rapture (christian eschatology)

Presents the third "Left Behind" prequel novel that focuses on the lives of several characters just prior to the mysterious disappearance of millions of Christians.

The eighth novel in the Left Behind series finds the battle between good and evil escalating es Nicolae Carpathia, resurrected and indwelt by the devil, tightens his grip on the people of the world by putting in place a loyalty enforcement facilitator.

The Tribulation Force, a group of people who came to believe in God after being left behind on Earth after God's Rapture, ready themselves to fulfill Holy Scripture by setting up the assassination of the Antichrist.

The Tribulation continues on Earth with the coming of Apollyon the Destroyer, who leads the plague of demon-locusts as they torture the unsaved; while despite growing threats from the Antichrist, the Tribulation Force, a group of believers left behind at the Rapture, gathers in Israel for the conference of witnesses.

Airline captain Rayford Steele, stunned when over one hundred passengers vanish from his plane in the blink of an eye, quickly realizes the Rapture his wife had been telling him about--an event in which Jesus would return to take his followers to Heaven before they die--has happened and he has been left behind.

Rayford Steele and the rest of the Tribulation Force having been left behind when the prophesied Rapture took believers to heaven, are now involved in a mission to win as many people as possible to Jesus while at the same time dealing with Nicolae Carpathia, the man they suspect is the Antichrist.

Four kids--Judd, Vicki, Lionel, and Ryan--band together to protect themselves after millions disappear from the earth and the Antichrist appears.