nicolae carpathia
Vicki grew up in a trailer park, and hated it because people regularly made fun of her and the others who lived in Prospect Gardens, calling them names such as "Trailer Trash". She and her father take in single women and families after the return of Christ. Cities around the world are destroyed in the war, and Fitzhugh himself is killed by a Global Community blitzkrieg on Washington D.C. Thus, Nicolae eliminates any obstacles in his path to power. He proposed to Vicki (he always wanted to)after his return, and they marry about a year before the Glorious Appearing, where he and Vicki are both in Jerusalem. 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 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. 2016 Zeke and his father were first introduced in Assassins. 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. Engaged and married on the same day as Chloe and Buck. Ten subpotentates were chosen to rule ten governing districts of . He died less than 24 hours before the Glorious Appearing. In The Search, following the death of Bruce Barnes Ryan is kidnapped along with a girl named Darrion Stahley. Jesus instantly destroys the 3 Carpathia clones (unclean frog-like spirits), and has the defeated Antichrist and False Prophet brought before Him. Ryan died a couple days after the Wrath of the Lamb earthquake, having had a chunk of debris fall on him, causing his legs to become paralyzed and a wound in his back to become badly infected, from which he died soon afterward. Immediately after Carpathia's assassination, Hassid had to work with artist Guy Blod, who was making a huge statue of Carpathia. Carpathia is still writhing in agony as he is tortured in fire and sulfur, repeating over and over, "Jesus is Lord!!!". Just as Irene is at the height of her desperation, the Rapture occurs. When a friend of Zaki, Qasim Marid, goes undercover for the Force without their permission, they all start to wonder where his loyalties lie. This touches on the golden calf story found in both the Old Testament and the Quran. At his first meeting as United Nations Secretary-General (at the end of Left Behind), Nicolae Carpathia executes Stonagal and Todd-Cothran with a single bullet that passes through Stonagal's head, then Todd-Cothran's. Leah also helps Rayford Steele in Glorious Appearing after an almost fatal ATV wreck. After he raised Fortunato from the dead, he styled himself "His Excellency, Global Community Supreme Potentate Nicolae Carpathia", Eventually after World War III, Carpathia became a malevolent dictator, while still openly portraying himself as a benevolent pacifist. First Appearance However, it was already too late for Leon and Jesus sentenced him for eternity in the lake of fire. Carpathia then ordered Suhail Akbar, the Global Community Director of Security and Intelligence, to assassinate the heads of Libya and Ethiopia and their entire senior cabinets in order to send a message to the sub-potentate of the United African States by the time the sub-potentate wakes up in the morning. 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. When Rayford Steele accidentally shot the Saber, Carpathia staggered back, tripped, and fell backwards, right into the blade being held in Chaim's hands. She and Hannah Palemoon move to Petra and help run the hospital there. Hattie is eventually sent to the Belgium Facility for Female Rehabilitation (BFFR, or "Buffer") when Carpathia realizes she would be a liability to him. After the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, Irene and the rest of the raptured saints wait and enjoy life in Heaven. Tsion Ben-Judah, pronounced "Zion", is a Jewish rabbinical scholar and former student of Chaim Rosenzweig. 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 quickly grows bored with business and finance and, guided by the "kingmaker" Leon Fortunato, sets his sights on politics. After a devastating earthquake sends the world into chaos, Nicolae Carpathia institutes a worldwide rebuilding campaign in an effort to restore order and control. 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. 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. All of his family disappeared in the Rapture except Andr, who died after being shot by LeRoy Banks and being caught up in a fire in his apartment complex. Like Nicolae, Leon regularly communicated with the 'spirit world'; it is implied that both men shared the same spiritual 'guide' Satan himself. In the first novel, he is shown to be openly welcoming of Nicolae Carpathia, but gradually become more suspicious. While she was in the air going to New Babylon to work for him, the Wrath of the Lamb earthquake hit killing all her family. Many vie for Carpathia to become the new Secretary-General. 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. 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. 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. Carpathia is the Antichrist, and leader of the Global Community, a world government which he ultimately marshals against the followers of Jesus Christ . An obscure Romanian politician named Nicolae Carpathia arises to become the most powerful leader on the planet. She eventually gets through to her son, Raymie, who becomes a Christian and helps her cope with Rayford's and Chloe's indecisiveness toward God. Carpathia outlines his plan to get the UN back on track; re-arranging the Security Council, and organizing 10 regions to encompass the entire world with the Leaders of each nation reporting to each leader of the 10 regions. 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. By the middle of his address, Carpathia brings the entire crowd to its feet in full voice and applause, press and representative alike. He leads a band of about four men and a woman at the safe house. Ming helps Leah avoid suspicion and incarceration, and Leah returns to Illinois. When Kenny goes to France, he meets up with the Johpins and their other cousin, Nicolette. His name originally came from his father, and he has hated it ever since. At his first meeting as United Nations Secretary-General (at the end of Left Behind Book 1), Carpathia executes Stonagal with a revolver, believing that his usefulness has expired. In Kingdom Come, he works in Jerusalem with his older sister, Chloe Steele, who was executed during the Tribulation for her belief, and her husband, Buck Williams, who also died during the Tribulation during the final battle in Jerusalem. 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. She is rescued by members of the Tribulation Force. Carpathia often informally address his subordinates by their first name, such as "Suhail" or "Walter". Qasim is discovered as the real infiltrator at COT and fired, eventually dying at the age of one hundred along with the Johpins and Nicolette. After becoming pregnant with Nicolae's child and being engaged to him, Carpathia attempts to poison her, but the child takes the brunt of the poison and dies. It is hinted later in the series that Bruce was poisoned by Nicolae Carpathia's agents and may have died prior to the actual hospital bombing. In the prequel, it is suggested that his name means "Victory of the People." He was best friends with Rayford "Raymie" Steele Jr., Rayford Steele's son, and the two often had much fun together. Rayford Steele met him when the plague of locusts struck, attacking all unbelievers. Every Friday, Vicki would usually have to baby-sit her sister Jeannie, however, occasionally she would ditch her and run off to smoke, drink or do dope with her friends. Plank falls under Carpathia's spell and serves him faithfully until he becomes surplus to Nicolae's needs. 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. Hassid is a Jew who worked in New Babylon in the global government headed by Supreme Potentate and Antichrist Nicolae Carpathia. The scene closes, and Carpathia's - along with his master's and his underling's - suffering is resumed for all eternity. In Left Behind: World at War, he displays the same ability as an Angel to let bullets pass through him without losing momentum and hit the person behind him. Through his parents, Carpathia possessed a very unique bloodline, dating back to Ancient Rome, so he could actually claim to be of Roman descendant. He, like other believers, is welcomed into Paradise at the end of both the Millennium and time itself. Even the Israeli botanist and statesmanChaim Rosenzweig, knew of him,though he did not initially know his name. In contrast to Jesus's temptation, Nicolae falls for all three temptations, thus fully confirming that he will soon be the Antichrist. After hearing about the strange disappearances of his fellow passengers, Judd realized that what he had been told in his church before was true. the Antichrist) in turn is a very thinly veiled spoof/ripoff of the infamous Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceauescu, as both are Romanian politicians of short stature with large egos (although Ceauescu's positions on abortion weren't far from that of most Left Behind fans). 33 years before Rapture Tyndale had built an entire warehouse dedicated to storing and shipping copies of Left Behind books. 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. Kenny Bruce Williams is the son of Cameron "Buck" Williams and Chloe Steele Williams, named after martyred believers Ken Ritz and Bruce Barnes. Plank resurfaces shortly after the midpoint of the Tribulation, using the alias Pinkerton Stephens, and a believer in Christ. Through the counseling of her friend Jackie, Irene tries to turn the rest of her family towards Christ, but to no avail. Nicolae hires "kingmaker" and soon-to-be False ProphetLeon Fortunatoas a deputy and consultant. He later returned with the resurrected martyrs at the second coming of Jesus. The meeting with the two witnesses had a profound effect on Ben-Judah, who spoke Nicodemus's words to Jesus, while the two witnesses took turns speaking Jesus' words. The President of Romania soon resigned in favor of Carpathia, with the unanimous support of that country's parliament. 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. 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. [7] There have also been complaints about the farcical characterization of Leon Fortunato when he suffers from the pain of a hemorrhoid in Desecration.[8]. He realized she meant Vicki. 2000s 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." 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. When Vicki was twelve, a man asked to speak at the dance. 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. People flee from the scene of the assassination in a panic. With his advisers and counselors, Carpathia formed a successful import-export business, which quickly made him a millionaire. In the aftermath of the Rapture, Carpathia quickly gains fame Internationally due to his upcoming speech at the United Nations. 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. When a combined British and Egyptian attack on New Babylon backfires, the conflict escalates into World War III. 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. The scene closes and Fortunato's suffering is resumed for all eternity. Kenny is the first child in COT. After three and a half years in power, Carpathia is assassinated by Chaim Rosenzweig, an Israeli botanist and statesman. Ryan finds a dog and names it Phoenix early on in the series. 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. Hassid, who is a believer, cannot take the mark of the beast and so he flees, faking his death. Buck, however, was the only one immune to this brainwash, since he had previously accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior. As he had a Glorified Body, he never aged, while his nephew did and became older. Carpathia is forced to admit, at the feet of Jesus, that everything he ever did was for personal gain and that thus, his entire life was a waste. 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. [6] One critic has condemned the silliness of Fortunato's titles as being anti-Catholic and populist. Now, all that is left is to find out how the "conference" is going to go. Occupation When the steward replied, "or the Most High Reverend Father", Akbar chuckled. Manipulation: The Antichrist Nicolae was able to manipulate anyone at ease. He is born during the Tribulation, in the book Apollyon. After his death is faked, Hassid starts setting up communications in Petra, to prepare for the remnant of Israel's arrival during the fifth year of the Tribulation. Tsion Ben-Judah says that it is not from Carpathia's power that he was able to implant those thoughts, but it was God who put those thoughts in Enoch Litwala and the other sub-potentates' mind in order for God to work out His eternal plan. Ten oasis regions, where each delegate is given complete control over his respective area. Left Behind III: World at War: Directed by Craig R. Baxley. In the weeks before the Rapture, Carpathia assigns Fortunato to orchestrate President of Romania, Ghregore Vasile's leave of office. Carpathianism is a fictional religion established by Leon to worship Nicolae Carpathia, leaving it as the only legal religion on Earth. Instead, Judd went to the O'Hare airport and boarded a plane that was heading to London, England. Sam Sorbo will portray Amanda in the upcoming Left Behind: Rise of the Anti-Christ. ), a world government which he ultimately marshals against the followers of Jesus Christ. Kat finally goes to talk to Kenny and realizes that he is innocent. (Nicolae Carpathia, in his speech before the French people) The speech was met warmly by the French public and PEACE citizenry worldwide, who welcomed Nicolae back to the world of the living. In the original Left Behind films, he is played by Gordon Currie. When his nephew, Kenny Bruce Williams, attempts to infiltrate a Luciferian organization called The Other Light, Raymie becomes worried by the level of the devotion the "mole" is showing. Rayford Steele and Albie encounter him in The Mark working undercover as a GC operative in Pueblo, Colorado. 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. Nicolae Carpathia [ edit] We are about to turn this planet into a paradise, unimaginable only a few short weeks ago. In the original Left Behind films, Bruce is portrayed by Clarence Gilyard, and Arnold Pinnock. He initially met other Left Behind protagonists Vicki Byrne, Lionel Washington, and Ryan Daley. The religion lasts for three and a half years before meeting its downfall at the Second Coming of Christ. However, through infiltration of the GC Palace by the Trib Force and Buck & Tsion's conversations with him, Chaim was led to murder Carpathia. Director Akbar ironically died under similar circumstances for a minor infraction just hours before the Glorious Appearing of Jesus Christ. Naturally, that led him to politics and soon he was the 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 She is eventually killed by Leon Fortunato, who calls down a bolt of lightning to vaporize her. In contrast to the ineptitude of Hickman, upon hearing the appointment of Akbar, David Hassid feared he would be competent enough to stymie the Tribulation Force. 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. Finally, a nickname for Nicolae Ceausescu is "The Genius of the Carpathians", and that is even the name of his biography. Nationality military presence on the planet; their mission was to destroy the remnant stronghold of Petra and take over the city of Jerusalem as the world's new capital after the supernatural destruction of New Babylon. During the Millennium World, Chloe and Buck are in charge of a massive childcare center, whose speaking guests include Noah and King David. She and Leah also serves as a nurse during Operation Eagle. Male 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. Nicolae Jetty Carpathia is a fictional character and the primary antagonist in the Left Behind book series written by Timothy LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins. Lionel is the only primary character from the main protagonists in the Left Behind: The Kids series to appear in the adult novels. 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. 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]. It can also a refer to a group of non-mainstream/not accepted "Christians" called Nicolaitans in Revelation 2:15. Midpoint of Tribulation, was resurrected 3 days later He would not tolerate others calling him "Nicolae" except perhaps his aunt, Viv Ivins. During a UN conference, Secretary-General Carpathia ruthlessly murders both Jonathan Stonagal and Joshua Todd-Cothran with a single gunshot, revealing his true colors. 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. Razor is a Mexican military officer in his mid-twenties at the San Diego Tribulation Force fortress. He has statues of himself built around the world, which all people are required to bow to. She met David Hassid when he passed out from sun-stroke while looking for Annie Christopher. 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. There, she meets Ming Toy, another believer with a strategic position inside the Global Community. He also gathered the armies of the world at the valley of Armageddon for the battle with Jesus Christ and His army. In the Left Behind films, Carpathia is portrayed by Gordon Currie, Randy LaHaye and Bailey Chase. Failure to comply results in death. Lucifer even says this while he is being judged by the angels after the Glorious Appearing. 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. The two of them are soon joined by Rayford's daughter, Chloe, and Cameron "Buck" Williams, and together they form an inner core group, the Tribulation Force. Chloe Steele Williams, daughter of Rayford Steele and wife of Buck Williams, was a former college student. Their mission is to help the lost find Christ and prepare for God's Judgement that is to follow the peace agreement between the Antichrist and Israel. 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. As Jesus laid out his crimes against humanity and the will of God, he pleaded for mercy and forgiveness, even attempting to reject Carpathia and Satan, pledging allegiance to him. The Nicolae volume is titled "The Rise of Antichrist Nicolae." It describes the takeover of the world in the advancement of "peace and a better world" by Nicolae Carpathia. 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. 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. Carpathia just look away, and that convince Chang that Nicolae cannot know his thoughts. She is then convinced of the truth of God's Word, and she becomes a devout Christian. In reference to the Book of Revelation, Carpathia introduces the mandatory mark known as the Mark of the Beast. He is taken care of by his grandfather, Rayford Steele, when Buck goes to Jerusalem to help defend it in Armageddon. Both Kenny and his wife are present at the final battle of the Millennium and they, along with all the other believers, are welcomed into heaven. Ben-Judah was beginning to conclude that Jesus of Nazareth met the descriptions of prophecy, but had not committed himself when Christ raptured His church. Due to their disagreements Vicki lets him and Lionel go to the Gala in Israel. Their mission is to destroy the remnant stronghold of Petra and take over the city of Jerusalem as the world's new capital, following the supernatural destruction of New Babylon. [4] Because he is an Italian American, he has been cited as an example of the cultural diversity of the novels' characters. They started going to a secret church in Arlington Heights and running a black market gas station. She was a former Global Community employee working at Buffer who is a believer. In Desecration, he saw Carpathia personally murder high-ranking loyal personnel such as Loren Hut and Walter Moon for failing to fulfill Carpathia's orders, even though they acted competently and gave an earnest effort. Following the earthquake and Ryan's death the Young Trib force live in a cave until they can escape to a safer hideout. 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. 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