During "The Greatest Untold Story! (Part 573)" on May 3, 2025, David C. Pack of The Restored Church of God teaches that the Kingdom of God and Jesus Christ will arrive on Pentecost this year at dawn on June 1, 2025.
For reference, David C. Pack taught that Jesus Christ would return on Pentecost in 2019
during Parts 177 and 178.
All credit to former member Marc Cebrian for this clip and description:
exrcg.org
6 comments:
He seems to be saying he can know the day and hour but not the year.
I'll keep my schedule clear that day!
No-one thinks less of Pack than me.
But just as a matter of fact, he doesn’t say Christ is returning on Pentecost 2025 in that clip (which you have now posted twice).
There’s no need to make stuff up. He’s bad enough anyway.
I have harped on this before, but I will harp one more time. I think the actions of this apocalyptic Millerite denomination have nothing to do with end-time events directly. It has everything to do with a style of worship. They have taken the archetypical 1844 event and transformed it into a kind of repeatable liturgy. My guess is that very few people in this denomination actually believe that the Parousia is imminent. But they are not going to say that because it shatters the mystique of their worship.
What we are seeing enacted is not a one-time prophetic event but an episode in a liturgical cycle. The mainstream Christians denominations celebrate the resurrection at Easter every year, and these Millerites celebrate the Parousia multiple times during the year by going through the motions related to an impending Parousia as liturgy. We think they are delusional, but they are not. This is just their worship cycle.
The effect of this is that when the Parousia does not happen on Pentecost, nobody on the inside of this denomination is going to get upset and abandon this denomination. They realize that after this cycle of worship is over, there will be another cycle down range. And then another. I think this is a uniquely American phenomenon that ultimately might be traced back to our Separatist roots. The Separatists left Britain and came to the New World because they felt like an apocalypse was impending. Britain was going to fall because it had not sufficiently purged itself of Catholicism. This persists as an apocalyptic model even though the premises may have now changed. So, we still have many American churchgoers, both mainstream and Armstrongist, waiting tensely for the Parousia because of that historical Separatist influence. It is a small step to take that continuous feeling of expectation that is frustrating because there is no action and transform it into a worship form where there is some action. Classical, pre-1995 Armstrongism was already tending in that direction.
Outside observers see this as crazy time because they do not understand their liturgy. My two cents.
Scout
Remember, Pentecost spelled backwards is Tsocetnep!
Perhaps not in this clip, but yes he IS stating Christ Returns in 2025. You can always contact exrcg.org for the full sermon so you can be certain no one is making stuff up. 🙄
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