Steve was one of the imprisoned believers executed with Mark Eisman by Commander Kruno Fulcire in book 39.
Biography[]
After the Rapture[]
Steve was able to resist taking the mark of loyalty during the latter half of the Tribulation. He was working with LeRoy Banks trying to steal electronic equipment from a Global Community warehouse, but they were caught and sent to a Global Community prison. Steve said it was LeRoy's idea to commit that crime. Before he was incarcerated, a woman encouraged him to read Tsion Ben-Judah's website, but he was not able to understand it.
While he was imprisoned, Mark Eisman gave a presentation of the gospel to the inmates who did not have the mark of Carpathia. He, along with five other inmates who became believers, then told the personnel there that they had no intention to take the mark of loyalty or bow to Carpathia's image and that they wanted to be executed with Mark Eisman as a gesture of support for him. Before they were executed with the guillotine, Steve said to Mark that he knew the basic soteriological message of Christianity before and that God was causing the events of the Tribulation, but he was unable to accept God's grace because he assumed that God would not save a person like him. When Mark enjoined the him to say the Sinner's Prayer, he was saved. Steve also spread the message of that prayer to other prisoners who did not have the mark, just as Mark asked. As Commander Kruno Fulcire watched, they were executed, one by one, as they sang "Nothing But The Blood" which an angel taught them. Eisman was the last to be executed among them because Fulcire wanted to save him for last.
Appearances[]
- 39. The Road to War (only appearance, death)
Trivia[]
- Steve's only appearance and death were in book 39.
- Steve shares the same first name as Steve Plank, one of the members of the adult Tribulation Force who was also beheaded.
- Steve's last name was never revealed.
- Steve was working with LeRoy Banks before they both got arrested.
- In the dramatic audio presentation, Steve's execution is not shown.