Editing Lord Our Righteousness Church (section)

==Media coverage==
[[File:Alex Hannaford 2024 Texas Book Festival.jpg|thumb|left|150px|Journalist Alex Hannaford]]
British journalist Alex Hannaford visited Strong City in 2004, investigating claims that the group was contemplating suicide.<ref>Alex Hannaford. [https://pressfolios-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/story/story_pdf/5180/user_upload_5180.pdf "The Cult of the Man They Call Messiah"].</ref><ref>[https://www.apologeticsindex.org/s48a.html Michael's diary], 2002, captured by Apologetics Index</ref> His feature,<ref>[http://nofiction.blogspot.com/2008/06/waynes-world_18.html Bizarre Magazine], feature on Strong City</ref> including interviews with Wayne and Jeff Bent and various sect members, was published in the UK the same year. Hannaford later wrote a follow-up piece for the ''Sunday Times'' magazine in the UK.<ref>{{Cite news| last = Hannaford | first = Alex | title = Wayne Bent: The cult of the man they call messiah | newspaper = The Sunday Times | location = New Mexico | publisher = News International Group, UK | date = 14 June 2009 | url = http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article6487876.ece | access-date = 2 March 2010}}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>

Three years later, ''The End of the World Cult'', a documentary, aired on [[Channel 4]] in the UK. It covers Bent's announcement that the Day of Judgment began on October 31, 2007. Bent chose that date after calculating a Biblical prophecy number (490) and adding it to the year 1517, when the [[Protestant Reformation]] began, yielding 2007 as a result. The specific date, October 31, comes from the day that [[Martin Luther]] posted his [[95 Theses]].{{citation needed|date=September 2016}}

A shorter version including interviews with cult experts and entitled ''Inside a Cult'' was broadcast on [[ABC (Australian TV channel)|ABC]] in Australia, and the [[National Geographic Channel]] in the United States.<ref>{{Citation|title=WAYNE BENT| date=8 October 2016 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-KGxGRS7Yc|language=en|access-date=2021-11-20}}</ref> Jeff Bent stated that the National Geographic documentary was highly inaccurate and inflammatory in nature.<ref>{{Cite web| title = This Witness Appeals for Justice  | publisher = The Lord Our Righteousness Church  | url = http://strongcity.org/this-witness-appeals-for-justice/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110207192037/http://strongcity.org/this-witness-appeals-for-justice/|url-status=dead|archive-date=7 February 2011 | access-date = 5 December 2022}}</ref>