Like wondering just why members of the Restored Church of God stay put in light of all of Dave Pack's prophetic failures and self-aggrandizement, so too, we wonder about the mind of Dave Pack in all this.
Why is it that Dave can NEVER look back and see his obvious and multiple, almost weekly, failures of prophetic foolishness? How can he fail and fail and act as if he hasn't never acknowledged the failure of just yesterday? Only rarely does he seem uncomfortable with it all but covers himself by reminding the faithful, after the fact, that "I always had some doubts about that." or some version of "We were missing something...but now I see it".
Does the man have no conscience? Is he just incapable of admitting to being mistaken? Does he have no working memory of what he said yesterday?
Perhaps Dave has never perceived himself as wrong.
Perhaps Dave only sees himself as not right YET.
Perhaps Dave Pack is simply a failed Safe Craker who believes that every turn of the dial and every subtle click gets him one step closer to getting the combination right and the glorious contents of the safe revealed, by him!
Title taking is just reaching into the trunk for one more tool, in his mind, to get the combination right and the safe cracked. After all, getting the combo right or the code broken on Biblical Prophecy has been the hook of the Churches of God since its inception. Codes, Puzzles, and Unveiling have been standard stock in trade.
Art Mokarow cracked God's Puzzle
This "classic" now sells for $52.95 on eBay. Unfortunately, it has yet to be actually unveiled unless one is of the Preterist persuasion and has a mind to see such realities of scripture not actually mean for us today.
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Dave Pack believes that sooner or later, unlike others, will succeed in
Cracking God's Prophetic Safe, so failures aren't failures. They are just steps to the right combination. The difference is that Dave isn't ever going to get the combination correct, not ever.
"The concept of a locked box used for the safekeeping of valuables has been around for thousands of years, and as long as there have been safes, there have been people trying to steal their contents." MEET THE SAFECRACKER OF LAST RESORT
OBSERVATION: The concept of prophetic understanding has been around since just before the body cooled, and as long as there has been the need in humans to know, "what's going to happen to me?". There have always been people in religion willing to believe they alone have the answer to that question. Dave Pack sees himself as one, if not THE ONE alone to do that. A common delusion among safecrackers.
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"To that end, safe manufacturers throughout the years—Chubb, Milner, Herring, and Ratcliff & Horner, to name just a few—developed an array of mechanisms intended to thwart burglars. Safes were often touted as “burglar proof” and companies frequently tried to outdo each other in terms of the reliability of their safes. Things sometimes got competitive. There were various “safe battles,” such as the one held at the Paris Exhibition of 1867, with rival manufacturers seeing who's safe could withstand various attempts at cracking (and even destruction) for the longest amount of time. That did not mean that these safes were invulnerable, of course. As the safes got more ingenious, so did the safecrackers." MEET THE SAFECRACKER OF LAST RESORT
OBSERVATION: Thus splits, splinters, and slivers are all headed by those inclined to believe they have special safecracking skills and insights. They don't. Nevertheless, the competition among them grows ever more intense.
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"The methods differ depending on the type of mechanism and skillset of the safecracker. There are multiple ways to go about it, from drilling into the safe’s door to using force to pry or “bounce” open safe doors to the use of explosives. "
OBSERVATION: Dave Pack is a safe bouncer and explosives expert, at times, when "it is inarguable" or his understanding is rock solid and unquestionable "with many proofs". Often, he is just sure what he is about to reveal "will blow your mind". But it never does. Dave's idea of explosives is what most actually call, snaps or "party poppers".
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But
"The most intriguing to me, however, is the subtle art of lock manipulation, the ability to crack a safe’s combination and leaving the safe just as one found it.
OBSERVATION: This is Dave. While no safe has yet been opened, nor will one ever be, Dave tweaks his dramatic views and failures every week, heading ever closer to getting it right. So he thinks. He won't.
Last week's safe is not damaged just because "we" didn't get it right then. "Everything is just fine brethren, and we are still on the right track" assures that the safe is just as we need it to be. Soon the "I" will take over in Dave and he will see what "we" never saw before, "but now I do".
This weekly tweaking of his erroneous beliefs keeps the soon, shortly, and quickly in place for yet another go at it, with no blowback from the members, because "He's almost there", takes over in the minds of the faithful and those that have a vested interest in what's in the safe.
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Lock manipulation is a skill that requires a quick mind and nimble fingers, as well as a good head for figures and the ability to chart out a graph of the possible numbers in the combination, either on paper or—even more impressively—in one’s head.
This, in its simplest definition, is accomplished by feeling for slight differences in the give of the dial as it encounters internal contact points and then working out the correct line-up of the wheels inside the lock. It’s an extremely complex maneuver and one that takes an admirable level of expertise, whatever side of the law the safebreaker happens to fall on."
OBSERVATION: It's all in Dave's head and Dave has always been quick to tell us how intelligent he is and all his credentials both intellectual as well as in the line of King David and the Aaronic Priesthood. Of course, this is all foolishness but a necessary credential in the mind of David C. Passover.
People have told me over the years that Dave is "brilliant". I disagreed, as one so wrong on so many things over so many years can hardly be seen as brilliant. Dave's Creationist series on "The Irrefutable Proofs of God" proved that.
Dave Pack does not believe in brilliantly conceived truths. He believes foolishly imagined delusions.
I used to respond he was "clever". But that implies a bit of deceit and I really believe Dave Pack sees himself spoken of in the scriptures and all the titles he actually takes he takes believing them to be so. Now I understand he is simply delusional with religious content and needs an intervention just as any drug or alcohol addiction would need to be properly addressed, before someone, or everyone, gets hurt.
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In my honest view and with all my WCG experience and observations behind me now, Dave Pack is incapable of seeing his multiple failures as failures at all. No need to apologize or even acknowledge them. They are not failures. They are just steps to getting the combination of God's Prophetic and End Time safe open. Dave desperately seems to want to be the one to open it and if it takes title-taking or tool-taking to appear to be the one called by the Deity to do so, so be it.
Dave Pack is never wrong because being right will always be just around the corner. Opening that prophetic safe door and revealing the glorious content is moments away and Dave wants credit for getting the job done.
The problem actually is that there is no safe to open. What Dave believes is a safe to be cracked is merely a Rubik's Cube, with only the outside colors to be matched. Nothing to see here.
And he may as well use The Magic Eightball to advise him on which way to manipulate the colors.
