Friday, February 18, 2022

The God Culture: The Philippines is Surrounded by Sleeping Ghosts: Where Do We Go When We Die? Part 1

Timothy Jay Schwab of The God Culture has released another magnum opus in the form of a ten part video series titled "Where do we go when we die?" All these years the Church has gotten the afterlife wrong. Rather than teach what the Bible teaches they have been teaching the doctrines of occult mystery religions. The Egyptian Book of the Dead essentially. But not only does Timothy definitively reveal to us the truth about the afterlife, he also clears up the truth about the nature of the soul and spirit or lack thereof.

So, where do we go when we die?

Where Do We Go When We Die? Part 1. Answers In 2nd Esdras 23A

To understand that we must first understand what happens to our body and spirit when we die.

8:24 Our bodies are dead but spirits are asleep.

Tim will repeat that phrase ad nauseam throughout the series. He has taken great pains to point out almost every single verse that equates death with sleep and he has concluded that when we die our soul, which is the same as our spirit as we shall see, falls asleep. But what does this mean? Tim tells us in the 2nd video.


Lazarus Come Forth... Where Do We Go When We Die? Part 2. Answers In 2nd Esdras 23B

5:24 Sleep, well it is sleep just as we understand it but for the spirit in this case. Death is death just as we understand it, physical death. Very clear, not hard. Dead is dead. These are all good translations with each variant of the use here. It’s pretty clear so how could this get so misunderstood as to say Well, Lazarus, as Carmen says in his song, was in Heaven?

How could it get misunderstood? Does he mean how can we understand sleep to be a metaphor for death? Well, for one thing that's what the Greek definition he is showing onscreen actually says!

https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/g2837/kjv/tr/0-1/


Now, in the New Testament there are 19 instances of the word sleep. All of them except for John 11:13 use this word, G2837, for sleep. John 11:13 uses Strong's number G2838 which means sleeping or rest without any metaphorical meaning.

https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/g2838/kjv/tr/0-1/

This is a very important distinction. The context of John 11 looks like this:
John 11:11 These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep. (G2837)

12 Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep (G2837), he shall do well.
13 Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep (G2838).

14 Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead (G599).

There is a back and forth here. Jesus says Lazarus is asleep and the disciples say if he is asleep then he shall do well. Both words for sleep being used are Strong's G2837 which can mean either literal sleeping or metaphorical death. We plainly know that Lazarus is dead but Jesus says he is asleep and he does not use a word that means sleep and only sleep but one which can also metaphorically mean death. The writer notes that the disciples thought Jesus meant sleep and he uses G2838 which is a word that always means sleep literally. Then, Jesus says plainly, Lazarus is dead and he uses Strong's G599 which only means dead because that is what he meant all along, Lazarus is dead. Thus, Jesus is saying Lazarus is actually dead and only metaphorically asleep. His soul is not off in some chamber asleep awaiting the resurrection. There will be more to say about this parable in a future article because Tim's interpretation is quite a doozy.

So, a lot of nuance is missed here. Just like in John 21, when it is translated into English, the nuances of the word love disappear. It is not odd at all that Timothy did not mention that G2837 can mean either literal sleep or metaphorical death because he is prone to smooth over facts that do not fit his paradigm. In video 3 he challenges his listeners:

26:35 Want to say, well, maybe sleep doesn't mean sleep? Well, we showed you the word in the Greek and it means sleep. So, yeah, that would be the best hope for someone to try to then say that. So, you cannot redefine it nor this passage. Again, we didn't just show a couple of fragments here. This case is massive and you have to watch those two videos for all the scripture we're not going to recover it all.  

Lazarus & the Rich Man. Where Do We Go When We Die? Part 3. Answers In 2nd Esdras 23C

It's so disingenuous because G2837 is used 18 times in the New Testament. Some of those usages plainly mean literal sleep:

Acts 12:6 And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers before the door kept the prison.

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But in other places that usage clearly means literal death. 


“The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.” 
The word translated dead is also translated sleep 5 TIMES elsewhere in this same letter.



So, challenge accepted and met. The New Testament usage of this word varies from literal sleep to metaphorical death or even literal death as in the case of 1 Corinthians 7:39. Just within one letter there are various usages of this word to mean either a metaphorical sleep or a literal death.

But what about the Old Testament? Let's look at Psalm 13:3 which Tim cites in video 2

47:50 Psalm 13:3.  Consider and hear me O Lord my God. Lighten my eyes lest I sleep the sleep of death. Yeah David knew. Physical death is sleep for the spirit

This is wrong. In the English translation "the sleep of" is in italics which means it is not in the original Hebrew but supplied to give it meaning. The first sleep is Strong's H3462 which means sleep and the second word is H4194 which means death, to be dead. That means in this verse death is being likened to sleep. And that is how we should interpret Daniel 12:2 which Tim loves to quote.
And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
The word sleep there is H3463 which means sleeping. But given the context, a book of highly complex and figurative prophecy, it is undoubtedly metaphorical. 

So, where do we go when we die? As has been established Tim, erroneously, thinks our spirits go to sleep. But where exactly do they go to sleep? Well that depends on your state at the moment of death. Tim teaches, according to Enoch, that deep within the earth there are three chambers for the dead. One for the wicked, one for the righteous, and one for martyrs.
41:50 He places them in His chambers. That's where He set aside space for such in 3 categories we know from Enoch. They are not evil, yes there is one for sinners, but the chamber is not evil. It's not hell. Within the earth. Enoch said that there are 3. 1 for righteous, 1 for sinners, and 1 for martyrs who still cry out and He hears them. 
The chamber specifically for martyrs is rather interesting and unique to Tim's conception of the afterlife. It's certainly not a concept in the Bible because Enoch is not Bible. In fact Revelation tells us that in Heaven the martyrs are under the altar.
Revelation 6:9 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:

10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?

11 And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.
How can there be martyrs in heaven if, as Tim says, the souls of the martyred go to a specific chamber in the earth where they both sleep and cry out?
44:13 Then we have the sleep chamber for those who were martyred and yes they still cry out in their sleep but they're still asleep nonetheless. That's what the bible says. And they make accusation of those who murdered them just as Abel's blood cried out. Right? I mean that's pretty much, that was established since Abel at least and that's the way Yahuah set it up and that's the way he wants it and i'll get that. So, no it does not make them conscious nor awake

Pick one please. Are they crying out or are they asleep? It can't be both. This picture of sleeping souls tossing and turning and shouting out loud is ridiculous and certainly not the picture that Enoch paints. which is that all the souls are awake and conscious with the wicked especially being "set apart in this great pain."
Enoch 22: 10. And such has been made for sinners when they die and are buried in the earth and judgement has not been executed on them in their lifetime. 

11. Here their spirits shall be set apart in this great pain till the great day of judgement and punishment and torment of those who †curse† for ever, and retribution for their spirits. There He shall bind them for ever. 
How would they be in great pain unless they were awake and conscious?

Tim's solution as to why there are martyrs in heaven is, as usual, ad hoc. He makes it up as he goes.
59:39 No one can enter Heaven without being judged. Now, the exception is the very end when we find the 144,000 and the innumerable multitude both in Heaven. Time is short then and Yahuah chooses, that's His choice and He says He does it, to accept the first offering of the man child, Revelation 12, the 144,000 from Israel, 12,000 from each of the 12 tribes, that's what they are, they're Israelites and He takes the Tribulation Martyrs or Saints to Heaven at that time for a short time at the end. But that has not happened previously nor is it happening yet and does not except for those 2 groups.

Maybe this is because, hold on to your seat, there are so many martyrs, they would fill that chamber of martyrs within the Earth or, and we don't know that, or maybe, it is because He wishes to hear their cries right there in His throne room along with the rest of Heaven who will also hear them crying out for justice.

According to Tim this all happens at the very end of time and perhaps there are so many martyrs then that the chamber is full. Now, that is a funny thing for Tim to say because he does not believe there will be a large remnant of believers. He is constantly telling his audience that the Church is the Synagogue of Satan and that the number of true believers is not in the billions or millions but a tiny remnant.

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.

It's not a big shock that Tim is inconsistent in his statements here as this is how he always is.

But all of this stuff about three chambers is just wrong. First of all 1 Enoch 22:1 says:
And from there, I went to another place, and he showed me in the west a large and high mountain, and a hard rock, and four beautiful places.
Enoch is shown a mountain in the west and inside this mountain four places. That is not a location deep within the earth. That is more akin to caverns on a mountain. He is shown four, not three, places. The fourth place is described in verse 13 which Tim conveniently forgot to cite.
Thus a place has been created, for the souls of men who are not righteous, but sinners, accomplished in wrongdoing, and with the wrongdoers will be their lot. But their souls will not be killed on the day of judgment, nor will they rise from here.
It's no surprise Tim neglects this verse because it does not fit his teaching which is that all men will be resurrected, the wicked will undergo the second death which is complete annihilation, and the righteous will live forever. This verse clearly says the souls of these wicked men will not be destroyed and they will not be leaving this chamber. 

But hold on a minute. Isn't to die to be in the presence of the Lord? Didn't Stephen say, "Lord receive my spirit?" How is this possible if the spirits of dead righteous men are going to an unconscious sleep in a chamber deep within the bowels of the earth?
11:35 Now you're going to see where some of our research comes together and why we went so deep into finding locating the Garden of Eden and why it matters so, so much to restore this. Basically in the chambers within the earth you, basically in location, are next to the Garden of Eden which is, what? Where the Holy of Holies the permanent one, not the temporary one in Israel but the permanent Holy of Holies of Yahuah is in the Garden of Eden

22:09 Check out Solomon's Gold Series, Answers in Jubilees and we, well prove out, even map out by Noah's directions, uh, the route to, uh, the Garden of Eden it's in the Philippines, under the Philippines, within the earth. It's not up here.  
According to Tim The Garden of Eden is underneath the floor of the Sulu Sea. Underneath Tubbataha Reef in fact. And next to this enclosed Holy of Holies where God's presence on earth is lies the chamber for the souls of the righteous dead.  Maybe it looks like this:


That means when Stephen said, "Lord Jesus receive my spirit."  He meant receive me in the chamber hidden within the earth next to the Garden of Eden.

10:52 The is the same as when we understand the paradigm when Stephen, the disciple, when he was stoned to death he says "Yahusha Messiah receive my spirit." Wait. Yahusha did not receive his spirit in heaven? What? No, of course not. He received him into the chambers because they're his. He created them.

Answering Challenges. Where Do We Go When We Die? Part 4. Answers In 2nd Esdras 23D

Jesus received Stephen into the chambers? Really? A closer look at the story paints a whole other picture.

Acts 7:55 But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,

56 And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.

57 Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord,

58 And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul.

59 And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.
So, let me get this straight. Stephen, after giving an impassioned speech before an unruly mob, looks up to Heaven and sees Jesus standing at the right hand of the Father and he says, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit."  And we are supposed to believe that Jesus is going to receive him not in Heaven where he is and where Stephen saw Him, but in the chambers of the earth somewhere near the Philippines which is also where the Garden of Eden is located and where Stephen would be asleep and thus unconscious of any such reception!!?

This is too much. It is utterly ridiculous. But let us press on. Tim teaches when we die our spirits are laid to sleep in one of three chambers which are enclosed within the earth. His scheme looks like this:

What Is Hell? Is It Real? Part 9 Answers In 2nd Esdras 23I

At the end of time on the day of judgement all the souls in each chamber will be resurrected. Not only that but because all men die that means Enoch and Elijah, who are the only men who never died, will endure a quick death and resurrection along with everyone else who is alive at the second coming.

18:43 "And we shall be changed." Now, those still alive will still be changed and yes, even Enoch and   Elijah. This is the explanation for all die. All men will die, it's appointed for all men to die, right? See, they didn't die yet however they will but they'll experience a very quick physical death and resurrection receiving their new bodies and they will be changed. They must be, they have to be.

"For this corruptable must put on incorruption." This corruptible body your body is corrupt  and born into sin essentially thanks to Adam. So it's corruptible. We must put on a new body that is incorruption. Again, even Enoch. So all men will die, period, even those alive in the end. Which is the same boat as Enoch because they'll still be alive in the end. hat's not a mystery and it's no surprise the Bible deals with that. 

Actually the Bible teaches that those who are alive at Christ's second coming will not die but will be changed.

1 Corinthians 15:51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,

52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

Tim's interpretation of this verse is that the changing that happens is a quick death and resurrection. But the scripture does not say that. It says we shall not sleep, die, but we shall be changed and given new immortal bodies. Tim's false interpretation takes that miracle and basically throws it in the trash. Now there is no miracle of bodily transformation but only the rather drab prospect of a quick death and resurrection. 

At the resurrection all will be judged. The wicked will be eternally burned up and nothing will be left of them. While the righteous will inherit eternal life and will never die.

19:50 "And this mortal must put on immortality." So, the body you have now is mortal. It can't live forever, it doesn't live forever, we see that. It has an expiration date. Your new one will not if you are a believer. If you are not a believer, well, doesn't matter  because those will be consumed with eternal fire but you're probably not listening to this anyway. Uh, and they will never be seen again even in spirit, just ashes that's all that will  be left 

This is the heresy known as annihilationism. That the wicked will be utterly consumed and that there is no eternal punishment in the lake of fire.

26:46 Rev. 21:8 tells us “But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone:which is the second death.”  There you go. But again, many think in the Church basically characterizes this in an occult way. That this is hell which people enter and they live there forever in eternal torment. That's not scripture. Again, the 1st death for them was physical. The 2nd will be spiritual and eternal. Forever. Done.  All that will be left of them and Ezra says this, we cover this on there videos, Ezra says they'll just be ashes. That's all that will be left.

This is all wrong. The very verse he cites tells us that the wicked shall be cast into the lake of fire and there are many scriptures which tell us this is an eternal burning that will last forever. It's really amazing how ignorant Timothy Jay Schwab is of the scriptures.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlFizsC_0E8&lc=UgzJibbi3WvKd8vRx4Z4AaABAg

Mark Murray: Why does Jesus say their worm dies not

The God Culture: What are you talking about. If you would like to share a scripture do so.

The God Culture: Ah... That scripture is after the Day of Judgment when as it is clear Heaven and earth are made new. Nothing to really discuss regarding this topic as that is exactly what we have said all along. We die physically, our spirits sleep awaiting judgment and that is exactly what happens on the Day of Judgment and not before. Yah Bless.

What a hilarious exchange. A guy named Mark asks Tim about the passage in Mark which says "their worm dieth not." Tim's reply indicates he has no idea that he is referencing the Gospel of Mark. But then a week later a lightbulb goes off in Tim's head while he's taking a shower or drinking 3-n-1 or who knows what and he finally understands what Mark meant. He then rushes to the computer to type up a total non-answer. Let's look at this passage in Mark 9.

43 And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:

44 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.

45 And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:

46 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.

47 And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire:

48 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.

The issue here, which Tim does not address at all in this comment or in his videos, is that if their worm dies not and if the fire is never quenched then that means the wicked are continually suffering and are not burned up into ashes. In fact Isaiah says the righteous shall look upon the wicked as they burn in hell.

66:24 And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh

Tim's bizarre reasoning leads him to say that the fire is eternally burning because its effects are eternal not because it is actually burning forever.

22:29 The wicked are consumed period. And completely and final, the end that's why it's called eternal fire. Not because it burns and burns and burns forever but because when it burns it burns eternally. that's what it's about. So, don't misread passages that we are consumed by eternal fire as meaning we sit in a furnace when we die that's just not true that's not fact there's no bible verse that ever says that, ever. It's just not there. That assumes Yahusha's eternal fire is impotent, not effective, uh, because it it can only burn us but it it doesn't consume us. It's supposed to consume us that's what the Bible says it does so does it or doesn't it? Well, that ain't scripture. That's, that's the point.

48:45 In the end this will be opened and the wicked angels and men will be thrown into the lake of fire. When they are they are burned immediately to ashes, to nothing. Nothing remains. The fire is everlasting. Indeed, it's eternal. Its effect is everlasting and eternal and it cannot be undone. Their torture however is over in seconds once they are consumed as even their spirits are then gone forever.

To be more specific Tim teaches that this eternal fire will only burn for 5 days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJhHkYky60Y&lc=UgyYC6LQov9cZGDKFJN4AaABAg

RUTHANN JOHNSON How long will it take for Earth and heaven to be remade

The God Culture Good question. It appears the Trumpet sounds on the Feast of Trumpets, Judgment Day is about 10 days later and 5 days later believers are receiving their new bodies according to the Feast schedule. One could say the battle occurs with Messiah and his army vs. the world essentially for 10 days roughly and then, He judges and replenishes with eternal fire for 5 days essentially. That's just a quick answer but in time, we hope to produce a video on that. Yah Bless.

But why call this an eternal fire if it's not actually eternally burning? What is the worm that dieth not and the fire that is quenched not if the fire is not actually burning forever and the wicked eternally suffering? It makes no sense and Tim has not dealt with this issue of Mark 9 or Isaiah 66.

What need is there to be afraid of He who can destroy both body and soul in hell if the end result is total annihilation? What sense is Jesus' warning if entering into hell with both hands leads not to eternal punishment but to eternal nothingness? What is there to fear if, rather than being punished in the fires of hell for all eternity, one will cease to exist? Even the Bible envies those who never existed.

Ecclesiastes 4:2 Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.

3 Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

The fact is the Bible paints the fate of the wicked as eternal, everlasting, conscious torment. The flip side of that is the reward of eternal life for the righteous which is also everlasting and conscious. If there is no eternal punishment then it truly does not matter what one does in this life as every great sinner will face no consequences except to be freed from the burden of existence via total annihilation. 

I have already shown that Tim is a liar and that the Greek word translated sleep means metaphorical death, literal sleep, or literal death depending on the context. He is a liar because that definition is shown onscreen in his video and decided to skip right over it not mention that it can mean death metaphorically. But not only that he also denied this in the comment section of his video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlFizsC_0E8&lc=Ugx6A-phhGGINZkZMHZ4AaABAg

Nancy Kindt "Sleep" means sleep, yes. But it can be an IDIOM for death, as we sometimes refer to death by saying, "He sleeps with the fishes," or "He sleeps with the angels." Also, because there is no time in the spirit world (and a day is as a 1000 years), your argument about Abraham waiting for 1000's of years doesn't seem valid. Imo, the 1000's of NDE's, which are very consistent over time and cultures, indicates that we do have a form of consciousness and activity after we die.

The God Culture Your modern IDIOMs are impertinent and not scripture. You don't use those to define scripture do you? If that is your foundation you will miss much. You haven't actually made a point here because we teach what the Bible says and it defines sleep, even Messiah Himself does, as our spirits sleeping when our bodies die. If you have not watched the previous 2 videos, we cover tons of such scripture. These cannot be redefined by modern IDIOMs. Use the Bible to interpret the Bible. Yah Bless.

Her second reply is a fabulous rebuke to Timothy but I'm not going to reprint the whole thing here. She really takes him to task for this erroneous teaching of soul sleep.

I think this is a common but erroneous teaching in the Torah movement. According to so many verses, the "sleep" of death seem to be only a figure of speech and refers to the BODY sleeping, not the soul. "And the graves were opened; and many BODIES of the saints which slept arose (Matthew 27:52)." Here we see it's the BODIES which sleep, not the soul.

So, the BODY sleeps, but the soul does not, as evidenced again by Yahusha's parable of Lazarus. You need to ask yourself: Why would the Messiah describe a situation that doesn't accord with reality? Certainly, He wouldn't misrepresent the after life.

Tim had no follow up reply and its amazing he did not outright delete this comment.

I have also shown that 1 Enoch does not line up with Tim's teaching because there is a 4th chamber from which certain wicked souls shall never escape. But we are not done here. There are a few more articles to come. The next article will deal with several videos in this series that are just plain awful, contain very bad arguments or unproved assertions, and are easily dismissed.

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Wednesday, January 26, 2022

The God Culture: Answers In Jubilees Series Review

Now that Timothy Jay Schwab of The God Culture has completed his 52-week Answers in Jubilees series let's take a look and see just what answers he gave us. What topics did he cover? Did he examine the whole book, all 50 chapters and all their verses? Or did he skip over a lot of material? Remember, this book is essential to his program of proving that The Garden of Eden is in the Philippines, albeit buried underneath the floor of the Sulu Sea near Tubbataha Reef, and that the Philippines is the land of creation to where the Northern Lost Tribes of Israel migrated.

Let's start by listing the title of each video and the chapters and verses cited therein. From this list we can see the topics covered and get a very good sense of what Timothy thinks this book has to tell us.

Answers in Jubilees Complete Playlist

1. What was the Original Language? Answers in Jubilees: Part 1 

Jubilees 12:26-27; 4:17-18, 8:3 Instead of beginning with chapter 1 verse 1 Tim starts off in chapter 12 verse 26. Not a good way to start a study of Jubilees or any book for that matter.

2.  What Territory Belongs to Shem? Answers in Jubilees: Part 2

Jubilees 8:8-21

3. What Territory Belongs to HAM? Answers in Jubilees Part 3

Jubilees 8:22-24

4. What Territory Belongs to Japheth? Answers in Jubilees Part 4

Jubilees 8:25-30 Parts 2-4 are all recap videos covering the division of Noah that Timothy had previously covered in his flood series. That is more time wasted on subjects already covered thoroughly and in detail elsewhere. 

5. Is Man Limited to 120 Years of Life? Answers in Jubilees Part 5

Jubilees 23:9-15

6. Noah's Book of Healing. Answers in Jubilees Part 6

Jubilees 10:10-15; 2:29; 23:29-30

7. Isaac's Sacrifice: The Calendar that Drove Messiah's Sacrifice: Answers in Jubilees Part 7

Jubilees 17:15; 18:3-13

8. Where is the Garden of Eden? Answers in Jubilees Part 8

Jubilees 3:32,35; 4:29; 8:22-23 In the comments Tim calls this a recap video and directs someone to watch the full Rivers from Eden series. So it's time wasted on what has already been covered. 

9. Where did Enoch Go? He Does not Reside in Heaven. Answers in Jubilees Part 9

Jubilees 4:22-26; 10:17; 21:10 Tim claims Enoch is in the Garden of Eden which is located beneath the floor of the Sulu Sea enclosed in the earth. Ridiculous and certainly not provable. 

10. Is The Garden of Eden Still There? Answers in Jubilees Part 10

Jubilees 8:19; 10:17 The location of the Garden of Eden is covered in parts 8-10. Why is so much time wasted on this one topic which he has covered in much more detail in a whole series dedicated to locating the Garden of Eden in the Philippines? If the Garden of Eden is buried beneath the ocean floor then the location given in Jubilees is nonsensical as no one would know where it is!

11. When Were the Angels Created? Answers in Jubilees  Part 11

Jubilees 2:2-3

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

Jubilees 2:1-16; 16:26; 21:24 In this video Tim teaches the heretical and blasphemous idea that the Father and Son brought creation into existence apart from the Holy Spirit who played some unspecified role but not as creator. It is anti-trinitarian and demotes the Holy Spirit from His rightful position as God. He also teaches the preexistence of souls.

13. The Restoration of SHAVOUT. One of the Most Important Days of the Year. Messiah & Isaac's Births. Answers in Jubilees Part 13

Jubilees 1:1, 3-4, 6:16-20; 14:1, 10-11; 16:12-13

13B. What is Pentecost? When? From the Dead Sea Scrolls. Answers in Jubilees 13B

No verses from Jubilees are cited

14. Who were the Nephilim? Answers in Jubilees Part 14

Jubilees 4:15, 22; 5:1-6

15. Judgement of the Watchers. Answers in Jubilees Part 15

Jubilees 5:7-13; 7:21-24

16. From Where Did Demons Originate? When? Who? How? What? Answers in Jubilees Part 16

Jubilees 7:27; 10:1-14

17. What is the Name of God in Jubilees & The Dead Sea Scrolls? Answers in Jubilees Part 17

No verses from Jubilees are cited. This video is just an apology for amending the text of RH Charles to include the name Yahuah. More time wasted as he is not covering the text of Jubilees at all in this video but is making excuses for his modification of Charles' translation.

18. Was Cain the Serpent's Seed? Answers in Jubilees Part 18

Jubilees 3:9, 15, 17-27, 32-34; 4:1

19. Who's Seed? The Serpent Seed Doctrine 2. Answers in Jubilees Part 19

Jubilees 3:12, 16

20. The Mystery of Cain Part 1. Answers in Jubilees Part 20

Jubilees 4:1,7-12

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

Jubilees 3:1,8-11 Parts 18-21 are all devoted to Cain. That is 4 videos covering one subject. Why spend this much time on Cain whose lineage was wiped out by the flood? 

22. The Curse of Canaan. Ham Divides Africa. Answers in Jubilees 22.

Jubilees 10:28-34; 22:20-22; 7:6-10

23. Where is the Seat of Gog of Magog? Japheth's Division to His Sons. Answers In Jubilees 23.

Jubiles 9:7-13; 10:35

24. Where is Ophir? Is Israel Shem's? Answers in Jubilees 24

Jubilees 9:2-6 This is another video about a subject he has covered in depth elsewhere. Why bother with this recap?

25. Return of the Occult. After the Flood. Answers In Jubilees 25

Jubilees 8:1-7

26. Wives of the Patriarchs. No Cain There. Answers In Jubilees Part 26

Jubilees 7:13-17

27. First Cites After the Flood. First Wives Club. Answers in Jubilees Part 27

Jubilees 7:13-17

28. The Original Sinday. Answers in Jubilees Part 28

Jubilees 3:17; 5:23, 31 This video teaches that Adam sinned on a Sunday and Tim tries to link this to the Church's practice of worshipping on the first day of the week. It is a gross apologetic for Sabbath keeping.

29. The Tower of Babel. Was it Real? How Tall? Possible? Where is Shinar? Answers in Jubilees Part 29

Jubilees 10:18-27; 12:25; 9:3

30. Prophecy of Noah. Japheth in the Tent of Shem? Where Does Yahuah Dwell? Answers in Jubilees Part 30

Jubilees 7:10-12; 8:19. This video teaches that God's physical presence on the Earth is in the Garden of Eden which is buried underneath the floor of the Sulu Sea. Apparently Tim does not know that God's people are his temple and he dwells in them. This is one of many points where Jubilees actually contradicts Genesis. The subject of Genesis 9:27 is Japheth and not God. This prophecy is fulfilled in the conversion of the nations to Christianity who have been mostly of Japhetic origin.

31. Abraham Casts Out Demonic Ravens. Answers in Jubilees Part 31

Jubilees 11:10-24. 

"Another gap filled by Torah in Jubilees" says the video description.  "Albert Hitchcock" was "a cabalist probably" and probably knew this story of Abraham and the ravens which is where The Birds comes from.  That is patently ridiculous as The Birds is based on a short story! There is no evidence that Hitchcock was a cabalist. He was a Roman Catholic. Fills in the gaps of how Abraham grew in faith and relationship with God? But the Bible says Abraham worshipped idols until God called him, Joshua 24:2. This story contradicts the Bible and Tim does not explain that contradiction. 

32. Abraham Burns Down Temple of Idols. Answers in Jubilees Part 32

Jubilees 12:1-15. This story agrees with the Talmud.

33. Yah's Calendar: Part A. Answers in Jubilees 33

Jubilees 2:8-9; 6:36-38, 50:2

34.  What Year Is It? Yah's Calendar: Part B. Answers in Jubilees 34

Jubilees 50:4-5

35. Origin of the Feast of Tabernacles & New Testament Continuance. Answers in Jubilees Part 35

Jubilees 16:20-31; 32:18-23, 27-29; 7:1

36. When Does the Bible Day Begin? Brief Recap. Answers in Jubilees 36

Jubilees 6:36, 2:8-9  This is a pointless recap of videos 33 and 34.  Nothing new is offered here. This is a waste of a video which could have been used to explain more about the contents of Jubilees. Its existence shows us what Tim's major theological concern is. It is keeping the Sabbath and not the Person and work of Jesus Christ which occupies his thoughts.

37. The Mystery of Melchizedek. Answers in Jubilees 37

Jubilees 13:22-29. Tim likens Abraham going after Lot to the movie Taken even quoting the line about having a very specific set of skills. He actually says Liam Neeson is a wussy compared to Abraham. Very frivolous. In this video Tim claims Shem died before Abraham was born. That may be according to Jubilees' chronology but that differs from Genesis very significantly.   

38. Order of Melchizedek. The New Testament & Qumran Scrolls. Answers in Jubilees 38.

No verses of Jubilees are cited. 37 and 38 could easily have been one whole video but Tim chose to waste a spot in his series by breaking this discussion into two parts. Jubilees does not even mention Melchizedek which would be a good time to talk about how and why Jubilees and Genesis differ but he does not do this. Instead he dismisses RH Charles as being incompetent for mentioning the Talmud in his notes.

39.  The Mystery of Sodom Part 1. Answers in Jubilees 39

Jubilees 16:5-9; 36:10; 20: 4-6, 22:22

40. The Mystery of Sodom Part 2. Answers in Jubilees 40

There are no citations from Jubilees in this video.

41. The Mystery of Sodom Part 3. Answers in Jubilees 41

There are no citations from Jubilees in this video. The real mystery here is why dwell on this subject under the heading of Answers in Jubilees for three videos when only one video has anything to do with Jubilees?

42. Commandments of Abraham? Answers in Jubilees 42

Jubilees 20:1-10; 21:1-10; 22:16

This whole video can be refuted with Galatians 3:17-19 which explicitly states the Mosaic law came 430 years after Abraham and was added or given because of transgression. Tim does not even bring up those verses. In this video Tim says otherwise and he denies Abraham was made righteous by faith alone as is said in Genesis 15:6. 

43. Did Esau Have Red Hair? The Birthright Sold. Answers in Jubilees 43

Jubilees 24:1-8. Tim says the answer is no, he had red skin. But who cares? What Rabbi says Esau is a Jew because he has red hair? He gives no proof Why is this a whole episode? It could have been incorporated into a study of the entire chapter.

44. Was Jacob a Thief? A Deceiver? How Did Abraham Die? Answers in Jubilees 44

Jubilees 22:10-30; 23:1-2; 24:6-7; 26:5-12

45. Why Are Israel And Edom At War? Esau Is The End? Answers in Jubilees 45

Jubilees 37:1-25.  This is the only chapter Tim covers in its entirety in a single video. Chapter 8 is covered in its entirety over the course of multiple videos.

46. How Did Esau Die? Tracking Edom to the End. Answers in Jubilees 46

Jubilees 38:1-15. Adds to the text an army of nephilim giants. He claims the name Amalek refers to vampires which means nephilim. Esau married into a nephilim family and had nephilim descendants who became Europeans and colonized the world. The Edomites took over the temple in 165 BC. The Edomites are the current rulers of the world. 

47. The Bible Book of Jasher Is Jubilees! Modern Frauds Exposed! Answers in Jubilees 47

Jubilees 38:1-3; 34:1-9

48. The Real Yashar History Uncovered. Modern Jasher vs Jubilees. Answers in Jubilees 48

There are no verses from Jubilees cited in this video. 

49 A. The Jasher Hoax. First 25 Reasons Modern Jasher Is NOT Scripture! Answers In Jubilees 49A

49 B. The Jasher Hoax. 26-50 Reasons Modern Jasher Is NOT Scripture! Answers In Jubilees 49B

49 C. The Jasher Hoax. 51-75 Reasons Modern Jasher Is NOT Scripture! Answers In Jubilees 49C

49 D. The Jasher Hoax. 76-100 Reasons Modern Jasher Is NOT Scripture! Answers In Jubilees 49B

There are no verses of Jubilees cited in any of these videos which means it is more wasted space. Hearing Tim go through Jasher and tell us why the book is not scripture is laughable because the same arguments apply to Jubilees such as the wrong timeline and additional material not found in Genesis which contradicts the narrative like the Patriarchs keeping the Mosaic Law. 49 D actually has Tim denying the holocaust at 44:19 and apologizing for Hitler at 49:58. I would not be surprised if Youtube takes it down.

50. The Bones of Joseph Speak! Proof Moses Wrote Jubilees. Answers in Jubilees 50

Jubilees 46:1-9 This is a direct response to "scholars" who claim this chapter shows a contradiction. Tim never names these "scholars" or gives their allegedly wrong interpretation. 

51. Is Prince Mastema Satan? Who Was The Angel of Death In Egypt? Answers In Jubilees 51

Jubilees 10:8-9; 11:11; 18:16; 19:28; 48:9, 12, 15-17; 49:2

Tim claims the stories about Mastema offer clarity about why Pharaoh pursued the Israelites into the wilderness. The reality is God hardened Pharaoh's heart yet Tim does not mention that fact. He calls the story of God meeting Moses at an inn seeking to slay him because his sons were not circumcised stupid and ridiculous but deceitfully cites only the version told in Jasher while not disclosing that the same story is in Exodus 4:24-26. I have written a rebuttal of this video that can be read here.

52. End Times Prophecy of Moses In Jubilees. Answers In Jubilees 52

Jubilees 16:26; 21:24; 23:18-32

Let's break all that down. Of Jubilees' 50 chapters Tim did not touch 18 of them. That is 36 % of the book left unexamined.  But let's go even further. There are 1288 verses in the Book of Jubilees. 10 videos have no verses from Jubilees which is 8.9% of the series not discussing Jubilees. Timothy covers a total of 385 verses in the other videos some of which are repeats.  That means he only examined 29.8% of the book! And he has the gall to claim he has "thoroughly vetted" Jubilees? What a liar!


This is not the method of someone who is honestly wanting to take a look at the Book of Jubilees. What Timothy Jay Schwab should have done is start with chapter one and make his way to chapter 50. That would have allowed him to cover a chapter a week for a whole year. But instead of doing this he teaches the book in fragments, jumping around from chapter to chapter. Oftentimes he retreads old subject material such as Noah's division of the earth and when the Sabbath begins.

What this reveals is that Tim does not take this book seriously as real history. But it is necessary to his narrative concerning the Philippines that it is Ophir and the Garden of Eden and the Land of Creation. Without this book he cannot map the Garden of Eden as being in the Philippines. So what does he do?  He tiptoes around the book giving it legitimacy as scripture and history but he never wades in the deep and deals with the the entire text itself.  That is why his Answers in Jubilees series is fragmented and not a systematic teaching of the entire book.  He cannot deal with the book as a whole so he deals with it in parts and hopes his viewers do not notice that these 56 videos barely touch the surface of Jubilees. It's quantity (56 videos) over quality (teaching through the entire book).

What we have here is not a systematic teaching of the Book of Jubilees to get its message across. What we have here are the ravings of a totally deluded man who has fallen deep into heresy. The Dead Sea Scroll community would most certainly have condemned Timothy Jay Schwab. In this series we are not told that animals lost their ability to speak because of the fall, Tim skips Jubilees 3:28, but we are told that the spirits of all men were created on day one and that animals will be judged for their sins.

Judgment of the Watchers. Answers In Jubilees: Part 15

8:47 “And the judgment of all is ordained and written on the heavenly tablets in righteousness even the judgment of all who depart from the path which is ordained for them to walk in and if they walk not therein judgment is written down for every creature and for every kind.” Realize that includes land animals who have spirits according to Jubilees too. So yes they’re going to be animals in the kingdom of heaven. Hmm. Interest.

What nonsense that is and it comes straight from Tim's interpretation of Jubilees. As for all the spirits of every man being created on day one that comes from Jubilees 2:2. 

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

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

Now, it is a fact that Tim rails against the Pharisees and the Christians for rejecting Jubilees but in this instance the doctrine of the preexistence of souls survives amongst midrashic literature. Legends of the Jews by Louis Ginzberg has many stories from Jubilees. Compare Jubilees 2:2 with Legends of the Jews and the Midrash Tanumah.

Jubilees 2:2 For on the first day He created the heavens which are above and the earth and the waters and all the spirits which serve before him -the angels of the presence, and the angels of sanctification, and the angels [of the spirit of fire and the angels] of the spirit of the winds, and the angels of the spirit of the clouds, and of darkness, and of snow and of hail and of hoar frost, and the angels of the voices and of the thunder and of the lightning, and the angels of the spirits of cold and of heat, and of winter and of spring and of autumn and of summer and of all the spirits of his creatures which are in the heavens and on the earth, (He created) the abysses and the darkness, eventide <and night>, and the light, dawn and day, which He hath prepared in the knowledge of his heart.

Legends of the Jews: The care which God exercised in fashioning every detail of the body of man is as naught in comparison with His solicitude for the human soul. The soul of man was created on the first day, for it is the spirit of God moving upon the face of the waters. Thus, instead of being the last, man is really the first work of creation.

With the soul of Adam the souls of all the generations of men were created. They are stored up in a promptuary, in the seventh of the heavens, whence they are drawn as they are needed for human body after human body.

Many in the ancient world believed that all human souls were created before the material world, but the midrash Tanhumah tells us that all souls were made during the six days of Creation. Before the birth of each person, God calls forward the proper soul and has angels show that soul how earthly existence benefits spirit by allowing for spiritual development.

https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/body-soul/

Those are only two instances of the extra-biblical material in Jubilees surviving outside of Jubilees. So, it is most certainly untrue that this book and its contents were suppressed. The fact is Jubilees was composed as a midrash or commentary upon Genesis and it survives in part as a midrash upon Genesis to this day amongst the Jews because they incorporated large parts of it in their tradition. Tim is wholly unaware that many of the stories in Jubilees show up in Jewish Midrash. Texts such as Rabba Geneis and the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs contain stories found in Jubilees. So while the book of Jubilees itself was left in obscurity the traditions in it were not. It is to no avail and actually reveals his ignorance when Tim accuses Pharisees of suppressing the book of Jubilees when its traditions fill their writings. 

But I must stop here. To go on rebutting everything Tim has said in these 56 videos is beyond the scope of one article. Let's get to the real meat here. What Tim is ultimately saying in this series is that entire Chrisitian world has interpreted Genesis wrong because they have lacked Jubilees. In order to understand Genesis, nay the entire Bible both OT and NT, one needs Jubilees. It does not just fill in the gaps but adds necessary doctrine and an interpretive framework. The cover of his edition of Jubilees says this:

THE RECORD OF TERRITORIES, TIMES AND PEOPLES CRUCIAL TO FUNDAMENTAL BIBLICAL UNDERSTANDING 

If the Book of Jubilees is "crucial to fundamental biblical understanding" then why did God allow it to be hidden for two millennia? Is it not the Holy Spirit who guides the church into all truth and preserves the scriptures? If it is necessary to understanding the Bible then why did both Christians and Jews reject it? And make no mistake they did reject it.  Yet Tim continues to push the lie that Jubilees was in use as late as the 13th century and was even quoted by a Pope!

The Real Yashar History Uncovered. Modern Jasher vs. Jubilees. Answers In Jubilees 48
20:04 Now, you will find the Book of Jubilees in continued use throughout history.  It has been bible canon, uh, especially in Ethiopia all along at least 300 a.d, their first church basically, uh, to present. It's still there in their Bible canon and it is quoted by early church fathers even Popes, from 150 A.D. all the way through to at least  the 1300s even in the West who, yeah, lost it for a time but it wasn't lost. Ethiopia continued it as canon. Now, that's called historicity,
Quoted by early church fathers including Popes from 150 to the 1300s? What a lie! I have exploded that falsehood elsewhere in my article The God Culture: A Closer Look at Jubilees as Cited by The Church Fathers. Suffice to say Jubilees was condemned by Pope Gelasisus and considered by all to be apocryphal. It was never in use into the 1300s in the Western Church as scripture. It was never in use, period. Just because a few Greeks cite it in their chronologies does not prove it was in use.

It is simply an outrageous, unhistorical lie that Tim keeps promoting. But no surprise as Timothy Jay Schwab is not only a heretic he is also a bald-faced liar. The Ethiopian Church remains a non-Chalcedonian heretical Church and is not part of the Body of Christ. It is a mystery why Tim appeals to the Ethiopian canon when they actually have 80 books. Will he be adopting them as well? Will he believe in the Trinity as they do? In fact why does Tim care if the Church used Jubilees at all as he thinks the Church is actually the Synagogue of Satan who suppressed the book. 
Now that is already a problem as no Pope nor Christian leader can be compared with John the Baptist.  Thus changing his canon of scripture which this library would represent and which we now have full documentation in his time capsule preserved in the caves of Qumran is very problematic to any traditional line attempting to suppress books considered scripture by John and by the way Yahusha even visited and was baptized there which could be considered a a further endorsement in fact.  You cannot say that about the council of Nicea or any of the other councils. Yahusha was not there and believe me not in any sense whatsoever as they eliminated the book of Jubilees and others which was scripture inspired and canon. 
BOOK OF JUBILEES: Scripture? Inspired? What does the Bible Say? Enoch, Jasher, Dead Sea Scrolls at 38:22
Which is it!? Did the Church suppress the book or was it in continual use until the 1300's!?? Pick a scenario because it cannot be both.

The answers to the questions Tim asks ought to give him pause. Why aren't the stories unique to Jubilees recorded in Genesis or anywhere else for that matter? Jacob killing Esau and placing both the Edomites and Amorites under tribute would be highly significant events yet neither Stephen mentions them during his speech in Acts 7 nor does Josephus record them in his Antiquities of the Jews. Calling Josephus a liar as Tim does is not an answer as to why he omits the history contained in Jubilees. Yet that is the kind of ad hoc explanation to which Tim continually resorts. 

Look at the nature of these questions and answers. They all deal with occult, esoteric, scriptural arcana. I do not mean occult as in magic and evil but as in what it literally means, hidden. I am not the only one to notice this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5C_KfPuvio&lc=UgwAfoYdHZ489a1Pst94AaABAg
As with conventional exams, one cannot be tested outside of what is in the syllabus of instruction! Why seek the unknown and esoteric, when you stumble and struggle to keep up with that which is common knowledge? The canonized Christian scriptures is ( the 66 books, is the syllabus) from which we shall be 'tested'.
Does it matter what the first language was? Does it matter if Noah had a book of healing? Does it matter where the Garden of Eden is (Jubilees does not place it under the ocean floor as Tim claims)? Does it matter what are the names of the wives of the Patriarchs? The answer is no. If the answers to those questions had any bearing or weight they would have been answered in the Bible. They also have no Christological significance. As Tim says:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-XrwbSM-5U&lc=UgyQrMqqbs_lKecPZOZ4AaABAg.9Vvb1y6kpOP9VvdJXZNxdL
The Bible doesn't say because it is impertinent.
What we have here is not the Bible, not the Torah, but, like the Genesis Apocryphon, someone's commentary on Genesis attempting to fill in the gaps and answer questions left unanswered by the text. That is exactly how Tim frames and uses this book. He repeats ad nauseam that Jubilees "fills in the gaps."

It is nonsense to posit that no one can truly understand the Bible without Jubilees. The conceit of Jubilees flips the Biblical narrative on its head by telling us that the Patriarchs were practicing the Mosaic law before the Mosaic law was given. They kept all the feasts listed in Leviticus before the wandering in the desert. That is problematic on many levels.

For all the answers Tim does give he doesn't answer the tougher questions about the discrepancies between Jubilees and the Torah. For instance, in Exodus and Leviticus all the feasts are tied directly to the Exodus from Egypt while in Jubilees the Patriarchs are celebrating these feasts already. Why does Exodus never mention that Abraham, Noah, Adam, and everyone else kept those feasts? Or how about the priesthood of Levi? In Jubilees 32:9 Levi is exercising the office of the High Priest BEFORE the instructions of God regarding the Priesthood were given in Exodus. Tim offers no explanation of this situation. Then there is the issue of Jesus Christ. Genesis is full of types and symbols of Jesus Christ yet Tim does not find any such typology in Jubilees except for the sacrifice of Isaac. Tim teaches that Jesus and Isaac were both sacrificed on the same date which is the Passover. He also teaches that Jesus and Isaac were born on the same date which is Pentecost.

Tim does not get at the meat of the real typology between Isaac and Christ. They were both miracle children. Isaac gave birth to Israel (Jacob) and Christ gives birth to the true Israel (the Church). They were both Sons offered up by their Fathers. Instead of explaining the real typology between the two Tim latches onto dates. Very paltry dates. And these dates he can only guess at through his use of Jubilees which absolutely does not agree with Genesis in its chronology. No, Pentecost is not tied to the birth of Isaac. It is tied to the giving of the law in Exodus and the fulfillment of that feast is the giving of the Holy Spirit in Acts. Those two events mirror one another as they both represent the two covenants God has made with man. One through the law and the other without the law.

In the Bible all the feasts are related to the Exodus beginning with the Passover. Each feast celebrates one aspect of God's leading his people from the bondage of Egypt and into the Promised Land. Since Jesus Christ is our Passover sacrificed for us who leads us from the restless bondage of sin (Isaiah 57:20-21) to the freedom and Sabbath rest to be found in Him that makes each one of the feasts a type or symbol of Christ's work. 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.

The fact is Tim is not interested in reconciling the Biblical account of the giving of the law on Mt. Sinai with Jubilees. When asked to do so in the comment section he deleted the comment!

Deleted Comment from: The Original SINDAY. Answers In Jubilees Part 28

Zachary Hampton: Genuine question here:

1. around the 7-8 minute mark, you speak of Adam tilling the ground, I thought he didn't need to till until after the ground was cursed due to him sinning.

Secondly, what law do you speak of during Adam's time? I know God rested on the seventh day, but I'm not aware of law for Adam to follow. I though the law came later through Moses.

This question gets right to the heart of the matter concerning Jubilees. The law did come through Moses. Jubilees teaches otherwise. It's strange that Tim had no answer to this query except to delete it. Isn't the series Answers in Jubilees supposed to be about providing ANSWERS in Jubilees?

It is Jesus Christ who is the key to understanding the Bible. Not Jubilees. Remember, the message of Jubilees is that the law is God's supreme revelation to mankind, specifically to Israel. The law is written on the heavenly tablets, is kept in heaven, and will be kept for all eternity. There is no place in Jubilees for a Messiah like Jesus Christ who came to save us from the bondage of the law of Moses (see 2 Cor 3). Jesus Christ is NOWHERE to be found in its pages, not even in Jubilees 16:26 which says:
for He knew and perceived that from him would arise the plant of righteousness for the eternal generations, and from him a holy seed, so that it should become like Him who had made all things
Tim claims in his annotated Book of Jubilees that the concept of Messiah as creator is not found in the Old Testament. Even if that were true, it is not see Isaiah 9:6 where the Messiah is called the Mighty God, this verse is not about the Messiah. In his book Tim claims both the plant and the "holy seed" are Jesus Christ.

The “Plant of Righteousness for the eternal generations” can only be Messiah. It is also mentioned in 7:34. It is certainly not Israel but one man according to 1 Enoch (1 En. 10:16, 93:5, 10) which specifies it is Messiah. He is the “holy seed” and He is the one “who had made all things.”

Book of Jubilees, pg. 21
He reaffirms this in video 52:
8:10 Messiah is the eternal plant of righteousness and no one else. He is the holy seed. Israel never was. And he is the one who made all things 
Did Jesus Christ "become like Him who had made all things?" No! Jesus Christ became a man but he remained the creator from the beginning! So, not even this verse has anything to do with Jesus Christ unless you want to posit an Arian Christ who was a man who became God. This verse is about the nation of Israel and not the divine second person of the Trinity. It is Israel who is a righteous nation. Isaiah 61:3 calls God's people "trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord." It is Israel who is told to be holy because God is holy (see Lev. 19-20).

The term "plant of righteousness" is indeed also found in the extra-biblical book of 1 Enoch. The source for this term is the Branch of the Lord or the Branch of Righteousness or just The Branch which is found in Isaiah 11:1, Jeremiah 23:5, 33:13, and Zechariah 3:8, 6:12. We should not find it surprising that 1 Enoch and Jubilees or any of the other second temple literature "sounds" like the Bible since the authors used the Bible as their source material.

Let's talk about chronology. The chronology between Jubilees and the Masoretic text of Genesis DOES NOT ADD UP!

https://lmf12.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/chronology-of-jubilees.pdf

Of course neither does the Septuagint which is actually older than Jubilees and also poses problems for Tim. His unprovable ad hoc solution is that the Jews corrupted the text and it is Jubilees that contains the true calendar! That does not solve the problem of the Septuagint which predates Jubilees and thus represents an older tradition than both Jubilees and the Masoretic text. Tim is big on chronology and calendars and teaches what Jubilees teaches which is that there are 364 days in a year. That is laughable on its face and wrong on every level. There are 365 1/4 days in a year. The motion of the sun across the horizon proves this. Start using a 364 day calendar and after a while you will be way off. The issue of the strict solar calendar is another point where Jubilees goes wrong.

Another thing Tim gets wrong with his chronology is when he claims Shem died before Abraham was born. That is what Jubilees says but that does not agree with Genesis.  Here is part of a timeline of the Patriarchs which plainly shows us that Shem lived until the time of Jacob!

https://ia801902.us.archive.org/4/items/bible-bible-timeline-04/Bible%20-%20Bible%20Timeline%2004.jpg

This alternate chronology is another strike against Jubilees being scripture written by Moses. Why would Genesis and Jubilees have differing chronologies if they were written by the same person? They would not! As for Tim's claim that the chronology of Genesis was altered by the Jews, his proof is paltry. He discusses this alleged alteration of the text in video 25, Return of the Occult making a big deal out of Cainan being omitted from the genealogies in Genesis.  There are plenty of solutions to why Cainan is omitted from the Masoretic text but remains in Jubilees and the LXX that do not require an assertion of scribal malfeasance.  

By not duly considering the purpose of a genealogy we may mark a contradiction where none in fact exists. There is no record of unbelieving Jewish critics in the early ages of the church charging Luke’s genealogy of the Messiah with a fault because of a supposed contradiction with Old Testament genealogies, a fault which they would have been only too eager to find. The genealogical records were simply too well known for any such charge to stick.

Even if Cainan were shoved into the text it would still not rectify the massive chronological discrepancies between Jubilees and Genesis. One wonders what Tim makes of the discrepancies between the genealogies in Luke and Matthew. Is he going to call them frauds too? 

Let's not pretend that the issues here are so easy to reconcile. The fact is the Masoretic text and the Septuagint differ significantly. Why is that? Surely there are better answers than saying, along with Tim, that the Pharisees deliberately falsified the text. Why would they do that? Genesis is one of their holy books. Deliberately and radically altering it would be like cutting off one's arm. But then again Josephus, who was a Pharisee, tells us that he is using the Hebrew Bible and he comes up with a chronology the same as the Septuagint except he omits Cainan.

https://www.bible.ca/manuscripts/Josephus-Flavius-Chronology-Genesis5-Textual-variants-Bible-manuscripts-Old-Testament-Torah-Tanakh-creation-5467BC-age-earth-Daniel9-70-weeks-70AD.htm

Compounding the problem here is that Jerome's translation of the Hebrew,  the Latin Vulgate, which was written a mere 300 years after Josephus, has a chronology like that of the Masoretic text. When and why did the text change? There is no easy solution to this problem which has confounded many people. It must not be forgotten that the Septuagint represents an older tradition and was even found at Qumran. But so was Jubilees. Both books were used as scripture by the Qumran community despite the massive chronological contradictions. These are the kind of thorny problems Tim should have been discussing in his series but which he wouldn't touch with a 39-and-a-half-foot pole. He's too interested in whether or not Esau had red hair.

It's amusing that in Part 49 A Tim recommends a video titled "Were the Pyramids Built Before the Flood? (Masoretic Text vs. Original Hebrew)" which attempts to reconcile Bible chronology by claiming that the Septuagint is right and the Masoretic is wrong. There is simply no place for the chronology in Jubilees in any tradition. Jubilees stands alone and according to Tim, who believes everything must have two or three witnesses, that makes it wrong by default. Why would he recommend a video that so throughly trashes the Jubilees timeline? 

In reviewing this series it would be too much to point everything that is wrong and stupid. Believe me there is plenty of fodder for that kind of a critique. The thing is Tim did not even go through the whole book and he could have done that. He could have given his audience a guided tour of every chapter but he did not. He could have not limited himself to 52 weeks and gone through the book systematically from beginning to end but he did not. Tim does not treat Jubilees as a straightforward history book but as a book where we can glean hidden and esoteric knowledge about nephilim giants and elves and angelic animal experimentation. Tim uses the book as a corrective for the Church's alleged misinterpretation of Genesis. The introduction to his video appeals to restoring "lost ancient knowledge.


Who reads or teaches from a book jumping around from one place to the next covering only fragments? Not someone who sincerely wants his audience to understand the Book of Jubilees. It is such a hypocritical move coming from a man who condemns teaching from fragments. It is also a disservice to his viewers who get only fragments and weird tales instead of an understanding of the history taught in Jubilees and its relation to Genesis.
1:03 We wanted to show you just how much there is that is occult to this book because we are tired of seeing the comments that are completely illiterate from people who haven't really read the book. Maybe in fragments as they read the bible, many, and you just can't read anything that way and understand it. It won't happen.

Right here we see Tim admitting his method of going through Jubilees at random will not lead to understanding. I can only speculate why Tim skipped around Jubilees rather than going straight through it from chapter 1-50. He obviously has rather ingenious, albeit totally false and completely disingenuous, methods of interpreting the text so why not go full speed ahead and take a look at the whole book? There are some rather curious things within its pages. For instance who is Potiphar?  
Jubilees 34:11 they sold him to Potiphar, the eunuch of Pharaoh, the chief of the cooks, priest of the city of 'Elew.

Jubilees 39:2 and Potiphar, an eunuch of Pharaoh, the chief cook bought him.

Jubilees 40:10 and gave Joseph to wife the daughter of Potiphar, the daughter of the priest of Heliopolis, the chief cook.
Potiphar is a married eunuch whose daughter is given to Jospeh, Pharaoh's chief cook, and the priest of both 'Elew and Heliopolis. Why would a priest also be Pharaoh's chief cook? As a priest would he not be constantly busy with priestly duties? Being a eunuch means Potiphar is castrated. How is a eunuch married with a daughter? Does Potiphar being a eunuch explain why his wife pestered Jospeh to sleep with her? Why does the description of Potiphar in Jubilees not match those in the Septuagint and Masoretic text? 

How about the issue of the Joseph's brothers getting married AFTER he was sold to the Egyptians?
Jubilees 34:20: And after Joseph perished, the sons of Jacob took unto themselves wives....and the name of Judah's wife, Betasu'el, a Canaanite
Aside from the name of Judah's wife not being given in Genesis there is one major problem here and that is the issue of time. Unlike Genesis we are given an exact timeframe of 20 years for the story of Judah and Tamar. Jacob was seventeen when he was sold into slavery in Egypt. He was 30 when he stood before Pharaoh.
Genesis 41:46 And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt.
This means he was 37 when the first seven years of plenty were fulfilled. Jubilees makes it known that the whole saga of Judah and Tamar took place just as those seven years ended.
Jubilees 41: 21And after that she bare two sons, Perez and Zerah, in the seventh year of this second week. 

22 And thereupon the seven years of fruitfulness were accomplished, of which Joseph spake to Pharaoh.
Jubilees tells us Jospeh was sold into slavery in 2149. If Judah married in the same year and his sons were born in 2149, 2150, and 2151 that would make Er 16 at the oldest when he was given in marriage to Tamar in 2165. Onan would have been 15 or 16 when he was married to her. Shelah would have been 14 or 15 when Onan died and 19 in 2168 when he is said to have come of age. Judah did not sleep with Tamar until 2169 and she bare twins in 2170.

That would be twenty one years for Judah to have three sons, for all three of his sons to be grown to a marriageable age (Gen 38:14 and Jub 41:7), and for Tamar to conceive and bear twins. Is there really enough time for that to happen? Are we really to believe that Er was married off at 16 and Onan at 15, or perhaps 16, and that Tamar was supposed to wait for Shelah to come of age when, according to this timeline, he practically was of age when Onan died? Is 16 or 15 a marriageable age for a man according to the Bible? Numbers chapter one tells us that only men from 20 years and up were eligible to fight in the army so it is very doubtful 16 or 15 would be considered a marriageable age for a man.

Spinoza frames the question much better than I.
First, in the story of Judah and Tamar (Gen. xxxviii.) the historian thus begins: "And it came to pass at that time that Judah went down from his brethren." This time cannot refer to what immediately precedes, but must necessarily refer to something else, for from the time when Joseph was sold into Egypt to the time when the patriarch Jacob, with all his family, set out thither, cannot be reckoned as more than twenty-two years, for Joseph, when he was sold by his brethren, was seventeen years old, and when he was summoned by Pharaoh from prison was thirty; if to this we add the seven years of plenty and two of famine, the total amounts to twenty-two years. Now, in so short a period, no one can suppose that so many things happened as are described; that Judah had three children, one after the other, from one wife, whom he married at the beginning of the period; that the eldest of these, when he was old enough, married Tamar, and that after he died his next brother succeeded to her; that, after all this, Judah, without knowing it, had intercourse with his daughter-in-law, and that she bore him twins, and, finally, that the eldest of these twins became a father within the aforesaid period.
Further complicating the issue is that in Jubilees the list of those that went down in to Egypt omits the sons of Pharez. 
Jubilees 44:15 Judah and his sons; and these are the names of his sons: Shela, and Perez, and Zerah-four.

Masoretic Genesis 46:12 And the sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zarah: but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Pharez were Hezron and Hamul.
Septuagint Genesis 46:13 And the sons of Phares Esron, and Jemuel.
The sons of Pharez are listed in both the Septuagint and Masoretic text but not in Jubilees. Why is this? If Moses wrote both books why would he give different lists of names? In fact, there are actually a lot of discrepancies between Genesis 46 and Jubilees 44 and they do not make sense if each book has the same author. These are only a few of the many problems in Jubilees that need answering and which Tim completely ignores because he does not teach systematically through the book but instead jumps around from fragment to fragment. 

Perhaps the biggest "revelation" from this series is Tim's assertion that The Book of Jubilees is really the Book of Jasher, Jasher means upright which means Torah which means Jubilees is one of his proofs, and that Genesis actually cites Jubilees. But does it? Does Genesis cite Jubilees? Tim's proof for this claim is that Genesis 48:22 references a war which is recorded only in Jubilees.

The Bible Book of Jasher Is Jubilees! Modern Fraud Exposed! Answers In Jubilees 47
44:27 What are we going to see? We're going to see that Genesis affirms Jubilees as Torah, right here! Wow! Open your bible to Genesis 48:21 and 22. This is monumental, folks. Here it is. The proof many have been demanding about Jubilees. Here it is folks and this is firm and no one can disprove this. 

Jacob is about to quote a history that does not come from Genesis. It doesn't come from his story otherwise because Moses placed that story, that full account, in Jubilees and then references it here in Genesis. This proves the book of Jubilees as Torah. Quoted by Torah. Boom! Here we go. 

Let me interrupt here to take note that Timothy Jay Schwab often does the mic drop saying, "Boom!" whenever he thinks he has made an irrefutable point. It's childish and stupid and is not what any serious person would ever say when they are trying to get their opinions across. But then again Timothy is not very serious. A man who claims a map from 1492 references the city of Manila and depicts the Philippine archipelago is simply not serious. A man who claims the Book of Jubilees was in continual use in the West from 150 AD until the 1300's is not serious. A man who claims the earth is flat and that God is one member of a class of heavenly beings is not serious. A man who claims that the entire Christian world is in error and needs correcting from the Dead Sea Scrolls which were not discovered until 1947 is not serious. Tim is a crafty liar, however.

And Israel, Jacob, said unto Joseph, Behold I die but Elohim shall be with you and bring you again unto the land of your fathers. Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren. He loved Joseph the most there's no doubt about that and again he also set Ephraim, Joseph's actually younger son, it wasn't even his oldest because that's Manasseh, but he set Ephraim with the birthright because Reuben had lost it. Uh, we didn't actually get to that in this series. I don't think we're going to but there's a story in Jubilees that explains how Reuben lost his birthright sleeping with his father's concubine basically servant maidservant of sort. Um, okay, so here we go, here he goes. 

Which, so he's going to pay him one portion above thy brethren. Where does this money come from? The money comes from the battle of the Amorites who paid him tribute which means it happened, folks. It's real. It's truth and it affirms the book of Jubilees. Wow! Okay, which I took out of the hand  of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow. He's talking about the tribute that they paid to him. There you go again. Jacob's bow is also mentioned in Samuel as well and what's this, here we go, where does torah ever say Jacob defeated Amorites and received tribute? It's not in Genesis. It's not there yet this is Torah quoting Torah.Uh-oh that's because it's in the book of Jubilees which is Torah, proven right here in Genesis. Moses says Jacob quoting Jubilee's account here as Torah on Torah there you go.
In chapter 34 of the Book of Jubilees Jacob defeats the Amorites and places them under tribute. Tim claims Genesis 48:22 references that event. He also claims the Amorites Jacob defeated are probably Nephilim. But contrary to what Tim says there is NOTHING about payment or tribute in this verse. Where does he even get this notion of payment from? Certainly not from the Hebrew. 

https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/h7926/kjv/wlc/0-1/

Once again Tim is lying and making stuff up!

The portion being given is not money. In fact there are two other verses that EXPLAIN what is being given here. The first is from Genesis and second is from Joshua.
Genesis 33:18 And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padanaram; and pitched his tent before the city.


19 And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for an hundred pieces of money.

Genesis tells us that Jacob moved to Shechem and bought a parcel of land. Joshua tells us that Jospeh was buried in this same spot and that this same land became the portion of the children of Joseph.
Joshua 24:32 And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for an hundred pieces of silver: and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.
John 4:5 confirms these two verses.
Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
See how straightforward that is? Jacob bequeathed the land he bought in Shechem to Joseph. There is nothing about Jacob paying Ephraim or giving him tribute money from the Amorites. In fact, Jubilees 45:14 tells us that the portion given is LAND!
Jubilees 45:14 And Israel blessed his sons before he died and told them everything that would befall them in the land of Egypt; and he made known to them what would come upon them in the last days, and blessed them and gave to Joseph two portions in the land.
Boom!

It's amazing that Tim could get this so wrong when the explanation is so clear. Jospeh gave Jacob land not tribute money. The reason there are two portions given, one portion above thy brethren, is because Ephraim and Manasseh were each given separate portions and thus Jospeh was represented in Israel by two half-tribes.  But what about the bit about the bow and arrow? There are many explanations both Jewish and Christian given for it. I will only give Calvin's interpretation.
But it remains to inquire how he may be said to have obtained it by his sword, whereas the inhabitants had been wickedly and cruelly slain by Simon and Levi. How then could it be acquired by the right of conquest, from those against whom war had been unjustly brought; or rather, against whom, without any war, the most cruel perfidy had been practiced? Jerome resorts to allegory, saying that the field was obtained by money, which is called strength, or justice. Others suppose a prolepsis, as if Jacob was speaking of a future acquisition of the land: a meaning which, though I do not reject, seems yet somewhat forced. 
I rather incline to this interpretation: first, that he wished to testify that he had taken nothing by means of his two sons Simon and Levi; who, having raged like robbers, were not lawful conquerors, and had never obtained a single foot of land, after the perpetration of the slaughter. For, so far were they from gaining anything, that they compelled their father to fly; nor would escape have been possible, unless they had been delivered by miracle. When, however, Jacob strips them of their empty title, he transfers this right of victory to himself, as being divinely granted to him. For though he always held their wickedness in abhorrence, and will show his detestation of it in the next chapter Genesis 49:1; yet, because they had armed his whole household, they fought as under his auspices. Gladly would he have preserved the citizens of Shechem, a design which he was not able to accomplish; yet he appropriates to himself the land left empty and deserted by their destruction, because, for his sake, God had spared the murderers. 
Calvin says Jacob owned up to the slaughter his sons Levi and Simeon commenced at Shechem because they had armed his household and thus fought under his auspices. As with the solution to Arzareth in 2 Esdras, this solution "has the double merit of ingenuity and simplicity." There is no need to find a solution in a book that was rejected by the Church. Is this the correct interpretation? It could be. I don't know.

What I do know is that positing Jacob as a warlord who had conquered and imposed tribute on both the Amorites and the Edomites as Jubilees claims raises serious problems. The biggest one of all being Pharaoh would have heard of this warrior. Yet, he makes no mention of his conquests when they meet and Jacob passes himself and his family off as meek and lowly shepherds. Is the Pharaoh of Egypt so stupid that he would let this warlord into his country unaware of his true identity? It does not make any sense. Also even if Jubilees is correct and the Amorites and Edomites paid tribute to the Israelites until they went to Egypt, Jacob would have had no money to give to Ephraim because they had stopped paying tribute! No matter how you slice it Tim is wrong! It is he who is the illiterate blowhard, not me.

I expect there will be more videos about Jubilees because he has not covered the whole book but if so it will be the same ahistorical garbage. What else can we expect from this man who continually twists the sources he uses to prove his fake history and heretical theology? Let me mention with one thing here. Tim takes issue with my method of critiquing him and I want to address this.

52:24 Even if the usual idiots, especially dunderhead failure blogs, uh, that try to pick and pick, and pick, and pick at this point, that point. You know it's funny, you'll make a hundred points and well, they'll say, "Oh we disproved six that we don't agree with." Uh what about the other 94? Hello! Talk about ridiculous. I mean they can't even think in a logical rational sense nor do they want to because they're just here to agitate we know that.
Tim's whole system is like a set-up of dominoes. When one falls they all fall. So, when I have proven, as I did in the 100 Clues review and in the 2 Esdras Lost Tribes videos review, that several of his videos are fraught with fraudulent claims, and I mean massively fraudulent claims which collapse his narrative and not mere nitpicking, then we can bet the house that all his other videos will have the same type of lies. From fake Hebrew etymologies of Philippine place names to deliberate misreadings of ancient maps and directions, as I have dug deeper and deeper into Timothy Jay Schwab's insanity that has proven to be the case. It is one crafty lie after another. His Answers in Jubilees series is no different. It will be interesting to see what kind of lies, damned lies, and utter nonsense he has concocted for his annotated Book of Enoch and the subsequent video series.

Let's conclude with the words of Timothy Jay Schwab from video 52.
40:47 We have fully tested and vetted this book and our research qualifies us far above any stupid scholar to draw conclusions because we've actually read it and they haven't. Or they only read it as a scoffer. And they can't actually read what it says nor do they wish to. Uh, they've never bothered to conduct any research outside of their paradigm, which is a paradigm that remains stupid and makes them stupid. You would think they wouldn't want to look stupid but as Forrest Gump says stupid is as stupid does." Indeed the Book of Jubilees was written by Moses and it is Torah. It always has  been and it always will be inspired, scripture, Torah, even, and Bible canon as fact. Proven.  

42:37 We hope everyone has enjoyed the series and learned much from it. Know this: we covered a lot but there is still so much more in this book. We encourage everyone to read it for yourselves test everything including every one of our videos.  
The pride and hubris of Timothy Jay Schwab knows no bounds. Having listened to this series I can say unequivocally that Tim is simply not qualified to talk about this book. Nothing he says about it is true. It is not Torah, it was never Torah, and it contradicts the Bible at a fundamental level which is that the law was given on Sinai to Moses and Christ has done away with it by enacting a new covenant. Jubilees teaches the Patriarchs had the Mosaic law and kept it, including all the feasts. Not only that but it also includes a prophecy that the law will be restored in the last days.
29:26 Verse 26, "And in those days the children will begin to study the laws." WAH-HOO! Okay. Yes. Exactly. Now, this is what we've been getting to in our Answers in 2nd Esdras series which ends on the same note. That the law is the fire, the eternal fire, that consumes in the end. That's what it says. Wow. Uh, it says that the law will be restored in the end and actually so does Revelation. I mean you know this is all over prophecy throughout scripture and here it is  in Moses' is writing the book of Jubilees. Wow. Exactly. We are to return to his law folks.   
The law is not going to ever be restored. The scripture is very clear that the law is the ministration of death which is a schoolmaster to lead us to Jesus Christ. He has come and now the law is no more. We are not under its constraints. Tim is living in a fantasy world thinking that the law will be restored at some future point. This issue, the rejection of the grace that is in Christ and the exaltation of the law, is proof positive that Jubilees was written not by Moses but by a Jewish sectarian who wished to show his people the greatness of the law as opposed to the Hellenistic culture of his day. The Book of Jubilees is not scripture and its message is a lie.
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