The Guessing Game
June 28, 2025 | by Marc Cebrian
Since David C. Pack of The Restored Church of God admitted that even he cannot know the day or the hour of Jesus Christ’s return, he no longer has any real material to bring to the table. “The Greatest Untold Story! (Part 581)” on June 21, 2025, was a real snoozer.
The Pastor General purloined another 85 minutes of the brethren's Sabbath, pontificating half-baked ideas and throwing out potential possibilities. RCG members experienced a taste of what the workweek is like in the Third Floor Executive Imaginarium when Coffee Kid and Pepper Boy are subject to Dave’s banal lectures pondering potential scenarios.
Rest assured, the period of David Passover’s vagueness will not last long. He was already bursting at the seams to retake his rightful place as being the only exception to the “no man knows” rule.
During Part 581, David C. Pack was playing the guessing game. He was not sure about anything, but he was filled with ideas. In the end, brethren rose from their chairs with nothing to cling to. Could be. May be. Potentially. Dave was dying to tell them he knew more and tried his best to uphold his relevance, but members who feigned sickness to avoid services did not miss anything substantial.
Members knew they were in for a wild ride when Dave opened by giving himself a Participation Award.
Part 581 – June 21, 2025
@ 00:06 Well, good evening, everyone. Here we are. We all I expected to be here, of course, this week.
I laughed out loud. When an unordained non-prophet/non-psychic and God’s Seventh Messenger apostle/sometimes-prophet both know the same thing before it happens, it grants us an even status for prophetic legitimacy.
With the Israel/Iran situation continuing to cool, the RCG Fear Factory suffered a significant depletion of raw materials this week. Dave’s paper tiger is now a yapping chihuahua.
@ 00:21 Of course, the the war is is is intensifying. We all know that. And we see the day approaching.
The words of David C. Pack do not age well. Not about prophecy. Not about what he plans to do. Not about world news. The only thing reliable about David C. Pack is how unreliable he is. But it did not prevent the little guy from trying.
@ 17:06 I hate to see war, but I'm thankful in a way because I know there's a prophecy that Jerusalem is at war when the Kingdom comes, and their their war is intensifying and growing worse. Or you could wonder, “Wait a minute, are we gonna go another year?”
How adorable. The headlines are not kind to David C. Pack. The 12-day war is over. A ceasefire is in place. Iran is willing to negotiate. Both Russia and China applied for conscientious objector status. That is not exactly the definition of “intensifying.”
Giggles, giggles, and more giggles in 3…2…1…
@ 1:24:34 Keep watching the war and strife and contention and violence and lawlessness and protests. Keep watching the day approaching. And we may all know when the Kingdom comes together. We're just we we're we’re at we’re at the end. It's about to snap. I believe we'll be here next week, but I'm not sure.
Dave’s previous warnings about imminent world hell and societies soon collapsing all fall flat. Adding this to being unable to teach exactly when the Kingdom of God will arrive, some members might be wondering, “Why are we paying you?”
When the summer solstice was the apple of Dave’s eye, the word “summer” meant “summer” in the parable of the fig tree. When that day approached, and his Spidey Senses tingled with discomfort, he discovered that “summer” just meant “heat” in the same parables.
In Part 580, it meant world-conditions heat. In Part 581, it means weather heat. Care to play the guessing game for what it will mean in Part 582?
@ 04:22 I have never seen four days in a row foretold to be as hot as they are now. The hottest day that's ever been, ever been, even a single day in June in Wadsworth, is 95, and we're scheduled for 93, 94, 93.
@ 04:55 Now, is that a coincidence? Where does that put us? We learned last week for the first time that blazing, meaning glaring heat, really hot, is a sign of the time. And and then this happens.
2024 was the year with the hottest average in Ohio. The hottest temperature ever recorded in Ohio was 113 degrees in Gallipolis in 1934. If heat was a sign of the time, Dave missed it already.
@ 1:23:33 Tremendous heat is striking the country. I don't have a lot more in the Series. I didn't plan this message. So, lo and behold, God plans for me. But heat, tremendous heat, is striking the country starting today.
@ 1:24:23 I've never seen anything like this. Is it a coincidence?
Coincidences are the bottom of the barrel of theological proofs. RCG members have suffered through eagles, rainbows, biblical fog, and prophetic COVID-19. Now, members endure a prophetic heatwave in summer.
David C. Pack’s bread and butter in The Restored Church of God was hosing down his worshipers with prophetic adrenaline while the doomsday clock ticked toward midnight. With a precise target on the bullseye missing, Dave is just throwing darts to let people know he is still rushing to call out anything.
His guessing game extended to an undefined Day of Gladness by moving the Last Great Day from the fall to somewhere in the summer. The Last Great Moving Day did not go over well in 2023.
But Dave makes all things new.
@ 1:19:50 So, this is not our first rodeo looking at moving the Last Great Day to the spring. But WE took it too far. WE took it too far. WE took it from the back end of the of the Feast of Tabernacles all the way to the front of Abib year. Maybe we're only supposta to go about half that far. Something like that.
Despite having nothing of substance to offer, Dave tried to push his unique legitimacy.
@ 05:57 I’ve learned some incredibly interesting things, but I haven't moved from where I was last week.
@ 06:29 I'm pretty sure I know the hour of the day. I no longer think I know the day. I used to be the other way around. I thought I knew the day but not the hour.
@ 06:52 Because you can almost certainly, and I believe I will prove to you you'll know the hour. It'll be the start of the day when when a Great Supper would begin.
Spoiler Alert: The hour is when a day begins at sunset. Mic drop.
See, no man knows the day and hour. Kinda.
Dave figured out the ingredients to the Bible’s secret sauce by taste and a partial label on the box. Just because you cannot know the day does not mean you do not see what the day is called.
@ 07:26 I know a lot more than I did last week, but it it duddn’t involve knowing the day. I know more about it and some fascinating things about it. And how I’d even equates to some lost knowledge. I know what the day is called, how God labels it, but this is a kind of a a hidden season. We'll call it a phantom season or time, kairos, known only to God.
@ 25:55 I I I could ask, how many have ever wondered, read, and wonder, “What's the Day of Gladness?” But I'll bet no hands would go up. Now, maybe one or two would, so I don't I won't say absolutely.”
Dave desperately wants to speak in absolutes, but reality keeps thwarting him. He lacked the courage to test his Day of Gladness awareness theory in the Main Hall. He dared not ask for a show of hands, or it would have silenced his thunder. He read the room and avoided the real challenge to his bravado.
Part 581 was a painfully long smattering of goofy questions while Dave played the guessing game. Prepare to yawn and shrug at the same time. This is just a small sampling.
@ 34:12 But is this is this the feast we're waiting for? Are we waiting for the feast in Acts 18:21? Are we waiting for the Day of Gladness? Or are we waiting for the phantom mystery shadow chag of Exodus 15, and 19, and 24? What are we waiting for? [pats hand on table] Very, very interesting.
@ 45:51 One wonders, did God take Av 10 and move it closer to where we are now?
@ 50:48 To where might God move a Holy Day to remain forever? Where might He move it? To signal the only day he will ever use to build the Kingdom of God question mark?
@ 1:02:30 Is that mean the Last Great Day on that day is gonna shift? Is that really what [chuckles] what happened to it when it disappeared at the end of the feast in Ezekiel 45? Is that where it went? So that it could be a Great Supper?
@ 1:22:07 So, what might the mysterious date be? What might it be? Well, I mean, technically, you could say, “Mr. Pack, is there any chance it's still in Sivan?”
@ 1:21:24 Is God going to take the Holy Day that currently is the 22nd of the month and move it to early in the month [Tammuz] we're coming up on? Seems reasonable.
@ 1:20:11 And no, I'm not, you know, hinting at a particular day there. It'd be incredible. Was God telling us, “I'm going to end this war on the Last Great Day because I'm gonna start it on that day?”
David C. Pack
All Questions. No Answers.™
For those with patient perseverance and the discipline to bother reading all of that malarkey, you now know what modern Sabbath Services are like in The Restored Church of God. Dave takes the term “bored to tears” to a new level.
David C. Pack
Hinting at substance
without providing substance.™
@ 35:50 I would need to restore that knowledge, and I can't restore it unless God shows it to me. And I I promise you, [chuckles] when you go study, they go nobody even focuses on these verses, never mind, assembled them all.
When the Day of Gladness fades like the summer solstice, revisit the concept that God showed him this.
@ 1:25:10 But I doubt that I'm gonna be able to tell you the day. I have some suspicions, but the problem is I have more than one suspicion. So why why give you any of them? I gave you a whole bunch of days to think about.
This is some astonishing double-minded blindness: “Why give you any of them?” in one breath with, “I gave you a whole bunch…” in the next. Dave’s mouth operates independently from his brain.
We can all long for the next occasion when Dave thinks he knows the day and hour of Jesus Christ’s return so we can avoid any more quiz show messages like Part 581.
In the meantime, brethren of The Restored Church of God will have to stew in their disappointment for yet a little while as Dave stalls for more time playing his guessing game.
