afforded to him for this endeavor would make every other historical military strategist hang his head in shame. He helps Darrion escape her captors and she also become a believer following these events. 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