Fear Factory
June 25, 2025 | by Marc Cebrian
The sky is always falling in Wadsworth, Ohio.
Whenever a major crisis of any kind arises in the world, David C. Pack of The Restored Church of God seizes on the opportunity to reestablish the climate of prophetic fear, saturating the Main Hall at Headquarters.
With the summer solstice’s eminent failure and no new date in sight, the sudden conflict between Israel and Iran became the lucky break the Pastor General needed. During “The Greatest Untold Story! (Part 580)” on June 14, 2025, David C. Pack threw up his hands and admitted for the first time again that “no man knows the day and hour” of Jesus Christ’s return.
The warfare in the Middle East enabled him to shift focus away from his most recent failures while relieving him of the need to establish a new specific day for the arrival of the Kingdom of God. He maintained his perceived authority and keen insight into world events by laying the fear on pretty thick to ratchet up member anxiety.
Part 580 – June 14, 2025
@ 00:17 God, brethren, has brought long-expected events to the front, and the world is, you could almost say, at war. …now there’s a big war in the Middle East that’s gonna come to a very, very bad end. …the war between Iran and and Judah, Israel, will not be complete when the Kingdom comes. But it’s now on.
David C. Pack repeated that the Kingdom of God would arrive before the fighting between Iran and Israel ended. His credibility tanked again. There is already a ceasefire of "The 12-Day War" in place. The safest position to take is always to believe the opposite of what David C. Pack says.
@ 01:05 So, what is happening has got to be close enough …to the Kingdom that it cannot it cannot come to conclusion.
Further expressing his love for theatrics, Dave threw out the N-word to further edify the brethren.
@ 16:34 If you wonder whether Israel whether Israel will defeat the Iranians, all you hafta know is they they believe in, and their official military doctrine is "Uh Operation, You Know, Sampson.” They’re the they said, “Before we will be destroyed, we will tear down the temple of mankind.” Before Iran will win this war, Israel does have nukes, and they will nuke Iran before Iran can destroy them. They will cross a threshold where they're under such threat and so much death you will see you will see mushroom clouds in Iran unless God intervenes.
Right out of the Worldwide Church of God Fearmongering Playbook, Dave floated the idea of a nuclear war. At least Herbert W. Armstrong had the sense to put it in far future context “in twenty years,” so his malarkey would take two decades to stink. Dave proves his ineptitude within hours.
There are several resources for those interested in researching “The Samson Option.” This Times of Israel write-up is quite informative. “Uh Operation, You Know, Sampson” is David C. Pack's distorted version.
The sleight-of-hand “unless God intervenes” trick at the end is Dave putting all his chips on black and red. If something nuclear happened, he could puff his chest and crow about being right. Even after nothing happens, he can say God intervened, shielding his perceived authenticity. Setting up shop in this safe space would prevent him from ever being wrong again. Every single failed date going forward could be due to God intervening. There is no downside to that excuse.
Fear is one of the ways The Restored Church of God retains members. They are not a church. They are a fear factory. When they keep the brethren afraid of what is going on around them, it keeps them from leaving.
The hireling enablers at Headquarters are counting on the persistent fear that world events could take a sudden, dark turn to keep members from fleeing their spiritually bankrupt organization. David C. Pack knows what he is doing when he sounds the Chicken Little alarm bells.
It is a good thing they are in the One True Church. And they better not leave.
@ 15:42 Now it’s impossible not to watch. Anybody among us who's not watching now, who's not trying to see or can't see the day approaching, is probably [chuckles] in the wrong church. And I hope that’s few or none.
Armstrongism followers have been seeing “the day approaching” since the 1930s. Every time there is a military conflict, a financial collapse, or a natural disaster, it is time to get ready. When no single event is eating up the headlines, there are always the low-level “world conditions” to exploit.
David C. Pack is a fear peddler, and the members of The Restored Church of God keep buying it.
@ 27:02 If you’re paying attention, you know the world is collapsing! Nobody knows what China’s gonna do. Are they gonna attack Taiwan because the world’s distracted? Will the Russians do even worse things because the world’s distracted? What will the North Koreans do? What will aggressors and dictators in Africa and South America do? United States left a big hole.
@ 46:45 “It will surely come and can’t tarry.” Maybe that’ll be what it means. We’ve got more to learn. Where where, I guess, I would call it “intense world hell.” Now, you need to be you need to be you need to fear God all through the week. Not just when Mr. Pack saying really serious, grave things. Heavy stuff. You need to stay close to God and be ready.
Staying close to God includes believing His word, fleeing from proven liars and wicked men, not giving money to a spiritually corrupt organization, and holding accountable blaspheming hypocrites claiming to speak with God’s authority.
Staying close to God involves discerning a false prophet and false apostle plainly presenting himself and doing what the Bible says in those circumstances.
@ 47:40 But, you know, we’re the only people on the face of the earth, the only ones, including the people who are who are who are starting Operation Rising Lion, we’re the only ones even among God’s people, the only ones who know how this ends. Do you know that? But only if you’re watching.
Members of The Restored Church of God are not watching what happens right in front of them, so how can they accurately frame world events? They continue to accept the words of deceitful men, spewing fear and lies with impunity. Nobody in The Restored Church of God has a clue about “how this ends” because David C. Pack has wasted over nine years and 580 Parts changing how he thinks it ends. That is not a track record to rely on.
@ 48:02 Maybe a time for a little less fun and a little more sobriety. Little more prayers, study, fasting, staying close to God.
Being a proven false prophet 130 times has not been fun for anyone, but it appears that Fear has become the official mascot of The Restored Church of God.
If Dave’s doom and gloom preaching seems familiar, it should. After Hamas invaded Israel to slaughter and kidnap families on the Last Great Day in 2023, David C. Pack exploited that horrific event to instill fear while propping up his timing narrative.
Two years later, the Pastor General repeats that current events have biblical implications, signaling prophetic timing. The “Israeli Preoccupation” article covered this in detail.
What David C. Pack said back then meant nothing. What he says today means nothing. What he will say tomorrow will mean nothing.
Flashback Part 474 – October 7, 2023
@ 02:06 A great Bible prophecy is underway.@ 11:29 But, I walked in this morning to powerful confirmation of timing.
@ 35:56 When this happened…I knew immediately what my assignment was. I finally understood my last assignment. I was to rush to carry out.
@ 1:00:25 Now, it’s easy to understand. It’s easy. There should be no one alive in this church who cannot now see “the day approaching.”
People wonder how anyone in RCG can believe Dave. Even if most of them do not, they still will not leave. Each person has their own reasons. The evidence that their human idol is a false prophet, false apostle, and false teacher is overwhelming.
Part 580 – June 14, 2025
@ 1:24:50 And we're we're on the verge of world war. We're on the werge verge of the collapse of various societies, including Israel.
The “No Kings” protests in the United States on the same weekend as Israel’s assault on Iran only encouraged the RCG fear factory to maintain production.
@ 42:22 Now let me pause so you understand the gravity… It may be that real horror comes two or three days before Israel rises. …it’s nowhere near potentially where it will be when real-world hell breaks out, and I'm saying that on the day when there are 2,000 protests in American cities, and there's more war in the Middle East.
In a telling moment of David C. Pack’s character, he explained what should happen to the protesters. Notice the placement of his chuckle when it involves the deaths of others.
@ 21:01 What you should do [chuckles] the only way to have civil obedience is put them all to death. They have to. And that’s God’s law. And you know what? You’ll never have a prob–“That’s so harsh.” No, it isn’t. It means nobody would ever die because nobody’d do it. But they can’t put ‘em to death. They have rights. Even if they weren’t born here. Even if they don’t have citizenship. Even if they just crash the the the border and swam across the Rio Grand.
David C. Pack takes righteous indignation to a whole new level. His occasional chuckles at odd moments betray how he really feels, regardless of what he tries to present to his worshippers. As time goes on, David C. Pack’s words and behavior become increasingly disturbing.
He shows no fear of God when he flippantly blasphemes. He shows no empathy when he chuckles about mass death. It makes perfect sense that producing more fear to manipulate the brethren is easy for him.
Instead of being a church of clock-watchers and calendar enthusiasts, RCG members now have the vague “we must be close” fear to keep them in their seats. More effective than pinning a specific day, having a world crisis with a perceived biblical angle applies pressure for brethren to stay within the familiar borders of The Restored Church of God because worldwide prophetic events could “come as a thief” on an unsuspecting world any day now.
When David C. Pack says there will be war, watch for peace. When David C. Pack says there will be peace, watch for war. When he says he is comfortable, expect discomfort to blossom. When he says to fear, be not afraid of him.
Deuteronomy 18:22
When a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord has not spoken, but the prophet has spoken it presumptuously: you shall not be afraid of him.
The Headquarters Campus of The Restored Church of God is a fear factory, and they churn out product as fast as they can make it. Brethren, do not be afraid of David C. Pack’s words.
