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* [[Nuke'Em]]: So long, London and D.C. Bye-bye, Chicago.
* [[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]].
* [[Obi-Wan Moment]]: Any believer who decides to become a martyr. Overlaps with [[Face Death with Dignity]].
* [[Oddly Small Organization]]: The Tribulation Force itself, and also the "[http://slacktivist.typepad.com/slacktivist/2010/07/tf-gang-of-four.html Gang of Four]" conspiring to set up the One-World Government.
* [[Oddly Small Organization]]: The Tribulation Force itself, and also the "[https://web.archive.org/web/20110907090701/http://slacktivist.typepad.com/slacktivist/2010/07/tf-gang-of-four.html Gang of Four]" conspiring to set up the One-World Government.
* [[Offscreen Moment of Awesome]]: Steele's first landing at O'Hare during the Rapture is built up immensely, but actually occurs between chapters.
* [[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.
* [[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.
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* [[Propaganda Machine]]: The Global Community-controlled media and press, leading to the creation of Buck Williams' [[Voice of the Resistance]] publication ''The Truth''.
* [[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).
* [[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).
** [http://slacktivist.typepad.com/slacktivist/2010/09/tf-reaching-for-the-cookie-sack.html This blog post] gives us an idea of how incidental characters might view the main characters.
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20110908005803/http://slacktivist.typepad.com/slacktivist/2010/09/tf-reaching-for-the-cookie-sack.html This blog post] gives us an idea of how incidental characters might view the main characters.
* [[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]].
* [[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.
** 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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