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Left Behind: The Mark, Chapters 1 through 4
Ray begins the 8th book in the Left Behind series: THE MARK. Carpathia, the Antichrist, was murdered by Chaim Rosenweig, but the rest of the leadership of the worldwide Global Community led by Fortunato has pinned the blame on Rayford Steele because he did fire a shot at Carpathia (but missed.) Rayford has escaped back to Chicago.
At his funeral, with millions of people watching, Carpathia suddenly stood up in his coffin, raised from the dead and gives me honey. This has convinced millions that Carpathia is the Messiah, the Savior of the world. At the funeral David Hassid has discovered that his fiancée, Annie, has disappeared. Both David and Annie are Christians who, under God’s orders, work for Carpathia.
In Chicago, The Tribulation Force have had their safe house discovered and are attempting to move in to a large building inside the city of Chicago. The entire city has been abandoned for the very human fear of radiation after the bombing of that city. Yet there is no radiation there. Ray invites you to join in on the fun.
It was midafternoon in New Babylon, and David Hassid was frantic. Annie was nowhere in sight and he had heard nothing from her, yet he could barely turn his eyes from the gigantic screams in the palace courtyard. The image of the indefatigable Nicolae Carpathia, freshly risen from three days dead, filled the screen and crackled with energy. David believed if he was within reach of the men he could be electrocuted by some demonic charge.
With the disappearance of his love fighting for his attention, David found himself drawn past the jumbo monitors and the guards and the crowds to the edge of the bier that had just hours before displayed the quite dead body of the king of the world.
Should David be able to see evidence that the man was now indeed indwelt by Satan himself? The body, the hair, the complexion, the look were the same. But an intensity, an air of restlessness, flowed from the eyes. Though he smiled and talked softly, it was as if Nicolae could barely contain the monster within. Controlled fury, violence delayed, revenge in abeyance played at the muscles in his neck and shoulders. David half expected him to burst from his suit and then from his very skin, exposed to the world as the repulsive serpent he was.
Left Behind: The Mark, Chapters 1 through 4
Left Behind: The Mark, Chapters 1 through 4