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Warren Jeffs
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Utah Sect Warns Of Apocalyptic Wednesday
By James Donahue
If a group of fundamentalist Latter-day Saints in southern Utah are correct, a line of earthquakes may be literally splitting the United States apart from Texas north to Salt Lake City on Wednesday, April 6.
The quake, they warn, will split open the walls of a newly constructed federal courthouse in downtown Salt Lake City and a federal prison in Texas, so their leaders, Lyle and Warren Jeffs, will walk free.
The sect members say the brothers, both facing charges of polygamy and sentences of life in prison, will be freed this week by “divine intervention.”
Warren Jeffs, the group’s “prophet” and supreme leader, is currently serving a sentence of life plus 20 years on charges of having sex with underage girls he took as polygamous wives. His case has gained national attention since he fled authorities for several months, remained on the FBI's "most wanted list," lived in several states and faced multiple charges in Utah, Arizona and Nevada. He ended up in the Louis C. Powledge Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Palestine, Texas, after going on a lengthy hunger strike in Nevada that nearly killed him.
The brother, Lyle Jeffs, who has been the acting cult leader since Warren was arrested, is slated to appear before a judge in Salt Lake City on Wednesday on charges of swindling food stamps and money laundering. Lyle and other members of his cult stand accused of swindling the government out of millions of dollars in federal food stamps. The trial is scheduled for sometime in May.
The extreme cult has not been a stranger of doomsday predictions. In December, 2012, Warren Jeffs predicted that the world would end before the year 2013. He called for his followers to prepare for the end. Of course New Year’s Day, 2014 came and passed and nothing happened.
Now the group is predicting a mini- apocalyptic event on Wednesday that will miraculously free both brothers at the same time. Court and prison guards are not holding their breath.
The cult members are apparently staking their future on a miracle. With both brothers getting convicted of felonies and sentenced to long prison terms, the verdict in the Salt Lake City court could also be a verdict against the future of the religious sect. Consequently they are putting all of their bets on god to pull off a miraculous event that will prove their faith to the world.
It may be of interest to note that Warren Jeffs has just released a new book titled “Jesus Christ Message to All Nations.” He claims that while in the Louis C. Powledge Unit he received “revelations” directly from Jesus. Strangely they include directives to set Jeffs free.
By what may be divine coincidence, Wednesday, April 6, is the date the Mormon church believes to be the real birthday of Jesus Christ.
By James Donahue
If a group of fundamentalist Latter-day Saints in southern Utah are correct, a line of earthquakes may be literally splitting the United States apart from Texas north to Salt Lake City on Wednesday, April 6.
The quake, they warn, will split open the walls of a newly constructed federal courthouse in downtown Salt Lake City and a federal prison in Texas, so their leaders, Lyle and Warren Jeffs, will walk free.
The sect members say the brothers, both facing charges of polygamy and sentences of life in prison, will be freed this week by “divine intervention.”
Warren Jeffs, the group’s “prophet” and supreme leader, is currently serving a sentence of life plus 20 years on charges of having sex with underage girls he took as polygamous wives. His case has gained national attention since he fled authorities for several months, remained on the FBI's "most wanted list," lived in several states and faced multiple charges in Utah, Arizona and Nevada. He ended up in the Louis C. Powledge Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Palestine, Texas, after going on a lengthy hunger strike in Nevada that nearly killed him.
The brother, Lyle Jeffs, who has been the acting cult leader since Warren was arrested, is slated to appear before a judge in Salt Lake City on Wednesday on charges of swindling food stamps and money laundering. Lyle and other members of his cult stand accused of swindling the government out of millions of dollars in federal food stamps. The trial is scheduled for sometime in May.
The extreme cult has not been a stranger of doomsday predictions. In December, 2012, Warren Jeffs predicted that the world would end before the year 2013. He called for his followers to prepare for the end. Of course New Year’s Day, 2014 came and passed and nothing happened.
Now the group is predicting a mini- apocalyptic event on Wednesday that will miraculously free both brothers at the same time. Court and prison guards are not holding their breath.
The cult members are apparently staking their future on a miracle. With both brothers getting convicted of felonies and sentenced to long prison terms, the verdict in the Salt Lake City court could also be a verdict against the future of the religious sect. Consequently they are putting all of their bets on god to pull off a miraculous event that will prove their faith to the world.
It may be of interest to note that Warren Jeffs has just released a new book titled “Jesus Christ Message to All Nations.” He claims that while in the Louis C. Powledge Unit he received “revelations” directly from Jesus. Strangely they include directives to set Jeffs free.
By what may be divine coincidence, Wednesday, April 6, is the date the Mormon church believes to be the real birthday of Jesus Christ.