Loved ones are gone, and pilot Rayford Steele and journalist Buck Williams find themselves pressed into service for the man they believe could be the antichrist. Nicolae Carpathia has taken over the United Nations, signs a peace treaty with Israel, and begins to lure the world together as one global village. Meanwhile, the judgment of God begins to fall on earth. In one cataclysmic moment, millions around the globe diasppear. Vehicles, suddenly unmanned, careen out of control.
People are terror stricken as loved ones vanish before their eyes.
In the midst of global chaos, airline captain Rayford Steele must search for his family, for answers, for truth.