Ah, I remeber the Left Behind books. My super religious aunt and uncle made me read them when I was a little kid. I always ignored all the God stuff (which was a big chunk of the book) and skipped ahead to find out which character got killed off and how.
If I'm remebering correctly, the antichrist from the series was the Russian Prime Minister or something. I remeber he came from Eastern Europe.
I was working at a bookstore when they were popular. They actually had a kid's version, so that the little ones could enjoy them too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_Behind:_The_Kids
I was made (well, encouraged) to read those when I was a kid...like when I was 11 or 12 years old. It really ed me up. The basic plot is that a group of kids are the only person in their family "left behind" to experience seven years of hell on earth, all because they didn't buy into their parents theology. That really scared me, so I went and asked to be baptized (my family is Southern Baptist, of course) and spent the next three years or so trying to be a super Christian (and becoming that weird kid in the process).
Moral of the story; don't let your kid read these books.