DAVID KORESH

David Koresh

David Koresh

Introduction

Branch Davidians, American religious movement that became widely known in 1993, when most of its members were killed in the fire that destroyed their headquarters near Waco, Texas. fire marked end of the 51-day siege by United States federal agents (Breault 1993).

David & His Contemplation

Branch Davidians trace their origins to Davidian movement, the splinter group of Seventh-Day Adventists founded by Adventist leader Victor Houteff in Los Angeles, California, in 1934. Houteff retained traditional Adventist belief that apocalypse ( end of world) and Second Coming of Christ were imminent and would be preceded by catastrophes and war. Houteff ...