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"I want to be with them, too, Daddy! But tell me how this fits with a loving, merciful God. When I went to church, I got tired of hearing how loving God is. He never answered my prayers and I never felt like he knew me or cared about me. Now you're saying I was right. He didn't. I didn't qualify, so I got left behind."
―Chloe to her dad, Rayford[src]

Chloe Irene Williams (née Steele) is a protagonist from the Left Behind series. She was a junior at Stanford University in California when the Rapture caused the disappearance of millions of people world-wide. After being left behind following the Rapture, she becomes one of the founding members of the Tribulation Force.

Biography[]

Before the Rapture[]

Years before the Rapture, Chloe's mother, Irene, begins attending a new church and becomes a born again believer in Christ. Irene tells Chloe she believed that one day soon God would take His people to Heaven in the "blink of an eye." Chloe often detests going home for this reason, and she and her mother slowly grow apart, though she develops a certain kinship with her father as are both negative about their family's new interest in religion. Irene's concern is only enhanced when Chloe comes home drunk, as Irene becomes worried about the fate of her daughter's soul. When Chloe goes off to Stanford University, she breaks nearly all ties with her family, hardly ever visiting except on holidays.

After the Rapture[]

After disappearances of both her mother and younger brother, Chloe Steele was forced to decide for herself what had happened. Chloe and her father, Rayford Steele, soon turned to her mother's church for answers. After discovering most of the congregation had been taken in the vanishings, Chloe and her father met Bruce Barnes, an associate pastor who had been left behind.

Chloe eventually strikes up a friendship with legendary magazine writer Cameron "Buck" Williams, during which she becomes saved. They fall in love, marry, and she becomes pregnant. They have a son, Kenny Bruce. Chloe becomes CEO of the International Commodity Co-op, arranging for Christians worldwide to be able to purchase food, goods, and services (after Nicolae Carpathia, Antichrist and potentate of the Global Community, had ordered the application of the mark of loyalty, it had become impossible for Christians to buy or sell anything, since they would not take the Mark).

During the latter half on the Tribulation, Chloe is drawn out of the bunker that she, Buck, Ray, and around 200 other believers are hiding in located in San Diego, California. As she leaves to investigate a GC APC she spots 2-3 platoons of GC peacekeepers and takes off away from the bunker. After dropping her ski mask and Uzi she is caught by Global Community personnel and taken into custody. She is imprisoned in a small cell in the basement of the GCHQ in San Diego and interrogated by Jock Ashmore. Later, she is taken east via airplane to Stateville Prison in Joliet, IL, and interrogated once more by Jock, there she meets an angel named Caleb. Jock pumps truth serum into her and tries to get exact information on the location of the rest of the believers, Chloe refuses to give away anything with the help of the Lord and Caleb and sings songs of worship. Chloe continues to sing songs of worship and trust God in her cell until she is executed by the guillotine the next day. She, along with other Tribulations martyrs, is resurrected at the Glorious Appearing.

During the Millennial Kingdom, she and Buck open Children Of The Tribulation, a child care center for children who were born and raised during the Tribulation.

Appearances[]

Left Behind series

Left Behind: The Kids

Mentions[]

Left Behind: The Kids

In other media[]

Trivia[]

  • Chloe shares similarities to Vicki Byrne, the only original member of the Young Tribulation Force to be female.
  • Sarah Fisher, the actress who portrayed Chloe in the 2023 film, is renowned for her regular character on Degrassi: The Next Generation (Seasons 12-14), Becky Baker. Becky is also a Christian.
  • Chloe was the last female member of the adult Tribulation Force to die.

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