“I want to make a statement about…me…now, if I became deceived, I will never tell you what I’m going to tell you now…I am telling you if I go off into strange ideas, misconduct, rebellion, you name it, don’t follow me. I want to tell you that now, because if I start doing that I’m gonna try to get you to follow me! I’m gonna come to you and tell you it doesn’t apply, it doesn’t mean me, no, no, no, no, no, no, it’s OK to follow me because ABCD and XY and Z. Do you understand what I’m saying? Listen to me now, when I tell you don’t follow me if I go off into weird ideas, or if I get off into other things that are total absolutely unscriptural conduct, because if I do I’m gonna paint it with a different face and try to get you to follow me. Do you understand what I’m saying brethren? Please remember that, because I promise you that if I become deceived, I’ll forget it, and I’ll want you to forget it…And I hope you’ll remember it well enough to quote it right back to me…But I’ll tell you what, I’m not going anywhere.”
-David C Pack
December 12, 1998
The Clarion Call of Apostle David C. Pack
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So let me get this straight: You send your children to camp where they are isolated from you and you don’t see them for two to three weeks.
And this makes them closer to you, exactly how?
You can make the time together up at the Feast, where you attend activities and services, eat out and drink while your children do their homework (which keeps them firmly rooted in “this world” while you have gotten away from it for awhile at the Corporate Convention Centers usually provided for Corporations’ retreats, seminars and conventions… right — sensible, logical and not at all chaotic). And you get all those realistic accurate sermons about the gloom and doom of worldwide destruction based on the key to prophecy — British Israelism.
Got it.
Good thing HWA sent out letters like that or we would never have been able to figure out what we were supposed to do. But I’m a bit wary about what he meant by “close relationship” with children.
It’s evident he didn’t understand the problem Paul had with the Galatians and what the “other gospel” was referring to in relation to gentiles.
Perhaps the problem with the Bible “being a like puzzle” was that he had the puzzle box with the picture on it. But the picture didn’t represent what was on the pieces.
Herbert was just so deluded about his SEP. The “good” church kids bought into the brain washing, and were perhaps more gung ho and extreme when they returned to their parents. However, those of us who were resistant to programming also indulged in extra-curricular activities, such as pulling in the then clear channel AM rock radio stations each night on our transistor radios, shaving cream fights, even smoking cigarettes in the woods. We had seminars on how to handle parental problems such as frequent and overly harsh spankings, and shared stories about illicit boozing activities during the holy days.
We found out later that our activities were relatively tame! Some of the top ministers sons were actually seducing, making out with, and screwing whatever female campers they could get their hands on!
BB