David Koresh And The Waco Encounter

officials climbed the walls of the Branch-Davidian compound on Mount Carmel in Waco, Texas, breaking windows and throwing grenades inside the buildings, all for arresting Vernon Wayne Hall, A.K.A. David Koresh. Koresh was the leader of the Davidians, who believed that Koresh was a god who lived in this religious community on Mount Carmel.

David was always a type of person inclined to be melancholy. He was always a religious person. He made sure that he did everything right, because he was afraid of death. He performed all the duties of religion without a true conversion.2

As we examine the heroes of the faith outlined for us in the Old Testament, we would be hard pressed to find a more faithful man that King David. After the death of King Saul, David became the King of the Hebrew people. David, who was meek and pious, steadfastly believed in the true God and tried to do His will. He had endured much persecution from Saul and other enemies but did not become bitter, did not lift his hand against Saul, as he was the Lord’s anointed, but placed all his hope in God, and the Lord delivered him from all his enemies.

"We talk of the Second Coming: half the world has never heard of the first." – Oswald J. Smith

A man by the name, Victor Houteff was “defellowshipped from a Los Angeles Seventh- day Adventists church” (CRI) in 1929 and 1930. Due to his unforeseen spiritual movement, Waco Texas in 1993 experienced a 51 day biblical event like never before seen or experienced since the first coming of Christ. The Branch Davidians along with the infamous David Koresh came to be because of Houteff “sharing his “Divergent Views” with other church members” (CRI). It was five years after he was ostracized from the church that Houteff along with twelve others who believed that the Holy Ghost proclaimed him to be the Lamb of God, went to Mt. Carmel Texas. Their purpose was to have a location in which “144,000” could gather in order to fulfill requirements

Waco is where The Branch Davidians were founded; their prophet was David Koresh. David Koresh isn’t his birth name. His real name was Vernon Wayne Howell. David wasn’t born into a wealthy family. He told the FBI that he was raised by his grandparents until he was old enough to be on his own. Koresh never knew his father, and experienced a very lonely childhood when being raised by his mother (in his earlier childhood). He had dropped out of school and joined his mother's Seventh-Day Adventist church. In 1981, David joined The Branch Davidians at Mount Carmel, where he then began studying under Lois Roden. David gained control over the Davidians. Changing his name to “David Koresh” gave him the power of calling himself King David, from the Bible. His last name of “Koresh” comes from the Hebrew language meaning “Cyrus”, dating all the way back to the ancient Persian king. Being the leader of the Branch Davidians, he was accompanied by various spiritual wives- adults, with the youngest being twelve year old females. The spiritual wives would then give David the future leaders of the world. He told the rest of the Davidians that he could interpret the seven seals from the Bible, the testimony of Revelations, to determine the secrets as to when the world was going to

The year is 1993, and there had been a deadly fire that consumed the lives of eighty individuals. The fire erupted in Waco, Texas on a compound called Mt. Carmel. There had been a 51 day siege where the ATF and the FBI tried to gain control of the compound and capture the leader, David Koresh. David Koresh was a self-proclaimed prophet and preached a version of Christianity called the Branch Davidians. They were very primitive, in almost all aspects. They had no electronic devices, no plumbing and followed a very strict regime instructed by David Koresh himself. To put it plainly, they were a part of a religious cult. Whether this cult was a suicide cult or not was a hot topic of debate when regarding the Waco Siege. According to the court, and despite the majority of sources, it was concluded that the fire was self-inflicted by an arsonists, stripping the government of responsibility and ruling the deaths as murder-suicides.

The Branch Davidians are a religious group that resulted from a breakoff in the Davidian Seventh-day Adventist Church in 1955. As the group gained members, the leaders decided to move the church just outside of Waco, Texas, to a place they named Mount Carmel, after a mountain in Israel mentioned in Joshua 19:26. Their leader at the time, Florence Houteff, then prophesied that the Second Coming of Jesus was approaching, and ordered the members to stay at the center

The Alamo has many true and false myths, the question is whose are the most accurate? Phillip Thomas Tucker’s Exodus from the Alamo:The Anatomy of the Last Stand Myth may be on the top of the list for many reader’s. Tucker’s point isn’t to persuade readers to change what they believe, however it is to provide them with supported information. In this work, many may be in disbelief or they can be open to knew facts. This book can be considered higher in the academic research world. Phillip Tucker’s view of the Alamo may change any readers view.

“My lord!” Bellowed the messenger of King David. “What is it, can’t you see i am working,” answered the King in agitation. “but my lord, it is a message from the gods!” replied Samuel with great fear in his eyes. The king

Believers continued to take caution and thought harder about everything they had said and done. While some were preparing for Judgment Day others continued to question Mr. Camping and his thinking wondering what he will say or do if Judgment Day does not come. Mr. Camping continued to say “that Judgment day will happen, he will not be here after May 21.” He had not doubt that on May 21 there would be hurricanes, and soon after thousands of people would leave this earth, while the others would be left behind until the tragic conditions took them away. Finally, on May 20th and 21st 2011 multiple believers joined together in a house watching the news, waiting to hear when the bad weather would arrive. As time passed believers started to doubt what they were told, others started to push time back thinking it would still happen, and others began to question the prophecy itself. The day after media, reporters, and believers wanted answers! Mr. Camping wanted a day or two to think about what had happened, he knew he did all the research right. While Camping continued to look over his information, the believers were left upset, mad, and some even felt lost because they had put their heart and soul into Judgment Day. Believers had had fallen for the “foot-in-the-door phenomenon.” Chapter twelve goes into detail about foot-in-the-door phenomenon, for example

"Oh, righteous one, in whom we are able to place great confidence; the people are led astray after Jesus, the crucified one. So declare to us, what is this way,

The Sanhedrin’s didn’t like Jesus and whoever had anything to do with would be excommunicated from the synagogue.

The fact that there exist various narratives concerning the topic of apocalypse invites the notion that there is a great number of people desiring the end of the world. Why would somebody be desirous of terminating the world's existence? Despite the fact that the end of the world has a dark, uncanny, irredeemably, and desperate tone to it, one has to consider its consequences. Therefore, the evangelical protestantism belief in the rapture offers a solution to the otherwise unsatisfactory or even nonexistent future.

The ultimate goal here is to challenge the writer find a definitive reason for the downfall of King David who is said to be a man after God’s own heart.