Four young friends, Judd, Vicki, Lionel, and Ryan, band together to find faith and fight the evil forces that threaten their lives when they are left behind on Earth after God's Rapture.

The third book in the saga of "those left behind". The Tribulation Force, made up of pilot Rayford Steele, his daughter Chloe, and reporter Buck Williams, continues its adventures after the Rapture. The trio faces political and environmental dangers as the world is confronted by cataclysmic Earth-threatening challenges. Others in the series include "Left Behind" and "Tribulation Force."

The countdown to Rapture begins as Marilena Carpathia unknowingly gives birth to the Antichrist, and half a world away, God's plans begin to take form in young Ray Steele. --

Rayford Steele, Buck Williams, and the Tribulation Force journey to Jerusalem for the great Meeting of the Witnesses. Meanwhile, the fourth Trumpet Judgment strikes the solar system, crippling life on earth. The fifth Trumpet Judgment a plague of scorpionlike locusts led by Apollyon, chief demon of the abyss, is so horrifying that men try to kill themselves but are not allowed to die.

The scattered Tribulation Force is drawn inexorably toward the Middle East, as are all the armies of the world, when history hones in on the battle of the ages. During the last year of the Great Tribulation, safe houses are no longer safe, friends and loved ones must commemorate two lives in one memorial service, and the cast of characters dramatically changes. By the time of the war of the great day of God the Almighty, homes have been uprooted,...

The Young Trib Force, Judd, Vicki, Ryan, and Lionel, unleash the power of the printed page through an underground newspaper at Nicolae High, while the authorities search with a vengeance for the kids responsible.

When Nicolae Carpathia, the ruthless newly appointed president of Romania, speaks before the U.S., millions of people disappear and are welcomed into the presence of God, but for those who are left behind, only the darkest days lie ahead. --

The members of the Tribulation Force face their most dangerous challenges. As international fugitives, they struggle to find supplies for safe houses around the world. In despair over so many lost lives, Rayford Steele and Buck Williams make plans to dethrone Nicolae Carpathia and expose him as the Antichrist.
Meanwhile, Carpathia has been busy rebuilding roads, airports, and a cellular/solar satellite phone system—all designed to help him...

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His Excellency Global Community Potentate Nicolae Carpathia, no longer pretending to be a pacifist, has ordered every Morale Monitor armed as he prepares to travel along the Via Dolorosa and then onward to the temple, where shocking surprises await.
The lines are drawn between good and evil as God inflicts sores upon the flesh of those who have taken the mark. Meanwhile His chosen ones flee to Petra, where...

As another prophecy is fulfilled in Jerusalem, Judd and Lionel are startled by what they find. On their way back to Illinois, they encounter a detour and end up as witnesses to one of the most terrifying events of the Tribulation. After running for their lives, the Young Trib Force find a new hiding place in Wisconsin, where Vicki and the others watch the frightening events unfold in Israel. As the world prepares to take the Mark of Nicolae Carpathia,...