church members would come to worship him as david koresh. koresh being the hebrew name for cyrus, the legendary persian king and conquerer of babylon. >> he began to present the ideas that he had, and i would say 99% of the leadership of the church that were living at mount carmel accepted him as having a message from god. >> clive doyle is a branch davidian survivor, and to this day a believer in david koresh. >> david was constantly talking to god. god told me to do this. god told me to do that. we accepted that. >> god speaks to me. i have a message to present. >> to outsiders koresh soon transformed the davidian church into a cult. >> the most important element of the cult is the leader. and they always describe the same way as being charismatic. >> i mean, there are some things that god has concealed in his written word that are to be brought to do right before the end of time. >> koresh preached end of day philosophies to his followers, a belief that was centered around a battle between evil armies led by a messianic leader who was the

with an unknown number of casualties inside the compound, including david koresh. >> at this hour fbi agents are negotiating with the cult leader. he reportedly believes he is jesus christ. >> mr. koresh, how are you doing? >> fair to middling. >> i understand you've been wounded. will you describe your position? >> weakening. >> are you shot, sir? >> yes, i am. >> well, communications opened up pretty quickly. he loved to talk. he loved to hear himself talk. >> how is god going to talk to me in the latter days? so there will be no excuse. >> so there was no lack of communication. there was a lack of productive communication. >> there's a lot of children here. i've had a lot of babies the last few years. >> is it true, david that, one of the children, a 2-year-old, is dead. >> yeah, that's true. >> he was so calm to a point where you began immediately questioning what kind of a personality are we dealing with? >> here we are at the day of the lord. god will be in the position for blood. >> koresh and the davidians were well supplied for a long siege. in addition to their arsenal, they