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If the Bible is true, then I'm
Christ.
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QUOTE: If the Bible is true, then I'm Christ.
AUTHOR: David Koresh (born Vernon
Wayne Howell; August 17, 1959 – April 19, 1993) was the American leader of the
Branch Davidians religious sect, believing himself to be its final prophet.
Coming from a dysfunctional family
background, Koresh claimed to become a Christian in the Seventh-day Adventist
Church, before joining a splinter group, based at the Mount Carmel Center near
Waco, Texas, which took the name Branch Davidians. Here he competed for
dominance with another leader named George Roden, until Roden was jailed for
murdering another rival. Koresh was then accused of seducing a 13-year-old
girl, apparently with her parents’ consent, a relationship that he sanctified
as a ‘spiritual marriage’. But it was the serving of arrest and search warrants
by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives as part of an
investigation into illegal possession of firearms and explosives that provoked
the historic 1993 raid on the center. Four ATF agents and six Davidians were
killed during the initial two-hour firefight, both sides claiming the other
side fired first. The subsequent siege by the FBI ended with the burning of the
center, where Koresh and 79 others were found dead after the fire.
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