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Orcus, also known as the Wonder Worker, was a false messiah.

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The Rise of the False Messiahs: Carpathia's Evil Tricks[]

Orcus' performance for one of Nicolae Carpathia's Miracle Fairs is advertised on a poster in Tel Aviv. The poster gave the time and date and proclaimed Orcus' "miraculous power".

The show included two dueling swordsmen. One of the swordsmen struck a blow that severed the arm off of his opponent. The striking swordsmen held up his sword in triumph while the crowd encouraged him to finish off his opponent. After a curtain parted, Orcus appeared, with his hair to his shoulders, wearing ordinary street clothes. He picked up the severed arm, walked to the injured man, and placed the arm back in place. After Orcus said the obligatory acclamation to Carpathia, he pronounced the wound to be healed. The man picked up his sword with his healed arm and said "praise lord Carpathia". The crowd also indulged in effuse praise of Carpathia, while the statue of Carpathia billowed with smoke. The crowd then fell before the statue and uttered muffled, solemn praise to Carpathia.

As the performance occurred in the evening, Orcus was able to produce a flash of bright light that illuminated the immediate environment as if it were day, but the light emanated from above, not from the lights and lasers from the stage.

Orcus then grabbed the swords and turned them into doves, which circled Orcus above. He said, "Don't imagine that I have come to bring a sword to divide people. No, like Nicolae, I have come to bring peace."

Orcus then clapped and the doves stopped flapping and dropped to ground, while transforming into long, hissing snakes. Orcus caught both snakes and then said that enemies of "our god" wants them to war and fight each other, and thus they are like serpents in our midst. He then that "our god" has helped them identify the enemies of peace, since they do not possess the mark of loyalty. He told the crowd to look around to make sure that no "snakes" were present.

Suddenly, someone called out a woman who was cowering next to a tree. Orcus then teleported to her. He then held the snakes high and waved the snakes violently until they became swords again. Orcus asked the woman if she was an enemy of the most high god. The woman tried to respond, but she was abruptly cut off, with Orcus saying that she is an enemy if she is not willing to show allegiance to Nicolae Carpathia. Orcus asked her to receive the mark, but the woman was loath to take it because she does not want to show loyalty to a man who kills her people, the Jews. Orcus then swiftly made one motion to kill her with both swords. He then wiped her blood from the swords. (This is in contravention to Nicolae Carpathia's policy that Jewish resistors of the mark of loyalty not be executed with the guillotine, but to be shipped off to concentration camps to live in squalor and have them suffering under inhumane conditions.)

After killing her, the crowd erupted in applause. Orcus said that the Jews and Judah-ites are enemies of peace and then exhorted the people to report anyone without the mark of loyalty to the Global Community, regardless if they are strangers, friends, or family. Those who knew someone without the mark are just as guilty.

The Remnant: On the Brink of Armageddon[]

He was sent by Nicolae Carpathia to a place outside Petra following the televised debate between Dr. Tsion Ben-Judah and Most High Reverend Father of Carpathianism, Leon Fortunato. He was wearing white shoes, white slacks, and a white shirt, and according to Mac McCullum and Abdullah Smith (in Ominous Choices) he looked like a younger version of Leon Fortunato. Claiming himself to be a disciple of Carpathia, Orcus worked various wonders among the unbelievers that left Petra to hear him, causing a cloud to appear in the sky to block out the sun, making a gusher of water appear out of the ground, passing around a basket of bread that never gets empty, and even resurrecting dead people.

After ingratiating the assembled with miracles, the Wonder Worker said that Potentate Carpathia's patience has ran out on them and that Carpathia wanted him to administer the mark of loyalty on them, which he could do without technology. He immediately applied the mark to the foreheads of four people. The Wonder Worker asked if more wanted the mark and many raised their hands. He then spoke saying that there would be no more new ones and that those who did not have their hands raised when he said that to put their hands down. The Wonder Worker demonstrated his mastery of life and death by immediately slaying some of the assembled by simply declaring they are dead. Suddenly, over one hundred dropped dead, but the Wonder Worker raised six of them for a short time and then slayed them again. The Wonder Worker again declared to the terrified assembly that all those who want the mark of loyalty to raise their hands.

However, as Orcus was ministering the "mark of loyalty" with his power unto the unbelievers, a band of deadly vipers was approaching them. Orcus then revealed that he was actually sent to lure them away from Petra so that they would die in the wilderness. He said that a god like Nicolae Carpathia would not want them as his subjects because they only took the mark of loyalty out of fear for their lives. After they have perished, the Wonder Worker disappeared and was never seen again, though not before he attempted to kill off Mac McCullum by appearing right in front of him and speaking against his God and his faith.

Before the Wonder Worker's appearance, Nicolae affirmed to Leon Fortunato that he wanted his best to appear and perform before the unbelievers of Petra.

Tsion referred to him as being a demon.

Mythology & History []

NOTE: The following information is based on real-world material that is outside the context of the Left Behind franchise universe.

Orcus was the original Roman deity of the Underworld, as well as the name of said realm. He would later be conflated with the deities Dis Pater and Pluto (or Hades), and eventually be completely replaced by the more classical image of the ruler of the Underworld.

Orcus' name would later devolve into that of the ogre, hideous and ghoulish monsters from French and Italian folklore.

Appearances[]

Left Behind: The Kids

Trivia[]

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