Mitchell arrived in Miami, Florida in 1978, where he gathered members of the city's Black Hebrew Israelite congregations and founded the Nation of Yahweh.
[4] Michael T Miller has described Yahweh Ben Yahweh's thought as consisting of "an imminent apocalyptic expectation; [...] a dualistic cosmology which placed [Blacks] in the center of a battle between good and evil, wherein whites were ontologically evil; a firm separatism based on Black pride and economic empowerment; antisemitism; often strict dietary guidelines going above and beyond what is in scripture (commonly advocating vegetarianism for its health benefits); the perception of Christianity as a slave religion designed to subjugate Blacks; a relocation of Heaven and Hell as thisworldly realities; and a rejection of the dualist metaphysics of matter and spirit."
Rozier later entered the Witness Protection Program, but returned to prison on a sentence of 25 years to life under California's three-strikes law, following a check-kiting conviction.
[9] To ensure this, he was restricted from any form of speech by Internet, telephone, computer, radio or television that could place him in contact with any Nation of Yahweh members.
[10] In 2006, as Ben Yahweh became increasingly ill with prostate cancer, Jayne Weintraub, his attorney, petitioned the U.S. District Court for his release from parole to permit him to "die with dignity".
"Yahweh will be remembered and mourned by the millions of people that he touched through prayer and teachings", his lawyers, Jayne Weintraub and Steven Potolsky, said in a joint statement.