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lifetime. But it wasn't some-thing they would have chosen.

They had been horrifyingly left alone a few weeks before when their families disappeared in the global
vanishings--- or, in the case of Ryan Daley, when his parents had been killed in accidents related to the
disappear-ances.

Judd was the oldest at sixteen, the only one who could drive. His father, mother, and younger brother
and sister had disappeared in the middle of the night.

Vicki Byrne, fourteen, had lost her parents and her little sister, who had vanished right out of their trailer
home. Her brother, who had moved to Michigan, had also disappeared.

Lionel Washington, thirteen, had lost his parents, an older sister, and two younger sib-lings. His uncle,
andré Dupree, had been left behind too, but his recent murder had led to the situation in which the four
now found themselves.

They had stumbled onto each other and a young pastor at a local church. The older three of the four had
been church kids and knew immediately that the disappearances meant only one thing: What they had
heard about in church, what their parents had warned them about for years, had come true. Jesus Christ
had returned to snatch away his church, his true believers, in the twinkling of an eye. All over the world,
millions had dis-appeared right out of their clothes, leaving behind everything but flesh and blood and
bone.
 Ryan, twelve, had had little idea what had happened. All he knew was that he was sud-denly an orphan.
His father had died in a plane crash when the pilot had disappeared. His mother was killed in a gas-main
explo-sion during the chaos that followed the van-ishings.

Ryan had been the last of the four to see the truth and the last to make the decision to believe in Christ,
to trust him for forgiveness of sin and to assure. himself that he would go to be with God when he died.

Vicki's trailer had burned to the ground. Lionel's home had been invaded and taken over by his uncle's
"friends." Ryan was afraid to stay alone in his own house, especially after it had been burglarized. So, the
four new Christians had settled into Judd Thomp-son's huge home in the Chicago suburb of Mount
Prospect, Illinois. They attended New Hope Village Church and sat under the teaching of Bruce Barnes.
While dealing with their grief and fear over the loss of their fami-lies, they were also striving to learn as
much as they could about what had happened and what was to come.

Bruce Barnes had been that rare full-time Christian worker, on the pastoral staff, who himself had been
left behind. He had lost his wife and small children to the vanishings. He knew immediately that he had
never been a true believer and quickly turned his life over to God. In his grief and remorse he became an
outspoken witness for Christ, telling every-one who would listen that they needed to come to God.

He also taught that the Rapture (Christ's snatching away of the church) was not the beginning of the
seven-year tribulation the Bible predicted, where the earth and its inhabitants would suffer tremendous
devas-tation and loss. No, he said, prophecy indicated that a great leader would arise, the Antichrist, the
great enemy of God. He would make a pact with Israel, and the day that was signed would signal the
beginning of the seven years.

The kids left behind were fascinated by what Bruce taught, and they wanted to be on the lookout for the
Antichrist. He was, Bruce said, a great deceiver who would appear to be an attractive and articulate
peacemaker and would fool many. They didn't want to be fooled. They wanted to stand and fight. And