| I'm aware of David Pack, Pastor General of | | | | against abortion and I gave him one of my |
| the Restored Church of God. I also remember | | | | booklets (either God and the Gays - the |
| clearly how he didn't even know me when he | | | | first of its kind in the Church of God, or |
| was with the Global Church of God (that I | | | | "Religion in America - the REAL Danger" now |
| visited once) but said most people who change | | | | incorporated into Beyond Babylon: Europe's |
| their names are off-the-wall (something to | | | | Rise and Fall) he acted very interested, but |
| that effect) and felt I should take my former | | | | later told me he never met a more proud |
| name of David Hoover back and should | | | | person than Carl! Carl didn't appear proud at |
| seriously consider it as he contacted his | | | | all and was merely happy to do whatever he |
| superiors (they must have told him to back | | | | could to help expose and end the evil of |
| off as he never brought it up again).After I | | | | abortion.When David Pack said something to |
| thought and prayed about it - rejecting David | | | | the effect that the Global Church of God was |
| Ben-Ariel for David Hoover as David Pack | | | | not for me, I asked him why he invited me |
| sternly suggested - I rejected the notion and | | | | then and he then acknowledged he only invited |
| questioned how anybody inspired by the Holy | | | | me along with the others because he felt they |
| Spirit would make such a demand, as I | | | | were good candidates for membership. In other |
| honestly consider David Ben-Ariel my | | | | words, he was being deceitful. Since then |
| God-given Name, as I've written.I also | | | | I've heard horrible stories about his pack of |
| remember clearly how David Pack said to me, | | | | lies and hope it's not true but suspect that |
| when I was being honest about my past, | | | | it is, due to my own eye-opening experience |
| troublesome times when I was backslidden in | | | | with him.I trust there are true Church of God |
| some areas, that he thought I was never | | | | members among the Restored Church of God |
| converted! Unlike Jesus who offers | | | | flock, as with the other groups of scattered |
| constructive criticism, who encourages you | | | | brethren, and I hope God spares them from |
| with the good and calls upon you to change | | | | such wolves and that they maintain, first and |
| for the better, all David Pack did was tear | | | | foremost, a personal relationship with the |
| down and seek to destroy! That was not the | | | | Shepherd of our souls, and not trust in any |
| Holy Spirit of God working through him.Before | | | | man for salvation.I've seen some of the |
| this experience, David Pack had come at my | | | | attractive literature the Restored Church of |
| request and visited with me and several other | | | | God offers, but doubt that I will link to it. |
| friends who had gathered to hear what he had | | | | I hope David Pack has repented of his sins |
| to say in Toledo, Ohio. We were invited to | | | | that God may restore him and help him heal |
| the one service of his we attended in Ohio. | | | | those whom he's sickened and be reconciled |
| He brought a box of materials the Worldwide | | | | with both God and man.David Ben-Ariel is a |
| Church of God no longer printed to make a | | | | Christian-Zionist writer and author of Beyond |
| statement. We all felt Gerald Flurry had | | | | Babylon: Europe's Rise and Fall. With a focus |
| already made that statement and was the first | | | | on the Middle East and Jerusalem, his |
| to do so, even though we hadn't yet attended | | | | analytical articles help others improve |
| with the Philadelphia Church of God.When four | | | | their understanding of that troubled region. |
| of us visited with the Global Church of God, | | | | Check out the Beyond Babylon blog. |
| my friend Carl gave him a copy of his booklet | | | | |