Thursday, December 2, 2021

The God Culture: A Biography of Timothy Jay Schwab Part 2: Heretical Teachings

In a previous article titled "A Biography of Timothy Jay Schwab" I took a look at Tim's life story based on all the available information at the time. The point was to write a theological biography to see how he made his way from Protestant Evangelicalism to the online cult he founded known as The God Culture. In this article I want to document Tim's heretical teachings. 

Timothy Jay Schwab of the The God Culture is a heretic. That should come as no surprise to anyone who has watched his videos or read his books. However The God Culture continues to ensnare many people  deceiving them with lies and destroying their souls. The biggest casualty is Filipinos and no wonder since Tim's ministry is specifically directed towards them. When he tells them that the Philippines is The Garden of Eden, Ophir, Tarshsih, Sheba, the land of creation and that Filipinos are Israelites who have a special destiny to fulfill in the end times it's as if everything else he says cannot be heard. In this article I want to gather up the fragments Tim has strewn about and show exactly and beyond dispute that, far from restoring lost truths, he is spewing forth old heresies that the Church has rightly and long ago rejected.

The proper way of doing theology is to start with the doctrine of God. From there one can branch off into every other area of theology. Each step is interconnected. If one's doctrine of God is wrong then there will be problems elsewhere within the system on down the line. For this article I will be following the traditional Reformed loci which are Theology, Anthropology, Christology, Soteriology, Ecclesiology, and Eschatology. That means the doctrines of God, man, Christ, salvation, the Church, and the last things. I will try to be as brief as I can by posting the Church's teaching followed by Tim's teaching. 

Theology

The doctrine of God taught by the Church is that God is three divine Persons existing in one divine essence. These Persons are the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The Father is the monarchia, or "only one archon, principle or fountain fountain of divinity," eternally begetting the Son and eternally spirating the Spirit. That is Orthodox Nicene Christian theology in a nutshell. It is a hard and mysterious doctrine to understand and explain. It is founded on Scripture.

What is Tim's doctrine of God? Well, for starters he is an anti-Trinitarian. I wrote a whole article about that which can be read here: 

https://philippinefails.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-god-culture-just-another-anti.html 

Here are some choice quotes from that article.

Then espousing some doctrine of men like Trinity which is a word that never even appears in scripture once. That's why you don't see any videos from us on that. We could care less about the doctrines of men. 

https://youtu.be/EscrM4o-h4M?t=3644
To us, we focus on the roles of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit not ignorant buzz words that do not even exist in scripture. That's nonsense. The Father and Son are definitely equated in scripture. The Holy Spirit not exactly but His role never-the-less is crucial and He is Yahuah's spirit indeed. Whether anyone accepts Isis-Osiris-Horus or Nimrod-Semiramis-Tammuz, etc., the origin of your so-called Trinity word and Doctrine not scripture, is impertinent and we don't even enter such debate as it is unnecessary and your basis is not scripture and we focus on the Word not manmade words not even found in scripture.  
Where does the Bible use the term "Trinity." Please enlighten us. Where does such concept come from in scripture?  
https://philippinefails.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-god-culture-just-another-anti.html 

Anti-trinitarian is a stupid assertion. We aren't anti-trinitarian. We are PRO-Bible. We have not even produced a teaching on this Trinity Doctrine in which the word and it's buzz words are not even found in scripture because it is impertinent. It is polarizing nonsense that has no place in debate even. It is not in scripture thus no need to discuss it. Let's discuss what is. What matters is to understand the roles of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit and we focus on the Biblical application of that as we should not doctrines of men you can't even produce a scripture in support of the very words you use

https://philippinefails.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-god-culture-just-another-anti.html 

5:11. Colossians 2 verse 1. "For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and for them at Laodicea." Now, we know that Church that's not in good shape according to Messiah in Revelation. "And for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God." We covered that. Messiah is the mystery revealed, right? "And of the Father, and of Christ," Yahusha. So, he invokes the Father and the Son. You know what he doesn't invoke is the Holy Spirit in a Trinity but we're not gonna cover that here. But notice it's not there. Kind of weird that Paul wouldn't invoke that.

13:17 "For in Him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily." Now, we will get to this Godhead in time but you'll notice that Paul does not equate the Holy Sprit in that Godhead for some reason. Now, why doesn't Paul do that? I mean, is Paul an anti-Trinitarian as we're called at times? We'll see. 

Colossians 2. What Did Paul Say? Not What We Are Told.

The word "trinity" does not appear in scripture therefore the doctrine does not appear in scripture and the doctrine itself originates in the Egyptian and Babylonian religions. It's a rather lame denial of what the Church affirms that betrays a lack of understanding of the doctrine of the Trinity. While Timothy does believe that the Father and Son are both "equated", whatever that means, and that the Son is God in the flesh he is not sure at all about the role of the Holy Spirit. In fact he denies the Holy Spirit had any role in creating the world.

Yahuah and Yahusha created. Though we leave this insertion, it was not clear to the translators and this cannot overturn precedence. There were 2 Creators as Genesis refers to them as “Us” and “Our” and John 1 is clear Messiah  created too. Elohim is plural. Elohim made not  just El. 

https://philippinefails.blogspot.com/2021/08/the-god-culture-2nd-esdras-hidden-book_01405748326.html

8:03 The Father and Son created together. The Holy Spirit had some sort of role though not laid out other than He hovered upon the waters, but there's no detail we found yet in any passage explaining what exactly he was doing. But He was there admittedly

The 22 Works of Creation. Who Were the Creators? Answers In Jubilees: Part 12

The Church does not teach the Holy Spirit had some minor role merely hovering over the waters. The Church teaches that all the works of God are done by the Father, through the Son, and in the Spirit. As the Bible says: 

Psalm 33:6 By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.

The whole trinity is found in that verse. That is a standard Christian interpretation.

Tim also teaches that God is not unique but is one of a class of heavenly beings.

69:19  Notice how these all (names of the watchers) have El on the end of their names? That's because they are heavenly beings. El, Eloah, or Elohim is not a name of Yahuah. It's a title, a classification of a heavenly being to which Yahuah belongs but so do the angels so it is appropriate for both.
Gog of Magog Attacks 3: History & Origin of War: Lost Tribes Series 5C
For Timothy Jay Schwab Yahuah, that is God the Father, is just one heavenly being among many such as the angels! What a blasphemous thing to say. To equate the creator with his creation. God and the angels he created do not belong to the same class of anything. God is not a being. God is beyond being. He is the author of all being.  He is not just one heavenly being among many and to say so shows that Tim is not a theologian and understands nothing about God. This teaching of his sheds more light on his doctrine, or lack thereof, of the Trinity. Tim's thoughts of God are poor, shallow, and heretical. Tim is a deceiver of the highest order and it is sad to see so many Filipinos following him on the broad road to hell.

Anthropology

The Church's doctrine of man is that man was created on the sixth day. First Adam was created then Eve was formed from his rib while he slept. They were placed in the Garden of Eden and told to tend it and to not  eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. But then Satan, the serpent, deceived Eve who in turn deceived her husband, it is not clear exactly why Adam followed her lead, and they both ate the forbidden fruit. Man was expelled from the Garden of Eden and told to be fruitful and multiply. A person comes into existence through the sexual union of man and woman. There is no preexistence of souls. Man is now fallen and can do nothing good of himself. 

Tim's doctrine is a little bit different. He believes that Jubilees is scripture which means he has a completely dissimilar account of man's creation. According to him Eve was created on day 6 of the second week.

The Mystery of Cain: Part 2. Pre-Adamic Man? Answers In Jubilees 21

19:41: “In the first week was Adam created.” Just Adam. Adam. That's it period. Same in Genesis. Oops! It says Adam there in Jubilees. Got that? Adam was created  the first week. There it is in English. Jubilees  explains the whole thing. Done. Now, his name is  there but, Genesis really says the same thing. They just aren't reading and paying attention. They're ignoring the Hebrew even exists, the original  language, and just rendering the English. Oh, it  only says man so if it only says man that means that it wasn't Adam. That's stupid. That doesn't  work period. “And the rib his wife.” Oh, wait a minute  in the first week was Adam created and the rib, his wife, in the second week. Now the rib was already created the first week but his wife from it created the second week. He showed  her unto him so he was not created woman, was not created, and by the way if you want to even call her woman you can't because she came from man on day six of the second week.

Along with this teaching that Eve was created on the sixth day of the second week is Tim's teaching that the spirits of all men were created on the very first day.

21:27 All spirits for every man who will ever live were already created from day one.

The 22 Works of Creation. Who Were the Creators? Answers In Jubilees: Part 12

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXjvywvF3OU&lc=UgyxpgNpxFimjYkjFY54AaABAg

Ashreille: does that mean that god already created the spirits of all humans that will be born on earth up to this day and the future? 

The God Culture: Indeed on Day 1. Yah Bless.

Tim could not be clearer about his belief in the pre-existence of souls. Where do these spirits exist before they are born? He does not say but this doctrine of the pre-existence of souls was held by Origen and condemned by the Church. It is also a doctrine of the Mormons. Doctrines like this are why only heretics accept Jubilees as scripture and call the current Bible cannon false.

There are two views within the Church about when and how the souls of men are created. One is traducianism which means that the soul is created by natural generation. The other is creationism which means that God creates each individual soul at conception. The issue in this debate is not just how the soul is created but also the fact that man is sinful. Traducianism gives the best answer for the transmission of original sin. Teaching that the souls of men pre-exist before sexual union only raises questions about the transmission of original sin and leads to the teaching that the body is evil. Pure souls descend into corrupt bodies which is why man is sinful. The Church has always rejected the doctrine of the pre-existence of souls.

As for the fall, Tim calls it the greatest love story. Adam ate the fruit so he could be with his wife. 

“Many assume Adam was evil and there is no evidence he ever sinned after he was tricked in the Garden. He made the conscious decision to willfully sin no doubt. However, Adam only ate the fruit after he saw the love of his life do so. He knew she would fall and no longer be with him if so. His eating the fruit is the greatest love story.” 

After this horrendous event, it is absolutely not the "greatest love story," Tim says Adam never sinned again.

Adam offered the first atonement and there is no passage to indicate he ever sinned again in his entire 930 years.

The Search for King Solomon's Treasure, pg. 303

I have not come across any place where Tim explains this doctrine. How can Adam, who is now a sinner, not commit a single sin for 930 years? It has to do with Tim's denial of man's innate sinfulness which is explicitly stated in Genesis 6:5. Tim applies that verse to the Nephilim.

9:13 See, they will mix their seed now on a purer scale using these new Sciences which are really not new at all. And they will raise up world leaders who are even more evil than those since the flood, you know where the Biblsays every imagination of their heart was evil continually. Do you know anybody like that? Because that's pretty evil

Gog of Magog Attacks 2: FRESH REVELATION: Lost Tribes Series 5B: Who is Gog?

22:27 - Now again, let's be clear. Enki is a fallen angel, a watcher from before the flood. Again, they mated with human women and they had an offspring who were the Nephilim who are the origin of demons who are evil. Every imagination of their heart is evil continually. 

Oops! Did Ron Wyatt Find the Nephilim Ark?

Tim's doctrine of man is the opposite of what both the Church and the Bible teach. The Book of Jubilees is not now and never was scripture. He goes wrong in many places because of his reliance upon that book. Tim's use of Jubilees has done a lot of harm because now people think he is revealing truth that was purposely hidden away by the corrupt Church. That is just one of Tim's many lies. His teaching from Jubilees is also very shallow, sporadic, and does not actually tell the listener anything about what the text means.

Christology 

The doctrine of Christ is connected to the doctrine of God. It is a very important doctrine. Even Jesus said "Who do you say that I am?" The Church says He is the second person of the Trinity, the eternally begotten Son of the Father who became a man being born of the Virgin Mary. Because Jesus is God that makes Mary the mother of God. He grew up in a remote town in Israel until His time came. Then He embarked on his ministry, died on the cross, and rose again three days later on the first day of the week. He was also about 30 when he began his ministry and about 33 when he died on the Cross. 

As we have seen above Tim does not believe Jesus Christ is the third Person of the Trinity. For Tim God is a duo consisting of both Father and Son. His Sonship is not eternal but is based on being born in the flesh to Mary.

"But he that said unto him," Who's that? Yahuah. "Thou art my son. Today have I begotten thee." Now we know Yahusha is the only begotten son meaning birthed in the flesh by a woman but he existed prior as he saith also in another place.

Despite saying that Jesus was born in the flesh to a woman Tim teaches that Mary is not the Mother of God.

39:26 And they do indeed embrace the harlot of Babylon taking her image found in archeology centuries before Mary was ever born and they used that image of the harlot of Babylon in their worship and call her those same titles of the ancient goddess. Mother of God. Well, that's not Mary's title, that's the ancient goddess.

The Final World Power in the 7 Ekklesias of Revelation. The Key. Answers In 2nd Esdras Part 7

Making this asinine claim shows that Tim is completely unfamiliar with the disputes of the 5th century over the nature of Jesus Christ and the necessity of calling Mary the theotokos or God bearer. The title Mother of God says less about Mary and more about Jesus Christ. Mary did not give birth to a human person, she gave birth to the second person of the Trinity who tabernacled in human flesh. The title does not mean she is the source of the divinity of Christ only that the one born from her was God. The Council of Chalcedon cleared up this debate and left the following definition:

https://www.monergism.com/definition-council-chalcedon-451-ad
...begotten before all ages of the Father according to the Godhead, and in these latter days, for us and for our salvation, born of the virgin Mary, the mother of God, according to the manhood;...
Rather than being a title taken from a Babylonian goddess calling Mary the Mother of God or theotokos is a bulwark protecting the divinity of Jesus Christ. If one cannot confess that Mary is the Mother of God or that God was born, God died, and God rose from the dead, then one does not have a right understanding of who Jesus Christ is.

Tim also teaches that Jesus Christ was born in 9 AD, began his ministry at the age of 36, and died at the age of 39. 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpYFD-7BuuM&lc=UgzpQlGWQHZkDNx48Xd4AaABAg

benyamin ben qohelet If he died in 31 ad and he was born in 10 BC that would make him 41 years old he died at thirty-three so you have a logical fallacy

The God Culture Third, you do not count the year 0 AD/BC in counting. It goes from 1 BC to 1 AD which we also cover so you obviously comment without really watching. So your number with the wrong starting year is 40 years not 41 and if you start from the actual year we prove, 9 BC not 10 BC, that makes him 39 at death and resurrection and 36 when he started his first year. That matches Luke's ballpark of "ABOUT 30" when He started His ministry. Luke never says He was 30 and would have known the age as He knew the birth year. So why does he use that ballpark? About 30 is the time Levitical priest enters the ministry and he is clearly making reference to this not giving an exact date as he does other times.

Now, that is not exactly heresy in the strict sense. But it is a wrong teaching and is out of sync with the historical record and what the Church teaches. I mention it here to note that everything Tim has to say about who Jesus Christ is is wrong.

Soteriology

Intimately connected with the question "Who is Jesus Christ," is the question, "What did Jesus Christ do?" Upon the answer to that question hinges the nature of our salvation. The Church has many ways to describe our salvation in Christ. The Church confesses that Jesus died on the cross as a sacrifice atoning for our sins, that we are united to Him through faith in Him, that he destroyed the power of death and the devil, and that He became like us so we can become like Him. One thing the Church both East and West agrees on is that Jesus Christ fulfilled the Mosaic law and we no longer have to keep it and that, as Jesus Himself said, no man can be plucked from His hand.

Salvation is a very important topic. "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?," asked the Philippian jailer of Paul. If someone were to pose that question to Tim he would be brushed off as being selfish and asking an unimportant question.

One will observe like David and Paul, the prophets endear the Commandments, the Law and the Sabbath. It was not about their desiring to be saved though as that is a selfish aim of the modern church.

 In our era, this is one of the most important topics, not your salvation.


Rest: The Case for Sabbath, pg. 51-52

Nevertheless Tim, who teaches salvation is unimportant and a selfish aim, does have a doctrine of soteriology. What does Tim say about the nature of Christ's work and our salvation?

“He just said the Law remains and I will not abolish it but fulfill it or keep it as an example for you.  

Rest: The Case for Sabbath p. 113-114.

Tim teaches the opposite of the Bible and the Church that the law was a shadow of things to come and that Christ has completely freed us from it as He is the reality that the law typified. According to Tim the reality of the shadow has not come and therefore the law is not passed away.
24:22 "Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days Which are a shadow of things to come but the body is of Christ." Have you ever thought about if something is a shadow of things to come then that didn’t mean it already passed away because those things didn’t come yet? How on earth does the Church screw that up? 

We are to keep the whole law including the Feasts because, even though they foreshadowed the life of Jesus Christ, they are by no means done away with. 

The Feasts foreshadow Messiah’s birth, death and resurrection in the Spring and in the Fall, the future End Times of the trumpet sounding (Trumpets), Day of Judgment (Atonement) and when we attain our new heavenly bodies (Tabernacles)Paul understood this as did James but neither says their being a shadow means they are abolished

Rest: The Case for Sabbath, pg.144

Compare that with what John Chrysostom, a famous and beloved teacher of Christian Orthodoxy, says in his sermons against Judaizing Christians:

Christ did keep the Pasch with them. Yet he did not do so with the idea that we should keep the Pasch with them. He did so that he might bring the reality to what foreshadowed the reality. He also submitted to circumcision, kept the Sabbath, observed the festival days, and ate the unleavened bread. But He did all these things in Jerusalem. However, we are subject to none of these things, and on this Paul spoke out loud and clear: "If you be circumcised, Christ shall be of no advantage to you." And again, speaking of the feast of unleavened bread, he said: "Therefore let us keep festival, not with the old leaven, not with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth." For our unleavened bread is not a mixed flour but an uncorrupted and virtuous way of life. 

Why did Christ keep the Pasch at that time? The old Pasch was a type of the Pasch to come, and the reality had to supplant the type. So Christ first showed the foreshadowing and then brought the reality to the banquet table. Once the reality has come, the type which foreshadowed it is henceforth lost in its own shadow and no longer fills the need. So do not keep pleading this excuse, but show me that Christ did command us to observe the old Pasch. I am showing you quite the opposite. I am showing you that Christ not only did not command us to keep the festival days but even freed us from the obligation to do so.

Tim says that the work of Christ was to fulfill the law not in our place but as an example for us to show us how to keep it. We are then to follow Him in keeping the law. For Tim salvation is relationship and relationship means keeping the law.
20:05 For us to not keep his law, uh-oh here it comes, is also to not love Him. As if we love Him what do we do? John 15, keep my commandments. Even in revelation what are they found doing at the very end the end times remnant? Keeping His commandments, His law.  Do we love him? This is a covenant folks and it is  the way it works. See that's they way he defines this. It's a covenant relationship. This is intimacy wth the Creator.  He loves you that much. He wants to be intimate with you in relationship. Are we in relationship with Him or not?
This relationship is absolutely necessary to salvation.
18:52 Relationship with Him is the requirement of salvation and for getting our prayers answered.
Relationship, keeping the law, is the only definition of salvation given in Scripture.
58:21 Most of all no matter what you do deepen your relationship with Yahusha because that, my friends, is all that matters in the end. It's the only definition of salvation in Scripture.
According to Tim Salvation is a free gift but one must do something which is keep the relationship.
1:04:39. So we see they could not enter in because of unbelief and indeed unbelief is the key here. That we are grafted in but if you believe in Him as the Messiah, as the Son of the Almighty Living Yahuah God, then you continue in relationship with Him. You allow it to grow and blossom and foster it. You don't check a box and that's it and go on living however you wish. It doesn't work that way. Which is called pursuing your own lusts really. No. You have to do something. The gift is free but it is relationship and it must progress or its not any longer relationship. It's that simple  

One must especially keep the Sabbath as doing so is a sign you are saved.

People ask at times how do we know we are saved? Well, are you keeping the sabbath? That is the sign of one who is saved and in relationship with Him. Sorry, we tell the truth here. 
https://youtu.be/qfAybCvlAuM?t=1666
Elsewhere Tim is more explicit saying faith in Christ is not enough and that it is the law is which redeems us.
19:30 So this is another example that we aren't to just have faith in Yahusha. That’s not enough. That’s not it.  No, no, no, no. We are to keep His commandments.

Sabbath Series: Part 5: The End Times Sabbath
39:35 The law written by the very finger of Yahuah Himself.  The law is what redeems us.

Faith in Christ is not enough? Paul's answer to the Philippian jailer says otherwise, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house."

The Church teaches that grace is to be found in Jesus Christ as the Scriptures say in John 1:12 "For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ." The law is contrasted with the grace that comes by Jesus Christ. Tim says the Mosaic law is grace!


His law is grace and always has been. Salvation was available to even gentiles in Exodus and has been all along. The gospel of grace is a manipulation we will deal with. We are saved by grace but we have to do something. We cannot claim to make Him our Lord but then ignore that which He is Lord of especially the Sabbath. The Sabbath is a perfect example of His grace from the 7th Day when He created it as He realized man needed a Day of Rest set aside and set apart for Him. The notion that the law is absent grace is outright fraud on the part of so-called scholars. It is Pharisee leaven and we will deal with this. Yah Bless.

Sabbath Series: Part 1. What is the Sabbath? Did it pass away? The Biblical Truth.
Tim also teaches that a man is declared righteous because he keeps the law and not because he has faith in Jesus Christ and is united to Him. The Bible says in Galatians 2:21" I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain." It also says in Romans 4:3 and Genesis 15:6 "Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness." Tim teaches the exact opposite and calls the righteousness that is from faith ridiculous.
16:44 Abraham kept the law and the sabbath. And so did Isaac and Jacob.  I mean how can they be called righteous if there was no law by which they could be judged as righteousThe very notion is ridiculous from the start.

Sabbath Series: Introduction Commentary Only

Salvation can also be lost if one does not keep the law.

8:20 There is no such thing as "once saved always saved" because you said a prayer. Forget it, it's not Scripture. Salvation is always in Scripture according to Paul, especially, a lifestyle. Again read Matthew 7, read John 15 the whole chapters and you will find Messiah defines salvation not Paul and Paul agrees with his definition and he has to. Most especially to Paul who just said so in this passage multiple times as he tells us that we should do good works, that we should walk, that we should have relationship. We're talking about action words here, we're talking about us having to do something. He's also saying to keep the law. That's doing something.   

Colossians 2. What Did Paul Say? Not What We Are Told.

59:10  For if God spared not the natural branches, the Israelites, take heed lest he also spare not thee. Wait I thought you couldn't lose your salvation. Hmmm.

Despite being very clear that one's salvation is dependent on keeping the law Tim does say one is not saved by keeping the law.

Again, is there salvation through the law? No. One is not saved by keeping the law.  That is Pharisee doctrine, not what Paul says. Paul is clear there is only salvation through Yahushah Hamashiach. 
https://philippinefails.blogspot.com/2020/06/the-god-culture-law-is-what-redeems-us.html 

A close look at his system reveals quite the opposite. Timothy Jay Schwab teaches that keeping the law is very necessary to one's salvation as it is what keeps one in relationship with Jesus Christ. Keeping the Mosaic law is what grafts us into Him and if we do not keep the law we will lose our salvation. He denies the sufficiency of faith in Christ alone. Righteousness comes by keeping the law. Tim also never mentions the forgiveness of sins or the atoning nature of the blood of Christ. He completely ignores the forensic aspect of Christ's work because for Tim Christ is only our example for how to keep the law and not the one who fulfills it completely and utterly so that we are freed from the law's bondage.

There is absolutely no room for the grace and mercy of Jesus Christ and the work of the Holy Spirit in Tim's doctrine of salvation. There is no regeneration or sanctification or being washed by the Holy Ghost. No role for the Holy Spirit to produce the fruits of righteousness in us and no walking in the Spirit. Timothy jay Schwab's doctrine of salvation is graceless and Christless, completely man-centered, and wholly at odds with scripture and the teaching of the Church.

Ecclesiology

What is the Church? She is the visible Body of Christ and the Kingdom of God on the earth. She is One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic. Her nature is theological and mystical even though she resides on the earth. She is hierarchical and organized. Her defenders have composed creeds to defend the faith. Membership is essential and outside of the Church there is no salvation. She is the Ark of Salvation. The Church is the God ordained community through which He works on the earth. Once it was the nation of Israel that had that privilege but now it is the Church which encompasses all men and all nations. Jesus Christ built his Church and the gates of hell shall never overcome it. She will never disappear.

Icon of the Church as the Ark of Salvation

The subject of the Church is too broad and wide to go into depth here. But suffice to say Tim rejects the Church. He is very adamant that what is called the Church today is really the Synagogue of Satan because they have abandoned the Mosaic law and do not keep the seventh day Sabbath.

However, there is no such term for Sunday being the Lord’s day in all of scripture. This one time John uses it, he must and can only refer to the Saturday, 7th-Day Sabbath. If John was invoking Sunday there, that would be new doctrine and strange. John had no such authority and neither did the so-called “early church” which was really the early Synagogue of Satan infusion.

Rest: The Case for Sabbath, pg. 360

In that paragraph Tim calls the early church the Synagogue of Satan. The Didache is an early manual of church teaching showing how she had developed over 4 decades from 33 AD to 70 AD. Tim says this manual proves the early church is the Synagogue of Satan.

We then find the Pope even endorsing the supposed find of the Didache full of Catholic doctrine from the time of the Apostles in about 50-70 A.D. supposedly including the Sunday practice. If that dating is accurate, this document proves they are the Synagogue of Satan as they do not follow the practice of the Biblical ekklesia at the same time in the same area where they are said by Messiah to have operated even. If older dating of 3rd to 4th century, it is still no less damning.

Rest: The Case for Sabbath, pg. 133

Tim then goes on to say that Constantine founded the Catholic Church.

The Catholic Church was founded by the High Priest of Mithraism – Constantine the “Not-So Great.” Certainly, part of the church, though not the true ekklesia especially the Eastern church from Turkey and Kurdistan, did observe Sunday though unbiblical even before his days. However, he made Sunday observance law. The true church continued the practice of the Apostles that we already well proved.

Rest: The Case for Sabbath pg. 360

With the ascension of Constantine the Synagogue of Satan was firmly installed and the true early church was completely wiped out.

The synagogue of satan was installed and their doctrines as what we call the early church today but the true early church was wiped out. 

New Sabbath Series Trailer
That sentence was in the comments of the linked video at one time but Tim has since erased it. I include it anyway because it exactly expresses his sentiments.

Now, this issue of the Church is complicated and I am trying to present Tim's case succinctly. In a nutshell Tim believes that the true Church kept the Mosaic law but at some point early on the false church crept in unawares and deceived the people into throwing out the Mosaic law especially the seventh day Sabbath. This false Church grew in power through Constantine and stamped out the true law keeping church. This is absolutely wrong and leads to the heresy that the church was trampled by the gates of hell contrary to the promise of Jesus Christ. It is also based on the lie that Paul and Jesus Christ teach we must still keep the Mosaic law. One lie leads to another in this great chain of deception. 

Today the church is very small, being composed of seventh day Sabbath keepers and those who adhere to the Mosaic law.

So how then do we govern ourselves? Who do we follow? What church do we attend? Is there a denomination that gets this right?

You will never find denominations in scripture. His ekklesia cannot be broken into such. In our age, there are a Remnant of believers only. It is not 1.5 billion but a few in terms of the population of the world. They are one and defined as keeping His commandments. Those come from the Bible as should all of our doctrine.

Any organization one enters is a creation of men. You will notice just about all of them attempt to boil down their theology into a Statement of Faith or Mission Statement of sort. These are meaningless as any Statement of Faith that does not include every letter of the Word is no such. The origin of such practice is freemasonry as the Bible never says to create a Statement of Faith. You will find every False Prophet comes from the church within and has a great resume and great sounding Mission Statement. That is Pharisaism not Bible. If one can whittle their faith down to a sentence or paragraph, they are extremely shallow.

Rest: The Case for Sabbath, pg. 416

One thing Tim really hates is the organized Church. Despite the Bible saying the Church has an organizational hierarchy with Bishops, Deacons, and Pastors Tim says the true Church is not an organization but is disorganized and diffused throughout the world.

45:36 We have no problem rebuking especially scholars who have screwed up the Bible for so long. That is almost every denomination out there. It includes the cults calling themselves, "We're the only true church." No you're not! There is no such. His Ekklesia is not an organization and that money doesn't go in your pocket. It is believers everywhere and there is only one group, there's only one classification. It is not based on race. It doesn't matter what color you are. It doesn't matter if you are Hebrew or Greek, Jew or Gentile. Doesn't matter. It's certainly not about religion because the only established relationship the creator of the universe wants to know you. Imagine that. Is that not enough? 

Despite hating organizations and despite telling everyone that The God Culture is not affiliated with any organization Tim does affirm that The God Culture is an online church.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXjvywvF3OU&lc=UgzyaA4UWF_Gu6RrLPt4AaABAg

Johnf Im binge watching everything, im blown away, ive been lied to about the which books are actually scripture and now i understand why they "detracted" us/me, your ministry is a blessing.! Is there a church in Angeles City, Pampanga who is of your group.?! If there is Id want my family go there. Yah bless.!

The God Culture We are only an online ekklesia. Yah Bless.

If you consider The God Culture your online church community you can even send Tim your tithes and offerings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHcqbNGp_yY&lc=UgzZDvblGasVD3MY8Rt4AaABAg

Tina OohBae I was wondering if you do have any means or channels so we can give tithes or offerings, if you can say that. I mean i am considering your channel as my "church and Christ community" because i have so much to learn about Yahuah Elohim thru your channel. Ya Bless!!!

The God Culture Many give thru Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/thegodculture or you may contact us at thegodculture@gmail.com. Yah Bless.

There is more to be said here but not enough space. Tim rails against the church for daring to decide what is and is not scripture saying the church has no right to make such a decision. He says a real church is only two or more people implying that the true church is very tiny and only meets in garages and living rooms. He despises the councils and calls the creeds the church has written to protect herself against heresy evil oaths. 

49:45  He's not saying not to take any vows  at all but what he's saying is it's better not to take an oath. What is Moses saying here? He's saying  if you give your word keep it period. He's telling you you must take an oath? No. But understand the times of Messiah when people are demanded by the Pharisees and the like, just as many churches today, sorry but it's true, in some cases not all and certainly in Judaism. But they bind you to an oath. Some call it a Creed. Sound familiar? Whatever you want to call it don't take it. You are to read the word and to test it because that kind of oath is actually called freemasonry 

Tim teaches an aberrant and heretical Ecclesiology that says the true church disappeared in the first century and has only recently been revived by men such as himself who keep the seventh day Sabbath and the law of Moses. Keeping the Mosaic law and not faith in Jesus Christ is the hallmark of the true church according to Timothy Jay Schwab.

Eschatology 

Eschatology has to do with the last things. Under this category falls not only the end times but also what happens when we die. The Church says, along with Paul, to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. The Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholics while differing in many teachings about what happens after death both pray to the Saints which means they do not believe their souls are sleeping. When Jesus died he descended to hell and preached to the spirits in prison. This is called the Harrowing of Hell. Soul sleep has never been a doctrine of the Church. 

Tim teaches soul sleep.

41:57 Wait a minute you mean they are not already in heaven or hell? Nope. Not according to scripture 59 times which says our spirits go to sleep when we die and we do not, we are not judged until the day of final judgement. So even Mary is not in heaven yet. 

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This is a serious error that he bases on his interpretation of Daniel 12 where it says "many of them that sleep in the dust shall awake." That same verse continues with "some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt." Oddly enough Tim teaches that that contempt is not actually everlasting. We see this doctrine taught in his notes on 2nd Esdras.

2nd Esdras 15:23 

In all of scripture Hell is an immediate burning with eternal fire. Esdras clarifies this is and  [sic] immediate burning and their spirits are gone forever. Straw burns quickly and disappears 

That is the heretical doctrine of annihilationism. That means Tim denies there is an eternal punishment for sinners in a lake of fire where their worm is not quenched as Jesus taught. Instead their spirits burn up and "are gone forever." Tim further elaborates on this in the comments section of his videos by saying that hell is an event and not an eternal torture.

Hell is an event not an eternal torture. Agreed. We have not entered the Flat Earth debate. Yah Bless.

Tim has said quite a lot about the end times. He teaches Jesus Christ will return in 2127 and that Jerusalem is the Whore of Babylon. But not all of that is heresy per se. Much of it is simply bad history, bad theology, and just plain error and does not concern us here.

Conclusion

This list of Timothy Jay Schwab's heretical teachings could actually grow as Tim says there is "more revelation" to come. There is no more revelation. We have all we need in the Bible. Tim is very sensitive about criticism. In his videos he is very clear that one is not to debate him in the comments. Any negative feedback is either quickly deleted or else the commenter is mocked for being illiterate or a communist. Tim is very sure he is on the side of truth and that those who come against him are on the side of lies.

Lies are becoming the espoused truth. Truth is being labeled a lie or “conspiracy theory” or “flat-earthers” or whatever nasty label they can affix to dismiss truth and embrace falsehood.

Rest: The Case for Sabbath, pg. 137

The fact is Tim does believe the earth is flat. I wrote a whole article about that very topic. He never dismisses flat earth comments on his videos by saying the world is round. Recently he even "loved" a flat earth picture posted on his Facebook page.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=5011740552189530&set=p.5011740552189530&type=3

It's not very hard to pick up on Tim's flat earth doctrine. One commenter pointed this out and Tim did not dispute him.

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Gamer Gex I like how u guys are flat earthers ... U just dont say it outright ... 

The God Culture We just believe the Bible and the important thing is the cosmology in which the writers of the Bible most definitely wrote. One will never understand Biblical geography without recognizing that. Even Dr. Michael Heiser has said similar. Yah Bless.

It is my hope this article will act as a resource for anyone looking for more information about the beliefs of Timothy Jay Schwab and The God Culture. These beliefs are spread out through his videos and books. This article is a net where these teachings have been caught and sorted. Timothy Jay Schwab is a heretic. Everything he teaches is a lie. Bad science, bad history, bad math, bad theology, and a bad attitude pervade his videos and books. Everything coming from this man and his group is vile and putrid. Stay far away from him. Timothy Jay Schwab will only murder your soul with his graceless and Christless heresy.

Sunday, September 19, 2021

The God Culture: Rest: The Case for Sabbath Book Review

Timothy Jay Schwab of The God Culture has published a new book all about the Sabbath. On the cover he claims there are over 1,000 scripture references which furnish "Bible proof no theologian can dispute." Sadly, he does not provide a scripture index so one can quickly see which verses he has used and which he has ignored. The premise of Rest: The Case for Sabbath is that we must keep the 7th day sabbath and the rest of the Law of Moses. This premise is built upon a rotten foundation of faulty hermeneutics which leads to heretical theology and many wrong conclusions. In this review I want to examine that unsound foundation and show exactly where the cracks and rot are located.


As of this writing the book is only available for purchase at Amazon but soon it will be available for free at restcase.orgA review of the Foreward can be found here.

Timothy begins the book with an exposition of Hebrews 4 calling it a Sabbath sermon. It is apparent that he does not understand that the Jesus mentioned in Hebrews 4 is Joshua and not Jesus Christ.  This is important because the author of Hebrews is comparing the two and the rest each one gives. Only Joshua, who led the children of Israel from the wilderness into the Promised Land to find rest from their wanderings, did not give them a true rest. There is "a rest that remaineth." Tim tells us that the “rest that remaineth” is observance of the seventh day Sabbath.

However, after his accession into heaven, Hebrews explains if you are not keeping the Biblical Sabbath, you are an example of unbelief. Ouch! That struck us like a ton of bricks. He proclaims those not entering the Sabbath rest are of no faith.


p. 15

Now, why would the "rest that remaineth" be the seventh day Sabbath when the Israelites were already keeping the Sabbath in the time of Joshua? How can the thing that remains be the same thing which is already occurring? That does not make any sense. Therefore it has to be a rest that is entirely different from the seventh day Sabbath. If Tim is right then we are continually entering into His rest once a week on Saturday. There is no eternal abiding rest from all our works to found in Jesus ChristLater Tim will write that when Jesus called all who are weary to Him for rest that means resting once a week on the seventh day Sabbath. 

“On the Sabbath, Messiah says come and rest in MeHe is specifically speaking of the Sabbath rest as He is Lord of the Sabbath and Hebrews 4 just told us so.” 

p. 25

Wrong. Hebrews 4 is not about keeping the weekly Sabbath. It is about faith in Jesus Christ. It is by faith in Christ that we enter into His rest. If we are are unbelievers then we do not enter into that rest. And what is that rest? It is a rest from all our works.

Hebrews 4:3 For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.


10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his. 

11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.

This is completely in line with Jesus' call to the weary and heavy laden in Matthew 11. He calls the people to Him to find rest for their souls. That is, rest from the works they exercise that their souls might be right with God and have eternal life.

Matthew 11:28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 

29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. 

30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

However, in Tim's interpretation of these verses Jesus is not calling people to Him but to keeping the weekly Sabbath. How much sense does it make for Jesus to be telling a Jewish crowd on the Sabbath that they need to keep the Sabbath? It doesn't make any sense nor does Timothy's interpretation fit with the words of Jesus which declare, "Come unto ME." 


Let's talk about interpretation for a moment. In the introduction Tim says:

Certainly, we will interpret and you must prove all things for yourself but these are pretty straightforward references and they are not just abundant, the Sabbath is a theme of the New Testament even after Messiah ascended to Heaven and even in Revelation for those remnant believers according to the words of Jesus(Yahusha).


p.13

If the verses he cites are pretty straightforward then what need is there for him to interpret them? Because he is going to give them his own spin, one that is at odds with what the Church has taught for 2,000 years. In fact when he discusses Paul Tim will insert his own gloss into the text to make it say what he wants it to say.

In Romans 7-8, Paul provides a thorough examination in contrast between the Law of Sin and Death which he characterizes as an opposite Law essentially in place since Adam sinned when it entered. It is not Yahuah'a Law that he interprets as the Law of Moses equal to the Law of of Life in Yahusha the Messiah. Those are the same but what they are not is the Law of Sin and Death. When he rebukes the Law of Sin and Death he is clear it is the Law of the Flesh not Yahuah's Law of the Spirit. For clarity's sake we have included in brackets our interpretation of which Law in which Paul refers because otherwise this can be confusing.


p. 145-146

This makes the text extremely cluttered.


Rest: The Case for Sabbath p. 146

Romans 7:7-10 KJV 

What shall we say then? Is the law sin [Sin & Death]? God forbid. [No, Law is Life the counter Law is Sin and Death] Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: [Law of Life] for I had not known lust [Sin & Death], except the law [Law of Life] had said, Thou shalt not covet [Law of Moses = Law of Life]. But sin [Sin & Death], taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law [Law of Life] sin was dead. For I was alive without the law once [Law of Life]: but when the commandment came, sin revived [Sin & Death], and I died. And the commandment, which was ordained to life [Law of Life], I found to be unto death [Sin & Death]

After giving his own convoluted interpretation of Paul, he calls it a ping pong match, Tim writes:

Paul is misrepresented in saying the Law of Moses is somehow the Law of Sin and Death. However, that is not what he explains. There are two laws at work and they are opposites. He rebukes and in a later letter says we have been redeemed from the curse of the Law of Sin and Death. We have but we keep the Law of Life that is the opposite. If you are not, you are not reading Paul. Realize that if Paul just said he is at war with the Law of Moses, he would be saying he is killing, stealing, etc. That is an insane interpretation yet essentially what many church doctrines hold.


If your denomination is claiming the Law of Life or Moses is the one that is Sin and Death they have no foundation in Scripture. 


p. 148-149

I hate to break it to Tim but that is exactly what Paul does in 2 Corinthians 3. He calls the Law of Moses the ministry of condemnation and death.

6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. 

7 But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away: 

8 How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious? 

9 For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. 

10 For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth. 

11 For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.

Paul also compares the Law of Moses to Hagar and calls it bondage.

Galatians 4:22 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.

23 But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.

24 Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.

25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.

Note that Paul does not denigrate the law. He calls it glorious just as in Romans 7:12 he calls it holy, just, and good. But he also says it is the ministry of death and that it has been done away with. And that redemption from the curse of the law of which Tim writes in the above paragraph? It's a redemption from the curse of the Law of Moses.

Galatians 3:10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.

11 But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith. 

12 And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them. 

13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:

The curse of the law of Moses is the punishment we must undergo for not keeping the law perfectly. And Tim acknowledges that we do not keep the law perfectly!

Many will ask, "How do I know I am saved then?" The Bible tells us we know that He abides with us if we keep His Commandments. Yes, we sinned we repent and ask forgiveness. No one has ever kept the Law perfectly except Messiah.


p. 400

This advice undermines Timothy's entire case for keeping the law. Repentance? Even Esau repented. Repentance won't save a man, not without Jesus Christ being its focus and center. What saves a man is Jesus Christ. Never forget that what saved the thief on the cross was his confession and faith in Jesus Christ and not anything else. Through faith we are united to Jesus and His righteousness becomes ours. Whether it's a created and imputed righteousness as the Protestants teach or theosis as the Orthodox teach, it is the righteousness of Christ and our participation in and union with Him that saves us. 


In having everyone keep the law Timothy Jay Schwab, and every other Adventist, Hebrew Roots. or Judaizing Messianic group, would leave us all in bondage and under a curse, the very curse from which Jesus Christ came to redeem us. He especially would have the entire nation of the Philippines under a curse because his mission is to restore the law in full in this nation. Does Tim not know that in Deuteronomy 28 God lists only 11 blessings for keeping the law and 50 curses for breaking it?


As I noted above while Paul does call the law the ministry of condemnation and death he also calls it glorious and holy, just, and good. That is not a contradiction. The law is good not because it gives life but because in the preaching of the law a sense of sin is awakened in us causing us to realize that we stand condemned before God. The law then fulfills its task as being a schoolmaster to lead us to Jesus Christ (Galatians 3:24-25) who is Life and who lives within us and gives us true rest, the rest that Joshua could not give to the children of Israel. Paul writes that we are the temple of God and that God make his abode with us.

1 Corinthian's 3:16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?


1 Corinthians 6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

Here are two verses which not only contradict Tim's blasphemous denial of the Holy Spirit's divinity but also wreck his false teaching about the Holy of Holies. Tim teaches that the Holy of Holies on earth  where God physically dwells is the Garden of Eden which is buried beneath the Sulu Sea just off the coast of the Philippines near Tubbatha Reef. 


Solomon's Gold Series - Part 12D: Garden of Eden FOUND!. Ophir, Philippines

"And he knew that the Garden of Eden is the Holy of Holies and the dwelling of Yahuah" and where's that? In Shem's tents. So, what!? Now we find that in the Philippines. Watch Solomon's Gold series and no it is not above ground but enclosed as the Hebrew word gan means enclosed garden not just garden.

For Yahuah physically dwells in his Holy of Holies on earth. Oh, who would want to know where the Garden of Eden is? Well, because that's where his Holy of Holies is, duh!

 https://youtu.be/Gm8-Mqc-Bpg?t=711 

That is so ridiculous and wrong. WE are the Holy of Holies on earth because it is IN US, that is believers, that God dwells. God's dwelling place on earth is NOT beneath the floor of the Sulu Sea but IN US and in His Church which is both the Body of Christ and the Kingdom of God on earth. The Bible doctrine of salvation which is union with Christ and participation in his divinity so that we become like Him is much more wonderful than the law keeping, Judaizing dreck Tim has to offer and which he even says one can lose.

Yes, Scripture has always defied the modern doctrine of "once saved always saved." One can certainly lose their salvation.


p. 20

Compare that vomit with the "exceeding great and precious promises" given to us in Scripture. 

2 Peter 1:4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

Jesus Christ fulfills the entire law for us. What does that mean?  According to Tim it means He kept it as an example for us to follow after.

“He just said the Law remains and I will not abolish it but fulfill it or keep it as an example for you.  

p. 113-114.

Is that what fulfill really means as it was used by Jesus? To "keep as an example?"  On pages 29-31 of the introduction Timothy attempts to ferret out exactly what the word fulfill means. But instead of looking to the original Greek he uses the English dictionary!!
Let us take a look at this English word fulfill. What does it mean? Here is what Merriam-Webster 's Dictionary defines...

p.29
This is as dumb as when he used a baby name dictionary to interpret the ancient word Fara in The Book Of Jubilees! Coming from a man who insists on uncovering the deeper meaning of the English by examining the original languages this blatant neglect of what the Greek means is astonishing. Why would Tim not go the Greek? Why would he, in attempting to decipher the deeper meaning of a passage, not take a look at the original language as he does in his other book The Search for Solomon's Treasure? Because the Greek contradicts his interpretation.


The Greek says fulfill, or pleroo, means "to complete."

https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/g4137/kjv/tr/0-1/

πληρόω plēróō, play-ro'-o; from G4134; to make replete, i.e. (literally) to cram (a net), level up (a hollow), or (figuratively) to furnish (or imbue, diffuse, influence), satisfy, execute (an office), finish (a period or task), verify (or coincide with a prediction), etc.:—accomplish, after, (be) complete, end, expire, fill (up), fulfil, (be, make) full (come), fully preach, perfect, supply.

Christ completed the law. He finished the law and brought to an end by executing it fully. All the shadows of the law were perfected and brought to reality in and by Him. He is the Passover lamb sacrificed for us, He is God tabernacling in human flesh, He is the firstfruits from the dead, His blood is sprinkled on the mercy seat in Heaven making atonement for us, He sent the Holy Spirit on Pentecost just as He gave Moses the law on that same day, and on it goes as all the sacrifices and all the feasts and all the holy days are brought to their completion and fulfillment in Him. The book of Hebrews is very explicit that Christ completed the law by becoming incarnate and shedding his own blood for us. 


Hebrews goes on further to say that Christ is a priest after the order of Melchizedek and not of Levi. That is to say Christ is not a Levitical priest who ministers after the law of Moses. This is important because it means that the law has been changed.

Hebrews 7:12 For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.

Somehow Timothy missed that verse completely. In his exposition of the of the book of Hebrews from chapter 4 to the end he does not even mention that verse. In fact, Tim says:

“He does not say that He changes His laws.” 

 p. 19

Which is absolutely not true and which contradicts Hebrews 7:12. And he dares to call those who oppose him illiterate!? Timothy Jay Schwab is not illiterate. He is a smart guy and he purposely overlooked Hebrews 7:12, 2 Cor 3:6-11, Gal 4:22-25, as well as many other passages which space does not permit me to mention.  He knows those passages contradict him. If he were sincere he would dive head first into the fray and explain away those verses in a manner that would support his premise. But he does not do this because he is a disingenuous fraud who rails against those who quote Paul in fragments but does the very same thing.


Let's sum up. Timothy teaches that we must keep the seventh day Sabbath and the rest of the law of Moses because Jesus Christ did not come to do away with the law. The law of Moses is in fact the law of the Spirit and Life. Of course, the Law is a whole and it all stands or falls together which means if the Law of Moses is valid today that includes sacrifices because they are perpetual statues. See Num 19:1-10 for instance. You can’t have one part of the law done away with and the other part remaining. The Bible never says such a thing. The Bible does tell us that the law is a schoolmaster to lead us to Christ and that Christ is the end of the law to everyone that believes. It never says Christ is the end of only a part of the law. But this is what Timothy Jay Schwab teaches when he says we must keep the whole law including circumcision but sacrifices are excluded. It would appear the prohibition on shaving is also excluded as Timothy Jay Schwab has a smooth face.


Yes, I know he has stubble in this photo but that does not change the point which is keeping the law means you don't shave and Tim shaves

Leviticus 19:27 Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.

This is the flimsy foundation on which the rest of the book is built. It is rotten to the core. Tim does not understand the nature of Christ's mission to fulfill the law. He does not understand the rest spoken of in Hebrews 4. He does not understand the priesthood of Christ and what it means that Jesus is a priest after the order of Melchizedek. By adding his own gloss he twists Paul to say things he does not. He claims that keeping the law does not save us but, contrary to his protestations, that is exactly where his faithless, graceless system leads. The man is on record saying, “we aren't to just have faith in Yahusha. That’s not enough. That’s not it. No, no, no, no. We are to keep His commandments" and "The  Law is what redeems us."


 

https://philippinefails.blogspot.com/2020/06/the-god-culture-law-is-what-redeems-us.html


Everything after chapter 7 is built on the rotten theological foundation laid out above which makes it not even worth reviewing here though I shall do so in another article. Tim starts off with a wrong premise which leads him to wrong conclusions. His arguments are, for the most part, straw men (who says Paul hates the law or that Jesus Christ broke the Sabbath or that the Apostles did not keep the Sabbath?) or they exhibit a total misunderstanding of history. From the way he cites the Early Church Fathers it is very clear he is not familiar with what they teach and has not read their writings. As he admits just before he cites them:

Much of the remainder of this history was compiled by the Seventh-Day Adventists largely. They have done well in their record keeping. 


p. 221

Not only does Tim rely on the SDA to do his research but he also cribs several citations concerning the Fathers from an article on the website Detecting Design, run by an SDA minister named Sean Pitman, which he fails to attribute properly by not including the URL in the footnotes. 


p. 426


This is not the work of a real researcher. A real researcher would not rely on a group that has an obvious bias and parrot their talking points but instead he would actually read the Fathers and attempt to understand why celebrating the Sabbath fell out of practice. He would learn Church history from the sources and would not quote-mine secondary sources to prove a point. But Tim is not a real researcher and so he is content with not going deeper. Instead of striving for understanding he is satisfied with calling the Church, again and again, the Synagogue of Satan which means to take him and his book seriously one has to believe Jesus lied when He said He would build his Church and the gates of hell would not prevail against it. There is only one entity in the history of the world that can trace its roots back to the Apostles and it's not the Seventh-Day Adventists, the Hebrew Roots movement, or The God Culture.


Timothy Jay Schwab is not even honest enough to admit that the Early Church celebrated BOTH the Sabbath and the Lord's Day. He probably does not even know this is the case because he is reliant on the research of Seventh Day Adventists among others. Here is a citation from a student of John the Apostle which, to no one's big surprise, is not to be found in Tim's book. From the longer version of the Letter of Ignatius to the Magnesians:

But let every one of you keep the Sabbath after a spiritual manner, rejoicing in meditation on the law, not in relaxation of the body, admiring the workmanship of God, and not eating things prepared the day before, nor using lukewarm drinks, and walking within a prescribed space, nor finding delight in dancing and plaudits which have no sense in them. And after the observance of the Sabbath, let every friend of Christ keep the Lord's Day as a festival, the resurrection-day, the queen and chief of all the days [of the week].


http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/ignatius-magnesians-longer.html

The SDA call this letter a fraud but fraud or not it is a witness to an early tradition just as the Didache, which apparently Tim is unaware is included in the Ethiopian Canon which he lauds when he attempts to find support for the canonicity of Jubilees, is also such a witness. What a difference between Ignatius' instructions to keep the Sabbath in a spiritual manner and Timothy's instructions to keep the sabbath after a sensual and carnal manner. As much as Tim would like to identify with the Sabbath keeping Early Church before it allegedly departed from the faith he still falls short! 


Recipe for Rest, Instructions for Keeping the Sabbath, p. 248-249

The rest of Rest: The Case for Sabbath deals with how to keep the Sabbath and the exact time of the Sabbath. Tim teaches that the Bible has a strictly solar, 364 day calendar which is impossible. 

The Bible calendar is 30-day months plus and added intercalary day at the end of each quarter for 364 days.


p. 300

That is actually a description of the Enoch Calendar, not the Bible calendar. There are 365 1/4 days in a year. It just goes to show that The Book of Jubilees, The Book of Enoch, and the Qumran Community are not reliable witnesses to Biblical truth. Rest: The Case for Sabbath touches on many subjects and there is a lot of revelation here about the author’s methods and beliefs. I will expound on them in a future article but for now I will end this review with two such instances.

“Today, a regular person can go to resources like Blue Letter Bible and become a sort of Hebrew expert legitimately.”   

p. 33

One can only surmise that this is how Timothy became familiar with Hebrew. It would certainly explain why in his other materials he shows a complete lack of mastery of the subject, telling us that there are Hebrew place-names in the Philippines because some Taglog and Hebrew words sound familiar. An “internet expert” is no expert.

“Many assume Adam was evil and there is no evidence he ever sinned after he was tricked in the Garden. He made the conscious decision to willfully sin no doubt. However, Adam only ate the fruit after he saw the love of his life do so. He knew she would fall and no longer be with him if so. His eating the fruit is the greatest love story.” 


p. 79

The heresy and blasphemy here should be rather obvious so I won’t comment on it. Suffice to say the fall of Adam was a tragedy for all mankind and not “the greatest love story.” Timothy Jay Schwab has no idea of the sinfulness of sin or the depth of the fall to write any of that nonsense about Adam never sinning after he left the Garden.

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