Twisted Scripture
August 31, 2023 | by Marc Cebrian
Oh, how far Pastor General David C. Pack of The Restored Church of God has fallen.
He was once the trusted voice of “The World to Come.” I discovered RCG through that fascinating program on YouTube while attending the United Church of God (UCG). Years later, I moved to Ohio and worked on that same series from December 2012 until it ceased production in December 2017.
The literature on the website was filled with helpful information you could read alongside your Bible and prove its accuracy. The literature library is now a pale shell of what it once was.
Founded in 1999 by David C. Pack, The Restored Church of God was established as the last stronghold of "cherished doctrines" of The Worldwide Church of God. It was to be a beacon of light that upheld the "traditions and standards" brought into the 20th century by Herbert W. Armstrong. In the past ten years, the accepted understanding of WCG has been continuously discredited. But hey, at least HWA’s picture is still on the wall.
The insulated world of David C. Pack continues to erode as financial pressure builds upon the shoulders of the weakening Campus Colossus. The self-proclaimed apostle is beset with strife at every turn as prophetic failures mount, and ever-changing confusion thrives with no end in sight.
Critical thinking is in a coma on life support in Wadsworth, Ohio. Wise discernment has been locked away inside a padded cell with no one tending to the muffled screams.
The dire incompetence contained in “The Greatest Unending Story! (Part 464)” on August 26, 2023, is just the latest in a long line of religious blunders, keeping the cowardly hirelings at Headquarters busy with apologetics and deflections.
The Restored Church of Another god is rotten to the core. The whole head is sick. The whole heart is faint. Ed Winkfield can’t see it. Brad Schleifer won’t see it. And Ryan Denee only cares about the lawn.
The Feast of Trumpets begins
Friday, September 15 at sunset—7:36 PM ET
God will fulfill the Feast of Trumpets in our future, just not in 2023. And never on any day that David C. Pack declares.
David C. Pack has earned every bit of the scorn, ridicule, and mockery hurled his way. He is a false prophet, false apostle, biblical fraud, verbal sorcerer, death monger, oath breaker, hypocrite, and blaspheming liar.
He relies on the “talk until it’s true” strategy to sell false doctrines to his members. The latest short-lived malarkey is “the Feast of Ingathering is the Feast of Trumpets, not the Feast of Tabernacles.”
The phrase, “Don’t believe me, believe your Bible,” is long dead at Headquarters. But, it is time for a resurrection.
I am no minister or Bible scholar, but I cannot let this go unaddressed.
Surely, the brethren of The Restored Church of God are not waiting for some "antichrist serpent more wicked (almost) than the devil" who runs "a hate" website to show them what they already know. They already understand the Feast of Ingathering is Tabernacles. This will not be new material.
Part 464 – August 26, 2023
@ 10:04 Does the Bible actually say the Feast of Ingathering is Tabernacles? Or does it say it is Trumpets? And careful reading discerns that.@ 26:43 The Feast of Ingathering is Trumpets. It has always been Trumpets.
Dave read Exodus 23:14-17 and made comments along the way.
@ 16:38 Now, what’s interesting is it says…Now, what throws you a little bit is that the one listed third actually comes first. That’s confusing.
David C. Pack is already blaming God for writing confusing verses in His Word. He has already begun to counter what is written based on only his say-so. Right out of the gate, we are to believe a man's words rather than God's.
@ 16:55 But God lists them according to the ecclesiastical year, which is fine. He lists the order they would come if you’re coming off of Abib 1. That’s fine.
God received Dave's approval. The chorus of rejoicing before the sea of glass in heaven is too beautiful for human ears to process.
@ 17:15 So, it’s not bad to list Unleavened Bread first and then Pentecost and then Tabernacles. In some ways, it kept the world from ever understanding when the Kingdom of God came.
Oops. Dave fell back into his outdated understanding, referring to the list ending with "Tabernacles" when his whole point is that the Feast of Ingathering is actually Trumpets. Sometimes, he unintentionally speaks the truth.
@ 18:48 So, let me just state the church said that was the Feast of Tabernacles. I’ll show you in a couple more verses that’s impossible. Elul is the month of harvest. At the end of Elul is the end of the harvest. Elul means harvest…Elul means harvest. The month of harvest or the weeks of the fall harvest close with Elul, and that closes with Trumpets the next day. So, that's what the Feast of Ingathering is actually defined for you. It's when you gathered your fruits, not when you've gathered at a place far away it two weeks later. Ingathering of crops.
The rest of Part 464 is just like that. Dave reads through verses, reads past verses, and explains, explains, and explains his logic. He injects his personal interpretation of the Scriptures to twist them to his will.
He later read similar verses in Exodus 34:21-23.
@ 23:22 So, Trumpets would obviously open “one stroke.” Confusing? Yes. Listed third if you’re thinking in terms of…Abib 1, the ecclesiastical year, that’s fine. But, if you thinking in terms of the fall of the the the the year that begins Tishrei 1, well, then it’s the first time. And and and but God did that listed it that way through Moses in those two places so the world would never know. And yet, the church long believed (as I've said many times) the Kingdom of God would come on Trumpets.
If David C. Pack is to be believed, Exodus 23 and 34 both list a "confusing" order. His god intentionally made 1-2-3 confusing. Ponder that.
Dave’s hand was forced to address Deuteronomy 16, but this is where he avoided "careful reading" and with good reason. Interestingly, this had the most explanation required of the three. He spent much time interrupting the verses to explain his reasoning at every step.
@ 32:03 Now, this could throw you if you’re not careful.
@ 32:37 It is interesting, is it not, brethren, that when God says Feast of Tabernacles, it means it? He says it. Does He just interchangeably call the Feast of Tabernacles the Feast of Ingathering? Or does He use a different term because they're not the same thing? The Feast of Ingathering is the Feast of Ingathering. The Feast of Tabernacles is seven days. It’s the Feast of Tabernacles. The Feast of Ingathering is a season. The Feast of Tabernacles is seven days. They can’t be the same. They don’t carry the same name.
When he reached Deuteronomy 16:16, he opted not to bother reading the entire verse. On purpose. This was his "tell" moment.
@ 34:41 “Three times in a year shall all your males appear,” and then it lists the three. It just God just chooses to list it, telling Moses, "You're gonna do it. You're gonna come off of Abib. That's the beginning of years for you.” So, Moses would naturally list the three annual holy days in that order. Or seasons. Okay, I hope that's that's that's clear.
Dismantling the latest doctrinal madness to come from the lips of David C. Pack is relatively simple if you believe the Bible. Based on what he said and how he said it during Part 464 and the ease at which you can poke holes in this theory, I will be mildly surprised if he holds to it during Part 465 this weekend.
Not only is David C. Pack perverting the Word of God to submit to his will, but he keeps forgetting "The 12 Rules of Effective Bible Study," which would spare him continuous church-wide embarrassment.
Rule #8: The Bible Interprets Itself
Disproving Dave is far breezier than you might think. Consider when he took over 100 minutes “proving” Mr. Putin was the Sixth King but dismantled it in 1. I will take the same approach. It will take me 1 minute to disprove 86 minutes of David C. Pack.
When you place Exodus 23 and 34 with Deuteronomy 16, the identity of the Feast of Ingathering is clear.
Exodus 23:14-17
Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year. Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:) And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field. Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord GOD.
Exodus 34:18, 22-23
The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month Abib: for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt…And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end. Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.Deuteronomy 16:16
Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty.
Easily Destroying A False Doctrine
"…does [God] use a different term because they're not the same thing?...
They can’t be the same. They don’t carry the same name.”
False. Pentecost is called “the feast of harvest” in Exodus 23, but “feast of weeks” in Exodus 34.
The primary qualifier for all three chapters was missed entirely in Part 464. This is a make-or-break element for those "reading carefully." It is biblical confirmation that Deuteronomy 16:16 lists the Feast of Tabernacles as the identity of the Feast of Ingathering from Exodus.
The phrase “three times in the year” was utterly ignored during Part 464. David C. Pack read it over and over and over but could not see it. The Bible destroys his presumptuous, self-righteous human logic.
Dave teaches that Exodus 23 and 34 list Unleavened Bread, Pentecost, and Trumpets, but Deuteronomy 16:16 lists Unleavened Bread, Pentecost, and Tabernacles.
How can you appear before God THREE times for FOUR Holy Days?
Letting the Bible interpret itself, we are commanded to gather three times a year. Exodus 23 and 34 confirm that a Holy Day can be worded slightly differently. Deuteronomy 16:16 confirms the third in the list is Tabernacles, which connects it to Ingathering in Exodus 23 and 34. Three times a year: Unleavened Bread, Pentecost, and Feast of Tabernacles.
The order is correct as written. The identity is correct as written. David C. Pack is wrong.
Proverbs 30:6
Add you not unto his words, lest he reprove you, and you be found a liar.
Once again, David C. Pack exposes his world-class piss-poor reading comprehension skills to all the members of The Restored Church of God. Instead of believing his Bible, he tried talking until his doctrine became true.
As it turns out, God did not trick Moses. God did not write “confusing” verses to “hide” it from His people.
Rather, David C. Pack is proven a liar once again.
“The Feast of Ingathering is Trumpets. It has always been Trumpets.”
False. It always has been the Feast of Tabernacles. That is what the Bible says.
2 Timothy 2:15
Study to show yourself approved unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
David C. Pack should be ashamed because he cannot rightly divide the word of truth. The Greatest Unending Story proves this.
2 Timothy 3:7
Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
That is a summation of the entire Series. David C. Pack continues to be a living embodiment of biblical warnings. Part 500 is inevitable.
2 Peter 3:16
As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
David C. Pack twists the Scriptures to conform to his perverted logic. The Bible calls him unstable.
Lest he repent, the cycle will continue as the Spirit of Error reins The Restored Church of Another god.
I submitted this question to Headquarters.
Mr. Pack, when God says, "thrice in a year your males shall appear before Me," but is referring to four separate feasts, how do you gather three times on four occasions? If Exodus 23 and 34 are in the context of the Feast of Ingathering, yet Deuteronomy 16:16 lists the Feast of Tabernacles, how can you gather on four separate holy days but only three times?
I wonder how it will be reasoned away in Part 465 with more twisted scriptures.
