History Fanfic / LeftBeyond

* OneTrueThreesome: Played straight with Jeb, Cordylon, and Valentina, at least until the latter dies of old age after refusing cybernetic implants out of loyalty for those of her people who died before they were available. Thanks to properly designed privacy settings, even the Omega does not know if the three get up to anything intimate during private time, or just geek out about various topics. On the believers side, averted between Captain Steele and his two wives, since both of the latter are now Glorified and therefore asexual.

In the first branch, a second global earthquake restores the world's mountains and valleys as they were (and further wrecks the infrastructure) while great ion storms make a significant fraction of the Earth uninhabitable... while the removal of the Big God from the chessboard, however temporary, allows the older SmallGods to make their return. This, plus the lack of a consensus over just what the heck happened, makes sure that TheMagicComesBack within a few years.

The resulting world, a generation later, looks like it has been through a CosyCatastrophe as the human (or post-human, or trans-human) race rebuilds.

In the second branch, at the beginning of the story the Tribulation is over as it should have been; Jesus Christ is triumphant, and sets up His Kingdom here on earth for the Millennium. He first destroys the desecrated Jewish Temple in Jerusalem and then replaces it with a new and more grand Temple from which He will rule over all the earth. The world is flattened (no more mountains) and a sky canopy is created (no more night).

An odd mixture of a RPG worldbook and stories that were probably derived from completed campaigns, made even odder by the fact that the original work is the ''Literature/LeftBehind'' eschatological franchise, specifically the last two books, [[Recap/LeftBehindBook12GloriousAppearing Glorious Appearing]] and [[Recap/LeftBehindBook13KingdomCome Kingdom Come]].

* MeaninglessVillainVictory: A few all around, regardless of who the villains are. The Millennium Force score two with the capture of a prototype spider tank and the destruction of what they thought was the Omega mainframe. The Omega deal a crushing blow to Satan... just before Jesus scours the Earth of all life anyway. The Other Light conquer Russia and Western Africa, but mostly because the other two factions let them do so since the territories are no longer strategically relevant. God revels in the glory of judging sinners forever, while post-humanity gets on with life.

* ClaimedByTheSupernatural: The Glorified characters. While they can be killed, they come back with no memory of their own death, and proving that they were ever dead is effectively rendered impossible due to selective cognitive dissonance. Also, in [[JennyEverywhere Jenny]]'s case: she ends up embodying an avatar of the goddess Hekate.

* PublicDomainCharacter: The various Old Testament heroes, including Jesus, Satan and Yahweh. JennyEverywhere makes two appearances, one as Cendrillon's friend in the prequel novel, one as a minor side quest in the game.

* BreakoutCharacter: Kat. Originally intended to be just one more Heavy Mech Trooper, she ends up turning herself into a Lovecraftian monstruosity, being the last humanoid alive on Earth, and punching Jesus in the nuts.

An odd mixture of a RPG worldbook and stories that were probably derived from completed campaigns, made even odder by the fact that the original work is the LeftBehind eschatological franchise, specifically the last two books, [[Recap/LeftBehindBook12GloriousAppearing Glorious Appearing]] and [[Recap/LeftBehindBook13KingdomCome Kingdom Come]].

[[http://emlia.org/pmwiki/pub/web/Tripocalypse.Tripocalypse.html Tripocalypse]] RPG worldbook, which changes the ending for LeftBehind's 12th book

* TheCameo: Most LeftBehind characters show up, however briefly, with the conspicuous exception of Rayford Steele. Given his canon MartyStu status, as well as his advanced age, this is likely intentional.

* GaidenGame: This, to the LeftBehind series. The story parallels that of the last book in the series, down to the CurbStompBattle, but significantly expands on the universe. Tripocalypse is an alternate interpretation of the Millennial Kingdom.

* FireAndBrimstoneHell: The Lake of Fire, which Satan and all those who have rejected God throughout the ages are sent to. The people of Misrayim had gotten their culture to a sufficient position of strength that people had begun to train for it, mimicking Ancient Egyptian practices.
* FlauntingYourFleets: The Omega has a small navy, mostly consisting of submarines and a single long range artillery ship. It is used to flatten the walls of Ezekiel's Temple, but since The Other Light and the Temple have no navies, there is no big naval battle.

* GaidenGame: This, to the LeftBehind series. The story parallels that of the last book in the series, down to the CurbStompBattle, but significantly expands on the universe.

* [[GratuitousForeignLanguage Gratuitous Hebrew]]: What everyone is speaking in this story, though for the sake of the players it's all translated into English.

* MassResurrection: Invoked several times. The Other Light use bootleg metabolic extension controllers to establish a zombie army, which is eventually stolen by the Archangel Phanuel. The Omega practice this on a continuous industrial scale, to keep people out of Hell. And all the unsaved dead are resurrected at the Great White Throne judgment at the end of the Millennium - most actually face judgement, so they go right back into Hell.
* MeaninglessVillainVictory: A few all around, regardless of who the villains are. The Millennium Force score two with the capture of a prototype spider tank and the destruction of what they thought was the Omega mainframe. The Omega deal a crushing blow to Satan... just before Jesus scours the Earth of all life anyway. The Other Light conquer Russia and Western Africa, but mostly because the other two factions let them do so since the territories are no longer strategically relevant. God revels in the glory of judging sinners forever... while post-humanity gets on with life.

* PreMortemOneLiner: A few. Near the end, Jesus does this to the invading TOL forces. '''Satan:''' CHARGE! '''Jesus:''' I AM WHO I AM. (cue annihilation of the TOL forces via a nova). A few moments after that, Kat does this to King David, exclaiming "Bite me!" and punching his head off with a vat-grown cybernetic lobster claw. Doubly funny considering that lobsters aren't kosher, and Kat's player was Jewish.

* PyrrhicVictory: Many, on every side. One of the Omega sysadmins manages to finally produce a semi-sentient spider tank, only to see it stolen. TOL succeeds in taking the Russian and East African territories, but by then it's too late for them to do anything with it other than roll their army through it. Even God Himself manages to make everything work out to His satisfaction, only to find Himself playing through a slightly different versions of the White Throne Judgement for eternity while post-humanity conquers the stars.

* CommLinks: Christian citizens of the Millennial Kingdom and followers of The Other Light have cell phone implants that allowed them to communicate with each other over long distances. Followers of the Omega use smartphones (invented independently, and called stenopads in a case of intentional [[Zeerust]]), on the ground that they can be upgraded more quickly and have more functions.

An odd mixture of a RPG worldbook and stories that were probably derived from completed campaigns, made even odder by the fact that the original work is the LeftBehind eschatological franchise, specifically the last book, [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/LeftBehindBook13KingdomCome Kingdom Come]].

The corpus of the work consists of a RPG worldbook, a strategy game ("quest") run on 4chan which includes rules for replaying it, and a few short stories and novellas (including one example of RecursiveFanfiction ).

At the beginning of the story, the Tribulation is over; Jesus Christ is triumphant, and sets up His Kingdom here on earth for the Millennium. He first destroys the desecrated Jewish Temple in Jerusalem and then replaces it with a new and more grand Temple from which He will rule over all the earth. The world is flattened (no more mountains) and a sky canopy is created (no more night).

Strategy chronicle of The Omega Legacy for +900: [[http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html?tags=left%20beyond Left Beyond Quest]]

* CelestialBureaucracy: A brutally effective one. Jesus is the proverbial head of state, the Levite priests oversee the rebuilt Temple, and the 11 apostles act as the civil governors with King David as their leader.

* {{Asexuality}}: The relationship of the "glorifieds" with "naturals" and with each other, mostly due to the nature of their new bodies and minds. Doesn't prevent The Other Light from collecting DNA samples, although this doesn't turn out to be very useful.

* ChasteHero: Zak. The good doctor is not asexual, but has no time for either hanky or panky until Humanity is safe.
* ClaimedByTheSupernatural: The Glorified characters. While they can be killed, they come back with no memory of their own death, and proving that they were ever dead is effectively rendered impossible due to selective cognitive dissonance.
* CommLinks: Christian citizens of the Millennial Kingdom and followers of The Other Light have cell phone implants that allowed them to communicate with each other over long distances. Followers of the Omega use regular smartphones, on the ground that they can be upgraded more quickly.

* CrapsaccharineWorld: The world of the Millennium in general. On one hand, there is no disease, almost no accidental death, and no danger except fo that which The Other Light and The Omega bring into play. On the other, it's terminally boring, and exists under an undefeatable dictatorship. The sky is perpetually blue, so say goodbye to starry nights. Most everyone has to wear sunglasses during the day due to the Sun and Moon's extra power output. With very few exception, everybody is an obligate vegetarian. Every mountain and most interesting geographical features on Earth have been flattened by Jesus at the beginning of the story. In the last part of the Millennium, faithful believers with a Natural bodies are trapped in extremely aged bodies but are unable to die. Finally, TheEmpire formed by the various territorial governments loyal to Greater Jerusalem is literally run by OmniscientMoralityLicense.

* TheDarkChick: Quinn. She is not a nice person, struggles with substance abuse throughouth her life and unlife, and ultimately becomes a hero of Humanity because at that point in time it was convenient to have her be represented as a martyr for the cause, rather than for much in the way of personal merit. Nevetheless, she does her job with competence, most of the time.

* TooDumbToLive: So many. This, combined with the generally nihilistic approach of the three big powers (God, Satan, and the Omega) and the simulationist nature of the game, means a remarkably high body count. Most heroes and villains end up needing to be rebuilt or regenerated, some multiple times.

* [[WasTooHardOnHim Was Too Hard On Them]]: As with the end of the Tribulation period, Jesus clearly didn't like having to send the unbelievers to their sentence at the Great White Throne judgment. But He does anyway, which means He is fair game.
* WeddingDay: Played with near the end. Ryan Andrews and Tethys, two bitter rivals in the development two societies of semi-aquatic humans, end up getting married on the day when they board the colony spaceship: turns out that throughout their conflict they developed a mutual respect that, due to their massive egos, they could not share with anyone else. Averted in most other cases.
* WhereAreTheyNow: The game ends with the few survivors of the Judgement looking out at the new world they have reached.

[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12530291/1/Children-of-the-Tripocalypse Children of the Tripocalypse]], which follows the protagonists of LeftBehind The Kids into the Tripocalypse continuity

[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11934303/1/Left-Beyond-The-Millennium-Countdown|The Millennium Countdown]], prequel/sidequel to Left Beyond Quest

The main page for this 'verse seems to be at http://emlia.org/pmwiki/pub/web/LeftBeyond.TalesFromTheBeyond.html with links to the various stories and to the example game.

!!This fanfic provides examples of:

CurbStompBattle: Almost any time The Other Light engage the Omega's forces; explained by an obvious technology gap and by the fact that The Other Light's military doctrine is intentionally deficient. The Final Battle, in which Jesus annihilates most of the forces of both The Other Light and the Omega in a single blow, also qualifies.

* DeathFromAbove: How The Only Light's army meets its end at the FinalBattle. Averted with the relativistic kinetic strike weapons planned by The Outer Light: there is justifiable fear that building such a thing would cause the Apocalypse that the Omega are trying to avert.

* FlauntingYourFleets: The Omega has a small navy, mostly consisting of submarines and a single batttleship / artillery ship. It is used to flatten the walls of Ezekiel's Temple, but since The Other Light and the Temple have no navies, there is no big naval battle.

* GrowOldWithMe: Averted: most of the characters on the Omega's side become cyborgs in order to avoid Hell. Valentina in particular decides to die and face the Judgement, after making sure that her tribe of space enthusiasts has a real shot at leaving Earth and her lover Jeb is assured a future with them.
* HappilyEverAfter: For the believers, who get to go to Heaven, and the space colonists, who get to reach Alpha Centauri and keep Humanity alive. Most everyone else goes to Hell. God Himself ends up stuck performing the judgement for eternity.

* KillItWithFire: Ziggy, and to a lesser extent Kat. In this case, the fire in question is often nuclear in nature. At the very end, Jesus scours TOL and the Omega from Earth via firestorm.

* MassResurrection: Invoked several times. The Other Light use bootleg metabolic extension controllers to establish a zombie army, which
is eventually stolen by the Archangel Phanuel. The Omega practice this on a continuous industrial scale, to keep people out of Hell. And all the unsaved dead are resurrected at the Great White Throne judgment at the end of the Millennium - most actually face judgement, so they go right back into Hell.
* MeaninglessVillainVictory: A few all around, regardless of who the villains are. The Millennium Force score two with the capture of a prototype spider tank and the destruction of what they thought was the Omega mainframe. The Omega deal a crushing blow to Satan just before Jesus scours the Earth of all life anyway. The Other Light conquer Russia and Western Africa, but mostly because the other two factions let them do so.
* TheMole: Pretty much every named character who isn't a Biblical figure spends some time as this. Oddly, there were no triple agents (or if there were, the players never noticed them).
* NotWhatItLooksLike: Inverted: most instances of classic NotWhatItLooksLike are actually exactly what it looks like. It helps that of the three factions, one is ruled by an omniscient being, one is a police state, and one is run by a pervasive quasi-AI that runs on every bit of electronics in every home.
* OhCrap: Averted many times. Canonically with Lucifer, who has nothing to say once the Sun goes nova and scours most life from the Earth - he has nothing to say. In the endgame with Jesus, who continues to proclaim His triumph even after being cut in two by Kat's cybernetic lobster claw. Many other times before an execution: most characters either face their death with dignity or are eliminated by complete surprise. Played straight with an infiltrator into the Omega's domain who, thanks to virtual reality and designer drugs, is treated to an experience that is literally worse than Hell.

* PyrrhicVictory: Many. One of the Omega sysadmins manages to finally produce a semi-sentient spider tank, only to see it stolen. TOL succeeds in taking the Russian and East African territories, but by then it's too late for them to do anything with it other than roll their army through it. Even God Himself manages to make everything work out to His satisfaction, only to find Himself playing through a slightly different versions of the White Throne Judgement for eternity while post-humanity conquers the stars.
* ScrewDestiny: The entire point of the game. Interestingly, while all the prophecies end up happening exactly on schedule, they are often made meaningless (or less meaningful) via whatever loopholes the heroes and villains can think up.

** The Millennium Force. Counting on supernatural protection, they infiltrate a cybernetic fortress with four lightly armed teenagers... and unlike the others, mostly get away with it (This turned out to have been intentional on the Omega's part as it transitioned from existing in a data center to becoming entirely cloud based).
** The Archangel Azrael. Sent to repeat the Tenth Plague of Egypt when the territory revolted, he did not count on facing both modern weapons ( MugglesDoItBetter after all) and the unrelenting fury of mothers and fathers fighting to protect their children.

An odd mixture of a RPG worldbook and stories that were probably derived from completed campaigns, made even odder by the fact that the original work is the LeftBehind eschatological franchise, specifically the last book, Kingdom Come.

The work consists of a RPG-like worldbook, a strategy quest run on 4chan which includes rules for replaying it, and a few stories (including one example of RecursiveFanfiction ).

Things go according to Divine plan for most of the Millennium, with ModernStasis (at roughly late-1990s level) ensuing and The Other Light building a massive conventional army that is destined to be destroyed in an instant. About 900 years in, however, this army becomes large enough to require a computerized logistics system. This effectively gives a large amount of power to a small group of anonymous sysadmins (the players); they proceed to funnel resources away from TOL and start their own faction. Now, they have 100 years (turns) to avert or subvert the Apocalypse, lest stagnation engulf humanity forever in the New Earth.

* AntiClimax: Averted. In the original story, The Other Light battle versus Jesus Christ is over in a few seconds. In the game, it's over just as quickly, but merely sets up the second-to-last piece of the Omega's [[Thanatos Gambit]].

* TheCameo: Most [[Left Behind]] characters show up, however briefly, with the conspicuous exception of Rayford Steele.

CurbStompBattle: Any time The Other Light engage the Omega's forces; explained by an obvious technology gap and by the fact that The Other Light's military doctrine is intentionally deficient, since they are supposed to lose.
* TheDayOfReckoning: The final day of the Millennial Kingdom has Satan released from his prison, where he joins up with The Other Light forces which had surrounded Jerusalem. Jesus emerges from the Temple and simply says "I AM WHO I AM" and instantly incinerates the invaders. Afterwards, the Judgement begins... and, thanks to the Omega's fork bomb, never ends.

* DistantFinale: The end of the story is in Millennial Year 1010 or so, when the Reach finally arrives to Alpha Centauri. The White Throne Judgement has been frozen, and the surviving posthuman colonists manage to turn a diminished version of the Omega back on to help them colonize the new solar system.

* EasilyForgiven: Regardless of one's criminal past, becoming a Christian comes with instant forgiveness both spiritual and judicial.

* ExpectingSomeoneTaller: The reaction people have to the patriarch Noah.
* FatalFamilyPhoto: Invoked in the original work: Rayford Steele requests a picture of the original Tribulation Force at an end-of-the-Millennium party. He is the only member out of the core group who is a natural, while Bruce, Cameron and Chloe are glorifieds. Even Rayford is shocked as to how old he is.

* GaidenGame: This, to [[Left Behind]]. The story parallels that of the last book in the series, down to the CurbStompBattle, but significantly expands on the universe.

* MassResurrection: Invoked several times. The Other Light use bootleg metabolic extension controllers to establish a zombie army, which is eventually stolen by the Archangel Phanuel. The Omega practice this on a continuous industrial scale, to keep people out of Hell. And all the unsaved dead are resurrected at the Great White Throne judgment at the end of the Millennium - most actually face judgement, so they go right back into Hell.

* PreMortemOneLiner: A few.

Near the end, Jesus does this to the invading TOL forces.
-->'''Satan:''' CHARGE!
-->'''Jesus:''' I AM WHO I AM. (cue annihilation of the TOL forces via a nova)

A few moments after that, Kat does this to King David, exclaiming "Bite me!" and punching his head off with a vat-grown cybernetic lobster claw. Doubly funny considering that lobsters aren't kosher.

* PublicDomainCharacter: The various Old Testament heroes, including Jesus, Satan and Yahweh.

* ScrewDestiny: The entire point of the game. Interestingly, the prophecies end up happening exactly on schedule... but are subverted anyway.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Jesus does this to Satan yet again in this story, right before sending him into the Lake of Fire. Earlier, Valentina is implied to be doing this with a Creationist scientist when the interstellar probe indicates signs of life on one of Alpha Centauri's planets. Earlier still, Jeb does this with the Archangel Azrael.
* LaResistance: Pretty much everyone other than the Temple government. Doesn't make them nice people, at all - arguably the nicest faction is the Omega, and they were expressly designed to be amoral.
* RootingForTheEmpire: A curious example of subversion, since the original work's author wants to depict the theocratic global government as good and LaResistance as evil. The person running the game flips this back on its head again.
* RestartTheWorld: Invoked twice. On the believing side, the old heavens and earth pass away, to suddenly be replaced with a new heavens and earth at the end. The new planet is, if possible, even less interesting than the mountainless Earth that the book took place in, since there's no more sea. On the side of the space colonists, it's exactly what they will have to do in order to be successful on Alpha Centauri.
* ShiningCity: New Jerusalem, which appears at the end of the story. Inverted with Night City, a town built inside an enormous underground cavern specifically for the purpose of letting people experience night.
* TheSomethingForce: The Millennium Force, here portrayed as would-be volunteer enforcers for the global government. Inverted with the Omega's canopy drop troopers, who call themselves the Sudden Transport Division with all the obvious puns that the name implies.

* TheTheocracy: The Millennial Kingdom government, which consists of God as ultimate ruler, Jesus as the ruler of the world, King David as the ruler of Israel, and the apostles as the rulers of the twelve tribes of Israel. It's portrayed as a fairly stark theocracy, with the establishment permitting some forms of speech but blocking open debate in territorial parliaments, having people who commit "actual crimes" be put to death by Divine lightning and people who do not commit crimes but oppose the regime be interned and/or deported to Greater Jerusalem for "audiences" with the apostles, and causing those who would not become believers in Christ to live either as unbelievers or as members of the Other Light for only 100 years before they "die of unbelief" and immediately sent to Hell.

* TimeSkip: While the game is billed as 4X in the Millennial Kingdom, only the last century of it is played through in detail.
* TooDumbToLive: So many.
** The Only Light subsect of the Other Light faction, either believing God and Jesus don't exist despite the contrary evidence, or treating them as if they didn't exist. However, this may have been deliberate misinformation planted by Ishmael.
** The Other Light as a whole. Their strategy is atrocious.
** The Millennium Force. Counting on supernatural protection, they infiltrate a cybernetic fortress with four lightly armed teenagers... and get away with it. (This turned out to have been intentional on the Omega's part as it transitioned from existing in a data center to becoming entirely cloud based).
** The Archangel Azrael. Sent to repeat the Tenth Plague of Egypt when the territory revolted, he did not count on facing both modern weapons and the unrelenting fury of mothers fighting to protect their children.
* TrashTheSet: The whole earth gets destroyed at the end of the Millennium and is replaced with a new one. This includes almost every piece of functioning equipment present in the Solar System.
* UnreliableNarrator: The very end's canonicity is in question, since it is recovered from a data packet sent via quantum entanglement and compressed using lossy techniques to save bandwidth.
* VoiceOfTheResistance: The internet, as it gets rebuilt.
* [[WasTooHardOnHim Was Too Hard On Them]]: As with the end of the Tribulation period, Jesus clearly didn't like having to send the unbelievers to their sentence at the Great White Throne judgment. But He does anyway.
* WeddingDay: Played with near the end. Ryan Andrews and Tethys, two bitter rivals in the development of aquatic humans, end up getting married on the day when they board the colony spaceship: turns out that throughout their conflict they developed a mutual respect that, due to their massive egos, they could not share with anyone else.

* WithUsOrAgainstUs: Played straight. The Temple government states absolutely that there is only one force opposing it, The Other Light, and that the very real antagonism between TOL and the Omega is either a civil war within the rebel faction, or a distraction or ruse. As far as believers are concerned, if you are not with God, you are with Satan... even if your plan involves eliminating Satan before eliminating God. (Neither work, but fortunately, there were backup plans).

* {{Zeerust}}: Intentionally invoked. Since in-universe the Rapture happened in the late 1990s, technology has developed differently - for instance, computer graphics and machine vision are less advanced than they are in real life, while digital signal processing for sound and ultrasound is more advanced.

* CrapsaccharineWorld: The world of the Millennium. On one hand, there is no disease, almost no accidental death, and no danger except fo that which The Other Light and The Omega bring into play. On the other, it's terminally boring, and exists under an undefeatable dictatorship. The sky is perpetually blue, so say goodbye to starry nights. Most everyone has to wear sunglasses during the day due to the Sun and Moon's extra power output. With very few exception, everybody is an obligate vegetarian. Every mountain and most interesting geographical features on Earth have been flattened by Jesus at the beginning of the story. In the last part of the Millennium, faithful believers with a Natural bodies are trapped in extremely aged bodies but are unable to die. Finally, TheEmpire formed by the various territorial governments loyal to Greater Jerusalem is literally run by OmniscientMoralityLicense.
* CurbStompBattle: Any time The Other Light engage the Omega's forces; explained by an obvious technology gap and by the fact that The Other Light's military doctrine is intentionally deficient, since they are supposed to lose.

Things go according to Divine plan for most of the Millennium, with TechStagnation ensuing and The Other Light building a massive conventional army that is destined to be destroyed in an instant. About 900 years in, however, this army becomes large enough to require a computerized logistics system. This effectively gives a large amount of power to a small group of anonymous sysadmins (the players); they proceed to funnel resources away from TOL and start their own faction. Now, they have 100 years (turns) to avert or subvert the Apocalypse, lest stagnation engulf humanity forever in the New Earth.

The work consists of a RPG-like worldbook, a strategy quest run on 4chan which includes rules for replaying it, and a few stories (including one example of RecursiveFanFic).

* KillItWithFire: Rukti, and to a lesser extent Kat. In this case, the fire in question is often nuclear in nature.

* [[SatanIsGood Lucifer Is Good]]: The viewpoint of the Other Light faction. The Omega end up deciding early on that Satan is an IneffectualVillain at best or a mole in God's employ at worst.

An odd mixture of a RPG worldbook and stories that were probably derived from completed campaigns, made even odder by the fact that the original work is the [[Left Behind]] eschatological franchise, specifically the last book, Kingdom Come.

At the beginning of the story, Jesus Christ prepares to set up His Kingdom here on earth for the Millennium. He first destroys the desecrated Jewish Temple in Jerusalem and then replaces it with a new and more grand Temple from which He will rule over all the earth. A wedding feast is hosted for all the people, both glorified saints and naturals. Buck and Chloe Williams, now glorifieds, set up a new school called Children of the Tribulation, in which they hope to reach out to children born during the Tribulation and the Millennium that they would make their decision to become a believer in Christ before their 100th birthday.

93 years into the Millennium, a natural dies on her 100th birthday, and her cousins show up at the funeral, revealing themselves to be members of a new group called The Other Light, which hope to gather followers for the FinalBattle against God at the end of the Millennium and succeed in their goal of vanquishing Him through the help of their leader Satan, who is imprisoned in the BottomlessPit for a thousand years. Realizing the danger that those who choose to oppose God would be in, considering that in the end Satan and his army will fail, Buck and Chloe's son Kenny Williams joins with Rayford Steele's son Rayford Jr. and Abdullah Smith's two children to form the Millennium Force to counter The Other Light's efforts.

800 years into the Millennium, all the Natural main characters are trapped in extremely aged bodies.

900 years into the Millennium, the game starts.

* PreMortemOneLiner: A few. At the end, Jesus does this to the invading TOL forces.

-->'''Jesus:''' I AM WHO I AM. (cue annihilation of the TOL forces via firestorm)
* PublicDomainCharacter: The various Old Testament heroes, including Jesus, Satan and Yahweh. In fact, the book uses enough verbatim quotes from the Bible that it had to include a special copyright notice in front, which is considerably less restrictive than that of most fictional works published recently.
* PyrrhicVictory: Although Abdullah manages to convert Sarsour and Rayford manages to convert Rehema, these are exceptions: The Other Light goes from a tiny resistance movement to a billion-strong army throughout the book... although most of their exploits are glossed over in a time-skip. Depending on your perspective, it can also be considered PyrrhicVillainy.
* ScrewDestiny: The Other Light's driving belief, which fails miserably at the Last Battle.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Jesus does this to Satan yet again in this story, right before sending him into the Lake of Fire.
* LaResistance: The Other Light and its various subsects such as The Only Light.
* RootingForTheEmpire: A curious example of subversion, since the author wants to depict the theocratic global government as good and LaResistance as evil.
* RestartTheWorld: The old heavens and earth pass away, to suddenly be replaced with a new heavens and earth at the end. The new planet is, if possible, even less interesting than the mountainless Earth that the book took place in, since there's no more sea.
* ShiningCity: New Jerusalem, which appears at the end of the story.
* TheSomethingForce: The Millennium Force, here portrayed as would-be volunteer enforcers for the global government.
* ShutUpHannibal: Renowned theologian and master debater Tsion Ben-Judah makes his political point to the unbelievers who won the Egyptian elections by... shouting over everybody, not letting them get a word in edgewise, and ordering that they demolish the parliament building and replace it with a temple.

* ThousandYearReign: What this story is all about.
* TimeSkip: Two major time skips in this story: one to 93 years into the Millennium, and one to the last day of the Millennium.
* TooDumbToLive:

** The Other Light as a whole is no better than Nicolae Carpathia in this regard, as they have witness from both history and Scripture that their rebellion against God is going to fail. Nevertheless, they persisted.
* TrashTheSet: God destroying the desecrated Temple and replacing it with a new Temple. The whole earth gets destroyed at the end of the Millennium and is replaced with a new one.
* UnreliableNarrator: The last chapter is seen through Rayford's extremely aged eyes and mind; for all we know, he might be dreaming, hallucinating, or reacting to being finally Raptured.
* VoiceOfTheResistance: The Other Light's ''If It's True...'' manifesto, which Cendrillon's cousins share with Kenny.
* [[WasTooHardOnHim Was Too Hard On Them]]: As with the end of the Tribulation period, Jesus clearly didn't like having to send the unbelievers to their sentence at the Great White Throne judgment.
* WeddingDay: Irene Steele (one of the Christians who was Caught Up in the Rapture) recalls the day of the heavenly wedding of Jesus Christ with His bride, the church. As per the text, Jesus sounds somewhat abusive, but Irene and everyone else seems to be okay with being called unworthy on their wedding day...
* WhereAreTheyNow: Near the end, we see the fates of the extended members of the Tribulation Force. Most are shown to have lived a quiet life, and all are either decrepit or stuck in Ken-doll "glorified" bodies.
* WithUsOrAgainstUs: Played straight. The author is unable to conceive the notion that someone might side both against God and against Satan, despite the book being a prime example of GodAndSatanAreBothJerks. Those who do not accept Christ are considered to be on Satan's side by default, and thrown into Hell accordingly regardless of their intentions.
* WorldHealingWave: A rather slow one, as Jesus Christ takes His time renovating the earth for the Millennial Kingdom. Given that the world is still flat after 93 years and that in the year 800 of the Millennium the desert has started to reclaim the Holy Land, He hasn't done a very good job of it.
* YouCantFightFate: Despite The Other Light's best efforts, their whole army gets smoked at the end of the Millennium and Satan gets sent to the Lake of Fire.
* {{Zeerust}}: An interesting in-universe example. Supersonic business airplanes exist, but most people move around by horseback and gas-powered car well into the 2100s. Most everyone has an implanted cell phone, but they are voice only; smartphones and tablets don't exist, desktop computers are still prevalent, and fax machines are in more common use than email is. Considering that the book was written in the year the first iPhone came out, this may also be an example of SchizoTech.

* FatalFamilyPhoto: Invo Subverted, as it is not a fatal photo. Here, Rayford requests a picture of the original Tribulation Force at an end-of-the-Millennium party. He is the only member out of the core group who is a naturpal, while Bruce, Cameron and Chloe are glorifieds. Even Rayford is shocked as to how old he is.
* FinalBattle: The anti-climactic Satan's Other Light army versus God battle near the end. It only takes a few pages as God just smokes Satan's entire army into ashes in seconds.
* FireAndBrimstoneHell: The Lake of Fire, which Satan and all those who have rejected God throughout the ages are sent to.
* FlauntingYourFleets: Happens in the final chapter of the book, as The Only Light grows to such massive numbers near the end of the Millennium that they start parading themselves and their weapons around. The Only Light is stated to have warships (but no air force), however they predominantly brought a land army.
* FountainOfYouth: At the time the Millennium ends, even the longest-living "naturals" who are believers are reverted to the prime of their adult youth as they are given their glorified bodies.
* GaidenGame: Leave it to 4chan to spend a year running a game detailing the last century of the Millennium, in which a subfaction of The Other Light, realizing that they cannot win by conventional means, use the fixity of prophecy to engineer a ThanatosGambit. The archive can be found at http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html?tags=left%20beyond
* GodAndSatanAreBothJerks: God spends a thousand years as the autocratic ruler of Earth, zapping people with lightning for various crimes and being the head of TheTheocracy. Satan only shows up at the very end only to order a significant fraction of the human race into a hopeless suicide charge. God kills all of them, and then throws them into Hell.
* [[GratuitousForeignLanguage Gratuitous Hebrew]]: What everyone is speaking in this story, though for the sake of the readers it's all translated into whatever language the book is published in.
* GrowOldWithMe: Kenny Bruce Williams and Ekaterina Risto in the book grow old throughout the entire Millennial Kingdom period as a married couple, as do all naturals who become believers before their 100th birthday. By the time the Millennium ends, even the longest-living naturals who become believers revert to the prime of their adult youth as they receive their glorified bodies.
* HappilyEverAfter: For the believers. Everyone else goes to Hell.
* HeelFaithTurn: Sarsour, a founder and former worker at the Theological Training Institute, turned against his partner Mudawar, helped Abdullah Smith expose Qasim Marid as TheMole working for The Other Light, and became a believer in the process. He interviews to continue working with Abdullah afterwards.
* ImmortalProcreationClause: Goes beyond this with the "glorifieds", since they won't even have the desire for sexual intercourse.
* IronicBirthday: Cendrillon Jospin's parents realized that their child would not become a believer by her 100th birthday, which in the Millennial Kingdom period means an automatic death sentence to Hell, so they celebrated her birthday before the day that she would die. She still went to Hell nonetheless.
* KillItWithFire: The Other Light army at the end of the Millennium get instantly smoked by God pouring down fire from the heavens.
* KillTheGod: Satan's and The Other Light's plan for the end of the Millennium, which ends up being all for nothing.
* [[SatanIsGood Lucifer Is Good]]: The viewpoint of the Other Light faction, claiming in their manifesto that God unfairly treated one of His angels and befouled his name and reputation by casting him out of His presence.
* MassResurrection: All the unsaved dead are resurrected at the Great White Throne judgment at the end of the Millennium.
* MeaninglessVillainVictory: Abdullah Smith points out to Sarsour the futility of Satan's and The Other Light's plan to overthrow God by telling him that even if Satan has a chance of winning, he wouldn't be able to resurrect all the people who died as martyrs for The Other Light because God hasn't given Satan the power to do so.
* TheMole: Qasim Marid was a Children of the Tribulation worker who was actually a mole working for The Other Light, trying to find information that he could use against the believers. He was eventually found out and fired from his job before he died at age 100.
* NotWhatItLooksLike: Kenny Bruce Williams goes through this when he was secretly infiltrating the Other Light faction to see what they were planning to do, with an Other Light plant working at the Children of the Tribulation daycare center planting false evidence about Kenny to frame him as a traitor.
* OhCrap: The mother of all Oh Craps comes from Lucifer himself. After Jesus decimates The Other Light on the final day of the Millennial Kingdom, Lucifer "looked about him and slowly lowered his sword. He appeared to had something to say and even drew breath to say it, but fell silent." Even he knows that he is oh so very screwed.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Once the Millennium starts, all the naturals who enter this time period (either believers or children of believers) experience decreased aging similar to the first several generations of mankind in the book of Genesis, with the children becoming young adults by the time they reach 100. However, naturals who remain unbelievers by the time they reach 100 will instantly die and go to Hell. It's not explained how those who were already adults, including those who were already at advanced age, experience this decreased aging at the same rate as the children who enter the Millennium. By the end of the Millennium, however, the longest-living naturals (who at that point are all believers) end up really showing their age.
* OneTrueThreesome: Subverted. Rayford's two wives, Irene and Amanda, come back to life at the end of the previous book, and he has to deal with that. However, since they have Glorified bodies, they are also [[Asexual]], leaving Rayford with a millennium of enforced involuntary celibacy to live with...
* PreMortemOneLiner: At the end, Jesus does this to the invading TOL forces.