The following is combined from two Restored Church of God sources:
Over the years, things changed for the worse.
Now, Dave Pack is busy making unbelievably huge changes to HWA's teachings. Dave Pack brings nothing but reckless speculation on a weekly basis, and no responsible understanding at all. The RCG cult members now look like some of the biggest suckers around. This has gone so badly.
People who went to the RCG cult ended up getting mentally, physically, spiritually, financially, financially, and financially brutalized.
One of the problems with these characters like Dave Pack who come in God's name is that one never really knows for sure how crazy they will become after one has worse-than-wasted so much time, effort, money, money, and money on supporting them that it becomes psychologically very difficult to admit that it was all simply a really, really, really, BIG mistake to trust a religious con-artist." From Anonymous
======================================================================
Understanding David C Pack's teaching style:
The brilliance of God will prove DCP to be a fraud to the core. Whenever Jesus Christ returns, be assured DCP will be completely wrong about the how/when/where. (Marc Cebrian)
• Kicking the can down the road
• Moving the goal post
• Carrot on a stick
• Lucy and the football
• The emperor is naked
• Chicken Little: The sky is falling
• Riding the prophetic merry-go-round
• Biblical Groundhog Day
• Cracked the DaVinci Code
• Sees himself all throughout the scriptures
• Delaying the inevitable
• Finds a way to be right about something that was wrong
• Gaslighting the brethren
• Biblical sleight of hand
• Playing a shell game with the scriptures
• Bait and switch
• Present Truth excuses falsehood
• Change the meaning of words to fit the current understanding
• Rewriting the Bible as he reads it to you
• The man cannot stop talking
• Arrogance has never been so insecure (Needs accolades from his acolytes immediately after the message. They stand in a semi-circle and parrot, "powerful, powerful" "so very clear")
• "The man of sin has been revealed" (Again and again)
• "Now I understand"
• "What else could it mean?" "Impossible. No other way to read it." (If you don't have another theory, then there cannot be one. Except when there is later)
• "It fits perfectly" (Until it doesn't)
• "Daniel is finally unsealed"
• "Revelation is finally unsealed"
• "The series is over"
• "Did you think the series could be over before we learned THIS?"
• "The Mystery of God is ended"
• "Would God let me get this wrong?"
• "I tell you on God's authority..."
• "God didn't want XYZ"
• "God gave us more time"
• "I knew it wasn't going to happen..." (Regarding his own teaching just before the deadline)
• "I discovered" but "we got it wrong"
• "Some people left right before the very end. They answered the matter before they heard it" (Part 366 was yesterday)
• "If you don't believe this prophecy, then you don't believe your Bible"
• Reads a passage of scripture that supports his theory, but stops before the next verse that counters it
• XYZ number of "proofs" that are rock solid until they fail
• The antecedent is so very important in understanding a verse...but only when he says so
• Calling any point of logic or opinion a "proof" that actually proves nothing
• A calculator and calendar proves his theories (Harold Camping would agree)
• Obsession with "something" in the moment (ie eagles, rainbows, fog, wind, Elul, Adar, Abib, almond trees, fig trees, oak trees, land sabbath, Seven Days of Passover, nighttime, winter, Ester's fast...)
• "All the ministers agree" (Except they do not. Especially the ones that leave soon after. Some former ministers told me that for YEARS they knew DCP was full of baloney.)
• "None of the other ministers saw it"
• "I've never heard of XYZ" means nobody on the face of the earth ever saw, noticed, or understood a passage and its meaning before
• "If you think I'm arrogant, pray for me"
• None of the brethren can explain what they just heard
• None of the ministers can explain what they just heard
• Don't bother to "prove all things" since this teaching will change in hours/days/weeks anyhow
• "We're right on track. Everything is fine"
The brilliance of God will prove DCP to be a fraud to the core. Whenever Jesus Christ returns, be assured DCP will be completely wrong about the how/when/where. (Marc Cebrian)
6 comments:
“The man [DCP] cannot stop talking” -- MC
There are countless hours and hours of proof of that statement!!!
And let's never forget, "the math is still correct!"
"No one else knows the speed, intensity or timing of prophecy". That was a quote from Dave Pack in 2015 when he "rushed" into the TV studio to record the imminent "world hortor" to soon befall upon the unexpecting world precipitated by the appearance of the Man Of Sin.
Its one thing to speak with authority and confidence when there is a track record of fulfilled conclusions. It is another thing to continue to defecate in your pants while adamantly defending oneself and continuing to "solidify" the narrative.
David C. Pack is a scary example of how someone can spend many years producing thousands of pages of literature and making thousands of hours of sermons and yet have it all end in a bunch of idiotic lies and nonsense.
David C. Pack's BIG SWITCHAROO
Background Details
Since all the teachings in the Worldwide Church of God had come through Herbert W. Armstrong (who died January 16, 1986), he began to teach near the end of his life that he was the one who was prophesied to come in the spirit and power of Elijah to restore all things (see Malachi 4:4-6 and especially Matthew 17:10-13). There was a duality. Just as John the Baptist came to prepare the way for the first coming of Jesus, HWA came to prepare the way for the second coming of Jesus.
David C. Pack got fired in early 1993 from the Worldwide Church of God under Joseph W. Tkach, Sr., and then got fired on May 3, 1999 from the Global Church of Rod splinter group. So, David Pack then started his own sliver group in May 1999, the Restored Church of Pack.
The Great Wall Of Defence Against Doctrinal Heresy
At first, David Pack taught that the understanding that Herbert W. Armstrong was the Elijah who had restored all things was a great wall of defence against doctrinal heresy. David Pack wrote a book called I Will Send Elijah to Restore All Things in which he proved that Herbert W. Armstrong was the Elijah. David Pack criticized Roderick C. Meredith for not believing that HWA was the Elijah and accused RCM of secretly desiring to be the Elijah.
Breaking On Through To The Other Side
Later, David Pack declared himself to be the Elijah in a series of three sermons containing “130 PROOFS” that DCP was indeed the Elijah. David Pack conveniently promoted HWA posthumously out of the way to the office of Moses, supposedly giving HWA back to the people “two feet taller.” One of David Pack's “proofs” that he was the Elijah with the power to make up doctrines was that he had already “restored” his “common” doctrine that everyone had to send him virtually everything they had -- “or no salvation if you don't” as he later claimed in a sermon about how to truly fear Pack.
Having broken through the great wall of defence against doctrinal heresy, David Pack is now free to go totally wild doctrinally, which he has been doing with gusto in recent years.
Dave will announce himself as Christ if this keeps up!
Post a Comment