{"id":1555,"date":"2026-03-16T04:59:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T18:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/?p=1555"},"modified":"2026-03-16T04:59:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T18:59:23","slug":"heavens-gate-suicide-and-other-death-cults-a-bills-bible-basics-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/heavens-gate-suicide-and-other-death-cults-a-bills-bible-basics-series\/","title":{"rendered":"HEAVEN&#8217;S GATE, SUICIDE AND OTHER DEATH CULTS &#8212; a Bill&#8217;s Bible Basics series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34429\" src=\"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/heavens-gate-suicide-death-cults-optimized.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"940\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/heavens-gate-suicide-death-cults-optimized.png 696w, https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/heavens-gate-suicide-death-cults-optimized-515x696.png 515w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>#HeavensGate MarshallApplewhite #JimJones #BranchDavidians #DavidKoresh<\/p>\n<p>This Bill\u2019s Bible Basics 3-part series can be read at:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Article: 'Heaven's Gate, Suicide and Other Death Cults'\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Articles\/heavngt1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Articles\/heavngt1.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#HeavensGate MarshallApplewhite #JimJones #BranchDavidians #DavidKoresh This Bill\u2019s Bible Basics 3-part series can be read at: https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Articles\/heavngt1.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4772,7],"tags":[19,20,21,7939,22,7937,7938,766,7934,765,25,26,7935,31,764,7936,33,34],"class_list":["post-1555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-posts","category-announce","tag-bible-study","tag-bill-kochman","tag-bills-bible-basics","tag-branch-davidians","tag-christian","tag-comet-hale-bopp","tag-david-koresh","tag-death-cult","tag-heavens-gate","tag-jim-jones","tag-king-james-version","tag-kjv","tag-marshall-applewhite","tag-scriptures","tag-suicide","tag-ufo-cult","tag-verse-lists","tag-verses"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1555"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1571,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions\/1571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}