Followers await self-styled Antichrist
It is the Puerto Rican-born former evangelical priest's latest attempts to expand his following in Central America. Most of his supporters are in Miami and Colombia, but Miranda holds a congress every year in different locations in the Americas. He has a 24-hour Spanish-language television network and a radio program broadcast on 287 stations.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18234605/
The article makes for disturbing reding, IMO.
Wikipedia piece:
José Luis de Jesús Miranda (b. 1946- is the leader of International Ministry Growing in Grace, Inc. a new religious movement criticized as a cult by cult expert Rick Ross, Daniel Alvarez, professor of religion at Florida International University, and others. Miranda says he is "Jesus in the flesh" while simultaneously referring to himself as the Antichrist.
Miranda believes his life and teachings supersede those of Jesus of Nazaretha point which he emphasizes by referring to himself as the Antichrist and by exhibiting a "666" tattoo on his forearm.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jose_Luis_de_Jesus_Miranda
He claims 2m followers.
It is the Puerto Rican-born former evangelical priest's latest attempts to expand his following in Central America. Most of his supporters are in Miami and Colombia, but Miranda holds a congress every year in different locations in the Americas. He has a 24-hour Spanish-language television network and a radio program broadcast on 287 stations.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18234605/
The article makes for disturbing reding, IMO.
Wikipedia piece:
José Luis de Jesús Miranda (b. 1946- is the leader of International Ministry Growing in Grace, Inc. a new religious movement criticized as a cult by cult expert Rick Ross, Daniel Alvarez, professor of religion at Florida International University, and others. Miranda says he is "Jesus in the flesh" while simultaneously referring to himself as the Antichrist.
Miranda believes his life and teachings supersede those of Jesus of Nazaretha point which he emphasizes by referring to himself as the Antichrist and by exhibiting a "666" tattoo on his forearm.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jose_Luis_de_Jesus_Miranda
He claims 2m followers.
