He is attracting followers to his ‘God’s Way of Love’ community, raising money, forming a compound, breaking up families, and predicting Armageddon, including a new continent emerging beside Hawaii and a tsunami destroying Australia — and, I presume, New Zealand. He preaches the “divine love path” and his influence is growing. He is at the same time a “buffoon,” and extremely dangerous. Here are some reasons why we know he is not Messiah.
1. His bodily form is wrong: If Miller was Jesus, he would be a resurrected Jew, not a “normal Aussie bloke”. He would speak Aramaic and Hebrew and perhaps Greek or even Latin (unlikely though). Jesus did not rise spiritually to return as a different person, but he rose bodily as the same person, although transformed. Miller does not have scars and says he has a different body. Jesus had the same body and would have the scars of his death as he did when he revealed himself to Thomas. Jesus will not reincarnate, he will return. Neither will his disciples reincarnate and return — this is nothing like Christianity.
2. His supposed return is wrong: Christ’s return in the Scriptures will not be birth in Australia, but will be a dynamic visible event in “the same way” as his departure i.e. a return to earth (Acts 1:11).
3. His understanding of Christ’s ministry is wrong: Miller picks and chooses which miracles Jesus did. Jesus never actively sought to break up marriages and families as Miller does. Miller is a pop-psychologist, whereas the real Jesus healed with word and touch. Jesus did not hide away in the outback building of a commune warning of Armageddon — that’s what the Essenes did. He went ‘out into the world’ to preach, heal, feed, and gather people to do the same. Jesus did not tell people to hide away and prepare for Armageddon but told them to go into the world and preach and demonstrate the Kingdom.
4. His sexuality is wrong: Jesus was celibate, whereas Miller gathers women. The report suggests he previously left the JW movement due to a controversy over a hooker. He has a consort, a ‘Mary Magdalene’, and she is not the first. This is not the real Jesus, who was sinless and sexually pure.
5. His attitude to money is wrong: Miller is raising money from all over the world to build his ‘empire’. The real Jesus did not act in this way but had no ‘place to lay his head’ and died naked and poor. He lived through the generosity of women who travelled with him. He did not acquire money for anything and rebuked those who sought wealth at the expense of others.
6. He is a fulfilment of prophecy of the real Jesus: Jesus warned such false Christs would come in Mark 13:21-23. He told his followers to “be on your guard” against such people — this is one of those times!
7. His attitude to Jesus is completely wrong: The main reason to reject Miller is that he thinks he is Jesus. A Christian believes in Jesus, and does not claim to be Jesus. A Christian has the attitude of John, “He must increase, I must decrease”. A Christian does not seek personal glory, but Christ’s glory. Miller is not Jesus and he is not a Christian. He is one of those false prophets Christ and the Scriptures warn of.
As such, we must expose the falseness of this man’s claims. More importantly, we must pray for those trapped in Satan’s snare through this man. Pray this movement is broken up quickly and with minimum casualties. Pray that the people involved are set free and find the real Jesus. Go deeper!
By Mark Keown , lecturer in
New Testament at Laidlaw College,
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