Restored Church of God (David C. Pack)

David Pack spent decades in the Worldwide Church of God and its first-generation splinters before founding RCG in 1999 on the claim of exact fidelity to Herbert Armstrong's teaching. The organisation reproduces the classic Armstrongist architecture documented at the parent entry: sabbath and holy-day observance, three tithes (the third collected in rotating years), strict separation from 'the world', disfellowshipment with shunning of departers including family members, and a media arm — The Real Truth magazine and extensive video output — projecting a scale beyond the membership, which ex-member estimates place in the low thousands.

Two features distinguish RCG within the splinter family. The first is the founder's escalating self-identification. Across the marathon sermon series 'The Greatest Unending Story' (running since the mid-2010s), Pack's teaching has progressively identified his own role with biblical prophetic figures — announcements former members characterise as claims to be 'that prophet' and the Elijah-figure of the end — and has fixed specific dates for Christ's return dozens of times, each announced with certainty, each passing, each reabsorbed into revised chronology, a live-streamed case study in serial disconfirmation absorption.

The second is the 'common' teaching: drawing on Acts, Pack has preached that truly converted members place their assets at the church's disposal — a doctrine pressed during the campus-building era, when members were urged to sell homes, cash retirement accounts, and move to Wadsworth. Ex-member accounts collected by the long-running ex-Armstrongist watchdog networks describe families who transferred substantial estates; the church presents such giving as voluntary devotion.

RCG disputes its critics, does not engage secular media, and continues operating from the Wadsworth campus. The profile is scored on the documented pattern — escalating revelation-backed authority, asset-transfer doctrine, serial date-setting, shunning — at low confidence, with the principal sources being the church's own voluminous published sermons and the ex-member documentation ecosystem that has tracked Armstrongism's splinters for decades. The parent entry and the site's failed-prophecy materials provide the comparative context.