Doomsday-cult leader's words reappear on Web

Denver Post/May 11, 2001
By Kirk Mitchell

The words of Colorado-based doomsday-cult leader Monte Kim Miller have resurfaced on an Internet site that offers copies of hundreds of 90-minute sermons spanning topics from "The Thigh Master" to "A Man Named Eve." "It's the first time we've had any kind of reply from him since he left Denver in 1998," said Denver police officer and local cult watcher Mark Roggeman. "Maybe his pride was getting to him that the world wasn't hearing from him anymore."

Miller, 46, the leader of Concerned Christians, left Denver in September 1998 with a following of about 70 members, who had quit jobs and abandoned financial obligations.

They departed following Miller's prophesy that Denver would be destroyed by an earthquake, Roggeman said. Since then, several members have been deported from Israel and Greece.

On the Web site, Miller denies making the earthquake prophesy.

"For those of you who do want to serve the Lord, don't be deceived by the amateurish and pathetic fabrication of a continually repeated story that I predicted an earthquake that would strike Denver," the site says.

The Concerned Christian site blames the spread of the story on enemies, including the media, which want to prove he is not a true prophet.

"I am the prophet of the Lord, the direct spokesman for the Lord," the site says.

Roggeman said Miller predicted an earthquake and also spoke of other apocalyptic events, including his violent death and resurrection in Jerusalem in December 1999.

The families of cult members had hoped their loved ones would leave Miller after his prophesies failed, Roggeman said.

"It's starting to get to them, that they may never see them again," Roggeman said.