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* ShoutOut: Mac [=McCullum=] comments that Nicolae Carpathia would be Literature/{{Zorro}} if he added a hat and mask to the ensemble he wore at the battle of Armageddon. In fairness, Nicolae at this point is trying to protect his people from a genocidal ruler who was about to send him and Leon to the Lake of Fire as well as his followers to their judgment.
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* ShoutOut: Mac [=McCullum=] comments that Nicolae Carpathia would be Literature/{{Zorro}} DerivativeWorks/{{Zorro}} if he added a hat and mask to the ensemble he wore at the battle of Armageddon. In fairness, Nicolae at this point is trying to protect his people from a genocidal ruler who was about to send him and Leon to the Lake of Fire as well as his followers to their judgment.
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* FakeWizardry: In the Dramatic Audio, Nicolae Carpathia accuses the Judah-ites of using this to defeat the Global Community, even when it's evident that it's the Lord that's doing all this to his forces.
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* GodAndSatanAreBothJerks: Both Jesus and Carpatia (while possessed by Satan) commit plenty of war crimes in this book, with the main difference being that Jesus racks up a significantly higher body count.
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* GodAndSatanAreBothJerks: Both Jesus and Carpatia (while possessed by Satan) commit plenty of war crimes in this book, with the main difference being that Jesus racks up a significantly higher body count.count -- with all His casualties being Global Community forces and Carpathia loyalists.
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* ApocalypseAnarchy: A good deal of humanity who have taken Nicolae Carpathia's "mark of loyalty" and worshiped his image is in a panic when they realize their finances went up in smoke with the destruction of New Babylon prior to the Lord's coming.
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* ApocalypseAnarchy: A good deal of humanity who have taken Nicolae Carpathia's "mark of loyalty" and worshiped his image is in a panic when they realize their finances went up in smoke with the destruction of New Babylon prior to the Lord's coming.
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* OmniscientMoralityLicense: Apparently it's fine for Jesus to commit several war crimes, from giving no quarters to enemies who have surrendered, to excessive violence, to outright genocide. Of course, when He's Lord and Creator of the universe, and you can't appeal to anyone higher than Him because there is no one higher than God or Jesus in all creation, [[FanFic/LeftBeyond what are you going to do?]]
* OneTrueThreesome: Subverted in-universe. Rayford's two wives, Irene and Amanda, come back to life at the end of his book, and he will have to deal with that. However, since they have Glorified bodies, they are also [[SexIsBoring asexual]], leaving Rayford with a millennium of enforced involuntary celibacy to look forward to, though not without having the joy of the Lord being present in the world to replace what he lost.
* OneTrueThreesome: Subverted in-universe. Rayford's two wives, Irene and Amanda, come back to life at the end of his book, and he will have to deal with that. However, since they have Glorified bodies, they are also [[SexIsBoring asexual]], leaving Rayford with a millennium of enforced involuntary celibacy to look forward to, though not without having the joy of the Lord being present in the world to replace what he lost.
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* OmniscientMoralityLicense: Apparently it's fine for Jesus to commit several war crimes, from giving no quarters to enemies who have surrendered, to excessive violence, to outright genocide. Of course, when He's Lord and Creator of the universe, and you can't appeal to anyone higher than Him because there is no one higher than God or Jesus in all creation, [[FanFic/LeftBeyond [[Fanfic/LeftBeyond what are you going to do?]]
* OneTrueThreesome: Subverted in-universe. Rayford's two wives, Irene and Amanda, come back to life at the end of his book, and he will have to deal with that. However, since they have Glorified bodies, they are also[[SexIsBoring [[UsefulNotes/{{Asexuality}} asexual]], leaving Rayford with a millennium of enforced involuntary celibacy to look forward to, though not without having the joy of the Lord being present in the world to replace what he lost.
* OneTrueThreesome: Subverted in-universe. Rayford's two wives, Irene and Amanda, come back to life at the end of his book, and he will have to deal with that. However, since they have Glorified bodies, they are also
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* IAmTheNoun: Jesus begins to speak a series of this upon His arrival from heaven.
-->'''Jesus:''' I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End, the Almighty. I am He who lives and was dead and, behold, I'm alive forevermore, Amen, and I have the keys of Hades and of death. I am the Son of Man, the Son of God, the Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God. I am the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, the One who prevailed to open the scroll, to loose its seven seals. I am the Lamb that was slain and yet who lives. I am the Shepherd who leads His sheep to living fountains of waters. I am the Jesus who will wipe away every tear from your eyes. I am your Salvation and Strength. I am the Word of God. I am Jesus. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, the Bright and Morning Star.
-->'''Jesus:''' I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End, the Almighty. I am He who lives and was dead and, behold, I'm alive forevermore, Amen, and I have the keys of Hades and of death. I am the Son of Man, the Son of God, the Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God. I am the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, the One who prevailed to open the scroll, to loose its seven seals. I am the Lamb that was slain and yet who lives. I am the Shepherd who leads His sheep to living fountains of waters. I am the Jesus who will wipe away every tear from your eyes. I am your Salvation and Strength. I am the Word of God. I am Jesus. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, the Bright and Morning Star.
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** With The Sign of the Son of Man during the Battle of Armageddon, the believers are nigh invunerable to bullets...and everything else. Rayford and the other believers defending Petra have some fun with this, goading the Unity Army into attacking them, but with no success from the latter.
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** With The Sign of the Son of Man during the Battle of Armageddon, the believers are nigh invunerable invulnerable to bullets...and everything else. Rayford and the other believers defending Petra have some fun with this, goading the Unity Army into attacking them, but with no success from the latter.
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* WhenTheClockStrikesTwelve: When Chaim Rosenzweig realizes that the Lord won't appear exactly seven years after the signing of the treaty between Israel and the Global Community to the exact hour, he predicts that the Lord's coming will happen around midnight Israel time. And sure enough, that's what happens, when the Global Community Unity Army try to storm Petra around that time and find themselves temporarily immobilized by a supernatural blackout that occurs for about a minute before the Lord's appearing in the sky with His heavenly army.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Jesus to Satan, the Antichrist, and the False Prophet.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Jesus to Satan, the Antichrist, and the False Prophet.Prophet, and the "goats" in the judgment of the nations at the Valley of Jehoshaphat.
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* HookersAndBlow: Gabriel repeats [[Literature/BookOfJoel Joel 3:1-3]] in the Lord's judgment of the nations in the Valley of Jehoshaphat, saying "They divided up My people as their slaves; they traded a young lad for a prostitute, and a little girl for wine enough to get drunk."
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* AngelUnaware: In the judgment of the "sheep" and "goats", Jesus tells both groups, "Whatever you did (or did not do) to the least of these My brethren [referring to the people of Israel], you did it (or did not do it) to Me."
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* MortalWoundReveal: Jesus tells Rayford Steele to take His hands, and Rayford sees that Jesus still has the nail prints in His hands from His death on the cross.
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* LetsMeetTheMeat: After Jesus' arrival, Jerusalem butcher Ezer Bornstein is surprised to find that there were a lot of livestock waiting outside his door, lining up to be made into meat.
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* InconvenientSummons: With Jesus summoning the last remaining quarter of humanity to the Valley of Jehoshaphat for judgment (who at that point are mostly GC and Carpathia loyalists), some are pulled out of various things they were doing just for the sake of being judged.
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* AccompliceByInaction: In Jesus' judgment of the "sheep and goats" near the end of this book, Jesus judges the "goats" (most likely GC and Carpathia loyalists) for doing nothing good for "the least of My brethren" (contextually talking about the people of Israel), saying that what they didn't do for them, they also didn't do for Him. In other words, they're just as guilty as if they were actively coming against the Jews and Christians themselves.
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* AccompliceByInaction: In Jesus' judgment of the "sheep and goats" near the end of this book, Jesus judges the "goats" (most likely GC and Carpathia loyalists) for doing nothing good for "the least of My brethren" (contextually talking about the people of Israel), saying that what they didn't do for them, they also didn't do for Him. In other words, they're just as guilty as if they were actively coming against the Jews and Christians themselves.themselves, and doing that to the Jews means you're also doing that to Christ.
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* AccompliceByInaction: In Jesus' judgment of the "sheep and goats" near the end of this book, Jesus judges the "goats" (most likely GC and Carpathia loyalists) for doing nothing good for "the least of My brethren" (contextually talking about the people of Israel), saying that what they didn't do for them, they also didn't do for Him. In other words, they're just as guilty as if they were actively coming against the Jews and Christians themselves.
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* MysticalPlague[=/=]StrippedToTheBone: The flesh-dissolving plague that God strikes the GC army with during their attempt to storm the hideout of the Jerusalem rebels, affecting all but Nicolae and Leon.
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* MysticalPlague[=/=]StrippedToTheBone: The flesh-dissolving plague that God strikes the GC army with during their attempt to storm the hideout of the Jerusalem rebels, affecting all but Nicolae and Leon.Leon (thus fulfilling Zechariah 14:12).
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* MiracleFood: God blesses Ezer Bornstein, a Jewish butcher, with so many animals to make meat from that he's giving it away for free to the survivors of the Tribulation.
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* BloodIsSquickerInWater: After the Seventh Bowl Judgment rains down huge hailstones on the GC, the temperature goes back up to normal, melting the hailstones into water, causing it to mix with the blood to create a high-enough river that Leon gets soaked in trying to get Nicolae's vehicle out of so he could drive to higher ground.
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* FeatheredFiend: The birds that are called by God to feast on the flesh of the fallen Global Community armed forces in Petra, whether they are dead or still alive.
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* KnowWhenToFoldEm: A good deal of the Global Community armed forces not situated in the Holy Land at the time of the battle of Armageddon, who realize that there are without any resources coming from New Babylon to make sure they're paid (all because said city is destroyed), decide that they might as well quit even though they face a court martial for doing so.
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* KnowWhenToFoldEm: A good deal of the Global Community armed forces not situated in the Holy Land at the time of the battle of Armageddon, who realize that there they are without any resources coming from New Babylon to make sure they're paid (all because said city is destroyed), decide that they might as well quit even though they face a court martial for doing so.
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* KnowWhenToFoldEm: A good deal of the Global Community armed forces not situated in the Holy Land at the time of the battle of Armageddon, who realize that there are without any resources coming from New Babylon to make sure they're paid (all because said city is destroyed), decide that they might as well quit even though they face a court martial for doing so.
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* PunchClockVillain: A good deal of the Global Community armed forces not situated in the Holy Land at the time of the battle of Armageddon, because without any resources coming from New Babylon to make sure they're paid (all because said city is destroyed), they might as well quit even though they face a court martial for doing so.
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* SuperCellReception: Despite God causing severe shaking of the earth, the protagonists are still able to get perfect cell-phone reception so they could talk to each other. In the Dramatic Audio version, Chang Wong wonders if their cell-phones would still work after the Lord has appeared, and Naomi Tiberias tells him to stop worrying about it because it no longer matters.
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* AintTooProudToBeg: Leon Fortunato, when he faces Jesus, begs pitifully to be spared his fate in the Lake of Fire, even going so far as to renounce his association with Nicolae and Satan and pledging his allegiance to Jesus. [[HeelFaceDoorSlam Unfortunately for him, Jesus isn't changing His mind.]]
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* OneTrueThreesome: Subverted in-universe. Rayford's two wives, Irene and Amanda, come back to life at the end of his book, and he will have to deal with that. However, since they have Glorified bodies, they are also [[SexIsBoring asexual]], leaving Rayford with a millennium of enforced involuntary celibacy to look forward to.
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* OneTrueThreesome: Subverted in-universe. Rayford's two wives, Irene and Amanda, come back to life at the end of his book, and he will have to deal with that. However, since they have Glorified bodies, they are also [[SexIsBoring asexual]], leaving Rayford with a millennium of enforced involuntary celibacy to look forward to.to, though not without having the joy of the Lord being present in the world to replace what he lost.
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* OneTrueThreesome: Subverted in-universe. Rayford's two wives, Irene and Amanda, come back to life at the end of his book, and he will have to deal with that. However, since they have Glorified bodies, they are also [[Asexuality [[SexIsBoring asexual]], leaving Rayford with a millennium of enforced involuntary celibacy to look forward to.
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* OneTrueThreesome: Subverted in-universe. Rayford's two wives, Irene and Amanda, come back to life at the end of his book, and he will have to deal with that. However, since they have Glorified bodies, they are also [[Main/Asexuality [[Asexuality asexual]], leaving Rayford with a millennium of enforced involuntary celibacy to look forward to.
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* OneTrueThreesome: Subverted in-universe. Rayford's two wives, Irene and Amanda, come back to life at the end of his book, and he will have to deal with that. However, since they have Glorified bodies, they are also [[Asexual]], [[Main/Asexuality asexual]], leaving Rayford with a millennium of enforced involuntary celibacy to look forward to.
