Are you really gyrating in your seats or just afraid to give voice to your doubts and skepticism?
Please allow past prophetic foolishness and failures to inform the future outcomes of the present ones. It's NOT about "the timing" or being "given more time." It's about being mistaken, wrong and making up theological tales that have no basis in reality. If you are seeking a stable and encouraging spiritual "New Covenant" home and community, it will never be found driving way to far, giving too much support for way too little in PCG, RCG and any church lead by one delusional leader and his enforcers.
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." (George Santayana)
2013: David C Pack
Making the Bible mean what it never meant since 1974
Announcement #21
Why Unification THIS Year
2013
David C Pack
"Now comes a series of reasons Haggai’s prophecy will be fulfilled this year. (2013) They are summarized, with only a very little detail added. More could be said of each, but the descriptions given will suffice to those willing to think just a little about them. Realize there are over 30 more reasons—many of them very powerful—that I have left off the list because some will be covered later or because they would only be recognized as proofs by our Headquarters ministry (involving various miracles, some big). Readers would be largely unable to appreciate them as proofs:
Also related, if God waited 2,500 years to reveal the prophecy’s meaning (3,000 years when various related much older Psalms are considered), is not His waiting done? Does His revealing it not signal that He has reached the time to fulfill it rather than having reached a point one, two or three years out?
Next, why would God wait longer? What would He wait for? The remnant is absolutely ripe for deliverance.
"Now comes a series of reasons Haggai’s prophecy will be fulfilled this year. (2013) They are summarized, with only a very little detail added. More could be said of each, but the descriptions given will suffice to those willing to think just a little about them. Realize there are over 30 more reasons—many of them very powerful—that I have left off the list because some will be covered later or because they would only be recognized as proofs by our Headquarters ministry (involving various miracles, some big). Readers would be largely unable to appreciate them as proofs:
If the prophecy did not happen this year, (2013) the remnant would remain another year (or more) undergoing ever worsening false ways. Worse off, they would have a commensurate shorter time to spiritually recover before the Tribulation. Think worse condition, less time to recover.
Next, for those who will see the value of how to pursue spiritual matters, there is this: After fervently seeking God about it, not one reason the prophecy is off this year (2013) ever emerged in the minds of even one of our 16 Headquarters ministers! I (we) have NEVER prayed about, studied over, meditated on, fasted about and counseled with other ministers regarding a subject more than this one—in fact no other subject is even close!
World conditions cry out for a big Work NOW!!!—not one or more years from now (2013.)
Internally, and this is no small thing, God’s Church is truly ready to expand the Work in a BIG WAY. The prophecy features this as the MAIN PURPOSE of the remnant returning! Without the prophecy’s fulfillment, this expansion would be delayed one year—or more! Why would God notify His Church of the prophecy’s existence at the very same time our staff is ready, our websites are ready, our literature is ready and even God’s college is ready for more students if the prophecy were not imminent? Why would God notify His Church if HE were not ready?
Maturing interest from many in the world due to one year of explosive television expansion requires many more laborers in the ministry by this autumn.
The Restored Church of God is experiencing an AWESOME period of growth and development at this time—in the run up period just prior to the prophecy’s fulfillment. This is putting it mildly! To us, this is powerful indication that we are on the right track for this year—that God is not only pleased with His Church, but that He is helping it get ready.
If reunification occurred next year (or any year after), those with God’s Spirit would have one more year cut off from God’s Church. This carries the potential for more to quench the Holy Spirit (I Thes. 5:19) and lose salvation.
The readers of the Haggai prophecy announcements (this is #21) who believed them would be the most disillusioned and the biggest candidates to QUIT everything if God did not return His people to one House this year! This would work directly against what God is doing—directly opposite His overall purpose.
Further desolation (Hag. 1:11; 2:16-17) from God of the splinter “houses” would practically wipe out the few remaining senior leaders in them. This includes pastors and elders, all of whom are NEEDED TO CARRY OUT THE BIG WORK!
The onset of all future years would never come with clarity—with any certainty! Would God leave thousands who are now aware of this prophecy in such a condition? Hardly
Similarly, as questions emerged throughout our pursuit of truth with the many details of the prophecy, so many of these details kept coming clear as direct answers to prayer. And these were often immediate.
Recall Haggai 1:13: “Then spoke Haggai the Lord’s messenger in the Lord’s message unto the people…” Haggai is the messenger to God’s people, with what is an all-important message from God. Would not God make clear in such a unique message He describes as “the Lord’s message unto His people” the correct date for action? What kind of message would it be if people did not know WHEN TO CARRY IT OUT?
Since the apostasy, God had not wanted the remnant back in His Church, but now He does. He would first reveal the remnant to His leader, then tell him how they would return, and finally that He meant NOW. This was the order in which these things became apparent.
Imagine God not revealing the year the remnant is coming—but only the day and month. Vast amounts of time would have been wasted by His leaders studying and preparing for something that was not imminent. Would God put His Church in such a position?
Of interest, God revealed to me during ELUL four years ago (2009) my role as the modern Joshua.
Also of interest, I and The Restored Church of God learned about the New Testament remnant last ELUL (August). Let’s ask: Would timing of when we were shown the prophecy not be tied to its unique timing of fulfillment during the very next available ELUL?
We might ask: does the DEVIL know the prophecy is on? For those who understand how the devil works—that he counterfeits EVERYTHING God does—a variety of counterfeit theories have recently appeared about how God is going to reunite His people. Should not the devil be expected to do this at the time it would cause the most confusion? You will soon see that most of these theories are coming from men standing on the wrong side of this prophecy.
With God’s people split up, it is now almost impossible to do a powerful Work. (This might be the one area where the splinter leaders would agree.) God’s Church is largely stymied in working with both brethren and the world because of the confusion and deception from top leaders about where God’s Church is, who has the truth, who is carrying on after Mr. Armstrong, who is doing the true Work, etc. (Reread #22.) There is no other way to proceed than for God to remove leaders who have lulled with deceit many thousands who were blind (Rev. 3:17) to begin with.
6 comments:
It is hard to discern CPack's blabbering from any glossae the writer may have interjected in this piece
I do know that the rationalization for the building of the Ambassador Auditorium in the early seventies were passages from the book of Hagai. Is CPack contradicting his mentor?
nck
Apocalyptic prophecy based on compliance or noncompliance to the law of Moses is the primary aspect which made Armstrongism different from the greater Christian community. Obedience to the law of Moses was portrayed as being the qualifier for understanding prophecy in the speculated end times. The problem is that their track record in terms of accuracy is a never ending, and ever revised failure. If their prophecies are inaccurate, it also follows that so is that which was supposed to qualify them for the understanding and enlightenment which they profess. They are pretty piss poor at tracing genealogies and guessing national origins, too.
BB
HWA set the tone after 1975 by lying and saying that he had never set dates. However, he and his successors continued to approximate dates, often establishing outer limits which have also consistently failed.
There really isn't any excuse for all of that. People who have invested their all in his teachings have left themselves with nowhere to go, so are forced to either give Armstrongism a pass, hoping for the "best" (actually worst; total destruction of life as we know it), or to walk away and cut their losses.
BB
"Now comes a series of reasons Haggai’s prophecy will be fulfilled this year. (2013) They are summarized, with only a very little detail added. More could be said of each, but the descriptions given will suffice to those willing to think just a little about them.”--DCP
Oops! Looks like one needs to think more than “just a little.”
Bible prophecy is ambiguous and any damn fool can put their own interpretation to it!
ambiguity indeed (although theres nothing ambiguous about Genesis 16:12 Isaiah 11:11-16...); my theory is that such ambiguity is because of Malachi 4:6...
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