Timothy Jay Schwab who is The God Culture has released a nine-week study guide on how to keep the feasts titled The Feasts of Light.
20 And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed the voice of the LORD, and have gone the way which the LORD sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.
21 But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God in Gilgal.
22 And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.
It's not clear why Tim thinks this verse supports him in his partial observance of the feasts. Samuel is not saying God doesn't desire sacrifice. He is saying that he does not want a sacrifice he did not command. Saul was seeking to sacrifice animals the LORD had demanded be slaughtered. Had he sacrificed them he would have been offering up strange fire like the sons of Aaron. The point is Saul was disobedient not that sacrifices are unimportant.
On page 13 Tim writes:
Partial obedience is complete rebellion disguised as worship.
The irony is thick as Tim denies the necessity of sacrifices in keeping the feasts. He is behaving exactly like Saul.
The study guide is rather puzzling as Tim does not offer suggestions on how to keep the feasts in the guide itself. Instead the guide acts as a primer on the symbolic meaning of each feast and how Christ fulfills them. Ah, yes there's that word fulfill. It doesn't mean abolish or finished.
2 Fullled Does Not Mean Finished
When Yahusha said He came to fulll the Law, He used the Greek plēroō — “to fill to completion,” not “to abolish.”
A cup filled to the brim is not discarded; it is complete and ready to be shared.
Each Feast finds its fullest meaning in Him, yet the invitation to celebrate remains.
“To fulll is to illuminate, not eliminate.”
pg. 23
Comparing the work of Christ to filling a cup with water is a horrible analogy. Bringing up the "fulfill does not mean abolish" bugbear is more of Tim's dishonesty. Pleroo means TO FINISH, to BRING TO AN END. He has been corrected on this before and refuses to learn.
The Greek says fulfill, or pleroo, means "to complete."
https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/g4137/kjv/tr/0-1/ πληρόω plēróō, play-ro'-o; from G4134; to make replete, i.e. (literally) to cram (a net), level up (a hollow), or (figuratively) to furnish (or imbue, diffuse, influence), satisfy, execute (an office), finish (a period or task), verify (or coincide with a prediction), etc.:—accomplish, after, (be) complete, end, expire, fill (up), fulfil, (be, make) full (come), fully preach, perfect, supply.
Christ completed the law. He finished the law and brought to an end by executing it fully. All the shadows of the law were perfected and brought to reality in and by Him. He is the Passover lamb sacrificed for us, He is God tabernacling in human flesh, He is the firstfruits from the dead, His blood is sprinkled on the mercy seat in Heaven making atonement for us, He sent the Holy Spirit on Pentecost just as He gave Moses the law on that same day, and on it goes as all the sacrifices and all the feasts and all the holy days are brought to their completion and fulfillment in Him. The book of Hebrews is very explicit that Christ completed the law by becoming incarnate and shedding his own blood for us.
https://thegodculturephilippines.blogspot.com/2021/09/the-god-culture-rest-case-for-sabbath.html
The law is not abolished but remains a schoolmaster to lead us to Christ.
Galatians 3:23 But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
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.
The whole purpose of the law is to lead us to Christ. But Tim would have us all live in the shadows.
3 The Shadow and the Substance
Paul wrote: “These are a shadow of things to come, but the body is of Messiah.” (Col 2:16–17, cf. Heb 10:1)
A shadow proves light exists. We don’t destroy the shadow because the light appeared — we walk in it toward its source.
The Feasts remain the pattern of heavenly realities (Heb 8:5; Rev 21:23). The shadow does not disappear until the source is removed. Heaven is still there.
pg. 23
Sorry, but no. Jesus nailed the law to the cross. We are dead to the law and alive to Christ.
Col 2:14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
Eph 2:15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;
Hebrews 10:1 also serves Tim no purpose.
For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
If the shadow doesn't disappear then that means the sacrifices of the law, which were a shadow of Christ, are still to be offered up! But not even Tim is crazy enough to say that. He acknowledges that Christ put an end to sacrifices. However, that just makes his system illogical. There is no partial keeping of the law. We either keep the whole thing or none of it. That includes the sacrifices, the washings, the stonings, and all the rest.
The New Testament doctrine of the law being fulfilled in Christ and Christians no longer being obligated to keep the Mosaic law, including the feasts, is well known. At this point it's like beating a dead horse.
The most interesting part of this book is the end where Tim has a detailed worship plan for each feast. The worship order for Passover is representative of the rest.
PASSOVER (Pesach .1 פסח )
Evening Meal & Service (Sunset to Sunrise) — Feast Sabbath(Cooking and Serving Allowed)
Service Elements:
Opening prayer of thanksgiving
Reading of Exodus 12 & the Gospels (Capture Narrative)
Consumption of bitter herbs as commanded (unleavened bread included)
Meal with any clean meat (no sacrifices — Messiah is the Lamb)
Foot-washing (optional, John 13)
Family testimonies
“This do in remembrance of Me” (The original Communion) Close with worshipNotes:
Scripture shows households contributing (Ex. 12:3–4); shared meal is appropriate.
Absolutely no lamb sacrifice — Yahusha fullled it once for all. Menu only specifies the inclusion of Bitter Herbs signifying the bitterness of slavery in Egypt.
pg. 64
First of all that is not how God commands Passover to be kept. A sacrificed lamb is the very essence of the feast. To say that Yahusha fulfilled the sacrifice and yet demand the feast still be kept is schizophrenic. The feast cannot be both fulfilled and not fulfilled.
It should not be forgotten that everything Tim does finds its telos in restoring the Philippines as the most important land in the world. It is in this land that the law of God will be restored in full and that includes the feasts. Here is his declaration.
Today, we stand as one people — humbled, awakened, and ready — as Yahuah calls the Philippines to restore His ways, His rhythms, and His Appointed Times.
For generations, our nation inherited calendars, traditions, and celebrations that obscured the very Feasts Yahuah commanded for His people. Not in rebellion — but in innocence.
Not in defiance — but in inheritance.Not because pastors failed — but because a strong delusion swept across the earth as Scripture foretold.
But now, the veil is lifting.
Truth is returning.
The ancient paths are being restored.And the Philippines is rising to answer the call.
WE DECLARE
1. The Feasts of Yahuah belong to His people forever.
Not as rituals, not as burdens, but as celebrations of covenant, identity, and truth.
2. Yahusha is the center and fulfillment of every Feast — not the abolition of them.
Fulfilled does not mean forgotten. Fulfilled does not mean erased. Fulfilled means brought to fullness.
3. We honor the example of the Apostles, especially Paul, who kept and taught the Feasts after the resurrection.
4. We reject the counterfeits, replacements, and occult mixtures introduced by man-made systems.
We return to Scripture — not tradition.
5. We restore what Yahuah commanded for all generations:
Passover, Unleavened Bread, First Fruits, Shavuot, Trumpets, Atonement, Tabernacles, the Last Great Day, and His Weekly Sabbath.
WE CALL UPON THE NATION
Pastors — to lead without fear.
Families — to teach these truths to their children.
Worship teams — to ll the nation with songs of the Mo’edim. Congregations — to awaken to the rhythm of Heaven.
Youth and students — to rise as restorers of ancient truth.THIS IS OUR DECLARATION
The Year of Restoration has begun —
and the Philippines will rise to restore the Biblical Feasts of Yahuah.From Luzon to Visayas to Mindanao, from the mountains to the islands, from churches to homes,
from pastors to children —the Philippines returns to the ancient paths. And the Remnant follows worldwide.
This is our time.
This is our calling.
This is our identity.
This is the Restoration of the Mo’edim.Let us make this the year the Philippines — as a nation — begins to restore the Biblical Feasts and return to the Appointed Times of Yahuah.
pg. 59-60
This is quite literally Tim's declaration of war against history, geography, theology, and the Filipino people. For Tim to lead Filipinos into keeping the law, especially in partial obedience, is to lead them away from Christ and towards death. The Philippines does not need another phony, false teacher such as Timothy Jay Schwab who is The God Culture.
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