Jessica Brown’s Open Letter to David C. Pack
Former Headquarters member Jessica Brown emailed this letter to Pastor General David C. Pack of The Restored Church of God, via Church Administration, on November 17, 2025. She poses sharp, biblically sound questions that address the continued biblical fraud and spiritual abuse inside The Restored Church of God.
As of this publishing date, there has been no response.
From: Jessica Brown
Date: Mon, Nov 17, 2025, 2:35 PM
Subject: A Note for David C. Pack
To: cad@rcg.org
Greetings Church Administration,
Three years have passed since I left RCG. Since then, I've done a lot of reflection on my own personal relationship with God, and how my experience in RCG (especially towards the end) helped me to recognize the importance of having spiritual discernment and proving all things. Seeing the direction RCG has gone in for so long, I cannot continue to remain silent any longer on what I want to personally express to David Pack. Normally, I would opt to write something like this as an article. But I perceive God wants me to relay this message in a more direct way.
I have many questions in this email that I don't expect to get an answer to. And that's fine. I believe this email is likely going to be twisted out of context and seen as "an attack from the devil." But I do not care what anyone thinks at this point. It is God who justifies, not men.
All I really hope is that it is read with an open mind and that the questions posed, and the biblically sound points made, are carefully considered.
David Pack,
Has it ever crossed your mind that setting dates for Jesus Christ's return violates the 9th Commandment?
You are repeatedly bearing false witness to the brethren by making bold claims “on God's authority" that you later walk back, while stating you felt "uncomfortable" because you knew that you gave everyone false information.
This has happened well over a hundred times now. How exactly did RCG go from teaching "if someone sets a date for Christ's return, scratch it off your calendar because it's FALSE" to setting dates on a regular basis? There is NO getting around Matthew 24:36. Period!
If someone were to correctly guess the start of God's Kingdom, there would be the danger of them becoming puffed up with a "See, I told you so" attitude, which God would never allow. Hence, why the Father does not share this information with ANYONE. It’s clear that focusing excessively on when Jesus Christ’s return will happen and when He “will raise up Elijah to set up the Kingdom to Israel” have become idols for you and for some of the members.
As a result of the sermon series, I've seen so many brethren become imbalanced and irrational in their thinking. Some members also subconsciously idolize you. I find it very strange that in the past decade, after your sermon series began, the warnings you gave to members about idolizing you slowly grew nonexistent. Are you now okay with being idolized and excessively adored by members? I believe this is the main reason you become so angry when people leave—it's a blow to YOUR ego. They realize you are a false prophet while you gaslight people into thinking you are not. All of this excessive focus on you as the self-proclaimed Elijah and your endless predictions, rather than on biblical truth, has led many people to develop spiritual confusion, with some doubting God's existence.
Does the fact that you have personally caused some people to doubt and stray from God not bother you in the slightest?
If you truly loved and cared about the people who leave RCG, you wouldn't go up to the mic and put blame on these individuals while viciously attacking and calling them all kinds of horrible names, and then claiming that they are spiritually dead. How is your behavior humble or Christ-like?
Your words can worsen things for them in the long run, because some of them come to see all Christians as hateful and unsupportive, rather than how God intended for us to be: to love our neighbor as we love ourselves.
I wrote a social media posting in 2022 about how the love of many in RCG has waxed cold because of your sermon series. I continue to see evidence of this when I encounter certain current RCG members in public. I've seen RCG members coldly walk past me without a smile or greeting. Others have even scowled at me or quickly walked away in the other direction. How does this behavior reflect God in any way? This is straight-up cult behavior!
You have encouraged brethren to behave like this by poisoning them with the venomous rhetoric that every person who leaves RCG is a tool of the devil and that they will "corrupt" members with "dangerous" influence and "lies." (These are hypocritical accusations on your part, considering you are doing these VERY things.)
Telling members to not pray for ex-members is a violation of scripture! We are to pray for our brothers and sisters in Christ, including the ones who have wandered from God after leaving RCG. Even if one does end up becoming used by the devil, we are still instructed to pray for them, per Matthew 5:43! We don't know how God may use them in the future, and we do not have the authority to determine who has lost eternal life and who has not.
The exception is if God has audibly revealed to us to not pray for specific individuals. Jeremiah 14:11 is a clear example when God told Jeremiah to not pray for Israel because they deliberately and maliciously turned against Him. Yet, like many others in scripture, you have twisted the verses out of context to make them apply to all ex-RCG members. Even the ones who still wholeheartedly follow God.
If any have truly and fully turned away from God and lost the promise of eternal life because of your sermon series and your behavior, then their blood is on your hands because you are partly responsible for their destruction. You coaxed them into believing falsehoods that God is a deceptive monster and that all Christians are imbalanced and hateful.
How is compelling members to give up their life savings, inheritances, and assets under the guise of "all things common" while threatening them with the loss of eternal life not coercion? And how does II Peter 2:1-3 somehow not apply to you and your numerous failed predictions and demands to give up large financial resources?
What a person does with their financial resources is between them and God. No one should dictate to whom or where they should send those resources unless God has directed them to do such a thing on their own, without human influence or pressure. It has been very clear for a while now that God is not directing you in your sermons, and you are acting on mere human steam.
Even Edward Winkfield admitted the sermon series was "just speculation" to a freelance reporter, basically admitting your messages hold no biblical water, completely undermining your self-assigned authority. So, none of your threats towards the people not giving up financial resources should be feared by anyone.
I believe members are aware that the "all things common" account is being twisted out of context to push the made-up "give all that you have" doctrine. It literally says the apostles distributed the funds/possessions to the BRETHREN in need (Acts 2:45 and Acts 4:34-35). The funds were NOT used for the purpose of doing whatever the church wanted with them without accountability. RCG has also largely neglected to help the needy of the church. Instead, the blame is placed on the members 99.9% of the time. (I would know, considering Brad Schleifer blamed me for my financial issues and then dishonestly told Dawn Blue I had received assistance from RCG "many times." That is FALSE.)
In reality, the blame is largely on RCG for not properly ensuring that everyone's needs are taken care of, as outlined in Acts 2:45. I find it very interesting that one of the other "splinter" groups (COGWA is where my parents currently attend) has done a much better job of fulfilling that principle by making sure the physical and financial needs of lower income brethren are addressed when they experience hardship.
As a side note, COGWA is NOWHERE near as bad as you have claimed it to be. I have personally visited the congregations in Cleveland and Akron.
In summation, you are teaching that salvation, which is the gift of God, must be bought with “common” money and that God wants us living as paupers in order to "stay humble" and be worthy of entering His Kingdom. That is absolutely FALSE!
One cannot "buy" their way into God's kingdom. Jesus bought us with a price that He paid Himself. He does not require our money to receive what He offers to people freely! Simon Magus learned this the hard way. And, while I understand the warnings about idolizing riches (the rich young ruler was told by Jesus to give up his possessions to the poor because he was idolizing it all, not because giving all your money and possessions is required for salvation), many scriptures also show God hates poverty! There are several examples of people who were blessed with significant wealth in the Bible. Think Job. And yet, those individuals still chose to put God first in their lives.
Even in this present age, there ARE a small number of wealthy individuals who fear God and do NOT idolize their wealth. Instead, they choose to generously provide for their community while using wisdom on where and how much of those funds they should donate. I do not see the RCG leadership providing for anyone but themselves unless there is potential gain to be had.
You have no right to accuse others of "selfishly holding on to their money" when receiving help from RCG is as hard as a camel going through the eye of a needle.
With all of this said, I still have a feeling that the individuals warning others of RCG's true nature, myself included, will continue to get labeled as tools of the devil by you and your ministers, even when the scriptures referenced above make clear that YOU are the one who is showing the most demonic behavior. Manipulation is a form of witchcraft. Pressuring members to give up money, threatening them with loss of eternal life for leaving or not giving “common,” and telling members that every single ex-member of RCG is an agent of Satan who has "committed suicide" falls under the category of spiritual manipulation. And that is something God HATES.
David Pack, YOU need to repent and truly seek God, wholeheartedly asking Him if He really approves of everything you've been doing for the past decade.
Because it is obvious from your fruits, you are not allowing Him to lead and guide you in your messages. Not at all.
The Bible is clear: "by their fruits will you know them," and the fruits you have demonstrated through the years have all been rotten. I've heard many heartbreaking stories privately shared about your spiritually abusive nature. There is NO way all of these people, including the ones who remain anonymous, are all collectively lying about you with perfect harmony. I've personally seen bad fruits manifest in you right at the podium, especially the raw, carnal anger usually directed at ex-members, and sometimes the members themselves. (Does the time you publicly threatened and intentionally frightened the young people of RCG ring a bell?) Many Godly individuals who have no affiliation with RCG or WCG can see the bad fruits within you. Why can't the RCG members see it, and why can't you see it?
These are the dangerous consequences of having a leader who wants to be treated like an idol and cannot be corrected by anyone. Holding a leader accountable and questioning why they are doing certain things is NOT the same as rebellion. It is something God requires us to do with His guidance. (I John 4:1).
I pray that the dark spell you have on RCG members will break. I pray that you will repent. I pray that God will restore RCG and rid it of the strange teachings that have plagued it for years now. I pray that the pharisaical traditions and man-made rules being held up as if they are God's laws are crushed and replaced with a stronger focus on biblical truth.
If you never end up repenting and RCG never changes, then I pray that the members who are still there will wake up and anoint their eyes before it's too late. The number of people who have left RCG in the past decade should serve as a sign that God has NOT been pleased with the church's direction. You indirectly confirm this by a lack of annual “Fruits Letters.”
David Pack, it is my hope that one day you will go up to the mic, apologize to everyone you've hurt and misled, and renounce the false teachings that you have preached for so long. It breaks my heart to see what RCG has become, as I once believed it was the only place where God was working.
May God help you and show His love and mercy to you. May His mercy extend to everyone complicit in your deceptions. And I pray in Jesus' name, that no curse or declaration of death you pronounce on any ex-RCG member will ever come to pass. May the Lord give them all an opportunity to heal and discover a true, loving relationship with Him, untainted by the lies of men.
I believe it would benefit you greatly to re-read your own discontinued book, “Is ‘That Prophet’ Alive Today? The Rise of False Prophets.” Compare your words then to what you are doing now.
Sincerely,
Jessica Brown
P.S. I felt the need to include a link to a YouTube post that reinforces some of the biblical points made in this email. Take note of this young woman's rebuke towards the people who claimed Jesus was going to start the "rapture" on the Feast of Trumpets this past September.
Posted by Marc Cebrian
20 comments:
Like hes gonna read that.
I believe it would benefit you greatly to re-read your own discontinued book, “Is ‘That Prophet’ Alive Today? The Rise of False Prophets.”
She's asking Pack to read dissident literature?
Jessica has done a really good job of identifying and exposing ministerial misconduct and/or abuse. It is correct to assume that the perp of the abuse will never see it, so, actually this wonderfully effective rebuke will never correct
the pathological behavior of the perp! Not that it would, even if he actually read it! However, she has lovingly alerted the greater audience (his current and future victims) to the presence of chocolate from the lower anatomy!!! Thanks, Jess ! You have done your part well.
BB
Dave is a baldfaced liar. He knows he is full of it.
May God help you and show His love and mercy to you.
This is an insult to Pack's victims. Pack deserves NO love and NO mercy. This is one of the most serious problems with Christianity. Ruthless scum trample all over people for decades and what Christians want is mercy for the ruthless scum.
Anon, aka BB, Thursday, November 27, 2025 at 3:07:43 PM PST wrote:
"Jessica has done a really good job of identifying and exposing ministerial misconduct and/or abuse. It is correct to assume that the perp of the abuse will never see it, so, actually this wonderfully effective rebuke will never correct
the pathological behavior of the perp! Not that it would, even if he actually read it! However, she has lovingly alerted the greater audience (his current and future victims) to the presence of chocolate from the lower anatomy!!! Thanks, Jess ! You have done your part well..."
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It appears that Dave Pack has been properly identified/exposed by BB, and Jessica, as a hireling that actually does not care, properly care, for those under his hireling-ship.
Perhaps the following words of Jesus Christ apply to such a hireling as Dave Pack, who, like so many others, left his former WCG ministerial credentials behind in Pasadena to flee from that organization, and abandon some sheep left behind to be scattered.
John 10:12 "But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.
:13 The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep."
Not only is Dave Pack, by another spirit, following another gospel of another Jesus hoping that his Mickey Mouse millennium will "very soon" occur with his, another Jesus, reigning on earth for 1,000 years and then fails after Satan exits the pit, but Dave appears to care not for the sheep.
Might what Jesus Christ was inspired to tell us in John 10 be true of Dave Pack...and possibly other hirelings, to one degree or another, who fled the former WCG organization and are still yearning for "another Jesus" to return "very soon?" How much do any of them care for the sheep?
Time will tell...
John
If someone were to correctly guess the start of God's Kingdom, there would be the danger of them becoming puffed up with a "See, I told you so" attitude, which God would never allow.
Once Jesus brings the Kingdom, why would that guesser (assuming that person is a church member) be in danger of becoming "puffed up"? Wouldn't the transformation to a spirit being eliminate that risk?
If I remember correctly, Jesus said that if you cause someone who believes in Him to go astray, it is better to have a millstone around your neck and be drowned in the depth of the sea. So why does Pack deserve mercy? Some people are trying to be more merciful than Jesus. That kind of mercy is not justice.
Agreed, 8:15. This is a plain example of Jesus teaching karma! Other scriptures teach it as well, like the ones about being judged as you judge others, or mercy being shown to you as you show it to others. Goodness and badness come back to you! Dave should be quaking in his boots!
People are crazy. Hopelessly messed up.
8:15 Yeah that verse also applies to peds showing they deserve the death penalty to God for the incalculable damage they do.
David Pack has a bad case of prophecy diarrhea. Uncontrollable. If you go back and read about his pathology in John Trechak's "Ambassador Reports" archived at the Painful Truth website, it was clear that there was something off kilter about the man even when he was working for the WCG. He was reassigned and placed under strict performance review at one point. People who were once close to him, worked with him as coworkers or were family members have had various things to say about him over the years. The members of RCG have had ample warnings, if they would only open their eyes and read. Perhaps Jessica's testimony will help more to see him for what he is.
The End of Dave
I always liked David C. Pack's big August 31, 2013 prophetic guess that totally failed in spite of all of Dave's given reasons plus not given reasons for a total of 56 reasons for it. There was no need to take too seriously anything that came after that, and much, much, much more noise and nonsense did come after that over the years.
Dave had said that you could either wait for his big August 31, 2013 date outside of his RCG or inside of his RCG, so I waited outside of his RCG to see what, if anything, would happen. Nothing. Zero. Doughnut. Very anticlimactic.
In fact, whenever anyone comes up with a prophetic date, it always seems to be best to wait outside of their cult to see if their guess is right, since it never is right.
Becoming puffed up??? Open thine eyes that you may see! What we are witnessing is a situation where people appoint themselves as watchers, or prophets, and either make serially wrong prophecies or really lame generic guesses, and then expect us to respect their "office" and begin tithing to them! Welcome to Armstrongism, a bizarre world in which you don't need to get things right in order to reach that "puffed up" stratosphere. It is a world in which leaders get paid exhorbitant sums for not embodying their job descriptions! (as long as they teach the Sabbath!)
Methinks that Sean "Puffy" Combs has some philosophical cousins, like Dave "Puff Daddy" Pack, Bob "Puffy" Thiel, and .Gerald "P-Diddy" Flurry! These dudes aren't exactly in the picture version of Funk and Wagnalls as illustration to the word "humility"! Or "Chag HaMatzot" if you are reading the Hebrew version!
Oooohh! That felt so good to say! Hope it doesn't make me feel puffed up!
~Mickey D
"Herbites" have never obeyed Ex 23:14....Nisan 14-20; Sunday Sivan 5,6,8,or10; Tishri 15-21.
The fact that Dave is not in jail is very disturbing.
Know what's funny? I followed the link to the Youtube comments, just to see if there were any names of people I might have known from Armstrongism. Sometimes it's nice to be able to catch up with old friends, if only to say "Hi!" The comments are all posted under screen names. So that's apparently a thing there on Youtube amongst people who post on religious topics. Just as some do here!
All Armstrongites are caught up in the same speculative mindset, sensitive to the dog whistles of their masters, ans subject to their every suggestion. It's just that some have a platform to let their inner freaks out, to go high profile, and be noticed. These ridiculous ministers are no different from the lay members! All have the same cultic mindset. About the funniest thing that goes on around here is that somebody from one of the splinters laughs along with us at one of the other splinters, it never occurring to them that their own splinter is just as laughable!
Anybody know if Dave mentioned Jessica in Saturday's sermon?
He did not. Dave also did not mention that someone who left came back shortly thereafter. Whether he will or will not say something is a wildcard. He lets himself get caught up in the moment at times. But not regarding this. RCG usually practices a "do not respond" policy, which is a safer option for them.
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