Do Not Plan For New Years Eve! More Dirty Tricks From Dave's Bag of Tricks

 

Bag of Tricks

 

Felix the Cat. The wonderful, wonderful cat.

Whenever he gets in a fix, he reaches into his bag of tricks.

 

David C. Pack of The Restored Church of God uses the Bible the same way. Whenever he gets into a prophetic jam, he and his co-conspirators sequester themselves in the Third Floor Executive Imaginarium, with pickaxes spending their days digging into the Bible to find a way of escape.

 

And wouldn’t you know it? They emerge with a “clear” solution. Every time. Funny how it keeps turning out that way. Well, not "funny," ha-ha, but you understand.

 

After seven weeks of hype, the Kingdom of God, Jesus Christ, the 1335, and/or the Day of the Lord did not arrive at 9:40 AM EDT on Saturday, December 24. Later that day, Dave honked his little horn and tossed confetti around for 81 minutes during Part 411, hoping nobody noticed he was stalling.

 

Then, RCG’s resident Punxsutawney Phil poked his head out on Tuesday, December 27, 2022, to contort the scriptures for 83 more minutes of “The Greatest Unending Story! (Part 412).”

 

 

Spoiler Alert:

Jesus Christ will return at 5 PM EDT on December 31, 2022

Midnight Jerusalem time fits perfectly

God will reset the monthly calendar back to Tevet 1 on January 1

Nebuchadnezzar will be resurrected as The Man of Sin

Ten Days of the Lord are followed by a Seven Year Kingdom

 

The Packian Triad of Fraud found their new "get out of jail free" card they can use from here on out when the timing does not pan out. If you think that this can only apply to Tevet 1, guess again. Dave will find a way to make this work forever. This is the Uno Wild card he has been dreaming of.

 

God will reset the calendar so that each month is exactly 30 days. This will make the 42 months (1260 days) of Revelation land exactly where Dave needs them. The weekdays remain the same, so the Sabbath will not move.

 

Jumping to the end helps with understanding. How he got there is not important.

@ 1:21:51 He describes Himself as coming and knocking on the door…If that’s Headquarters, because Christ is coming to Joseph, then may I just tell you, brethren? That fits perfectly. Like [lip smack]. That'd be five o'clock. That’s even time. That’s even time. So, it should be at least the greatest candidate…we get, according to Matthew 20, our penny right as evening comes. Well, the sun is down at 5:08 here. So, if it’s midnight in Jerusalem, it’s five o’clock here. That’s the best I can tell you. I’m not, you know, we know in part and prophesy in part. I’m doing the best I can.

 

If you saw Sean Connery and Nicolas Cage in “The Rock” from 1996, you already know where this is headed.

 

“Losers always whine about their best. Winners go home and [blank] the prom queen.”

 

@ 1:22:43 So then, two kinds of years must be accommodated in our thinking. Two starts of years. Two new years, if you will, ten days apart. It was there all along. But not going to be understood until God removed the last part of the Mystery made everything absolutely plain.

 

Tevet 1 came and went. Christmas Eve came and went. Dave was wrong but found out God is going to reset the monthly calendar from Tevet 8 back to Tevet 1.

 

@ 1:23:07 Now, a coincidence that we learn it now? I guess you decide. One year starts ten days. Another ends them. Then, they merge, as I've explained.

 

Pages are filled with Dave’s coincidences which have all been no coincidences at all. Remember, every coincidence he has pointed out for seven years has all turned up to be nothing. Nothing.

 

Two different types of years merge, according to him. The Roman New Year (January 1) and Tevet 1. They will become one in the same three days from now.

 

@ 1:23:18 Only God could reveal this. Truly.

 

Unless this is another ruse by Dave’s god. He did not address that in either message this week.

 

@ 1:23:23 So, it’s January 1^st, that’s inarguable. That’s just inarguable.

 

This has an expiration date of three days from now. Just think how upset you would be if you bought a half-gallon of milk and, within four days, it spoiled. That is what folks inside RCG are experiencing. Dave’s prophetic milk spoils faster than real milk.

 

The most doubting and faithless person attending The Restored Church of God is David C. Pack. He knows his own teachings do not pass the sniff test before anyone else in the church does. He admitted in the Pathetic Update on December 23, "Over the past week, many other additional fascinating things have also clarified…”

 

“Over the past week” meant he spent the week coming up with new ideas from his Bag of Tricks. He did not approach his own date with any kind of belief. He also chose to not warn the brethren of RCG much sooner, which some then stewed and twisted in vain hope. And Dave let them. The Headquarters ministry let them. That is the kind of men they are.

 

Chances are low that anyone in RCG has to draw too near to New Year's Eve, wondering what hour Jesus Christ will return. If Church tradition holds, there will be an update getting in front of the failure to point out more that “we” missed and reveal there is a “clear path” to moving beyond January 1. The enabling hirelings at Headquarters will surrender their remaining integrity and agree.

 

@ 1:23:27 Or we wait a year. And I guess we'd wait a year at a time. The problem is the Mystery of God's over. You know all of 'em. I can't imagine that we're not pretty much about four days out. Good night.

 

Or we wait a year. That phrase is oft-repeated and never holds the line. Dave is the first to break rank and wander into new territory, leaving the idea of twelve months of sitting too unpalatable to stomach. He cannot sit down and shut up for one whole year. He has to find a different web to spin.

 

Just as he bitched out on Christmas, he will bitch out on New Year’s. New Year’s Day will be traded out for a younger, hotter Janus, which he already mentioned 67 minutes into Part 412.

 

At least this time, if New Year's fails, it is not God's fault. It is the Bible's fault.

 

@ 48:42 And somewhere, or the Bible stands false, somewhere in time, Almighty God is gonna bring those ten days between two years. There’s no arguing it. Too many verses collapse. Now you understand, maybe better than ever, why it was so difficult to figure out when this begins and how it begins.

 

Would that be considered spiritual growth? At least it is not pure blasphemy. That is something, right?

 

 

I do not know if there exists another human being on the face of the earth who is right when they are wrong. Yet, David C. Pack continually pulls that off.

 

@ 1:01:38 We were right about Tevet 1 does start the seven years. But not in any path that I saw. I just didn’t know how to read it. In a way, we were right. In fact, we were right twice.

 

@ 1:04:09 He [God] wouldn’t do it on Christmas. The 24^th was a hard one. I saw Sunday, and we're coming to the end of the year, and we've went past the solstice. I'm thinkin', "We gotta get to Tevet 1 is gonna start this." I was right twice, but not in either way that I thought.

 

He almost copped with being wrong about Christmas, but it was just a pathway to being shown how correct he was. Twice. That is a skill I shall never be able to master.

 

@ 1:15:11 I was right. But the Christmas and timing the year, I didn’t realize how to put it.

 

He claims to be "right," using the past tense for something pertaining to a forthcoming fulfillment. It takes a truly sick mind to see continuous errors of the past as proof for future validations.

 

Dave keeps tripping over failure and tumbling down the stairs toward success. The biblical Chevy Chase of our time.

 

 

Do not take my word that he is teaching these things. For the sake of thoroughness, these snippets are for masochists and prophecy enthusiasts.

 

@ 35:38 So, there are years. They are not years of God, but they are years of men for thousands of years in winter that always come to a new day. So, you oughta at least be suspicious. Is Habakkuk talking about New Year’s Day smack between them?... He was talking about some year that set that up ten days in advance.

 

@ 50:38 God reset not only the year but the month. So, it gets reset. I want you just to think about this. It resets, wham, right back to Tevet 1. Who saw that coming? Try to argue with it. You can’t.

 

This will be another Dave idea that future Dave will argue against. Maybe by next Sabbath.

 

@ 53:49 Two days after Christ comes, if it’s this year, there’s a fast. And Israel will be fasting. God says, “Later on, I won’t hear their fasts. They’re wasting their time in captivity. But you’re not in captivity until the last three and half days…” Well, Tevet fits perfectly. First of all, it’s winter and many other reasons. 

 

@ 1:12:33 Tuesday night, after all, is Christ's day. That's the night we got a Savior. On into the next day. That's called the Day of Jesus Christ. The Day of Christ. His day, and we're gonna take the [Passover] symbols with Him on Tuesday night. So, the weekly cycle wouldn't change, and it's a work day.

 

@ 55:09 But there would come a point where at the very end of the Series, everything would just get plain.All the mystery would just go away, and that last mystery in Revelation was the trigger that you had to come ten days later to a year after you started in one. No wonder Christ wouldn’t know what year. God could just start any January 1^st.

 

@ 1:01:11 And you didn't know that God was gonna start on the last days of my voice on Tevet 1. I didn't, either. To make all of this crystal clear. So, Tevet 1 does start the seven years.

 

We could all hope this would be the last days of Dave’s voice. Sadly, this path is “Not Now.” So says an unordained non-prophet/non-psychic after consulting Magic 8 Ball. I hate being the bearer of bad news.

 

 

Since the first goes last, it is appropriate to end at the beginning.

 

@ 00:00 So, we’re close to outta time. So, I guess we understand this is “Final Part 412.”

 

“Final Part 405” let out an uncontrollable gasp from the audience. It whispered, “That is baloney,” under the breath.

 

@ 08:52 …and I'm gonna read something to you. We've heard it before. But, we have never understood it, and you will today. And you'll understand why we’re still absolutely dead on track. Dead on track.

 

How of minimal comfort that must be for everyone in RCG who let their hearts hope that salvation would come last Friday. Hearing it repeated on Saturday without proof or explanation must have felt equally void.

 

Dave and company had to dig really deep into their Bag of Tricks to pull this off. The Leaning Tower of Babel they constructed has never been so thin and fragile, tottering on the brink in the coming days.

 

It would be cheating to blow on it. Let God handle that. The construct will collapse with the passage of time. That is the most formidable enemy David C. Pack has actively working against him. The passage of time. Physical reality drives a truck over all his crystal-clear bobbles of fraud and illusion.

 

David C. Pack failed on Saturday, December 24, 2022.

 

David C. Pack will fail again Saturday, December 31, 2022.

 

He will not stop. He cannot stop.

 

The brethren of The Restored Church of God can get out at any time. By staying, they are choosing a man over God. They are choosing familiarity over truth. They choose to sit when they know they should walk. That is an awful state of mind to live in.

 

If 2022 indicates what 2023 will be like, expect more from David C. Pack’s endless Bag of Tricks.

Marc Cebrian

See: Bag of Tricks

God, The Absolute

 

God, The Absolute

By Skepsou

 

God is absolute.  And the problem with trying to describe the absoluteness of God is that all of the vocabulary we might use is human and limited.   We try to dress this human language up in an attempt to express the state of being absolute but the result is just awkward.  Let me give you an example.  We can take a limited human concept like being “potent” and dress it up with the prefix “omni-“ to create a word that might be descriptive of God.  We try to manufacture the infinite from the finite.  So we say that God is omnipotent.  But this is just an extension of the base word potent.  Omnipotent now means something like “all-potent.”  It is similar to taking the word human and transforming it into the word superhuman.  The problem is that it merely stretches a human-bound attribute. 

But God is absolute.  He is not limited to potency at all.  God is not like a strong man only much more so.  God does not exist on the same scale as human beings.  We can’t say at the lower end of the human potency scale there is the weak man and at the upper end there is the strong man and then beyond the strong man, yet on this same scale, there is God.  To say that God is omnipotent is a category error.  Omnipotence is just an exaggeration of a human condition.   God owns the Cosmos completely and perfectly.  He created it.  He did not fabricate it - he called it into existence by fiat.  At one time the Cosmos existed only in his mind. And he can make it go out of existence in the twinkling of an eye without using any kind of force or potency inherent in the Cosmos itself.   God may work with physical agencies – like sending a plague against the Assyrians – but he does not need to.  That is just done in our realm for our instruction and in terms we can understand.     

God is absolute.  This is going to sound very odd but it is an index of how constrained our thinking is by our human vocabulary.   Here goes.  God is not alive or dead.  Humans can be alive and humans can be dead but God is pure and absolute existence.  Human life is an analogical derivative of that divine existence.  Humans are a triune combination of sarx, pneuma and psuche – Koine Greek for flesh, spirit and animating principle, respectively.  If the synergy between these three components works, we are alive.  If the synergy is disrupted, we die.   God is not bound by such contingencies.   God is self-existent (see how awkward is the vocabulary) and we are contingently existent.  The Hebrew word “chay” is used in the Old Testament to provide the expression “living God.”  But chay seems to be used of creatures.  Its application to God seems inelegant – like many of the anthropomorphisms in the Old Testament. We can be alive and conscious but God transcends that category.   We are in the category of imparted, conditional existence.  He is in the category of absolute existence. Our being alive is an analogy of God’s absolute existence. 

Words like “omnipotent” are really just analogies.  We know God only through analogy.  To describe God in human vocabulary is to analogize.   Take out your tablet and write a one paragraph description of God.  The wording will all be analogy – human terms applied to a being that transcends all that your words can convey.  You might point out that the Bible uses such language.  But the Bible, too, speaks in analogies.  One of the Bible’s chief literary forms is anthropomorphism – talking about God as if he were human.  I used to take great exception to the fact that Rupertism-Armstrongism believed that the anthropomorphic language of the Bible described God in his essence.   I felt like terms such as “omnipotent” were really the solution.   Now I believe that both Old Testament anthropomorphic language and brewed up words like omnipotent or omniscient or omnipresent are all human-based and analogical.  The latter is only a little better than the former.  But we must use these words.  We have nothing else.  And above all we must remember that this analogical language does not define God as he really is: absolute.

But an important question is why should we be able to make sense of the analogies that tell us about God?  An analogy about something that is unintelligible is still unintelligible.  It is because we are created in God’s image.  What is meaningful to him can be in some way meaningful to us if he wants it to be.    We only know about him what he wants us to know.  That we know anything about him at all is because of our analogical similarity.  We are limited, fleshly analogs of God.  He created all of us so that his salvation means something to us.  We are all salvable because he has created us all to be salvable.   Since God is ultimate reality and we live in an analogical cosmos then we are God’s walking, breathing poetry, we are God’s literature written in flesh. 

Note:  Some may label what I have written as “liberal.”  The term “liberal” is often used inappropriately to castigate others with a different view.   But what I have presented is quite conservative.  It recognizes the surpassing glory of God.  To the contrary, to believe that humans are capable of becoming “God as God is God” is radically liberal. 

LCG: Is It Possible To Have True Friends In The Church?

 

Anyone who has ever been part of any of the Churches of God knows what happens with "loyal" friends when they start asking questions or leave the church. Those friends disappear so fast it is shocking. Loyal friends do not exist. You soon discover you have lots and lots of acquaintances, but only a few loyal friends, if any at all.

Loyal friends stick by you no matter what and do not care what some ministers say to do. Those that leave soon find that there are far more friends OUTSIDE the church that will stick by you than you ever had when in the church. That alone is a curse on the Churches of God.

Keys to Friendship: The Bible tells us that “There are friends who bring ruin, but there are true friends more loyal than a brother” (Proverbs 18:24, New American Bible, Revised Edition), and that true friends are supportive during difficult times (Proverbs 17:17). Jesus shared important thoughts and concerns with His friends (John 15:15). Real friends may not always agree with us, but they will tell us what we need to hear because they care for us (Proverbs 27:6, 17). The Bible warns that we need to choose our friends carefully because we are influenced by the company we keep (Proverbs 12:26). Abraham was a friend of God because he chose to obey God’s instructions (James 2:23; Genesis 12:1–4; Genesis 26:5), and he understood that friendship with the world would alienate him from God (James 4:4). If we choose to be a friend of God and Jesus Christ, and we work to build friendships with those we come into contact with, we can be lights to the world. 

 

Have a profitable Sabbath, 

Douglas S. Winnail