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* [[An Offer You Can't Refuse]]: In the prequel novel ''The Rising'', Marilena Carpathia wishes to become a mother. Enter Viviana Ivansova (Viv Ivins), who makes the following proposal to her: join our group and swear loyalty to [[Satan|her lord]], and she will have the baby she so desperately desire. [[The Antichrist|Marilena should have read the fine print about what her son will become in the future.]]

** Ironically, Carpathia had the fine print spelled out to him by Lucifer when it came time to decide whether to follow Lucifer's lead forever. He still jumped at it and didn't regret it until he lost and was forced to [[Kneel Before Zod|acknowledge Jesus as Lord.]]

** In a moment of bleak comedy, it's even noted that anyone who rejects God after 100 years is destined to die during the thousand year reign of Christ, meaning nine generations will have [[Failure Is the Only Option|lost by default]], but The Other Light thinks they'll still come out on top in the end anyway.

* [[Anyone Can Die]]: Except for one person, {{spoiler|Rayford Steele}}, all of the people we get to know end up dying in various painful and/or messy ways.

* [[Black Market]]: Inverted with the International Commodity Co-Op, which caters to underground Christians, helping them survive the final years of the Tribulation.

** Ironically, the completely legal market is such a joke by the final books even they have to engage in this trope since official lines of market goods are so decimated.

* [[Bonding Over Missing Parents]]: The lead characters of ''Left Behind: The Kids'' bond together when their parents were either raptured or killed.

* [[Brainwashed]]: The Antichrist's preferred method of gaining allies and resources.

* [[Nuke'Em]]: So long, London and D.C. Bye-bye, Chicago.

* [[Obi-Wan Moment]]: Any believer who decides to become a martyr. Overlaps with [[Face Death with Dignity]].

* [[Offscreen Moment of Awesome]]: Steele's first landing at O'Hare during the Rapture is built up immensely, but actually occurs between chapters.

* [[Off with His Head]]: Done through guillotines ([[Insistent Terminology|referred to as "loyalty enforcement facilitators"]]) on the general populace to enforce the law of taking the "[[Mark of the Beast|mark of loyalty]]" during the Tribulation.

* [[Propaganda Machine]]: The Global Community-controlled media and press, leading to the creation of Buck Williams' [[Voice of the Resistance]] publication ''The Truth''.

* [[Protagonist-Centered Morality]]: In the Left Behind universe, "good" is defined as "consistent with God's will" (or, to put the same thing another way, God's will is by definition always good).

* [[Prophecies Are Always Right]]: Interesting variant: The authors believe the prophecy used in these books is also completely true in the real world. Which makes the characters' praises of how everything in this story is happening exactly as predicted by the prophecy (which is the exact thing the authors believe in and used for writing the story) [[Author Appeal|all the more smug]].

** Except for when reality intervenes, and the [[Y 2 K]] bug doesn't cause the Anti-Christ to show up as they predicted.

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