The God Culture: The First Book of Enoch: The Oldest Book In History Review, Part 1: Introduction

Timothy Jay Schwab of the God Culture has finally published one of his most anticipated books, The First Book of Enoch. Published on March 1, 2022 this book is one that Tim has been promising his audience for the past year. The comment section is full of viewers asking for such a commentary. Let's take a look at this book. 

The First Book of Enoch: The Oldest Book In History

Just like his previous edition of Jubilees this book is not an original translation but an amended translation from R. H. Charles. That means Tim has defaced the text by inserting Yahuah every time God or Lord appears. In this review I shall not consider the annotated text of Enoch itself but only Tim's introduction. As I have shown in past reviews of Tim's books and videos he is extremely ignorant, ill-informed, and uneducated about these texts. He attributes things to them that are simply not true such as 2 Esdras being found among the scrolls at Qumran and Jubilees being in use in the Church until the 14th century. 

Foreward

In this section Tim lays bare his methodology in assessing this work. Enoch was written by Enoch because Jubilees says so and Jubilees is scripture. Jubilees was also written by Moses thus Moses gives witness to Enoch. Of course Jubilees does not agree with two books Moses did write, Genesis and Exodus, by adding all kinds of superfluous material which proves Moses did not write Jubilees. But I have written about that elsewhere showing how Tim's analysis of Jubilees is shallow and dishonest.

Pages 11-12 are a long harangue against scholars. 

 How inept a scholar would have to be to think in such a ridiculous manner of scoffing.   

p. 11

Once again the scholars who have spent their entire careers studying the Dead Sea Scrolls and the community are:

...not honest men seeking the truth, they are liars not Bible scholars. 

p. 12

It's a wonder how Tim can say they are not Bible scholars when the Bible is the book they study. One may not like their conclusions but no matter how one slices it even a man like Bart Ehrman is a Bible scholar. Tim goes on to claim that Enoch's intended audience is we who are living in the last days.

Enoch composed this masterwork before the Flood to an audience he says is the End Times remnant. That is us today. He wrote this so in the Last Days especially, we would have this knowledge restored in the midst of a strong delusion in which we were warned and it has been in place for centuries. We are bombarded with a culture who hates Yahuah and will march against Yahusha in the end including many in the church. They will unite for that singular purpose, not in Him, and this has been growing for thousands of years. This is why we are called the Remnant and there are not over one billion believers on the Earth today but very few in number proportionately as predicted by Messiah and the Prophets including Enoch. The way of Yahuah is foreign to this world including scholarship and the church. They generally do not know the Elohim of the Bible, His Son nor His Word. This book will expose this many times. 

p. 12

Finally Tim says he will be creating maps from the ancient perspective of Enoch.

In this major work, we will not ignore Enoch's very obvious cosmology of the Earth including in most maps used, but we will embrace the ancient perspective in the shape of the Earth. Those who reject that will never understand this ancient text nor the Bible.

p. 14

That means the flat earth perspective. Thus Timothy Jay Schwab's rendering of Enoch's journey around the world looks like this:

p. 134-135

The Introduction begins on page 15 with a reprint of Tim's "Who lived in Qumran" section which also appears in Jubilees and 2 Esdras. There is no need to go over any of that. I have shown elsewhere how wrong Tim is about the Qumran community. What concerns us next is the "Torah Test" which begins on page 35.

This test is the same one Tim applied to Jubilees and 2 Esdras. There are four criteria which must be met.

1. Prophetic Authorship

Tim's argument for the author of Enoch being Enoch is the same as his argument for the Mosaic authorship of Jubilees. Namely, the text says so therefore it is true.

The First Book of Enoch ascribes its authorship to the Prophet Enoch, the seventh from Adam many times, even written in the first person, and documented before and up to the Flood. This is affirmed by Noah in his writing in which we have fragments from the Dead Sea Scrolls, by Moses in the Book of Jubilees and by Jude which we will cover. 

We will cover the Book of Jubilees written by Moses as well as Jude both ascribe Enoch as the author of this First Book of Enoch. They not only identify him as author but quote it. We can find this throughout history in a historicity that is indisputable. 

 p. 36

In between those passages there is long harangue against R.H. Charles and James Vanderkamp (it's actually spelled Vanderkam) for suggesting there might be multiple authors. Tim launches into an emotional argument saying they are defaming the Temple Priests who kept the true canon at Qumran. What he does not do is give an argument that Enoch was written before the flood by Enoch. He simply states it as a fact based on the authority of Enoch, Moses, Noah, and Jude. This depends on his paradigm that Jubilees is scripture and I do not grant him that. He has not shown Jubilees to be scripture at all though he thinks he has. In fact he has actually lied about its usage in the early church. The issue of Jude is a different matter. He then says he will discuss this later. Why not do it now in this section? This brief section is totally worthless.

2. Witness of the Spirit: The Historical Process, Quoted as Doctrine in Scripture

This is a really long section broken in to several smaller sections. Here Tim will show that Enoch has been in use since before the flood.

Before the Flood

This section relies on Jubilees being scripture. Jubilees says Enoch wrote before the flood and that it was by reading his parables that Noah learned of the coming flood approximately 200 years before it came.

However, Noah first learned of the Flood from reading Enoch’s book according to Noah.

The 500th year of Enoch would be about 1022 A.M. and that is very appropriate as Noah, almost 300 years old at that time, would have learned about the coming Flood that year not long after Adam died in 930 A.M. as a new era had begun. This is before Noah’s 3 sons are born from 1207-1212 A.M. in time to prepare and by that point, Noah is fully aware of the task at hand. Their ages would also fit the time in which they would be able to assist in building the ark. He builds the ark by 1307 A.M. and the Flood began 1308 A.M.

Just by reading 8 chapters later, Noah affirms he learned of the coming Flood in the First Book of Enoch specifically from the Book of Parables and later that day Michael spoke to him as well.

p. 38-39

Tim's proof that Enoch was in use before the flood is because the Book of Enoch says so! That is fallacious circular reasoning. The story of Noah in Enoch does not line up with the story in Genesis at all. In Genesis 6 we are told that God informed Noah of the coming flood when he was more than 500 years old. 

Not until verses 13 and 14 does God speak to Noah about the Ark and coming Flood. Then in verses 17 and 18, God said, “and you shall go into the ark—you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you” (Genesis 6:18). Notice that Noah had sons who already had wives. Noah didn’t have his first son of record until he was 500 years old, and the Flood came 100 years later (Genesis 7:6). Allowing 25–30 years for the sons to grow up and get married, we’re left with perhaps 70 years to build the Ark. 

https://arkencounter.com/blog/2011/11/18/how-long-for-noah-to-build-the-ark/

In Genesis God tells Noah to build an ark but in Enoch God tells Noah angels are building the ark.

Enoch 67:2-3 And now the angels are making a wooden (building), and when they have completed that task I will place My hand upon it and preserve it, and there shall come forth from it the seed of life, and a change shall set in so that the earth will not remain without inhabitant.

Tim's commentary on this passage contradicts its plain words.

Noah had the assistance of the angels. Perhaps they built the frame but we know Noah and his sons built the ark as well.

p. 170

Does Tim actually believe what Enoch even says? 

After the Flood; Time of Abraham

These two sections rely on the testimony of Jubilees.

Time of Moses

In this section Tim claims Deuteronomy 33:2 is a quotation of Enoch 1:3-4. However, Deuteronomy is talking about the giving of the law while Enoch is declaring the judgment of God on the earth. The passages are different and do not even remotely concern the same subject.

He then compares Genesis 6:1-2 with Enoch 6:1-2.

Genesis 6:1-2 

And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, That the sons of God saw: the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.

1 Enoch 6:1-2

And it came to pass when the children of men had multiplied that in those days were born unto them beautiful and comely daughters, And the angels, the children of the heaven, saw and lusted after them, and said to one another: ‘Come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men and beget us children.’

This passages are indeed very similar. It is likely that whoever wrote Enoch was quoting from Genesis. Tim has it all backwards. He certainly has not offered any proof that Enoch wrote Enoch.

Time of Moses' Jubilees

This section shows all the times the author of Jubilees cites Enoch. Because Tim claims Jubilees was written by Moses this shows that Enoch is both scripture and was written by Enoch. Again it is more circular reasoning requiring a belief that Jubilees is scripture. It is not scripture and contradicts both the Old and New Testaments therefore Jubilees is not a reliable witness.

Prophet Isaiah

Here Tim claims Isaiah 66:1 is quoting Enoch 84:2 when he writes, "The heaven is my throne and the earth is my footstool." But given the late date of Enoch it is most certainly the other way around. The author of Enoch was citing Isaiah. Again Tim has not offered any real proof that Enoch the seventh from Adam wrote his titular book. 

The next sections include:

Prophets Daniel and Ezekiel

Prophet Ezra's Book of 2nd Esdras

Dead Sea Scrolls

These sections all serve to prove that these prophets and the Dead Sea community cited Enoch as scripture. For the Dead Sea scrolls that is a no-brainer. As for 2nd Esdras that is likely since that book was written after the fall of Jerusalem and Enoch had not yet been lost. As for Daniel and Ezekiel it could be that the author of Enoch cited from them. 

Tim next relates a story about a supposedly lost complete Aramaic translation of 1 Enoch. Allegedly it was sold to a collector but a microfilm exists somewhere. Tim claims if this is true it is nefarious and proof that the book is being willingly suppressed.

We are told in the Qumran Scrolls only fragments of the First Book of Enoch were found. In fact, the only surviving complete copy was found in Ethiopia. Any scholar who has an issue with Yahuah preserving this text in the Ge’ez language is not following the Bible which never says Yahuah will preserve specifically in the original Hebrew language. That is just not there nor do they apply that in modern Canon texts necessarily so it is inconsistent and not a true measure. They make it up adding to the Word and apply it as a litmus test to discount obvious scripture because they do not wish to accept it. They ignore an awful lot and it sets a paradigm of stupid.

However, in the case of the First Book of Enoch, what appears a complete manuscript in Aramaic is reported to have been found in Qumran by the Chief Editor even. It was sold off to a private collector in secret with no information available to the public. Some even attempt to deny this yet this was the Chief Editor not some busy body spreading rumors. If true, this appears nefarious. Former Chief Editor of the Dead Sea Scrolls, John Strugnell, granted two interviews to Biblical Archaeology Review where he claimed he witnessed a complete copy of the Book of Enoch from Cave 11. In a follow up interview, he also claimed he saw it on microfilm as well. This has not been made available to the public. Why?

If in fact, this book was recorded on microfilm, that is wonderful except where is it? Why is this not public? If a private collector has it, who is that and more so, where is the information? This is not some antique or rare book, it is scripture and if true, how dare anyone allow that to be stolen away from the public eye. The good news is we have enough which survives to understand the First Book of Enoch in the Ethiopic Ge’ez supported by the other, though incomplete, Qumran scrolls we have. Whether one dates these fragments to 300-150 B.C. is of no consequence as they are copies and such dating is not actually based on science and ignores the scribal tradition no scholar would apply in discussing Genesis thus a false paradigm.

p. 50-51

What does it matter if there is an Aramaic text of Enoch hiding away in a collector's cabinet when Tim says the book was preserved in Ge'ez? Does he think there might be some important textual variations that would shine light on the Ethiopic? If so he is acting like one of those Bible scholars he so continually maligns. Well, it turns out he does think that an Aramaic copy found at the in the caves of Qumran would show proof that the parables of Enoch, that would be chapters 37-71, are genuine.

The Supposed "Missing Section" of First Enoch

Those chapters were not found at Qumran and are also absent from the Greek translation. That means they were added at a later date. Tim says that kind of thinking is that of an "intellectual toddler." His solution is that the Book of Parables was known at Qumran because they are referenced in Jubilees and 2 Esdras and both of those books were found at Qumran.

The supposed missing Second Section titled the Parables of Enoch are comprised of Chapters 37-71. They are not missing in the first century B.C. as the Parables of Enoch from the Second Section are quoted and preserved in date by 2nd Esdras 6 times even. 2nd Esdras is also quoted in the Dead Sea Scrolls in about 100 B.C. thus the connection is not difficult to assess. These are not scholars but scoffers bellowing ridicule in ignorance. In 2nd Esdras 6:49-32, the Prophet Ezra takes First Enoch 60:7-9 and expands on it even. That is a Parable in First Enoch from the supposed missing section about Leviathan and Behemoth being quoted in 100 B.C, or so at the very latest. Also, 2nd Esdras 7:32-33 cites | Enoch 51:1 and 3, 2 Esdras 7:37 quotes 1 Enoch 62:1 and 60:6, and 2nd Esdras 7:36 derives from 1 Enoch 48:9-10 and 27:3 even according to R.H. Charles/introduction) in 1912. There has never been a point to this criticism yet many believe they should ignore these 40 plus Chapters of scripture documented in use in the first century B.C. because illiterate scoffers are only capable of textual criticism or scoffing without follow through in research. This is called gross negligence and any scholar who has maintained this position is no scholar and hates Yahusha.

Finally, when the Book of Jubilees 7:38 also affirms Noah reading from the First Book of Enoch affirming these two fragments; 7:39 affirms Noah keeping the Law of Enoch from this same writing; 10:17 confirms Enoch’s office of Prophet and Scribe including Enoch’s written testimony of the ages all the way to the Day of Judgment; and 21:10-11 documents where even Abraham read the First Book of Enoch as did his fathers which would include Noah and Enoch who tell us that included the Book of Parables precisely even, then, there is no point here. There is no missing section from First Enoch period.

p. 52-53

2 Esdras does not date before 70 AD and was never found at Qumran. That Tim continues to insist that it was reveals how adamant he remains in his ignorance. His proof from Jubilees is likewise inadequate. Yes, Jubilees says Noah read from the writings of Enoch but Jubilees does not cite from the Parable section. That is a very long section of 34 chapters. For instance Jubilees makes no reference to Noah learning of the flood 200 years before the event from reading Enoch. Nor does Jubilees tells us that angels built the ark as Enoch 67:2-3 says. Why would that be if Jubilees is supposed to be a witness to 1 Enoch? 

Before moving on the most controversial section of these parables is 56:5.

And in those days the angels shall return And hurl themselves to the east upon the Parthians and Medes:

It is the mention of the Parthians and Medes by name that has caused many to date this section much later than the rest of Enoch. Incidentally Tim has no notes on this verse in his commentary.

pg. 156

Tim's analysis of the dating of the Book of Parables is shallow and it seems he has not grasped what the issues are.

The New Testament

Everything in these next three sections concerns the testimony of the Church and because Timothy considers the Church to be the Synagogue of Satan it should really be trashed. Why does he care about the testimony of the Synagogue of Satan? He cannot even appeal to the New Testament because the Church chose which books and which texts of those books to accept. With his criteria for what makes scripture, that a book must have been found at Qumran because those schismatics kept the true canon, Timothy Jay Schwab has no epistemic right to the New Testament. 

This is a very lengthy section where Tim shows every place in the New Testament where Enoch was quoted. It is rather common knowledge that Jude cites Enoch by name. He is the only New Testament author to do so. That is not to say that other authors do not cite Enoch but it is to say they never refer to him directly by name.

This is a direct quote from the written First Book of Enoch. The notion that Jude was a sucker who fell for a fraud created 200 years earlier is stupidity not to mention Messiah and the rest of the Apostles who quote First Enoch. He is quoting the ancient scroll of Enoch from the first chapter of Enoch even pretty closely and credits it as such. Jude knew the Temple Priests at Qumran/Bethabara did not manufacture scripture under false pretenses and he uses this passage and others as scripture. Why do we allow inept modern scholars to accuse Jude of being a fool and the true Levite Temple Priests as being frauds? They were not, Pharisees are. This is not a quote from any other book but the First Book of Enoch period and certainly not the opposite.

p. 55

He then goes through a host of scriptures, citing only the English translations, to show us that the New Testament is imbued with the thought of 1 Enoch. Sadly, his puerile invective against scholars and any thing he finds disagreeable ruins what is otherwise a very interesting section of his introduction.

Quoted by "Early Church Fathers"

This entire list is obviously taken from R.H. Charles' footnotes and has not been translated or made intelligible in any way.

p. 68

If Tim cared about his readers at all he would have cited the author and the work and not just leave it looking like that. Take a look at Irenaeus. What work is being cited and which passages are being referred to? I know it's Against Heresies but which books and sections? There is no way Tim has read any of these Early Church Fathers. It would be interesting to actually take a look at a few of these references but Tim simply posts this list and moves on. After this list he writes these two odd paragraphs.

When one reviews the objections of so-called “early church fathers” of the false church, it is no surprise they did not like First Enoch especially when the tide turned to change the Bible and they went along. These were a cursed lot as you do not change what the true Temple Priests already kept as Bible Canon. They do not like Yahuah and did not actually serve Him which is obvious in their church foundation. Certainly, one can read of Origen’s (200 A.D.) or Augustine’s (400 A.D.) hatred of the book. They did not prefer the truth but the lies of their false church who demonstrated a preference for occult roots instead which they would replace. Enoch exposes them. A false church who abandoned the practice of the Apostles and persecuted the true ekklesias in Turkey is the wrong measure to assess what is inspired scripture. They are not even an inspired church nor entire system. They are the men (Jude 1:4) warned crept in unawares before launching into several quotes from the First Book of Enoch.

Thus, it is useless to then follow this false church to see what it did or did not change in scripture. The point is they dared to change it and never had authority. They are illegitimate and their changes void. Even with that said, they still continued to use First Enoch until at least 380 A.D. with latter references still proving they knew the Temple practice of keeping Enoch as scripture which they abandon not Messiah nor any Apostle. They are caught and exposed as they are guilty of continuing the Pharisee Bible over the Temple Priests further proving they are not the ekklesia of Messiah. They don’t know Him, especially not His ways and they do not represent Him thus they do not get an opinion.

p. 69-70

First of all Augustine did not hate the Book of Enoch. He thought it was a genuine production of the Biblical patriarch.

We cannot deny that Enoch, the seventh from Adam, left some divine writings, for this is asserted by the Apostle Jude in his canonical epistle. But it is not without reason that these writings have no place in that canon of Scripture which was preserved in the temple of the Hebrew people by the diligence of successive priests; for their antiquity brought them under suspicion, and it was impossible to ascertain whether these were his genuine writings, and they were not brought forward as genuine by the persons who were found to have carefully preserved the canonical books by a successive transmission.

https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/120115.htm

Second of all, why bother to cite the Early Church as a witness if it is useless because they are a false and illegitimate church? Tim's method really makes no sense.

Simply because a book was cited in the Old or New Testament does not make it scripture. If that is the measure of canonicity then what shall we do with all the other books NOT cited at all but which form the canon?

The third is that citations in the New Testament cannot serve as a definitive yardstick for canonicity, since it contains none from certain books whose canonicity was disputed even among the Jews (Ecclesiastes and the Song of Songs), two from the book of Wisdom (2, 13 in Matthew 27, 43 and 7, 26 in Hebrews 1, 3), and an explicit citation from the indisputably apocryphal Book of Enoch. (Jude, 14-15)

https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2017/01/the-apocrypha-and-liturgy.html

Ethiopian Orthodox Tewhado Church

In this section Tim says the Ethiopian eunuch Philip converted in Acts 8 brought back the traditions of the New Testament church. This includes the use of 1 Enoch as scripture.

Remember, in Acts 8:25-40, essentially the Treasurer of the nation of Ethiopia met Philip. He was already reading Isaiah without understanding it. Philip explained to this man the story of Messiah and the man accepted Yahusha that day. He would return to his country knowing the traditions at least in part of the ekklesia of Messiah. It is there we find the continuation of the First Book of Enoch as Bible Canon.

Somehow, and no one truly documents how, the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahdo Church included the First Book of Enoch and The Book of Jubilees in it’s Bible Canon around 300 A.D. until today. One must wonder if the true origin of this decision might really be that Treasurer that day who learned some from Philip and likely many others before leaving to return to his country with a message in which he would have amassed a following. 

p. 70-71

How would the Ethiopian eunuch know any of the traditions of the church when his meeting with Philip was a one-off while he was on his way home? Let's not forget that the Ethiopian Church was founded in the 4th century.

Though no written history truly appears to identify this firmly, we believe they continued that tradition especially regarding First Enoch and Jubilees directly from the Apostles and exiled Temple Priests not from any other church and certainly not from Pharisees who practice differently. Around 300 A.D., the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahdo Church was established and chose to continue these two books as Bible Canon which does not match any other Bible Canons really except that of the Apostles and Temple Priests in regards to these two books. We are not addressing their entire Canon. We know this because we find the Apostles quoting Jubilees and Enoch as inspired scripture many times. This continues in their Bible to this day.

p. 71

Let's also not forget that the Ethiopian Church considers tradition to also be the Word of God.

The Holy Scriptures are one of the two great foundations of the faith and here is what our church holds and teaches concerning it. The word of God is not contained in the Bible alone, it is to be found in tradition as well. The Sacred Scriptures are the written word of God who is the author of the Old and New Testaments containing nothing but perfect truth in faith and morals. But God’s word is not contained only in them, there is an unwritten word of God also, which we call apostolic tradition. We receive the one and other with equal veneration.

http://www.ethiopianorthodox.org/english/canonical/books.html

This and a host of other doctrines such as the Trinity puts the Ethiopian church firmly in the Synagogue of Satan according to Tim. So, why does he even bother with their witness? He is not consistent at all.

3. Acceptance

This, of course, means that the Church has accepted the book. But has the Church accepted 1 Enoch as scripture? The answer is an unequivocal no. Contrary to what Tim claimed above Origen did not "hate" the book of Enoch. But he is a witness that the book was not accepted in the Church as divine.

...for he does not appear to have read the passages in question, nor to have been aware that the books which bear the name Enoch do not at all circulate in the Churches as divine...

https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/04165.htm

This is the premier Bible textual scholar before Jerome and a man who's teachings influenced many telling us that Enoch was not considered scripture in the Church in his day. That is a very important testimony which should not be discounted.

While Enoch is an important book for understanding 2nd Temple Judaism as well the apocalyptic tradition in much of the early Church the fact is the Church rejected it. Why? According to Tim the answer, which he never proves and is not provable, is that the book was willingly suppressed by those in power because they wished to conceal the truths it contains. 

The fact is we must listen to what Jesus says:

John 16:13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.

We cannot deny that the Church has been led all this time by the guiding of the Holy Spirit. This includes deciding the contents of the canon. Paul tells us the Church is the pillar and ground of the truth. If we deny that then we have no foundation to believe anything. We are then left all alone as atomistic individuals who must determine what is and what is not truth. But God has given us the Church, His body here on earth. God speaks and acts through her alone.

Tim's insistence that we need Enoch to properly understand the Bible and the times we live in is completely faithless and atheistic. Such a stance is to reject that God has preserved his word through the Church for the past 2,000 years.

4. In Agreement with the whole of Scripture

Enoch is a fantastical book. There are a lot of weird things happening in there. From Angels teaching men how to build civilization to mountains which are ever burning with fire or made of gemstones to Enoch being taken into heaven and seeing the literal edge of the earth. Yes, thats right. Enoch teaches a flat earth.

As demonstrated in Part 2 of this Torah Test, the First Book of Enoch agrees with the whole tone and tenor of the Old and New Testaments serving as the foundational basis in several parts we have identified. In this publishing, we will address the recent movement of those who believe in a Flat Earth as Enoch most certainly did write from such perspective but anyone saying the rest of scripture is not, is clueless and cannot read. We have seen several such dunderhead responses claiming that a circle is sphere or ball when very clearly Bible writers knew the difference and when they use circle they mean a 2-dimensional shape not a ball. Those scholars are simply not honest.

p. 72

There you have it. Timothy Jay Schwab is a flat-earther 100%. Here is another of the many flat earth maps to be found in this book.

p. 128

The Philippines is northeast of the Indian Ocean! 

For Tim agreement with the whole of scripture means that Enoch agrees in tone and tenor with the Old and New Testaments. Don't let something like Noah being told about the flood 200 years before Genesis has it or the angels building the ark put you off. That's just small potatoes to Tim. "Even the Gospels have minor details to iron out," he says.

That is the whole of the introduction. It's pretty bad. There are a lot of bad arguments and straight up lies in what Tim has to say about Enoch. That Enoch says Enoch wrote the book is no proof he did. Likewise his appeals to Jubilees fall short because Jubilees is not an ancient book. It's substantial disagreement with Genesis in many places including the timeline is proof positive that Moses is not its author thus it is not a reliable witness. 

Tim's appeal to the early church despite him saying a few paragraphs later that their testimony does not matter should cancel out any appeals to the Church. Likewise his appeal to the New Testament for the canonicity of Enoch is also wrongheaded because it is the Church which compiled those books. Tim has no New Testament. His only canon, as he admits, is what is found at Qumran and he has no sound epistemic basis for that claim either. 

What was discovered in and around Qumran cannot be affirmed to be a complete library of what was actually stored there, for the residents made no list of what they stored, and we do not know if one day another cave will be discovered with many more ancient manuscripts. Therefore, a certain amount of caution is necessary before making strong statements about the contents of the Qumran library. And because of this uncertainty, it is wise to soften conclusions about what was not found there.

Lee Martin McDonald, The Biblical Canon, pg. 131

The next part of this review will take a look at Tim's apparatus for Enoch. There are colorful maps and charts aplenty as well as many notes. Since this is a blog about the Philippines I will especially examine the references to this nation in Tim's book. Believe it or not the Philippines plays a huge role in 1 Enoch.

The God Culture: The God Culture Bible

It's official. Timothy Jay Schwab will be publishing The God Culture Bible. What does this mean exactly? What will an official God Culture Bible look like? Thankfully Tim has left us some clues.

Who Changed the Calendar in Israel? And When? RESOLVED Doctrines of Men Exposed

Golden Ladle: Off topic but are you able to list the apocryphal texts that aren't based in scripture? I want to make note of them so I don't waste my time reading. Thank you.

The God Culture: The word is fraud as no such category ever existed in the Temple Library. We are testing them thoroughly and releasing them 1 at a time. We will produce a list once we have vetted them all properly. However, anything not found physically in part or in use in Qumran is highly suspect and likely never Bible Canon. In the end, we will compile all of these into 1 book and then, we will release the modern Canon with corrections to the best of our ability. Scholars have proven they do not care about preserving the word or they would have put the name of YHWH back the 6,800+ times they replaced His name with generic titles instead in illiterate ignorance. Fixing their satanic mess is quite a large task but in time, Yahuah will restore all. They will face the consequences for their acts of cowardice or downright satanic, beast function. Yah Bless.

Note that Tim did not answer this man's question. In fact, it seems he misunderstood it. What the man wanted to know is which books of the Bible are not actually books of the Bible which he should avoid. For Tim this would include Esther and Maccabees at least.

This misunderstanding is a boon for us because we now know where Timothy Jay Schwab of The God Culture is headed. He is going to produce his own Bible. According to this statement, as well as many other statements made throughout his videos, the real Bible Canon is to be found at Qumran. Anything that was not there is "highly suspect and likely never Bible Canon."

Does he not realize that with that standard the New Testament will have to go? No New Testament text was found at Qumran. The leaves us with only the Old Testament plus many other books like Jubilees and The Community Rule and The War Scroll.

That the bulk of this Bible will be the Old Testament sounds pretty cut and dry but it is not. The Old Testament fragments found at Qumran differ from the Masoretic text. 

The discovery of ancient manuscripts in the eleven caves of Khirbet Qumran in the Wilderness of Judah has provided the first full light on the ancient Hebrew text of the Bible in the era before the fixing of text and canon. There is no sign of a canon at Qumran, nor any tendency that can be perceived of the influence of the Rabbinic Recension, or of a drift toward it. Among the Dead Sea Scrolls are many manuscripts that we can label proto-rabbinic in text. But there are also manuscripts related to the Vorlage of the OG Bible, and pentateuchal manuscripts of the Palestinian textual family that gave rise to the Samaritan recension of the Pentateuch. The biblical manuscripts of Qumran exhibit variants of a type that differ toto caelo from the character of the variants found in medieval manuscripts. In the case of a number of biblical books, alternative editions or recensions (as opposed to textual families) were circulating in the several Jewish communities into the Roman period. The most stunning examples are the short text of Jeremiah (related to that used by the OG translator), and the long text of Jeremiah, ancestral to that chosen by the rabbis in their Recension. Manuscripts of proto-Samaritan type show extensive, indeed, in the case of 4QNum (4Q27), systematic editorial expansion. In the case of Daniel, the rabbis chose a short edition, and the OG translators used a longer text edition. This list of long and short editions can be extended. The plurality of text-types and editions at Qumran can be explained in part by remembering that the Zionist revival, beginning in Maccabaean times and extended by Parthian expulsions, brought a flood of Jews from Babylon, Syria, and Egypt back to Jerusalem. Indeed, the bizarre plurality of texts and editions at Qumran is a good illustration of the conditions that produced a crisis and required resolution, namely, the Rabbinic Recension of the early first century C.E.

The Qumran Scrolls force us to grapple in a wholly new way with problems of the canonical text. It is obvious that there was never an “original text” at any one moment of time. Biblical books, those with authors or editors, were revised, rewritten, expanded, truncated. These changes, moreover, took place before the later books were written or edited. Grammar, lexicon, and orthography were brought up to date. So what are we to do in the two areas of textual criticism and establishing anew a plausible doctrine of canon?

The Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls, vol. 1, p. 72-73

This means that the community at Qumran was using a Hebrew text which resembles the Septuagint more than the Masoretic text.

https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-topics/bible-versions-and-translations/the-original-bible-and-the-dead-sea-scrolls/

Some of the Dead Sea Scrolls actually have more in common with the Greek Septuagint than the traditional Hebrew Masoretic Text. This suggests that the Greek translators must have been translating from Hebrew texts that resembled the Dead Sea Scrolls. Are the Dead Sea Scroll texts as trustworthy as these other two sources? Are they as close to the text of the original Bible?

This difference is very crucial especially as it comes to the timeline. Tim is very big on the calendar. Figuring out what the true calendar is is very important to him. According to Timothy Jay Schwab the calendar has been so warped that he does not even know what day or month it is.

Who Changed the Calendar in Israel? And When? RESOLVED Doctrines of Men Exposed

𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄: What day, month and year is it today?

The God Culture: Frankly, they have done a royal cluster whammy on the modern calendar. Every day is wrong, every Sabbath, every month, and every year is wrong on the supposed Hebrew Calendar as well as the Roman one we use. We are working on reconciliation but every time we opened a portion, it leads to more and more questions. It was quite intentional and the powers behind modern Judaism or Pharisaism by definition in the Jewish Encyclopedia, as well as the Roman Catholic Church, have worked very hard to screw it up. This will be restored in our age. Yah Bless.

Despite saying all that Tim does believe he knows what the correct year is and even claims to know the year Jesus will return, 2127. He bases that on the chronology found in The Book of Jubilees. This book, which was found at Qumran and was held in high esteem by the community, divides all of time into a series of Jubilees or 49 years. There is a huge problem with that which is the chronology in Jubilees does not agree with either the Septuagint or Masoretic texts of Genesis. You cannot have Genesis and Jubilees in the same book calling them scripture when they are diametrically opposed to one another. 

Because of these differences Tim would also have to decide which text of the Bible he would use. The Septuagint or the Masoretic. We have the Masoretic text in full but all the Hebrew texts found at Qumran are fragments. That the Dead Sea Scrolls are all fragments is another big hurdle Tim would have to leap. Geza Vermes' translation of the scrolls looks like this:

You see all the brackets, parentheses, and ellipses? Those are places where the text is missing or supplied by the translator. The fact is if any of the books particular to the Qumran community such as the War Scroll were to be deemed by Timothy Jay Schwab to be scripture and fit for inclusion in The God Culture Bible then they would be full of holes because portions are missing.

Which translation would The God Culture Bible use? The KJV? Brenton's Septuagint? A synthesis of the two? Will it be a completely new translation based on the Hebrew and Aramic texts found at Qumran? Of course not because while every book in the Bible except Esther was found in the caves they are all in fragments and are completely unaccessible to Tim. Sure you can view a few copies on the internet which have been scanned for all to see but the vast bulk of scrolls are hidden away from the general public. They are 2,000 years old after all and need serious care to remain intact. As for the scrolls unique to Qumran he would have to publish his own translation since current translations are all copyrighted. Again, he cannot do this because he does not have access to them. But even if he did he any translation would be fragmentary and would require him to make educated guesses in many places and would not be the actual text used by the separatist Qumran community.

What exactly will Tim be testing and vetting since he has no access to the Dead Sea Scrolls except for what has been published for popular reading such as the edition by Geza Vermes? It's odd that Tim cites only Vermes when there are other translations out there such as the one by Florentino Garcia Martinez. That he only cites one translation is a red flag that Tim is not actually doing any real research on the matter. He claims that he reads scholarly literature from time to time but that seems very doubtful because he never cites any of that literature which he claims to have indisputably rebutted.

Exodus is in the Bible so it can be safely assumed that it will be included in The God Culture Bible. But will it include Exodus 4:24 which Tim says does not fit and which contradicts Jubilees?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V54mWhuiH0w&lc=UgwvjOotDuuoqhsMJSB4AaABAg

mbeatg : Hello, can you address Exodus 4:24. I heard you address Jasher. Based on Jubilees, would you consider this more “ Leaven”

The God Culture : It does not fit indeed. Yah Bless.

Surely Tim will "restore" Cainian to Genesis 10:24 which is missing in the Masoretic text but remains in the Septuagint. Tim has a whole video about this missing word and how it proves the Pharisees intentionally corrupted the text. If he did so that would mean giving credence to the Septuagint so he might as well publish that translation which agrees with the Hebrew texts found at Qumran. But on what basis would he do that? It could not be based on any of the fragments of Genesis found at Qumran and to which he has no access. 

Any modern bible worth its salt has several maps in the back. They show the Exodus, the travels of Paul and the travels of Jesus, as well as the Northern and Southern Kingdoms of Israel and Judah. Will The God Culture Bible have a map of the Philippines showing that the Garden of Eden is underneath the floor of the Sulu Sea? 

Where is the Garden of Eden? Answers In Jubilees: Part 8

Will The God Culture Bible have maps showing the great ocean trench system which Tim claims are the rivers from Eden?

Timothy Jay Schwab's Rivers From Eden map

Surely The God Culture Bible will contain a map of Noah's division of the earth with its references to Fairbanks, Alaska and Bengali slang.

The cold hard fact is that Timothy Jay Schwab could never publish a Bible based on the Dead Sea Scrolls which is 100% faithful to those texts because they are fragmented and he has no access to them. If he sticks to his guiding principle that the Qumran community kept the true canon of scripture then he could absolutely not include the New Testament. The New Testament was compiled and collected by the Church. The canon of the New Testament was decided, not by authoritarian Popes as Tim claims, but through constant usage in the liturgy. Subsequently that canon was confirmed at the Council of Carthage in 397.

If Tim did include the New Testament that would be a huge blow to his stated principle that the community at Qumran kept the true canon. He would have to give a reason for the canonicity of the New Testament and he would not be able to appeal to the Church which he considers to be the Synagogue of Satan. The fact is that neither Timothy Jay Schwab nor anyone else can give a coherent reason that the New Testament is scripture without appealing to the witness of the Church. 

In short this whole business of The God Culture Bible is a nonsensical waste of time. It is also more confirmation that The God Culture is a cult and Timothy Jay Schwab is a cult leader. Every heretical sect and cult has its own scriptures. Once The God Culture Bible is published that will set a mark upon Timothy Jay Schwab and his group. They will be no different than the Mormons or the Jehovah's Witnesses or the Urantians who each have their own Bibles.

The God Culture: Dine with the Ancestors Havilah Rites of the Lakanate of Tondo

While tracing a few leads trying to find the origin of the resurgence of the Philippines is Ophir doctrine in modern times I ran across something quite odd that goes by the name of the "Dine with the Ancestors Havilah Rites of the Lakanate of Tondo." On May 12th, 2019 Timothy Jay Schwab of The God Culture took part in these rites.

The "Dine with the Ancestors Havilah Rites of the Lakanate of Tondo". As suggested by Pastor Paul Medrano, this special rite is a variation of the classic Dine with the Ancestors Ritual but this is done when the participants talks about the Lakanate of Tondo; and the Hebrew, Ophir, and the Lakanate of Lawan connections of the ancient Philippine civilization. This rite happened on May 12: the Dine with the Ancestors Havilah Rites started with the arrival welcome through a ringing of a bell in the House of Dulay Mendoza of the Lakanate of Tondo in Marikina Valley. 

Then the guests talked freely while partaking grapes kept in the ancient plates that came from the Lakan Dula household and red wine on top of an antique table, and beside an antique lamp and the bayonet of Ceferino Dulay, the 4th hereditary leader of the Dulay Clan of Marikina Valley when he was a guerilla leader during WW ll and the guests also played with friendly poodles surnamed by the Philippine Canine Club as Dulay. Then they proceeded to the House of Kapitan Moy, the founder of Marikina shoe industry, Marikina being the Shoe Capital of the Philippines, then walked across the Miraculous Shrine of Our Lady of the Abandoned, one of the ten prettiest churches in Metro Manila and host of the third longest Holy Week procession in the Philippines. Then, the guests proceeded to the secret cemetery of the church to visit the tomb of the Hebrew - blooded Juana Mendoza Cerbito and Ceferino Rivas Dulay, a descendant of Lakan Dula. Then the guests went to the Shoe Museum, an old Spanish Jail where Macario Sakay of Tondo was jailed and presently keeps the famous shoes of Imelda Marcos of Samar Leyte, and, finally back to the House of the Dulay Mendoza for a Marikina dinner of local dishes of waknatoy, everlasting, locally grown fruits, as well as prunes and nuts from the middle eastern countries -- to have the taste of Havilah. Timothy, the author of the famous Solomon's Gold, the God Culture in the You Tube announced a change of his name into Pedro. This rite is only done for Top Leaders of an organization. 

Some of the talks during the visit was that Manila Mayor Isko Moreno is from Allen, a part of Northern Samar, which according to Australian studies, a part of the Philippines which is the homeland of the Polynesians. Otley Bayer said that there are already people in the Philippines 250,000 years ago and this was confirmed by a French study which says that the Philippines has been populated by men as early as 700,000 years ago. Some old Filipino historians still have the mindset of "Filipinos are savage and it has to be discovered and cultured by anything foreign". These local historians refuse to mention that there is a civilization of Viking – like people based in the Lakanate of Lawan in Northern Samar (Samar was derived from Samaria). The Samar civilization was once headed by Datu Iberein as written by historian Henry Scott, and take note of the name -- very Jewish -- and consistent with Jewish Samar from Samaria. These people have siday (native epic) in which one of them is Bingi of Lawan, as mentioned by historian Alcina. They have the Almuraya which is an ancient ruin and they have royal burial jars -- all evidences would point that this civilization could be the biblical Ophir, the homeland of the Polynesians and Viking – like people who sent people to Tondo and different parts of the Philippines. and islands in the Pacific Ocean, including the people of Taiwan.  

https://sites.google.com/site/truelakandula/clanhouse?overridemobile=true

In May of 2019 in between stops on his RISE UP evangelical conference tour Timothy Jay Schwab and his wife participated in the secret "Dine with the Ancestors Havilah Rites of the Lakanate of Tondo."  This consists in partaking of grapes and red wine served on top of an antique table and surrounded by artifacts from the ancestors consisting of an antique lamp and WW 2 era bayonet.  It looked like this:

https://www.facebook.com/batangdula/photos/pcb.2993671647324537/2993670120658023/?type=3&theater

I don't want to be a party pooper but who participates in secret rites in front of the television? And who, when they are invited to an auspicious and secret ritualistic dinner with the ancestors, dresses like a schlub?

https://www.facebook.com/batangdula/photos/pcb.2993671647324537/2993670307324671/?type=3&theater

Did Timothy leave all his pants, polo t-shirts, and shoes back in the states? 

Is this just a regular dinner with some important or rich people? No. It's not. The Lakanate of Tondo is one of the Royal Houses of the Philippines. Sofronio Dulay, also know as Toti, is the Grand Patriarch of the Lakan Dula Clan as well as the Grand Patriarch of the Principalia Hereditary Council of the Philippines.

https://sites.google.com/site/truelakandula/royal-houses

Sofronio Dulay's CV can be read here.  It is rather extensive but when reading it things become clear real quick. He has been involved in print media and at one time worked for the Family Planning Council of the Philippines which is a subsidiary of the International Planned Parenthood Foundation. He even organized an IPPF conference in 1994. According to his biography he was a member of the Knights of Columbus and is currently a member of Opus Dei both Roman Catholic organizations. What kind of Roman Catholic works for Planed Parenthood? His biography and CV coupled with the fact that he is part of a noble house screams globalist and in fact he recently made a video advocating for world government.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRlBhFRMe9A

In this video Sofronio Dulay reads from the Globalist Manifesto and gives his thoughts on the matter. This manifesto can be found on his own website here. Added to the globalist manifesto are the Illuminati Prime Directives. The author of this page says they are not part of the original manifesto but are meant to smear the Jews. Then why add them? Because those directives are the plan for global government. They are the goals many have been working towards for over a century now. Namely population reduction. sterilization, vegetarianism, and the elimination of nationalism. In the above video Sofronio Dulay says something quite odd at 15:23.  He says: 

World government's objective is to save the world, save humanity. Don't ask who is behind me, who is orchestrating me. They are irrelevant!

Obviously someone is behind him orchestrating the show and he knows it. He doesn't want you to know it. "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!" It's a deeper rabbit hole down which to plunge involving his Alma Mater the Asian Institute of Management which was started by the Harvard business school and the Ford Foundation, one of the most unapologetically globalist foundations there is. The AIM is a school whose aim is to train globalists.

Back to the dinner ritual. After partaking of the grapes and the wine and visiting the dead Timothy was reborn.

Timothy, the author of the famous Solomon's Gold, the God Culture in the You Tube announced a change of his name into Pedro. This rite is only done for Top Leaders of an organization. 

Tim ritualistically ate grapes and drank wine on an old table surrounded by the ancestors. Then Tim, as "a Top Leader of an organization," was born again receiving the new name of Pedro. 

Think of the symbology of this secret rite. The symbology of transformation. The grapes are transformed into wine. The symbol of death and rebirth. Wine as the blood of the grape. Wine as blood of the ancestors. Drinking said blood while being surrounded by symbols of the dead ancestors.  The antique lamp with its light representing their wisdom. Both the antique plates and the bayonet being fetish objects which the spirits of the ancestors inhabit. Afterwards they go visit a secret cemetery where the dead ancestors lie buried and pay them homage. One of them even had Hebrew blood coursing through his veins while he lived. Then they go visit a museum where Imelda Marcos's shoes are on display. What about the symbol of the shoes? Figuratively the Marcos' walked all over Filipinos when they were in power. Those shoes represent the power of the ruling elite of which Sofronio Dulay is a part even though he does not want you to know that.

Their unassuming secretive patriarch of the modern times does not rule, he reigns privately with circle of personal advisers, the personal leadership style he inherited from the earlier traditional leaders of the descendancy,  a reaction from the centuries of Spanish persecutions. He might even deny his hereditary and historical role and designation; or he might point to somebody else when talking to a non descendant. Descendants who are close to the patriarch will  not point directly to him as their patriarch but if needed, they will only indirectly identify him as the one who has been very active in coordinating the present Lakanate of Tondo.

https://sites.google.com/site/truelakandula/clanhouse

As the scripture says:  

Psalm 60:8 Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe: Philistia, triumph thou because of me.

Meaning Edom shall become a slavish subject just as Filipinos were slavishly subjected to the yoke of the Marcoses. The shoe is a symbol of ruling power.

After all these rituals are completed Tim is then born again taking on the new and secret name of Pedro. Why Pedro? Pedro is Spanish for Peter. The Apostle Peter was the Apostle to the circumcision or Israel.  Now Tim (Pedro) has relocated to the Philippines where he will be holding evangelistic conferences preaching to Filipinos whom he believes are part of the lost tribes of Israel.

Why is Tim (Pedro) in this house of a noble family patriarch, the house of a king as it were, partaking in occult rituals which culminate in the initiatory rite of his being born again with a new name? Such a connection would explain a lot about who Tim is, what he is doing in the Philippines, and who is backing him. Not just any foreigner comes to the Philippines and starts hobnobbing with the royal elite. It appears that it might be Pastor Paul Medrano who brought Tim to the attention of Sofrontio Dulay but I cannot say for sure. I can find no information online about him or what church he allegedly pastors.

Think of the hypocrisy here as well.  Tim (Pedro) says we have to worship on the Sabbath (Saturday) and keep the Feasts of the Lord because all else (Sunday, Easter, Christmas) are pagan. Yet this man has participated in an occult symbolic blood ritual wherein he was born again and given a new name. A ritual that is not so very different from the initiation rites of the Skull and Bones or the Freemasons.

In the recent video "What's Going On?" Tim (Pedro) reflects on the nationwide, indeed worldwide, quarantine and lockdown positing that God is forcing the whole world to take a sabbath. 

https://youtu.be/jKZVJqs7iS8

He starts off by saying at 0:58

As I look out over the Philippine landscape I see its majestic mountains of Eden and it causes me to pause and reflect on their importance. On the significance of this land of creation.

How is Tim (Pedro) able to see the mountains of Eden when there is a Cherubim with a flaming sword keeping out all comers? (Gen 3:24)  How did Tim get past that fearsome guardian and into Eden?

Next he says at 1:58

And all of a sudden a familiar sound from a neighboring house. What do Filipinos do when they are home? Well, karaoke of course.  I'm kidding. It's usually special occasions and some after consuming much alcohol but this one they didn't need alcohol for they began singing at 7 am.  Now before one thinks this is a bad thing remember the prophesy of Isaiah the Philippines will sing a new song.

This is exactly what I meant when I wrote that for Tim "Filipinos as they are cease to exist and instead become the idealized fantasies he wishes for them to be." In this case instead of being unbelievably rude by singing karaoke at 7 am it is only a reminder that one day these members of the lost tribes of Israel will be singing a new song to the Lord. What does he think when he opens his window in the morning and breathes in the smoke of a burning trash or leaf pile?

Perhaps instead of seeing and smelling a noxious pile of burning leaves he is reminded of this verse from Revelation:

And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand. 

https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Revelation-8-4/

The latter part of this video consists of Tim (Pedro) lying to his audience by telling them that Constantine changed the Sabbath day to Sunday.

https://youtu.be/jKZVJqs7iS8

It is obvious he did not read the book he is quoting from as he calls the author, Philip Schaff, a Catholic. Schaff was actually a Protestant and he wrote one of the best Church Histories out there. He would do well to read it. If only Tim (Pedro) had read the preceding paragraphs he would have been disabused of the false notion that Constantine changed the Christian day of worship from Saturday to Sunday.

The observance of Sunday originated in the time of the apostles, and ever since forms the basis of public worship, with its ennobling, sanctifying, and cheering influences, in all Christian lands. 

The Christian Sabbath is, on the one hand, the continuation and the regeneration of the Jewish Sabbath, based upon God’s resting from the creation and upon the fourth commandment of the decalogue, which, as to its substance, is not of merely national application, like the ceremonial and civil law, but of universal import and perpetual validity for mankind. It is, on the other hand, a new creation of the gospel, a memorial of the resurrection of Christ and of the work of redemption completed and divinely sealed thereby. It rests, we may say, upon the threefold basis of the original creation, the Jewish legislation, and the Christian redemption, and is rooted in the physical, the moral, and the religious wants of our nature. It has a legal and an evangelical aspect. Like the law in general, the institution of the Christian Sabbath is a wholesome restraint upon the people, and a schoolmaster to lead them to Christ. But it is also strictly evangelical: it was originally made for the benefit of man, like the family, with which it goes back beyond the fall to the paradise of innocence, as the second institution of God on earth; it was "a delight" to the pious of the old dispensation (Isa. lviii. 13), and now, under the new, it is fraught with the glorious memories and blessings of Christ’s resurrection and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. The Christian Sabbath is the ancient Sabbath baptized with fire and the Holy Ghost, regenerated, spiritualized, and glorified. It is the connecting link of creation and redemption, of paradise lost, and paradise regained, and a pledge and preparation for the saints’ everlasting rest in heaven.

https://www.ccel.org/s/schaff/history/3_ch07.htm

He does not have to agree with the reasons that the Church has worshipped on Sunday since the time of the Apostles but he has no right to lie about the matter. Why does Tim (Pedro) continue to lie about this subject of the sabbath?  He goes on in the video to say the cross is not a Christian symbol but originates with Mithras. Cleary the man is in a sect of his own making as he advocates positions held by both the Seventh Day Adventists who are Sabbatarians and the Jehovah's Witnesses who call the cross pagan. He also has his own bizarre ideas about the "clock of creation" which he pontificates on in the first part of the video. 

I will tell you why he focuses on the sabbath so much.  It is because his whole scheme of religion (relationship he says) consists in faith in Christ plus keeping the law.

https://youtu.be/P1bOSmv711k

In the video "Lost Tribes Series: Part 4A: Grafted Into the Kingdom" Tim (Pedro) lays out on the table for all to see what he thinks salvation consists of. The gist of it is that a man must believe in Christ and keep the law. The law has not passed away says Tim (Pedro) therefore we are bound to keep the Mosaic law. He does not mention this but the Mosaic law includes commandments about sacrifices, festivals, shaving, dietary laws, menstruation and many other things of which the Apostle Peter says:

Acts 15:10: Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Acts-15-10/

The Mosaic law does not consist of just the ten commandments as a code for personal holiness. Rather it consists of hundreds of laws designed to erect a religious and civic polity for the nation of Israel.  It is a national code of law involving all circumstances of life. The Mosaic law with all its promises and curses (Deuteronomy 28) is the substance of the covenant God made with the nation of Israel. Apart from living in a society that is structured on this code, apart from being in the covenant nation of Israel there is no keeping of the law.

Tim (Pedro) is an absolute fool to think he or anyone can keep the Mosaic law. The law demands perfect obedience and neither Tim (Pedro) nor anyone else will ever manifest that obedience. Without engaging in a protracted theological discourse let me point out that in this video Tim (Pedro) spews forth his extreme ignorance of the scriptures and the plan of salvation it contains.

He is ignorant of the new covenant which differs from that made at Sinai.  Jeremiah 31: 31-34.

He is ignorant that this new covenant is made through the shed blood of Jesus Christ. Matthew 26:28.

He is ignorant of the fact that Jesus Christ is not a priest after the order of the Levites but after Melchisidec and that as a consequence of the priesthood changing the law has been changed.  Hebrews 7:11-12.

He is ignorant of that fact that Paul equates the covenant at Mt. Sinai with Hagar, who represents the flesh, and bondage.  Galatians 4:22-29. 

He is ignorant of the fact that the law is a schoolmaster who leads us to Christ. Galatians 3:24

He is ignorant of the fact that righteousness does not come through the law nor is their a synergy between the law and faith but all our righteousness comes from Christ or else he died in vain. Galatians 2:21.

He is ignorant that Jesus Christ himself abrogates the Mosaic law in the Sermon on the Mount when he says several times, "You have heard it said...But I say unto you." For example Jesus contradicts Moses by forbidding divorce except in the case of adultery and by forbidding the divorced parties to remarry. That is to say Jesus forbids divorce and remarriage which is stricter than even Moses!  (Matthew 5:32 and Matthew 19:3-9) Anyone who has divorced their spouse except for adultery or married a divorced person is in a state of lawlessness and no amount of law keeping can rectify that situation.

He is completely ignorant of the power and sovereignty of God saying at the beginning of this video that God did not cause 9/11 while in the video "What is Going On?" he refuses to say God has brought about COVID-19. The God he worships is completely caught unawares by these events whereas the Bible is very clear that God brings about all things and does whatsoever he will upon the earth.  

Amos 3:6 “Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?” 

https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Amos-3-6/

Isaiah 45:7 “I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.” 

https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Isaiah-45-7/

Daniel 4:35 “And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?” 

https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Daniel-4-35/

In short Tim (Pedro) is ignorant of church history, ignorant of the purpose for which Jesus Christ died and rose again, ignorant of the plan of salvation, ignorant of man's spiritual state (Jeremiah 17:9) because he thinks man is able to keep the law, ignorant of the new covenant, ignorant of the necessity of having a circumcised heart, ignorant of the need to be born again and filled with the Holy Spirit, ignorant of basic Christianity which teaches that the law is fulfilled in and by Christ, ignorant that the Gospel saves while the law condemns. As John says:

John 1:17 "For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.” 

https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/John-1-17/

But then again Tim (Pedro) might not be ignorant of these things at all. Rather he might be willingly teaching these false doctrines as he says he was once a part of the church and now he rejects what the church teaches! He is out to change paradigms and "Challenge Tradition." If that is the case then he is nothing but an obstinate heretic.

Where do we even go from here?

Now that we know Tim (Pedro) has participated in an initiatory occult ritual with the Roman Catholic Patriarch of one of the royal houses of the Philippines it is time to ask who is this man? Why is he hanging out with the royal elite who promote globalism? Who is funding him and his evangelistic conferences? Who brought him here to preach his false doctrine? Who are the members of his alleged research team? How far down does the rabbit hole go with The God Culture and Timothy (Pedro) Jay Schwab?