“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
The Armstrongists have become so self-absorbed that they truly can’t fathom that there is a whole world out there and they — the Armstrongists — are seriously out of sync with it.
Currently, over at Banned! is the entry of The Troubled World of David C Pack and the Restored Church of God. You know, it isn’t clear whether or not the slide into madness is going to result in a People’s Temple Jim Jones scenario. I personally don’t think it will get that far, but it might. Armstrongist leaders have just LOST IT! They don’t compare their behavior with the rest of society and don’t have any way to measure their lack of sanity. They are irrelevant to the rest of the world and have no realization how stupid they look.
Let us hope that the Armstrongist leaders don’t plunge their hapless helpless membership into a Halloween fright night resulting in the not so living dead.
Even a year ago, I would see any suggestions of danger in terms of hyperbole, but maybe we should start preparing for the worst.
After all is said and done, maybe with a tragedy there could come some good and the people left will begin to realize that they are not safe and abandon a long failed experiment in insanity. We would hope they would realize the danger they are in and it won’t come to that.
We offer The Prayer performed by Peter Hollens and his wife, Evynne, dedicated to his father who passed 7/24/2012, with the sentiment for all, “Give us faith so we’ll be safe”: