The God Culture: The Lunatic Ravings of A Man Who Has Become Unhinged

Timothy Jay Schwab of The God Culture is totally unhinged and off his rocker. When confronted with observable, measurable, scientific facts his recourse is to insult the commenter and then accuse that person of being me!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfieRo5Pkac&lc=Ugy7pRaRww2XWoR2YPx4AaABAg

Thera: Although I appreciate your efforts, I truly do. I must say regrettably you are using a one witness approach which is not scriptural. Scripture is clear that we need to measure time and space with three witnesses: the sun, moon and stars in tandem with each other. The heavens above are a time piece a perfect time piece, one could call it a clock. How many hands are on a clock? Three. You can’t simply tell time without the other witnesses. To add to that further you must understand the revolutions or sidereal cycle… the sun has a cycle of 365.25 days annually that is measured repeatedly aka empirical evidence. The moon’s cycle is 354 days annually, and sidereal month of 27.32 synodic month of 29.5. The stars move 23.94 hours a day not 24 hours again observable and repeatable. All this averages out to a total of 364 days per year just as stated by Enoch. I pray you keep digging to find the true Hebrew calendar that Enoch, Noah, Shem, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob etc all followed. Shalom.

This is a very sane and sensible comment referencing observable and measurable facts. The sun has a cycle of 365.25 days not 364 as Enoch says. The sun, moon, and stars work in tandem to tell us the times and seasons. The commenter ends by offering encouragement to Tim in finding the right calendar. 

Tim's response is to go apoplectic. 

The God Culture: No you don't as that is a lie and you would pay better attention if you were here to do anything but agitate! How illiterate can you be? Can you count to 3? Can you read? You certainly can't listen and understand. Evidently not to say something so stupid. You just said the only way one can qualify as a 2nd witness is it must be only the moon in a completely stupid false paradigm. How wrong. Then, you change scripture which says out of the mouth of 2 or 3, not 3, and you qualify the thousands of stars as 1 witness which is very inept and false. You don't even understand the meaning of the word "or" incapable of rendering even a sentence or phrase with accuracy so you my friend are no witness and you are peddling lies. You only missed the thousands of witnesses and that's really poor. Only an agitating blogger could be so stupid and proves so every week which is why he can only get 1 or less views per day to much of his trash. Clearly you are missing your witnesses to establish fact as no one agrees with you except your 2 dogs who have to perhpas. The problem is you can't even read. It says "2 or 3!" Learn the meaning of the word "or." 

Deut. 19:15 KV "at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established." 

Matt. 18:16 KJV "in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established." 

2 Cor. 13:1 KJV "In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established." 

The sun is the measure and it has many thousands of witnesses in the stars according to scripture as the sun and stars. 

First Enoch 74 FROM 9 MIN. INTO THIS VIDEO YOU DIDN'T WATCH OR ARE UNABLE TO COMPREHEND NOR COUNT! 12. And the sun and the stars bring in all the years exactly, so that they do not advance or delay their position by a single day unto eternity; but complete the years with perfect justice in 364 days. 

In fact, the moon witnesses the sun's course and purpose as well it's just not the sun as you would like to stretch so stupidly. 

Enoch, Moses, the Angel of the Presence, Yahuah in His own words, mega scripture from the Old Testament, the exiled Temple Priests at Qumran/Bethabara, the Gospels, Acts and writings of Paul, etc. are all witnesses to the sun being the measure to start the day and you are illiterate. If you think you can hit point after point here and do anything but look like a court jester, you are insane as you have looked so foolish so many times in your profound learning disability on so many topics you can't even understand with your less than elementary education. Learn how to read and count to 3 first. And you wonder why you can't even get 100 people to read your lousy attack blog, your anemic FB, your nonsensical YT videos, while actually trying to tell others what scripture and history says which you can't even read either. They know it. You are the definition of insanity. Get rid of that demon who drives you or you will die soon. Get out!

Instead of addressing the very scientific and measurable facts of the sun and moon's cycles Tim goes off the rails calling this person an idiot. Then he accuses them of being me! He even insults my dogs. 

Here is another one. A commenter asks how would the Book of Enoch survive the flood and Timothy Jay Schwab explodes in a rage and accuses this person of being me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0IAEPPxd5s&lc=UgyzJBDkysr4W8XxJLt4AaABAg

Skip Wilson: I've got a question. Maybe you've answered it before and I missed it, if so I apologize. But my question is this, Since Enoch was as far removed from the flood on his side of it, as we are on our side of it, how did the "book of Enoch" survive the flood? Seems to me Parchment wouldn't do well in a flood, or likely ever be found in the sediment.. Just asking. Thanks

The God Culture: Think these things through a little rather than heading straight to ridicule in ignorance on this channel though let's not pretend we do not know whom this 1st time commenter is because no one can be this stupid except the trashy blogger incapable of thought even to the elementary level of a child. It makes you look silly and this is exactly how we all have been programmed to think as well as their aim. You can do better and rise above this petty thinking which is less than elementary. We answered that in Parts 1-2 of this series. Watch from the beginning. 

You don't need to go to whether parchment would survive the Flood which narrative you assume very falsely and continue on as if you even made a point. You did not as you never do bobo blogger. It would not if it were in the Flood of course, duh, thus why didn't you ask the next question a child could figure out yet land on assuming the worst requiring us to think for you even? That is an illiterate assertion that Noah would have a copy and just leave it on the ground and not take it with him. Really? What did survive the Flood and was it there? Duh! See the way they have you programmed idiot blogger? Don't fall for it though let's not pretend you are not the stupid criminal harassing blogger who just proved yet again just how stupid you are... First comment ever on this channel and you chose this dumb ridicule? Yeah... we know. 

Noah said he took it on the ark, as we covered and taught it after the Flood. You missed that because you are stupid and cannot comprehend a sentence whether alone a video or series yet you tried to ridicule those videos too bobo. How embarrassing for you clown. Abraham received a copy of it as well in his day centuries later and learned Hebrew and taught it as well. Next time, think out your question a little rather than assuming the book had no value to Enoch's grandson who took seeds, animals and what remained of pure humans to save them but court jesters like you would assume stupidly he wouldn't bother to bring the most important writing in his history from where he even learned of the coming Flood and knew had prophecy of the future to his sons to Abraham to Israel to the Temple to it's destruction to even Messiah coming in the flesh the first time to his ascension even and to His 2nd coming. 

No, you think he would just trash it? You can't even put basic concepts together and you write blogs? How stupid. Or what, there wasn't enough room on the ark which has now been configured to be able to fit 2 million animals the size of a sheep? But... a scroll just couldn't fit? How incredibly inept you are, failure. Think. At least try for once. You can do better than illiterate ridicule. And congratulations on your massive 2 views in 3 days on your last blog. Wow! You are insane by definition indeed. How about you get a life and stop making yourself a fool for an evil cause acting as satan in your demonic poise. And... spare us the fake response of how you are offended by your own stupidity claiming you are someone else when everyone knows better. Get rid of that demon or you will be slaughtered where they lead you. Grow up. Get out.

Did Tim even take the time to click on the commenter's name so he can view his profile? He joined on June 11, 2016!!! Does Tim really think I set up a fake account in 2016 and that I am only using it now to ask a question? Ludicrous!

These are the insane, lunatic ravings of a man who has become unhinged. He cannot defend his worldview when confronted with facts and he cannot answer simple questions so he goes on the attack! Does Tim really think that everyone who has a contrary opinion to him is me? This is beyond ridiculous. There is not much to say really. I am only making a short note to leave for the world to see that Timothy Jay Schwab of The God Culture is a paranoid nutter with a deep persecution complex.

The God Culture: The Course of the Sun

Just when you thought you were done with Timothy Jay Schwab of the The God Culture he pulls you back in. This time it's a series about the course of the sun and the moon. All of this is based on the Book of Enoch and falls within Tim's Answers in Enoch series. 

In this article I will only be covering his videos about the sun. In essence the sun moves through portals, is powered by the wind, and the intensity of the sun's heat determines the seasons. As I noted in my previous article about the True Church I only want to focus on the big picture here. There are so many details to get lost in but the big picture is what matters.  

The Sun's Course Animation. Enoch's Scientific Observation. Answers In First Enoch Part 40

Now, the first thing I want to mention here is that Tim does not actually show the course of the sun according to Enoch animated. The so-called animation is very slow and takes half an hour or so to watch. It's like looking through a flip book one page at a time. I did this animation much better a few months ago using Tim's maps.

And he did not even copyright strike it!  

The gist of this video is that the sun moves in concentric circles through several portals located in the east and west above the Pacific Ocean over the course of the year. The sun is powered by the wind and the portals regulate the intensity of the sun's heat which determines the seasons. 

15:58 The sun is powered by the wind.

19:42 And in the fourth portal, that is the rising portal in the east, that sunrise and it is the beginning of Enoch's chart period. There's never ever any discussion to be had on the moon starting either of those measures. And in that fourth portal from which the sun rises in the first month are 12 window openings. Now, we render these on screen as best we can. We didn't see them, again, Enoch did but these are pretty good. From which, now we know because we mentioned them before, from which proceed a flame when they are opened in their seasons. So, they're fueling the sun essentially um powering it as far as the intensity of its heat depending on the season obviously. Makes perfect sense.

Now, you might ask has anyone ever seen these portals?  Well, of course not because no one has ever been to space. 

11:35 These are located in the firmament which, well, no man has actually entered into space, uh, not in any vehicle built by man it's never happened and we're not gonna go into all of that in this video but check it out you really should research that if you have not. No one has ever reached it except Enoch among men.

What is he talking about?  There is an International Space Station orbiting the earth! Astronauts flew into space and repaired the Hubble telescope! Men have taken balloons into space and then jumped back to the earth! If Tim wants to say no man has gone to the moon that is one thing but to say no man has ever been to space?? Well, that is just completely wrong and totally ignorant.

It's really the second video where all of his theories about the sun come into full bloom because this is where Tim "tests" them. 

Testing The Sun's Courses of First Enoch. Modern Scientism Fails! Answers In First Enoch Part 41

Now, what is meant by testing? Is it rigorous math, experimentation, and observation using a telescope over a period of months or years like Galileo and Copernicus?  No. It's just regular old observation with your eyeballs because observation apparently tumps experimentation. 

18:59 Forget what you see that's what they're going to tell you. We are right, your eyes are wrong. I'm sorry that's unscientific as the definition of science is observation and experiment. Neither have been conducted by these, who are creating these ridiculous theories. They have neither. We have eyes though and we do observe, do we not? You can see it on screen.

If you listen to that you can hear Tim SHOUT the word observation and whisper the word experiment. Tim is going to disprove the tilt of the earth by using his eyes alone.

Here is the picture Tim uses to disprove the earth is tilting on its axis. 

This photograph is supposed to thoroughly rebut the fact that the earth is tilting and it is round. Is Tim really unaware that this photo is one tiny fraction of the earth's surface? The curvature of the earth was proved by experiments that happened simultaneously at places hundreds of miles apart which measured the length of shadows at the same time on the same day.

Eratosthenes heard about a famous well in the Egyptian city of Swenet (Syene in Greek, and now known as Aswan), on the Nile River. At noon one day each year — the summer solstice (between June 20 and June 22) — the Sun’s rays shone straight down into the deep pit. They illuminated only the water at the bottom, not the sides of the well as on other days, proving that the Sun was directly overhead. (Syene was located very close to what we call the Tropic of Cancer, 23.5 degrees north, the northernmost latitude at which the Sun is ever directly overhead at noon.)

Eratosthenes erected a pole in Alexandria, and on the summer solstice he observed that it cast a shadow, proving that the Sun was not directly overhead but slightly south. Recognizing the curvature of the Earth and knowing the distance between the two cities enabled Eratosthenes to calculate the planet’s circumference.

Eratosthenes could measure the angle of the Sun’s rays off the vertical by dividing the length of the leg opposite the angle (the length of the shadow) by the leg adjacent to the angle (the height of the pole). This gave him an angle of 7.12 degrees. He knew that the circumference of Earth constituted a circle of 360 degrees, so 7.12 (or 7.2, to divide 360 evenly by 50) degrees would be about one-fiftieth of the circumference. He also knew the approximate distance between Alexandria and Syene, so he could set up this equation:

Eratosthenes estimated the distance from Alexandria to Syene as 5,000 stadia, or about 500 miles (800 kilometers). He made this estimation from the time it took walkers, who were trained to measure distances by taking regular strides, to trek between the cities. By solving the equation, he calculated a circumference of 250,000 stadia, or 25,000 miles (40,000 kilometers).

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/big-history-project/solar-system-and-earth/knowing-solar-system-earth/a/eratosthenes-of-cyrene

Carl Sagan explains this experiment in the first episode of Cosmos more succinctly than I could ever hope to. You can watch that clip here. The thing to remember is you cannot always trust your eyes especially when it comes to the tricks light can play. In fact you cannot always trust any of your senses. How many times have people thought they were smelling gas when it was just Durian? That is why experimentation is needed and Tim offers zero experimentation in this video. 

As I noted in the first video Tim spends about 30 minutes tracking the course of the sun according to Enoch. He also states that the portals the sun passes through fuel the sun which causes the seasons.

So, they're fueling the sun essentially, um, powering it as far as the intensity of its heat depending on the season obviously. Makes perfect sense.

In the second video he proves this out by showing the monthly temperatures in the Philippines. He also uses other locales but the Philippines is what matters most of all.

26:47 Then December - January, again, middle month, middle month, uh, as well should make up the two coldest months. And what do we find? Exactly that! The coldest months in the Philippines.

Does Tim really live in San Fernando, La Union? The Philippines does not get cold! It is summer time all year round. That goes for all the equatorial nations especially island nations. While there might be a relatively slight chill in December and January there is no snow. There is no ice.  There is no winter here like in Maryland which is Tim's home state. In fact there are no seasons in the Philippines except wet and dry. 

Here is the graph he is using for the Philippines.

https://www.worlddata.info/asia/philippines/climate.php

The average temperature hardly fluctuates from month to month. But if Tim's flat earth model of the sun entering and exiting portals in concentric circles with the intensity of its heat determining the seasons is correct they should vary more profoundly. We don't see that. Also if the location of the sun as per Tim's map is what determines the seasons then in December - January Antarctica should be blazing hot and the Sahara desert should be chilly. That is not the case as the climate remains stable all year round in those locales.

Tim's assertion that the heat of sun is fueled by the portals in the sky is asinine in the extreme. When it's summer in the Northern hemisphere it is winter in the Southern hemisphere and vice versa. The intensity of the sun's heat cannot account for winter in the south and summer in the north at the same time. Not to mention Tim does not show any measurements of the sun's temperature to bolster his claims. If the sun's temperature is fluctuating he should be able to show proof of that and then show how that causes the seasons. He does not even attempt to give such proof. Instead he relies on temperature charts for various locations. And how about the polar caps? They don't melt in summer and freeze in winter because it is always below freezing in those places. It's ridiculous.

I want to end here with a note about the North Pole and directions on a flat earth map.

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41:49 Verse 27: "and the sun has therewith traverse the divisions of his orbit." It has completed all six gates at this point on both sides so all the gates it's entered. Uh, so they're all represented and that's all he's saying here. The east and the west which we have observed at this point if you followed all the way through. "And turns again on those divisions of his orbit." So, basically he's going to head back in the other direction. Um, "and enters that portal," uh, meaning, uh, north south not east west he always, it always rises in the east sets in the west. Of course. I shouldn't need to mention that but I know for some I do or there'd be a blog about how we don't know. Right? Idiot. 

Far be it from me to say Tim does not know the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. But what I will say is cardinal directions on a flat earth map are meaningless. Look at the North Pole!  It's in the center of the map! How is the center of the earth north? Likewise though Tim has the sun moving through east and west portals he also has the sun moving downwards or southerly. And he even acknowledges this in his video just before he mocks this blog! In fact, no matter what direction you travel on the flat earth you would ALWAYS be traveling towards the Antarctic wall or "South" even if you were trekking toward the North Pole! That is absurd!

As I noted these are just the highlights of these two videos. There is a lot of nonsense in both of them and I dare say Testing the Sun's Courses is Timothy Jay Schwab's most ignorant video to date. I had to pause so many times until I was able to contain my laughter. 

To sum this up Tim, along with Enoch, claims the heat of the sun is what determines the seasons. But that cannot be possible because the seasons are reversed in the Northern and Southern hemispheres. Also certain places like the Philippines and the Sahara maintain the same climate all year long. But even if it were true Tim offers no scientific proof. He doesn't even offer temperature readings of the sun. There is more astronomy to come from Timothy Jay Schwab of The God Culture as he will be discussing the course and purpose of the moon. I am sure it will be something to howl about!

The God Culture: After the Apostles, The True Church

Timothy Jay Schwab of The God has finally given his fullest treatment of the True Church to date in the form of 3 videos. I will be taking these videos one at a time and summing them up in one go. Let me be clear that I do not want to get bogged down in details. I am looking for the big picture. That means only the most important details will be noted here. Practically all of what Tim has to say in these videos has been said in his book Rest: The Case for Sabbath and in his other videos. 

After The Apostles: Part 1. The Next Century. What was the True Ekklesia?

In this first video Tim sets up his thesis.  The only True Churches according to the Bible are the seven church of Asia.  That means Rome, Galatia, Carthage, Corinth, Alexandria, and everywhere else except Antioch are out. None of those places are the True Church. Thomas made it all the way to India but that is also out because it's not listed in the Book of Revelation.

4:48 In the first chapters of the book of Revelation Yahushua is speaking and he identifies seven ecclesias that are his. That's what he says. Those are his words. No one can dispute that. Some are better than others, of course, in terms of following his commandments but nevertheless he calls them his ecclesias to which angels are in charge of each. They are the continuation of the next generation of ecclesias at the end of John's life and after the other apostles were mostly gone.

Now, you might think, "Rome does not have a True Church? Paul wrote his most important epistle to them." Yeah, well you see Priscilla and Aquila were kicked out of the Roman Church for keeping the feasts and Sabbath.  It had nothing to do with them being Jews as the Bible says. In fact the true Roman Church was exiled from Rome for the most part. 

9:48 They passed those practices on to the next generation but Rome didn't get it nor did the origin of what we call the Catholic Church. Why? Well, they are not his ecclesia period. Uh, in fact if you look at Rome yes there's a, there's an ecclesia in Rome, Priscilla and Aquila, but then you find them they actually were exiled from there. Um, so they're back in Asia Minor operating amongst the ecclesias that are mentioned in Revelation. So, uh, you can't, you can't use that one reference out of context and say oh no the church was in Rome. No, whoa, whoa, the Church was exiled from Rome largely. It doesn't mean there weren't pockets still of course there, I'm certain there were but uh as a whole and with the power of what the Catholic Church came out of get out of here that is outrageous.

What is outrageous is for this overweight, bespectacled, Hey Joe, white saviour to say the Church was exiled from Rome in circa 50 AD!! Paul wrote a lengthy epistle to the Romans. He longed to see them and he even appealed his case to Nero just so he could go to Rome and visit the Church to whom he wrote. 

What does it even mean the Church was exiled from Rome? Tim does not say. The fact is Priscilla and Aquila were JEWS and Claudius kicked all the Jews out of Rome!

Acts18:2 And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came unto them.

The Church was not exiled from Rome. The JEWS were exiled from Rome. And not only that but at some point later they returned to Rome and Paul mentions them at the end of his famous epistle. 

Romans 16:3 Greet Priscilla and Aquila my helpers in Christ Jesus 

For all his boasting about 30 plus years in the ministry Timothy Jay Schwab sure does not know his Bible. 

After The Apostles: Part 2. 2-3 Centuries Later. What was the True Ekklesia?

In part 2 Tim dives into the Quartodeciman controversy and cites the testimony of Polycrates via Eusebius. In the early Church the correct date to celebrate Easter or the resurrection was a very contentious debate. Polycrates was the Bishop of Ephesus and he says he followed the teachings handed down by the Apostle John. Tim says that is also what we must do. 

6:15 So, commanded to sacrifice the lamb should be observed as the feast of the Savior's Passover. Notice the Savior's Passover. They got that. How could, I mean, how could that even be in question, right? Messiah was taken on the Passover, he was crucified the next day, which is the first day of unleavened bread the same Sabbath really the same day on the, uh, the calendar of the feast which begins at sunset which is a rare thing for feasts and and for the Bible as the biblical day begins at sun rise we prove. But it was not the custom of the Churches in the rest of the world! Oops! You realize he just rebuked the entire Catholic Church in origin. They weren't called that yet perhaps but as against scripture. This is so clear but the bishops of Asia, modern Turkey, led by Polycrates of Ephesus, remember one of the seven ecclesias, decided to hold to the old custom handed down to them. By whom? The apostles. Duh! Which are we supposed to practice? Think about it. Are we not to follow the example of the Apostles and Messiah? Are we not to be preaching the gospel they preached or it's another strange gospel is it not?

How bright and shining is this man's ignorance. I am going blind every time I listen to him speak. According to Timothy Jay Schwab only the testimony from Polycrates is valid.  Forget about the fact that other churches said they received a different tradition from the other Apostles. Here is "the rest of the story" from Eusebius.

A question of no small importance arose at that time. For the parishes of all Asia, as from an older tradition, held that the fourteenth day of the moon, on which day the Jews were commanded to sacrifice the lamb, should be observed as the feast of the Saviour's passover. It was therefore necessary to end their fast on that day, whatever day of the week it should happen to be. But it was not the custom of the churches in the rest of the world to end it at this time, as they observed the practice which, from apostolic tradition, has prevailed to the present time, of terminating the fast on no other day than on that of the resurrection of our Saviour.

Those in Palestine whom we have recently mentioned, Narcissus and Theophilus, and with them Cassius, bishop of the church of Tyre, and Clarus of the church of Ptolemais, and those who met with them, having stated many things respecting the tradition concerning the passover which had come to them in succession from the apostles, at the close of their writing add these words: 

Endeavor to send copies of our letter to every church, that we may not furnish occasion to those who easily deceive their souls. We show you indeed that also in Alexandria they keep it on the same day that we do. For letters are carried from us to them and from them to us, so that in the same manner and at the same time we keep the sacred day.

Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History, Book 5, Chapters 23 and 25

I am not going to discuss the Easter controversy here but it is important to note that both traditions of holding the feast on the Lord's Day and keeping it along with the Jews extend back to the Apostles. Both traditions are Apostolic. Therefore keeping the Passover along with the Jews is not an exclusive sign of the True Church. Tim does not mention this at all because he has never even read Eusebius but is quote mining from the Seventh Day Adventists. He does not get into the controversy at all or tell us what the issues were and why it matters except to assume that Asia Minor is correct and the rest of the Church world is wrong. This is proof positive Timothy Jay Schwab is completely ignorant of the history of the early Church and is only seeking to confirm his Christless, graceless, nomian theology. 

After The Apostles: Part 3. The Catholic Church's ATTACK On the Feasts & Sabbath

In the third video Tim mentions the council of Laodicea which forbade the people from celebrating the Sabbath in the Jewish manner.

14:52 Uh, can you find other sources to say different things? Of course you can. You can always find propaganda. It's easy to do that. Then you could go and write a blog about all the propaganda because you're too stupid to read it and understand the difference. Well, you know what? It's time for us to see past such illiteracy.

On the council of Laodicea, what an appropriate place for such decrees to come out of. Uh, basically a Satanic occult gathering that's what it really is, of catholic leadership, never biblical. They had no authority and they were not his ecclesia we've well proven. No Catholic counsel ever had any bible authority period. Not to change books, not to add to books, not to change doctrines, not to assess what doctrines are this or that because the track was already established and they changed it. They changed the word. From the apostles time until the Church the council of Laodicea which was about the year 364 the holy observation of the Jews. Now, that's really, it's the biblical one, uh, forget the Jews that's again a fraud word uh of the Hebrews. Yeah, okay? Sabbath continued. Okay so they continue to observe the Saturday Sabbath is what it's saying. As may be proved out of many authors and again there are many, I mean many, many and we could go through many such, uh, accounts.

I like how Tim starts off by taking a dig at me and this blog.  He's the one who is quote mining and has never actually read the Church Fathers or any of the canons or decrees of the councils. I find it interesting that Tim says the Church has no authority to come together to "assess what doctrines are this or that." This man's catchphrase is "prove all things" and he is literally saying the Church has no authority to prove all things! Apparently the Church is supposed to accept every kind of teaching including heresy. 

It's also funny that Tim does not actually cite any canon from Laodicea but instead cites John Ley. 

This is a citation from Tim's book Rest: The Case For Sabbath and its source is a bit mangled. Tim lists two books from which this quote can be found.  The first one is Book XX of Antiquities of the Christian Church which I happen to own and am currently reading through. John Ley is nowhere cited in its pages. I can guarantee Tim has not read this book but let's be generous and tell him exactly why the early Church kept the Sabbath.

If it be inquired, why the ancient church continued the observation of the Jewish sabbath, when they took it to be only a temporary institution given to the Jews only, as circumcision and other typical rites of the law ; (which is expressly said by many of the ancient writers, particularly by Justin Martyr, Irenaus, Tertullian, Eusebius " to name no more ;) it is answered by learned men', that it was to comply with the Jewish converts, as they did in the use of many other indifferent things, so long as no doctrinal necessity was laid upon them." For the Jews being generally the first converts to the Christian faith, they still retained a mighty reverence for the Mosaic institutions, and especially for the sabbath, as that which had been appointed by God himself, as the memorial of his rest from the work of creation, settled by their great master, Moses, and celebrated by their ancestors for so many ages, as the solemn day of their public worship, and were therefore very loth it should be wholly antiquated and laid aside. For this reason, it seemed good to the prudence of those times, (as in other of the Jewish rites, so in this,) to indulge the humour of that people, and to keep the sabbath as a day for religious offices, viz. public prayers, reading of the Scriptures, preaching, celebration of the sacraments, and such like duties." But when any one pretended to carry the observation of it further, either by introducing a doctrinal necessity, or pressing the observation of it precisely after the Jewish manner, they resolutely opposed it, as introducing Judaism into the Christian religion. For this reason, the Ebionites were condemned for joining the observation of the sabbath" according to the law of the Jews, with the observation of the Lord's day after the manner of Christians. Against such the council of Laodicea pronounces anathema, that is, such as taught the necessity of keeping the sabbath a perfect rest with the Jews. And in this sense we are to understand what Gregory the Great says, That antichrist will renew the observation of the sabbath. He must needs mean the observation of it after the Jewish manner: since in the Christian way it was observed as well by the Latin church as the Greek; only with this difference, that the Latins kept it a fast, and the Greeks a festival. 

Now, I know Tim will kick against the pricks and say that is NOT the testimony of the True Church and you know that is odd because Laodicea is one of the seven Churches in Asia and Tim calls the Council of Laodicea a Satanic gathering. How did Laodicea go from being a True Church to being a Satanic gathering? Tim does not say but undoubtedly it's because they said something he doesn't like. 

The Council of Laodicea did not say to neglect the Sabbath altogether. 

Canon 16: The Gospels are to be read on the Sabbath [i.e. Saturday], with the other Scriptures.

The canon forbidding keeping the sabbath like a Jew is as follows:

Canon 29: Christians must not judaize by resting on the Sabbath, but must work on that day, rather honouring the Lord's Day; and, if they can, resting then as Christians. But if any shall be found to be judaizers, let them be anathema from Christ.

But because Tim has never actually read the canons of Laodicea he does not know about any of that. He spouts off like he knows something about what the early Church believed, taught, and decreed but the reality is he is an ignorant putz. 

It's just so tiresome having to listen to this nonsense. Tim has no idea what he is talking about.  He limits the True Church to the seven Churches listed in Revelation as if that is the end all be all of Churches. According to Tim Rome, Carthage, Alexandria, Jerusalem, none of those cities have True Churches because they are not mentioned explicitly by Jesus in the New Testament. That kind of reasoning is insane. Jesus said go into all the world and that is exactly what the Apostles did. Thomas made it all the way to India!

Despite his railing against the Church and insisting that the True Church kept the Sabbaths and Feasts and the Mosaic law generally Tim offers no proof for such a Church existing. He does not even attempt to prove that there is an unbroken chain of Churches keeping the law from the Apostles until now. He is in effect calling Jesus Christ a liar.

Oddly enough in part 2 he hints that the priesthood is still viable!

11:21 And moreover John, who was both a witness and a teacher, who reclined upon the bosom of the Lord, uh, and being a priest wore this sacradotal plate. Wait, what? I, I, you know, I get hung up on that because John the Apostle he equates basically to him being in the priesthood. Whether he literally wore such, uh, you know a priestly plate or not, uh, I don't know. Uh, guess is that he's talking, uh, you know basically, um, in analogy here, uh, you know but you don't know that. Notice this concept through though of the priesthood continues in the new testament. Hmm. In the Apostles. How about that?

What is this man smoking?  If John is a priest and Polycrates a Bishop that means the Church in Ephesus was ORGANIZED. It means the Church in Ephesus was not 2 or 3 people meeting in someone's living room. It means Tim is WRONG when he says the church is not an organization. 

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.

pg. 416

https://philippinefails.blogspot.com/2021/11/the-god-culture-rest-case-for-sabbath.html 

But what does the Church community matter anyway when Tim says personal relationship is paramount? From part 1:

37:57 There is no justification for a Catholic Church nor really even Protestant for that matter. Even the word church we discussed. There is relationship with Yahusha and Yahuah through his word and his word says to keep the feasts and sabbaths and commandments. 

The sources for this video all come from his book Rest: The Case For Sabbath. I have previously noted that, based on that book, Tim certainly has no idea what the Church Fathers or early Church taught. He takes all the early documents, quote mines them from secondhand sources, and basically dumps all over them calling them frauds and Satanic because they don't say keep the Sabbath and Feasts. Tim wants everyone to keep the law.  He wants everyone in the tent fornicating with Hagar. 

The God Culture: The Zen Garcia Interview

If there is anyone who shares the same spirit as Timothy Jay Schwab of The God Culture it has to to be Zen Garcia. I admit that I don't know anything about this guy but if this interview is any measurement to judge with then I have been spared. Zen thinks Polaris is where the throne of God is, thinks the earth is hollow, and has a lot of other beliefs that would fit snug-as-a-bug-in-a-rug on Coast-to-Coast-AM. Recently he did an interview with Timothy Jay Schwab.

The Mystery of Solomon's Gold - TThe God Culture Channel and Zen Garcia 

Now, the thing about this video is that apparently it was streaming but then it got copyrighted during the stream and it was also broadcast on a radio station called Revolution Radio at the same time. The result is that we do not see Tim's fat bespectacled face or any of his slides. But I won't say much about that here. We want to get to the meat. 

This interview is leagues better than the Pounders interview. It's longer, it's more in-depth, and the host doesn't dip out to give Tim the floor. Zen interacts with Tim and sounds very excited. That's a good thing. I want to hear Timothy Jay Schwab get interviewed by people who care. I don't think Pounders cared much. 

So, the real meat of the interview comes in at the middle of the second half. Tim has run through his entire worldview and Zen Garcia asks the following:

1:18:25:  Zen: A question with regard to, uh, the the islands there because, um, located in Cambodia where you have the the very ancient culture and the extravagant remnants of, you know? So, these, um, what's the name of that city, um?

Tim: I know what you're talking about but I can't remember the name. 

Zen: Yeah, I can't, it escapes me. My children went and visited there but anyways, I was wondering are there structures like that or are there you know ancient relics also found in the Philippines, uh, that most people don't know about. And also wanted to ask, um, as far as the ancient traditions, the mythologies of the native peoples there, if you know about any of that and, uh, is their truth preserved 

Like Pounders Zen is asking a great question. He is asking is there archeology and mythology to prove Tim's claim.  The city they are thinking of is Angkor Wat and the culture is the Khmer Empire. I have actually been there.

Tim's answer is so bad but I have to reprint it here in full.

1:19:27:  The major challenge in this journey was that, um, the actual record of the Filipinos themselves who, by the way, when the Spanish came here Padre Torrino in fact says that in the areas that he visited in the Philippines 100% were literate. They could read and they could write, and they were reading something, they were writing something, and they were doing it in their language, uh, in, uh, the, the, uh actual written language is called Baybayin and it's actually very similar to Hebrew in the letters and even some of the the shapes of the letters are kind of fascinating. But that's not something we can really prove we're not linguists we can't go that far. But what we can say is they were reading something. They were writing something. They had a history. That's what people read and write, right? And yet it's all gone the Spanish wiped it all out 100% of it is gone. The oldest document we have in the Philippines, uh, is from 1640 and it's it's an epic poem. Um, and, and then prior to that there is a copper plate, uh, from about 800 to 1000 A.D which is a legal contract which shows you how sophisticated these people were. They not only wrote a legal contract they did it on copper.  How about that? 

However now, but, when Magellan came he said, he asked the Filipinos, you know, who is your god and and what is your worship? Now, this is what Filipinos answered him. They said we have no other worship, this is in Pigafetta's journal, um, recorded by the Spanish, this isn't some fiction, this is historic fact. We have no other worship but to raise our hands to heaven and our face to the sky and we cry out to our Abba. 

Zen: Wow! That's awesome. 

Tim:  Abba? Wow amazing! And then you know so right, right from uh, the words of Messiah in the Garden of Gethsemane uses it twice as well.

Um, you have this name and then some will say oh well you know but but the Muslims came there yeah they did in the gold rush that's true. However, the muslims have 99 names of Allah and not a single one includes the word Abba. That concept is not Muslim. There is something else to it and it's because of their connection with king Solomon the Queen of Sheba came. She, she did what? She gave an offering to the temple just like Adam gave his offering the day after his exile in the same offering at that and the same with the three kings who came two years after Messiah was born that's why it took them two years they had to come all the way from the Philippines. And because they had to go around Africa the Red Sea port was broken up at that time and so and they brought the same gifts gold frankincense and myrrh and laid them at the feet of Messiah.

Look at that wall of text! Timothy Jay Schwab cannot answer a straightforward question with a straightforward answer. Zen asks for archeological and mythological proof and Tim gives NONE! He starts talking about Baybyain and admits he is not sure about whether or not it is Hebrew in origin because, get this, HE IS NOT A LINGUIST!!  Can he undercut his case for residual ancient Hebrew being in the Philippines any more? He just admitted that he does not know what he is talking about because he is not a linguist!

Next he mentions that the Filipinos told Magellan they worshipped Abba. Now, if Tim knew anything he would know that the Nestorians made it all the way to China and likely to the Philippines.  I have written about this.

According to Melendres Filipinos accepted the Gospel very readily and not by force. This was because they recognized the God of the Spaniards due to remnants of heretic Nestorian Christians.

Nestorian Mongols believed that the 'Heavenly Father' existed beyond the sky and looked down from the heavens. Nestorian missionaries, on the other hand, carried the name of God Abba or Heavenly Father wherever they proclaimed their doctrines and faith. And as the people of Masaua called their God Abba, it was unlikely that Abba was just an idol or a pagan god. We can therefore draw the conclusion that Rajah Culambo, his brother Rajah Siagu, and Rajah Humabon and their respective kingdoms were remnants of the heretic Nestorian Christians. This was why the Culambo brothers paid full attention and with reverence to the Cross during the First Mass in Masaua. And in Cebu, Rajah Human did not resist Magellan's preaching, and even his people showed their hunger for the Word as the listed to Magellan teach the basic doctrines of Christianity. Then, without hesitation, the Cebuano king immediately submitted to Magellan's baptism.

p. 161

https://philippinefails.blogspot.com/2021/03/book-review-my-countrys-godly-heritage.html 

Tim offers no mythological stories about the Jews and the Queen of Sheba and Solomon or even a myth about the 3 wiseman. Nor does Tim discuss archeology which is what Zen originally asked about. Never forget that Tim has already admitted there is no archeology in the Philippines to prove his claims.

Many seek this architecture in demand to prove this narrative and they are stuck in a false paradigm. There is none to be expected nor has any other nation on earth produced such nor will they.

Ancient Ophir is never described as having temples at all whether alone ones of gold, it is never recored to have great infrastructure in any sense just a mega-abundance of resources. The humble lifestyle of the Filipino even fits the oath of a Rechabite as Farrisol said.

pg. 128-129

https://philippinefails.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-god-culture-search-for-king.html 

Of course Tim could never say that live on air because that does not garner likes or sell books. I imagine Zen would have found it odd if Tim had admitted he has no archeological proof for his claims.

One final thing I want to note is that both Zen and Tim lament censorship by YouTube. They go on about how truth is being covered up. Well, I posted a rational, sane comment on this video and it was deleted. 

The God Culture is not a group you want to be promoting. Their books and videos are so full of historical and theological errors it is rather shocking. They have never been peer reviewed which means they have never allowed real scholars who know the things they write about take a peek at their research and critique it which is really a standard practice. I have gone in depth with, as of now, 61 articles eviscerating Timothy Jay Schwab's theories and in turn he has only lashed out in anger rather than correct himself. The man simply cannot stand criticism of any kind. See here: https://thegodculturephilippines.blogspot.com

Tell me who is censoring who? I cannot stand these kind of hypocrites who ramble on about censorship, claim they are for freedom of speech, and then attempt to censor those who disagree with them. Disgusting. And these people are Americans!

Like I said there is much more in this video. Maybe I will save it for a rainy day. I just want to get the meat across. In two recent interviews where Timothy Jay Schwab has been asked for archeological evidence to prove his claims about the Philippines he has been unable to provide any. That is quite damning to his case for the Philippines no one can disprove. 

The God Culture: How to Keep the Feast of Tabernacles Without Actually Keeping the Feast of Tabernacles

Having previously instructed his audience to buy their children plastic horns to blow on the Feast of Trumpets because it's fun Timothy Jay Schwab of The God Culture now instructs them on how to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.

The Feast of Tabernacles: Sukkot, A Shadow Of Things To Come. Feasts of YHWH Series

9:12: Now, this part is fun. Your kids will love this, but let's not pretend we don't love it too. We do. We really do. "And ye shall take you on the first day," that's the 15th of Ethanim the seventh month, uh, that's the name of it in scripture. Uh, if you notice, uh, there's actually only, I think it's four months of the entire year that actually are named in the Bible otherwise it's called the fourth month, the fifth month, and so on and so forth just the number. Uh, and that is the two Feast months Abib and Ethanim and the two months that follow them, the yeah, and that's it. Those are the only ones that actually have an actual Hebrew name in scripture. Uh, very fascinating, uh, so, let's continue. So, we'll show you the the modern calendar reconciliation don't worry we're going to get there but let's read first. "The bowels of goodly trees branches of palm trees and the bowels of thick trees and Willows of the brook and ye shall rejoice before Yahuah your Elohim seven days." What do we do with them? Well you'll see in scripture we build a booth or tent or Tabernacle thus the name of the feast. That's what it's all about. 

24:03 Now, again, we continue to dwell in our tents we built. That's the point. You built it with your family, yeah, and you decorate it and have fun with it. This is incredible. This is far better than a Christmas tree. Your family gets to build a dwelling together, um, that you get to live in for seven days and nights. That is so awesome! The kids will love it. Remember we no longer sacrifice animals as Yahusha was our sacrifice for all feasts and Sabbath forever. We're going to show you the scripture. However, we do still offer incense or spice offerings and drink offerings or wine and both are easy, they're not difficult at all.

51:19 So, that's what we do. We take branches and we build the temporary shelter to live in for seven days. Yes you can run electric out there no problem with that, uh, but, uh, we sleep, we eat in our tents are booths all week for seven days and nights.

So, there you go. You have fun with your family building a tent in the backyard out of tree branches, you decorate it, and you live in it for seven days. Of course the scriptures never say to have fun decorating a tent with your children.

https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/search.php?hs=1&q=decorate

One commenter asked Tim if he could show exactly how he celebrated the Feast of Tabernacles but he declined citing safety reasons. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umpqIyZmRhs&lc=UgxWXMDJpvRJ8ic76y94AaABAg

Leela: Hi Tim, would love to see you take videos on how you and your family celebrate the feast and share here in YouTube. It would be an awesome reference. Thank you for always sharing these contents.

The God Culture: We would love to but due to safety considerations, we cannot at least for now. Perhaps in time. Yah Bless.

How exactly would Tim's safety be compromised if he showed a picture of the tabernacle he built and decorated with his family? The martyr complex on this guy is huge!

Along with building a tent you also have to offer up incense and drink offerings. How that is to be done Tim does not say. He says absolutely nothing about building an altar or needing a priest to properly make an offering. He also admits that he does not even have the correct calendar dates for when the feasts happen.

1:09:59 But no one has these dates a hundred percent that we can verify including us, uh, so don't beat people up over oh well you do it this day oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, don't do that. The point, keep the feast

No! The point is not "keep the feast." The feast is to be kept in a very certain manner which is laid out in the Bible. To not keep it on the right day or to not keep it properly by refraining from sacrificing is to commit sacrilege. In fact Tim denigrates the whole Feast of Tabernacles by calling it fun and saying one does not need to follow it to the letter and sacrifice animals.  The thing is ALL OF THE LAW has been fulfilled by Jesus Christ. 

Tim has a stupid analogy about TV orders and Christ's work on the cross. Tim says if your TV order has been fulfilled does that means no more TV orders will be filled?

Rest: The Case for Sabbath, pgs 29-30

Are we to interpret this as since TVs were delivered, there is to be no more TV? Do the TVs then pass away since they were delivered? In fact, no one else on earth can ever have a TV delivered again because this person got theirs? We know better but this is how they are applying this scripture backwards by redefining this word in error.

This analogy is stupid. But going along with it, Jesus Christ delivered a TV to every person who has ever lived or will ever live. There are no more TVs to be delivered. In the same fashion Jesus Christ fulfilled the law for all mankind as the Second Adam. That is Christianity 101.

But perhaps even worse is Tim's explanation of what the Feast of Tabernacles foreshadows. I think you will be surprised.  I know I was.

The Feast of Tabernacles in the NEW TESTAMENT. Feasts of YHWH Series

49:02 Let's go to 1st Corinthians 6:19. Yes, Paul knew. "What? Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you which ye have of Elohim and ye are not your own." See, our bodies are tabernacles, the temple of the Holy Ghost. This is a concept of the Feast of Tabernacles our future event when we shed our temporary bodies just like we shed our, you know, our, uh, temporary tabernacles and we receive new glorified bodies on the day of judgment. A period of about three weeks by the way not just one day in scripture even though it's called the day as it appears to mirror the three weeks of Ethaninm, the day of trumpets when the trump shall sound and the dead shall be raised, the day of atonement which is judgment, and tabernacles when we receive our new glorified bodies and live eternally from there. All of these are foreshadowing of events that have not occurred yet therefore they cannot have passed away before they even occurred.

According to Timothy Jay Schwab the Feast of Trumpets, the day of Atonement, and the Feast of Tabernacles all foreshadow the final three weeks when the dead are raised, judged, and the righteous are given new bodies or tabernacles. None of those feasts has anything to do with the work of Jesus Christ.

How is Tim so daft that he does not realize Jesus Christ tabernacling in the flesh fulfills the Feast of Tabernacles?

John 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. 

The word translated as "dwelt among us" means to tabernacle.

https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/g4637/kjv/tr/0-1/

Galatians is very clear that the law is a schoolmaster which leads us to Christ. Dr. Gene Scott says it better than I can:

As we close the fourth chapter of Galatians, Paul compares those who go back to Sinai and pull the Law off that hill, and come to some new Jerusalem as the interpretive center, and from that new Jerusalem begin to lay the Law on you as an added necessity of being a Christian, Paul compares that to Abraham going into the tent and fornicating with Hagar. He says Hagar is Sinai, and Sinai is "new Jerusalems" which are now, and they produce children of bondage.

https://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?bookmarkedmessageid=15&boardid=40&threadid=3809

It's really the same old, same old from Tim. He wants to have everybody in the tent fornicating with Hagar! Just in case he asks, the Day of Atonement was fulfilled on the Cross when Jesus atoned for our sins but the trumpet is yet to blow announcing His second coming. That does not mean, however, that we are to celebrate the Feast of Trumpets because as I noted:

Galatians 3:24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

25 But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.

26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

Tim's interpretation that the Feast of Tabernacles foreshadows the resurrection and the giving of our new bodies and is not a foreshadowing of the incarnation is 100% Christless. I have noted this before in my review of his Answers in Jubilees series.

To say, as Jubilees does, that the feasts were all kept by the Patriarchs and do not have their origin in the Exodus is to denude them of their Christological significance. This is just one of the many reasons no Christian could or ever did accept Jubilees as scripture. It is not surprising that Tim is ignorant of the Christological significance of the feasts and the law. The man's theology is Christless and graceless. There is no room in his scheme for Christ except to be an example of how to keep the law. Tim's Christ is not the Redeemer who delivers us from the bondage of sin and the Mosaic law. According to Tim the law is what redeems us.

https://philippinefails.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-god-culture-answers-in-jubilees.html 

Now, as I deal with the Philippines on this blog I want add this little gem from the first video.

1:00:05 And very likely the Ark if ever found would probably be found in an area like the Philippines where lost tribes migrated.

https://youtu.be/umpqIyZmRhs?t=3605

There you have it.  That is the crazy Philippine subject matter I look for when dealing with Timothy Jay Schwab of The God Culture. 

And that is also how you keep the Feast of Tabernacles without actually keeping the Feast of Tabernacles. Have fun building, decorating, and living for seven days in a tent with your entire family.