The God Culture: 100 Lies About The Philippines: #6 The Philippines is Chryse and Argyre

Welcome back to 100 lies The God Culture teaches about the Philippines. Today's lie concerns Timothy Jay Schwab's claim that the Philippine Islands are the mythical island of gold and silver known as Chryse and Argyre. This claim is central to his teaching that the Philippines is Ophir. Let's take a closer look.

Tim claims, with absolutely no proof, that the ancient source of Greek gold and silver was the land of Chryse and Argyre which was really the Philippines. Why would they sail all that way for gold? He never tells us and he totally ignores the fact gold was available in Greek mines. Here is what that looks like according to Timothy Jay Schwab.

The top island is Chryse which Tim claims is Luzon and the bottom island is Argyre which he claims is Mindanao. Hello?? Where are the Visayas?  What he is telling us is that the Greeks sailed to the Philippines, set up colonies, but were not able to accurately map the area! That is ridiculous and makes the Greeks appear dumber than they actually were. But Tim also says the Greeks kept this route secret. How would he even know that especially when he uses Ancient Greek descriptions of the world to prove his claim that the Greeks sailed to the Philippines?

A close look at Ancient Greek maps show that out of 9 maps only 4 have a location marked Chryse. Two of those maps show Chryse as an island while the other two maps show it as the Malay Peninsula. Only one map has Argyre. If Argyre corresponds to a real island, Mindanao says Tim and the God Culture, then why is it on only one map in all of antiquity? The only map with Argyre is that of Pomponius Mela. Mela places Chryse near point Tamus and Argyre near the Ganges River. 

https://topostext.org/work/145

Alongside Point Tamus is the island of Chryse, beside the Ganges the island of Argyre.

Beside the Ganges is absolutely nowhere near the Philippines. Yet Tim has several videos where he goes on and on and on attempting to prove that the Greeks really had no idea where Chryse and Argyre were because they had lost the directions and how we have to get into their mind set. The fact is the Greeks were familiar with India having marched there with Alexander and engaging in trade with the Indians. What Tim wants us to believe is that the ancient Greeks were stupid and we all know that is not the case.  Beside the Ganges means beside the Ganges. 

While Tim has quite a few videos where he misinterprets maps from the Greeks, Romans, and Portuguese in a vain attempt to prove that Chryse and Argyre are the Philippines I only want to review what he has to say about the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea because it illustrates how daft the man really is and proves that not only is he lying but he has no idea what he is talking about. 

100 Clues #2: Philippines Is The Ancient Land of Gold: Gold Found - Ophir, Sheba, Tarshish. Edited. 

2:20 "Periplus of the Erytheaen Sea in the first century records Chryse and Argyre as being located in "the last part of the inhabited world toward the east, under the rising sun itself beyond the land of China which brought silk to India." Gee, umm I don't know which islands are east of China? Wait! Ethiopia? Nope, that's not it! Yemen?  No. India? Ugh! Someone must know their geography very well in speculating that those guys could possibly be this ancient land of gold. It's the Philippines. Oh yeah! And they also map it.  So really this is not rocket science folks."

This is all wrong. First of all the Periplus of the Erytheaen Sea does not mention Argyre. Only Mela mentions Argyre. Second of all he flubs the directions. Chryse is not located "beyond the land of China." That phrase is an addition by Tim. He sure does love inserting his own emendations into older texts to make them say what they do not. We saw he did the very same thing with Pigafetta when Tim claims he saw elephants in the Philippines.  Here is what the Periplus actually says:

63.   After these, the course turns toward the east again, and sailing with the ocean to the right and the shore remaining beyond to the left, Ganges comes into view, and near it the very last land toward the east, Chryse. There is a river near it called the Ganges, and it rises and falls in the same way as the Nile. On its bank is a market-town which has the same name as the river, Ganges. Through this place are brought malabathrum and Gangetic spikenard and pearls, and muslins of the finest sorts, which are called Gangetic. It is said that there are gold-mines near these places, and there is a gold coin which is called caltis. And just opposite this river there is an island in the ocean, the last part of the inhabited world toward the east, under the rising sun itself; it is called Chryse; and it has the best tortoise-shell of all the places on the Erythraean Sea. 

64.   After this region under the very north, the sea outside ending in a land called This, there is a very great inland city called Thinae [i.e. China], from which raw silk and silk yarn and silk cloth are brought on foot through Bactria to Barygaza, and are also exported to Damirica [=Limyrike] by way of the river Ganges. But the land of This is not easy of access; few men come from there, and seldom. The country lies under the Lesser Bear [Ursa Minor], and is said to border on the farthest parts of Pontus and the Caspian Sea, next to which lies Lake Maeotis; all of which empty into the ocean.

https://depts.washington.edu/silkroad/texts/periplus/periplus.html

In paragraph 63 Chryse is located near the Ganges and it is described as both "the very last land towards the east" and "an island in the ocean." Paragraph 64 starts off "After this region." What region? Chryse. After Chryse and to the north is China. Remember we are traveling East. China is not East of the Philippines. It is West. So, after Chryse going eastward and to the north is China. Chryse is not the Philippines according to these directions. It looks like this:

Now, this is just a short article to prove that Tim is lying about Chryse and Argyre being the Philippines. I have a much more in depth article you can read here.  In that article I examine 9 Ancient Greek maps and prove beyond doubt that the Greeks knew of nothing past the Malay Peninsula. Oddly enough Tim says the Malay Peninsula on Ptolemy's map is actually Burma!

The 1st Century Mapping Mindset. Greece to Ophir, Philippines? Solomon's Gold Series 16C

7:15 Of course he's taking Ptolemy who didn't even know what the Maylay Peninsula was and claims he says it was the Malay Peninsula. That's stupid that's what that is. And then he never mapped it okay as he only goes as far as Burma in his directions, duh. 

So, and then there are those who use Ptolemy principally as the primary source of Southeast Asian geography yet one could not be more inept as Ptolemy thought the Indian Ocean was enclosed after Burma. Hello uh that's tens of thousands of islands that are non-existent on its map. The entire Pacific Ocean is gone and you call that geography? Again that's not academic that's stupid. In other words he not only is no expert on Southeast Asia at all let's be clear he didn't draw it it's not there. Uh, what he did draw is way out of place and he didn't know what it was. He just knows legends that's in that area and that's really all he's showing. Don't beat up on the guy, okay. I mean he he goes back to before this era even so he just didn't know. But, literally, uh, he was not a Greek sailor in terms of from Greece. He was an Egyptian. So, uh, though he served for Greece and he was Greek or at least appointed by the Greeks, his family was, uh, he was not in the know. Sorry but he wasn't and that's very obvious because again his map ends at Burma and encloses the Indian Ocean. 

Everything about that rant is factually wrong. It's concrete proof that Timothy Jay Schwab has no idea what he is talking about when it comes to ancient cartography and that we ought not to trust his interpretations of ancient maps. But that's another lie for another day. 

The God Culture: 100 Lies About The Philippines: #5 Ancient Greeks in the Philippines

Welcome back to 100 lies The God Culture teaches about the Philippines. Today's lie concerns Timothy Jay Schwab's claim that there was an Ancient Greek presence in the Philippines. Again, it's another claim that is obviously a lie but seeing as Tim makes this claim in all seriousness and he has gullible people believing him without doing what he claims which is test all things including himself it needs to be debunked.

There are two places were Tim makes the claim that there was an Ancient Greek presence in the Philippines. The first one is in video Clue #2.

https://youtu.be/kWjFtcV_6Nc

This video has been edited but in the original beginning at 5:27 Timothy Schwab says:

"When we visited Butuan, Philippines in May we were actually able to see this Greek armor which was found in 2018 in the Philippines. The thing is these are indisputably Greek from the symbols and the structure and they are dated all the way back to 800 B.C. up to about 480 B.C. "

Now that is indeed rather interesting don't you think? Ancient Greek armor was found in Mindanao and dated between 800 and 480 B.C.? That would be a huge archaeological discovery seeing as Alexander did not even reach India until 326 B.C.! It would mean Greek soldiers marched or sailed to the Philippines BEFORE the Peloponnesian War. What can one do in the face of such overwhelming evidence that the Greeks were in the Philippines possibly only 300 years after the Trojan War? Question it and tear it apart of course.

The fact is if you search for Greek armor in the Philippines on Google you will find nothing which validates this find. In fact Tim would later edit this video to indicate that this discovery was still pending confirmation. 

100 Clues #2: Philippines Is The Ancient Land of Gold: Gold Found - Ophir, Sheba, Tarshish. Edited.

How can Tim with a straight face tell us at 13:56 in this new edit:

"The thing is these are indisputably Greek from the symbols and structure and they are dated all the way back to 800 B.C. up to about 480 B.C."

In the unaltered audio he tells us that these artifacts are indisputably Greek while on screen he notes "Archaeology Confirmation Pending." It cannot be both. His source for this is Kasaysayan Hunters which is run by J.G. Cheock and we saw in lie #2 that she is also Tim's source for the false claim that Ferdinand Pinto placed the Leqouis Islands at 9N20. J.G Cheock and Kasaysayan Hunters are not reliable. 

Here is a picture of the alleged Greek armor set in full.

An image search for "Greek muscle cuirass" and "ancient Greek battle axe" gives results that look nothing like the armor above. There is armor with fake abs but not with lion heads and celestial wheels for nipples. Maybe such did exist but they are not coming up in any search online. And believe it or not those so-called Greek battle axes have more of a Tibetan design than Grecian.

It's obvious that Tim does not believe these artifacts are genuine ancient Greek armor because they have been rigorously and thoroughly tested by experts and found to be so. He offers no prove that they have undergone such testing. He believes because it confirms his thesis that the Philippines is the ancient land of Ophir. He ignores what is so obviously gives away the fraud which is the tokay gecko on the helmet! But this would not be the first fact that Tim ignores.

Funnily enough this alleged find of Greek Armor did not make it into Tim's book The Search for King Solomon's Treasure. Why is that? If he is so confident that this is really Greek armor he should have included it. 

The second instance of Tim mentioning an Ancient Greek presence in the Philippines is in his video about Greeks circumnavigating Africa to reach the Philippines. 

32:11 So, here we have history, yes history, that in 800 BC the ships of Tarshish, the Greek ships yes from the Greek colony over in the Philippines, were able to show up in Joppa Israel on the Mediterranean. How about that? There was no Suez Canal yet and the Red Sea port was out of commission. They circumnavigated Africa it was the only option and it's documented right here in 800 BC.

Did The Ancients Sail Around Africa? Bible Evidence. Solomon's Gold Series 16A

Where exactly were the Greek colonies in the Philippines? Tim offers no evidence because there were none. If there had been then we would find Greek artifacts in the Philippines just like Roman artifacts have been found in Vietnam. Ptolemy's map would also not have ended with the Malay Peninsula.

This lie about an ancient Greek presence in the Philippines is connected with Tim's claim that the 7,000 Philippines Islands are the two mythical islands of silver and gold, Argyre and Chryse. We will take a look at that lie next time. 

The God Culture: 100 Lies About The Philippines: #4 Filipinos Circumnavigated Africa

Welcome back to 100 lies The God Culture teaches about the Philippines. Today's lie concerns the claim that ancient Filipinos and Greeks were engaged in trade by circumnavigating Africa. This lie is so outrageous that I should not have to even point out its falsehood yet Timothy Jay Schwab insists that it is true so here we are. 

The lie that ancient Filipinos and Greeks circumnavigated Africa is alluded to but not explicitly detailed on page 136 of Tim's book The Search for King Solomon's Treasure. 

Solomon's Treasure, pg. 136

Even after Solomon, King Jehoshaphat attempted to rebuild and re-establish this trade with Ophir yet the ships were destroyed by Yahuah (1Ki. 22:48). Understand that is very close to the era in which the Northern Kingdom was about to be taken captive into the very land Jonah was preaching repentance and salvation. Therefore, Ophir had to bring goods to Israel instead which we see in Jonah’s story. The ships of Tarshish were certainly trading in Israel again travelling the long way around Africa to the port at Joppa (Jn. 1:1-3) as did the Three Kings after Messiah’s birth in about 6 B.C. or so.

This lie relies on the falsehood that the Philippines is Tarshish. According to Tim because the port on the Red Sea at Ezion-geber was destroyed now the only route to the Philippines was necessarily around Africa. So when Jonah took ship for Tarshish he was really going to the Philippines by circumnavigating Africa. At no point in The Search for King Solomon's Treasure does Timothy attempt to prove that Filipinos and Greeks were circumnavigating Africa. It would not be until two years later in a series of six videos that he attempts to prove this ridiculous claim. 

Out of all these videos only the first two, really only the second, gives any "proof" that Filipinos and Greeks were circumnavigating Africa to engage in trade. Videos 3, 4, and 5 deal with maps and video 6 deals with mythology. According to Tim Jason and the Argonauts as well as Ulysses sailed to the Philippines!

1:01:30 "At the edge of Oceanus Where God like Jason went." So, Jason and the Argonauts is a story that goes geographically at some point as far as the Philippines which means they circumnavigated Africa because they left from Greece and they didn't fly helicopters. Yes, the Greeks knew where it was and they traveled circumnavigating Africa to get there from very ancient times. And what it was indeed. I mean they knew. The Greeks knew where it was and what it was. Jason went to the land of gold in the Philippines where the sun rises and Oceanus ends. Boom! This is clear.

It all fits. It all ties and they had to circumnavigate Africa all these many times, okay? These characters, especially in the Odyssey and The Iliad, they're going there for physically in their ships even Jason and the Argonauts went to the Philippines. That's what it says.

Greek Oceanus World River and Rivers From Eden lead to the Philippines? Solomon's Gold Series 16F

It should not be surprising that not even in videos 1 and 2 does Tim give any concrete proof that Filipinos and Greeks were circumnavigating Africa to engage in trade. He offers zero archeological evidence to back up his claims. In fact in the first video Tim says he does not even need to prove this claim because the Bible says it.

2:52 This first video well set foundations specifically regarding biblical accounts where the Bible says ancients circumnavigated, they sailed around Africa as fact. The Bible is fact you know. If you don't believe that, well, don't call yourself a Bible scholar, uh, you know or a believer of the Bible. And yes it most definitely does no doubt say that. Uh, that will be our foundation.

17:58 Does the Bible come out and say it? You know the Bible doesn't come out and say a lot of things but when you see the beginning of the narrative and the end of the narrative it's obvious what happened.

Did The Ancients Sail Around Africa? Bible Evidence. Solomon's Gold Series 16A

According to Tim the Bible IMPLIES that the circumnavigation of Africa happened because that was the only way to get to Tarshish. But that assumes that the Philippines is Tarshish. It is not but that is a lie for another time. 

32:11 So, here we have history, yes history, that in 800 BC the ships of Tarshish, the Greek ships yes from the Greek colony over in the Philippines, were able to show up in Joppa Israel on the Mediterranean. How about that? There was no Suez Canal yet and the Red Sea port was out of commission. They circumnavigated Africa it was the only option and it's documented right here in 800 BC.

Did The Ancients Sail Around Africa? Bible Evidence. Solomon's Gold Series 16A

Greek colonies in the Philippines?? Tim never mentions them again and never attempts to prove their existence. 

In video 2 we have the strongest historical proofs Tim can offer but they ultimately fail. At no point in this video does Tim offer any concrete tangible proof that Filipinos circumnavigated Africa. He cites Herodotus' story of Phoenicians circumnavigating Africa and says such a trip was possible. But that does not prove that Filipinos were circumnavigating Africa to trade with Greece and Israel for almost 1,000 years as he claims!

52:44 So Mela's talking about a route that the Greeks navigated. Yes, circumnavigating Africa for certain. That's what this is showing. This map documents that the Greeks circumnavigated Africa. Period. Even if you don't agree that those islands are the Philippines, which you really can't disagree with it, but even if you do you still have to conclude that the Greeks circumnavigated Africa. Done. I mean there wasn't even a canal built until 200 BC. Hello!? They were running this route from 800 to 150 BC. So duh. Now imagine that uh the 43 A.D mapping covers that whole era in fact. Now, that's evidence and it's indisputable evidence and again it proves that they circumnavigated Africa indeed successfully they brought back gold from Chryse. 

The 1st Century Mapping Mindset. Greece to Ophir, Philippines? Solomon's Gold Series 16C

What an incredible lie. Neither Mela's map nor any other ancient map shows Southern Africa or the Philippines which means the Greeks did not circumnavigate Africa. 

Surely the whole world would know about this route if it was being plied for so long. I mean who can keep a secret like that for hundreds of years? The fact that Herodotus expresses disbelief that the Phoenicians circumnavigated Africa and totally ignores that Greeks and Filipinos were circumnavigating Africa to trade ought to be enough to alert any student of history that this did not take place. But according to Timothy Jay Schwab the route was super top secret which is why no one knew about it.

29:45 The Greeks knew, uh, they knew how to sail to Chryse Ophir. They knew exactly where it was but why would the Greeks share their location for their land of gold so publicly while they're still going there? Hmm?? Think about that. The answer is easy. They wouldn't broadcast that. Oh, hello world here's where we go to get our gold. Oh, wait a minute you're all going there too? Oh I, I didn't mean for you to go I was just letting you know because I didn't think anybody would follow the route. Duh!

The 1st Century Mapping Mindset. Greece to Ophir, Philippines? Solomon's Gold Series 16C

Again, this is not proof. The reason no one knew about this route is not because it was top secret but because it was not being plied at all as all ancient maps show us NOTHING of Southern Africa or even the Philippines. Filipinos and Greeks were not circumnavigating Africa for 1,000 years to engage in trade. That is a ridiculous lie.

The God Culture: 100 Lies About The Philippines: #3 Queen City of the South

Welcome back to 100 lies The God Culture teaches about the Philippines. Today's lie concerns the nickname of Cebu City which is The Queen City of the South. Timothy Jay Schwab says no one knows how that moniker was bestowed upon Cebu City but as we shall see that is simply another lie.

This lie can be found on pages 87-88 of Timothy's book The Search for King Solomon's Treasure.

Solomon's Treasure, pg 87-88

Cebu City today is still known as the “Queen City of the South” and no one seems to coherently know where that identifier originated. Iloilo, Panay, also in Visayas near Cebu, has the same nomenclature. It likely originated in Matthew 12:42 as Messiah called Sheba the “Queen of the South” which is the same connotation of Cebu and Iloilo today (Matt. 12:42, Luke 11:30). Along the same vein, Sheba means 7 and Cebu just by chance happens to be in Region 7. Additionally, is it not fascinating that Lake Sebu in Mindanao has Seven Falls or Sheba Falls?

That is total nonsense and stems from Tim's false teaching that Cebu island is the Biblical land of Sheba. It is not. The biblical land of Sheba is in Southern Arabia likely Yemen. It is certainly not the island of Cebu which is half a world away from Israel. Cebu is also to the east of Israel and not to the south.

The origin of the nickname "Queen City of the South" is actually well known. It was first bestowed upon Ilolio by the Queen Regent of Spain. 

Due to the loyalty of the Ilonggos, the city of Iloilo was honored with the perpetual title of Muy Noble (Most Noble). The Royal Decree granting this title was signed on 1 March 1898 by Queen Regent Maria Cristina. Over time, this title earned for Iloilo City the reputation of it being "The Queen's Favored City in the South" or simply "Queen's City in the South", and was later evolve to "The Queen City of the South", being the second Spanish port of importance next to Manila, and being located South of the Archipelago's Capital. On a side note, at the beginning of the American period until the Second World War, Cebu became the second port of importance (Iloilo having been partly ravaged by bombardment, fire, and riots during the American occupation of Iloilo City).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iloilo_City#The_Revolutionary_Period_(1896)

During World War 2 Iloilo was destroyed and Cebu City then became a prominent port and surpassed Iloilo economically. It was then that Cebu City took the name of Queen City of the South. 

Iloilo City was originally known as the "Queen City of the South," a title that evolved from another Iloilo title, "Queen's Favored City of the South." From being the Queen Regent of Spain, Maria Christina's favorite city in the south of Manila in the late 19th century. Iloilo became the second-most important city in the Philippines at that time, giving it a reason to evolve to the title of "Queen City of the South" until the mid 20th century, after World War II, leaving the city devastated and causing investors to flee to nearby Cebu City. Cebu later claimed the title after it surpassed Iloilo's economy in the 80s. Although some people disagree with Cebu's claim since the title is of historical significance to Iloilo alone and not for which city is the next second-most important in the country

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cebu_City

This paragraph has been deleted by a Wikipedia editor who claimed he was cleaning up unnecessary clutter on the Cebu City entry but you can read it at this link. 

If Timothy Jay Schwab had bothered to research the origin of the name Queen City of the South he would not have written something so dumb as to say the name originates in the Gospel of Matthew. It is a recent name applied only 40 years ago.  

The God Culture: 100 Lies About The Philippines: #2 Ferdinand Pinto Located The Philippines at 9N20

Welcome back to 100 lies The God Culture teaches about the Philippines. Today's lie concerns Ferdinand Pinto's shipwreck on the Lequios islands. Timothy Jay Schwab claims that Pinto located the Lequios islands at coordinates that match the Philippines and concludes that the Philippine islands are the Lequios islands. But as we shall see that is a lie. 

This lie can be found on page 163 of  Timothy Jay Schwab's book The Search for King Solomon's Treasure. 

Solomon's Treasure, pg. 163

Contemporary to Magellan, Ferdinand Pinto classified the Lequios and Chinese as the wealthiest in the Orient trading in gold and silver especially. He defines the Lequios Islands as an archipelago, not Taiwan, as well as a separate country. He also differentiates the Lequios as not Japan, China, Indonesia nor Malaysia but in between those. Pinto also travelled to the Lequios Islands from Malaysia headed North which he placed in the modern Philippines specifically on 9N20.  

Tim's source for this claim is J.G. Cheock's book Phoenicians in the land of Gold. 

Take note that Tim is citing Cheock who is citing Rebecca Catz's translation of The Travels of Mendes Pinto. Why didn't Tim cut out the middle man and cite Rebecca Catz directly? Also take note that there is no page number given for Cheock's citation of Catz. In her book it looks like this:

Cheock claims Rebecca Catz is where she got Pinto locating the Leqouis Islands at 9N20. What is 9N20 anyway? 9 is a northern latitude but what is 20? Longitude? Which direction? East or West? On its face 9N20 is gibberish and not coordinates at all.

The fact is 9N20 does not appear anywhere in Catz's translation whatsoever.  Here is what her translation actually says:

page 1,291 of epub

“This Ryukyu island is situated at twenty-nine degrees latitude.”

Excerpt From: Fernão Mendes Pinto. “The Travels of Mendes Pinto.” Apple Books. 

That's right. Along with everyone else in the world Rebecca Catz identifies the Lequios Islands with the Ryukyu Islands which are off the coast of Japan going towards China. Now let's take a look at the first English edition of Pinto's Travels and see what it says. 

In this manner we departed from Pungor the capital City of the Island of Lequios, of which I will here make a brief relation, to the end that if it shall one day please God to inspire the Portugal Nation, principally for the exaltation and increase of the Catholick faith, and next for the great benefit that may redound thereof, to undertake the Conquest of this Island, they may know where first to begin, as also the commodities of it, and the easiness of this Conquest. We must understand then that this Island of Lequios, scituated in nine and twenty degrees, is two hundred leagues in circuit, threescore in length, and thirty in bredth.

Pinto, pg. 188

Here we see that he locates the Leqouis Islands at nine and twenty degrees! Somehow nine and twenty became 9 N 20 and now this mistake is being passed off as truth by Timothy Jay Schwab and J.G. Cheock. This first edition English translation of 1663 has this story which Cheock claims was too outrageous to be included and so was censored!

Explorer and writer Ferdinand Mendes Pinto who travelled in service to the Portugese crown and in association with the Jesuit Missionaries, recounted in his journal, how he had been shipwrecked on the island of Lequois while passing through the Malay Archipelago. He described the Lequios as a land belonging to a large group of islands that had abundant resources of gold and silver. In his journal he had the audacity to give details on Lequois, putting it in the latitude of 9N20 on a meridian similar to that of Japan. Given these directions, Lequois would be at the very heart of the Philippines. The story of his shipwreck on Lequios was deemed so outrageous that it was omitted from his book when it was first published.

Phoenicians in the Lands of Gold, pg. 11

J.G. Cheock is wrong and Tim is wrong because he cites her. If The God Culture were an actual group of researchers and not just one man it is doubtful this mistake would have been made. Surely someone on the team would have gone looking for the original source rather than rely on a second hand citation. But Tim is on record saying it does not matter if he cites sources secondhand because they always say what he claims they say. 

https://youtu.be/EscrM4o-h4M

17:18 However a Pharisee looks at that and scoffs. "Heh! Well you could have used a better source. Why is your font so small on that screen? That one quote doesn't say that!" Though it always does say exactly what we represent by the way because it always vets, every single challenge has. "That map that shows those islands southeast of China's not really showing southeast of China. That's, well, India." Huh? No it's southeast of China. That's what the maps shows, duh. "And that map, and that map, and those directions, and those directions, and aww that font should be larger and yaw you should have quoted that differently, and..." 

I mean that's the kind of stuff that you get for going out, stepping out on a limb, and doing the research and telling people what is truth. And we prove it.  Those same people don't even bother to actually review the whole case. No. No, no. They'll watch one brief video or a few brief videos and then go and just ramble on and on and on.  And they are absolutely ignorant.  They don't even know what we prove, what we don't prove but all along they'll say "Ah see you didn't prove that." Well how will you know what we prove? You didn't even review the case. But it doesn't matter because it's not their point. They throw it all out in ignorance, haven't even reviewed the case yet they know because they know what we're going to prove because they have what basis? Absolutely none.  

"You used a font too small! Throw it out!"  Really? "You quoted a secondary source citing the original" oh which happens to be true and in representation actually match the original? Duh! I mean could you be more ridiculous? Yet we get all of this.

As you can see Tim did not step out and do any research when it comes to Ferdinand Pinto's locating the Leqouis Islands. Instead he relies on Cheock and he gets it wrong and now this lie is a part of his "monumental case for the Philippines no one can disprove." This is why primary sources are imperative. He would know that if he was a real researcher but Timothy Jay Schwab is no researcher. He is a propagandist.

Tim makes this same claim about Pinto locating the Lequios islands at 9N20 in a video where he gives a source very different from J.G. Cheock. 

Clue#25: Philippines is Ophir: Magellan, Pinto, Barbosa, King of Spain, Cabot KNEW - Ophir, Tarshish

6:15 Pinto even goes as far as to give the exact location latitude of the main Lequios Island as modern-day Luzon Philippines in fact if you follow his directions exactly and we'll do that later you will end up in Northwest Luzon or Ilocos specifically

The source here is ancientphilippines.blogspot.com. He also has a very long citation as if he were actually citing page 262 of the 1663 English translation of Pinto's Travels but he is definitely not citing it. That citation is not to be found on the ancientphilippines blog site. As I showed above on page 188 Pinto locates the Lequios Islands at a latitude of 29 North. It just goes to show that accurately citing primary sources is very important. 

So where exactly do the coordinates 9N20 put you anyway?

9N20

Central Africa! That's a long way from the Philippines. 

The God Culture: Will the Feasts of the Lord be Reinstated in the Philippines?

 Timothy Jay Schwab of The God Culture is a man with many heretical and anti-Christian doctrines. One of those doctrines is that we must keep the Feasts of the Lord.  There are seven Feasts and we are obligated to keep them all even in this day and age despite these Feasts finding "their fullest redemptive reality in the messianic work of Jesus Christ." It would appear that Tim does not believe that these Feasts or the law point to Christ and that they find their fulfillment in Him. Now, I do not want to get into a theological discussion because that is not the subject of this blog. However The God Culture teaches that the Philippines is the Garden of Eden, is the location of the Holy of Holies on earth, and that the Philippines is where these Feasts will be reinstated in full in the last days. So discussing this topic is quite in line with the subject of this blog which is the Philippines.

https://youtu.be/IfDwuaXYnTc

Starting at 22:08 in the video "Feasts of YHWH: Spring Feasts in New Testament? Part 1A."

Obviously there is no temple in Israel today so no actual need to go there although certainly visit that's fine. But we don't need that anymore. In fact watch our Solomon's Gold series and you will find His Holy of Holies on earth has always been permanently in the Garden of Eden which we locate in the Philippines. And the one in Israel was very temporary of course. Thus everyone should really travel to  the Philippines for these feasts. How about that? Something to think about. And this is why we say that the Philippines is where they will reinstate these feasts in full especially.

It's an interesting doctrine that Tim has not really spent much time on apart from 2 videos which don't go into depth at all about the Feasts and how to keep them. Incidentally he admits he does not have the right calendar and so he does not know when to properly keep the Feasts.

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Let's be clear, no one has truly reconciled the Hebrew calendar of the Bible with our modern Roman one that we have found and this is not a "Jewish" holiday but a Biblical day which was not only kept by Hebrews but by Gentiles even in the time of Moses. This is a task we began a while ago and hoped to complete prior to this season but our research is just not ready on that yet. However, these are the dates we keep for the Feasts and we are sharing with you. There are many other interpretations out there. The point for all of us is keep the feasts even if you prefer a different calendar as Paul and Luke especially admonished rather than pagan replacements that are rebuked by scripture even.  

Would God really want Tim and the gang to be teaching that the point of keeping the Feasts is not the date but to simply keep the Feasts?  Why not keep Passover on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox if that is my interpretation? No. God appointed a specific time and place for each Feast. If the Feast is not kept on the right day that is false worship. If it is not kept the right way then that too is false worship.

Let's pretend that Tim has somehow figured out the correct calendrical calculations to celebrate the Feasts.  What would that look like? Remember Tim says these Feasts will be fully reinstated in the Philippines at some point in the future. I am going to go through each Feast and lay out how the Bible says we are to celebrate them. The Feasts are Passover, Unleavened Bread, Firstfruits, Harvest, Trumpets, the Day of Atonement, and Tabernacles.

1. Passover

2. Unleavened Bread

Passover and Unleavened bread go together.  They each commemorate the night that Israel was delivered from Egypt. The directions to keep this feast is found in Deuteronomy 16.

1 Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the Lord thy God: for in the month of Abib the Lord thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night. 

2 Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover unto the Lord thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the Lord shall choose to place his name there. 

3 Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life. 

4 And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy coast seven days; neither shall there any thing of the flesh, which thou sacrificedst the first day at even, remain all night until the morning. 

5 Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which the Lord thy God giveth thee: 

6 But at the place which the Lord thy God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt. 

7 And thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose: and thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents. 

8 Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the Lord thy God: thou shalt do no work therein.

To keep the Feast of Passover one must sacrifice a lamb at sunset. Numbers 9:3 tells us this is to be on on the 14th day of the month. This sacrifice must also be done in a specific place that the Lord has chosen.

For the Feast of unleavened bread one is required to eat unleavened bread for a whole week. That means flat bread which has been made without leven or yeast.

3. Firstfruits or Weeks

We find the correct observance of Firstrfuits in several places.

Leviticus 23:10-14

10 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest: 

11 And he shall wave the sheaf before the Lord, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it. 

12 And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf an he lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering unto the Lord. 

13 And the meat offering thereof shall be two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire unto the Lord for a sweet savour: and the drink offering thereof shall be of wine, the fourth part of an hin. 

14 And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

Deuteronomy 6:10-12

10 And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the Lord thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give unto the Lord thy God, according as the Lord thy God hath blessed thee: 

11 And thou shalt rejoice before the Lord thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the Lord thy God hath chosen to place his name there.

12 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes.

Numbers 28:26-30

26 Also in the day of the firstfruits, when ye bring a new meat offering unto the Lord, after your weeks be out, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work: 

27 But ye shall offer the burnt offering for a sweet savour unto the Lord; two young bullocks, one ram, seven lambs of the first year; 

28 And their meat offering of flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals unto one bullock, two tenth deals unto one ram,

29 A several tenth deal unto one lamb, throughout the seven lambs; 

30 And one kid of the goats, to make an atonement for you.

The Feast of Fristfruits is to be celebrated in the place which the Lord has chosen to put his name. It requires the wave offering of a sheaf from the new harvest and the sacrifice of two bullocks, one ram, seven lambs, and one kid goat to make an atonement. There is also to be a meat and a drink offering.

4. Harvest or Pentecost

This Feast takes place at the end of the Feast of Weeks and fifty days from the Passover.

Leviticus 23:15-21

15 And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete: 

16 Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the Lord. 

17 Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals; they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the Lord. 

18 And ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and one young bullock, and two rams: they shall be for a burnt offering unto the Lord, with their meat offering, and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of sweet savour unto the Lord. 

19 Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin offering, and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace offerings. 

20 And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits for a wave offering before the Lord, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the Lord for the priest. 

21 And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.

On Pentecost we are to offer up a wave offering of two loaves of bread and then sacrifice seven lambs, one bullock, and two rams.  Additionally we are to sacrifice one kid goat for a sin offering and two lambs for a peace offering. This is to be a statue "for ever." That means the way this sacrifice is to be celebrated cannot and shall not be changed.

5. Trumpets

Leviticus 23:23-25

23 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,  

24 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation.  

25 Ye shall do no servile work therein: but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord.

An offering made by fire means another animal sacrifice.

6. The Day of Atonement

Ten days after the Feast of Trumpets is the Day of Atonement. No need to leave that high holy day out since as Tim likes to remind us that the Feasts and holidays and the entire Mosaic law is to be observed "forever throughout our generations." Again from Leviticus 23:

26 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 

27 Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord. 

28 And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the Lord your God. 

29 For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people. 

30 And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people. 

31 Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. 

32 It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.

The specifics of this atonement are to be found in the whole of Leviticus 16. 

3 Thus shall Aaron come into the holy place: with a young bullock for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering. 

7 And he shall take the two goats, and present them before the Lord at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. 

8 And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the Lord, and the other lot for the scapegoat.

13 And he shall put the incense upon the fire before the Lord, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is upon the testimony, that he die not: 

14 And he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it with his finger upon the mercy seat eastward; and before the mercy seat shall he sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times. 

15 Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood within the vail, and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat: 

29 And this shall be a statute for ever unto you: that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourneth among you: 

30 For on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you, to cleanse you, that ye may be clean from all your sins before the Lord. 

31 It shall be a sabbath of rest unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls, by a statute for ever.

The Day of Atonement requires many sacrifices as well as the two goats, one of which will be set free to wander in the wilderness. This is a "statue for ever." Remember Tim says that the law being FOREVER means Christ has not fulfilled the law so that it is now done away with.  We are still commanded to keep the law and that means the sacrifices of Passover, Frisfruits, Trumpets, and the Day of Atonement.

Five days after the Day of Atonement is the Feast of tabernacles or booths. 

7. Tabernacles

Agin from Leviticus 23 we read:

34 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the Lord. 

35 On the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein. 

36 Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord: on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord: it is a solemn assembly; and ye shall do no servile work therein.

Not only are burnt offerings to be made but the people are required to make and dwell in tabernacles or booths or tents. This must be done for seven days.

39 Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the Lord seven days: on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath. 

40 And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the Lord your God seven days. 

41 And ye shall keep it a feast unto the Lord seven days in the year. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations: ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month. 

42 Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths: 

43 That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

Again this is a "statute for ever."

Last but not least let's include the weekly Sabbath which Tim says must be kept forever. Contrary to what most believe it is not a day of doing nothing. God commands certain things to be done on the sabbath.

Numbers 28 details the daily sacrifices that are to be offered every morning and evening. Moses then tells what sacrifices are to be offered every Sabbath.

3 And thou shalt say unto them, This is the offering made by fire which ye shall offer unto the Lord; two lambs of the first year without spot day by day, for a continual burnt offering. 

4 The one lamb shalt thou offer in the morning, and the other lamb shalt thou offer at even; 

5 And a tenth part of an ephah of flour for a meat offering, mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil. 

6 It is a continual burnt offering, which was ordained in mount Sinai for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the Lord. 

7 And the drink offering thereof shall be the fourth part of an hin for the one lamb: in the holy place shalt thou cause the strong wine to be poured unto the Lord for a drink offering. 

8 And the other lamb shalt thou offer at even: as the meat offering of the morning, and as the drink offering thereof, thou shalt offer it, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord.

9 And on the sabbath day two lambs of the first year without spot, and two tenth deals of flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, and the drink offering thereof: 

10 This is the burnt offering of every sabbath, beside the continual burnt offering, and his drink offering.

Two lambs are to be offered up as a burnt offering every Sabbath day as well as a meat offering. That is in addition to the daily sacrifices of one lamb in the morning and evening.

Is the picture becoming clearer? Tim says the Feasts will be fully reinstated in the Philippines at some point in the future. Properly celebrating these Feasts requires the sacrifice of various animals. That would mean a new Ark of the Covenant since the Ark and its mercy seat are required to celebrate the Day of Atonement which the High Priest sprinkles with blood. Additionally there would need to be some place where the Lord has put His name as that is the only place where the Feasts can be celebrated. Because all the Feasts including the weekly Sabbath require sacrifices there will also need to be a reinstatement of the Levitical priesthood. Only the Levites can be priests and perform the sacrifices required by the Feasts. The Day of Atonement requires a High Priest and only someone in the line of Aaron can hold that position. 

A new Ark, a new place where the Lord has put His name, and a reinstatement of the Levitical priesthood including the line of Aaron for the High Priest. That is what Tim is saying the future holds for the Philippines. Since many sacrifices took place inside the Holy of Holies in the temple and since that temple is no longer standing it is imperative that Tim locates a new Holy of Holies so that the proper sacrifices can be made. He has done this.

According to the Book of Jubilees, which Tim considers to be scripture, the Holy of Holies is the Garden of Eden. It is in the Philippines.

Solomon's Gold Series - Part 12E: Garden of Eden, Mount of the East Found: Ophir, Philippines

As we covered before, the Carpenter Report, CNN, World Bank, and many others now record the Sulu Sea specifically the Verde island passage from Mindoro to Batangas as "The Center of the Center of Marine Biodiversity on Earth" and as we established, that indicates the origin of life on Earth not old bones of humans nor animals. Therefore, this even proves out scientifically as that is just above the Garden of Eden which is enclosed within the Earth. Somewhere to the East is an entrance and we do not claim to have found the entrance nor do we wish to attempt to enter. We believe we even find support in the Hebrew name if a large underwater reef famous for diving in the center of the Sulu Sea in fact just above the Garden.

Tubbataha Reef

Hebrew: Tub: טוּב: good things

Hebrew: ba: בָּא: in the

Hebrew: ta: תָּא :chamber

Hebrew: ha: הא: The

Our interpretation: The Good Things in the Chamber

To what chamber might this be referring? Perhaps the enclosed Garden of Eden just below. If this is coincidence, calculate the odds of such impossibility.

"The Search for King Solomon's Treasure," pg. 310-312

However, according to Tim the Garden of Eden is beneath the Sulu Sea. So that location is no good. You cannot sacrifice there. 

This article has gone on long enough. What I really want to drive at here is that despite Timothy Jay Schwab of the God Culture telling us we must keep the law including keeping the Feasts he is really telling us to break the law by keeping the Feasts in a manner not prescribed by the law.

Many wonder about the accurate dates for the Feasts as do we. This is a massive project and though we have a calendar available on www.thegodculture.com, we are uncertain of it's true accuracy in reconciling the real Hebrew calendar which is nowhere near the Jewish calendar which claims to be Hebrew and is not. We show Passover on the 27th with Unleavened Bread beginning the 28th. Some are celebrating the 26th and others, other days as many are trying to figure out this reconcile today. In time, we will all know this again. The important thing is to celebrate this Passover Season in your homes rather than Easter which is not a Biblical Feast in any sense.

We would encourage everyone to just stick to the Word on this and keep it simple. For Unleavened Bread, just don't eat leaven (yeast) for 7 days. For Passover, have a meal and there is no specific diet as we do not sacrifice lambs anymore and that was what was eaten. You do not need to serve lamb though a neat thing if you can. 

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Here Tim admits he does not know the proper dates for the Feasts. He also says you don't have to sacrifice a lamb or even eat a lamb on the Passover but if you do serve lamb than that is "a neat thing!" He also says just have a meal. That is not how the Lord commands the Passover to be celebrated. A lamb is to be sacrificed and eaten! It is not "neat" it is mandatory. Imagine being a Christian and eating a lamb on Passover and thinking that in doing so you are offering up acceptable worship to God. How horrendous a thing that would be as such an act would be a total repudiation of Jesus Christ who is our Passover lamb. Yet Timothy Jay Schwab has no problem with such an outrageous and anti-Christian act of sacrilege. He thinks such blasphemy is "a neat thing."

Tim's reliance on the Book of Jubilees also gives him the strange doctrine that the Passover is actually tied to Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac. The scripture contradicts that notion many times by tying ALL OF THE FEASTS to the exodus from Egypt.

Isaac's Sacrifice: The Calendar That Drove Messiah's Sacrifice. Answers In Jubilees: Part 7

Tim also tells his followers to break the Sabbath at the same time he tells them to keep it.

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Understood and we all must face this in some form at some point. We hear from many who have to work Saturday and they have no choice. If you choose to do so because you must, remember what the day is and keep meditating on Him that day regardless. You can remain in the right attitude regardless and do the best you can. Ultimately, there is debate about the beginning time and day right now which will resolve in the coming age. Perhaps you can still set aside a full day in time another way. In the meantime, pray that He will provide a job that fits His schedule. Yah Bless.

This lady asks for solid advice about how to keep the Sabbath since she has to work on that day. Tim says set aside another day perhaps. An astute commenter notes that Tim has instructed this woman to disobey the commandant of God concerning the Sabbath. It's amazing he did not delete that comment since he is fond of muting and banning any dissenting opinions especially those that expose him for the fraud and hypocrite he truly is.

In another place he contradicts the law by saying we don't have to sacrifice anymore on the Sabbath.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfAybCvlAuM

1:04:37 No, you do not have to offer an animal sacrifice. Messiah did that for us but he did not replace the Sabbath. Never, ever does any scripture say that.

If the scripture never abrogates the Sabbath then it never abrogates the rules for keeping the Sabbath. Those rules include offering two lambs in addition to the daily morning and evening sacrifices. Here Tim hypocritically tells us to keep the Sabbath and break it at the same time.

He also hypocritically teaches here that Jesus Christ fulfilled the animal sacrifices of the Sabbath and that sacrifices are done away with. Elsewhere and throughout his teachings he is adamant that the law has not passed away! It remains in full force and we are bound to keep it. These two teachings do not jibe. Either Christ fulfilled the law and it is done away with or he did not. There is no partial fulfillment.

The clearest rebuke against Tim's doctrine of keeping the Feasts is found in Colossians 2:16-17.

16 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: 

17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.

The dietary laws, holydays, new moons, and sabbath days (Feasts as well as the Sabbath) are all shadows of things to come. What was to come? Christ. The body is of Christ. Pretty simple. Now listen to Tim mangle this verse.

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

24:25:  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?

It's hard to believe that a man who went to seminary, is an ordained Reverend, and has over 30 years experience in the Christian ministry does not understand that Jesus Christ has indeed come. The law is the shadow and Jesus is the reality or the body as this verse says. Tim is literally telling his listeners to look to the shadow, the law and the Feasts, and not the body, The Lord Jesus Christ. His continual directing people away from Christ and to the law, he teaches the law is what redeems us, is what makes Timothy Jay Schwab an anti-Christ.

Let's bring this to a close. Tim is very particular about keeping the law. He teaches that keeping the law and not the work of the Holy Spirit is what engrafts us into Christ. He also teaches that we must keep the Feasts. The day does not matter just so long as we keep them. But he never says exactly what it means to keep the Feasts and how we are to do so. The Bible gives us exact instructions on how and when to keep them. Tim says we can ignore those instructions.

Tim also says that the law and Feasts will be reinstated in the Philippines in whole. But this is impossible. Without an Ark of the Covenant and a temple or a tabernacle or any place where the Lord has put his name there is none of the infrastructure required to do the proper sacrifices. Likewise without a Levitical priesthood there is no one who can lawfully perform the sacrifices.  

The solution to this mess is to accept Jesus Christ as the fulfillment of the law in toto. The law is a schoolmaster which leads us to Christ. We do not go back to the law. Tim's teaching of the Philippines restoring the law in full in the last days as a way to condemn the New World Order is based on the lie that we are bound to keep the law. We are not bound to keep the law. But we are bound to believe on Jesus Christ who kept the law for us. Both the law and the Feasts find "their fullest redemptive reality in the messianic work of Jesus Christ."