What is the left behind book series about

The novels take readers to a world where all the Christians have left and the remnants must contend with seven years of trials and tribulations. There are sixteen novels in the Left Behind series. The books are biblically inspired. They are specifically drawn from the books of Ezekial, Revelation, Isaiah, and Daniel. The Bible speaks of a time when the true believers in Christ will be taken up to heaven to escape an earth-shattering disaster. The people that are left behind must deal with the anti-Christ, a mysterious figure that rises to a place of power on the world stage and initially brings peace to all corners of the world. His true purpose is eventually revealed and the heinous nature of the efforts he takes to cement his power, compounded upon by a litany of natural disasters, results in untold misery and suffering.

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Jenkins , dealing with Christian dispensationalist End Times : the pretribulation , premillennial , Christian eschatological interpretation of the Biblical apocalypse. The primary conflict of the series is the members of the Tribulation Force, an underground network of converts, against the NWO -esque organization " Global Community " and its leader, Nicolae Carpathia ; who is also the Antichrist. The series has been adapted into four films to date. Based on a dispensationalist interpretation of prophecies in the Biblical books of Revelation , Daniel , Isaiah and Ezekiel , Left Behind tells the story of the end times set in the contemporary era , in which true believers in Christ have been " raptured " taken instantly to heaven , leaving the world shattered and chaotic. As people scramble for answers, an obscure Romanian politician named Nicolae Jetty Carpathia rises to become secretary-general of the United Nations , promising to restore peace and stability to all nations. What most of the world does not realize is that Carpathia is actually the Antichrist foretold in the Bible.