Tabernacle of Hate

1. The Siege Begins

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pp. 7-20

“Snipers!” came the scream of a frightened man. “Kerry!” the voice yelled, as the pounding on the door continued. “Wake up! Wake up!” Go away! I thought. It was April 20, 1985. I was hoping the last six days, especially the previous one, had been a dream. I looked at the clock. Six o’clock in the morning. Jesus! My wife, Kay, let the armed, camouflage-clothed soldier in. ...

2. I Have a Dream

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pp. 21-28

“How ya’ doing?” I asked my twenty-two-year-old pregnant wife as we drove around another bumpy curve in the road. I turned to check on our daughter, Tara, almost two years old, asleep in the back seat. “I’m fine,” Kay replied. “Just drive slower and I’ll remain fine.” She smiled, massaging her swollen belly of eight-and-a-half months. ...

3. Home

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pp. 31-46

Long before my arrival, ingredient number two—a charismatic leader—had been added to the first ingredient. Without my being aware of it, the extremist recipe now needed only one more ingredient. After preaching for almost an hour, Ellison sat down and the room quieted to see if anyone else had a Word from God. No one did ...

4. The Revelation

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pp. 47-72

Tom’s wife, Barbara, ran to Jim and me, screaming. “Oh, God, Jim, I didn’t mean to do it!” she cried out, sobbing, barely able to catch her breath. “Slow down,” Jim tried to calm her and find out what was the matter. “Didn’t mean to do what?” We were in the woods cutting timber. Everyone quit sawing and ran over to Jim, Barbara and me. ...

5. Now We Have Guns

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pp. 73-88

We believed God had established Zarephath-Horeb not just for our own refinement and spiritual growth, but so that when the time came for God to judge the world—and especially America—Christians would have a place to go and dwell safely away from the government of the Antichrist. We did not believe in a “rapture,” whereby Christians would ...

6. Identity

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pp. 91-115

John Todd foretold a major truckers’ strike which was to occur in the spring of 1979 and would cripple the economy of the United States sending the country into collapse, with riots and chaos. The strike did occur, but not with the results Todd predicted. But the exactness of his predictions were close enough to warrant listening to him about other “planned” events. ...

7. The Birth of CSA

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pp. 116-126

I stood in the midst of the meeting, once the music had ended and prophesied that God was going to set us as a beacon in the night, that as He had spread our name across the local area, so would He spread our name across the country, to draw others to Himself and to His purpose in this hour. Within three weeks of the prophecy, during ...

8. CSA National Convocation

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pp. 127-132

In August 1982, I approached Ellison and the elders with an idea. “We’ve seen a lot of people in various groups,” I said, “that are no longer satisfied with just rhetoric and talk. They want action. But they need a leader, someone to bond them together.” “What are you suggesting?” James asked. We had started calling Ellison “James” instead of “Jim,” since it sounded more dignified. ...

9. The Foundation Not Square

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pp. 135-150

The last days previous to the October 1982 Convocation were darkened for two reasons. After the construction of the new sanctuary building began, one of the younger elders came to me. “I need to talk to you,” Billy told me one evening. I could see he was troubled. Billy was also the Bible teacher for the younger members. “What is it?” I asked. ...

10. The Battle Cry

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pp. 151-183

All of the ingredients had been gathered and mixed. The formation of an extremist group was complete: First, a false philosophical or theological foundation based upon some negative emotion such as fear, lack of faith, hate or despair; then a charismatic leader that could manipulate and direct the people; lastly, physical and mental isolation ...

11. The Order and the Siege on CSA

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pp. 184-214

Ten months before our property crisis, in October of 1983, former members of Aryan Nations and the National Alliance (and later former members of CSA) were weary of waiting for judgment day and decided to act. They formed an organization based upon a book that was published in 1978 by neo-Nazi William Pierce, under the pseudonym Andrew MacDonald. ...

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pp. 199-213

12. The Surrender

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pp. 215-224

To Ollie and the others during the siege, there were only two options: miraculous deliverance by the hand of God or martyrdom. I chose a third: surrender—since I no longer believed in the former and had no desire for the latter. Yet a question haunted me: Would our lives in the hands of the federal government be worse than death—or better? ...

13. A Frog in Boiling Water

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pp. 227-234

There’s an old saying that if you drop a frog in boiling water he’ll immediately jump out. But if you drop him in cool water and then slowly heat it, the frog will stay in the water until he actually boils to death, because he has slowly gotten used to the water changes. Deception is that way. Dropped into the boiling water of Jonestown ...

14. Freedom

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pp. 235-258

15. A Date of Infamy

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pp. 261-281

On February 28, 1993, I heard the news on the radio that the ATF had clashed with David Koresh’s Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas, seventy miles from my home, as they attempted to serve an arrest warrant on Koresh. Four agents were killed and several others wounded. I later found out that among the wounded was Bill Buford....

16. Hope

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pp. 282-296

After Jim Ellison finished his sentence, on April 23, 1995, he moved to Robert Millar’s commune, Elohim City, in Oklahoma which has been called the “Holiday Inn of Hate.” On May 19, he married one of Millar’s granddaughters, 26-year-old Angie, who was already carrying his child. The fusion of Ellison’s blood and seed into Millar’s is similar to ...