“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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It may not have occurred to many of our readers that Herbert Armstrong was no conservative. He was a leftist progressive, looking to usher in a future world government with Draconian measures to tightly control the lives of those who were not the elite. He, of course, pictured himself as the elite — as the new senior partner within this dictatorial tyrannical system of a closely controlled society where the Proles have no power and don’t actually own anything.
In style, if not substance, he was himself a type of Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey. Ambassador College was the Google of its day — gathering secret data on users of the service, controlling what people said and did, shadow banning and outright ejecting dissidents who differed in their expression.
Meanwhile — and behind the scenes — the elite lived corrupt lives, living off of the substance of the hard working — being as it were, among the most corrupted, unethical and immoral while insisting that their subjects live according to much higher and impossible to achieve standards, hampered as they were by having effectively 50% of their net income stripped away from them.
Nevertheless, Herbert Armstrong was a mere millionaire. He wanted to be a billionaire. He wanted to live in the heady space occupied by the ‘important’ of the world. In that he failed. At best, he was a joke to them. They used his ego to extract as much as they could from him. As the liberals do, he just gave away $100,000 to leaders who never needed his money, hoping to buy favor from them, hoping to feed his narcissism.
He was no different in concept to the current crop of elites, just poorer.
The problem was that people were taken in by this grifter con. He formed his own echo chamber of daft narratives and lived on the mostly innocent binging on his daft insanities. They lived for the promise of things to come, while Herbert Armstrong stripped them of their future to create his own lavish present.
As Khan said in Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan, “Nothing ever changes”. He was wrong, of course.
It’s gotten worse.