The apocalypse, with all its fire and brimstone, came for the Weaver family in late August 1992.
That month, federal agents surrounded the remote Idaho cabin of Randy Weaver, a Christian survivalist who had failed to appear in court on a misdemeanor charge of selling two sawed-off shotguns to a federal informant. After years of steady radicalization, Weaver and his family believed they were living through the biblical end times and that the agents who…