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Anyone who has been in the church long enough prior to the church imploding got to hear Rod Meredith and others brag about how he was a Golden Gloves champion. Many interpreted this braggadocio by him as a vain attempt to prove his masculinity. Plus, titles and recognition are so important to so many COG leaders.
Well, things might be a little different than what Mr. Golden Gloves claimed. A reader here sent me this:
Golden Gloves kept good records of all their champions. Guess whose name isn’t on the list? š
The assassination attempt on former U.S. President Donald J. Trump in Pennsylvania on July 13 has brought out the worst in the worst people. David C. Pack is no exception. The Pastor General of The Restored Church of God seized the opportunity to exploit that shocking event to elevate himself and conjure the illusion of his biblical legitimacy.
David C. Pack spent the past 11 years proving he is an incompetent prophecy expert while staring in the mirror, telling himself he is God's chosen vessel disseminating "just in time" knowledge, opening the door for the return of Jesus Christ. The documented fact he has been wrong 84 times since March 2022 is a minor public relations inconvenience.
During “The Greatest Untold Story! (Part 524)” on July 17, 2024, David C. Pack quickly capitalized on the nation-rocking incident as an indicator of prophetic timing and how he is closely attuned to biblical understanding.
Part 524 – July 17, 2024 @ 00:13 I’ve seen some of you, of course, at the picnic since the assassination attempt. I feel I should make a few comments about it. A number of people drew the same conclusion. Talking to a lot of ministers and others. And now, of course, with four days passing since the attempt to, you know, murder the former president. In many ways, it has created what I thought would be the case, and I said it Saturday night as I sat glued to the television as perhaps some of you were that Breakout had begun.
When David C. Pack sits alone in front of his television set, he proves to himself he is right and is so sure that he says it out loud. The man cannot even watch the news without being arrogant about it.
"Breakout" is what he calls an end-time calamity of worsening world conditions and chaos that occur before the Kingdom of God's arrival. This is the "sky is falling" aspect of Dave's shtick. He occasionally dawns on his Chicken Little costume and shifts into his Doom and Gloom Preacher persona.
Breakout has begun before. When Hama invaded Israel in October 2023, Dave jumped all over that, telling brethren it was the greatest metric of prophetic timing, proving Dave's authenticity. Nine months later, we are still looking out our windows, waiting for world hell to arrive in the front yard.
@ 04:41 I’m just telling you. This is exploding across the world. Every world leader’s talking about it. There is genuine fear in America now. And I mean genuine fear.
@ 07:08 So, it looks to me like Breakout has begun. Nothing is calming down.
@ 08:42 So, we’re in a we’re in a very dangerous time. And and and I wuh–I I adjure all of us, pray fervently. Stay close to God and pray for one another as the Bible tells us to do time and again.
@ 1:53:58 But, could God want Breakout to grow even worse? I’m sorry to say this, but maybe much worse. …There’re horrifically evil people in various high places.
@ 1:55:40 It looks like what Habakkuk saw, interestingly enough, President Trump was shot on a Sabbath.
@ 1:59:14 I think we're into Breakout, and I wish I didn't have to say this, but I suspect it’s gonna get much worse.
Exploiting an Assassination Attempt:
Fearmongering? Check.
After establishing the prophetic finish line is just over the horizon and the world is about to get super crazy, Dave reminds the members of The Restored Church of God that they are in the right place. If they want to escape torture and death, they better stay seated.
@ 1:02:03 You know, we’re separated from a lot of other brethren who think we’re crazy just because we won’t give up what they said they’d never give up.
Dave’s perversion of reality is so far removed from the truth.
People do not think those trapped inside The Restored Church of God are “crazy” because they will not forsake the Sabbath, Holy Days, or bacon. The perception of “crazy” rests with members ignoring their Bibles that they claim to believe and willfully turning off their brains to blindly follow a blaspheming, hypocritical liar with a proven history of being a false teacher, false apostle, and false prophet.
It is “crazy” for people to continue to pay David C. Pack to spin ever-changing theological tall tales. His enormously long and powerful lists prove whatever date for the arrival of the Kingdom of God withers the moment he stands up. It is “crazy” for followers to keep ignoring that.
@ 1:09:14 I look at this Campus and I think of we’ve seen rainbows. Like God says, you know, I’m here.We’ve seen dark and cloudy days. Extraordinarily dark and cloudy days like the way the Bible describes like God is saying, “I’m I’m kinda giving you a preview.”
@ 1:09:55 Is the Father nearby? It would be impossible for you to convince me the Father does not walk this Campus.
Without any proof, Dave wishes this to be. Money fraudulently coerced from the brethren built and maintain the Headquarters Campus. By asserting God the Father walks the grounds, it means there is divine approval. Dave wants that so badly he can taste it.
@ 1:10:43 It’s impossible to separate Joseph from the from the story of this little flock that sold all that did these amazing things under ferocious fire and attack by people who wanted us as as dead as that shooter wanted the president.
Nobody has ever taken a shot at David C. Pack because nobody cares enough to bother. The absence of a murder attempt is not divine protection but a testimony of his ineffective unimportance.
Dave held up church members as his personal meat shield. “People who wanted US as dead…” There must be a collective perceived animosity not focused on the biblically corrupt leader.
@ 1:13:00 It oughta make people think long and hard about leaving this church. I don’t think we have much time,but the point is there are always people who swallow a whole bottle of Stupid Pills in a particular day, and that's the end of it.
Exploiting an Assassination Attempt:
RCG is The Only Place? Check.
The assassination theme was threaded throughout Part 524, giving Dave's standard short-clock malarkey more texture and flavor.
@ 1:27:05 But this the 12th [of Tammuz], so we’re obviously in a delay into a day beyond the 12th. Now, I’m told by God, “You kept My watch.”
@ 1:32:33 Anybody who saw the assassination can’t possibly believe, if they’re watching the news, we’re gonna go another year even if we didn’t know that 2031 is a Year of Liberty two thousand years after after Christ and seven years after the First Kingdom began.
@ 1:50:52 So, we’re waiting for Av 1? Well, lemme just tell ya, on July 1, I made a list of of Av 1 possibilities. There’s scores of ‘em that point to Av 1.
David C. Pack exercises the antithesis of inspired preaching as he spitballs when the Kingdom of God might arrive. He proves that over25,000 hours of Bible study since 2015 still is not good enough to be accurate regarding prophecy.
@ 1:53:27 And don’t forsake the assembling of yourselves together as you look out the window and you see raging Breakout and hell. Don’t do it. Don’t fear. If it goes longer, don’t say, you know, “My Lord delays,” and panic and leave.
Exploiting an Assassination Attempt:
We’re Close—But If Not, Don’t Leave? Check.
David C. Pack glistens with his own self-importance. As of Part 524, he does not claim to be a prophet or Elijah (wink-wink) anymore, but he does have special knowledge nobody else can access. Ignore the paragraphs in RCG literature stating an office in God’s Government is given and cannot be acquired by human effort. There are no office take-backs. Dave must have forgotten that part of the books he co-wrote.
Dave's desire to be relevant is so raw it is screaming.
@ 05:58 Now, anybody who's been around me knows, brethren, I’ve been saying for months, “They’re going to shoot the President.”
If only that could be confirmed. He neglected to say it publicly, so we just have to take his word for it. David C. Pack is an unreliable narrator who often distorts reality into the perverted shape he desires. Maybe he said it. Maybe he did not. Either way, trusting his words is a fool’s errand.
@ 07:54 We are told, “Fear not.” I don’t wanna say I’m a prophet [chuckles] ‘cause, you know, I’ve had what I’ve said about that. But I will tell you, I I expected them to take a shot.
Stop
Note the placement of his chuckle. He does not want to “say” he is a prophet “but” he knows he is. That chuckle betrayed his lie.
Dave channeled his inner Alex Jones with “them” taking a shot at President Trump. Who are they? Insert your favorite conspiracy theory HERE.
@ 08:12 I I half-expect the next time they’re gonna get him.
They? Who? The Clintons? The Bilderberg Group? George Soros? Professor Xavier’s Illuminati?
“Half-expect” sounds very non-committal to me. But on the bright side, David C. Pack just guaranteed President Donald J. Trump cannot be assassinated. There is no way on this earth Dave can ever be even partially right about anything he teaches. It is not possible.
Thanks to the ranting of false prophet and false apostle David C. Pack, Pastor General of The Restored Church of Another god, Mr. Trump now wears divine Kevlar.
Well, he did for about one second.
@ 08:15 Or they’re gonna they’ll wound him or something. Who knows what will happen?
Dave’s confidence shriveled faster than it swelled. That was the quickest moonwalk in RCG history. The brethren must be so grateful for the keen insight provided by their human idol.
Mr. Trump needs to be on the lookout for “something” next time. Thanks for the inspired head’s up, Dave.
@ 1:45:40 How far could you get past the 5th [of Tammuz]? How far can you get past the midst of the years? It’s impossible to argue with those dates. What I wasn’t an expert on years ago, I am now. I could teach the rabbis stuff they don’t know.
Exploiting an Assassination Attempt:
David C. Pack is Special? Check.
In the quagmire that is Part 524, full moons became a big deal just as RCG started phasing out new moons. Av 1 on August 5 is back in the crosshairs as a definite maybe, but because there is a built-in delay, knowing the day and hour will remain a mystery. Oh, and the Father is already in Joseph at the start of the Kingdom of God. So, there is that.
Capitalizing on the assassination attempt of former U.S. President Donald J. Trump, David C. Pack uses that fearmongering theme to season the same boring nonsense he has been preaching for over eight years.
David C. Pack’s most despicable exploitation will be the focus next time.
It has been a while since I have checked out the posts on Concretized Christianity They had this excellent piece up recently about how the Church of God has been so good at taking scripture out of context. They start off with a zinger about the "cheerful giver", which has been twisted by the COG to justify tithing and giving generously to the church. They demonstrate that it means nothing of the sort.
The other excellent point is the COG attitude that when everyone who is a true Christian becomes a king or priest in the kingdom they will be sitting around ruling over underlings doing all of the work as they revel in their new power and authority and do nothing to get their hands dirty.
I have long said that if the church really wanted to grow and practice what they claim about the kingdom then they would want to do all they can in this day and life to bring a foretaste of that to those around them by helping in disasters, the local food bank or kitchen, and doing good in their communities.
Lifting Scriptures Out of Context
The COG groups are infamous for lifting scriptures out of context and applying them to a different narrative. If we’re so busy reading a group’s literature and listening to their online content that we don’t have time to sit down and study the word of God (the Bread of Life), we will not be able to tell when they do this and why it is wrong.
One example of this is something we hear on almost every holy day.
“But this I say: He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver.” (II Corinthians 9:6-7) is often read before taking up an offering, as if it applies to giving money to a corporate organization. But, when you read the context in II Corinthians 8, it is really about collecting an offering for another congregation (in Jerusalem) in need.
So beyond the misuse of the scriptures for something it’s not talking about, let’s stop and consider whether we have ever had a request to help another congregation in need. Have you seen a collective effort for food, water, money, supplies, etc., for example, for a congregation in an area that has been devastated by a tornado, a wildfire, or a hurricane? Have volunteers from the COG congregations poured into those communities to help out?
The short answer is “No.” The corporate COG groups diss “so-call Christians” for many things, and yet these are the very people who respond in a tangible way after a disaster. Want to make disciples and preach the gospel? Live it by helping and serving others, especially when their worlds have been turned upside down.
In fact, is this any different than what we will be doing when Jesus establishes God’s kingdom on the earth? Humans who are still alive are going to be shell-shocked and they will need the most basic of their needs met. Food, water, shelter, clothing.
Someone thumping on a Bible and “preaching” at them won’t help them a bit. Someone helping provide those basic necessities will. In the process, they will see the fruit of God’s spirit on display: agape, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. That will make an impact, considering what they have just experienced, and that’s the first step.
One of the things that the COG groups imply is that we’ll have offices and ranks and we will sit on thrones and direct little underlings, but you and I won’t actually get in there and get our hands dirty laboring to help people. For me, that’s no better than the idea of going to heaven and playing a harp for eternity.
We’ll be a kingdom of priests to our God. What does that look like? We don’t have to look any further than our High Priest, Jesus. What did He do when He was on the earth? What does He do now?
He served and He serves. He didn’t go sit down and pontificate somewhere and ignore the needs of the people he encountered. He healed, he fed, he counseled. Most of his actual teaching was confined to his disciples (120 by the time we get to Acts 1). Now as our High Priest, He mediates, intercedes, and saves us. That’s work, my friends (at least in my case, it is!).
I recently heard a sermon about the life of Hezekiah. And I encountered another instance of lifting scripture out of context. The speaker actually said that the second part of II Kings 20 happened before the first part. I’ve never seen such an egregious act of completely twisting a narrative.
To summarize the story as the speaker told it, Hezekiah showed the Babylonian ambassadors everything in Jerusalem before he got sick, showing a lack of faith in God, but later down the road he got sick and humbled himself.
That’s not true. Period. The Babylonian ambassadors came to Hezekiah because they heard he had been sick!
Why did God give Hezekiah 15 more years of life when he was dying? I think II Chronicles 32:31 gives us an idea. It was a test and Hezekiah failed. Now, in II Chronicles 32, there is a second mention of Hezekiah humbling himself after he showed everything to the Babylonian ambassadors and God not letting the fall of Jerusalem happen during his lifetime.
But when you read the same account in II Kings 20, Hezekiah’s attitude seems less humble. He basically responds to God’s judgement with relief that it wouldn’t happen while he was alive and a total lack of concern that his children would experience it. Not exactly my idea of father of the year.
We cannot twist scripture and lift it out of context for our own meanings and interpretations. In a sense, this is no different from adding to scripture and taking away from scripture, against which God gives strict warnings twice.
We also need to know the word of God intimately so we know when other people are doing this. Otherwise, we’re ripe for deception, and there is more than enough of that already going around.
Let’s study the word of God instead of the words of man. One is absolute truth. The other is not. Concretized Christianity
