Jesus Returns March 29, Ohio Church Leader Predicts
Pack prediction is latest after more than 90 failures, critics say
If you're concerned about paying income taxes on time, or fearful about what world governments might do, a church leader in northern Ohio may have the answer: the second coming of Jesus Christ.
David Pack, founder of the Restored Church of God, is confident that return will occur Saturday, March 29.
“I believe it's this year,” Pack told members during a message March 1, adding it's a “date that will surely come.”
The latter phrase comes from the Biblical book of Habakkuk, which Pack has indicated in several messages was a “sealed book” until he and his ministerial team figured it out. Pack admits that work took more than nine years.
March 29, 2025 is the first day of the Hebrew calendar month Abib, considered by Pack and other Sabbath-keeping Church of God groups a “sacred new year.” Pack says Jesus was born on Abib 1, not December 25.
“We've absolutely got the right day,” Pack declared March 1. “We absolutely have Christ's birth date right.”
Pack has predicted an Abib 1 return of Jesus before. Critics count more than 90 “second coming” dates throughout the calendar year that Pack has set since 2022 – all of them wrong.
But this time, Pack has declared Abib 1 “immutable... settled church doctrine” for RCG and its members. That's why he's confident about 2025 being accurate.
“It has to be the first year of application after learning Abib,” Pack said. “It can't go another year, or two or five.”
Yet RCG has not posted any of Pack's predictions on its website, www.rcg.org. A search of the site for “Abib 1” over the weekend of March 22-23 brought a “blocked by the firewall” message.
In fact, the only places posting Pack's prognostications are sites managed by his skeptics. The lead skeptic is former RCG member Marc Cebrian, who runs the “Restored Church of God and David C. Pack Exposed” blog.
Cebrian somehow has been able to obtain videos of Pack messages for several years, despite leaving a job at RCG headquarters in Wadsworth, Ohio in March 2021.
“RCG has gone completely off the rails,” Cebrian writes on his www.exrcg.org blog. He adds Pack “has a documented history of prophetic failures and back-and-forth teachings.”
Cebrian now posts clips on his blog and on YouTube of Pack statements which mainstream Christians might consider outlandish, or even bizarre.
“If you are sitting on funds, extra houses or cash, you are commanded by God to sell all - or, at best, you will face four years of sore trial,” Pack told members in early 2024. He set a 51-day deadline for members to comply.
Pack founded RCG in 1999 after leaving the Worldwide Church of God six years earlier. He took issue with the doctrinal direction taken by successors to founder Herbert W. Armstrong.
Pack gained suspicion in 2013 when he predicted three leaders of other WCG spinoff groups would die on the same Friday in August. None of them did.
But assuming Pack is right about March 29, he says Jesus's return will begin a seven-year “short kingdom” which will precede what Revelation describes as a “millennium” of peace.
RCG publicly posted two messages about that teaching in late 2024. Pack claims during the second half of the seven-year period, a resurrected King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon will spark a rebellion leading to Biblical plagues.
“I did not want to leave, but felt I had no choice,” Cebrian writes on his blog.
Cebrian offers himself as a “video production specialist” on LinkedIn. It's not clear if he attends any church group now, but he still tracks Pack's messages carefully.
“The more people who come forward the louder all the voices will be,” his blog says.
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