On April 19, 1993, the wages of truth were paid to David Koresh and 82 members of his church. We have been told to call them the “Branch Davidians”, but they named themselves the Students of the Seven Seals.

You no doubt have heard of the various crimes David and members of his church allegedly committed. I will not repeat them here. However, to the list of those alleged crimes must be added one more, the one I believe led to his death: the crime of being “not worthy”.

You see, toward the end of the 51-day government siege of his church, David announced that he was going to decipher the seals of the seven-sealed book mentioned in Chapter 5 of the Book of Revelation. He delivered his written deciphering of the first seal to the world on that fateful April 19, and shortly thereafter he was dead.

I have read what David wrote about the first seal. I would summarize his message as follows: if the first seal has been opened, that means someone worthy to open the seal has come; that person is the Lamb of God, and I, David Koresh, am that person.

Upon hearing that, American decided he was NOT worthy to open the first seal and killed him. I also do not think David was worthy. However, I am not qualified to judge. Revelation Chapter 5 states that the first seal will be opened in heaven before the throne of God, implying that He alone will determine who is worthy.

Some might say that being found unworthy David Koresh was killed by God. But the circumstances of his death suggest another explanation, a truth which David and his followers purchased with their lives. This other explanation stems from the date he died, April 19.

April 19, 1775, is a sacred date in the American civil religion. The Battles of Lexington and Concord occurred on that date, marking the start of the American Revolution. As we have been told over and over, that revolution was our salvation, and through us the salvation of the world.

And we have all heard the story of Paul Revere, who rode through the night of April 18-19 to warn the colonists that “the British are coming”. His brave actions ensured that when the British did arrive the following day, the militia were ready for them and won the battle.

David Koresh, on the other hand, worked through the night of April 18-19 to decipher the meaning of the first seal, in the false hope that his message would lead to the salvation of the world.

America judges Paul Revere’s actions to be worthy, and David Koresh’s to be unworthy. The key to understanding the truth behind this judgment is the fact that the family of “Paul Revere” were French Huguenots. “Paul Revere” is the Anglicized version of “Apollos Rivoire”. Apollo!

Paul Revere was America's Apollo, and his appearance on the white horse announced the opening of the first seal and the second coming of Christ through the American Revolution. David Koresh, or anyone else trying to mimic Revere’s actions in any way, is therefore a charlatan worthy only of death.

Chapters 5 and 6 of the Book of Revelation do not say that any “unworthy” person should be put to death. The fact that the unworthy David Koresh WAS put to death suggests that it was America and not God that killed him.