Book 9 in the 12book series that has sold over 63 million copiesRead the books that launched a cultural phenomenonThis is the most successful Christian fiction series ever.Publishers WeeklyCombines Tom Clancylike suspense with touches of romance hightech flash and biblical references.New York TimesCall it what you like the Left Behind series . . . now has a label its creators could have never predicted blockbuster success.EntertainmentAre you ready for the moment of truthMass disappearancesPolitical crisisEconomic crisisWorldwide epidemicsEnvironmental catastropheMilitary apocalypseAnd thats just the beginning . . .of the end of the world.The 12 books in the series by New York Times bestselling authors Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins cover the events of biblical prophecy surrounding the rapture and the sevenyear period known as the tribulation that follows. Desecration Antichrist Takes the ThroneHis 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 they watch anxiously as GC fighter planes appear overhead and bombs begin to fall. show more