A Simple Chronology from The Denver Post From The Denver Post of January 4, 1999. See articles from The Salt Lake Tribune and The San Francisco Examiner on the Concerned Christian - Charles Manson alleged connection. Monte Kim Miller forms an activist group called Concerned Christians to fight a perceived threat to Christianity posed by the new-age movement. Some cult experts speculate Miller would later use the techniques he had learned as a workshop speaker on cults to gain his followers' allegiance and money. June 1996 - Miller declares that he speaks for God.
Some followers leave the group after the announcement, but most stay.
1997 - Miller and his wife, Marcie, file for bankruptcy. The filing shows several large transactions between Miller and Concerned Christians members. As many as 72 followers are eventually reported missing. The date of the predicted apocalypse in Denver passes without incident. The members' destination is surmised from Miller's prediction that he will die on the streets of Jerusalem in 1999.