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Abraham Ophion was the alias used by Eugene Hoff, the cult-leader of the Church of Wisdom and Sight.

Abraham is known to the police as a con-artist. He was arrested four times in the '80s for check forgery and counterfeiting, identity theft and various fraud.

Abraham started working for a Pentecostal church, called the Christian Tabernacle of Grace. He initially signed up for a Bible study, but after a couple of months he asked the Reverend Tucker for a more active role. Tucker made him the director of faith ministries. His discussion groups had nearly a hundred members. He strayed from the beliefs of the church, when he preached that the serpent was Christ. Abraham had a tattoo of this serpent on his right arm. After Tucker fired him, ten families left the church.

One of the families that followed him to the Church of Wisdom and Sight were the Buchmans. But they withdrew from the church, after Carl Buchman found Abraham in his daughter's room, with him being down to his shorts. Carl and Simone told the police that the cult made a drastic change, when Abraham became paranoid. He kept telling his followers that they were going to be punished for their beliefs and that their government had plans to kill them all. He said that they had to be ready to defend themselves. This lead to collecting weapons, trips to the firing range, and storing food. He started separating the married couples, because he said that they couldn't be soldiers of God if they were slaves to the flesh. More

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