An obscure Romanian politician named Nicolae Carpathia arises to become the most powerful leader on the planet. 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. Apparently, Carpathia does not care to remember his subordinates, whom he considers expendable. 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. Their study reveals that the peace covenant with Israel will mark the beginning of the seven years' war with the Antichrist, known as the Tribulation. 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. 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. Kenny later marries Kat and they have eight sons and six daughters. Zeke and his father were first introduced in Assassins. She was a former Global Community employee working at Buffer who is a believer. Carpathia thought the guillotine was too humane for dissident Jews who refused his mark, and announced his intention to reward the sub-potentate with a doubled budget who is able to keep Jews alive the longest in the most abject conditions, with no heating, cooling, or medical care, but only enough food to maintain their existence. He also ordered Commander Tenzin to beat Ipswich to death for Ipswitch's impropriety towards Carpathia for "my entertainment and for the education of all." Everybody, including Steve Plank and Buck Williams continued to clap and cheer, never once appearing embarrassed at their loss of detached objectivity. Nicolae Carpathia [ edit] We are about to turn this planet into a paradise, unimaginable only a few short weeks ago. He was described as a very traditional Roman Catholic at this time, although he rapidly embraced dramatic changes to the faith after the Rapture. 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. Refusal to do either of these activities is made punishable by public execution. 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. From this office, he converts the U.N. into the Global Community, appointing himself as that government's Supreme Potentate. Carpathia also demonstrates his uncommon polyglotism, being able to fluently speak over 9 languages, which include Romanian, Hungarian, Russian, English, French,Spanish,German, Arabic, Hebrew, and Chinese. 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. At the end of it, he proclaimed that Jesus was the Messiah and was coming again soon. Leon becomes the Most High Reverend Father of the new religion of Carpathianism. Dishelved with the death of a fellow co-worker at the age of one-hundred, Raymie founds the Millennium Force, a small group dedicated to sharing the Word of God with the undecideds during the Millennium World. Graphic The very word send shivers through us. With Louis Gossett Jr., Kirk Cameron, Brad Johnson, Jessica Steen. He also gathers the armies of the world at the valley of Armageddon for the battle with Jesus Christ and his army. 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. When a combined British and Egyptian attack on New Babylon backfires, the conflict escalates into World War III. 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 He is the first of many casualties the Tribulation Force suffers during the seven-year Tribulation. [9] He transformed Chaim Rosenzweig into Micah in Desecration. Carpathia represents the forces of opposition to this crazy deity. Former businessman, former President of Romania, later. By the middle of his address, Carpathia brings the entire crowd to its feet in full voice and applause, press and representative alike. Nicolae Jetty Carpathia is the primary antagonist in the Left Behind book series. 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 is the archenemy of Rayford Steele and Tsion Ben-Judah. He was able to do this after he murdered Jonathan Stonagal and Joshua Todd-Cothran by lying saying that Stonagal shot himself and Todd-Cothran in remorse for the assassinations. Gordon Currie is a Canadian-American film and television actor, best known for his role as Nicolae Carpathia in the Left Behind films, and his role in horror films such as Puppet Master 4, Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan and Blood and Donuts. 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. Throughout his relationship with Carpathia, Fortunato continues to fawn over the man, a fact that seems to be driven home when Leon died in the Wrath of the Lamb earthquake. Hattie is resurrected at the Glorious Appearing of Jesus Christ, to the great delight of Rayford and the rest of God's followers. Now, all that is left is to find out how the "conference" is going to go. There he resides until the Battle of Armageddon, when he leaves to help defend the Holy City. Starring Gordon Currie as. Ben-Judah essentially took his place to teach, now reaching out to a worldwide cyber-audience. 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. Former head nurse at Arthur Young Memorial Hospital in Palatine, Illinois, she helped Cameron "Buck" Williams get Ken Ritz out without compromising the Tribulation Force's cover, and after helping deliver Hattie Durham's stillborn baby that was fathered by Antichrist Nicolae Carpathia, abandons her now-compromised job and must request sanctuary at the Trib Force safe house. At the end of the series he went to Jerusalem with the other believers. Like Nicolae, Leon regularly communicated with the 'spirit world'; it is implied that both men shared the same spiritual 'guide' Satan himself. Buck, however, was the only one immune to this brainwash, since he had previously accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior. 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. T also helped Buck Williams and Chaim Rosenzweig escape from Israel on a plane that crashes in Greece, killing him. A small band of Christians calling themselves the "Tribulation Force" resists him as . In Tribulation Force, with his power and countries independence fading, Fitzhugh plans with the British and Egyptian governments to launch a worldwide offensive against Carpathia and the Global Community, with help from various militias. 2016 Through his parents, Carpathia possessed a very unique bloodline, dating back to Ancient Rome, so he could actually claim to be of Roman descendant. According to Buck, he carried himself with a "sense of humility and purpose", and effortlessly dominated any room that he was in. Gustaf Zuckermandel, Jr. (aka: Zeke or Little Zeke) is a fictional character in the Left Behind series. He was genuinely frustrated and surprised when the Unity Army were unable to inflict harm on the inhabitants of Petra and capture Jerusalem. The Dragon was cast down to Earth near the end of this experience. Moon is given the title though it has no real meaning at this point in the story. Male 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. His middle name refers to the "jet-black" night on which he was born.)[2]. 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 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. Just as Irene is at the height of her desperation, the Rapture occurs. She was formerly married but left a widow during the early years of the Tribulation. 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. However, given the urgency of the circumstances, he flies Buck to Minneapolis to rescue Chloe Steele Williams before she is taken by Global Community operatives to be used as a bargaining chip. This event would run contrary to the current Constitution of Romania, which specifies that the Romanian President is directly elected, and in the event of the death, resignation, or removal, the presidency is assumed ad hoc by the President of the Senate until new elections are held. Hassid is a Jew who worked in New Babylon in the global government headed by Supreme Potentate and Antichrist Nicolae Carpathia. [4] Because he is an Italian American, he has been cited as an example of the cultural diversity of the novels' characters. The second day after the Rapture, Ritz provides Buck Williams with a flight as close to New York City as possible. Following the earthquake and Ryan's death the Young Trib force live in a cave until they can escape to a safer hideout. 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. Rayford Steele and Albie encounter him in The Mark working undercover as a GC operative in Pueblo, Colorado. ; 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. One thousand years later, Carpathia and Leon Fortunatoare seen in a brief glimpse, as the terribleLake of Fire opens to swallow up the Devil himself. With his advisers and counselors, Carpathia formed a successful import-export business, which quickly made him a millionaire. 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 was portrayed by Brad Johnson in the films, Nicolas Cage in the 2014 film, and Kevin Sorbo in Left Behind: Rise of the Antichrist. As a young child, Carpathia shows remarkable intelligence and athletic ability, and also proves to be extraordinarily manipulative, able to bend others to his will with relative ease. After he becomes a millionaire, he is then taken by a demon to a desert, probably the Judaean Desert, where he is forced to live without food and water for 40 days. 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. Nicolae Jetty Carpathia is the primary antagonist in the Left Behind book series. After that, he is then returned to Romania. Eighteen months later, his wife and teenage stepchildren were horribly slaughtered and Ben-Judah, the chief suspect, was forced into hiding. She and Leah also serves as a nurse during Operation Eagle. The scene closes, and Carpathia's sufferingalong with that of his master and his underlingis resumed for all eternity. She made it to the Glorious Appearing. 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. When one of the pilots attacking Petra appeared to sound insubordinate while communicating to mission command at the Global Community palace after he had dropped his ordinance on Petra when he suggested to abort a subsequent missile launch towards because it seemed to be supererogatory, Akbar defended him of the insubordination when Carpathia was offended by the pilots's tone and Leon Fortunato demanded for the pilot to be reprimanded. 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. The trip was meant to last a week but actually lasted around three years. In the aftermath of the Rapture, Carpathia quickly gains fame Internationally due to his upcoming speech at the United Nations. Lionel is the only primary character from the main protagonists in the Left Behind: The Kids series to appear in the adult novels. The world survived Y2K and the year 2000 partied on like it was 1999. In the Left Behind films, he is portrayed by Colin Fox and David LeReaney. He also warns all of the Christians present that the Great Tribulation, the 3.5 worst years in human history await them all. After Nicolae Carpathia's return, his influence in business and politics grows, and anyone who stands in his way tends to disappear permanently. 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. 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. He then enforces the loyalty mark, the prophesied Mark of the Beast, which all are required to wear. 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. Satan himself agrees to help her make this possible if only she submits to him. As he is a natural, Kenny ages over the course of the Millennium, with both he and Kat unable to walk without walking sticks. The President of Romania soon resigned in favor of Carpathia, with the unanimous support of that country's parliament. He had to amputate his left arm after it was crushed in a rock slide while he and Judd were traveling back to the rest of the Young Tribulation Force from their adventures in the Middle East, but gained it back when Jesus returned at the end of the series. Ben-Judah went away from the meeting with much to think and pray about. This is partly in keeping with the early Christian belief that the Antichrist would come in the form of a Roman emperor in addition to the current Premillenialist Christian view that the Antichrist will emerge from a "New Roman Empire", the European Union. Eleazar's daughter is Naomi Tiberias. Nicolae and Elena evacuated the capital by helicopter. Leon Fortunato has been described as Nicolae Carpathia's sidekick. Marilena stayed with her husband, Sorin, until the baby . In the original Left Behind films, Bruce is portrayed by Clarence Gilyard, and Arnold Pinnock. Lucifer in the persona of Nicolae Carpathia did not believe that God created him but that his sentience emerged from a primordial ooze and thought that God also came into existence the same way but had just preceded him. Chloe Steele Williams, daughter of Rayford Steele and wife of Buck Williams, was a former college student. 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. As Christopher's army was marching towards Petra, Jesus appears on a ridge and Christopher meets him there. 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. 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. After three and a half years in power, Carpathia is assassinated by Chaim Rosenzweig, an Israeli botanist and statesman. Bruce was a pastor, believer, and the only member of the staff that had been left behind. Satan, however, is destined to return, as he is chained up for a thousand years. 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. 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. This effectively bestowed on Carpathia the financial resources and clout needed for his intended takeover of the world's media and information networks, granting him a media monopoly. Carpathia is still writhing in agony as he is tortured in fire and sulfur, repeating over and over, "Jesus is Lord!!!". After revealing his true identity to Rayford and Albie, he helps them rescue Hattie Durham from the very facility where he has been working undercover. He became as a prominent government peacemaker, who led a movement of disarmament. He later kicks Kenny out of the Force after evidence surfaces that indicates that Kenny has "switched sides." The second wife of Rayford Steele, whom married him in Tribulation Force. He and Lionel often clashed to the point of a brawl, yet they were still very close. When Kenny goes to France, he meets up with the Johpins and their other cousin, Nicolette. He finds a video of the pastor explaining the Rapture, from which he learns that it is not too late to be saved, and he commits his life to God. Immediately after Carpathia's assassination, Hassid had to work with artist Guy Blod, who was making a huge statue of Carpathia. 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