David Koresh

David Koresh ( Vernon Wayne Howell actually; born August 17, 1959 in Houston, Texas, † April 19, 1993 in Waco, Texas) was the leader and self-proclaimed prophet of the Branch Davidians, an eschatological removal of the Branch Davidian sect. He had tied his followers with his interpretation of the Book of Revelation itself.

Howell took around 1985 the name David Koresh, with the first name referring to the biblical King David and the last name on the Persian generals Cyrus II. In Koreshs reading but he also referred to the fourth Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

Koresh died in the siege of the sectarian headquarters in Waco after a fire of unknown origin broke out.

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