The Wrath Walker (The Wrath Series Book 1) by Matthew Newson (fun to read .txt) 📗

time over these past few years for what they did to you, but you wanted them to go to jail for their crimes. God watched as you struggled but stayed true to your convictions as you suffered setbacks and tremendous loss in your life. Even when I had to release their just rewards upon them which ended their lives, you did everything you could to try and save them. They were your enemies, and you were still good to them, and that is why you’re the one to help me with my mission. You are truly a good man, who is just to all, even the ones who are unjust to you. Stopping them is simple. We have to cut off the head and the body will die, meaning the sheep will scatter and give up their evil ways once all the leadership is taken out.”

“What does that mean?”

“The night I killed Frankie, a Luciferian high priest and his warlocks, which are really Satanists, watched from an adjacent roof. When I confronted them, they demanded I leave the city. They tried to pray a spell over me, but I resisted and threatened to kill them if they tried something like that again. Many people have lost their lives throughout time because they were unknowingly fighting against God, and let me tell you, God always wins.”

“Why didn’t you just end them right then and there?” I shouted. “This whole thing could have been over by now, and I could go back to a normal life!”

“Because they weren’t really there on that rooftop, they used a thing called spirit phantoms to project an image of themselves to keep them from danger. I could have cut them down, but it wouldn’t have stopped them, only ended their little holograms. But if we can find and take out the high priest before my brothers get here, many will stop their evil ways and return to God. This high priest has deceived many into following him, all believing they are doing what God wants them to do. Well, that is, except for the Satanic high priest and his warlocks. We will probably have to kill his warlocks too if they won’t relent. Don’t deceive yourself, Brandon. Your life is never going to be the same after this. The sooner you accept that the better off you will be.”

“I don’t even know where to begin with that, but I can’t just go around killing people, Wrath. I’m not like you in that regard.”

“You may have to, but God sent me here to do a job, and I won’t stop until it’s done. You remember the scripture that says God’s word never returns until it has accomplished what it was sent out to do? God spoke the words that sent me here, and he also said you are the one that will aid me on this mission.”

“Why would he want me to help you when I clearly can’t do the things you can?” My terror morphed into panic.

“Because God likes to use his sons and daughters, and if I had to guess, you’re already close to the person who is this Luciferian high priest.”

“I don’t know any Luciferians, Satanists, or whatever you’re calling them.”.

“Oh, but you do, Brandon. Did you really think all of this, and everything else you have been through lately was all so God could punish a few wicked people and call it a day?”

“To be honest, I don’t know God as well as I thought I did, so you’re going to have to fill me in on it.”

“You don’t understand the ways of God because you have only been taught that God is love and mercy, but if you would have bothered to read the Bible, then you would know he’s more than those two aspects. God is love, but he doesn’t let the wicked go unpunished forever. God does nothing on a whim or on compulsion. He thinks not only on the small but the large scale, and how events on one affect the other, and there is something much larger going on here.”

“Look, Wrath, all my friends were cops, and they all turned their backs on me after the fallout with Ron. Lizzie hates me, and the only other person I had was my dad, but he passed years ago. Even when I had friends, I’m positive none of them were Satanists.”

“Think harder, detective, who else did you meet with since I entered your life? Who else speaks to you on a friendly basis?”

“Besides the ones you killed, Phillip Martin, but he’s a pastor of The Holy Anointed Church. There’s no way he could be the head of some evil organization ruling the city and using the mob as a front to keep the spotlight off of him.”

“Are you really that blind? You were one of the best detectives the city had ever seen. Have you learned nothing since our first encounter?” Wrath’s voice raised with frustration as he walked about the room in front of me. “Come now, Brandon, you really must come out of your willing ignorance, and see things how they really are, and not how you want them to be. Remember what I told you on the night we met? Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.”

“Oh God, no, it’s all been a front this entire time.”

“Ding. Ding. Ding. You got it, and not a moment too soon.”

The truth of the matter pressed down on my shoulders so hard I felt like my soul was being crushed under the weight of it. “It all makes sense now. The best place for the enemy to hide is in plain sight. It’s a page right out of Satan’s playbook to put on a holy and righteous façade for all to look to and believe in, while being rotten to the core inside. But why me, why am I supposed to help you stop