Christophe Binette | March 17, 2024

An Open Letter to Mr. David C. Pack and All Members of The Restored Church of God

March 17, 2024

Dear Mr. David C. Pack,

The purpose of this letter is to tell you and all my brethren around the world that I love you.

Mr. Pack, you were my “father in the Gospel” for many years. Above all is my love for the truth. My responsibility as a minister of Jesus Christ and a shepherd is to protect the sheep of my pastorate. When I joined The Restored Church of God, I was asked to prove all things. That is all our personal responsibility. We cannot accept any compromises when it comes to the truth.

After reading your biography, I realized I had a responsibility to “guard the spiritual well-being of the brethren” in my pastorate.

The Authorized Biography of David C. Pack, Volume One, p. 625
“Through the early part of 1992, Mr. Pack developed a deeper crisis of conscience. Beyond personal anger, he knew his greater responsibility was to guard the spiritual well-being of the brethren in his congregation.”

Since becoming a minister in RCG, I have also developed a “deeper crisis of conscience.”

This letter will remind you of your words, including excerpts from the three-part sermon series, "90 Reasons to Follow the Truth," given in 1993. That was over thirty years ago.

My Background and RCG Story

I was invited to join The Restored Church of God in March 2010.

In 2017, I was ordained as a minister, and I took care of the French speaking Brethren in Europe and in Africa, gladly sacrificing my time for 7 years. This included evenings and weekends without compensation. I volunteered my time and efforts for the socials, Feast of Tabernacles, Ambassador Youth Camp (AYC), and worked as a translation coordinator for many years.

Beginning in 2010, I gave large sums of money as tithes, offerings, and Common to God (through the RCG organization.) I intentionally chose to refrain from accepting a salary or stipend for the work I did in The Restored Church of God. I sacrificed joyfully.

In March 2024, exactly 14 years after joining RCG, I now must write this letter to hold fast that which I have after proving all things and determined to keep the truth with no compromises.

The Spirit of Truth and the Spirit of Errors

After I gave a sermon about the spirit of errors that can be in the Church of God to the French brethren in May 2023, Headquarters ministers Dr. Jaco Viljoen and Mr. Ryan Denee corrected me because “the Church cannot make mistakes.” I was shocked and confused. They agreed that I should send a letter to apologize to the congregation, and I did.

They told me that “God was guiding the Church through His apostle (Mr. Pack)” and “the spirit of Truth is in the Church, and the spirit of errors is in the world.” I was completely devastated emotionally and spiritually for a few weeks. 

Later, I realized that it was your 3 sermons, “90 Reasons to Follow the Truth,” that inspired me to give the sermon to the whole congregation about the spirit of Errors in the Church.

Mr. Pack, you gave these three sermons when you left the Global Church of God, explaining precisely what is going on today. The Restored Church of God is now led by the spirit of error, chaos, and confusion that are destroying the brethren's love, care, and hope.

In 1993, you warned of a potential attack upon the Church and explained the behavior of false leaders/apostles.

Another 30 Reasons to Follow the Truth - Point 16
Sometimes throughout church history, the spirit of error that John referred to in the first epistle of John is leading the Church. No question who that spirit is. At other times, the spirit of truth is leading. When the spirit of truth is leading, truth after truth will come. When the spirit of error is leading, error after error will come… When that spirit of error does enter the Church, sometimes one of the sad spinoff byproducts is that ruined brethren will begin to emerge. By that term I mean people who start dabbling all over reading this, reading that, they know the spirit of error is present.

30 Reasons to Follow the Truth – Point 12
John 14:16. Christ, on the last day of his life, says, if you love me, keep my commandments, and I will pray to the Father, and he shall give you another comforter that it may abide with you forever, even the Spirit of Truth. Now, the comforter is called the Spirit of Truth. What exactly does that mean? Chapter 16 and verse 13. How be it when it, the spirit of truth, is come, it will guide you into all truth, for it shall not speak of itself, but whatsoever it shall hear, that shall it speak, and it will show you things to come. The comforter leads toward truth always. It is the spirit of truth. When there is massive wholesale error coming in, then it is no longer the spirit of truth, the comforter that's leading it. As I mentioned in that handout I gave you, if people were being killed instead of truth, surely, we would call this a holocaust that is taking place. The spirit of truth leads to truth. Now, let's examine for a moment. The comforter will always lead people to truth. It will never take them anywhere else, period. Wherever the truth is being taught, doesn't worry about corporate boundaries or what is quote-unquote God's government. It will simply lead to truth, period. It will go where it can be comfortable. The comforter cannot comfort people when it's being bathed in heresy. It becomes uncomfortable. It will always direct people back to truth. It always will.

The Love of the Truth 
Most of the brethren and some ministers clearly see that brotherly love waxed cold long ago in The Restored Church of God.

Ministers who contact Headquarters to share their concerns are regularly corrected or disregarded. Now, it has become perfectly acceptable for men at Headquarters to expose a minister's "sins" without hesitation before the entire congregation. Or, in some cases, the Church as a whole. For example, if someone was unable to pay their tithes or dared to question decisions coming from Headquarters.

As a minister, I’ve been taught we should not judge people but judge what they are doing because people can change. We should also love our enemies. How much more so our brothers and sisters in Christ? Public shaming does not invite repentance and only chases away the sheep that wandered off.

30 Reasons to Follow the Truth – Point 2
Let's understand what the falling away is all about here in 2 Thessalonians 2:3. Let no man deceive you by any means. The context is right before the return of Christ. That's the context, and that's important. For that day shall not come except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed the son of perdition. Now, very simply, this has been explained before, but I'll say it again. The Greek word is apostasia, and it means a defection from truth, not people leaving a corporate church. As a matter of fact, when you really understand it, it's the ones who don't leave who defect from truth, and the context shows us that. Verse 10. Now, it talks about certain things this man of sin will do for a number of verses, working with all deceivableness of unrighteousness and them that perish, and perhaps this will be a man in the Church, we don't know, but he will be revealed… There are people who will say truth is important, but they don't love it above all else, and we have to receive a love of the truth in order to be saved. Loving the truth and being saved are connected, and for this cause because some don't, God shall send them strong delusion that they should believe a lie, and that's the danger of staying and not withdrawing. People say, well, I can see the truth's being played with and tampered with, but I'll stay, I'll wait, I'll be patient, and the infection spreads to that person that they all might be damned who believed not the truth.

Preaching the Gospel
A few years ago, you ceased preaching the Gospel, which is your duty and responsibility as an “apostle.” The Church's primary commission is to preach the Gospel first. However, you proclaimed that the Campus takes precedence over preaching the Gospel or tending to the flock. 

Through your eight-plus year prophecy series, you're teaching about multiple “Kingdoms of God” (three, four, five, and back to two) rather than focusing on THE Kingdom (singular) of God.

Mr. Pack, are you preaching another gospel?
In one of the latest emails sent to the field ministry, Headquarters asked us to “fill the empty seats.”

Pastoral Points – February 23, 2024
“As one of three new initiatives, we plan to take a fresh approach to processing and engaging our CIs (Church Inquires). The new regional plan is a key component of our ongoing efforts to increase the number of people entering the “front door” and filling the empty seats in congregations in God’s Church.”

Headquarters also stated that field ministers will start “to preach the Gospel to locals” in their area with “public bible lectures.”

30 Final Reasons to Follow the Truth – Point 10
We are commanded to come out of Babylon to avoid receiving her plagues. Certain sins in the Bible bring special curses. Galatians 1, 6, and 9, by preaching the false Gospel of this world's churches, Paul writes, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you, let him be accursed.

30 Final Reasons to Follow the Truth – Point 29
We must come to the light. We must speak the truth in love. Don't wallow in the mire or return to the vomit. Get out of it. We must be preaching the true Gospel when the end comes. We must endure by God's definition of endurance—many more. Brethren, clearly, to stay is to plainly rebel against many of God's most basic commands and God's most basic instruction for the circumstances of apostasy in our time.

False Leader, False Teacher, False Prophet, and False Apostle
Mr. Pack, are you a prophet or not?

In February 2024, Headquarters explained that you are not Elijah anymore.

Part 493, “…There wasn't going to be a specific Elijah period other than someone teaching these truths to the Church.”

Mr. Pack, you proclaimed yourself to be Elijah the Prophet for over eight years. If you are not a prophet “anymore,” then why did you give 100+ dates for the return of Jesus Christ? Why do you still preach about dates? No one can know the day or the hour. You have gone back and forth on that so many times.

Mr. Pack, if you are not a prophet anymore, how can you prophesy and “unseal” a prophecy? And by what authority?  

Part 494, “Truly, it’s this prophecy that has been sealed to the time of the end. And I’m gonna unseal it in powerful fashion before we leave tonight.”

Mr. Pack, by often repeating, “Nobody has never seen it or understood it,” if you are not a prophet, doesn’t that mean it is only your interpretation?

2 Peter 1:20
”Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.”

Mr. Pack, if you proclaim yourself “That Prophet” while giving dates that fail, how are you not a false prophet?

Deuteronomy 18:20
But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in My name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.

30 Reasons to Follow the Truth – Point 19
2 Peter 2 and verse 1. Two thousand years of church history shows that invariably, it is the leadership which leads the Church astray. Invariably it is the leadership that leads the Church astray. 2 Peter 2 and verse 1 says, but there were false prophets also among the people even as there shall be false teachers among you. Now, the overall context here is the end time. You'll see that if you go read to the end of the book. Who privately, craftily, secretly, in the Greek, shall bring in damnable heresies even denying the Lord that bought them, which is what the Christ couldn't sin heresy teaches. That denies Christ in a whole variety of ways we don't have time to go into now. Bring upon themselves swift destruction. Here's what's so tragic. Verse 2. Many shall follow their pernicious ways. Not few, many. By reason of whom because these leaders are among the people apparently in charge by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. That's exactly what has happened to us. The way of truth is being evil spoken of. Because many have followed that wrong way.

The Government of God—Understanding Offices and Duties, pp. 241-244
Chapter 13 – False Apostles
      False leaders are always known by the FALSE TEACHINGS they bring, which they invariably seem to bring “privately,” until their victims have been conditioned to believe something they had not recognized as new. By then it is often too late to recover. The key for the brethren is to stay alert and to act before it is too late.
     But the warning applies to the ministry as well. In Acts 20, Paul was speaking to the assembled Ephesian elders for the final time before his life was to end in Rome. He told them to “Take heed…unto yourselves, and to all the flock…For I know this, that after my departing [his death] shall grievous wolves enter in among you [there it is, again], not sparing the flock” (vs. 28-29). Many believe this only occurred in the first century, or in the WCG. They could not be more wrong. In fact, the widespread blindness of the Laodicean age ensures the problem will be more subtle, with more kinds of less obvious heresies brought in “privately,” and probably more than at any other time in Church history.
     Paul’s warning continued to the elders: “Also of your own selves shall men arise…” (vs. 30). The ministry is warned here—and this must have been a very sobering statement when heard! —that some right there in the group would turn doctrinally corrupt. Therefore, the danger for the ministers was the same as the brethren. It would be their associates within the ministry standing up “speaking perverse things to draw away disciples after them” (same verse).
     Of course, it would generally be the TOP LEADERS who were in a position to “draw away after them(selves)” more than could any pastor or elder within a larger organization. The ministry is to be watching among themselves for such “top” wolves.    
    Paul warned the Corinthians: “For such are FALSE APOSTLES, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ…”
     Let me repeat: False apostles—deceitful workers—in the world are no threat to God’s people. It is in the Church where these men present danger to the flock. Therefore, Paul’s reference to Satan and “his ministers” means ministers he controls “among” God’s flock.

New Moons
In January 2024, I asked a question about the meaning of the new moon. Dr. Jaco Viljoen admitted Headquarters does not yet know and that “Mr. Pack will discover it soon and let us know.”  

Mr. Pack, why must we observe something you do not understand nor is commanded by God? We will observe new moons in God’s Kingdom, but there is no biblical evidence the New Testament church kept them. Any perceived “proofs” are your speculations.

New Truths
Mr. Pack, you come with so many new truths without proving them. Hours of talking do not equate to evidence. Shall we just accept them without “proving all things?” New moons, the third tithe year of release being dissolved, two groups of 144,000, Jesus Christ taking the Passover on Abib 15, Vladimir Putin being the Sixth King.

Mr. Pack, are you really the Branch, the Stone of Israel, the Star of Jacob, one “last” Lawgiver, Joshua the High Priest, the righteous from the east, the Messenger of the Covenant, and at least another thirty more titles found in the Bible including some belonging to Jesus Christ?

All Things Proven
Mr. Pack, have you noticed that most of this letter consists of your own words?

If you proclaim yourself to be a prophet, you become a false prophet by all the false “signs and wonders” you failed to manifest.

If you are not a prophet, you have taken the Lord’s name in vain by claiming God’s authority. All the date-setting does is breed chaos and confusion in The Restored Church of God. It is the spirit of error manifested.

The Bible says a top leader from inside the Church of God will rise as a spiritual thief pretending to be a guardian of truth. Prophecy needs to be fulfilled.

You said RCG used to grow an average of 18% per year from 1999 until 2015. Since the Prophecy Series started in 2015, RCG has been decreasing by an average of 7% annually until March 2024. In less than 10 years, RCG lost more than 1,500 members (and children).

In a 1980 Brethren and Co-Worker Letter, Mr. Armstrong said that the lack of growth was a sign that God was not pleased with the Church and God would remove His blessing as a result. How is that not an ample description of The Restored Church of God?

In the last part of “90 Reasons to Follow the Truth,” you explained that your departure from Global was due to the truth being compromised.

Due to the numerous doctrinal changes, confusing interpretations of the scriptures, failed prophecies, empty predictions, blasphemies, false teachings, and false preaching since 2015 that hardly anyone can follow or understand, I can no longer abide. I will no longer be compliant in allowing heresy to continue.

Please accept my resignation as a member of The Restored Church of God.

I will continue to observe the laws of God and the weekly and annual Sabbaths with my family and brethren who don’t want to compromise the truth.

I’m very thankful for everything I received from the Church and God for so many years, specially for the truth and for teaching us for so many years to hold fast and prove all things.  

Mr. Pack, you left Global to flee from compromised truth. I am leaving RCG for the same reasons.

I love you all. You are all in my prayers, and I hope to see you again soon.

In Christ’s service,
Christophe Binette
Minister of Jesus Christ

P.S. You can contact me on my email address: chr.binette@gmail.com