New Moonish Excitement
Inept false teacher David C. Pack cannot get something as basic as when the New Moon occurs correctly, even when he tries. There is either staggering incompetence on the Third Floor at The Restored Church of God Headquarters, or this is another example of mind-control manipulation and intentional deception packaged as reality originating from a perverted sense of apostolic authori-tah.
Since The Restored Church of God began publicly privately observing New Moons, letting useful idiots like Edward Winkfield repeat it was a "wonderful, wonderful thing," the spiritually corrupt “non-profit” organization cannot seem to find its sea legs about when they should keep it.
As previously reported, Church Administration announced they were officially blowing off the February 2024 New Moon observance, punctuating the doubts of their resolve.
February 3, 2024 – Member Services and Announcement Bulletin
New Moon Update
Please note that with the new moon of Adar 1 falling on the Sabbath of February 10, there will not be a Friday evening Bible study from Headquarters on February 9.
The messages you will hear during Sabbath services will provide ample spiritual food, so there is no need for a separate new moon Bible study.
The Restored Church of God established that a New Moon occurring on a Friday could be skipped due to the ample spiritual food provided on the Sabbath. Sunday keepers will store that in their back pocket for the next time they are pressed about the Seventh-Day Sabbath.
So much for God’s gift of revealed end-time knowledge. If RCG can blow off a Friday New Moon, of course, they can blow off a Sunday New Moon. And despite the contradictory proclamations of David C. Pack, that is exactly what The Restored Church of God did.
New Moon-flavored “The Greatest Unending Story! (Part 498)” was delivered on March 11, 2024.
But that was not on the New Moon. The New Moon was on Sunday, March 10. Not on March 11. Only inquisitive brethren with internet access could know that for sure.
David C. Pack is playing a shell game with the moon phases, just as he does with the Scriptures.
David C. Pack creates his own version of reality. His words make something true even when it is not. He repeats falsehoods and counts on sleepy brethren to not fact-check him. The utterances of David C. Pack do not hold up to scrutiny or even remembrance.
Flashback Part 496 – March 2, 2024
@ 44:39 That’s why I’m telling you, [chuckles] you just do not wanna miss the next two messages Sabbath and then Monday evening at the New Moon.
Flashback Part 497 – March 9, 2024
@ 01:19 We will meet again on Monday at the New Moon, and I'll finish what I don’t cover tonight.
Making a judgment call pertaining to David C. Pack’s character is a binary decision.
A) Pastor General David C. Pack is incompetent.
B) Pastor General David C. Pack is a willful liar.
To be entirely fair, “C) Both” is a reasonable option, though it was not provided.
David C. Pack and the complacent enablers at Headquarters should leave the calculations for the moon cycles to the experts. Maybe they cannot bring themselves to rely on the moon nerds at NASA. After all, what could those math and science-minded heathens possibly know about the nature of the moon phases?
According to false apostle David C. Pack, the New Moon occurred on March 11. With some Photoshop chops, the Art/Graphics Department can alter this infographic to align with its fraudulent doctrinal narrative.
Download the complete PDF from NASA to build your own Moon Phase Calculator.
For those who prefer accurate information over the duplicitous propaganda of The Restored Church of God, mooninfo.orgis a worthy stop on your fact-finding journey.
With the available abundance of accurate technological information for calculating the exact moment of a New Moon, why would Pastor General David C. Pack repeat over and over that it was on Monday, March 11, instead of what everyone else in the world knew to be true: Sunday, March 10?
His arrogant, nefarious motivations were intentional.
He did not want to speak on Sunday because of the ample spiritual food provided on the Sabbath. Since he believes himself to be an apostle, whatever he says on earth is bound in heaven. Yes, David C. Pack thinks to change times and laws. In remarkable ways, David C. Pack makes the Bible come alive. It is as if he intentionally tries to make the Scripture’s warnings point to him.
Part 498 – March 11, 2024
@ 00:16 …so we can have the New Moon meal afterwards. I'm trying to remember if I've spoken on a New Moon, I was starting to say. Can't remember if I did.
He was not speaking on the New Moon. How many brethren knew that? How many hirelings at Headquarters knew that? The timid mollusks at Headquarters cannot be trusted, and they prove that by their commission and omission.
Yeah, I am looking right at you, Bradford G. Schleifer. You fancy yourself a technology and science enthusiast, which means you absolutely knew the New Moon was on Sunday. How thin is your moral resilience these days? You can keep slicing off more of your flexible sincerity for the sake of sucking up to Dave and his madness, but only for so long. Unless your conscience is already seared with a hot iron.
@ 32:08 Now, we’re keeping a New Moon.
The data-whore goofballs at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration say otherwise.
David C. Pack is a liar. It is not what he does but who he is.
That observation is a provable fact. Identifying a wolf as a wolf is not condemning him to the Lake of Fire. The warnings in the Bible are there for a reason. David C. Pack is his own worst enemy and we all know he can name some names.
I would relish the opportunity to prove David C. Pack is a liar to the State of Ohio. This is one of the many reasons why The Restored Church of God will not take legal action against exrcg.org. Being compelled to open their records, having a jury of our peers listen to hours of the Pastor General claiming to be sent by God, listing the failed dates for the return of Jesus Christ, and then getting David C. Pack on the stand to just let the guy talk… wow. That would be the trial of the century here in Medina County. My buddy Peter told me he would fly down from Canada to sit in the gallery. Stiff drinks and laughter would carry us through each night.
Despite not actually speaking on the New Moon, David C. Pack was super-excited to share his New Moon-themed material with the brethren. He discovered an annual three-day New Moon festival in the Bible, sprinkled "in code" in the Old and New Testaments.
Jonathan, David, and Saul kept this event. So did Daniel. Even Jesus Christ observed it between the lines of the New Testament verses. Like an elephant in the clouds, David C. Pack can see what others cannot.
@ 24:41 Nobody understands this. But it’s as plain as day when God opens it up. And remember, Daniel being unsealed is a sign that we’re near the end. I never understood this until recently. We couldn’t have been near the end. But I do now.
The unsealing of Daniel has been a laborious, fickle process.
Flashback Part 211 – October 24, 2019
@ 1:05:27 Now for a truly astounding discovery… And without understanding this verse, Daniel could never be considered unsealed. So… today and not before today, is Daniel fully unsealed.
Flashback Part 282 – January 22, 2021
@ 1:44:27 Daniel has been unsealed. We’re near the time of the end.
Dave was jazzed to teach about the New Moon observances he discovered. He was almost giddy.
Part 498 – March 11, 2024
@ 32:46 Jonathan, David, Saul kept a three-day New Moon. Yearly New Moon. It’s all through the Bible.
@ 32:59 I'm gonna show you in the New Testament. Christ kept it. Christ turned water into wine on the third day of the annual three-day yearly New Moon celebration.
@ 33:32 That's an important thing to know because, at the Millennium it opens with that three days of the Feast. And the Father's gonna have the world keep those three days several times before this monster rises. We're waiting for one in about 28 days. Little less now.
@ 34:50 Christ’s first miracle was on the third day of the yearly New Moon celebration. It just says “on the third day.” Not the third day of a wedding because the way [chuckles] you can't have a wedding go three days. On the third day of this three days, there was a wedding, and that's a nice thing.
@ 1:09:54 But I wanna plant a seed. We may get all the way to April 8th. I hope so. Because if anything happens before that, it will be very unpleasant based on the verses I think I understand. Very unpleasant [chuckles] and pray nothing happens. But I am not convinced it’s gonna be that way.
@ 1:12:12 I’m I I know a little more than I’m telling you, but I’m not gonna I’m not gonna assert it because I’m not sure. It’s but. Some of the most complicated thing I’ve ever read.
The illusion of unproven understanding at work.
@ 1:54:22 Had we learned all of this too soon, we would have ended the pursuit of knowledge and not learned so many other fascinating things. If we learned this too soon. And I wanted to say that. That’s a huge thing to consider. Think of all that we learned because it took eight-and-a-half years.
By that logic measurement, taking another twenty years would be even better from a knowledge-pursuit standpoint.
Flashback Part 10 – January 9, 2016
@ 1:50:24 Try to imagine. We could not be told or shown too early about the First Dominion or we would have read Revelation 22 before it was true! Do you understand?
Despite the repeated claims of David C. Pack, Part 498 was not delivered on the New Moon. They had a New Moonish service and meal because The Restored Church of God refused to observe it correctly.
They skipped it in February. They missed it in March. They just do not take it seriously.
Understanding the motivations behind obvious error points to willful lying or spectacular incompetence on the behalf of all the “leaders” at Headquarters. If any hireling knew it was wrong and failed to bring it forward, they are a coward. If the information was ignored, then the Campus in Wadsworth exposed itself again as a nest of dark trickery. Yeah, the True Church indeed.
Which is it, Brad? Are you guys knowingly wicked or are you guys ignorantly stupid?
David C. Pack perverts the Bible to make it say what he wants. He adds to and takes away from the words of the prophecy of the book. The New Moon doctrines are a new game he plays with the brethren. Using sleight of hand magic, he keeps the members guessing what is real when the answer is right in front of them.
The Kingdom of God will not arrive on April 8, 2024. World Hell will not “break out” before April 8.
The darkness that settles over the Headquarters Campus on April 8 will not just be the total solar eclipse but a perfect illustration of the lack of light, love, and truth emanating from David C. Pack and The Restored Church of God.
Marc Cebrian
25 comments:
You're playing the same sort of game James Malm used to play with New Moons.
Astronomical, as charted by NASA and "scientists" (which Malm opposed) - or when the New Moon is visible, which can be a day later?
Anyone NOT see this coming???
Gotta be Pharisaical about everything, or it just wouldn't be an ACOG!
Wait till Dave thinks his loyal descendants in 22nd century will try to branch out the RCG on Mars with Elon Musk ships.
Mars has 2 moons. The RCG can play even more elaborate New Moons games, with Phobos & Deimos up there by-passing each other for moonie-Dave followers at the RCG outpost establishment above Gale Crater. 🌒 🌖
Who would ever hear of such things? There's no booming voice emanating from the climate-damaged clouds, just one of countless humans saying "God sent me to tell you this, and you won't hear it from anybody else!" And by the way, for those of you who would like to help get the message out, donations are gratefully accepted!
"The messages you will hear during Sabbath services will provide ample spiritual food.."
This is typical ACOG speak. Spiritual food? Members have rarely been fed spiritual food but rather Kenneth Copeland religious slop. Like Herbs nauseating two trees sermons, there's nothing of practical value in these "sermons." Their material is like buying a McDonald's meal, but then only eating the cardboard and paper wrappings.
Yet members are expected to fake reality and pretend that this is delicious spiritual food.
Astronomical, as charted by NASA and "scientists" (which Malm opposed) - or when the New Moon is visible, which can be a day later?
It is rarely a full day from astronomical fact to naked-eye visibility, but that interval can routinely cross over a sunset and thus occur on the "next day" a few hours later.
The problem with "visible" is that "visible" is different depending on whether you have 20/15 eyesight, or 20/20, or 20/400, or whether you are allowed to use a viewing device. If you have 20/400 eyesight, you're trusting some other source whether you rely on NASA, or on your neighbor with 20/20 vision, or on some guy with binoculars or a telescope.
Remember that if visibility is the standard, two well-timed thunderstorms a month apart could absolutely ruin your calendar.
Mass mooning in Wadsworth!
Good morning everyone I am now an ex member of RGG and I thank God for everything. We are not to put our faith in a man but in God. Mr Pack is a false prophet and proves it over and over again. My length of time that I have left is two days.
I'm still not confident that Dave will not look up at the Solar Eclipse, weather permitting, and get a message in his head from his head and only his head that He, the Branch, the Elijah to come, the Messenger of the Covenant and true salesman of God, won't think it has something to do with him. Perhaps he will find a way to make something up and preface it with, "we never understood...but now I do".
Next thing you know, David C Pass-over will reveal himself to be that special David over which the Sun darkened as the Moon passed in front of it. Somehow God will have granted him the seat gyrating ability to command the heavens and prove him to be the chosen David.
Soon he will take one more title and then shall the end come. "I am Spartacus!" It will all be downhill from there. :)
Never underestimate the mind of The Foolish Shephard.
Just imagine the confusion which would exist if the new moons were used by Armstrongism for their original purpose, which was calculating when the weekly sabbaths would occur in the days before humans had become advanced enough to precalculate the calendar in advance.
This is so funny! Pack is going back to the age of the observational calendar for one isolated facet without understanding the whole concept of observational solar lunar calendars!
And when Dave does look up at the eclipse on Apr. 8 to let new messages flow into his head, let's have a soon coming moon-vertiser corporate laser to flash Dave's pic up there...or better yet, flash the pic of the late Ms. Chaisson up there looking back at Dave from the entire Sea Of Tranquility/Mare Tranquillitatis. 🫥🌚
"According to Jim Garvin, the chief scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, moonvertising is possible"
“ 'In order for an advertisement to be seen by people on earth,' Garvin says, 'the laser light would need to cover an area about half the land size of Africa,' a challenge because the moon’s surface is dark and fairly nonreflective."
"But should Madison Avenue get serious about Rolling Rock beer's spoof campaign and launch a Kennedy-esque program to send an ad to the moon, Garvin theorizes that moonvertising 'might take a decade to develop and cost somewhere between a big-budget movie and a week in Iraq.' "
Don't tell Dave that we are now well past the 10 years of the 2008 article, which said we might have those lasers by now. Maybe Dave will spend the "common" & flash his own loony lunar scam up there onto la Luna.
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/14/magazine/14Ideas-Section2-C-t-009.html
He won’t do a Sunday service, it’s Satans day, remember? Calling back to HWA’s deliberate math equation over Pentecost never falling on a Sunday.
What does the "observable biblical calendar" enthusiast do when the moon can't be seen because of clouds? He calculates.
I'm assuming that you are perhaps one of the observational calendar enthusiasts, 9:30? Do you feel that most people have the mathematic skills to calculate the first appearance of the new moons? For our edification, could you outline your personal method of calculating these?
Actually, these days, one only needs to check the latest almanac, or even desk calendar for the most highly accurate information regarding the lunar cycles.
What I find interesting is that there was a great controversy (Quartodecimen) over the severance of and translation of Passover from the Hebrew calendar to the Julian calendar, but never any protest of the severance of the weekly sabbath from the lunar cycles, which the Julian calendar also accomplished, as it put an end to the thirteen month calendar in which each month consisted of 28 days, with the 13th month accommodating the leftovers.
"What I find interesting is that there was a great controversy (Quartodecimen) over the severance of and translation of Passover from the Hebrew calendar to the Julian calendar, but never any protest of the severance of the weekly sabbath from the lunar cycles..."
Right?
Good afternoon, 6:24, it is very encouraging to see you also have been bold enough to cast off the gaslighting scams from Dave Pack, he seems to be skilled at appearing to be a caring shepherd, but it is great to know you and others see him actually as a scamming wolf. Now you are more free to study faith your way, & not Dave's way, congrats! 🌅🌈
you can enjoy the eclipse, the moons, everything in peace now here is your graduation cap into peace commencement 🎓
I've written comments about the lunar sabbaths in the past, having seen materials on them, and commented that they would be impossible or impractical to keep today, given the constraints of the working man's world. On one occasion, a member of a church that actually counts out the sabbath from each new moon, and disregards our traditional understanding of the days of the week, responded with literature on his church. He said it is difficult to keep a sabbath which can fall on a different day each month, but that there are blessings for doing it that way. I believe the COGlogytes would consider him and that church in the same way that they reject Sunday-keepers. It isn't a very big leap to consider that the sabbath should be counted out from the new moon, since we're familiar with that principle in a holy day application. The ancient Hebrews did not even have names for the days of the week, they knew them by numbers, numbers which commenced with each new moon, and repeated in sevens.
The so-called "fixed" or pre-written calendar (based on calculation) birthed after the destruction of the Temple, and was not based on the lunar observations of the scribes and priests in Jerusalem. It's interesting to ponder Jesus and the disciples keeping lunar sabbaths, and not using names for them. At least either way you could reckon them, they all ended in "y"!
There are some interesting materials presented in an article by Diana Ritchie on the Hebrew calendar at www.calendar.com.
It's so simple! The calendar with the fixed times-Lev 23:2 Tanakh-has existed from Genesis 1. The Jews today have preserved that calendar.
Observant Jewish scholars are most certainly involved in the discussions regarding lunar scholars, because it calls their traditions and faith into question.as much as it does those of the Millerite/Adventist families of cults such as Armstrongism. Secular Jewish scholars have no problem admitting that at some point in their history an arbitrary day was chosen as the first sabbath.
It is difficult to contest the 18 pinpointed examples of lunar sabbaths in the Bible. I have to be honest, though, I'm just throwing this out for the sake of discussion, or as a point to ponder, because I have no current intention to keep the lunar sabbaths. If there is an afterlife, and that's God's eternal culture, it'll all be resolved. It's definitely unique to planet Earth and it's celestial timekeepers. The concept of "going to heaven" and being spirit would seemingly remove beings from the boundaries of matter, energy, space, and time.
It makes you wonder whether the angels kept the Sabbath from the time they were created, and whether God keeping this day at the end of His seven day creation was just a continuation of this.
The sabbath was created. For man. Not man for the sabbath. It was a gift.
The sabbath did not exist before creation.
The sabbath is fulfilled in Christ.
The new heavens and new earth have no more night. Therefore no time markings.
In order for beings which are not bound to the time-space continuum to observe the sabbath, they would need to align themselves with a place where time was actually governed by a sun and moon.
It's been said that when God dwelt first in the tent, and then in the Temple, He accepted the unique constants of planet Earth for the purpose of relating to His children.
I don't know if that saying quite gets it, though, because God is omnipresent.
Imagine the following:
"Hey, Michael, where are you?"
"I'm doing some work on Venus for Father Yahweh! How about you, Gabe?"
"Oh, I'm in Jerusalem! And it's the preparation day, and we're getting close to sunset. You doing Shabbos, Mikey?"
"I'd really like that, Gabe, but the time keepers are so different here. Fact is, It's only the third day here because of Venus's circumference and speed of rotation!"
"Want me to tell you when it starts and finishes in Jerusalem, Mikey and maybe you could still keep it that way, even though you're on Venus?"
"I don't know about that, Gabe. Aren't we supposed to keep it when it comes to us? Isn't that what Yeshua revealed to Herbert?""
"That seems very confusing, Mikey, and Father Yahweh is not the author of confusion. Know what? It sounds as if you are going to miss two of our Earth sabbaths for every week you spend on Venus!"
"Alrighty, Gabe! You had me at going to miss two Earth sabbaths. I really miss the sweet smell of the offerings! Watch the clouds! I'm on my way!"
Considering there was no sun and the angels werent on a world orbiting it to allow for 24-hour periods, that would be rather difficult...
"The sabbath did not exist before creation."
How do you know that? After all, the purpose of the Sabbath is keep people on the straight and narrow by drawing close to God.
Because the Bible says the sabbath was created. God is Eternal. Everything that was made isn’t God. It is the creation.
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