Prologue and Chapter 1 Summary

The novel "Desecration: Antichrist Takes the Throne" is the twelfth book in the Left Behind series that tells a fictionalized story of the final days of the earth based on information given in the Christian Bible. This particular book focuses on the escape of the believers to the safety of Petra after the antichrist forces the people to worship him. Themes discussed in the novel include faith as well as the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy.

The prologue is a section from the novel The Mark the book that precedes Desecration in the Left Behind series. Buck has just let Rayford know that the empty Quasi has crashed on the shoreline. Four people were supposed to have been on the jet. Buck prays for each member of the Tribulation Force as he drives to Jerusalem. He is part of a...