Paramount Network Waco mini-series (which is now streaming on Netflix), probably left you with a much of the questions. For example, does David Thibodeau actually survive the deadly 51-day standoff between the Branch Davidians and the FBI in 1993? (Sure did.) David Koresh’s musical retaliation during the siege of the reality? (In fact.) But perhaps the most important question of all: how Koresh feed, clothe, and arm their many devotees without any obvious source of income? As well as claiming to be the last prophet of the Branch Davidians, and taking over as the leader of the sect in the 1980s, Koresh (born Vernon Howell), according to reports, he was a millionaire. The reason: his followers were forced to surrender all of their assets.
According to a 1993 article printed in the Waco Tribune-Heraldformer cult members said that Koresh demanded the control of his followers, ” the property and paychecks. All those who joined david Koresh, he was forced to give up their personal property and homes, and Koresh members are required to tithe not 10 percent of their income (which is the standard for many religions), but 100 percent. Despite the fact that some members had little or no outside income, other cult members were employed and their wages went directly to Koresh’s pocket. Rick Ross, a cult deprogrammer Phoenix, said david Koresh effectively “r