RCG: Exploiting the Gospel (Part 2)

Second Update May 3, 2025: This article on the exrcg.org website has been updated to reflect the additional property that listed as sold on May 3, 2025. The total sales are now $3.1 million by twenty-three people for thirteen houses.

Update May 2, 2025: RCG sold two more houses valued at $465,000 to members, bringing the total to twelve properties. One of the new buyers is also a widow.

Keep an eye out for 341 Akron Road to be sold soon. The two other external Campus properties are not viable options for new buyers. No one attending The Restored Church of God can afford the $500k Eyesore, and the Hartman Road property hosts the horse barn and pasture.

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Exploiting the Gospel

After David C. Pack announced that his 501(c)(3) nonprofit religious organization was out of debt and turned a profit with extra money in the bank, he boasted big things could be done. With a catch.

Part 568 – April 5, 2025
@ 00:23 I wanted just to tell everybody …the debt is gone. Completely gone, and income is still pouring in.And not only that, we’re growing faster, literally, every week than the week before.

@ 06:22 You’ll be surprised. You’d be you’d be amazed at what we could do.

Thanks to the dedication and sacrifice of The Restored Church of God’s members, twenty people, including two widows, allowed themselves to be exploited by purchasing twelve Headquarters Campus-adjacent houses worth $2.8 million.

This public information can be found on the Medina County Auditor’s website. Under the Advanced tab, type in the Seller's Name field: "restored church" to see the property records.

David C. Pack coordinated his financial freedom while preaching the Kingdom of God was just around the corner. Two widows in Wadsworth now enjoy part of the financial debt David C. Pack once held.

Jesus said His burden is light. But David C. Pack’s is heavy.

Instead of focusing on preaching the Gospel to all the world as a witness before the end comes, David C. Pack has made a concerted effort to remove the Campus' debt while simultaneously preaching the impending arrival of the Kingdom of God just a few days away.

The Kingdom of God did not arrive on Abib 1 or on Passover. But David C. Pack laughed all the way to the bank thanks to twenty well-meaning but gullible members.

Preaching Under a Bushel

Now that The Restored Church of God Headquarters Campus is out of debt, what do they plan to do with that money? If David C. Pack is to be believed, practically nothing.

David C. Pack has made a church-wide spectacle of their financial journey by using it as leverage to extract more funds from nervous members. Brethren sacrifice so the church can “do the Work.” It must have been disappointing to learn their Pastor General has no intention of spending that money to loudly proclaim the Gospel of the Kingdom of God because it would fight against prophecy.

David C. Pack Announces Preaching the Gospel Loudly
Fights God's Purpose

Leading up to the corporate debt relief, Dave tugged on the heartstrings with promises of amazing things for the church. If only there was more time. If only they could afford it.

During “The Greatest Untold Story! (Part 501)” on March 30, 2024, David C. Pack said this to the church while plotting to sell three houses and preaching that the Kingdom would come on Abib 1.

Part 501 – March 30, 2024 
@ 1:46:37 But I do want the church to know this much. I do want you to know this 'cause I'm gonna give a compliment to the church. If we had another year, take heart in this. It's not the Kingdom. But we could carry out (and I promise you this) an unbelievably powerful work.

@ 1:46:57 You cannot imagine how God has intervened. I I It's so great, and so much has happened since I told everybody to, you know, consider their situation. The the response to that is, wow, on steroids by orders of magnitude. And it's so much, I found myself thinking, "Is this a signal we're gonna go on?" 'Cause we could we could drop an atomic bomb on the world, assuming we weren't shut down.

It was David C. Pack who intervened when he privately approached select Headquarters members and asked them to purchase three houses worth $679,700.

@ 1:47:26 We we're in we're in a we're in a position you can't imagine. God's people have responded like you wouldn't believe, and I couldn't have imagined.

Dave imagined it because he made it happen. The secret real estate deals were being worked out in the Business and Accounting Office behind closed doors while the church was hearing that Jesus Christ was to return in a few days.

The people who responded to Dave’s request were Pablo Ruiz ($200,000), Justin “Mr. Snappy Fingers” Frazier ($325,000), and Raymond and Kirsten Garb ($154,700).

@ 1:47:38 We had a lot of little debts, by the way. …They're all gone. They're all paid off. Every one of them. Except one central mortgage that would go a long time.

Removing three properties off the balance sheets while netting a sales profit of $237,700 gave RCG the leverage necessary to refinance and consolidate their bank loans.

@ 1:47:51 And so we have saved a tremendous amount of money to be able to do the work. Plus, we've been just bombed by God. So I just want all of you to know, if we went on for another year, and frankly a year after that, I don't think we're going one year. Two years from now would be almost unfathomable how big we'd be.

With this tremendous financial blessing by Dave’s god and the responsiveness of three people, RCG could finally set “The Greatest Untold Story!” Series down and really start preaching the Gospel. But…Dave lets the brethren know he has no intention of spending the money on actually preaching the Gospel.

@ 1:48:16 But then, would we be the little flock? Would we be disrupting an events that's supposed to happen like a thief? Probably. It's hard to argue that you wouldn't. No one wants more time, but you'll learn our plan soon enough before we would do it.

The Restored Church of God.
We could do great things. But we won't.™

Anti-Gospel

2 Corinthians 11:4
For if he that comes preaching another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if you receive another spirit, which you have not received, or another gospel, which you have not accepted, you might well bear with him.

The financial good news/bad news theme repeated itself.

The good news is how well the church is growing financially, and all the wonderful things they could afford to do were countered by the bad news that preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom of God with power would fight God’s purpose.

Part 501 would not be the last time David C. Pack made it known that preaching the Gospel was not the plan for The Restored Church of God going forward.

Part 507 – April 16, 2024
@ 1:16:54 Let's say we were given another year, and we entered it in a strong financial position. Again, God's people have been wonderfully responding.

The people responded by purchasing RCG’s houses because he asked them to.

@ 1:17:28 And we're in a position where we can make a lotta noise. We could rattle some teacups in China. But there's a giant problem with that. You're directly fighting prophecy, and you're subverting it.

STOP

David C. Pack told the brethren of The Restored Church of God that loudly proclaiming the Gospel fights God’s will.

@ 1:17:50 This becomes a metric to me now that I know the plan of God. Literally, doing eh-everything in our power to undermine, to subvert the word of God. The alternative is sit idle. I'd be down in that little, you know, building down there eh-every time I could. And every time I'd do it, would I be, would I be just flat out disobeying God?

David C. Pack just said that recording a World to Come could be a disobedient subversion of God’s word.

@ 1:19:42 But I'll bet you never thought of it quite like that because it would be on me to decide to to sit idle and disobey God or blast this Kingdom against prophecy and disobey God.

@ 1:20:14 And I I just wanna say again, we're in a strong position. I didn't think we'd ever be this strong. I prayed that we would be. …Couldn't be in a better position with the bank. We used to have ten different debts. We got one now. Within a few weeks, we'll have one.

Brethren of The Restored Church of God, if your funds are not used to preach the Gospel of the Kingdom of God, why are you paying your tithes, offerings, and Common to that church? Why even attend? So, what is the point of “doing the Work?” What is “the Work?”

Mark 16:15
And He said unto them, Go you into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature.

Galatians 1:8-9
But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that you have received, let him be accursed.

Part 559 – February 22, 2025
@ 1:20:59 Wonderful bit of good news. …But I think it's possible that by more than a little, the church will be out of debt in five weeks. And through, you know, [chuckles] it’s an incredible it’s an incredible picture, actually. We’re not just gonna get outta debt, we’re going to explode out of debt. Way beyond anything I could have imagined. There’re couple little things we were able to do.

The “couple little things” involved selling $2.8 million in real estate to twenty Headquarters members and ushering them into financial debt. To David C. Pack, widows are resources to harvest from.

@ 1:21:53 We could go on and do a an unbelievably powerful work and have no debt and no monthly payment.

@ 1:22:15 We had enormous assets, and we were able to convert some of them in an extraordinary way.

Extracting $2.8 million from church members is not exactly extraordinary. Neither is converting your corporate debt into the private debt of others.

@ 1:22:22 And it it it puts two paths in front of us. Do we go on and do God’s work as we know it now? You got–we hafta be careful because …even though we could, we could get very, very loud. And rattle a lot a teacups. And the church would boom with growth in a way we couldn’t.

This all sounds like excellent news. But the bad news in 3…2…1...

@ 1:22:55 But that’s not our goal. We gotta be careful.

David C. Pack has picked up on Bradford Schleifer’s greasy verbal maneuvering. Dave weaves in and out, up and around the financial relief while blending it with cues he will not spend the money on preaching the Gospel.

@ 1:23:47 And and you could get excited about that. And it has been a prayer that the church would have no debt. …We'll have none, and we'll have a lot in the bank…

What should the brethren be excited about? What is the point if the church is debt-free but will NOT preach the Gospel? Why has David C. Pack been praying for years about removing the corporate debt while preaching nonstop since 2018 that Jesus Christ was about to return?

Part 536 – September 18, 2024
@ 32:17 And and and brethren, it should be pretty clear, there’s no way I am doing this so the church can benefit from it unless I am an unbeliever and do not believe the Kingdom is coming this fall. So, there’s no way I could be doing this. It's impossible, unless I am a grand liar, that I could be saying, "I don't want your money." 

Thou hast said.

Debt Gloating

David C. Pack was giddy with excitement, anticipating the real estate deals he covertly orchestrated would soon be executive. Sugar plums of gold danced in his head, knowing the bank would no longer own the grass he coveted.

Part 565 – March 22, 2025
@ 1:14:24 Let me thank the church. By April 12^th, it will be wiped out. There’ll be no more. Not only that, we’ll have more money in the bank than we have ever had and no debt. And the church is growing faster than it has in ten years. Those are my prayers for a long time. We’ll have no debt. 

The church is growing faster and just in time to not preach the Gospel because Jesus Christ is not about to return. The Kingdom did not come on Abib 1 or Passover, and it will certainly not come during this Pentecost.

Part 567 – March 29, 2025
@ 1:10:36 The church will pay off its debt on either Tuesday or Wednesday of this week, either April 1st or April 2nd. …We're in a we're in a position so unbelievable I I almost I I don't think I could find the words. It's unimaginable. We don't need any Holy Day money to do it. We've got huge additional funds coming in. We're growing even faster than a week ago.

What is the point of an unbelievable position if they do nothing with it?

Part 568 – April 5, 2025
@ 00:23 I wanted just to tell everybody, and I trying to remember if it was April 1^st or 2^nd, but the debt is gone. Completely gone, and income is still pouring in. And not only that, we’re growing faster, literally, every week than the week before. …but I just do want to say that how grateful I am to God. I've had a long-standing prayer that the church would close because we all believe we’re in the right year. That the the church age would close with us booming in every way. Solid, stable. Again, in not just no debt but a lot left over. I couldn’t have dreamed.

@ 01:19 And you can this Campus is worth, obviously, many millions of dollars. The amount that we still owed on it was not many millions, but it was millions. And we had some other things we were we were getting rid of, as well. And to be able to do that and to give large raises and schedule more if we had to go on… but we’ve doubled the media media budget, which is causing more growth.

Ten houses were "gotten rid of" from RCG's spreadsheets but sold to naive members so the properties stay in the family to keep the heathens away from the borders of Dave’s lawn. On Akron Road, a little leaven leavens the whole neighborhood.

Kudos to yellow-bellied Ryan Denee for placing advertisements in my MSN feed to attract new members who can foolishly give unbiblical Common so that The Restored Church of God will NOT preach the Gospel of the Kingdom of God.

@ 02:00 Certainly, God answered these prayers that I I’ve had and had a lot of work from other’s help to get to this point where we we have no debts and we’re just in a in a wonderful place but.

It was not a miracle that The Restored Church of God escaped Campus debt. It was David C. Pack's maneuvering and exploitation of members, including two widows. He approached them, sat them down, and pitched how it would benefit the church if they bought their properties and assumed the debt.

If Dave wanted to be honest, Paul Ruiz, Justin Frazier, Raymond Garb, Garrick Oxley, Jim Habboush, Sam Baxter, Charlie Sarracco, Frank Lydick, Sam Maiden, Chantel and Calah Houk, and two elderly widows answered his prayers because he asked them to.

 

If More Debt-Free Time

David C. Pack has been boasting about what he would do if he had more time so frequently, a YouTube Playlist highlights them. The earliest clip is from February 2023. To date, Dave has done nothing he verbally fantasized about.

Part 568 – April 5, 2025
@ 05:45 We’ve tried and tried and tried to grow. It’s one of the reasons I wonder, “How can we have another year?” We’re poised to really take off. In fact, we are. Every week better than the last week.

@ 06:05 But it’s almost a prophecy that we have this right because I’m just telling you. One more year, within a year, with the open door that has been set in front of us long ago, within another year, we could be making tremendous noise in the world. You’ll be surprised. You’d be you’d be amazed at what we could do.

Members of The Restored Church of God may now sit in their chairs completely at peace because their struggles, hard work, and financial sacrifices for the Work’s sake have paid off.

Brethren have endured bruised family relationships, tense workplace circumstances, broken marriages, eating out of cans, ignoring grandchildren on their birthdays, and putting off the dentist so David C. Pack can lay out a clear direction for the church in the year ahead.

@ 06:26 But there not a one of us in this room that wants to do that. And we could almost be directly fighting a prophecy where the work ends in a day of small things.

What is really important to brethren should be what is important to their Pastor General.

@ 06:39 Beautiful, big Campus. Wonderful staff. People all over the world. Huge amount a literature of just sterling quality. Every magie-then-zine that comes out just pops your eyes out. Beautiful Feast sites. Camps. Conferences. Socials. But we’re small. And we were never gonna get big.

Even post-debt, do not hold your breath that anything will change in 2025. Especially now that Dave sitting on his hands has become a doctrine of The Restored Church of God.

Perhaps curious brethren will ask their field mollusk or Headquarters hireling why the Pastor General keeps saying what they could do but will not do it. Responses to those fair questions will be just as satisfying and warm as when people point out David C. Pack contradicts the Bible and fits the precise definition of a false prophet.

2 Peter 2:3
And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you.

Ezekiel 34:3
You eat the fat, and you clothe you with the wool, you kill them that are fed: but you feed not the flock.

Brethren of The Restored Church of God, heed these words because David C. Pack does not.

1 Corinthians 9:16
For though I preach the Gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the Gospel!

David C. Pack’s “The Greatest Untold Debt Story!” is not over. This is Part 2.

Marc Cebrian

See: Exploiting the Gospel Part 2

Exploiting Widows—The Restored Church of God Offloads $2.8 Million Debt onto Its Members (Part 1)

 

Exploiting Widows—The Restored Church of God Offloads $2.8 Million Debt onto Its Members

Second Update May 3, 2025: This article on the exrcg.org website has been updated to reflect the additional property that listed as sold on May 3, 2025. The total sales are now $3.1 million by twenty-three people for thirteen houses.

Update May 2, 2025: RCG sold two more houses valued at $465,000 to members, bringing the total to twelve properties. One of the new buyers is also a widow.

Keep an eye out for 341 Akron Road to be sold soon. The two other external Campus properties are not viable options for new buyers. No one attending The Restored Church of God can afford the $500k Eyesore, and the Hartman Road property hosts the horse barn and pasture.

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Pastor General David C. Pack gleefully declared during “The Greatest Untold Story! (Part 568)” on April 5, 2025, that the Restored Church of God is officially out of debt with extra funds in the bank. The 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization turned a profit while perpetually teaching that the imminent return of Jesus Christ was only days away.

Part 568 – April 5, 2025
@ 00:23 I wanted just to tell everybody, and I trying to remember if it was April 1st or 2nd, but the debt is gone. Completely gone, and income is still pouring in. And not only that, we're growing faster, literally, every week than the week before.

@ 01:04 Again, in not just no debt, but a lot left over. I couldn’t have dreamed. …The number was not huge that we needed, but it was large.

In addition to public donations by non-member “co-workers,” approximately 1,250 adult members globally pay first tithe, excess second tithe, tithe of tithe, third tithe, Holy Day offerings, free-will offerings, fundraisers, and the “sell all” doctrine known as Common, The Restored Church of God now enjoys a debt-free 104-acre Headquarters Campus in Wadsworth, Ohio.

During “The Greatest Untold Story! (Part 536)” on September 18, 2024, David C. Pack pressured the entire church to pay Common before Jesus Christ was to return 15 days later.

Part 536 – September 18, 2024
@ 44:50 The best you can do if you sell all the best you can do is save yourself. You can no longer benefit God’s work. It’s too late. You can benefit yourself, and whatever God says about you shoulda done it sooner, and He will judge you for that.

@ 45:34 I hate to put it that way, but I’m here trying to save your life. There’s no way we’re going to benefit.

@ 1:08:55 If you won’t obey this great test of faith, you simply do not believe the Kingdom of God is coming.

Founded in May 1999, The Restored Church of God publicly claims it preaches the Gospel of the Kingdom of God through a "vast array" of free literature and videos and holds a unique, true understanding of the doctrines of the Bible. However, privately, David C. Pack has set 125 failed dates for the return of Jesus Christ since August 2013.

The Restored Church of God’s Headquarters Campus is out of debt. How did they do it?

The Restored Church of God sold twelve Campus houses
worth $2.8 million to Headquarters members
to offload its debt.

Two of those members is a widow.

The Restored Church of God’s debt relief was carefully coordinated by David C. Pack and negotiated behind the scenes.

While preaching that the Kingdom of God would arrive within days and claiming that neither he nor the church would benefit from the money, David C. Pack quietly approached select members in the Headquarters congregation from early 2024 through April 2025 and asked them to buy houses adjacent to the Campus worth $2.8 million along Akron Road and Hartman Road.

David C. Pack got out of debt by putting two widows into debt.

2 Peter 2:3  
And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you.

The great irony of this financial arrangement is that David C. Pack teaches that only faithless members have not yet paid their Common. Fortunately for him, seventeen faithless people at Headquarters could afford to buy a Campus property.

This information is publicly available on the Medina County Auditor’s website. Under the Advanced tab, type in the Seller's Name field: "restored church" to find the property records.

March 20, 2024 – 852 Akron Road – Pablo Ruiz
RCG Bought 5/22/20: $105,000
RCG Sold: $200,000 [+$95,000]

April 3, 2024 – 754 Akron Road – Justin Frazier
RCG Bought 5/16/18: $252,000
RCG Sold: $325,000 [+$73,000]

April 24, 2024 – 8421 Hartman Road – Raymond & Kirsten Garb
RCG Bought 8/4/17: $85,000
RCG Sold: $154,700 [+$69,700]

March 11, 2025 – 303 Akron Road – [Widow]
RCG Bought 1/18/12: $100,000
RCG Sold: $199,000 [+$99,000]

March 27, 2025 – 383 Akron Road – Garrick & Larissa Oxley
RCG Bought 1/20/15: $140,000
RCG Sold: $222,000 [+$82,000]

April 2, 2025 – 293 Akron Road – James & Sarah Habboush
RCG Bought 7/18/12: $220,000
RCG Sold: $240,000 [+$20,000]

April 2, 2025 – 331 Akron Road – Samuel & Angela Baxter
RCG Bought 7/31/15: $145,000
RCG Sold: $253,500 [+$108,500]

April 2, 2025 – 321 Akron Road – Charlie & Brandy Sarracco
RCG Bought 7/21/15: $156,500
RCG Sold: $253,000 [+$96,500]

April 3, 2025 – 313 Akron Road – Frank & Jody Lydick
RCG Bought 12/3/15: $220,000
RCG Sold: $330,000 [+$110,000]

April 25, 2025 – 361 Akron Road – Samuel & Nicole Maiden
RCG Bought 9/5/14: $132,000
RCG Sold: $235,000 [+$103,000]

May 1, 2025 – 351 Akron Road – Chauntel & Calah Houk
RCG Bought 2/27/18: $150,400
RCG Sold: $220,000 [+$69,600]

May 1, 2025 – 369 Akron Road – [Another Widow]
RCG Bought 8/10/15: $135,000
RCG Sold: $245,000 [+$110,000]

RCG Sold Properties to RCG Members Worth $2,877,200

 

RCG’s Debt Cycle Summary

1–Members gave David C. Pack their money to preach the Gospel of the Kingdom of God.

2–David C. Pack used the members’ money to secure bank loans to buy houses, upgrade, and maintain them.

3–David C. Pack asked members to move into those houses and charged them rent. Members paid rent to RCG on houses that were bought with their money.

4–David C. Pack asked members to buy the houses he bought with their money after they had been paying rent on them.

5–The Restored Church of God escaped corporate debt by putting members into debt while profiting from the increased home values.

6–David C. Pack has taught 125 failed dates, and The Kingdom of God has not arrived, but members continue to pay RCG tithes, offerings, and Common.

A Tale of Two Exploited Widows

Directly motivated by David C. Pack’s greed, there are heartbreaking stories in RCG’s history about the treatment of widows. Their identities will remain anonymous, but their cautionary tales are a warning for others.

Matthew 23:14
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayer: therefore you shall receive the greater damnation.

Zechariah 7:10
And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor…

Exodus 22:22-24
You shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child. If you afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto Me, I will surely hear their cry; And My wrath shall wax hot…

God has a special affection for widows. Pastor General David C. Pack does not.

David C. Pack built his religious empire using other people’s money and said behind closed doors, “You never use your own money to build a business. Use other people’s money.” This is how The Restored Church of God’s Campus was financed.

Widow #1

In March 2025, Widow #1 paid $199,000 for a house connected to the Headquarters Campus to help The Restored Church of God get out of debt. But this is not the first time she has been asked for thousands of dollars by David C. Pack.

She received an inheritance after her mother died. Her husband was a deacon, and they had assets, including a nice trailer on 1.5 acres. Her husband was diagnosed with bladder cancer, but he refused treatment so he could “walk in faith.”

Complications from the untreated cancer caused a blockage in his urinary tract. He became debilitated when he suffered a stroke from a blood clot. She was her husband’s caretaker until he died.

With direction from David C. Pack, agents of The Restored Church of God pressured Widow #1 to pay Common to The Restored Church of God. She pledged her funds, but moving assets through probate and real estate banking entities takes time. The Pastor General has a poor understanding of how long financial matters take to execute, even with willing donors. Multiple sources confirm that David C. Pack often expresses frustration that receiving funds “takes too long” and has accused members of stalling.

David C. Pack told the minister involved, “She’s procrastinating. Get that money.” The former employee also noted, “Pack lusts after money. He kept telling me, Get that money. Get that money.”

They got her money from the real estate sale and inheritance from her mother. She is now a Headquarters employee who purchased a $199,000 home so David C. Pack can ride his horse in peace, knowing the Campus is debt-free because of the generosity of a widow.

But she is not the only one with a story worth telling.

Widow #2

Widow #2 once enjoyed a house by a lake with her two children and her husband, an insurance broker. After he died suddenly, she was left with over $900,000 in a life insurance policy payout. Her husband planned to ensure she and their children would be cared for after he was gone.

Then, David C. Pack sat her down alongside two other ministers and pressured her to give it all to the church. Because she was a faithful woman who believed RCG was “the one, true church” and David C. Pack was an apostle, she was willing to give “until it hurt.”

The scheme that David C. Pack pitched was for her to think of giving all her money as an investment. Her spiritual reward would be in the Kingdom of God, but since he wanted to make sure “she was taken care of,” RCG would grant her permanent third tithe assistance each month of around $2,000. That was half the monthly budget for all third tithe assistance in the church.

One of those ministers privately urged her to keep a portion large enough to protect herself from a rainy day, pay for future healthcare, and have the ability to afford a small home. She would have gladly given most of it if he had not warned her.

She sold her original home, moved, and bought another one in Wadsworth. She gave RCG funds from the home sale and her husband’s insurance payout.

She has since remarried after giving her Common and remains a member of The Restored Church of God. She was not the second widow who bought a Campus home.

David C. Pack tells the brethren of The Restored Church of God who and what he is. If only they had eyes to see and ears to hear what their Pastor General said to the church in 2024 when he urged them to send in their Common before Jesus Christ returned on Trumpets.

Part 536 – September 18, 2024
@ 32:17 And and and brethren, it should be pretty clear, there’s no way I am doing this so the church can benefit from it unless I am an unbeliever and do not believe the Kingdom is coming this fall. So, there’s no way I could be doing this. It's impossible, unless I am a grand liar, that I could be saying, "I don't want your money." I don't get your money. I don’t get a pay raise. 

James 1:27
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

We are commanded to visit a widow in her affliction, not cause it.

Psalm 146:9
The LORD preserves the strangers; He relieves the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked He turns upside down.

David C. Pack does not relieve the widow but exploits her.

Isaiah 10:1-2
Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed; To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!

Common is an unrighteous decree. Widows are prey for David C. Pack while he says, “Get that money.”

Malachi 3:5
And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, says the LORD of hosts.

David C. Pack oppresses the widow without fearing God.

The Headquarters hirelings in The Restored Church of God are no less guilty as they silently stand by, complicit in a system of spiritual and financial exploitation.

Isaiah 1:17
Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

Bradford Schleifer, Carl Houk, Edward Winkfield, Jaco Viljoen, Frank Lydick, Salasi Jezhi, James Habboush, Andrew Holcombe, Raymond Garb, and that notable coward, Ryan Denee, refuse to plead for the widows.

Ezekiel 22:27-29
Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain. And her prophets have daubed them with untempered morter, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus says the Lord GOD, when the LORD has not spoken. The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy…

Bradford Schleifer, Carl Houk, Edward Winkfield, Jaco Viljoen, Frank Lydick, Salasi Jezhi, James Habboush, Andrew Holcombe, Raymond Garb, and that notable coward, Ryan Denee, are ravening wolves supporting dishonest gain.

These enablers willfully disregard the blasphemy, hypocrisy, and lies of their human idol so they can maintain their positions of power in a spiritually corrupt yet debt-free organization.

David C. Pack’s “The Greatest Untold Debt Story!” is far from over. This is Part 1.

Marc Cebrian:

See: Exploiting Widows—The Restored Church of God Offloads $2.4 Million Debt onto Its Members

For Enhanced Credibility

The little tidbit below is from a forward in COGWA's Discern magazine titled, Christianity’s Strange Story, by Clyde Kilough that covers articles about Christianity, Pentecost, and Constantine.

It starts off about Pentecost and makes the claim that almost all Christian churches today claim Pentecost as part of their story. They supposedly do it to "enhance their story" about themselves, unlike the Churches of God, who use it to...uh... enhance the story about themselves. Armstrongism is sooooo fun!

Pentecost—it’s an odd word with a strange story.
Its Greek origin simply means “count 50” (referring to calculating its timing), but there is nothing simplistic about its Old Testament origin and New Testament explanation. Together they reveal some of the deepest meanings of God’s work with humanity. 

 

Today virtually all Christian denominations commemorate Pentecost, claiming (for enhanced credibility) to trace their lineage to that holy day in the first century that clearly marks the beginning of the Church.

Armstrongism is also guilty of this! It claims direct lineage to the 1st century church and claims to practice 1st century Christianity, which it clearly does not do.

Armstrongism has taken in all kinds of myths and stories to enhance its credibility and perfect image over the pagan so-called Christians that they see surrounding it. We have the absurd British Israelism myth, the one true church, the becoming God as God is God, church eras, church government, and many more extra-biblical enhancements that make Armstrongism unique.

Kilough goes on to say this:

That day’s events literally altered the course of world history. We cannot fathom what today’s world would be without the impact of the religion(s) that emerged. Even hardened skeptics are forced to admit that something powerful occurred. How else could a body of believers suddenly appear, quickly permeate the Roman Empire, and so upset the established religions that they would rail against Christians as “these who have turned the world upside down” (Acts 17:6)? 

 

Today, though, it’s the world that appears to have turned Christianity upside down. Or is it possible that an imposter “Christianity” that Jesus Himself forewarned us about is now reaping the fruit of the seeds it sowed long ago? That’s another topic in this issue: “How an Emperor Corrupted Christianity.”

What about today's imposter Christianity that permeates the Churches of God? We see men like Bob Thiel, Dave Pack, and Gerald Flurry who have made a mockery of Christianity, the church, and Jesus himself. Liars in the Chruch of God are given places of honor in today's COG movement, so Armstrongism shouldn't be so quick to condemn the "worldly" Christians around them. 

That’s part of traditional Christianity’s strange post-Pentecost story. It’s akin to a “switched at
birth” shocker, with the aged Christianity not much resembling its infant counterpart. What happened?

If you want to see a "switched at birth shocker," then look at the abysmal mess that Armstrongism is in today! How can any of them honestly believe they are practicing 1st-century Christianity? How can any of them claim to be heirs of the Holy Spirit sent at Pentecost?