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Tuesday, April 23, 2024
The WCG Talmud
A blast from the past. What can you add to this list?
The WCG Talmud
The following list was compiled by Robert Gerringer, and first published by Ambassador Report in the 70's. It represents some of the customs and traditions of the Worldwide Church of God up until about 1973. How times change!
Do not use medicines or drugs.
Never wear sideburns below the middle of the ear, or comb your hair over the forehead.
Never dance without holding your partner and don't wiggle your hips.
Never listen to hard rock music.
Do not contribute to charities (Easter Seals, March of Dimes, etc.).
Women should wear skirts long enough to at least touch the top of the knee.
Women must wear their hair long enough to cover the nape of the neck.
Never vote in any elections.
Never join a political party.
Avoid doctors and hospitals.
Never receive a blood transfusion.
Do not donate blood.
Never serve in the military in any capacity.
Never celebrate Christmas, Easter, New Year's, Halloween, Valentines Day, St. Patrick's Day, or April Fool's. Celebrate Thanksgiving.
Do not have more than two drinks a night.
Don't be a teetotaler.
Never wear make-up.
Men should never wear a toupee or wig.
Women can only wear wigs if they are bald.
Never color your hair.
Women should not wear pants (except for sports activities).
Never ever smoke anything.
Pray at least 30 minutes a day.
Study your Bible at least thirty minutes a day.
Fast and meditate regularly.
Never join or remain a member of a "worldly" club (Elks, Lions, Kiwanis, etc.).
Watch only movies rated G and occasionally PG.
Do not observe Mother's Day in England (Mother's Day is OK in America).
Do not earn a living as a policeman, judge, fireman, physician, elected official (except Mayor of Big Sandy), astronaut, gambler, concert musician, actor or ballet dancer.
Never have a picture of "Christ", "God", "angels" or "saints."
Women should not go braless.
Women should not take "the Pill" or have an abortion.
Do not allow your children to join the boy scouts or girl scouts.
Children should not play "pretend" games.
Women should not wear Tampons.
Always take notes during church services.
Never call a minister "Reverend."
Never bring the "unconverted" to services without the minister's permission, this includes close relatives such as an unconverted mate and children over 16.
Never co-sign for a loan.
Do not wear heart shaped lockets.
Beware of classical music written by demon inspired composers.
Never serve on a jury.
Never sign over your body for scientific study.
Do not read the writings of philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle.
Do not vote for or initiate a labor strike.
Going to night clubs is allowed, in moderation.
Do not have organ music in church.
Men should not wear pink or flowery shirts.
Children should not be allowed to read fairy tales or nursery rhymes.
Single people should date widely.
Never date a non-Worldwide Church of God member.
Never neck on a date. If engaged, a good-night kiss is permissible, if not prolonged.
Never hold hands unless married or engaged.
When married, have sex only in the two approved positions; never kiss below the neck (pre-1960's), never kiss below the waist (pre-1975).
Dentists are OK.
Novocaine is OK.
Antibiotics are not OK.
Immunizations are not OK.
Only unmarried women should be employed.
Never date or marry outside your race.
The races should be segregated whenever possible.
Men should not wear beards.
Do not eat maraschino cherries.
Never get a tatoo.
Avoid "Protestant type" hymns.
Minimize contact with non-believers.
Use olive oil and wine on sores.
For weddings, use only the Herbert Armstrong approved ceremony.
Card playing is OK. Never listen to "soul music".
Have only a graveside service at funerals.
Never wear or own a crucifix. Never sign a letter "in Jesus' Name" unless you are a minister.
Church buildings should not have steeples or stained glass windows.
Never build or own an obelisk.
Never celebrate birthdays.
Don't go into partnerships in business.
Never say "God bless you" when someone sneezes (in fact, never say "God bless you").
Always buy "quality". Strive to become "cultured".
Do not break an engagement to be married.
Always get a minister's advice before making any important decisions (changing a job, marrying, selling your home, etc.).
Never go along with new styles or trends until at least 50% of the public has adopted them. Never be a leader in setting styles or trends.
Never support or attend the services of any Catholic or Protestant church. (The Catholic Church is the "great whore" of Revelation. It is Satan's church and Protestant churches are its children.)
Do not listen to preachers who teach contrary to the WCG doctrines.
Do not practice vegetarianism.
Do not have your body cremated.
Women should not wear two-piece bathing suits and especially not bikinis.
Men should not wear tight bathing suits (in England only).
Do not engage in sky diving (before David Armstrong's interest in same).
Never chew tobacco.
Do not speculate in stocks or bonds.
Never ever use "unnatural" farming methods (chemical fertilizers. pesticides, etc.).
Never act in, direct, produce or write a drama.
Never hypnotize anyone or be hypnotized.
Do not celebrate the 4th of July (pre-1965).
Do not adopt children.
Do not have your ears pierced.
Make ample use of corporal punishment in rearing children.
Do not use euphemisms such as gosh, darn or gee.
Do not create or own "modern" art.
Sex on Friday night is OK for married people.
Never go to a psychiatrist.
Monday, April 22, 2024
Dave Pack: Strange Leading the Strange
Strange-r Danger
David C. Pack is an expert on the topic of strange ideas. He is obsessed with distorting Bible doctrines, perverting them into an abomination of his own corrupted imagination. The Pastor General of The Restored Church of God clearly sees the reasons for his prophetic failures and dwindling membership. None of those reasons have anything to do with him because the answers are always external.
The wicked spirits in high places are very active in The Restored Church of God. Just not the way David C. Pack thinks.
According to him, the reason brethren flee his spiritually bankrupt organization always has some outside, nefarious cause. The devil seduced them. Their spiritual weakness revealed itself when their human nature pulled them away. They just followed their dumb wives out the door. They just want to go off and sin and eat pepperoni pizza.
They lack the faith to accept “The Greatest Unending Story!” Series is God ending the Mystery of God through His chosen human vessel. They lack patience because “This is taking too long.” They are high-minded because “Mr. Pack can’t get all the tiny details right.” They are rigid and unable to accept revealed knowledge because “This isn’t what Mr. Armstrong taught.”
He thinks leaving The Restored Church of God, “is as easy as sipping a cup of coffee.” Since I understand firsthand because I lived it, strange ideas like that broadcast that David C. Pack has no idea what he is talking about.
David C. Pack wants to believe every reason under the sun for why brethren leave RCG except for the one that is true: David C. Pack.
The Pastor General is a hypocritical blaspheming liar, false apostle, false teacher, and false prophet preaching antichrist doctrines that defy the Word of God. He weaponizes the Bible to manipulate minds and control them with fear. Love has waxed very cold inside RCG, and it stems from the central vortex of bitter madness: David C. Pack.
There is a thick darkness permeating Headquarters. The Series will never end because God is not guiding David C. Pack to teach his doctrinal debauchery. The Holy Spirit does not move David C. Pack to utter the words that cause him deeply troubled discomfort. He preaches a foolishly meandering, confusing cesspool of doctrinal filthiness presented as honey dripped from heaven.
People leave The Restored Church of God because they read and believe their Bibles. Hearing what David C. Pack says should be all anyone needs to discern if he preaches the truths of God.
During “The Greatest Unending Story! (Part 506),” on April 9, 2024, David C. Pack seized the opportunity to warn members from leaving the organization because they would forfeit their salvation and make the biggest mistake of their existence.
After proving for months that the Kingdom of God would arrive on Abib 1, April 8, 2024, only to have nothing happen, he knew he had to address the potential for even more people to flee.
Part 506 – April 9, 2024
@ 01:19:34 I I wonder if there is a very difficult period. I wanna inoculate you. If we do go through a very di–difficult period, Matthew 24 and Luke 12 have always suggested (let's hope I'm not reading it right) that some yet leave and kindle a fire and do not abide the day of Christ coming.
Matthew and Luke foretold some would leave RCG and cause trouble for them. Interesting.
@ 1:20:42 So, do Matthew 24 and Luke 12, some say, “My Lord delays his coming.” Kindle the fire is that the last unbelieving hypocrites among us who were purged by God?
A great David C. Pack irony is that he has been preaching for eight-and-a-half years that "My Lord delays his coming." With each prophetic failure, he has to preach why God gave the members more time. When David C. Pack moves the Kingdom of God's arrival from Abib 1 to Abib 15 to Iyar 1 to Tammuz 1, he is preaching to the brethren of The Restored Church of God, "My Lord delays his coming."
He is also letting people in the chairs know that if they leave, God is purging them. They are not leaving because they discern a fool and depart from his presence. They are not leaving because the Bible instructs everyone to not be afraid of false prophets. They are not leaving because Paul warned of false teachers. No, they want to leave because Jesus Christ is vomiting them out of His mouth.
This is cultish mind control. If you stay in your seat, you are NOT being purged by God.
@ 1:20:58 I watch people leave for for reasons so silly I I just can't even fathom it.
He is saying brethren who leave have no legitimate reasons for doing so. That is a lie. David C. Pack belittles anyone who disagrees with him because he cannot accept the reality that he is the direct cause of anyone's departure.
None of this is new.
Flashback Part 499 – March 21, 2024
@ 32:40 I watch people leave the church. We just had a little cluster of people leave the church because a serpent bit all of them. And and I watch ‘em, again, just like a a sip of coffee. They just let their salvation slip away. But, let’s read. I mean, would people do that? Did they hear the 500 hours? And the answer’s No. What then, why where they here? And they leave over some of the dumbest things.
Fleeing from a documented blaspheming liar false prophet is what the Bible teaches. People who DO hear the five hundred hours have more than enough information to discern the wisdom of leaving David C. Pack and The Restored Church of God.
Do not walk away. Run.
@ 38:14 And you’ll wonder how could anybody ever leave the only church who knows the things I’m showing you.
Things he would later show them are inaccurate, and have to re-invent the wheel as he has been doing for years.
@ 1:13:36 I’ve watched scores of thousand, I’ve said this over and over to people who will sit and hear me say it and blow it off like they never heard me say it. They must have a way of lying to themself.
When brethren finally do escape The Restored Church of God, it is because they DID hear the words of David C. Pack.
Another great David C. Pack irony is he lies to himself all day, every day. It is the only way he can stare perfect, consistent failure in the face and still cling to the lunatic fantasy that God is guiding him.
@ 1:14:57 We’ve had to wait twenty-five years. No wonder. Attacked, lied to, lied about, lied to, attacked. And people just, “Yeah, I’ll leave the church.” Like they snapped their fingers.
Since June 2022, the exrcg.org website has been dedicated to accurate and honest reporting on the happenings inside The Restored Church of God. David C. Pack is quoted correctly and in context. Video clips are provided when his delivery is coherent enough. He is not being lied about from here.
Flashback Part 500 – March 23, 2024
@ 1:47:01 You think you wanna be in this world? [chuckles] You know, we got people just too stupid to be a First Fruit—What? What? They leave. But I've watched it my whole life.
Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks, and the heart of a loving shepherd just burst forth.
Flashback Part 501 – March 30, 2024
@ 10:47 And I've searched diligently, but somebody was supposta understand. You think if you think, “Well, I’m not the one,” well, then you better wait for some other David. Some people wouldn’t wait. “Mr. Pack, you figure out what thousands of prophets over centuries of their lives knew nothing of. If you figured out and if you don’t, I’m gonna leave.”
David C. Pack has a disturbed perception of the people who recognize his wickedness and depart from him. The paradoxical Pastor General is both an arrogant narcissist and a whimpering victim. He knows how to attack and pout at the same time.
Near the end of Part 506, Dave felt more comfortable laying harsher criticisms upon those who had already left as a warning to anyone else in the audience who might dare to follow.
The Romans crucified criminals and staged their bodies along the main road as a warning.
David C. Pack adopts the same philosophy.
Part 506 – April 9, 2024
@ 1:33:08 Eight and a half years just seemed too unreasonable, too strange for the self-righteous among us who were just above this, and they left. Followed their own lusts. They left. And I I started all of this to tell you a few more might. And what we've done is not so strange or hard, and that people who've quit, you should not think that's strange because people have been walking away from the way of God since the Garden.
@ 1:33:45 No other church on Earth knows about this Kingdom.
The Kingdom that did not come on April 8. The Kingdom that has been changing for over eight years.
@ 1:34:21 This is 506 or 7, I guess. I could do it in a hundred messages and speak much less often. Maybe fewer people had left, but that iddn't, apparently, what God wanted. I kept thinking it was right and it was wrong.
David C. Pack has NO IDEA what God wants. His consistent failures prove God is not backing him up.
@ 1:35:24 Life would've been more normal and maybe more people would've stayed that God did not want to stay because we had to be willing to go through this difficult period.
Could people remaining in The Restored Church of God thwart God's purpose? Imagine the implications.
@ 1:35:43 To leave the only church that sees it is far beyond foolish. One who does this is without excuse. You know what they believe? They reject the whole thing.
STOP
Do not miss this next sentence.
This is clinical proof that David C. Pack possesses a warped mind entirely disconnected from reality in 3…2…1…
@ 1:35:57 The fact that I got a date or two right wrong or something, or some detail wrong, but saw a kingdom nobody else could see.
A date or two? That perfectly encapsulates the mentality of David C. Pack. Talk about lying to yourself.
The homepage of exrcg.org hosts a tally of 79 failed dates proclaimed by David C. Pack, and that is only as of Tammuz 1, 2022. If there were "only two," not including the day before Dave uttered that stupid comment, we could start where it all began on Elul 24 in 2013 and throw in Esther's Fast “Night Watch” in 2019.
It is sometimes hard to fathom that David C. Pack believes his own words, considering how filled they are with lies. David C. Pack does not just speak lies. It is who he is.
@ 1:36:06 And you leave the only church that says that, you're probably gone. There is a fire that devours before the Father got here. There are people who are gonna be cutting two. They had to have rejected the whole thing because, you know, because “Mr. Pack couldn't get details right, I'm gonna go back into the world,” and most of 'em do go back into the world.
The Father will devour those who leave RCG with fire or cut them in two. That is a strong motivator to stay. According to David C. Pack, we all left because we rejected the details. What a foolish, deceived man he is.
@ 1:36:28 So, I wanted to say all of that because we might go through a bumpy period. Do what will not be strange is unbelieving hypocrites. Hypocrite means, in the Greek hupokritēs, it means a stage actor. There are people who are stage actors. Some are really good, like Judas, and you just cannot know it.
Documented hypocrite David C. Pack is really bad at being a Judas because we can spot him easily.
Dave was proud of his 15-minute “strange” angle during Part 506. He set up why the Series was moving closer to nine years without the Kingdom of God in sight. It was not strange that people were leaving RCG because God wanted that. Just as God wanted the Series to drag on.
@ 1:21:07 First, let me say it's always seems strange to me that God required the Series to be so long for me to finally get the picture right. Always just seemed strange.
That would require God to be behind the Series. He is not. It would also require David C. Pack to “finally get the picture right," and he has not. Part 509 set an exclamation point above that.
Every week, he changes the picture and explains why the last right picture was actually the wrong picture because the new right picture is better than the last right picture, which is now wrong. Right?
@ 1:22:12 Now, speaking of strange, I want you to, God has us go through strange things. Isaiah walked for years with his bare bottom hanging out. Strange.
Dave frolics through the Bible to point out all the “strange” things God had people do. In his conclusion, he exploits these instances as a cover to explain away his own failings.
I will list a few of his points, let him conclude, then defeat his entire fifteen minute argument in a single sentence. Well, Dave actually defeated himself, but he did not realize it.
“Strange” Bible Occurrences
• Isaiah walked bare-bottom
• Jeremiah hid a belt in the rocks
• Hosea married a whore
• The Two Witnesses will walk in sackcloth
• Ezekiel ate a scroll
• Jonah was in a whale's belly
• Israel marched around Jericho for seven days
• Noah built an ark
• Abraham instituted circumcision
You get the point. Dave presented fifteen minutes of that. And he was so excited about the perfect logic of it all and how warm that blanket must have felt while doing it.
@ 1:23:24 Those are all strange things that God has asked His people to do.
@ 1:26:23 Eight and a half years learning about a kingdom isn't all that strange.
@ 1:28:54 Those are the strangest things you get. That's why a lot of people laugh at the Bible because it's a God who requires things of people. Eight and a half years for a Series. Can you imagine the persecution I get that I don't even tell you about?
David C. Pack drew a line between strange things in the Bible and the Series creeping along. He had built for himself a sure house of excuses. Watch him defeat his entire argument in one of his own sentences.
@ 1:23:24 Those are all strange things that God has asked His people to do.
God did not ask, direct, command, commission, charge, instruct, inspire, or even suggest that David C. Pack teach any of the content in the Series. There could be ten thousand strange things listed in the Bible, but none apply to David C. Pack. God did not send him, yet he ran.
The greatest tool for defeating David C. Pack is accurately quoting David C. Pack.
That is not so strange.
Marc Cebrian
See: Strange-r Danger
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