Branch Davidians

By Paige.darling

  • Victor Houteff

    Victor Houteff was born on March 2nd, 1995 in Raikovo Bulgaria.

  • Benjamin L. Roden

    Benjamin Roden was born January 5th, 1902 in Bearden Oklahoma

  • Bulgaria to United States

    Victor Houteff immigrated from Bulgaria to the United States in 1907

  • Seventh- Day Adventist

    Victor Houteff becomes a Seventh-Day Adventist in 1919

  • Studies

    Victor Houteff began intensively studying Bible prophecy

  • Teachings

    Victor Houteff began teaching his ideas at a Seventh-Day Adventist church in Los Angeles and later began to publish these ideas in The Shepards Rod.

  • Removal

    Victor Houteff is removed from the Seventh-Day Adventist church due to his teachings

  • Move of Victor and Followers

    In many of 1935, Victor Houteff and a group of his followers move 189 acres of land just outside of Waco Texas and they name the land Mount Carmel