Friday, October 14, 2022

RCG Feast Follies



RCG Feast Follies

 

The Feast of Tabernacles for The Restored Church of God has been refreshingly quiet on the David C. Pack speaking front. He spoke four times in the past, but so far, only once this year. Even a false prophet needs a little vacay once in a while.

 

The "watch day-by-day" sentiment was getting old, so they decided to breathe new life into the running joke by posting this in Member Services yesterday:

 

We are about to reach what becomes the final day we long wondered if we would back into--where the Church knows the day. Apparently the Kingdom was going to start on a Sabbath after all. Our watch is for about 12.5 hours from dusk to dawn Jerusalem time. Calculate accordingly. Also as we long suspected, the Kingdom of God is seven days (Sabbath dawn to Sabbath dawn) and 3.5 more of great tribulation before the Day of Christ. As best we understand, this is the last opportunity for 2022.

 

 

This is it. The end of the road. The long struggle to get to the correct Kingdom arrival date has been reached. 

 

Sunset in Jerusalem today begins at 6:08 PM.

 

The 12.5 hours of watching starts today at 11:08 AM Eastern, 8:08 AM Western.

 

Sunrise in Jerusalem on Saturday begins at 6:42 AM.

 

The 12.5 hours of watching ends tonight at 11:42 PM Eastern, 8:42 PM Western.

 

Everyone can feel certain because the text is certain. This is very matter-of-fact wording:

 

“We are about to reach what becomes…”

“Apparently the Kingdom was going to start on a Sabbath after all.”

“Also as we long suspected, the Kingdom of God is seven days…”

 

Those sentences are constructed with a surety found when documenting history even though the David C. Pack 12.5 Hour Failathon has already begun. There will be more moonwalking before the day is over. What an exciting time in prophecy.

 

Note the 7 days and the 3.5 days mentioned as We revisit Part 394.

 

Part 394 – September 24, 2022

@ 07:04 …God never intended 10 days, or 7 days, or 3.5 days, or any days to precede the Feast of Trumpets.He’s going to do everything in that one day of so many names.

 

It is hard to know what to write in your notes with a pencil or pen. It is probably best to not take notes at all because whatever you hear will soon change. That is an established church tradition.

 

Deep down, Dave knows he is a fraud. That "uncomfortable" feeling that strikes him after he speaks is witness to that. Even when he constructs a concrete fortress of inarguable proofs, there is always a trap door under the bed that he can slip through when disaster strikes.

 

“As best we understand…”

 

Ah. There it is. It is all an undeniable fact…as best we understand. We. We. We. All the way home. Notice how Dave could not even bring himself to assign his own name to it.

 

…this is the last opportunity for 2022.

 

Not the “last” by any stretch of the imagination.

 

The Coffee Kid, Meat Shield (sans wife), and Dave conspired to concoct this last gasp of prophetic nonsense just in time for the Sabbath. There is going to be a late-night strategy meeting when nothing happens. So much for the day of rest.

 

My educated guess as a non-prophet/non-psychic is that he will speak one more time before the Feast is over because he cannot have everyone contemplate his latest failures while boarding the airplane.

 

The Last Great Dave is on Monday. He would have to speak on Sunday if he wants everyone to hear his latest presumption circus before they formulate their resignation letters on the drive home. Look forward to Part 399 on the horizon.

 

Dennis Diehl brought up a concept in a comment on the website that I will borrow here.

 

David C. Pack believes that each failure gets him one step closer to being right.

 

Most people who succeed get past failure and approach success because they learn along the way. Dave is not learning.

 

He is not climbing stairs toward being right. He is on an escalator. Each step he takes repeats the same errors, keeping him in place. That sounds like a form of hell to me.

 

 

The desperation inside RCG is becoming more apparent.

 

One disturbing development this year at the Feast of Tabernacles is the change of policy for events. 

 

RCG is becoming PCG.

 

The Restored Church of God emulates the same Gestapo hardline tactics The Philadelphia Church of God perfected decades ago. Family members who are ex-members were ejected and disinvited from the Dinner Dance and the Not-The-Entire-Family Day.

 

This is counter to all the other years inside RCG.

 

Compromised “ministers” became enforcers, enacting policies they knew were unloving, yet did it anyway. Like a mobster given an order to whack someone they liked. They felt terrible about it but still pulled the trigger because the boss wanted it done. That is the RCG way.

 

The Chicago Heavy must have greater pull in The Restored Church of Another god than previously thought. Eject your teen from the home if they no longer want to attend. Eject anyone else from a Feast event for the same reason. 2022 will undoubtedly be "the best Feast ever."

 

And here we thought Elijah was supposed to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the children to their fathers. We will see after the Feast how well that worked out.

 

Not every problem needs to be solved with a belt, Dave.

 

Due to the constant leaking of information, maybe Dave was afraid footage of him doing the Electric Slide would go public. After all, that is what a devilish person would want to see.

 

If some families were on the fence going into the Feast, this would certainly help push them over to the side RCG did not intend. It would affect not only those who were removed but everyone who witnessed and heard about it. The Sword of the Lord was very active during this Feast.

 

Dave and Team Lockdown do not realize that by trying to plug one leaking hole in the dyke, they actually create three more.

 

This calls for another Star Wars quote.

 

Princess Leia

The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.

 

If God wants the information to continue to leak out, it will leak out. If God wants the information flow to stop, it will stop. I did not start it, and I do not control it. Let God's will be done in this matter. Amen.

 

 

It is time to have a little bit of fun once again.

 

Dave sang to the “ministers” during the Feast to remind them who they really serve.



Marc Cebrain: 

Jim Franks Says Its Ok To Help People Outside the Church

 



A reader here posted this today:

Apparently, one message by Jim Franks at the Feast this year was considered really good because he said we should care and help others outside the COGs when we can. This just now occurring to them is pretty strong evidence that they have not been practicing real Christianity all these years. Earl

Imagine being a COG Leader in 2022 and not realizing it was OK to help those outside the COG whenever you can. Those who have left the church and many still in the COG's understand this and already practice it, but far too many claim that helping others is not good and takes money away from the church to spread whatever it is they claim is a gospel.

I remember when Joseph Tkach helped those outside the church that have suffered through some calamity and watched certain ordained individuals crap their self-righteous pants because he help unconverted people.

it's no owner the COG's cannot attract new members anymore.


Wednesday, October 12, 2022

Crackpot COG Prophet Wants To Know If You Are Qualifying or Disqualifying?

 


Why is it that COG ministers, particularly self-appointed ones who have no real theological education, always try and keep their members burdened down with impossible laws and expectations instead of teaching their followers to revel in grace with unabandoned joy? 

Church of God members are in a constant state of turmoil trying to do things to impress their god so that at some point in the future they might be forgiven and loved.

Because these men have placed their entire focus on shadows and laws that were designed to make the children of Israel a separate unique people at that time, they continue to live in the past burdened down by laws they can never fully keep and thus live in a constant state of wondering if God has going to abandon them.  Under the New Covenant, those expectations were accomplished by the works of the One who is greater than those laws, the very One Christians have been following for centuries in faith and absolute confidence.

This kind of theological depravity results in Bob Thiel saying things like he has written below.

Are You Qualifying or Disqualifying?
This message is a 21st century update of a message given at the Feast of Tabernacles in 1982 by the late Pastor General of the old Worldwide Church of God, Herbert W. Armstrong. In this sermon, Dr. Thiel goes over scriptures about the role of Christians as kings and priests in the kingdom of God, the influence and flaws of Satan, and humanities choices. He goes over promises that Jesus gave Christians as well as warnings from Jesus and the Apostle Paul about disqualifying. Dr. Thiel also gives some clues about when Jesus may return. He also discusses what humanity will do to the world and how much better the millennial kingdom of God will be.

A 17th Century theologian sums up the confidence Christians live with:

  • Therefore, in this Covenant, we do not only receive Light, but the Fullness of Light.
  • Not only Life, but the Fullness of Life, because Christ is our Life whom we receive in this Covenant.
  • Not only Strength, but the Fullness of Strength; The Lord is the Strength of my heart, and my Portion forever.
  • Not only Pardon of Sin, but Fullness of Pardon; or, the Fullest Pardon, complete Pardon.
  • Not only Righteousness, but the Fullness of Righteousness; perfect and complete Righteousness, and you are complete in him.
  • Not only Peace, but the Fullness of Peace; Peace that passes all understanding.
  • Not only Beauty, but the Fullness of Beauty; for it was perfect, * thro’ my Comeliness which I put upon thee, saith the Lord God.
  • Not only knowledge, but the Fullness of knowledge; And ye also are Full of all goodness, filled with all knowledge. The parts may be weak, yet where Christ dwells or hath taken possession of the heart, there the Soul hath a Fullness of Spiritual knowledge: Our Vessels may be full though’ but small.
  • And Not only Joy, but the Fullness of Joy; These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full. Again, he saith, Ask and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full; ’tis called, unspeakable joy, and full of Glory.
  • Lastly, And not only Glory, but the Fullness of Glory; for the Fullness of the Glory of Heaven is contained in this Covenant, or the perfect and full enjoyment of God, even the Beatifical Vision.  Benjamin Keach (1640-1704)

Leave the lies of Bob Thiel and live a life free! Stop worrying about whether or not you are qualified or disqualified.



PCG Member Ignores Relative On His Deathbed And Chooses To Go To The Feast Instead


 

The utter depravity of Armstrongism rears its ugly head now and then, particularly in the more aberrant personality cults like the Philadelphia Church of God. Leaders in these groups pretend that they speak for God and have restored truths never understood for 2,000 years. God supposedly speaks directly through them and the members lap it all up as divine truth.

The PCG has made a huge effort over the years to break up families and destroy marriages if any of their members associate with former members and family members and have left the church. In many documented cases there have been suicides due to the heavy burdens placed upon the members.

When you read below the accounts of PCG members turning their backs on family members it is appalling. Utter disgust is the only word for these people.

The Exit and Support Network has this up:

Son in PCG Will Not Visit His Grandpa on Deathbed:
October 10, 2022 
 
I have family members in PCG. They have been involved since 2000. My grandpa is currently on his deathbed and his son will not come and say his final goodbyes because there is some sort of PCG feast going on in another state at the moment. I am at a loss of what to do. Our family is devastated. Is there anyway I can help them break free of this cult or is the reality that they will not leave unless it’s initiated by themselves? Thank you, –K.

In a follow-up comment there was this:

A Badge of Honor for Members Not Leave the Feast for any Reason:
October 10, 2022 
 
That’s horrible about the son in PCG refusing to visit his dying grandfather during the Feast, but not surprising. Some PCG members actually look at a situation like this as a “badge of honor” for not leaving the FOT for any purpose, even a death in the (non-member) family. My mate in PCG has told me about PCG members’ non-member spouses dying, or being critically ill, yet they brag about still attending. If that’s not sick and twisted, I don’t know what is. I remember being told about a PCG member whose spouse (also a member) who died right before the FOT. The member had his spouse’s body stored frozen in the funeral home’s freezers until he could return home and take care of the arrangements. –Impacted by loved one in PCG