All language subtitles for Image of the Beast

(foreboding electronic music)

(computer keys clacking)

- [Man] Hey Kathy, look at this.

- Are you still at Computers,
Incorporated, Kathy?

- Mm, still there.

- When's your due date?

- Oh, three long weeks.

- You'll make it.

- Oh it's easy for you to say.

- Are you sure you want this book?

- It's about computers, isn't it?

- It's a religious book about
people who worship computers.

One of the stock boys read it, though.

He said it was really scary.

- Good, you have to scare some people

just to get their attention.

Should we allow these
people to find themselves

in the tribulation
period, scared to death?

Or get their attention now
while something can be done?

- Like what?
- Receiving Christ.

- Well, I'll read the book, honey.

Like you, Patty, I just
find all this prophecy stuff

to be a little hard to believe.

- You know, unless you gals
open your minds and your hearts,

I'm afraid one of these days,

you're gonna be in for a rude awakening.

(woman screaming)

- Annie, you betrayed us!

You belong in a bottomless pit in hell.

You're not even human!

Annie, I don't wanna be here.

Please, I don't wanna
be here, please help me.

- Patty, we don't want
you to be here either.

My sister just threw her life away

for a God that doesn't even exist.

This life is real, Patty, can't you see?

That guillotine is real.

Please take the mark, Patty, please.

Take the mark, please.

(Patty screaming)

(thunder cracks)

- Patty Jo Meyers, do you
wish to renounced your faith

in your God and receive
your identification,

either in your right
hand or in your forehead,

as set forth by Brother
Christopher in Article 1-7A?

If so, answer I do, and
you will be returned

to your rightful place in society.

(Patty screaming)
(thunder rumbling)

(thunder cracks)

- I want the mark.

I want the mark, I want the mark!

Save me!

No!

(gasps)

Oh please, somebody help me.

Oh please, Sandy!

No!

No!

No!

(suspenseful music)

(Patty crying)

(lock rattling)

- Oh!

No!

(metal creaking)

(mob shouting in the distance)

(mouse squeaking)

(woman screams)

- Come on out of there.

Hold out your hands.

I said hold out your hands, now.

Do it!

Praise God.

- You mean you're not?
- Praise God is right!

- Not so loud.

(sirens wailing)
(distant explosions)

- How'd you get that uniform?

- Somewhere up there, ladies,
lies a soldier in the mud.

His only earthly possessions
being his government-issued

underwear and his EFT
code on his right hand.

- Did you kill him?

- I'm not sure.

If I did it was,

it was self-defense.

Hey, cowboy, what's your name?

- Billy.
- Billy?

Well that's a nice name.

How old are you, Billy?

Three.

I had a son.

He was,

just over a year when Christ returned

and took the Christians in the rapture.

I lost both he and his brother.

- My husband was a Christian.

Five days after he
disappeared, Billy was born.

- Momma, I have to bathroom.

- Are you frightened?

- Yeah, I guess I am.

- We shouldn't be, should we?

- We do need to put our trust in Jesus.

But the anxiety of what's
going to happen to us,

how, when, is pretty natural.

- What are you thinking?

- Oh (laughs).

I was just wondering
what would have happened

if we'd met in another time.

- I wish we had.

- About the only benefit to
being a believer these days

is where we go if they win.

- What if one were not a believer?

- My advice to that person would be

to stay alive as long as possible.

- Then you gotta get us out of here.

- Oh, I'm sure gonna try.

- I thought I was a Christian.

- I thought I was too.

- After the Christians
disappeared, life just went on.

There wasn't much different at first.

But then...

I'm afraid, I don't know why we're here.

- I know how you feel, the
same thing happened to me.

But you wanna know something?

I'm not afraid anymore.

Two years ago, I had a
unique experience with God.

He revealed to me the
reason why I'm still here,

and that he's still continuing the work

that began in me before the rapture.

- You know why you're still here?

- Yes, I do, but it
was very painful for me

when I discovered that I was
truly sincere about my beliefs

but I was sincerely wrong.

- But I went to church, I
even taught Sunday school.

- I know, I worked with handicapped kids,

and all that's all
right, but when we say I,

I did this and I did that, like I did,

well, it only proves that we left out

the only thing that really matters.

- What's that?
- Jesus Christ.

- You and I and million
of others just like us

tried to work our way to heaven our way.

- Jesus said in John 14:6, I am the way,

the truth, and the life, and no man cometh

to the father but by me.

- The Bible says it's a gift.

- What's a gift?
- Eternal life.

- I'm curious, if you're not a believer,

why haven't you taken the mark?

- Computer Prophecies, hm.

You know anything about computers?

- Mm-hm, I used to be a computer analyst.

And there's a chapter in here
called, um, Day of the Beast.

It says that if a person takes the mark,

that he is selling his soul to the devil,

and that he'll be tormented forever.

Well, I won't take that mark.

(Billy coughs)

I'd rather die first.

- Well, that could be any minute

if we don't get out of here.

That chief goon out there is mean enough

to be Satan himself.

(crickets and frogs chirping)

- Pull over right there, soldier,

where do you think you're going?

(engine revs)

- Everybody down, quick!

(gunfire)

(dramatic music)

- Everybody okay?

- Leslie, Leslie.

Oh.

(sad music)

- Did you find her?

Is she all right?

David?

(engine revs)

(Leslie gasps)

(Leslie groans)

Why are we sitting here, what's wrong?

- Ssh, hang on, we can't outrun 'em,

so we'll outsmart 'em.

(birds chirping)

(ducks quacking)

(suspenseful music)

(chickens clucking)

- [Billy] Mommy, Mommy!

- David, David!

- What?

- It's okay, your boy's fine.

I'm not lookin' to harm
you, I wanna help you.

- He's my friend.

- Glad this little fella
told me who you were.

Military Jeep in my front
yard makes me rather nervous.

- Who are you?

- My name's Turner, who might you be?

- I'm Pat Ryan, this is Jodi Reed.

- Well, we'd better hide this
thing and get some breakfast.

- Now you can go out and play, okay?

I'll see you later.

- I wanna thank you, brother, for sharing.

Where did you get, uh?

- This kind of food?

Well, the eggs are from
Shall We and Rock 'Em,

my two good hens over there,

and the milk and cheese
is from Eske over there.

Of course, God spared an apple tree,

and a few bushel of grain,
and he let the sun shine

and the rains fall, and things grew.

We make it here pretty good.

- Don't the authorities know you're here?

- Oh, they know me.

- And they don't confiscate the food?

- But they don't know I'm here.

To them I'm just a babbling old preacher

who went haywire when the
Christians disappeared.

- You're a preacher, who are you?

- Harmless old scavenger
with just enough sense

to keep body and soul together.

I scavenge clothes and other necessities.

But they don't know where I live.

And like you, no mark, haha.

Whaddya think, must have some sense, huh?

- Well, if you're a preacher with no mark,

why didn't you disappear
with the Christians?

- Who am I?

Matthew Turner, preacher,
pastor of the flock.

I turned men away from God.

Men, women, and children.

Away from God's word.

See?

They don't know I have this either.

I scavenged all the
churches where the pastors

and their flocks disappeared.

- Do you believe like in First John four,

that Jesus Christ was God
come to earth in the flesh?

- You a believer?

- Yes, aren't you?

- If you're a believer,
then you know we're now

in the tribulation period,
referred to by the prophets

Daniel, Ezekiel, John, and Jesus Christ.

Seven seals, seven trumpets, seven bowls.

- Could yesterday's earthquake be?

- Yes, I believe we're now here.

It's a terrible and awesome time.

Many great things are to happen.

Many more terrible are to come.

The whole earth will suffer,
but especially Israel

in this time of Jacob's
trouble, as Jeremiah called it.

- How could things possibly be worse?

- Well, Satan has been in
heaven accusing the saints,

but Christ has also
been there, telling God

that the sins of the saints
have been washed away

by his blood, according to
Revelation chapter 12 verse 10.

Michael and the good angels
throw Satan and his angels

out of heaven, Satan then comes to earth

to vent his wrath and cunning
on mankind with new fury.

He knows his time will be short.

- Then you, you think Satan's here now?

- Yes, I believe he is beginning
his final, terrible effort

to overthrow God, if so,
Daniel says we will now see

three and a half years
where the wrath of man

mixed with the wrath
of Satan is confronted

by the terrible wrath and judgment of God.

War will continue, Russia
will invade Israel,

then a great leader will
rise up and save Israel.

He will appear to be slain,
then Satan will enter him

and counterfeit his resurrection.

This great leader will then
pronounce himself world dictator

destroy the world church,

and be proclaimed greater than God.

He will seize the
temple, set up his image,

and begin the most devastating persecution

in the history of Israel.

- Doesn't Satan understand prophecy?

- Perhaps not fully, but
according to James 2:19,

he knows God's word, and he believes it.

- [Leslie] I really
praise God for you two.

- You know, you're a mighty
fortunate young lady.

- But I'm afraid I'm going
to be a terrible burden.

- Do you realize that God
has spared your life twice

in the past few days?

I believe he has a plan for you.

- Listen, Kathy, I need your help.

I've been working for
almost a year now on a...

Are you ready for this?

A counterfeit mark.

- A counterfeit mark?
- Shh.

- David, do you know about computers?

- Oh yes, I used to design and build them.

- What about equipment?

- I don't have access to
any, but if we could locate

a hand computer, I'm close enough now

for the two of us to really
crack this thing open.

- A calculator.

- Now you might find this hard to believe,

but right now I have a way of
putting a mark on your hand

that looks authentic.

- David, you're a genius.

Okay, what's the next step?

- With what I've developed so far,

we have freedom of movement.

Of course we can't do any
business because we don't have

an account number in the
central computer bank.

- Oh, so when we put our code through

the electronic scanners, it'll register.

- Precisely.
- Hm.

What would happen if we put
your mark through a scanner now?

Would it reject?

- Well, yes and no.

You know the soldier whose uniform I took?

I got his computer account number

to his microfiche from his ID.

We'll go into town, I'll feed
it into the public terminal

in the shopping mall, we'll see what

he's got left in his account.

- And when that's depleted?

David, what makes this mark any different

than the real mark?

- This is our mark, not Satan's.

This is a, this is a
struggle for survival,

not my commitment to Christ.

- But the problem, though, David,

is one of morality, isn't it?

I mean I've seen lots
of so-called Christians

in church on Sunday, and then their hand

in the till on Monday.

- What's your definition of morality?

This is war, we're
opposing an ungodly regime.

Now, do we just stand by
and let the enemy march in

to teach us, force us into ungodly ways?

Kathy, if we can crack this code,

believers around the world can join forces

and take the offensive against Satan.

Now I'll die before I'll take the mark,

but I'll not sit by and
let the enemy march in.

I'm gonna do everything in my power

to foul up his lousy system.

The authorities will be
looking for the ID numbers

on the Jeep, we'll change
them then we'll go anywhere.

All we gotta do to get
fuel is break that code.

(rumbling engine)

- What is it?

- It's that goon that shot
Leslie, let's get out of here.

(foreboding music)

- The ultimate question here is,

how can the corporations
cooperating with the church

profit from the defeat of Israel?

One of our greatest assets, of course,

is that Brother Christopher as president

of the Federated States of Europe,

has been elected to lead
us, giving us a vision,

and a sense of leadership second to none.

Current war effort in northeast Europe

is giving us an opportunity for probably

one of the most profitable
ventures of our time.

Therefore, our investment is sound.

These share-investments
have already gone up 28%

in just a few weeks.

The situation, you understand, is unique.

Brother Christopher's alliance with Israel

has seen that land flourish.

She is an international
plum, and major powers

are willing to gamble everything

to acquire her rich oil fields.

The stakes are high, and many
of you look at our proposals

with raised eyebrows and
wondering who in their right minds

could go along with the preposterous idea

that the little nation of Israel,

even under Brother
Christopher's leadership,

could defeat Russia.

It would indeed take a military genius.

- Well, sir, what seems to be the problem.

- Don't get start with me,
soldier, I know who you are.

Let me see your hands.

- Now can we return to the service?

- [Preacher] Cities, highways, dams,

will require rebuilding, and
we will sell this equipment

to Russia at such a price
that they would be stupid

to bring it all from their homeland.

- Kathy, Kathy Taylor!

- Diane!

(women squealing)

- How are you?
- It is so good to see you!

- Oh I know.

- Hello.
- Hi there.

- Oh, I'm sorry, this is my husband Jerry.

- Diane is territorial supervisor

with the food ration program.

We used to work together.

- I'm not there any longer.

- Oh.
- Gosh, it is really good

to see you, say, when
did you change your mind?

Back in the old days, when
the mark was optional,

you said you'd never take it.

- Well, it became
mandatory, and I got hungry.

- I'm glad you see you ironed out

your difficulties with the authorities.

- Oh yeah, they thought
I was someone else.

- Well, just run a CT biocheck
and that'll satisfy 'em.

What's your job classification?

- CT dash 1A.
- Oh, computers.

Hey, bigshot, I'm impressed,

what's your vocational assignment?

- I, I'm really not free
to discuss it right now.

- Top secret classification.

- Jerry, are you still
with the fire rescue?

- Well, sometimes I wish I was.

- Gosh, it's so good to see you.

We gotta get together, can we call you?

- Hey, listen, why don't
you let us call you?

I can't explain the circumstance,

but we don't exactly
live like normal people.

(chickens clucking)

- C'mon.

Do you wanna feed 'em Billy?

That's it, get it right out there.

That's the way, get some more.

- You realize why I can't
take the counterfeit mark,

don't you, David?

I appreciate the offer, though.

It'd make me more conspicuous
to the folks around here.

They know I don't have it here,

so they don't expect me to have it here.

- You know, we had a close call today.

- Yeah, we sure did.

- And a strange experience at church.

- You went to church?
- Well, we didn't have

much of a choice.
- The World Church, huh?

- Well, it felt more like the boardroom

to a major corporation.

- There's your World Church.

When the Christians disappeared,
some of the churches

collapsed for lack of members.

But for the rest, they
just joined together

in one big sin-infested,
humanistic body, the World Church.

In the Bible, the book
of Revelation calls her

the Great Prostitute that commits adultery

with the kings of the earth.

- Adultery?

- Were they worshiping God where you were

in that church where you were today?

- Hardly.
- Seemed more like they

were selling investments
and war materials.

- Exactly, teaching
people to traffic in war,

in blood, in things of the flesh.

That's your Scarlet Woman,
riding on the Beast.

- Oh, I see, it's supposed to be a church,

but they've left God out entirely.

- Is the Antichrist in there somewhere?

- Eventually yes, but
first will be the end

of the Scarlet Woman and
her illicit relations

with kings and merchants.

When Satan's day has come, he will enter

into this great, trusted world leader,

causing him to appear
to rise from the dead.

Then the Jews who mourned his death

will proclaim him the Messiah.

Satan will then become
jealous of the World Church

and destroy her through
this resurrected leader,

the Antichrist, then
he'll take all her wealth.

But overpowering this phony
church will not satisfy him.

Satan will not stop until
all men worship him.

So he'll place an image of
this beast, the Antichrist,

in the Holy of Holies,
the new Jewish temple.

Then he'll require worship of this beast

by all the people of the world.

- Horrible.
- Why, David?

- Because the true Israelite
cannot worship an image.

- That's right, Daniel calls it

the abomination of desolation.

At that precise moment, every faithful Jew

will know the heart-splitting
agony of the centuries.

The one they loved and
worshiped as the Messiah

will have become Antichrist,
enemy of God and God's people.

As they flee Jerusalem in the
most wrenching persecution

ever known, their groaning
spirits will begin to realize

that their true Messiah was
crucified outside Jerusalem,

20 centuries ago.

- This book I have, Computer
Prophecy, talks about

how a lot of people will
turn to God near the end

because of thousands of special teachers.

- 144,000, yes.

12,00 from each tribe of Israel.

Pure, undefiled, sealed
as servants of God.

They bring multitudes to Christ

during these last days of tribulation.

- I guess I just don't understand
why all this is happening.

- Well, God is allowing men and nations

to bring judgment upon themselves.

Man's sin brings the judgment.

Man has always told
God, just leave us alone

and mankind will make things better.

So God has removed his
spirit from the world.

Now he's giving mankind what
we really always wanted.

A world without God.

- At a pernicious time in our history,

the northern coalition
of Russia is recognized

as one of the greatest
political gambles of our time.

It's been nearly five weeks
since the initial attack

was made by Egyptian
forces from the south.

A tragic end, however,
on the eve of victory.

Brother Christopher,
struck down by what appears

to have been an assassin's bullet.

Gray, what does this all mean?

- Bob, I haven't seen
such international grief

since John F. Kennedy was
struck down in the early 60s.

- But it's difficult to
understand that a man

who certainly stands with
Julius Caesar and with Napoleon,

was loved, worshiped if
you will, by so many.

- I can't recall anyone in my lifetime

that had the quality of
leadership and charisma

that this man possessed.

- I still can't believe it.

I mean the world waits for years for a man

with his military genius and
political savvy to come along,

and bingo.
- I know.

And besides, I thought it was charming.

- [Jerry] Hey, how's the
calculator working, Pat?

- Oh, working fine,
appreciate the use of it.

- Sure.

Pat, I've got a proposition to make you.

We did a computer check on
you, an extensive one at that.

My people are very impressed.

- Your people?

- I never told you until
now because I had to be

absolutely sure of your credentials.

Diane and I are special agents.

- Believers Underground Movement Squad.

- BUMS.

- [Jerry] I beg your pardon.

- Oh, I just have a habit of
abbreviating corporate names

and well, yours just
came out a little funny.

- What's your proposition, Jerry?

- We could use a man like you.

You know there is
absolutely no proof anywhere

to substantiate the fact
that you're involved

in computers, I mean
your cover is flawless.

- Mm, we've really had a
problem with those fanatics.

- Their movement keeps
growing despite our efforts.

- Well, I have no control
over my job classification.

You know that.

- No I can take care of that, you see,

we have priority over all agencies.

- Um, let me, let me
think on it for a while.

Oh, nuts.

- Well, I think the batteries are dead.

- Yes.

- I hate going into that
city, it really scares me.

Doesn't anyone have batteries?

Where are we gonna look now, David?

- I was hoping to avoid the food center,

but I guess it's the only place.

- [Radio Announcer] Ladies
and gentlemen, this is URN,

the United Radio Network,
with a new bulletin

direct from United Radio in
Jerusalemn and Jack Mulke.

- [Jack] It's been
confirmed, just a little over

an hour ago, it was reported
that Brother Christopher

had, by some miracle, been healed.

It's bedlam here, as you
can probably imagine.

Ladies, and, yes, ladies and gentlemen,

we switch you now to the temple,

where apparently Brother Christopher

is ready to make a statement.

- [Christopher] Yes, I am alive,

more alive than I have ever been.

Do not fear.

- [Jack] Apparently that's
all he's going to say.

It's a wonderful sight to behold,

truly one of the most
exciting moments of my life.

A great, great day for the world.

We'll be keeping you informed
as the situation develops.

This is Jack Mulke,
United Radio, Jerusalem.

- [Announcer] All business establishments

will close immediately.

Everyone, return to your homes.

All business establishments
will close immediately.

Everyone, return to your homes.

(gentle music)

- Well, we've been together
for some time now, and well...

- I know what you're trying to say, Kathy,

and I think with
everything that's going on,

what you really need is a
relationship with Jesus Christ.

- Why?

- Because death is inevitable for us.

Next year, next month, tomorrow.

It's just a matter of time.

- I know, David, I just
try not to think about it.

- When you go before
God and he says, Kathy,

why should I let you into my heaven?

What are you going to say to him, hm?

In Revelation 3:20, Jesus said,
Behold, I stand at the door

and knock, if any man hear
my voice and open the door,

I will come to him.

- That's not fair, I didn't know,

I didn't know about that, David.

- Well you know it now.

You know the two of us,
we try to rationalize God

with our finite minds.

- What's wrong with trying to understand?

- Because we didn't try to
understand it, don't you see?

We just complicated it.

We complicated something that
was so simple, so obvious,

all we had to do was believe it.

I'm trying to make you realize
that the reason you still

have an opportunity to receive Jesus

is because you never heard
the plan of salvation

before the rapture, if you
had heard it and rejected it,

then you'd never again have any hope

of eternal life in heaven.

- Is that in the Bible?

- It's Second Thessalonians,
second chapter.

Oh Kathy, don't throw your life away.

Give it to Jesus while
there's still time, please.

(Kathy sighs)

- I don't know.

You know, you and I are
worlds apart, David.

Here I am, talking about
facts, real people, events.

And you're talking about
a 2,000 year old book

with stories in it that...

Let's talk reality, David.

- You wanna talk reality?
- Yeah.

- Well, reality was three
and a half years ago

when your husband and
millions of others vanished,

and that's reality.
- They said it was UFOs.

- Would you like to hear
the Bible's version?

- Cold out, is it?
- No, it's nice out,

as a matter of fact.

- We were having a little Bible study.

I wanna look something up.

First Thessalonians, chapter
four, verses 16 and 17.

For the Lord himself will
come down from heaven,

with a loud command, with
the voice of the archangel,

and with the trumpet call of God,

and the dead in Christ will rise first.

After that, we who are
still alive and are left

will be caught up with them in the clouds

to meet the Lord in the
air, and so we will be

with the Lord forever.

That's reality, Kathy.

You want facts?

Over 300 prophecies in the
Bible have come to pass

since the birth of Christ.

- Sounds like you've studied it.

- I've searched this
book through and through.

A little late unfortunately,

but I know what it's like --
- We interrupt this program

to bring you the following news bulletin.

- [Reporter] Two men were
slain just minutes ago

on the streets of Jerusalem.

Reliable sources have indicated
that Brother Christopher

was responsible for ridding the world

of these two most powerful
religious fanatics.

They have been converting
Jews to preach the gospel.

Repeating, two men were
slain just minutes ago

on the streets of Jerusalem.

Brother Christopher has stated
that the bodies will remain

as mute testimony to what happens

when religious fanatics
interfere with the political

and economic well-being of our people.

Here is late word, just in.

All energy-producing
companies are now under

the direct supervision of the chairman.

This includes all energy holdings

of the World Church organization.

- Now he's done it, he's done it.

- What's he done?

- He's killed God's saints.

Like Moses and Elijah they were.

Satan himself has entered
Brother Christopher.

It must be, the staging of
the counterfeit resurrection.

Satan, through Brother
Christopher will continue now

to try to destroy God's people and Israel.

- What's going to happen?

- God's wrath will pour out on the earth

through the trumpet judgments, Kathy.

They can begin any time now.

God's message to man is repent,
turn from Satan's deception

to Jesus for salvation,
so even though the body

may be destroyed, the
soul will escape judgment.

- Well we're all just like cattle,

waiting for the slaughter.

David, I'm scared, you've
done this before, I haven't.

- Just do exactly as I told
you and things will go fine.

- Tell me again.

- When you're going
through your checkout lane,

just remember, we both have
the same account numbers

on our IDs, so make sure
you clear your register

before my first purchase is recorded.

Otherwise the computer will abort,

thinking the same person
is going through two lanes.

- I've gotta get through my checkout lane

before you can get through yours.

- Now move as quickly as you can,

cause if we get caught...

- Okay, and then I wait
for you outside, right?

- Right.

(scanner beeping)

- Shopping these days is quite a chore.

- You think it's bad now, just wait

til the High Priest comes to town.

(suspenseful music)

- What's the matter, lady?

You run out of room in
your shopping cart, eh?

Let's see what else you have on you.

- I'm, uh, I'm still waiting for my wife.

Why don't you go ahead, huh?

- Hey mister, don't hold up the line!

- Are you gonna see him
when he comes to town?

- Oh, who?
- The High Priest.

- Yes, I wouldn't miss that for the world.

- That'll be 72 EFTs.

Oh nuts, that's the second
time it's jammed today.

Oh wait, you can't leave
without your receipt.

- I'll be right back, I
left my baby in the car.

- Oh, excuse me, ma'am.

Before you ring that up, I
have another one just like it.

Maybe you wanna ring them up together.

This is it right here,
yep, okay, there you go.

- Sir, you're holding up the line.

- Oh, I thought I'd put everything up.

I'm sorry, I do have
a few more items here.

Maybe you wanna ring that one up.

- Oh Don, will you find that
lady that was just here?

I can't transact any more business

until she gets this receipt.

- I do have a couple of
more things here, let's see.

(alarm wailing)

- [Man On Radio] Sector 15,
Sector 15, one-five, one-five.

UNITE van has been
stolen, heading northeast,

subject is male Caucasian about 5'11",

Navy gear, wearing uniform.

(multiple sirens wailing)

- Ugh.

- Okay, c'mon, get out of there.

(phone ringing)

- [Announcer On Radio] We
interrupt this program --

- [Jerry] This is Jerry Bradford.

- [Announcer] It's a phenomenon
that no one can explain.

For three days, these two man,

thought to be like Elijah and Moses,

lying dead in the street,
now are among the living.

- [Jerry] I don't wanna hear about it.

- [Announcer] The crowds came to look,

and they suddenly got
up, dusted themselves off

as if they had been merely taking a nap.

- I want that man executed.

Don't argue with me, I want it done

as soon as the papers are processed.

John, I want you to see
to it that those papers

are expedited, I want them on
my desk no later than Friday.

- Jerry, listen, you
can't execute that man.

- No, you listen, that
man sat at my table,

ate my food, pretended to be my friend,

and using a calculator
that my wife lent him,

is trying to counterfeit
and foul up our system.

I am the laughingstock of this agency.

- Jerry, calm down, I
understand how you feel.

But if he knows how that
code can be duplicated,

we've gotta have that information.

And if the woman's working with him,

we've gotta get her too, and right now,

only he knows where she is.

- Okay.

Okay.

You're right, John, you've
got it all figured out.

So what happens next?

- What happens?

Will it be worse than what
we've been going through?

- Yes it'll be worse.

The first trumpet is a judgment of fire

on the earth's vegetation,
forest and grassfires

ignited by lightning,
mingled with hail and blood.

It's a plague on men
and their thanklessness

for what God provided
on a productive earth.

- Isn't that a literal
interpretation, though?

- The plagues of Egypt
were literal, Kathy.

Verified by secular history,
we have to be careful

not to wish away the trumpet plagues

by thinking they'll be social,

political, or economic problems.

According to Revelations
chapter eight, verse eight,

and the second angel
sounded, and as it were,

a great mountain, burning with
fire, was cast into the sea,

making the third part
of the sea into blood.

One-third of the marine life will die.

Shipping will be destroyed,
and people who turned

to the sea for food when the
drought came will starve.

Trumpet number three is a
plague on drinking water.

According to Revelations
eight, verses 10 and 11,

a burning meteor called
Wormwood falls to earth,

polluting the rivers
and poisoning one-third

of the drinking water.
- This is incredible.

- Trumpet number four is a
plague of darkness on the earth.

One-third of the sun, moon,
and stars will go dark.

In like manner, spiritual darkness

will settle over the world.

Trumpet number five unleashes
a plague of smoke and locusts

from the pit that is
the center of the earth.

What a frightful creature
this locust will be.

The body of a horse, human face,

crown on the head, long
hair, and lion's teeth.

And wings that sound
like thundering horses

rushing into battle, and worse,

they have long tails and
stings like scorpions.

The sting is terrible,
it doesn't kill you,

it just leaves you in a state
of torment for five months.

Only those sealed by God will be exempt.

It's an intense, horrible torment.

Death will be preferable but not possible.

Trumpet number six consists of

200 million horses and horsemen,

loosed to destroy one-third
of the earth's population.

- 200 million horses?

- There were that many horses

in China in the late 70s, Kathy.

Anyway, the seventh trumpet
is a review of all the others,

a warning to men, Kathy, this
is not God's temper tantrum.

It's a sifting process to get
the lost to respond to Christ.

- Ugh.

Tried, David, I really tried.

- Release him.
- Who?

- You know who.
- What?

- Listen, the cashier at food center 33

said the woman indicated
that she was going

to see the high priest next month.

- Which means?

- If the woman does attend the event,

she may be the bait to lure the fish.

Release David Michaels,
give him a pair of boots,

plant a transmitter, and tail him.

If the plan works, we've got them both.

- David, you are an amazing fellow,

a very talented individual.

You have a list of charges against you

that would normally cause the authorities

to take your head with a golden blade.

Murder, fraud, resisting the authorities,

trying to infiltrate our security system,

not to mention the fool
you made out of me.

I wanna tell you something, friend.

You may not realize this,
but I have a reputation

as the top agent, the top
agent in this organization.

Did you know that?

Well, I'm not a fool, make
no mistake about that,

but that's why I'm willing
to make a deal with you.

I've spent the last few
days convincing my superiors

that you are more valuable
alive, interested?

- Not if it means taking your mark.

- No no no, David, nothing like that.

Anyone who can pull off
a scheme such as yours

could be the greatest underground agent

in this organization, we
could make real progress.

What do you say?

- I'm no fool either, Jerry.

- I didn't think you were,
David, I didn't think you were.

- And by the way I never killed anyone.

- Oh come now, David, you were wearing

Pat Ryan's uniform the night he died.

- He was just about to shoot me.

I threw a piece of pipe at him,

he fell and hit his
head on some machinery.

It was self-defense.

- Kid, it doesn't make
any difference anyway,

your sins are forgiven, to use the cool

if soon to be forgotten phrase.

Take a few days and relax,
and we'll get together

next week and go to work.

- I am a voice crying in the wilderness,

make straight the pathways of your heart.

Make them straight to Brother Christopher.

To you who live and labor in the heartland

of this great world, Brother Christopher

sends his praise and his promise.

Praise for your steadfastness in the face

of drought, destruction, and disease.

Plagues brought on you by
the dark God of Jesus Christ.

Resist him!

(electronic beeping)

Promise for the preservation of a land.

Working together with Brother Christopher,

we will make this world productive again,

so follow him, he will
provide for every need.

- [Man] Bail out!

- [Man On Radio] No quarter, no quarter.

Sectional seven niner
five, one kilometer north

of red section seven niner five.

Fugitive on foot, believed to be unarmed.

(voice drowned out by dramatic music)

No quarter, no quarter.

(helicopter whirring)

- [Pilot] No no don't shoot,
if he falls off we'll tip over.

I'll find a place to put him down.

(triumphant music)

(birds whistling)

(helicopter whirring)

- [Kathy] What's this?

- That's a replica of
the temple of Herrod,

the one that Christ worshiped in.

But today's temple is defiled
by the worst sacrilege

that could possibly befall Israel.

- Really, what happened?

- The computer, Kathy.

The computer has been the most innovative

and time-saving device known to man.

Paid bills, made travel
reservations, cooked meals.

It's the new golden calf.

A computer that speaks
and convinces people

that it thinks, hundreds
of millions of people

will worship that inanimate
object, and it's in the temple.

- My friends and loyal subjects,

for the last four years,
we have worked together

to overcome the greatest
physical hardships

the world has ever known.

World war, drought,
famine, pestilence, fire,

earthquakes and volcanoes
of unprecedented violence.

But we have prevailed,
thanks to our fantastic

computer technology and the intervention

of his satanic majesty.

Where, dear friend, was
the loving God of creation

during our recent perils?

Was he helping mankind, the
children of his creation?

No, on the contrary, it
is he who has visited

these disasters upon us, and to you, God,

God of wrath and destruction to mankind,

I say do your worst, but we will prevail.

- Ladies and gentlemen,
you have just heard

Brother Christopher, live via UTN,

the United Television
Network, bringing you

the evening message, and the
message will be brought to you

tomorrow night one hour early.

- You know, it frightens me, Martha.

I know God has spared me for a purpose,

but I feel so, so boxed in.

- Don't think about it, child,
just take one day at a time.

That's all he expects.

- I know.

(thunder crashes)

- As you are all aware, we're faced

with the most perilous
times in recorded history.

Man has the capabilities
of totally annihilating

the human race, the Bible
refers to these times

as Jacob's Trouble, Daniel
records that the wicked

shall hear but not understand,

but the righteous, they shall understand.

(thunder crashes)

Absolute love and absolute judgment

develop extremes which our minds reject.

You see, we are creatures of compromise,

and when something that we
can't comprehend develops,

we just merely say it doesn't exist.

But both extremes surely do exist.

Luke reveals in chapter
13 verses two and five,

did I tell you nay, Jesus
says, that unless you repent,

ye will likewise perish.

(fire crackling)

God's judgment is real,
but his love is real,

and he reveals his precious love

through his son, Jesus Christ.

You know he wants us
to yield to that love,

and we escape the judgment.

John reveals so beautifully
that God so loved the world

that he gave his only begotten son,

that whosoever believeth
in him shall not perish

but have everlasting life.

Oh how God loves us, how God loves us.

(fire crackling and exploding)

...don't realize the
importance of Bible prophecy,

but the Bible clearly reveals that in this

(speaker is drowned out by rain)

of the heart, but I
testify again to every man

that is circumcised, that he has indebted

to the whole law and Christ
is become of no effect

unto him, whosoever you
are, justified by the law...

(speaker drowned out by swelling music)

- [David] Beginning to
feel like my old self.

- David, David!

- Billy, come here!

Boy, you've gotten big!

- I thought the goons got you.

- No, the goons didn't get me, big fella.

It's gonna take more than goons to get me.

(foreboding music)

Dear God, there's nothing left.

- [Kathy] Will anything ever grow again?

- Yes, grass will grow in some areas.

A hundred miles from
here, or even five or ten,

things could be normal, depends on where

the firestorms hit.

- Can grandpa come and stay with us?

- No Billy, it'll be
too dangerous for him.

Your mother and I have
some important work to do,

so we'll be moving away.

(birds singing)

- It's hard to believe
that 15 miles from here

it looks like the moon.

- Well, it might not look like that now.

Some of it could have grown back.

- You know, I never really appreciated --

- Mom, David, I found a great hideout!

Come and see it, come and see it.

- All right, let's do it.
- You've been a little

explorer this morning, haven't you?

- Come on and show it.
- Come on, let's go.

- There it is.

- Oooh.
- Hey, great.

- [Billy] Those goons ever try to get us,

we'll hide right there.

- Good work, cowboy, that's
a great spot, great spot.

Well, I guess there is
one flaw in the Bible.

Seems to me it says there
will be no place to hide.

- Right here!

(Kathy screaming)

- David!

- Oh no, there goes our water.

Kathy, we're gonna have to
push harder on that code.

Listen, I found out about a young woman

who knows someone who works
in the central computer bank.

She knows about our project
and wants to meet you.

- [Kathy] David...

You know, that doesn't look like a storm.

- Mom, why is it gettin' dark so fast?

Does that mean I have to go to bed now?

- I don't know, honey, but you
don't have to go to bed yet.

I think we better go inside, okay.

David, are you still going to go?

- [David] I'll be back tomorrow.

(Kathy crying)

- Oh no, it's been here all the time!

- [David Voiceover] We
complicated something

that was so simple, so obvious,

all we had to do was believe it.

- Whenever I...

I never would have left you
there if I'd have known,

if I'd have known there was any chance.

Forgive me, Leslie, please.

- David...

- I thought about you so much.

How long have you been,

how long have you been here?

- Since it happened.

- I can't believe for, for over a year,

I've lived less than a quarter
of a mile away from you.

- David, I've dreamed
about a moment like this.

But I...

I love you, David.

- [David] Are you sure we can trust her?

- Look, this is an important contact.

I think it's worth the risk.

- I'm sorry we have to meet like this.

I understand that you've
created a counterfeit mark.

- Where did you ever get
information like that?

- Good news travels fast
in times like these.

- Well, listen, I'm sorry,
you must be mistaken.

Who are you?

- I know who she is.

- You betrayed us, you're not even human!

- Remember me?
- David.

- Oh yes.

General Goon, are you still upset

cause I got your soldier suit all dirty?

(crickets chirping)

(Kathy gasps)

- One week from tonight, your
head's gonna be in a basket.

- No, Billy, your hideout, quick.

- Rotten little religious fanatic.

My grinning face is
gonna be the last thing

you ever see before your
head falls in a basket.

C'mon!

You know, it's taken
us years to catch you.

And I can't say it
hasn't been a challenge.

- Yeah well you don't have David.

(loud buzzing)

(screaming)

- Billy, Billy!

Billy!

(Kathy screaming)

(explosion)

(woman screaming)

- Okay, we have one good
reason why you will tell us

the whereabouts of Kathy Ray.

Bring that kid in here!

(woman sobbing)

- Billy.

You can't send him out
there, he's just a child.

- He will go out there, unless you tell us

where his mother is.

- You liar, if I did tell
you, you'd butcher them both.

- Take him downstairs.

The boy goes to the platform tomorrow

unless you change your mind.

- I wanna see Leslie.

- If you tell us where
the boy's mother is.

(distant tortured screams)

- Hey, where'd you get that balloon,

and all those things to play with?

- Oh, that one lady's
trying to get me to like her

so I"ll tell her where my mom is,

except I don't know where she is.

- Do you ever make things
with that kind of paper.

- No, I always draw on it.

- Want me to show you how?
- Okay.

- Give you something to do here.

- Heavenly Father, I claim
your promise in Proverbs 3:6

that if we acknowledge
you in all our ways,

you will direct our paths.

And Lord...

- Thank you for the peace in my soul

as I face death this morning.

Father, the delight of your
love shines so brightly

in me that those who execute me will know

that you are real, and
if there is yet time

for me to serve you, help me to do it.

In the wonderful name of our precious

lord Jesus Christ, amen.

Good morning.

- Are you gonna die?

- Yes, Billy, I am going to die.

- [Billy] You afraid?

- Have you ever heard about Jesus?

- [Billy] Yes, David
talks about him a lot.

- Would you like to hear
about where I'm going today?

- [Billy] Okay.

- Well, for a person like me
who has Jesus in her heart,

Billy, that is like blowing
out a lamp before the dawn.

- What's it like there?

- Well, I made a little storybook for you.

It doesn't have any pictures
and it doesn't have any words,

but it's the most wonderful
story in the whole world.

- How can it be a good story if

it doesn't have any pictures?

- Let's see how it ends first.

- This gold page tells
us all about heaven.

It's God's home, filled
with brightness and glory.

The Bible says that heaven
has streets made of pure gold

like glass, no one is
ever sick, no one dies,

and everybody's happy.

- Does everybody go there?

- Well, God would like
everybody to go there,

but there's one thing that
can never be in heaven.

- What's that?
- Sin.

- Sin, what's sin?

- It's when you and I do things

our way instead of God's way.

It's doing, saying, or
thinking bad things.

Anything that makes God unhappy.

That' what this black page
reminds us of, sin in our lives.

When it's dark, we stumble
and can't find our way.

And sin, Billy, is what
separates us from God.

- What's on the next page?

- This red page shows us the way God made

for you and me to have our
sins forgiven, or taken away.

God sent his son Jesus from
heaven to take our punishment

for sin, wicked men
nailed Jesus to a cross,

and God put all our sins on him.

- You mean all our naughty stuff?

- That's stuff, our lies, our meanness.

And the Bible says that the blood of Jesus

is what cleanses us from sin.

- What color is next page?

- The next page is white.

You know what that means?

- No.
- It means we can be

made clean from our sin.

- You mean everybody?

My mom, me, and David?

- If they believe that Jesus
died for them they can.

Billy, have you ever sinned?

- I guess so, I'm naughty sometimes.

- Would you like to receive
Jesus into your heart now

and have your sins forgiven
so that you can go to heaven?

- With you?
- That's right.

- Yeah.

- You scum, you filthy rotten scum!

He was just a child!

Just a baby.

Just a boy.

(David crying)

Dear God.

Billy?

I thought...

What happened to your balloon?

- I gave it to Miss Leslie
cause she gave me Jesus,

so I gave her my balloon.

- Do we take the boy to the platform,

or do you tell us where his mother is?

- Billy, you're free.

I want you to go and be with Leslie.

They're gonna take you
outside and lay you down.

Now you close your eyes,
and tell 'em you love Jesus

no matter what.
- Shut up!

- Now I ask you, what can you do now?

The boy is free, he
belongs to Jesus Christ.

- You're next.

- [David Voiceover]
Jesus said in John 14:6,

I am the way, the truth, and the life,

and no man cometh to the father but by me.

- [Preacher In Cave Voiceover]
John reveals so beautifully

that God so loved the world that he gave

his only begotten son that
whosoever believeth in him

shall not perish but
have everlasting life.

Oh, how God loves us, how God loves us.

(triumphant music)