God's Madmen
by Chris Huffman
(Texas, USA)
"We've all become God's madmen..."
-Van Helsing, 1992, Dracula film.
"I can't tell you how many times I've nearly been bitten by the vampires I've hunted! It is only because of this special suit I wear, that I made as a matter of fact, that has saved me. If I went out killing vampires as unprotected as other hunters do, well, I wouldn't have lasted as long as I have. But not only do I have this suit to protect me, I also have something, well, someone rather to protect me that probably no other hunter has...my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!
"Now, before you shut off your little digital recorder there and end this interrogation, just hear me out, okay? I know that in today's age of being politically correct and a push for religious inclusion, as a born again believer in Jesus and a veteran vampire hunter, I am a bit of a paradox. And I like that! Of the number of people I have told that I am a Christian and a vampire hunter, one guy actually said to me one time, 'Don't you worry about that one commandment that says not to kill?' I almost laughed at him but then realized the guy was actually trying to be serious.
"When hunters kill vampires, we are not killing a 'human' being. Vampires are a demonic type of creature that was human at one point, but now have been transformed into something else. Anything or anyone that works against God and the things of God are Satanic and Satanically empowered. Yeah there are evil spirits, devils, which are fallen angels, that the human eye cannot see. But there are also things that Satan's fallen angels have 'made' over the countless centuries.
"You probably don't know what transmogrify is, but it is the magical or supernatural transformation of something into something else. I mean, they'll take for example, bats or wolves or bugs and things and transform or mutate them into horrible, humanoid creatures. That's how humanoid vampires came to be and the same with werewolves. The transmogrified creatures bite humans, where with the vampires, the human blood comes out and the vampire blood replaces it, turning the human into a vampire.
"But then I got to thinking about zombies. Who or what was the source? I just know they exist because I have fought them as well, but I don't know their true origin. Personally I think they are the greatest threat! But I am getting away from what I was saying, sorry. This is only my third questioning since the, well, 'incident.'
"I know you've got more questions about that, so I'll try to finish up. So, I was talking about being a paradox, wasn't I? Yes, okay. I have been a vampire hunter for over ten years now. I knew almost nothing about them at the time I got started, but after seeing my wife and child ravaged by a group of them, one tends to create ways to kill the bloodsuckers! It wasn't long before I met up other hunters and they trained me properly on hunting and killing them. They came in all shapes and sizes, but all I saw was the ghostly pale skin, the black, deep-set eyes, the long fingernails and the two long fangs dripping with saliva, just itchin' to jam themselves into my throat.
"Four years in is when I had had enough and sat down and designed this suit. My years in the military, the Marines to be exact, designing combat suits and armor came in handy building this thing! Its impact was immediate. Vamps kept chipping their canines on the titanium-Kevlar-lined collar and neck guard when they would attack that area. They didn't find it as funny as I did I guess. I also upgraded to a better weapon. No more cross bows and stakes for me, to medieval! This is 2010 after all.
"I got my hands on a Colt carbine M4 auto-rifle and a buddy of mine started making some low-yield incendiary rounds for me. They worked real well too! Made taking those things out a lot easier. But then things got a little hairy five years ago. I was on a mission in St. Joseph, Missouri, a booming city in the northwestern part of the state. A cult of vampires with a particular grudge against Christians had been attacking and even killing members of the Word of Life Church. The story as to why they were killing these people was never made clear exactly! Some victims were born again believers like myself while others were just church goers. But I wasn't sent in to question the vampires anyway, my job was to just put them down.
"While I was up there though, I broke one of the rules of the vampire hunter rule book, if there really even is one. I got myself attached to a young woman named Beth who went to that church. She wasn't a believer, just a church goer. She was about 25 or so. Gorgeous, average height, blonde hair, blue eyes and bright! Though our time together was brief, it was great. She reminded me of my wife in a lot of ways to be honest.
"But, and here comes the proverbial tear-jerker moment, she was attacked by one of those vampires. But for some reason, they didn't drain her dry like the others. They turned her and forced her to be with them. I wanted to puke when I saw her coming at me that night. All her God-given beauty had been wiped away and replaced with that same pale face, same black eyes and same long teeth that wanted to jam into my throat. But I knew it was her or me, so I raised my M4, aimed and ended her short-lived time as a vampire.
"But amazingly enough, from that horrific event came my total rebirth. When the mission was over, I went back to the church and talked to some of the people that knew Beth. After everything that happened, my heart had been crushed again. But her friends, who were born again believers, said that Jesus could repair it and by being born again, as he himself calls it, he could bless me with a whole new Spirit and pure eternal life. The way they explained his plan of salvation and forgiveness of sins was amazing and it seemed so clear as to what I knew I wanted to do.
"I must confess that I thought getting into heaven was by earning or working my way in, to be with God or by being good enough, you know? If salvation was by works or being good enough, how would you ever know you had done enough or been good enough? But according to Jesus, the Son of the living God, it is simply by faith in him alone! Jesus can and will forgive you of all your sins directly simply by believing in him and receiving him into your life by faith!
"Accepting him into your heart is an act of faith and by believing that he is God's only begotten Son and that he died on the cross to pay for your sins so that you can be saved from going to hell if you die in your sins. I knew right then and there that I wanted to be born again. I said a simple prayer, NOT that it was the prayer that saved me. It was the fact that I was believing in my heart by faith in Jesus as my Savior. Calling on Jesus' name and acknowledging what he did for me was the first step. Then I asked him to forgive me of all my sins and to come into my heart.
"That is the key thing with Jesus. Accepting Christ is a personal, one on one, individual thing. It has nothing to do with religion like you might think in the Catholic Church or anything. God gave you and me and everyone a free will so we could choose to accept Christ some day or not. There's no rituals or lighting of candles or living by a bunch of rules. Just humble yourself and your broken heart to God and put your full faith and trust in Jesus! It was the best decision I have ever made, truly!
"Throughout my whole life I have done things I am not proud of. But now, as far as God is concerned, it doesn't matter anymore because he has forgiven me and washed me clean by the blood of Jesus! And no matter how hard the world tries to tell me otherwise, I am right in God's eyes. Now, since that time, I have been cutting back on hunting vampires, letting the younger guys get in and get their feet wet.
"But I know you didn't expect to hear all this when we started, so I guess we might just as well get into it, huh? This whole, incident has been a real bur in my side! I tried to stay out of the whole affair but I keep getting sucked back into the business. Sigh!
"Alright, well, as I had started to say from our morning session, I was leading a group of hunters in Russia to infiltrate a missile base, like the nuclear kind, that was rumored to be housing new stealth Neutron ICBM's. A clever group of militarized vampires had taken the place over. Well, and here's the sketchy part, after we got inside and engaged those devils in heavy fighting, I maaay or may not have been the one that set off the missiles that destroyed most of America..."
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