What was the goal of David Koresh and the Branch Davidians in the Waco Standoff?”
Koresh thought he was the lamb of God, he thought that he was going to be the next Cyrus (Koresh in Hebrew) who would like the Persian emperor set free the people of God. Koresh thought that he was going to set up God’s rule -suprisingly with him on the throne – and bring about peace and harmony. You know the thing about a lie. If you tell one you have to tell another one to cover it up, and then you have to look the other way lest reality shake everything that you have set up until that point. According to the book “A Place called Waco” Koresh was a magnetic speaker and leader. He knew the Bible backward and forward and could interpret it in the way that he wanted you to hear it. Probably if you talked to him he might begin to convince you too. The reason he could do this was that he believed his own hype. I don’t know if he was crazy when he started but you know how way leads on to way. After a while he had gone so far down that road of saying that he was the one, that he really beli
