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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
One thing the Church of God movement has been good at is milking its members of their money as much as possible. They have made tithing into a salvational issue where if you do not tithe then you are disappointing their god. Their god expects to be kept fat and happy with your money. After all, everything you have belongs to it! It owns everything and you have no right to any of it. You only have things because it has allowed you to have it.
Members are expected to send into church headquarters their 1st tithe, save a 2nd tithe for the annual convention they claim is a "Feast". Then they expect you to tithe off of that amount and also give them your excess 2nd tithe, then there is the 3rd tithe that is supposed to go towards the widows, orphans, and those who need temporary assistance from the church - which 90% of the time is diverted into other uses. Then, after all of that, you are expected to fork over money on church-appointed "holy" days that are supposed to be "free-will offerings". Then, there are the co-worker/member letters guilt-tripping members into sending in more money.
In Church of Godland it is far more important to keep the church leadership in fancy homes, buy them jets and pay for their use and upkeep, build monuments to dirty rocks, build extravagant campuses and fancy gardens, fund concerts, Irish dance productions, and buy horses and properties. That is the real main purpose of the membership of the church. Instructing members how to be followers of Christ and the New Covenant is NOT something most of them even try to do anymore.
Money is the foundational doctrine of the church that weighs far more heavily than any salvational teachings or even Jesus himself. Considering that tithing is NOT a New Covenant command, it's no wonder they enforce it as their foundational belief in the New Covenant is non-existent.
Exit and Support Network has the following letter up about Gerald Flurry's Feast of Tabernacles.
October 1, 2023
‘The Feast’ is underway, and it is not about what to eat, but whom, and who is eating whom? The PCG may call it the “Feast of Tabernacles” and it is true that tabernacles are being swallowed up by that false religious organization, especially the dwelling places of their members, whose livelihoods are steadily quaffed up, paycheck after paycheck, all year long, not only during “The Feast.”
The real focus of that “feast” is on forking over as much tithes and offerings as can be wrung out of the flock, who are deluded to believe they are being fed “spiritual food,” but there is a certain spirit that is eating them alive as the main course. When it’s time for the money-extracting ‘offeratory’ messages, the bottomless maw of HQ opens wide, saying “Feed me, feed me!”
A first, second, and third tithe have already broken the poor families, but now they are coerced into handing over the “tithe of the tithe,” and guilted into giving up “excess tithe” at the start of the Feast before it has ended. Whose “excess?” What is “excess” according to HQ? Does that somehow put a limit on how much joy a member can experience at the Feast and how much they can enjoy life all year long?
“Feed me the excess!” growls the belly god of HQ. What is truly excessive is the smell of greed rising up to high heaven out of that place. With all the tithes that are already in place and enforced with a vengeance, you would think that would satiate the need to ask for any more members’ money, but, no, HQ must establish fund, after fund, after special fund. Isn’t the true excess in begging for all those special funds? I suppose GF can contort a few verses and their meanings in the Bible to justify the excess funds as “biblical” and therefore mandatory.
Hey, how about this one in the next Royal Vision? “New Revelation: There is a Fourth Tithe!” I know GF can pull that one off! Hallelujah! (The PCG hates it when people say that word.) Let’s not talk about “excess tithe” but how about excessive tithes. Excessive extortion. Excessive control. –Former PCG member (name withheld)
David C. Pack has been systematically normalizing the spirit of antichrist in The Restored Church of God. With “The Greatest Untold Story! (Part 465)” on September 2, 2023, he began the most aggressive biblical title-grab of his career by cutting Jesus Christ out of the Bible and pasting in himself.
David C. Pack has become the version of Thomas Jefferson he frequently criticizes.
Consider. David C. Pack removes Jesus Christ from the Bible and replaces Him with David C. Pack. He does not replace Him with Paul, Peter, James, Jude, John, John the Baptist, Stephen, or ancient King David. No other "unknown church figure" will come "someday" to fulfill those roles. Nope. The guy telling you this stuff is the same guy the stuff is about. Is religion some great racket, or what?
That feat could be perceived as a colossal coincidence, but none of it is possible without the unstoppable and immovable Power of Presumption. That power recreates the heavens and the earth for the Kingdom of Dave to allow the people of Dave to worship Dave in the Name of Dave so that one day, they can all be transformed into the likeness of Dave and see him as he truly is.
When you have a corrupted mind giving heed to seducing spirits, anything is possible. Statements made during “The Greatest Untold Story! (Part 470)” on September 23, 2023, are the further result.
Part 470 – September 23, 2023
@ 01:30 Now, what we heard nine days ago, I’ve heard over and over from various people, was simply life-changing.
It is one thing for David C. Pack not to “see” what he is doing, but it is quite another for people who do not have mental illnesses to agree with it. And simply because I am fluent in Packinese, “over and over from various people” could literally be two people. Two or three starry-eyed All-Believing Zealots are all it takes for Dave to present the impression those accolades are widespread.
I watched him stroll through the halls, rushing past people, “Exciting stuff, right?” The brethren think they have no choice but to smile and nod, “Oh yes, Mr. Pack. Exciting.”
I stand as a witness to those types of occurrences at Headquarters. Keep that in mind when you hear Dave praise his own revelations because he tends to pump the numbers in his favor and present “facts” from a very narrow perspective. How exciting are the things they no longer teach a week later?
Spiritual death by a thousand pinpricks. With an occasional swing of the axe.
That is what is killing The Restored Church of Another god. Lies are accepted because of repetition and subtlety, each supporting incremental steps toward antichrist thinking.
The red dots on the RCG timeline began when David C. Pack declared himself an apostle on February 26, 2005. On August 29, 2009, he assumed the identity of Joshua the High Priest of Zechariah 3. All bets were off once he saw himself in the Bible, and the sky was the limit.
The “next level” declarations began on January 24, 2015, when he took to himself the mantle of Elijah the Prophet in a one-day, three-part, nearly six-hour message. By far, the biggest red X blasphemy on the apostasy calendar was on December 26, 2015, when he nullified two of his own books in one day by announcing he (as Elijah the Prophet) was That Prophet of Deuteronomy 18 and Acts 3. The Restored Church of Another god has continued its descent into biblical madness ever since.
In 2023, David C. Pack became the Branch, the Messenger of the Covenant, and “one last” Lawgiver. Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, needed to be taken down a few notches, and a mighty man was on the scene to do the job.
And he loves to have it so.
@ 05:07 So, He's also called the Most High. Now, if you look up the word “high” all through the Bible, He’s called the Most High. Not that His office is higher than everybody else's (of course it is) the word there is elyon. Elohim is different. Elyon means His elevation is higher.The word elevation or lofty or height.
Manipulating words is a key to controlling minds. Notice how Dave acknowledges "of course," Most High is an office while dismantling that idea. He also cannot teach about God without associating himself.
@ 05:42 Now, when it says that "Elijah is higher than the kings of the earth," that's also elyon.
Psalm 89:27 does not reference Elijah. But it is now "true" because Dave says so. By repeating it, the words of the Bible are replaced with David C. Pack’s private interpretation. In this case, he needed to "demystify" a word associated with the phrase "most high" to keep selling Kaiju King Elijah.
If David C. Pack is to be taken at face value, I was “most high” over him when I flew to California this week. In fact, all the brethren who traveled for the Feast by plane were also “higher than Dave” for a few hours.
@ 06:12 But, when it says Elijah is elyon “above the kings of the earth,” he towers over them, matching the fact that his one foot would be in the sea and one on the land or one in the rivers and one in the sea however it says it there in Psalm 89. So, that's helpful to understand.
How is that helpful beyond reinforcing Dave’s giganticness?
@ 14:50 I wanna make a powerful statement about why this journey was so extraordinary, so historic, and prophetic, and amazing all rolled into one. If you don’t know the difference as we came to between the Lord of Hosts and the Captain of the Host, you’re stymied. I mean, you are just stuck.If you think Christ (for instance) is the God of the Old Testament, you will never understand all kinds of verses.
The journey is only prophetic if it comes to pass. In the meantime, it is lunacy.
Since David C. Pack removed Jesus Christ as the God of the Old Testament, his misunderstanding accelerated. There is no gray area in that teaching. The two cannot walk together unless they be agreed. It is a great dividing line. One path leads deeper into perpetual error.
@ 16:03 But, let’s go further because until recently, we couldn’t figure out the difference between Elijah and Christ. So we had we saw one Being. Christ was the Lord of Hosts, and He was also fulfilling all the roles of Elijah. He was the Star that came out of the Israel. He was the Shepherd of Israel. He was the Stone, the Messenger of the Covenant, the Branch. No, He’s not. He's the Vine and the Captain of the Host.
David C. Pack uses the word “Elijah” as a buffer to minimize the wincing in the guts of some brethren.
This is what he really said:
“We couldn’t figure out the difference between ME and Christ.”
“Christ was also fulfilling all MY roles.”
“Christ is not the Branch. I am.”
@ 16:33 The one error that the world makes is they increase Christ by making him the God of the Old Testament. The church did that, too. He was the Lord of Hosts in our mind. But the other error is we decrease Christ by making Him the things that a man would do.
Stop.
David C. Pack has long refuted the idea that Jesus Christ is a man today. Even to suggest so “insults” Him.
1 Timothy 2:5
For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
Denying Jesus Christ is a man today is the core theme of antichrist.
1 John 4:1-3
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. Hereby know you the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: And every spirit that confesses not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
Jesus Christ “is come in the flesh” is present progressive. If Jesus Christ is not a man today, then He is not my elder brother. Thomas placed his hand inside the wound to believe Jesus was still a man. Jesus ate fish and honeycomb with the disciples. Men do that.
2 John 1:7
For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.
David C. Pack is a deceiver and an antichrist. Don't believe me. Believe your Bible.
@ 16:53 When you think, “You're not the Vine. What were you thinking, Christ? You’re a Branch.” ‘Cause it never occurred to us that the Seventh Messenger could be the Messenger of the Covenant or God's Messenger there in Malachi. ‘Cause that's even worse.
The deception of David C. Pack sometimes comes in the form of verbal sorcery. He carefully worded the following statements to give the impression he desires without directly lying.
@ 17:07 Now, if you can't separate Him in either case, you'll understand why the apostates said, “The Bible is the story of Jesus Christ. Herbert Armstrong got it all wrong. He's everywhere all through the Bible.” And they slew the church…
Stop.
David C. Pack is a historical revisionist. Joe Junior and the Pepperoni Posse taught Jesus WAS the Gospel rather than being about the Kingdom of God. But it was Dave's "father in the Gospel," Herbert W. Armstrong, while The Worldwide Church of God was “on track” who taught all the other things he listed about Jesus Christ’s roles.
Herbert W. Armstrong taught Jesus Christ was That Prophet, the Branch, the Messenger of the Covenant, the Shepherd and Stone of Israel, and the Star of Jacob. That was not the doing of the apostates.
Dave conflates differing facts by blurring them together to create his alternate version of reality. He is willfully leading the audience to falsely remember that the rebellious apostates that destroyed the WCG put the erroneous ideas that Jesus Christ is the Branch and the Messenger of the Covenant.
Dave taught that until a few weeks ago. Why would he do that if the apostates invented it? They didn't, and he knows it. He is taking the concept of “Jesus throughout the Bible” as an error of thinking that aligns with the apostates by conjuring guilt by association.
That is an intentional deception executed by David C. Pack. This will also be a new weapon in the hands of his enforcing enablers to counter concerns from brethren. “Oh, you think Jesus Christ is the Branch? The apostates would agree with you.” I bet Ed Winkfield can’t wait to use that one.
Psychological warfare. Mind control tactics. Gaslighting. Lying. This is the state of The Restored Church of Another god, headed by a professional blaspheming liar promoting the spirit of antichrist, David C. Pack.
@ 17:27 …because if you looked through and you believe all of that, there's one Being, where, in fact, there's three. One's the Lord of Hosts. One the other one said, “My Father's greater than I.” He’s the Captain of the Host. And the other was way down the line. He is a man called a servant and various other things, and he's Elijah. Lot of different terms for him. I wrote up 34 of them, and somehow the scribes knew the difference.
David C. Pack counted 34 biblical names for himself.
In some cases, those names belonged to Jesus Christ. David C. Pack admits he is LITERALLY “in place of Christ.” For years, he criticized Popes for being Vicars, but now it appears that was only out of jealousy, not righteousness.
@ 17:53 But remember, weth used to think That Prophet was Christ but Elijah the Prophet was somebody who came into the church. So, we didn't even know that That Prophet and Elijah the Prophet were the same being. Wow. So, truly, the Mystery of God ended truly with the other element of separation between Christ…and the roles that are done by a man with a little flock doing the same before Christ is seen in great power and great glory on the Day of the Lord. So, that also came near the end.
David C. Pack is normalizing the spirit of antichrist. The spirit of antichrist is thriving within The Restored Church of Another god. Brethren have a dire choice in front of them.
Like wondering just why members of the Restored Church of God stay put in light of all of Dave Pack's prophetic failures and self-aggrandizement, so too, we wonder about the mind of Dave Pack in all this.
Why is it that Dave can NEVER look back and see his obvious and multiple, almost weekly, failures of prophetic foolishness? How can he fail and fail and act as if he hasn't never acknowledged the failure of just yesterday? Only rarely does he seem uncomfortable with it all but covers himself by reminding the faithful, after the fact, that "I always had some doubts about that." or some version of "We were missing something...but now I see it".
Does the man have no conscience? Is he just incapable of admitting to being mistaken? Does he have no working memory of what he said yesterday?
Perhaps Dave has never perceived himself as wrong.
Perhaps Dave only sees himself as not right YET.
Perhaps Dave Pack is simply a failed Safe Craker who believes that every turn of the dial and every subtle click gets him one step closer to getting the combination right and the glorious contents of the safe revealed, by him!
Title taking is just reaching into the trunk for one more tool, in his mind, to get the combination right and the safe cracked. After all, getting the combo right or the code broken on Biblical Prophecy has been the hook of the Churches of God since its inception. Codes, Puzzles, and Unveiling have been standard stock in trade.
Art Mokarow cracked God's Puzzle
This "classic" now sells for $52.95 on eBay. Unfortunately, it has yet to be actually unveiled unless one is of the Preterist persuasion and has a mind to see such realities of scripture not actually mean for us today.
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Dave Pack believes that sooner or later, unlike others, will succeed in
Cracking God's Prophetic Safe, so failures aren't failures. They are just steps to the right combination. The difference is that Dave isn't ever going to get the combination correct, not ever.
"The concept of a locked box used for the safekeeping of valuables has been around for thousands of years, and as long as there have been safes, there have been people trying to steal their contents." MEET THE SAFECRACKER OF LAST RESORT
OBSERVATION: The concept of prophetic understanding has been around since just before the body cooled, and as long as there has been the need in humans to know, "what's going to happen to me?". There have always been people in religion willing to believe they alone have the answer to that question. Dave Pack sees himself as one, if not THE ONE alone to do that. A common delusion among safecrackers.
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"To that end, safe manufacturers throughout the years—Chubb, Milner, Herring, and Ratcliff & Horner, to name just a few—developed an array of mechanisms intended to thwart burglars. Safes were often touted as “burglar proof” and companies frequently tried to outdo each other in terms of the reliability of their safes. Things sometimes got competitive. There were various “safe battles,” such as the one held at the Paris Exhibition of 1867, with rival manufacturers seeing who's safe could withstand various attempts at cracking (and even destruction) for the longest amount of time. That did not mean that these safes were invulnerable, of course. As the safes got more ingenious, so did the safecrackers." MEET THE SAFECRACKER OF LAST RESORT
OBSERVATION: Thus splits, splinters, and slivers are all headed by those inclined to believe they have special safecracking skills and insights. They don't. Nevertheless, the competition among them grows ever more intense.
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"The methods differ depending on the type of mechanism and skillset of the safecracker. There are multiple ways to go about it, from drilling into the safe’s door to using force to pry or “bounce” open safe doors to the use of explosives. "
OBSERVATION: Dave Pack is a safe bouncer and explosives expert, at times, when "it is inarguable" or his understanding is rock solid and unquestionable "with many proofs". Often, he is just sure what he is about to reveal "will blow your mind". But it never does. Dave's idea of explosives is what most actually call, snaps or "party poppers".
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"The most intriguing to me, however, is the subtle art of lock manipulation, the ability to crack a safe’s combination and leaving the safe just as one found it.
OBSERVATION: This is Dave. While no safe has yet been opened, nor will one ever be, Dave tweaks his dramatic views and failures every week, heading ever closer to getting it right. So he thinks. He won't.
Last week's safe is not damaged just because "we" didn't get it right then. "Everything is just fine brethren, and we are still on the right track" assures that the safe is just as we need it to be. Soon the "I" will take over in Dave and he will see what "we" never saw before, "but now I do".
This weekly tweaking of his erroneous beliefs keeps the soon, shortly, and quickly in place for yet another go at it, with no blowback from the members, because "He's almost there", takes over in the minds of the faithful and those that have a vested interest in what's in the safe.
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Lock manipulation is a skill that requires a quick mind and nimble fingers, as well as a good head for figures and the ability to chart out a graph of the possible numbers in the combination, either on paper or—even more impressively—in one’s head.
This, in its simplest definition, is accomplished by feeling for slight differences in the give of the dial as it encounters internal contact points and then working out the correct line-up of the wheels inside the lock. It’s an extremely complex maneuver and one that takes an admirable level of expertise, whatever side of the law the safebreaker happens to fall on."
OBSERVATION: It's all in Dave's head and Dave has always been quick to tell us how intelligent he is and all his credentials both intellectual as well as in the line of King David and the Aaronic Priesthood. Of course, this is all foolishness but a necessary credential in the mind of David C. Passover.
People have told me over the years that Dave is "brilliant". I disagreed, as one so wrong on so many things over so many years can hardly be seen as brilliant. Dave's Creationist series on "The Irrefutable Proofs of God" proved that.
Dave Pack does not believe in brilliantly conceived truths. He believes foolishly imagined delusions.
I used to respond he was "clever". But that implies a bit of deceit and I really believe Dave Pack sees himself spoken of in the scriptures and all the titles he actually takes he takes believing them to be so. Now I understand he is simply delusional with religious content and needs an intervention just as any drug or alcohol addiction would need to be properly addressed, before someone, or everyone, gets hurt.
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In my honest view and with all my WCG experience and observations behind me now, Dave Pack is incapable of seeing his multiple failures as failures at all. No need to apologize or even acknowledge them. They are not failures. They are just steps to getting the combination of God's Prophetic and End Time safe open. Dave desperately seems to want to be the one to open it and if it takes title-taking or tool-taking to appear to be the one called by the Deity to do so, so be it.
Dave Pack is never wrong because being right will always be just around the corner. Opening that prophetic safe door and revealing the glorious content is moments away and Dave wants credit for getting the job done.
The problem actually is that there is no safe to open. What Dave believes is a safe to be cracked is merely a Rubik's Cube, with only the outside colors to be matched. Nothing to see here.
And he may as well use The Magic Eightball to advise him on which way to manipulate the colors.
