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With all the new crazy self-appointed Chief Overseers, Apostles, Prophets, Pharisees, legalists, and outright liars leading various Churches of God today, it is important to hold these agents of deception accountable.
Herbert Armstrong's Tangled Web of Corrupt Leaders
UCG President Rick Shabi made a telling comment about Jesus the other day that indicates the sad state of affairs not only in UCG but in all COG's. He states they the church needs an annual reminder about him.
Jesus gets left on the back burner most of the time or is not even mentioned for weeks on end. Satan reigns supreme, the Kingdom of God follows close behind, and then the law. Jesus is usually relegated to the fourth string and left sitting on the sidelines till the next Passover as more important topics are discussed, like sex, hair lengths, church logos, proper dress, proper foods, and the law. Lots of law. Grace, mercy, sanctification, justification, not so much.
I hope that the Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread were deeply meaningful and spiritually beneficial for you. We need the annual reminder God gives us each year of the salvation that comes only through Jesus Christ.
One thing Christians of the world understands is that they need Christ every day, not annually. But then, they are unconverted, so know no better.
The fascination that so many in the church have about the old glory days of the Worldwide Church of God is fascinating. So many want to eagerly go back to the days when the church was supposedly pure and on track. The problem with that scenario is that most people outside Pasadena were only spoonfed the good parts through propaganda tools called The Envoy and the Good News. Early editions carried glorious pictures of a unified church eating together on holy days, enjoying wholesome music, and doing godly things, yet underneath that veneer, even in the 1950-1960s the church was a cesspool of corruption, sexual issues, backbiting, and other ungodly activities.
Many today choose to be blissfully blind to that fact and eagerly want to restore it all. this is particularly true of the Kitchen family. After appropriating the name Worldwide Church of God for their exclusive use, they claim to be the sole heir to the truth once restored. Just like Bob Thiel, the Kitchens have trouble gaining any followers for their group and are languishing in limbo. After an epic failed blunder to gather in Jerusalem last year for the Feast to await the Kingdom of God to be announced, they have suffered mightily with family and friends at odds with each other.
Notice what they have to say about how special they are in this "worldwide church of god" and how they will be the holdouts till the end. They anticipate being martyrs.
I'm afraid that among the modern descendants of Israel, the last hold-outs will be those of the Worldwide Church of God. It was those of the Church who defended and fought the battle to preserve the rights provided by the Constitution of the United States. The declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights are world encompassing. The receivership tied the Worldwide Church of God directly to it.
So in order to bring down ISRAEL the Worldwide Church of God was to be brought down first , because not only were they a symbol of religious freedom by the end of the receivership, they are also the ones who will get on the megaphone and tell all the other children what's really going on. They don't want another Herbert W Armstrong to blab on the radio.
The Two witnesses are going to be their worst realized nightmare. They thought that bringing down the United States and the Britain commonwealth they would stop the Worldwide Church of God and religiously they would be unopposed. But God migrates His Church to the middle east, the Two Witnesses do their job, the Church is protected and with them the record of what the Devil wants destroyed! Israel. They want a new world order with no Israelite people. God's Church has set precedence. It also is tied directly to religious freedom in our day.
That's why different groups, which are children of the state, should dissolve and the people once again take up the identity of the Worldwide Church of God and show support to God's apostle. Having corporations for assistance is not wrong, but calling each other a different name is taking the people further away from the path which has been paved.
Until it's forced upon them, that is the choice we face. If we don't act now, tomorrow we will be forced to act. By then it will be too late. The only option would be to become martyrs and boost the ratings and validity for those who did act before the tribulation!
David C. Pack of The Restored Church of God can squeeze a lot into 78 minutes. Just not the truth.
During “The Greatest Unending Story! (Part 437)” on April 24, 2023, the audience was blown away when Judas returned to being the Man of Sin. The most substantial evidence supporting that God was working with Herbert W. Armstrong in the 1930s was dissolved. David C. Pack's job is to let the brethren know he knows stuff, but he will not tell the brethren the stuff he knows because that is not his job.
He is 99.9% sure about that.
Heads and horns and kings and beasts of Daniel 7 and Revelation 17 were the bulk of Part 437, but they were not all of it. After teasing the brethren with elements of the Man of Sin, the Seventh and Eighth Head, and flying Chaldeans, the launch pad spring was wound and ready to go.
While in the book of Habakkuk, David C. Pack felt compelled to get into the meat of his Bible study by making a tortured excuse for all the prophetic hiccups.
Part 437 – April 24, 2023
@ 05:45 Now, if that setup didn't intrigue you, then I guess I failed. But again, it’s the last thing that I am told to explain.So, I guess we’d have to stop and say, no matter how many times I or you or all of us thought and hoped that I had reached the end of the line until I explained somebody or a group led by an individual who precedes the first of three kingdoms of God, there was never any way that I had fulfilled that.
Boohoo. I could not fulfill prophecy until XYZ was explained. The concept of the messenger understanding what the message was and when he delivered it is out the window.
The "Ah shucks, I'm in this right beside you, brethren" attitude does not hold water. Dave digs into the Bible to find what he needs and exploits it to kick the can down the road. Seven years running.
During the Days of Unleavened Bread, He went out of his way to assign homework seven days in a row SO THAT prophecy could not-really be fulfilled. Thinking he was fulfilling a prophecy when he was not is an honest mistake. Maybe if it was the first time.
@ 06:15 I could read it and think about it. And even think and know that I had to do it and think that I had done it, but until I explained something that came before all three iterations of the Kingdom, which means I had to go back to and learn about and solidify one year. I could never fulfill that verse.
The idea the verse is not about him does not cross his mind, nor is that something he could read and think about. Human steam pushes forward to fulfill a Bible verse. Which is why he fails.
Prophecy occurs when and how God decides. We are the surfboards on the wave. Dave thinks he is the ocean.
@ 06:33 Now, that's one of the most startling and inspiring things for me to realize. The days of my voice would not be ended. I would not have prepared the way, and Christ and the Father come quickly with their temper. With their Temple.
Another personally important revelation. Only those close to him would know if it was as inspiring as being the only person on earth to be correctly waiting for the 1335 of Daniel 12:12 to begin in February.
This is so startling to him because it shows he has not been “wrong” this whole time. If you reach a Level-12 understanding of Between the Lines, you can interpret what he really meant.
Until God was ready to bestow this information upon poor try-hard Dave, he would be held in a perpetual circling pattern until the prophetic runway was cleared for a landing.
David C. Pack could not fulfill prophecy until God gave him the thumbs up. After a seven-year stumble, that has finally happened with Part 437.
Do any of his excuses sound familiar? They should.
Flashback Part 429 – March 15, 2023
@ 1:24:24 It’s over. And it’s the greatest mystery (and in all honesty, brethren, and I’ve said this before), but this might be the greatest mystery of all. We were never gonna be done with this process until Mr. Pack got this straight.
Flashback Part 418 – February 9, 2023
@ 15:00 One of the greatest mysteries that the Bible contains, I'm gonna explain to you now, and you've never heard one word about it. And it’s its own statement (yet again) of how the Series could hardly be over until this was explained.
Flashback Part 388 – August 23, 2022
@ 04:57 If we’re waiting for Christ to bring the Kingdom of God, we should know it. And this Series wouldn't be over until that was suddenly figured out after, lo, these many years.
Flashback Part 226 – December 28, 2019
@ 1:17:12 We could almost say the Series would never be over until you heard at least this sermon.
Flashback Part 179 – June 12, 2019
@ 1:41:00 …are what God said to say to this man. And you know what? We weren't ready until this man said all those things, and he's doing it tonight.
That is enough. It is painful to watch Dave punch this other, more stupid guy wearing the glasses. No need to be a bully, dude. We get it. This is recycled content for the short-term memory crowd.
While traversing through Daniel and Revelation, Dave had to walk back a recent walk-back. This is another undoing from Part 437.
Part 437 – April 24, 2023
@ 1:04:49 “…and you shall have tribulation ten days.” There is no place in history that I can find (and I have dug); there is no place where there were any such ten days or ten years. Either one where that already happened.
Dave reverted the ten days of Tribulation in Revelation 2 to prophetic future and NOT the past.
For those who gullibly trusted David C. Pack to correctly interpret the word of truth during Part 432 were again disappointed. The All-Believing Zealots accepted when he said those ten days were part of history. And they got hoodwinked. I wonder how many of them are keeping score.
Part 432 – April 1, 2023
@ 02:55 So, we faced a false choice, and I wanna explain that. The ten days are ten historic years, or ten prophetic days?Ten historic years, which is what the Church taught, and I believed for about 55 years or ten prophetic days? The answer is neither. It’s ten historic days.
How did he come to his conclusion when he April Fooled the brethren?
He made it up. He just decided to fabricate reality. This is the pitfall of “because I said so” theology.
David C. Pack presented this as a conclusively researched fact despite the research being inconclusive, revealing it was not fact. And yet, he taught it anyway.
This is the result when Dave does not disclose his sources. Because there are no sources. When you listen with your Between the Lines filter activated, he cites a source when he has one. He blows past it when he does not.
The lesson here: If you let David C. Pack talk long enough, he exposes himself as a liar.
There have been several jaw-dropping moments throughout "The Greatest Unending Story!" Series. They usually involve brutal attacks on the brethren or the people around him, but sometimes words fall from David C. Pack’s lips that prove a stunning blindness.
How he can read Deuteronomy 18:20-22 aloud without blushing, winking, or with uncomfortable hesitation is beyond me. Part 437 had one of those instances.
Extreme Irony Alert
Headquarters Edition
@ 45:48 “…I lay down My life for the sheep.” So, some shepherds have to be willing to die for others in this period. A lotta shepherds have not been what they should, and a lot of them are gonna be put to a test. A greater judgment, if you will, during this difficult period.And they may have to give their life for the sheep. I learned back thirty years ago there were men who gave safe sermons who would not die for the sheep. They would hold their job first until they were forced out, and there was enough money and tithes in groups they could go to, and they'd be fine. They gave safe sermons. Always safe sermons. Never stood up, and then they got axed. I'm an expert at getting axed. Twice.
“The third time is the charm,” as the saying goes.
This moment perfectly described the hirelings at Headquarters in Wadsworth, Ohio. The Restored Church of God is experiencing a difficult period RIGHT NOW.
A lot of shepherds have not been what they should be. Safe sermons. Never stood up. Greater judgment. Wow. David C. Pack is still capable of speaking the truth at times. Though, it is mostly unintentional.
Meet the men unwilling to lay down their lives for the sheep by giving safe sermons during this current test inside The Restored Church of God which will result in a greater judgment.
Bradford Schleifer • Edward Winkfield • Ryan Denee • Carl Houk
Andrew Holcombe • Salasi Jezhi • Frank Lydick • Raymond Garb
The clock is ticking. At some point, it will be "pencils down" for these guys. I would not trade places with any of them. The brethren need to get out while they still can.
Flashback Part 434 – April 10, 2023
@ 00:02 Well, much (maybe most) of everything we’ve learned and heard has been correct.
Two weeks later, Dave is already light-years past this understanding. Does that make the statement a lie or a mistake?
David C. Pack has been fraudulently claiming he has fulfilled prophecy and, during his own excuse, admits that was false.
The enablers at Headquarters follow him along, holding pillows and vials of oil to keep their human idol calm and cozy. They have no idea what a disservice they commit against God’s people in God’s name.
When the Judgment Seat of Christ appears, what excuses will they make?
