The massacre in Waco Texas is still today understood very little by everyone in America who was alive at that time.
The Davidians were an off shoot of the 7th Day Adventists and started in the 1930's by Victor Houteff.
He bought the land in Waco Texas.
The Branch Davidians were named after King David concerning the future Davidic kingdom that was to come.
Vernon Howell became David Koresh.
In 1981 he had an affair with the owner.
When the leader went to prison for murder in 1990, he took over.
Koresh claimed prophecy and led the group to prepare for the coming apocalypse.
A number of Branch Davidians exist today, many of whom see Koresh as a splinter leader from their own legitimate tradition. And many of the Branch Davidians who ultimately died at Waco had been longstanding members of the community, practicing their faith long before Koresh was even born.
Although rumors were that Koresh molested some of the children, the reason the FBI came in was because of what was thought to be a large cache of weapons.
What followed was a 51 day standoff started by the ATF and taken over by the FBI.
The FBI ensembled 897 armed fighters.
Along with tanks, helicopters and other armed vehicles.
Then on April 19, somehow a fire broke out from an attack of weapons and it killed 76 of the 85 Branch Davidians, including David Koresh and many children.
The media treated it as a group of crazy cult people that got what they deserved.
They compared David Koresh with Jim Jones in Guyana.
For right-wing militias and so-called Patriot groups, Waco amounts to evidence of a tyrannical, illegitimate government unblinkingly prepared to kill its own people ... the specter of Waco has not faded. Right-wing extremists regularly invoke it as a defining moment, proof of Washington’s perfidy. “Waco can happen at any given time,” Mike Vanderboegh, a prominent figure in the Patriot movement, told Retro Report. He added ominously: “But the outcome will be different this time. Of that I can assure you.”
As Christians, we need to rethink what is a cult and what is a dangerous cult.
The Christian community should take care of it's own.
The Davidians were an off shoot of the 7th Day Adventists and started in the 1930's by Victor Houteff.
He bought the land in Waco Texas.
The Branch Davidians were named after King David concerning the future Davidic kingdom that was to come.
Vernon Howell became David Koresh.
In 1981 he had an affair with the owner.
When the leader went to prison for murder in 1990, he took over.
Koresh claimed prophecy and led the group to prepare for the coming apocalypse.
A number of Branch Davidians exist today, many of whom see Koresh as a splinter leader from their own legitimate tradition. And many of the Branch Davidians who ultimately died at Waco had been longstanding members of the community, practicing their faith long before Koresh was even born.
Although rumors were that Koresh molested some of the children, the reason the FBI came in was because of what was thought to be a large cache of weapons.
What followed was a 51 day standoff started by the ATF and taken over by the FBI.
The FBI ensembled 897 armed fighters.
Along with tanks, helicopters and other armed vehicles.
Then on April 19, somehow a fire broke out from an attack of weapons and it killed 76 of the 85 Branch Davidians, including David Koresh and many children.
The media treated it as a group of crazy cult people that got what they deserved.
They compared David Koresh with Jim Jones in Guyana.
For right-wing militias and so-called Patriot groups, Waco amounts to evidence of a tyrannical, illegitimate government unblinkingly prepared to kill its own people ... the specter of Waco has not faded. Right-wing extremists regularly invoke it as a defining moment, proof of Washington’s perfidy. “Waco can happen at any given time,” Mike Vanderboegh, a prominent figure in the Patriot movement, told Retro Report. He added ominously: “But the outcome will be different this time. Of that I can assure you.”
As Christians, we need to rethink what is a cult and what is a dangerous cult.
The Christian community should take care of it's own.
