Stories
the narratives it tells itself
Mount Carmel, and the 144,000.
Houteff taught that a purified remnant of 144,000 would be gathered before Christ returned, and that the job of his community was to be the seed of it. In 1959 his widow named a date; over 900 people sold their homes and came to Waco, and the failure of that gathering is the reason the Branch exists at all.
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The Scriptures
the texts that carry the stories — and everything elseThe King James Bible, especially Daniel and Revelation
The Shepherd's Rod, Victor Houteff, from 1929
SHEkinah, the journal of Lois Roden
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