Cult leader and self-proclaimed messiah Wayne Bent claims his “persecution” is bringing about the end of the world.

Bent, who also goes by the name Michael Travesser, is awaiting trial in Union County after he was accused of lying naked with underage nude girls.

Cult leader Wayne Bent, who considers himself to be the ‘Messiah,’ last May was indicated on charges of sexually abusing several of his followers.

In April, four teenagers were removed from his compound. According to Bent himself, some of them had laid down naked with him as a witness to his alleged divinity. [video]

A video posted on the Web site of The Lord Our Righteousness Church showed Bent eating lunch with Willow and her parents. The video showed the girl being embraced by Bent and other church members as she arrived at Strong City, as sect members call their community.

The leader of an apocalyptic sect accused of sex crimes against underage female followers said Friday he will not eat until state child welfare workers return a teenager who was removed from the sect’s compound.

Wayne Bent, who who thinks he is the Son of God, was indicted Tuesday in a new court on suspicion of sex crimes against two young female followers. [video]

“Jesus was betrayed by a former disciple. He was arraigned on false charges, he was buried. He was crucified and buried. And the district attorney has his own purpose to bury my dad. He wants to make a name for himself by burying a cult leader so he can be elected,” Jeff Bent said.

The clerk of the magistrate court in Clayton said a $55,000 bond was posted for Wayne Bent by his son.

Bent, 66, is the leader of The Lord Our Righteousness Church, whose members moved in 2000 to a remote former ranch near the Colorado line that they call Strong City. He has acknowledged having sex with followers and lying naked with virgins, but denies any children or adults were molested. He has said the virgins asked for sex and he refused.

Bent—whose adopted name Travesser is the name of a creek in the area—is a former Seventh-day Adventist minister who separated from that church in 1987 and formed The Lord Our Righteousness movement. He announced in 2000 that he is the Messiah.

There is much to make the jaw drop in “Inside a Cult,” a timely documentary about the Strong City sect in New Mexico being shown on Wednesday on the National Geographic Channel. But by its end you may feel that the most stunning thing is that this film exists at all. Why would these people have let a documentarian get so close to their exceedingly eccentric world?

Take a look inside the religious cult led by Wayne Bent (aka Michael Travesser), the cult leader arrested yesterday on sex charges.

A self-described Messiah was arrested on sex charges involving minors two weeks after state officials took three teenagers from his New Mexico compound amid allegations of sexual abuse, authorities in New Mexico confirmed to ABC News today.

Cult leader Michael Travesser, real name Wayne Bent, has been arrested. Bent has acknowledged having sex with followers — including his daughter-in-law — and lying naked with virgins. He said the virgins asked for sex, but he refused.

Michael Travesser says being a cult leader requires great sacrifice. In his case, that includes bedding his son’s wife, getting naked with teenage girls and pocketing his followers’ worldly possessions.

“Esther,” a cult member, described her interaction with Travesser. “He took me to bed and laid me down and somehow it was like all of heaven was open to me, somehow I started to see God, after all he is the son of God,” she told National Geographic.

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