In 1995 the novel concerning prophecy Left Behind by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins rocketed to the top of the charts, phenomenal sales, about the Rapture of the born again people (see I Thessalonians 4: 17) and the seven-year Tribulation period which followed under the headship of Carpathia, the Antichrist, of the Slavic-speaking (Carpathian Mountains) region of the world, very interesting in that a Slavic speaker would assist in the demise of Russia, ultimately in the war prophesied in Ezekiel 38 & 39.