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.