The Mark: The Beast Rules the World - Paperback

by Tim LaHaye (Author), Jerry B. Jenkins (Author)

Book 8 in the 12-book series that has sold over 63 million copies

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Are you ready for the moment of truth?

• Mass disappearances
• Political crisis
• Economic crisis
• Worldwide epidemics
• Environmental catastrophe
• Military apocalypse

And that's just the beginning . . .
of the end of the world.

The 12 books in the series by New York Times best-selling authors Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins cover the events of biblical prophecy surrounding the rapture and the seven-year period known as the tribulation that follows.

The Mark: The Beast Rules the World
His Excellency Global Community Potentate Nicolae Carpathia is back, this time as Satan. Resurrected and indwelt by the devil himself, the beast tightens his grip as ruler of the world. Terror comes to believers in Greece as they are among the first to face a GC loyalty mark application site. The gloves are off, as the forces of good and evil begin a battle for the very souls of men and women around the globe.

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Global Community ruler resurrects, demands worship. Carpathia occupies Jerusalem temple--'rightful throne'. Citizens to receive loyalty mark or death.

The events set in motion by the Rapture take a deeply disturbing turn when satanic Global Community leader Nicolae Carpathia, recently assassinated, returns to life. He erects statues of himself in every city and demands that all people be branded with a permanent loyalty mark. Those who refuse face ghastly execution, and Christ-followers are targeted for obliteration.

Rayford Steele, Buck Williams, and the other Tribulation Force operatives rally their forces to combat this new onslaught. Will the young spy within Global Community headquarters prove trustworthy? Will the Trib Force's daring escape plan succeed, or will they go down in flames?

The Mark is #8 in the phenomenal New York Times best-selling Left Behind series that rocked the publishing world and made millions think seriously about the future and their places in it.

With special features relating to current events and end-times prophecy.