re branch davidians info in article mar athos rutgers edu clitton opie bgsu edu writes from clitton opie bgsu edu subject branch davidians info date mar gmt i am looking for any information on the branch davidians send info to chad litton acs dept bgsu bowling green oh or e mail to clitton andy bgsu edu thanks in advance i don t claim to be an expert on the branch davidians but i might know more than most the branch davidian group led by koresh is actually one of two off shoots of a group known as the shephard s rod the shephard s rod now defunct as far as i know broke off from the sda church in the s the shephard s rod broke away from the sda church because they felt that the sda church was becoming weak and falling into apostacy they felt that they were the remnant spoken about in revelation about the koresh group koresh gained control of it in or once in control he made himself the center of it he proclaimed himself as christ koresh himself came from an sda background he was excommunicated as a young adult by the local congregation for trying to exert too much control over the youth in the church after this he joined the branch davidians they were are a survivalist cult this is why they had the stockpile of weapons food a bomb shelter etc they had no intent of raiding the us government or anything they were preparing for armaggedon and were putting themselves in a self defense position in my opinion if the atf and the fbi had left well enough alone we wouldn t have the blood of children crying out from the ashes in waco if you want to know about the shephard s rod you might want to visit the local sda church and talk to some of the older people they could give you some insight into where koresh got his theology tammy
