Dave has been telling all the various COG's that his little group is the most important, most magnificent, most technologically advanced, prints better magazines, and has more money than any other COG out there. God oblivious is dwelling in Wadsworth, Ohio. Because god is only working through Dave in Wadsworth, it is only natural that healing can only occur under Dave.
God’s “benefit package” includes healing of diseases that befall brethren, especially in the end time. “Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: who forgives all your iniquities; who heals all your diseases; who redeems your life from destruction; Who crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies” (Psa. 103:2-4). How many of God’s people have forgotten His promises? Forgotten His benefits? When you consider all of God’s benefits, He truly is the ultimate “Health Maintenance Provider” all should look to in times of physical distress due to poor health and the need for healing.
While scores of millions need healing, how many are ever healed? How many look to God for healing? How many of His people today seek Him for healing? Those in the Restored Church of God DO look to God. Many dramatic healings take place in the Body of Christ, which is teaching the full truth of the Bible. The remainder of this posting will explain why God is healing individuals in His Church and almost no one in any of the splinters. (emphaisis mine)
McElroy writes about several "healing" that have supposedly occurred in his cult.
These dramatic miracles occur for a reason. Mr. Pack writes in the “Fruits” letter, “Healings are only one of many kinds of miracles we see in God’s Church on a regular basis, miracles that God’s enemies cannot gainsay.” But again why are there healings and other miracles in The Restored Church of God?
Then he states something that all RCG members had better take note of. If Dave says it, you had better believe it and NOT qwquestion it. Otherwise you will NEVER be healed!
God’s Church teaches the full truth of the Bible. It is the “pillar and ground” of the truth (I Tim. 3:15). God’s people are required to OBEY ALL TRUTH without compromise. Obedience includes commandments, doctrines, sayings of Christ and traditions set in the Church by apostles. These purify us: “Seeing you have purified your souls in obeying the truth…” (I Pet. 1:22).
So what happens when you get sick?: You are sick because you are a grievous sinner! You have sinned some great sin that causes you to be sick. Healthy people apparently are sin free. How depressing is that!
Also, fewer and fewer ministers taught the doctrine of healing—taught that God is our healer! Most of these men did not tell people that sickness was caused by physical sin—violating God’s principles of health. Many of these negligent ministers now lead the splinters and it should come as no surprise that they are SILENT on God being our Healer and “health maintenance provider.”
The deviate teachings continue with a subtle wranning that if you disobey God you will get sick! It's your fault!
So then faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God.” God’s Church teaches the gospel and the doctrine of healing—and God’s promises in this regard. It also teaches how to acquire faith. Brethren must hear the FULL truth to develop faith sufficient to trust God for healing. Individuals who are doing their part to obey the gospel and trust God in faith can EXPECT God to intervene for them! Healings take place where God’s ministry is teaching His Word regarding faith and healing, and the brethren take heed and implement that teaching.
If you dare to question or ignore the holey writ from Dave and crew then you are damning yourself to a life of sickness and disease.
Did you know that the government of the Church is the healer. That's a new concept for me. God only heals through the proper chain of command. God is apparently to stupid and weak to just pop down and heal a person out of the blue that has never kept a legalistic law in his life. Instead, Dave's god has to heal through a governmental power structure.
All of you COGgers in the various splinter group had better beware! You cannot and never will be healed because you are following heretical idiots who do not preach government.
Splinter groups do not have God’s government in their organizations—none of them! Properly ordained elders and ministers who have the authority of Jesus Christ are NECESSARY to administer the healing doctrine:
Understanding the LEGITIMATE government of God is critical to understanding why healings take place within the Body of Christ.
“Government is everything,” as Mr. Herbert Armstrong stated. Healing is, in essence, a government function within the Church..
Dave also is the sole heir of the apostolic chruch tradition. God only is working through Dave because Dave was ordained under HWA.
During the 20th century, a unique individual trained by Christ came to lead the Philadelphian era of God’s Church—Herbert W. Armstrong. Mr. Armstrong was an apostle, as well as the end-time Elijah that came to restore all things to the Church (Matt. 17:11). The fruit of his 52-year ministry involved MANY healings and mighty deeds, including the largest Work of God ever seen on Earth.
In the 21st century, Mr. David Pack leads God’s Work. The fruit of that Work includes many dramatic healings and miracles—and the gospel being taken powerfully to all nations. Apostolic authority is in place in God’s true Church—“mighty deeds” and signs such as miraculous healings will continue to occur in The Restored Church of God.
But never fear, God may just slip up and heal you outside the RCG, but only on the condition that you immediately join the one and only true chruch, the Restored Church of God.
Here is another great reason for healings occurring in The Restored Church of God and nowhere else: The Bible lists healing as a gift given within the Body of Christ. Notice this: “Now you are the body of Christ, and members in particular. And God has set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that…gifts of healings…” (I Cor. 12:27-31). While God may on rare occasion choose to heal someone outside the Body of Christ, for the purpose of getting their attention and bringing them back to the Body, healings as a whole occur ONLY WHERE JESUS CHRIST IS HEAD!
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Acts 19:11 And YHWH wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul:
12 So that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them.
Maybe it's just me, but I noticed that Shirley Pack, who spent the last years of her life sacrificially editing and compiling Dave's writings even when sick, died of cancer.
In the COGs, God heals except for when he doesn't and then that is because we don't understand his BIGGER plan for us.
Ever notice how the Deity NEVER loses? If He answers direct requests, it's a miracle. If He doesn't answer, it's because He knows what is REALLY best for us personally.
Even the author of James was savy enough to add "ye have not because you ask amiss..."
That gets the Deity off the hook everytime!
M.T.Promises
Several have died in RCG without being healed. I am a former member of that cult and know this for a fact. This is just another way that Pack and his cronies try to control the people.
Yes, but can they cast out demons to "heal" the insane?
No wait.
The question sort of answers itself, doesn't it?
The hospital where I was healed of a cataract was not run by RCG but by RCC (Roman Catholic Church). However, I don't conclude that Christ is head of that church. I conclude that I had a well-trained ophthalmologist.
In my experience, science beats woo every time as a supplement for the body's biological ability to resist infection and repair injuries.
Forgot one!
Herbert Armstrong's favorite, lest you forget:
You were healed the instant the oil hit your head and the prayer for you was said -- just because there isn't physical evidence you were healed, you have FAITH!
FAITH is the evidence of things not seen, so if you have faith, you are healed, even though you can't see it yet -- you can't see it yet because you are blind from sickness, barfing up blood, wracked with confulsions, in terrible blinding excruciating pain, on the edge of death, with every nerve ending on fire, breathing your last.
So if you have the FAITH, you are healed, even if you die, because you have the evidence of healing right there with your psychotic delusions of grandeur on your death bed.
Every living thing dies, even those Coast Redwood Sequoia sempervirens in California (the African Boabab Adansonia digitata is older at over 6,000 years and Old Tjikko, a 9,550 year old Norway Spruce, is the oldest known living individual clonal tree, located in Sweden... just how did they survive Noah's Flood?). It is appointed for all men to die (not as good a news as you might think for the women).
Herbert Armstrong was anointed and he died. Heck, Loma Armstrong was anointed and she died, and she could have been saved with a simple medical procedure. And Richard Armstrong was anointed and died when he should have had so many good years ahead of his prodigal brother.
And it comes a day... when David Pack will be on his death bed, in spite of his having inherited a health food store and all. He will have been anointed and he will die.
Miracles of every sort happen every day all over the world for all kinds of people. At least many of us think of them as miracles. Anyway, we don't have a good explanation for the good things that happen.
Yet there is one miracle that never seems to come up: Fulfilled prophecy.
Now if Dave Pack can come up with some of that, he might have a hint of a shred of more credibility.
What a con game.
In the broader picture, this is just another declaration of war of one Armstrongist church of God against all the rest.
RCoG certainly has upped the ante in Church Wars.
"While God may on rare occasion choose to heal someone outside the Body of Christ, for the purpose of getting their attention and bringing them back to the Body, healings as a whole occur ONLY WHERE JESUS CHRIST IS HEAD!"
So the only people who are being healed are those who are either current members of the body of Christ (as meaning HWA derived) or those who were once in that same body.
So that means there are no miracles outside their little group. Bet there are thousands around the world never having heard of HWA or would laugh about his doctrines if they did, who would beg to differ.
Personally know a cardiologist who has seen a number of unexplainable events in his career. Which when it comes down to it is what a miracle is.
"Yet again, he has opened his mouth and made a royal fool of himself."
There's more truth in that sentence than in all of RCG's orders to God about who he can heal and why.
Those stories of healings in the RCG are great IF they are true. However, I can't help discounting any "miracle" like the one that supposedly happened in Nigeria. Even mentioning Nigeria--the nation of all lies and frauds and scams and con-jobs and murders--is a RED FLAG.
I also can't help wondering why DCP's first wife was not healed, especially around the time of DCP's "Circle of Protection" sermon, and died before her time. I also noticed that DCP's RCG did not help other people who were searching for the truth but were not yet members of his group. Most likely, people will just find out that they can hand over all their money to DCP, but that they cannot be healed.
It does not surprise me at all if there are almost no healings in the WCG and its various splinter groups. I am well aware of these organizations and how they operate, from top to bottom. I have seen first hand how the "ministers" and members of these groups behave. Satan, who is behind the WCG, PCG, UCG, etc. does not have power to heal, and would not heal even if he could. Most people in these groups do not even really desire to be truly healed, but want to be sick, sick, sick in the head--and want to get worse all the time.
I also can't help wondering why DCP's first wife was not healed, especially around the time of DCP's "Circle of Protection" sermon, and died before her time.
Loma Armstrong died before her time.
Robin Hulme died before her time.
Barbara Flurry died before her time.
Margie Meredith died before her time.
Sheryl Meredith appears likely to die before her time.
The average American woman outlives her husband by about 7 years. Life expectancy of the wife of an ACOG cult leader is substantially shorter. I wonder why?
Says that healings happen especially in God's True Church- the Restored church, and especially in the end time.
Perhaps Larry is actually trying to prove that Restored is not God's church, or that this isn't the end time.
Or, that he's as brainwashed as those who believe in the faked healings on Crappola Christian TV like Daystar and TBN.
Norm
Oh, for Oral Roberts.
We do so miss him.
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