She updates Anderson only insofar as she updates the Ervil LeBaron offspring chart with updated suicides, murders, and imprisonments. That year, Ervil ordered the murder of Joel in Mexico. Spencer's book, written 16 years after Anderson's, unfortunately stops at the same time as Prophet of Blood - with Ervil LeBaron's death. In 1972, the brothers split over leadership of the Church of the Firstborn of the Fulness of Times, and Ervil started the Church of the First Born of the Lamb of God in San Diego, California. To understand what happened with the cult after LeBaron's death, however, Anderson is important and is the only complete account. In a strictly historical sense, the church of the Lamb of God referred to in Nephi’s vision is The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. You probably shouldn’t join a real cult, but there’s no harm in leading one in a video game.Cult of the Lamb stars a possessed lamb with the power of a fallen god, tasked with creating a cult. Spencer fills in the exact same time period as Prophet of Blood, but with more personal detail and insight, and more of a sense of the role of polygamy in the Lambs of God and the Church of the Firstborn. Playing as a lamb who was initially sent to the slaughter, you are beheaded and then are reborn as a god. Ervil LeBaron, his father, founded the cult known as the Church of the First Born Lamb of God. For the best journalistic coverage of that time (roughly through the end of the 1970s), it makes sense to read Prophet. The 4 O'Clock Murders is largely derivative, and generally more superficial, with the material covered in Prophet of Blood - that is, the beginnings of the cult through Ervil LeBaron's death. Note: One should compare Prophet of Blood / Ben Bradlee & Dale Van Atta (1981) with The 4 O'Clock Murders / Scott Anderson (1993) and Cult Insanity / Irene Spencer (2009), all of which cover the Lambs of God from their beginnings through their various murders in the 1970s. Exceedingly well-researched recommended both for insight into the LeBaron cult itself, and as a case study of religious violence. Very detailed discussion of the Ervil LeBaron "Church of the Lambs of God" fundamentalist polygamist Mormon cult from the 1970s.
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