‘Sex Cult’ Pastor Arrested in Texas
Controversial Leader Was Arrested for a Second Time on Bigamy Charges

The controversial leader of a Texas religious group, called a “sex cult” by some former members, was arrested for a second time today on bigamy charges.
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The controversial leader, 73-year-old Ysrayl Bill Hawkins, of a Texas religious group, called a “sex cult” by some former members, was arrested for a second time today on bigamy charges.
(ABC News)

Ysrayl Bill Hawkins, the 73-year-old founder and pastor of the House of Yahweh, was charged by the Callahan County district attorney with having multiple wives, according to a complaint filed in court.

Texas officials said he was arrested away from his compound outside Abilene, Texas to avoid any potential violence from his followers.

Hawkins’ followers scuffled with an ABC News producer who was attempting to film the arrest for a “20/20″ upcoming report on the controversial pastor and his group.

Hawkins has “dominant influence over the members” and has asked his members to die rather than let him go to prison, according to Callahan County District Attorney Shane Deel. “I have to take him at his word when he says that, and we have to take that seriously,” Deel told ABC News.
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According to the complaint filed against Hawkins, he has multiple wives and is listed as the father of children born to two different young women last year.

In an interview for “20/20,” Hawkins’ former wife Kay says he began to preach polygamy after he was caught having an affair with a church secretary. “He began to rewrite the Scriptures,” she said. “Any Scripture that did not go along with more than one wife was rewritten to imply that it was all right to have more than one wife.”

Hawkins told “20/20″ he has only “one wife” and that he is being persecuted because of his religious beliefs. “They hated me more than anybody that’s even been arrested in Callahan County,” he told ABC News.

“There’s nothing wrong, according to the Yahweh’s laws,” with having more than one wife, Hawkins said. But he insisted he follows the “laws of man” which prohibit multiple wives.

According to the arrest complaint, Hawkins teaches his followers to lie to law enforcement officials about the multiple marriages.

The complaint cites a House of Yahweh document that requires followers to take the oath, “I understand, agree and accept that if I break this Vow in any way, that I will be eligible for, and worthy of the Second Death in the Lake of Fire.”
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I hope no one above is dominated enough by this LUNATIC to consider taking their own lives. They do need cult deprogramming, they REALLY do.

Ready For war…you too are blinded by lies. You believe what “pastor” says to be truth. It is not, and I pray that you and the others will soon see the real Truth. “pastor” has been taking advantage of us! I asked a question of him, and he looked upon me with hatred, and told my head to “deal with her”. He did not, as he is also seeing the lies and questioning things. Even Elder Y is starting to question. As is PH and another “wife”. Please take heed as to the things being said here. The TRUTH shall set you free!

deut 18:20: But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.

deut 18:21: And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the Creator hath not spoken?

deut 18:22: When a prophet speaketh in the name of the Father, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that [is] the thing which the Father hath not spoken, [but] the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.

It is now Feb 2008-can you not believe the scriptures above?..Or is it the fact that yahchanan owens studied subliminal messages with his brother zephanyah before coming to the hoy and yahchanan is in charge of the tapes, mere coincidence?..i think not..Do you not see the abomination of the fake ark..spray painted and with a silohette of buffalo bill yisrayl hawkins on each side of it?..i asked many women…i guess the incense covers it where they thought the silohettes were two angels! BUFFALO GOLDEN CALF WORSHIP, yet the cannot SEE! Please OPEN YOUR EYES!..worship the heavenly father.!

Yisrayl Hawkins teaches child abuse from the pulpit on Sabbath! They actually have had x rated sermons teaching the children that oral sex in right, and sperm is clean to eat, and that it is a man’s right to have this, and some of these men force this upon their wives, and children! Yeddidiyah Hawkins is in jail right now because he forced these practices upon his own step-daughter at 8 years old until she was 14, and was arrested. Yeddidyah Hawkins also sexually abused his own blood daughter since she was 2 years old. This is the teaching of The House of Yahweh, and Yeddidiyah Hawkins was planning to marry his step-daughter, against her will!

There are more than just this one incident, but until the other arrests are made I cannot comment on them yet. I will say the elders have been sexually raping very young children for 15 years in this group, and the parents allow this, because Yisrayl Hawkins says it is right to do.

Mattithyah what kind of person are you? You sound like you are a pervert! Yes A CRUEL PERVERT at that!

You talk of peaceful solutions, well I want to come to Sabbath Services, and you are my counselor, so;

Can I come to Sabbath Day Services? Then we can talk about your actions face to face.

Yaaqov Hawkins
Aka Skip Stanley
http://www.skipstanley.com
yaaqovh@yahoo.com

Mattithyah Hawkins/Stubbs You are telling us to repent and be saved, but I have been wanting to come to Sabbath Day Services for two years now, and you, and Levi are my counselors, and refuse to allow me the right to come to services. You and your leader Yisrayl Hawkins ex-communicated me, “Skip Stanley aka Yaaqov Hawkins” from The House of Yahweh back in 1995 for reading The Dead Sea Scrolls! Now in 2004 I brought a simple piece of information to Yisrayl Hawkins about The Name of The Creator written in Palio_Hebrew on one of those Scrolls, and Yisrayl Hawkins published it under his name like he found it a few months latter in 11/ 2004. This artical is on my website on the HOY page! You have shown HATERADE towards me, and other members you decide to expell from your group with-out righteous reasons. I never did you wrong Mattithyah. Tou lived in my home for two years, and I never charged you rent, and I set you, and your father up into my business doing home repair in Dallas, and gave you all my business, and you made great money as I recall. Then you are told by Yisrayl Hawkins to ex-communicate me, and instantly with-out even knowing why you turned against me. Mattithyah you are following a cold, and cruel man.

I agree the charges of Bigamy are not illegal according to Scriptures, but in Texas it is a crime. Yisrayl Hawkins is guilty of much more than bigamy. I have investigated The House of Yahweh for 4 years now, and Yisrayl Hawkins and other elders in this group are Raping children, and Murdering my friends! Yes I know for a FACT that Yisrayl Hawkins, and other elders have murdered as many as 14 of my friends. County Attorney Shane Deel has told me that he would start with the crimes he could deffinatly get convictions on, and then start investigating the murders, but first we must get the elders, and Yisrayl Hawkins off the streets.

Warning To All House of Yahweh Members!!!
Yisrayl Hawkins is using common table salt to poison our friends in the group. Look up Salt Poisoning on line. Yisrayl Hawkins has instruced many people in the group to take Salt tablits to cure cancer. Yisrayl Hawkins says “Cancer cannot live in a cell full of salt”. This is true, but too much salt causes brain himeraging.

Mat. 24:6 And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you (members of Yahweh’s House) are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass. But the end is not yet.

For all these things will be common place during the first half of sorrows.

Mat. 24:14 when all nations listen to the House the end of sorrows will begin to occur

Christians are so happy go lucky. Thinking they’ll all be raptured and not have to suffer the ‘worst tribulation ever’ but they’re wrong.

Yisrayl Hawkins is warning the world of the consequenses of breaking Yahweh’s Law (I Jon. 3:4, and Rom 3:20). All the world’s problems…let me repeat that. ALL THE PROBLEMS OF THE WORLD, poverty, disease, sickness, orphans, divorce, hatred, war, violence, theft, famine, water shortages, global warming, water pollution, ARE CAUSE BY BREAKING YAHWEH’S 613 LAWS