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:''Some years back, the head of the FBI held a Spoken Word book in his hand and said "This is our number one enemy".  The reason that the government went after David Koresh in Waco, Texas was because he believed in William Branham.  In fact, the FBI found many of message books in the Waco compound.
:''Some years back, the head of the FBI held a Spoken Word book in his hand and said "This is our number one enemy".  The reason that the government went after David Koresh in Waco, Texas was because he believed in William Branham.  In fact, the FBI found many of message books in the Waco compound.
=What happens when scissors get dull=
It was reported during the '90's that some message believers were experiencing persecution from the Catholic church in Madagascar.  Some catholic nuns tried to cut the hair of some girls in the message but the scissors didn't work.  When they tried to cut the hair of a non-message believer they worked fine.
It took on a more sinister tone in another telling:
:During a conflict between rebel and government groups in Africa (no country specified), a group of message women were taken to a prison camp where the guards were shaving everyone's head for sanitary reasons (fleas, lice, etc).  When they tried to cut the hair of the message believers, the scissors didn't work.


=The real scoop on Fort Knox=
=The real scoop on Fort Knox=
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=Watch out for strangers coming into your church to take pictures=
=Watch out for strangers coming into your church to take pictures=


:A stranger walked into a message church and started to take pictures of everybody who is sitting there.  It turned out that the photographer was a Jesuit...
A stranger walked into a message church and started to take pictures of everybody who is sitting there.  It turned out that the photographer was a Jesuit...