KORESH QUOTES Transcibed from audio tape by Mark Swett After listening to countless hours of David Koresh audio tapes I began extracting some of his sayings that jumped out at me. Originlly this was for my benefit only, but I have shared some of them with others who have been interested. There is always a danger in taking someones words out of context. It is not my desire to promote any kind of sensationalism. The media is well equipped to do that. I have enjoyed these quotes and I hope to add many more to this site later on. [Image] From the audio tape Confusion Part 2 7/18/87 [Image]You're not gonna get away with nothing people. All your Pizza Hut's, all your soda pop's, and all these things - you know? And occasional meat now and then. God's gonna whip you good. [Image]But the preacher says, "Put your faith in Christ." So I put my faith in a theory. I saw the movie too - you know? [Image]You see how much a job today won't bind you. Today when you're out there trying to wrestle with the world and the beast. You'd better be there at seven o'clock or six o'clock every morning and fight it till they let you go in the evening; unless you get overtime. You see? See if you have time to come in at night and study Daniel chapter 11 and 12. There's more to the Mark of the Beast than just Sunday keeping. The Beast say's, "It's alright to eat a Snickers candybar." God say's "It's not." The Beast say's that "Soda pop's good for you." Shows an athlete drinking a Gatorade - you see? God say's that Gatorade's gonna chop your head off one of these days. [Image]Why go to Loma Linda and spend all that money to get a wife that's worldly when you can go to the world and get a worldly wife? [Image]They say to me, "You claim to be ... you sure are proud." I'm not proud. I'm just telling you the truth. I'm telling you that what God has revealed to me he has not revealed to you. You're coming to listen to what God has revealed to me. I'm just simply saying that God revealed to Isaiah, taking the preasure off me. [Image]...Let's get on the ball cause God's got a message. Let's get it out. So all you Adventists come along. We gotta give a message to the world. Well, they gotta go to work. They gotta make money. They gotta pay the bills. Where is God's church today? [Image]We'll I had a vis... excuse the word. I had a vision. And I saw Christ kneeling. And I'll tell you the vision in the near future. [Image]Have you ever tried to have a Bible study before when everybody wanted to talk. Everyone wanted to give their opinion on something. Everybody left the same way they came, didn't they? How much did you all learn about the Bible in those kinds of studies? [Image]You see parents pleading with their kids to be quiet in Sabbath school. Pleading with them - "Please!" What happened to good old fashioned whippings? [Image]You see out there in the Church at Loma Linda, you'll see a fashion show you never saw before. Peacocks would be ashamed. [Image]An inspired teacher said one time, "Give them the truth, and believe you the money will come." [Image]When you have a dead prophet you have a dead voice - you see? You have someone that's not even here to get on your back and tell you you'd better shape up. [Image]So let me get one thing straight. I'm not gonna paint any dead prophets sepulcher. But I will honor the spirit of Ellen White, by, as time permits, showing you from her writings the very things that these prophets foretold; but you never knew they were there. That is my job. Do you understand clearly? [Image]Let me get something settled cause you're gonna hear all kinds of stories about me. Yes. As an Adventist I did fall. She was the most prettiest girl you ever saw. And when she came to that church and got up there, and she sang that song, and she loooked at me - right dead at me. And I went to feeling those feelings. I didn't know anything about the word of God yet. But I knew that she was wearing that dress. She looked like a banana that's fixing to pop out of the skin. And I said, "I don't want that." But I was deceived anyway - cause I heared specifically that she wasn't gonna be at her fathers house. And her father was the minister. So now you know the story. And ever since then I'm just a devil. Well OK. I'm a devil who knows a little bit more about the Bible then anybody else does. And that's yet to be proven. From the Wisconsin tapes 8-24-87 [Image]... So therefore, for theological arguement, you know this prophecy (Isaiah45) - that everyone applied to Christ does not apply to Christ. You know that Christ wasn't called Cyrus two thousand years ago! And you know that the whole prophecy of Isaiah is about delivering God's people from Babylon. And Christ didn't deliver anyone from Babylon. Well, we can agree on that. What's wrong with the theological world? They're blinded cause God has blinded them. God has a trick for the last day. [Image]Hey, God condemns putting away. God hates divorce. That's what the Bible says. ... Do you want to know what the Bible says about divorce? Read! Leviticus, Deuteronomy, Exodus, Numbers. Read those scriptures and see what the Bible says about marriage - for once. [Image]This message is beyond anything you've ever dreamed before. But is is the truth, or the Bible is a lie. [Image]...You have to work in the world. You can't keep the Daily. You can't keep the Feast Days. If each of you were to keep God's Law - keep the Feast Days and the Daily, you'd loose your jobs - most of you. [Image]...And because I've got the football I get tackled. That's all there is to it. I'm no different from you except one thing - the Lord's given me His eternal word. That's all. I didn't learn from the school Steve learned from. I learned like that (snaps finger). Click here for back to The Research Center Home Page Questions and comments for the transcriber: mswett@ime.net