Posted on 06/13/2021 8:31:35 AM PDT by Cronos
SANTA FE — After Judgment Day failed to arrive as expected this weekend, members of a northeastern New Mexico cult are left to ponder one question: What now?
Members of the Lord Our Righteousness Church near Des Moines believed they would escape their earthly bondage and ascend to heaven Friday night. Their once-active Web site came down, and a church representative sent the Journal an e-mail saying he didn’t anticipate having anymore contact with the media.
But as a small crowd of people and a TV news crew looked on from the gate to the wind-swept compound, midnight came. And then midnight went.
“They were looking for deliverance from God,” said Sarah Montoya, an attorney for the church’s leader, Wayne Bent. Montoya spoke with Bent’s son Jeff on Saturday. “They’re disappointed, but they understand that life goes on.”
What that means for the time being is that Bent’s 45 adult followers at the Strong City compound have ended a two-week fast, in which they had also stopped drinking water last weekend. The fast was launched in protest of criminal charges that Bent had illegal sexual contact with underage girls.
Montoya said Jeff Bent was surprised by how weak the fast had left some members. They’re going back on food and water slowly, she said, and a nurse is on the compound.
The church members believed Friday night ended their “Year of Jubilee,” with a deliverance by God from their “earthly life.” […]
Bent, who considers himself the Messiah, was arrested Wednesday after a judge issued a bench warrant when Bent failed to appear at a court hearing. Montoya said she has not talked to Bent and does not know if he was still fasting.
Wayne Bent wanted underage girls and then a quick escape from the law. Didn't work, but it's understandable in context.
No water for a week? It’s amazing none of them died.
Reminds me of the Jehovas Witnesses when I was growing up during the late 60s and early 70s. Lots of false alarms. Was kind of funny, really.
These people should be in an insane-asylum.
They’ve lost touch with reality.
But at least it didn’t end up like some
other cults did, Jim Jones, and those nut
cases out in Cali 10 or so years ago.
Fire Insurance.
Would it be too much to tell them to get Bent?
Just Wow!
.
Even John the Baptist
Had Questions.
***Adventist offshoOt ***
Branch Davidians? There are several branches other than the Waco TX group wiped out years ago.
Hilarious!
.
Perhaps a good deal
on a Compound ???
It’s not hilarious at all. It puts Christianity in a bad light.
Sorry,
It’s just
The Cross I Bare.
Matthew 24:36 No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.
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