coming. his role was to open the seven seals that are mentioned in the book of revelation. in revelation the seven seals represent the apocalypse. the biblical end of days. in the bible only the lamb of god can open the seals. koresh preached that he had that power. by january 1992 disturbing rumors about the self-styled prophet had surfaced. the local newspaper, the waco tribune herald began to investigate koresh and his hold over the davidians. he had what was called his new light revelation and that was that as the messiah, he should generate a new population of people to inherent the kingdom of god. to do that all the women in the group belonged to him. as part of his new light prophecy, koresh dissolved all existing marriages in the group. the men in the group would
four atf agents are dead, 16 wounded, with an unknown number of casualties inside the compound, including david koresh. at this hour fbi agents are negotiating with the cult leader. he reportedly believes he is jesus christ. mr. koresh, how are you doing? fair to middling. i understand you ve been wounded. can you describe your position? weakening. are you shot, sir? yes, i am. well, communications opened up pretty quickly. he loved to talk. he loved to hear himself talk. how is god going to talk to me in the latter days? so there will be no excuses. so there was no lack of communication. there was a lack of productive communication. there s a lot of children here. i ve had a lot of babies the last few years. is it true, david that, one of the children, a 2-year-old, is dead. yeah, that s true. he was so calm, to a point
choose to become celibate. if they were married, they would, you know, not have any more relations with their wives. it s true. i do have a lot of children. it s true, i do have a lot of wives. but koresh apparently did not stop there. when david first started teaching, he began to show that god asked prophets to do what we might consider strange things a lot of times. we had evidence that he had sexually abused girls as young as 12. it is my great something that women can t resist. we also discovered that that had been going on for a couple of years, and law enforcement had not done anything really to prevent it or stop it. but a field agent from the regional atf office was doing something. secretly. though his investigation had nothing to do with the abuse allegations. his name is davie aguilera.
the men in the group would choose to become celibate. if they were married, they would, you know, not have any more relations with their wives. it s true. i do have a lot of children. it s true, i do have a lot of wives. but koresh apparently did not stop there. when david first started teaching, he began to show that god asked prophets to do what we might consider strange things a lot of times. we had evidence that he had sexually abused girls as young as 12. it is my great wonderful looks, something that women just can t resist. we also discovered that that had been going on for a couple of years, and law enforcement had not done anything really to prevent it or stop it. but a field agent from the regional atf office was doing something. secretly. though his investigation had nothing to do with the abuse
we re all waiting. we re anticipating. we had buses lined up to receive everybody. he stated he received a message from god instructing him to wait. any doubts about who is calling the shots is suddenly gone. now we knew when we had a person who said he was speaking directly to god and god had told him to wait that this was not going to be normal. that was one of the first and more significant glimpses of the disingenuous nature of how david was dealing with us as far as promises and truthfulness. are you a patient person? yeah, i m really patient. you re going to see patience because the only thing that