David C. Pack now has placed himself in league with all the Apostles and Jesus' own bothers. They were all wrong on their dates so he can be too.
The big difference between the Apostles and Davey is that Davey
gave a specific date. All the Apostles were looking at a future date,
knowing full well that it was at least sometime in the future with the
hope it would be in their lifetime. Davey said it was happening
specifically by August 31, 2013. Davey was not about some future date, but a specific date that was immediate.
Think of the original apostles. They watched and
waited year after year after year for Christ’s Return, absolutely
believing this would happen in their lifetimes (I Cor. 15:51; I Thes. 4:15).
Yet they were off by almost 2,000 years—a full THIRD of the entire
length of God’s Plan! However rare, some few may think about this.
Here’s what virtually no one reflects on. There was much more that they were waiting on and believed they would live to see—all
of the OTHER events preceding Christ’s Return: the falling away, the
Four Horsemen of Revelation, the arrival of the Beast, the False
Prophet, the abomination of desolation, Jerusalem surrounded by armies,
being taken to safety, as well as the Tribulation, Heavenly Signs and
Day of the Lord. For decades, the apostles’ senses told them that all of these things lay just over the horizon—that they would live to see ALL of them fulfilled.
Think. ALL of the apostles—every one of them!—got ALL MATTERS wrong in
regard to timing—EVERYTHING!—and for almost an entire LIFETIME—again,
including being off by 2,000 YEARS. Two were Christ’s own brothers,
James and Jude. Two more, Peter and Paul, were leading apostles. It is
no wonder that Mr. Armstrong himself was wrong for a time regarding
Christ’s
Return—and thus also was necessarily incorrect about the timing
of everything prophetic that preceded it. But only his enemies
crucified him. Mr. Armstrong lived to see virtually none—NONE!—of the
things that he expected to see. I wonder how many brethren—first century
or twentieth century—gave up on big prophecies because the
apostles—first century or twentieth century—had their timing wrong.
These men did not have the prophecies themselves wrong, but merely only the TIMING. Get the difference.
In Davey speak this translates into: "If they can get a date wrong, so can't I; so live with it!"
