Natalie Bishop

Natalie Bishop was a Global Community Morale Monitor who is a Christian. She was also a member of the Young Tribulation Force. She was working inside the Global Community helping her friends in the Young Tribulation Force by giving them information. She helps the group when they're trying to break out Charlie and the Shairtons when the couple, along with Charlie, are arrested by the Global Community. Natalie Bishop has the distinction of being the first Global Community employee to be executed for not taking Carpathia's mark.

She also helps out in other ways, and is a big help to the Young Tribulation Force until she's caught by her supervisor Darryl Henderson during an operation to break out believers from a Global Community jail and is eventually beheaded by Commander Kruno Fulcire for being a believer. Natalie was using Darryl Henderson's computer to send out orders from a fake GC commander (Regis Blakely) that several prisoners and inmates from an Iowa reeducation facility were to be transferred so that the Young Tribulation Force can infiltrate the facility and transport them to safe houses.

After she was imprisoned, she regrets that should would not be able to tell Vicki Byrne about her Sunday School teacher who had prayed for Natalie and her family. After the Rapture, Natalie went to her house and found an open prayer journal in the kitchen and found her name in it. Natalie found Christian books and literature that she placed in a garbage bag and dragged home. Natalie happily recounted how she was hungry for the material in those books and stayed up for hours reading the Bible. She prayed to God that He would show her His plan.

While she was imprisoned before her execution, she requested to speak with Claudia Zander, her roommate, on the condition that Natalie divulge everything about herself. Natalie wanted the opportunity to speak with Claudia because Natalie never really told Claudia what she believed in. Claudia was devoted to the Global Community, so Claudia was disgusted when Natalie tried to tell her about God that Claudia ran out of the interrogation cell. Claudia told Natalie that she would pay for her betrayal. When Darryl Henderson accused her of treason against the Global Community and blasphemy against Potentate Carpathia, she retorted that she would not argue against any charge except the last one since one cannot blaspheme someone who is not God.

Natalie's last thoughts from her point of view were: "If you rescue me from this, I'll praise You. And if you don't, I'll praise You in heaven. I'm yours, God." Natalie was subsequently executed, but the scene of her execution was not narrated.

Natalie is mentioned and thought of in book 30. She is mentioned in books 31, 32, and 35. In book 39, Natalie was one of the tribulation saints Mark Eisman thought about when he was remembering examples of people laying down their lives. Fulcire talks about Natalie, although it is obvious Natalie didn't give him any information about believers.

In book 40, Natalie and the other tribulation martyrs are resurrected and rewarded. Jesus honored her for sacrificing her life to save her friends, perhaps like the Good Shepherd who lays down his life for the sheep (John 10:11). Vicki later reunites with her.

Interactions[]

Natalie was friends with Vicki Byrne and Jim Dekker. She was acquainted with Mark Eisman, Conrad Graham, Darrion Stahley, and Charlie. She was enemies with Darryl Henderson and Kruno Fulcire. Claudia Zander was her roommate.

Trivia[]

Natalie's first appearance was in book 24.
Natalie's first POV was in book 27.
Natalie's final POV and death were in book 29.
Natalie was the fifth member of The Young Tribulation Force to die.
The scenes where Fulcire and Natalie interact and Natalie gets executed are never shown.
Pictures of Natalie and the aftermath of her execution are seen by Mark Eisman in book 39.
Natalie was 17 when she died. Which means she must have been 14 years old when the Rapture occurred.
Natalie was the only Young Tribulation Force member that met Gustaf Zuckermandel, Sr. without also meeting his son.
Natalie witnessed the final moments of Gustaf Zuckermandel, Sr.'s life and heard the blade that cut off his head.
Natalie replaced Carl Meninger as the YTF contact inside the GC.
It is very likely that Charlie would have been executed by the Global Community if Natalie hadn't allowed him to escape.
Natalie was the first Global Community employee in the entire Left Behind franchise that was beheaded for refusing Carpathia's mark.
Natalie was the only female Young Tribulation Force member that died that wasn't Jewish.
Natalie was the only female martyred YTF member whose death was not shown.
Natalie was the last female member of the Young Tribulation Force to die.
Natalie was the only martyred female YTF member whose name appeared in any of the introductions from books 29 through 40.
Natalie was the first Young Tribulation Force member whose name was removed from the introductions in books 29 through 40.
Natalie was the only Young Tribulation Force member that did not personally meet Judd Thompson Jr. and Lionel Washington.
Mark Eisman once referred to Natalie as a "sweet girl".
Fulcire once referred to Natalie as a wolf in sheep's clothing.
Natalie never told Vicki Byrne about how she became a believer, and would later express regret for it.
Natalie, Conrad Graham, Melinda Bentley, Lionel Washington, John Preston, and Carl Meninger are the only Young Tribulation Force members to have been Global Community employees. Out of all six, Natalie is the only one to have been both caught and executed.
Natalie was the last member of the Young Tribulation Force to be a Global Community employee.
In the dramatic audio presentation, Natalie's interactions with Claudia Zander are not shown.
In the dramatic audio presentation, Natalie is the Morale Monitor that allows Vicki into the arena for the satellite schools, instead of Marjorie Amherst.

Appearances[]

Left Behind: The Kids

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