Exploiting the Gospel
May 2, 2025 Updated | by Marc Cebrian
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 12th, 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 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. …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.
Twelve 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, Chauntel 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.
