A screengrab of Yisrael Hawkins' website, with their end of the world predictions front and center.An elusive group just outside of Abilene, Texas is claiming the end of the world is coming in less than a week.
The House of Yahweh recently gave ABC reporter Brian Ross access to their west Texas compound. Yahweh leader Yisrayl Hawkins says a nuclear holocaust will come June 12th and only members of his group will be saved.
All group members change their last names to Hawkins and live in the compound.
Local authorities claim the group is dangerous and practices polygamy. Shane Dee, the local district attorney, says there's no way to describe the group except as a religious cult. Yisrael Hawkins disagrees. "I don't control their mind in a witch-like fashion that the world is speaking of, to where I have some sort of power over them. I merely teach the laws to them."
Hawkins has predicted a doomsday twice before. He's also accused of having two dozen wives, and is facing bigamy charges.
www.kltv.com/Global/story.asp
The House of Yahweh recently gave ABC reporter Brian Ross access to their west Texas compound. Yahweh leader Yisrayl Hawkins says a nuclear holocaust will come June 12th and only members of his group will be saved.
All group members change their last names to Hawkins and live in the compound.
Local authorities claim the group is dangerous and practices polygamy. Shane Dee, the local district attorney, says there's no way to describe the group except as a religious cult. Yisrael Hawkins disagrees. "I don't control their mind in a witch-like fashion that the world is speaking of, to where I have some sort of power over them. I merely teach the laws to them."
Hawkins has predicted a doomsday twice before. He's also accused of having two dozen wives, and is facing bigamy charges.
www.kltv.com/Global/story.asp
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I never quite understood the reason for announcing the date. When we discover that the world is ending are we supposed to consult a calendar and say, "Yep! Fritz was right after all." ?
The JW's had at least two dates in the twentieth century on which the world would end. The last time their prediction failed, they decided that Armageddon had already been fought but not on earth. I don't know just where that leaves them. Since I got a washing machine, I don't get to see 'Awake' magazine at laundromats anymore.
I prefer the 'rapture' version, when some of us will be whisked away to Heaven in an instant and some of us will be 'left behind.'
A bumper sticker summed it up well: after the rapture, we get all their stuff.
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Well, it's Saturday morning and my fiance and I are still alive and well, hope everyone is doing well too.
Although, I wonder if our country will have a political/social revolution before a nuclear holocaust happens.
