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Desecration: Antichrist Takes The Throne
The Paperback CoverAuthor(s) Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins Cover artist Brian MacDonald Country United States Language English Series Left Behind Series Genre(s) Christian
Speculative Fiction
Post-apocalyptic fictionPublisher Tyndale House Publishers Publication date October 30, 2001 Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback) also Audiobook Pages 432 pages ISBN ISBN 0-8423-3226-X (hardback edition) & ISBN 0-8423-3229-4 (paperback edition) OCLC Number 47045282 Dewey Decimal 813/.54 21 LC Classification PS3562.A315 D47 2001 Preceded by The Mark Followed by The Remnant Desecration: Antichrist Takes the Throne is the ninth book in the Left Behind series. It was published in 2001 by Tyndale House. It was on The New York Times Best Seller List for 19 weeks, It was the best selling Novel in the World in 2001.
Plot summary
Nicolae Carpathia stages a gruesome and evil desecration of the temple. Hattie publicly confronts him and is burned to death by Leon, the False Prophet. As millions take the Mark of the Beast, the first Bowl Judgment rains down as foul and loathsome sores appear on the bodies of all who have taken the mark, including Nicolae's inner circle. When the temple is defiled, millions of Jews and Gentiles rebel against Nicolae and many of them become believers.
The Tribulation Force launches "Operation Eagle", a mass exodus of the believers to the refuge city of Petra. Leading them is none other than Dr. Chaim Rozensweig turned into a modern-day Moses, who, calling himself Micah, and along with Buck Williams, confronts Nicolae and leads the faithful to refuge. Meanwhile, David Hassid, the first to arrive at Petra, is murdered by two renegade GC soldiers left over from a confrontation between the Trib. Force and the GC. The second Bowl Judgment hits as all the oceans and seas turn into blood.
In Chicago, Chloe wanders off into the night and finds a group of believers (whom she eventually aids) hiding in a basement near the safe house. In Greece, the rescue of the two teenagers that Buck helped escape is attempted by the Trib Force's newest man: George Sebastian. One of the teens is replaced with a look-alike who kills the other teen, along with Lukas "Laslos" Miklos. George is captured and taken away. Tsion Ben-Judah arrives at Petra to address the throng as the Antichrist launches an all-out attack against them.
The book ends with Nicolae hysterical as he believes he is about to wipe out one million believers, Rayford Steele and Tsion Ben-Judah among them.
Characters
- Rayford Steele
- Cameron "Buck" Williams
- Chloe Steele Williams
- Dr. Tsion Ben-Judah
- David Hassid
- Mac McCullum
- His Excellency Global Community Potentate Nicolae Carpathia
- Most High Reverend Father of Carpathianism Leon Fortunato
- Dr. Chaim Rosenzweig aka: Micah
- Hattie Durham
- Leah Rose
- Kenny Bruce Williams
- Lukas "Laslos" Miklos
- Gustaf Zuckermandel Jr. (aka "Zeke" or "Z")
- Ming Toy
- Chang Wong
- Guy Blod
- Al B (aka: Albie)
- Abdullah Smith
- Viv Ivins
- Hannah Palemoon
- Pinkerton Stephens, aka Steve Plank
- Marcel Papadopoulos and Georgiana Stavros, freed by Buck from loyalty mark center
Left Behind series Original series Left Behind · Tribulation Force · Nicolae · Soul Harvest · Apollyon · Assassins · The Indwelling · The Mark · Desecration · The Remnant · Armageddon · Glorious AppearingPrequels/sequels The Rising · The Regime · The Rapture · Kingdom ComeMilitary series (Mel Odom) Apocalypse Dawn · Apocalypse Crucible · Apocalypse Burning · Apocalypse UnleashedPolitical series (Neesa Hart) End of State · Impeachable Offense · Necessary EvilsFilms Left Behind: The Movie · Left Behind II: Tribulation Force · Left Behind: World at WarSoundtracks Left Behind: The Movie soundtrack · Left Behind II: Soundtracks · Left Behind III: SoundtrackYouth Series Left Behind: The KidsOrganizations Tribulation Force · The Young Tribulation ForceGlobal Community Left Behind: Eternal Forces Characters in the Left Behind series Original Tribulation Force members
Rayford Steele • Cameron "Buck" Williams • Chloe Steele • Bruce BarnesOther Tribulation Force members
Tsion Ben-Judah • Chaim Rosenzweig • Albie • Mac McCullum • Abdullah Smith • David Hassid • Chang Wong • Ming Toy • Ree Woo • Ken Ritz • Lionel Whalum • George Sebastian • Priscilla Sebastian • Amanda White • T. M. Delanty • Lukas Miklos • Floyd Charles • Hattie Durham • Steve Plank • Razor • Naomi Tiberias • Eleazar Tiberias • Gustaf Zuckermandel, Jr. • Hannah Palemoon • Leah Rose • Annie ChristopherThe Global Community
Nicolae Carpathia • Leon Fortunato • Viv Ivins • Suhail Akbar • Walter Moon • Peter Mathews • Reiche Planchette • Guy BlodThe Millennium Force
Raymie Steele • Ekaterina Risto • Kenny Bruce Williams • Bahira Abaneh • Zaki AbanehOther characters
Irene Steele • Joshua Todd-Cothran • Jonathan Stonagal • Gerald Fitzhugh • Qasim Marid • Marilena CarpathiaCategories:- 2001 novels
- Left Behind series
- American post-apocalyptic novels
- Novels by Tim LaHaye
- Novels by Jerry B. Jenkins
- 21st-century American novels
- 2000s science fiction novel stubs
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