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"But Vicki and I can come, really?"

"Sure. Just be sure you're an hour early and park far away."

Judd couldn't wait. As he hung up he looked at his watch and decided he and Vicki would have to leave
within the hour to be downtown in time to be in place. He turned up the TV and watched more of the
interview with the man Bruce now suspected could be the Antichrist.

Boy, would he and Bruce have a lot to talk about the next time they got together!




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 CHAPTER ONE



The Ride




JUDDfelt a tingle down his spine as he and Vicki got in the car. He'd had enough excite-ment for a
lifetime the last couple of weeks, but he had never been involved in anything like this. He had been a
rebel, a difficult, stubborn, self-centered teen. Lying to his par-ents and running with the wrong crowd
had been the extent of his adventure--- at least until the Rapture.

His world had been turned upside down. Meeting three other instant orphans, having them move in, and
all four of them coming to Christ within a few days made his previ-ous life seem eons ago. Was it
possible that just a few weeks ago he thought he knew ev-erything there was to know about just about
everything? Now, strange as it seemed, he knew he was more mature and grown-up than ever, mostly
because he realized how little he knew about anything.

Everything important to him before now seemed childish and stupid. What he cared about now was
God. People. Truth. Justice. Survival. In a way, he missed the carefree youth he had been squandering
by playing the tough guy. Rascal though he was, his par-ents were always there to bail him out. And
while they may have wondered what would ever become of him, he knew down deep they would have
even forgiven him for steal-ing his dad's credit card and running away to Europe. Always, there had been
that escape hatch. They loved him, wanted the best for him, and would eventually forgive him and
welcome him back. They had modeled God to him, but he had been too self-centered to realize it.

Here he was, on his own now, wondering when or if school would ever start up again. How would they
notify the kids when it was time to come back? How many had disap-peared? How many teachers?
Would school ever seem normal again? And should he go to school? If Bruce was right and Nicolae
Carpathia, who had just become the new secretary-general of the United Nations, could be the
Antichrist, how long would it be before he signed some sort of an agreement with Israel?

If that came soon, there would be only seven more years of life on earth as they knew it. Did Judd need