"Tim LaHaye & Jerry Jenkins - Left Behind Series 8 - The Mark" - читать интересную книгу автора (LaHaye Tim)

Chang Wong, seventeen; Ming Toy's brother; resides in China in the United Asian
States; in New Babylon for Carpathia funeral with parents, who are unaware of his
faith

Professed Believer:

Al B. (aka тАЬAlbieтАЭ), late forties; given name unknown; native of Al Basrah, north of
Kuwait; former manager, Al Basrah Airstrip Tower; international black marketer;
told Buck Williams he had become a believer from out of the Muslim faith by
studying the teachings of Tsion Ben-Judah on the Internet; mark of the believer
visible on his forehead; assisting Trib Force in northern Illinois, United North
American States

The Enemies:

Nicolae Jetty Carpathia, thirty-six; former president of Romania; former secretary-
general, United Nations; self-appointed Global Community potentate; assassinated
in Jerusalem; resurrected at GC palace complex, New Babylon
Leon Fortunato, early fifties; Carpathia's right hand; GC Supreme Commander;
New Babylon

The Undecided:

Hattie Durham, early thirties; former Pan-Continental flight attendant; former
personal assistant to Carpathia; last seen, United North American States
 Prologue From The Indwelling:
The Announcer said, тАЬLadies and gentlemen of the Global Community, your
Supreme Potentate, His Excellency Nicolae Carpathia.тАЭ
Nicolae took one step closer to the camera, forcing it to refocus. He looked directly
into the lens.
тАЬMy dear subjects,тАЭ he began. тАЬWe have, together, endured quite a week, have we
not? I was deeply touched by the millions who made the effort to come to New
Babylon for what turned out to be, gratefully, not my funeral. The outpouring of
emotion was no less encouraging to me.
тАЬAs you know and as I have said, there remain small pockets of resistance to our
cause of peace and harmony. There are even those who have made a career of
saying the most hurtful, blasphemous, and false statements about me, using terms
for me that no person would ever want to be called.
тАЬI believe you will agree that I proved today who I am and who I am not. You will
do well to follow your heads and your hearts and continue to follow me. You know
what you saw, and your eyes do not lie. I am also eager to welcome into the one-
world fold any former devotees of the radical fringe who have become convinced
that I am not the enemy. On the contrary, I may be the very object of the devotion of
their own religion, and I pray they will not close their minds to that possibility.
тАЬIn closing let me speak directly to the opposition. I have always, without rancor or
acrimony, allowed divergent views. There are those among you, however, who have
referred overtly to me personally as the Antichrist and this period of history as the
Tribulation. You may take the following as my personal pledge:
тАЬIf you insist on continuing with your subversive attacks on my character and on the
world harmony I have worked so hard to engender, the word tribulation will not