“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
Video and audio files can be found here and on Rumble
It should be noted, as pointed out by a minister of the CoG7d that it wasn’t like the Festivals were revealed all at once. Each one was added a little at a time over several years.
So not only were the Feasts likely adopted from pagan religions (much like the 10 Commandments from the Code of Hammurabi) but they sprang up one at a time as, you know, required.
Also note for those who believe the Kingdom of God is not about eating and drinking, except for Yom Kippur, these Feasts were absolutely carnal, in that they were all about eating and drinking.
One should also note that the Feasts represented entropy: That is to say that resources were preserved and saved to be consumed at a later time — thus removing them from sustaining and maintaining the people who ‘spent’ them all at once — making them unavailable, since they were all supposed to be used up during the Feasts in question.
Entropy is all about chaos and disorder, making energy less and less available. For example, wood is stored energy. Once you burn it, it takes more energy to release the potential — thus, burning ashes is unproductive:
https://herbertwarmstrong.com/2018/12/31/2019-whats-ahead-burning-ashes/
Armstrongism is all about taking your resources away from you to decrease the entropy of the ministers who contribute nothing, but use up everything that is given to them selfishly.
“Armstrongism is all about taking your resources away from you to decrease the entropy of the ministers who contribute nothing, but use up everything that is given to them selfishly.”
Well said. That is what armstrongism has always been about. Feeding your resources to parasites.