owned approximately 75,000 acres of land
thats a lot of real estate
75k acres = 117.2 square miles
to put that into perspective, check out this list of US states by landmass. 45/50 states are SMALLER than 117k miles squared.
Only Alaska, Texas, California, Montana and New Mexico are bigger than the Wilkes Bros cults' "private" holdings paid for exclusively by foreign countries.
In 2011 they sold their 70% interest in Frac Tech for $3.5 billion.
...to a bunch of Asian and Muslim government-backed billionaires.
link to a de-paywalled Dallas News article
[Wall Street Journal link] (https://archive.ph/F154P)
shell company,
not a smoking gun, but also not a good sign. if your intentions are "pure" whilst buying up public lands, why make a crazy huge effort to keep the operation underwraps?
Also, how is it even legal to sell such lands without permission from the electorate?
early investors in political commentator Ben Shapiro's media company The Daily Wire
likely an understatement. he was the only funder from what i can tell.
The church is not Christian, believing that Yahweh is the only god and that Jesus (called Yahushua) is a separate entity. In early 1952 Charles restricted communion to once a year rather than weekly and moved worship from Sunday to Saturday.
1. Yahweh is the only god
2. Jesus (called Yahushua) is a separate entity
Mormon/JW/Gnosticism 101
The Wilks bro church removed the incriminating page from their website. However, praise the Lord, [it can be found here] https://web.archive.org/web/20210415200245/https://www.halleluyah.org/our-history-1).
Key points
It was about 1947 that a few members of the Ramsey Church of Christ, a few miles north of De Leon, Texas, differed from their brethren on a point of doctrine concerning the millennium.
Unable to find a congregation that matched their convictions, he, Myrtle and their five children continued to meet at home with Charlie’s widow, Annie. For the next decade they met largely alone, joined intermittently by neighbors and friends. Their motivation was simple: to obey THE Heavenly Father. As their understanding of the new and old scriptures changed, they modified their lives and worship accordingly.
In 1947, Voy and Myrtle Wilks along with Myrtle's father Charlie Cullen Fenter Fenter were disfellowshipped from the Churches of Christ and founded a church which was at first called simply “A Church of Christ.”
Churches of Christ is already pretty weird before you get into the Wilks Chinese Communist Party oil baron funded spinoff (Assembly of Yahweh - 7th day).
According to that Wikipedia page "[the] Churches of Christ arose in the United States from the Restoration Movement of 19th-century"
In few words, they reject Christianity as understood by most people. The conventional definition of our faith appears to exclude non-trinitarian non-incarnational anti-nicene groups like the more famous restorationist groups: Mormons and Jehova's Witnesses.
It teaches that "the true religion is Jewish (not a Gentile religion)" and its members celebrate the Old Testament holidays rather than those related to the New Testament.
I'm not a strict believer in supercessionism whereby all self-identified Jews = bad and gentiles are always good. However, the full-on denial of a new covenant is consistent with the Mormon, JW, gnostic, freemason anti-Paul stance.
It also seems to say Judas was good because the mistrial and murder of Jesus was preordained by God anyway...so Jesus was guilty of blasphemy and the senhedrin was (and is) a legitimate legal body.