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“If the Bible is true, then I’m Christ.”
Welcome to the thoughts of one named Vernon Howell. America knows him better as David Koresh. Anyone even half way familiar with current events knows the David Koresh that the media portrayed before the compound went up in flames on April 19, 1993, but what was David Koresh like up to the events leading to this event? After reading this paper one should have a better understanding of David Koresh as a person and his religious ideas.
David Koresh was born to a single mother in Houston, Texas in 1959. Growing up he was an indifferent student, yet very interested in the Bible and it’s teachings. He spent hours on end as a teenager memorizing Bible passages word for word. His next love to the Bible was playing the guitar. Later on in life he would use these two acquired talents to recruit his followers. Koresh’s religious experiences picked up its pace after he dropped out of high school in the ninth grade. He was raised in the Seventh-day Adventist Church, yet he felt more at home as a radical thinking teenager in the teachings of a spin off known as the Branch Davidians. One should be aware that Koresh did not create the Branch Davidian cult. Their roots trace back
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According to David Mitchell, a former member, “He knew the Bible awful well.”
That could very well be the understatement of the century. While Lois Roden was still alive, her son and Koresh would often get in to minor scuffles. Irony continues to be present at the compound. This time it comes from the fact that the first gun was not carried by Koresh, but instead by George Roden. Koresh even had his own revelation. According to him, he was the seventh and final angel destined to be the agent of God who brought about the end of the world. He claimed at first that the end would come when he went to Israel and began converting Jews. Koresh was sure that this action would surely cause an American invasion in the Holy Land. Supposedly according to Koresh, this would be a signal that Armageddon was beginning. At this point Koresh would be turned into a warrior angel that would cleanse the earth in preparation for the New Jerusalem.
to Victor Houteff, a Bulgarian immigrant who was expelled from an L.A. church in 1929. Houteff’s main interest was passages found in the Book of Ezekiel. These passages dealt with an angel of God separating the faithful from the sinful right before Jerusalem’s fall to the Babylonians. Houteff created a spin-off congregation in 1935 on the outskirts of Waco. From this action begins the cycle of cult leaders in Waco.
Roden got the bum deal out of this battle. Koresh and his men were aquitted of attempted murder charges, and Roden was tossed in jail on attempt of court charges. Koresh took advantage of this and seized the opportunity to move his followers into the compound and fortify the place. Koresh added insult to injury by inviting the judge and jury that acquitted him to enjoy an ice cream social at the compound. As for George Roden, he was released from jail a few months later and moved to Odessa, Texas. Shortly after that he was sent to a state mental hospital
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