The God Culture: The Book of Jubilees

To understand the teaching and doctrine of The God Culture one must be familiar with The Book of Jubilees. All the teachings distinctive to Timothy Jay Schwab and his group come directly from that book. Be it the teachings about the sabbath day and the feasts or that the Philippines is the Garden of Eden all their principal doctrines are derived from The Book of Jubilees.

Tim defends The Book of Jubilees as being part of the original canon of scripture which was allegedly suppressed by the Catholic church to hide the truth about the sabbath. He claims that he has thoroughly tested the Book of Jubilees and found it to be in line with the teachings of what we accept as scripture (the 66 Books of the Bible.) Is that true? Did Tim really put it to the test?  Was the Book of Jubilees ever a part of Hebrew or Christian scripture which was suppressed by authorities to cover up truth?  

In this post I will look at three of The God Culture's videos which discuss this issue.  The first two are foundational and give us a good sense of Timothy Jay Schwab's mindset regarding the Dead Sea Scrolls and extra-canonical books. The last one deals directly with the Book of Jubilees. Following a cursory analysis of these videos will be a survey of the Book of Jubilees itself. 

The three videos I will look at all come from The God Culture's Original Canon series. While there are six videos in the series it is only the first three which pertain to the subject of the canon.  First up is "Bible of John the Baptist Found! The Dead Sea Scrolls. Proof It Was John Not Essenes In Qumran."

https://youtu.be/h2jG0v-gAwM

2:46 - Oldest copies of the Bible either in part or in whole that we had were from the 9th century AD forward. Wen you hear someone say the original Hebrew or Greek or even Aramaic including us they are actually referring to one of these texts from 900 AD, the Masoretic text typically. Because there are none that we knew of before that until 1947.  That was 70 years ago.  So today we have incorporated these into bible translations and have learned much from them right? Well not really. Unfortunately that has not happened even remotely to the degree that it should.  Why?

4:08 - Dead sea scrolls are they inspired? Are they canon?  Well, yes.

4:47 - The Book of Jubilees a book with THOUSANDS OF YEARS OF HISTORY and use before Yahusha Jesus and even by the early Church Fathers after.  And with that book we have actually found The Garden of Eden and the land of creation.  It's right there.  Directions from Noah. Is that really evil?

Those "directions from Noah" to the Garden of Eden are in chapter 8 of the Book of Jubilees. Suffice it to say Tim is wrong. The Book of Jubilees does not have a history of usage for thousands of years. It was written in the 2nd century BC and not by Moses. It is interesting to note that Tim believes the Dead Sea Scrolls are canon and should be incorporated into the Christian Bible. He is very adamant that the Dead Sea Scrolls constitute John the Baptist's library and that the issue of our day is restoring God's Word which includes the Scrolls.

65:54 - There are those who would marginalize them because the Catholic Church chose to delete them from John the Baptist's Bible. Yes that's what they really did.  They censored a portion of John the Baptist's Bible.  If we prove this out completely, and we will, it will take a few videos but we will, then we will prove this is the case. Because that is what an ancient scroll library is.  It is the Old Testament, there were no New Testament scrolls found, there were also no gnostic gospels found that is a lie if you have heard that. So the Old Testament, the oldest canon of scripture of the Old Testament scripture, was indeed compiled byy John the Baptist. Not  just arbitrary writings of pagan Essenses. This is the issue of our day.  Restoring Yahuah God's Word and understanding exactly what THE God Culture really is.

One thing Tim says quite a few times is that the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls is the voice of one crying in the wilderness once more.  That is to say John is crying out once more. Tim does not tell us which books among the Dead Sea Scrolls point specifically to Jesus as the Messiah which is what John cried out. It's strange that if John wrote books and kept a library that he would be silent about Jesus Christ. Tim admits no New Testament books were found at Qumran.

The second video is "Who Lived In Qumran? Essenes? NO! Where Did They Live? Proof."

https://youtu.be/maDSzIEkBUM

This whole video is an attempt to prove that the Essenes did not live at Qumran. Tim repeatedly bashes scholars calling them frauds and accusing them of being willingly ignorant for ignoring what is right under their noses. All the scholars who have devoted their lives to their fields of study are wrong and amateur armchair archaeologist Timothy Jay Schwab is correct. The Essenes had nothing to do with the Dead Sea Scrolls and lived no where near Qumran according to expert historian Timothy Schwab.

23:44  "the scholar who wrote the Wikipedia article"

32:34  The Wikipedia article is jumping to a conclusion that it is on the northwest side of the Dead Sea and then marrying that to Qumran that is very misleading and blatantly false. 

38:40 "The scholar who wrote this Wikipedia article says..."

Does Tim really believe that scholars write the articles on Wikipedia? Well they don't. ANYONE can edit a Wikipedia article. That is one reason why it's not 100% reliable and why Tim should not be using it as a primary source as he does in practically all of his videos. Does he know he can delete that allegedly erroneous passage and add a correction? Funny that he accuses the article of "jumping to a conclusion" when he does this with abandon throughout his videos.

49:50 This is a time capsule of the Old Testament canon of scripture from the most reliable source, John the Baptist. If our current canon does not match his then we should be asking if any books not found in his are inspired or canon. And we should be considering how to include books like Jubilees and Enoch which were among the most found scrolls in all of the Dead Sea Scroll library. 

53:05 Even if it is determined that some of the writings may not be scripture it does not mean they are not useful which is what really matters. That's the right question.

The issue for Tim is not canonicity per se but usefulness, i.e. whether or not the Scrolls confirm any of his own personal beliefs. He also says the Scrolls are being hidden in plain sight for a reason. It's all a conspiracy. 

The final video is "BOOK OF JUBILEES: Scripture? Inspired? What does the Bible Say? Enoch, Jasher, Dead Sea Scrolls."

https://youtu.be/ehXPBXwIxio

This video is chock full of nonsense and I will have to pass by practically all of it.  At 36:52 Tim begins a harangue against the government. He brings up the IRS and tax codes calling them part of the world's Pharisaic leavened government. Is that a clue as to why he left the USA? Was he having tax problems? It's a rather odd topic to insert in a video about The Book of Jubilees.

This video is also infuriatingly disappointing. Tim does not begin to discuss the actual contents of The Book of Jubilees until halfway through. He promises more videos to come which will discuss The Book of Jubilees in depth but it has been over a year and there has been nothing. If you were expecting anything like a systematic perusal and analysis of The Book of Jubilees' contents as I was then you will be sorely disappointed.

Tim has not thoroughly tested this book at all. His shallow discussion of The Book of Jubilees is limited to comparing the wording of a few New Testament passages with those in Jubilees. His thesis is that the Apostles were familiar with the book and used it for formulating doctrine. This is all based on the principle that everything must have at least two witnesses. For example he thinks John 1:3 is a citation of or allusion to Jubilees 16:26.

However Jubilees 16:26 is not a prophecy about the Messiah but about the nation of Israel. James VanderKam, who has devoted most of his life to studying The Book of Jubilees, has produced not only a different translation from that of R.H. Charles which is based on the finds at Qumran as well as the Ethiopic text but also a vast commentary on The Book of Jubilees.

26. He blessed his Creator who had created him in his generation because  he had created him for his pleasure,  for he knew and ascertained that from him there would come a righteous plant for the history of eternity and (that) from him there would be holy descendants so that they should be like the one who had made everything.  

Now he blesses the Creator for his marvelous actions initiated through him. The verse concludes with an affirmation that he was aware that holy descendants, resembling the one who created them, would arise from him. This seems to be an appeal to those passages in the Holiness Code (e.g., Lev 19:2) and elsewhere calling Israel to be holy as the Lord himself is (see above on 15:27, 31; 16:17-18). Berger notes that the language here—“that they should be like the one who had made everything”— reminds one of the image of God. In its holiness, which can hardly be separated from keeping the law, Israel would exhibit the likeness of the Creator. 

Jubilees A Commentary in Two Volumes, Vol 1, pg. 546

Take it for what it's worth, the commentary of a man who has devoted his life to studying The Book of Jubilees. For Tim's thesis and method to have any merit a comparative look at the original texts would have to be done to see what similarities there are. Such claims cannot rely solely on English translations.

Tim says that the Book of Jubilees clarifies Genesis and that it is Torah. According to him without the Book of Jubilees we will not rightly understand Genesis. Towards the end of the video he offers this challenge:

1:18:55 - And we issue this challenge to modern scholarly paradigms to actually read this book and test it. 

I will now take up this challenge. What does The Book of Jubilees actually contain? Does The Book of Jubilees clarify Genesis? Is it part of the Torah written by Moses? Was it ever part of the Hebrew or Christian canon until it was suppressed? 

The Book of Jubilees is an apologetic for the law.

Obviously, the chief object of the work is to exalt the Law (and Hasidæan practise) as divinely ordained and fixed from eternity, to extol the institutions of the Sabbath and circumcision as heavenly signs distinguishing Israel from the rest of the nations, and, finally, to draw the sharpest possible lines of demarcation between Israel and the Gentiles—in striking contrast to the practise of the Hellenist party.

http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/8944-jubilees-book-of

One of the most striking things about The Book of Jubilees is that we read the Patriarchs Adam, Noah, and Abraham all kept the law before it had been given on Mt. Sinai through Moses. That is because, according to Jubilees, the law is eternal being written on heavenly tables. The Book of Jubilees espouses the occult Hermetic doctrine of as above, so below. The sabbath is kept above in the heavens so it must be kept below on the earth.

We also read stories about the Patriarchs that sound similar to what is in Genesis but details have been changed. What is happening is that the author is filling in the gaps attempting to answer difficult questions. From James VanderKam's commentary on Jubilees we read:

One impulse to ancient interpretation is expressed by the הספור שלא סופר :Hebrew title of Joshua Levinson’s book= (literally) The Story That Was Not Told. For some early readers, a goal of interpretation was to explain not so much what was explicit but what was left implicit—or so the expositor thought—in the text. Filling in the gaps served to clarify the text by adding helpful information. Examples include the following:

1. Inserting laws into the stories. As will be seen below, an important question was whether the ancestors knew some or all of the Mosaic law. Jubilees answers the question by showing that some legal material was revealed to the ancestors (e.g., the festivals), while full disclosure awaited the law of Moses.  

2. Another question was whether God was justified in sending so frightful a punishment as the flood. Jubilees, with other ancient works, supplements the pre-flood material in Genesis with a story about angels who married women and fathered giants to explain that sin became monstrous and that God responded justly (5:1-19).  

3. Jubilees, again with other ancient works, includes a detailed geographical section about the division of the earth among the sons and grandsons of Noah. The section not only answered the question of why nations were located where they were but also documented Israel’s right to the land as descendants of Shem and Arpachshad (8:8—9:15; 10:28-34).  

4. In order to explain the ongoing evil after the flood, Jubilees introduces a story about the demonic off-spring of the Watchers. They continued to mislead people although God greatly limited their power (10:1-13).

5. The author adds stories about Abram’s youth. The Abram of Genesis is introduced through a genealogical notice, a report about his marriage, and a move by the family  (11:27-32); immediately thereafter in Gen 12:1-3 he receives the grand promises from the Lord. Why did he rather than someone else enjoy such favorable treatment from the deity? Jubilees supplies stories about Abram as a boy and a young man (11:15—12:21), including ones documenting his precocious embrace of monotheism, zeal against idols, and growth in understanding of his one God. All of this happened before the divine promises came to him. The additional stories provide an explanation for why he was the recipient of them and thus fill a lacuna in Genesis.  

6. Abraham and Jacob. A puzzle for readers of Genesis was that, while the lives of Abraham and Jacob, the two major patriarchs, overlapped for fifteen years, the text records no interaction between them. The writer of Jubilees incorporates several scenes in which Abraham recognizes early on that Jacob will be his true heir, the one to whom the promises will come. He blesses Jacob and also instructs him about how he is to conduct himself (19:16-29; 22:10-30).

7. Another curious feature of Genesis is that it presents Levi, the ancestor of the Levites and priests, in a less-than-favorable light. How could someone who angered his father because of his violence at Shechem (Genesis 34) and who earned a curse from Jacob for it (Gen 49:5-7) become the eponymous father of the priesthood? Jubilees presents a very different Levi: he carried out a righteous slaughter of the Shechemites (30:17-20); his grandfather Isaac blessed him (31:13- 17); he received a dream that he was appointed to the priesthood (32:1); and his father Jacob ordained him to the sacerdotal office (32:2-9). He was indeed a worthy ancestor of those who would serve at the sanctuary.  

8. The Bible does not explain why the bones of Joseph remained in Egypt until the time of the exodus, whereas, it may be implied, the remains of his brothers received burial in Canaan at an earlier time (see Gen 50:24-26; Exod 13:19; Josh 24:32; cf. Acts 7:16). The writer of Jubilees inserts a story about a war between Canaan and Egypt. A lull in it allowed for burial of the brothers’ bones in Hebron, but Joseph’s body remained in Egypt because at the time of his death it was not possible to travel between Egypt and Canaan (46:4-11).

Jubilees A Commentary in Two Volumes, Vol 1, pg. 22-23

With these explanatory additions The Book of Jubilees is equivalent to a collection of just-so stories. Though the additional material in Jubilees does serve to answer questions that does not mean the material is genuine or that any of it actually took place. Much of the promised clarity from these additions does not arise as familiar stories in Genesis are turned on their heads and more questions are left unanswered. Some of the additions outright contradict the Torah. Other additions, such as Jacob killing Esau, are too important to have been left unnoticed by Genesis which casts doubt on their authenticity. The addition of these explanatory stories also does not mean that the Book of Jubilees was considered scripture or canon by the Jews or anyone else expect of course for the community at Qumran.

What I am going to do now is go through The Book of Jubilees and list passages that are dissimilar to the Genesis narrative in a way that contradicts it proving that Moses did not write The Book of Jubilees. Why would Moses write two differing Genesis accounts anyway? These disparities will prove that Jubilees is rightly rejected as canonical by everyone who is not a schismatic like the group at Qumran who collected the Dead Sea Scrolls and The God Culture who wishes to incorporate The Book of Jubilees into the Bible. The Ethiopian Church does include Jubilees in their canon but they are also a heretical group which teaches a non-Chalcedonian Christology and they include other apocryphal books in their canon. They certainly don't teach anything like the doctrine Tim derives from The Book of Jubilees.

To keep this post neat and not have it run to an unwieldy length I will not be quoting full passages but only giving the references to chapter and verse with a description of what is being said and what it means.  Despite that what follows will necessarily be a wall of text. You can follow along by reading The Book of Jubilees online.

Chapter 1 begins with God telling Moses that Israel will forsake Him. Moses prays for the people. God tells the Angel of the Presence to write for Moses about creation and the dividing of times until the renewal of the heavens and earth until the sanctuary of the Lord shall be made in Jerusalem on Mount Zion.

Already we have an anachronism with the mention of Jerusalem and Mount Zion. Jerusalem was not even taken by the Jews until David sacked it hundreds of years after they entered Canaan. Whoever wrote Jubilees was familiar with Jerusalem, Mount Zion, and the temple. That means the author is not Moses.

Chapter 2 is about creation.  In verse 19 God says he will choose a people to keep the Sabbath day. Verse 20 tells us God chose Jacob. Verse 30 tells us that the Sabbath was kept in heaven before it was revealed to man. But how could this be if the Sabbath is strictly tied to creation and is the day of rest after creation was completed? It makes no sense except in the scheme of the author who is exalting the law. The Sabbath now becomes an eternal ordinance and is no longer strictly tied with creation.  Of all the nations only Israel is sanctified to keep this eternal ordinance.

Verse 31 says that God "did not sanctify all peoples and nations to keep the Sabbath" but only Israel. Verse 33 says this law and testimony of the Sabbath were given to the children of Israel forever. This would mean that Tim, being a Gentile, is under no obligation to keep the Sabbath. So why does he teach that all men must keep the Sabbath? Why contradict Jubilees if he considers it to be canon? Tim says in his new sabbath series:

Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work. But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord Yahuah  thy God. In it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates, Gentiles. Hello? This has never been a Jewish practice. It has never been exclusive but always available to the stranger among you.

https://youtu.be/qfAybCvlAuM?t=2473

So the true Bible which it would include part of the Torah that's missing right now called The Book of Jubilees has said all along right here the sabbath is for everyone including all in heaven and on earth.  

https://youtu.be/hTkszHEwfEA?t=2219

Both Tim's and Exodus' doctrine of the sabbath is a clear contradiction of Jubilees! Jesus is also contradicted by Jubilees. If the sabbath was created for man as Christ says then it cannot be an enteral ordinance kept by angels in heaven before it was revealed to man as The Book of Jubilees declares.

In contrast to Tim James Vanderkam gives an interpretation that takes these verses for what they mean.

The inclusive statement—“before it was made known to all humanity [lit., to all flesh]”—again, as in 2:25, makes it seem as if everyone was invited to keep Sabbath, though the explicit teachings of the chapter are decidedly opposed to this inference. It may be that the writer is distinguishing between the announcement of the Sabbath to all and the actual acceptance of the law by Israel alone (e.g., in Exod 24:3, 7). Jubilees 2:31 is somewhat clearer: all humanity received the command to observe the Sabbath, but the Creator God sanctified Israel (see Exod 31:13 [cf. 19:5-6]; Ezek 37:28) alone to obey the prescription. Sanctity was required to keep the day, and God gave that quality to Israel alone, not the other nations. 

Jubilees A Commentary in Two Volumes, Vol 1, pg. 202

This chapter is again full of anachronisms. The point of the author is to distinguish the nation of Israel from the Gentiles via the keeping of the Sabbath. This is why he writes that Sabbath keeping is not for all nations but only Israel. Such an attitude would be in keeping with that of a Jew whose nation had been overrun by Gentiles like the Romans and Greeks and wished to remain separate from them. It is internal evidence that Moses did not write the book but someone much later in the 2nd century did.

Chapter 3 is about the formation of Eve and the expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve were created in the same week but Eve was not shown to Adam until 14 days had passed.  After 40 days Adam was placed into the Garden of Eden but Eve was not brought into the Garden of Eden until 80 days had passed. So Adam was alone in the Garden of Eden for 40 days! Verse 10 tells us the reason for this is in regards to the purity laws after a woman had given birth. These laws can be found in Leviticus 12.

How does this addition clarify Genesis? God says it is not good for man to be alone so he created woman from the man's rib. Now man has a helpmeet. But in Jubilees man is still alone even after woman had been created because Eve is impure! What do the purity laws in Leviticus have to do with the formation of Eve? The Book of Jubilees contradicts the Genesis account of the formation of man and muddies the story by the additional explanation of the Levitical purity laws regarding childbirth. There is no clarity here only confusion.

After seven years the serpent comes to tempt Adam and Eve. They are expelled from the Garden of Eden. Verse 28 indicates that animals used to speak. There is no protoevangelium of the woman's seed crushing the serpent's head. There is also no angel with a flaming sword guarding the entrance to the Garden. Though Adam and Eve sin by eating the fruit of a tree there is no mention of a Tree of Life or a Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.

Chapter 4 verse 23 tells us that Enoch was taken into the Garden of Eden. Verse 26 mentions Mount Zion which is an anachronism. Moses knew nothing of Mount Zion.

Chapter 6 verse 2 says Noah made an atonement for the guilt of the earth which does not make sense because everyone was dead except Noah and his family. It is not clear at all what is meant by "the guilt of the earth." Can an atonement be made for the dead? Verse 17 says Noah celebrated the Feast of Weeks once a year to renew the covenant God made with him. Verse 19 says Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob also observed the Feast of Weeks until it was forgotten and then renewed on Sinai. Verse 32 says a year is 364 days which is not correct at all. The import of this verse is to regulate the observation of the feasts. This chapter ends by God predicting that the people will forget the 364 day year when they begin to observe the moon and see it coming 10 days too soon.

Here we have the Patriarchs celebrating feasts which were later revealed to Moses on Mt. Sinai. But in Leviticus the Feast of Weeks is called a harvest festival and not at all meant to commemorate the covenant God made with Noah after the flood. How does the story of these Patriarchs keeping the Feast of Weeks for a reason which contradicts the Torah clarify Genesis?

Chapter 8 is where we find the "directions to the Garden of Eden" which Tim claims is the Philippines. Verse 19 calls the Garden of Eden the Holy of Holies and the dwelling place of the Lord and mentions Mount Zion and Mount Sinai as also being holy places. All three places (Eden, Zion, and Sinai) face each other. Mount Zion is called the navel of the world. If the Garden of Eden is facing Mt. Zion and Mt. Sinai as this chapter attests then it cannot possibly be in the Philippines which is thousands of miles away from Mt. Sinai and Mt. Zion.

Again Moses would have had no knowledge of Mount Zion as he did not even enter the promised land. We are led to believe that the Garden of Eden exists somewhere on earth even after the flood. According to chapter 4 Enoch was taken there. Tim says Enoch resides in the Garden of Eden (which Tim declares is the Philippines) to this day!

What about Enoch? Oh now he is the key to the whole formula. See Enoch's a different story here. Enoch lived before the flood, the seventh from Adam but he did not die this experience the flood, lived after the flood, and is still alive to this day! Where is he? He's in the Garden of Eden to this day according to Jubilees. 

https://youtu.be/hTkszHEwfEA?t=2421

According to Tim Enoch is alive and well in the Philippines at this very moment! Wow!

In Chapter 10 Noah prays to God that He would imprison all the unclean demons who were leading men astray. Mastema, also known as Satan, intervenes and asks God to let him have some of the evil spirits to control so that he can use them to lead men astray and tempt them.  God acquiesces to his request and allows 1/10th of them to remain free.

Chapter 11 introduces us to Abram. At the age of 14 he stops worshipping idols and begins to pray to the Creator to save him.  Verse 11 tells us that Mastema sent ravens to eat the seed which was sown and that food was scarce as a result. After Abram prays to God he is able to command the ravens to not eat the seed and to never return. As a result he becomes very famous in the land. In Genesis Abram is nobody, a literal idol worshipper whom God calls to leave his homeland. He's not a famous man who has power with God to command animals nor is he a monotheist when he is called by God. How does this very fanciful and apocryphal story clarify Genesis when it contradicts it?

Chapter 16 verses 20 - 31 Abraham celebrates the Feast of Tabernacles. Verse 29 says that this festival is made a statue for Israel forever.  This is a clear contradiction of Leviticus 23:42-43 which tells us that the Feast of Tabernacles or Booths is to commemorate the exodus from Egypt when Israel was made to dwell in tents. It is a senseless anachronism to have Abraham celebrating this feast. This contradiction between Jubilees and Leviticus does not add clarity to Genesis.

Chapter 17 verse 16 tells us that Mastema, Satan, instigated God to command Abraham to sacrifice Isaac as a test of his obedience. This account is similar to the book of Job where Satan persuades God to allow him to tempt Job as a test of his righteousness. It also turns the Genesis narrative on its head as the temptation of Abraham now become a contest between God and Satan. Chapter 18 verse 12 says Mastema was put to shame after Abraham passes the test.

Introducing Mastema gets rid of the messianic type of this story. Isaac is no longer a type of Christ and the focus is on Satan instead of Abraham. It is highly likely that Satan is injected into the story here to absolve God of any blame for tempting Abraham to sacrifice his son. This story does not clarify the Genesis narrative but only muddies it.

The God Culture agrees that the insertion of Satan into this story clarifies things and absolves God from any blame.

The same dynamic in Job existed in the story of Abraham and it is very Biblical and in no way flies in the face of anything Genesis says unless you make things up like you do of course in fraud. That's not testing, it's fraud. Once again, extremely poor. You think you are smart yet your comprehension is pathetic just as it is with history and geography. Otherwise, you are accusing Yahuah of coming up with the idea which is out of character and illegitimate as this blog is. Jubilees actually rectifies a very serious theological question because without it, fools like you are blaming Yahuah for something satan instigated. Real bright. It turns nothing on it's head and stands consistent and you are no one to say otherwise and unqualified to render such opinion nor write this blog by your own standards you have laid out over and over in ignorance.

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This story does offer a thorny problem. Would God really tempt someone to sacrifice their son? Such a notion seems horrifying to us. It is in the same category as God's commanding Israel to utterly destroy all the Canaanites. Or in the crucifixion where the innocent Son of God is offered up. Or in the command to sacrifice animals to appease God's wrath. Why would God command such things?

Inserting Satan seems to clear things up but there is in fact no very serious theological question to rectify except for those who do not believe what the text actually says. Is this dynamic to be found in Job? No. In Job Satan asks permission from God to try Job and the permission is granted. God does nothing to Job. Satan even has Job's children slaughtered.

But in Genesis God is the one doing the action. He is the one who tempts or tests Abraham. And he is the one who stays Abraham's hand. It is a test of Abraham's faith and Isaac is a type of Christ. Abraham was willing to offer up his son while God really did offer up his only Son for our salvation.

Chapter 22 verses 16-18 Isaac warns Jacob to separate himself from the nations because their works are unclean. The whole chapter stresses that Jacob will be separate from the Gentiles and that he will establish a Holy Seed. This is the theme of Jubilees as shown in chapter 2.

Chapter 24 verse 27-33 Isaac curses the Philistines. Verse 27 says he made peace with them under constraint. Verses 28-32 are an imprecation against the Philistines swearing their eternal destruction. Verse 33 says this curse is written on the heavenly tables.

This story turns Genesis 26:26-33 on it's head. In that story Abimelech, the king of the Philistines, approaches Isaac to ask for an oath and covenant of peace. Isaac asks "Why, since you hate me," and the king says, "Because we see God is with you and has blessed you."  They then have a feast and in the morning swear peace to one another and part amicably. There is no constraint here. Isaac enters this covenant willingly and even has a feast! In Jubilees there is no peace between Isaac and the Philistines. Instead there is only a curse from Isaac. Jubilees contradicts Genesis in this account.

VanderKam notes the following about this account in Jubilees 24 and its contradiction with Genesis 26.

Genesis 26:26-31 must have pained the writer of Jubilees because it pictured Isaac, with whom the promises to Abraham had just been renewed, swearing a covenantal oath with representatives of the Philistines and sealing the agreement by eating a meal with them. His conduct directly contradicted Abraham’s commands to Jacob: “Separate from the nations, / and do not eat with them” (22:16). It also conflicted with Exod 23:32 (“You shall make no covenant with them [the peoples of Canaan]”); 34:12, 15 (no covenant with them); and Deut 7:2 (no covenant with the seven Canaanite peoples).45 The writer of Jubilees had omitted the earlier story where Abraham made a covenant with the same people (Gen 21:32 uses “covenant” for their sworn agreement), but he included the one involving Isaac and thus had to find a fitting explanation for what the second patriarch had done.

Jubilees A Commentary in Two Volumes, Vol 2, pg. 722

The allegation of deception and thus constraint on the part of the Philistines provides this "fitting explanation." The clear contradiction between Genesis and Jubilees is proof that the explanation is a fiction by the writer of The Book of Jubilees.

Chapter 25 verse 4 Jacob says he is nine weeks of years old which is an odd way of speaking if one does not keep in mind the object of the Book of Jubilees is to divide all time in to weeks of years and Jubilees which is 7 weeks of years or 49 years.

Chapter 28 is about Jacob's marriage to Leah and Rachel.  Laban tricks him and says he did so because it is not right to give away the younger before the elder. Verse 7 has an admonition to the "children of Israel" that they follow this custom.  It is another anachronism as there were no children of Israel nor had Jacob's name been changed to Israel at that time.

Chapter 30 is the story of the defilement of Jacob's daughter Dinah. Verses 5-22 gives a warning to the Israelites to not marry with the Gentiles. Verse 18 says that the tribe of Levi was chosen to the priesthood because of the zealousness of Levi in avenging Dinah.

Chapter 31 is similar to Genesis 48 and the blessing of Ephraim and Manasseh by Jacob. This time it's Isaac who blesses Levi and Judah. The blessing he gives to each is of the priesthood and the throne respectively. This story is not recorded in Genesis. There is in fact no mention of a Levitical priesthood in the scriptures until after the exodus from Egypt. There is also no throne given to Judah until David. This story is clearly an addition by the second century author who is exalting the twin pillars of Israel's uniqueness which is the throne of David and the Levitical priesthood.

Chapter 32 verse 1 says Levi dreamed he was ordained the priest of the Most High God. Verse 3 has Jacob clothing Levi in garments of the priesthood. Verse 9 says Levi discharged the priestly office. How did he discharge this office with no ark and no tabernacle or temple? He didn't. This is a made up story by the author of Jubilees to magnify the Levitical priesthood. Like many of the other stories in Jubilees it is also found in spurious pseudepigraphal work The Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs. This story is in the Testament of Levi chapter 9.

Chapter 33 is the story of Reuben sleeping with Bilah. Verses 10-20 are an excursus from the law about the how abominable this sin is. It is another chance for the author to extol the law.

Chapter 34 verses 4-9 has a strange story about Jacob subduing several kings and imposing tribute on them until the day Jacob left for Egypt. We read of nothing like it in Genesis or Josephus or elsewhere. When did Jacob and his sons become a powerful army which could subdue kings? The Pharaoh of Egypt would have heard of such a thing but he never mentions it when Jacob appears before him.

In chapters 35-36 Esau and Jacob visit their dying father Isaac. He admonishes Esau to be at peace with Jacob and not to hate him. Brotherly love and affection are appealed to in 36:8. In chapter 37 the sons of Esau become very angry with their father because Isaac had given the portion of the elder to the younger. They declare war against Jacob and provoke Esau to join them. A huge army then confronts Jacob. In chapter 38 Judah tells Jacob to slay the enemy. In 38:2 Jacob kills Esau with a bowshot. Jacob's sons prevail over the sons of Esau and they become their servants paying tribute until the day Jacob left for Egypt.

The killing of Esau by Jacob is a major departure from the narrative in Genesis. Why is it included? What clarity does this horrendous story of fratricide shed upon Genesis? What are we supposed to learn from this story? It seems that it is a story made up by the author of Jubilees to explain the enmity between the Edomites and Israel. Judah is the one who is given the throne and his descendant David will conquer Edom in the future (2 Samuel 8:14). Thus it is symbolic that he tells Jacob, who is Israel, to slay the enemy, who is Esau or Edom. Israel then subjects the Edomites to tribute. This would explain why the Edomites are at enmity with Israel. The God Culture also agrees with that explanation:

Esau is Edom and the Edomites are not at peace with Israel/Jacob. In fact, they are one of the largest enemies of Israel throughout scripture even in Psalm 83, the minor prophets record this as well and they are the enemy of Israel and believers all the way to the very end in the final battle. This is an extremely deep-rooted hatred of Israel yet your buffoonery leaves it at the brothers reconciled which is ignorance. Jesus will defeat them in the end by the way. However, what happened? How does one get from reconciled brothers to complete opposites and enemies again? Have you even thought this thru? Nope, you're incapable of such thought clearly. Obviously there is more to the story and Jubilees is the record of that story very consistent not only with Genesis but with the entire Bible on this.

http://philippinefails.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-god-culture-attempted-copyright.html?showComment=1588218670475#c4472467758811009914

They are right that there is more to the story as the Bible does not include everything. Yet this story, which would be of massive importance if it were true, is not recorded anywhere in scripture. Josephus does not mention it in his Antiquites of the Jews. It is only recorded in The Book of Jubilees which is a 2nd century text written to exalt the law and in another pseudepigraphal work The Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs which borrows heavily from Jubilees.  The story is found in the Testament of Judah chapter 9.

The subduing of the Edomites along with the subduing of the other kings and putting them to tribute would be a story that Pharaoh of Egypt would be familiar with but he does not bring it up when he meets Jacob. Jacob and his family are portrayed as shepherds and not as a powerful nation to which other nations were paying tribute. This is more evidence that the story is spurious.

Chapter 48 verse 2 tells us that Mastema, Satan, attempted to kill Moses at the lodging place. This is a reference to Exodus 4:24-26 where God meets Moses to kill him. Zipporah, Moses' wife, stays God's hand by circumcising her two boys. Like Jubilees' retelling of the temptation of Abraham this story is again turned on its head likely in an effort to absolve God of any alleged wrongdoing for attempting to kill Moses after he sent him to Egypt to deliver the people.

Chapter 50 ends with a discussion of the sabbath and how to celebrate it. This is in keeping with the twin themes of Jubilees which are the exaltation of the law and Israel as a people separate from all the other nations.

That's the Book of Jubilees in a nutshell. One has to read it to get a feel for how different from Genesis it really is. The Book of Jubilees introduces significant departures from Genesis in every chapter. It sounds like scripture but it is most definitely not consistent with any book in the Hebrew canon. This blog post has barely scratched the surface of the content and meaning of The Book of Jubilees. For further reading I recommend James VanderKam's two volume commentary which is the fruit of a lifetime of study. A PDF of both volumes is available online.

Jubilees A Commentary in Two volumes

Tim says the Dead Sea Scrolls represent the oldest canon of scripture as compiled by John the Baptist and therefore The Book of Jubilees is part of the original Hebrew canon.

So the Old Testament, the oldest canon of scripture of the Old Testament scripture, was indeed compiled by John the Baptist

This is simply more proof of Tim's ignorance concerning the formation of the canon. The Septuagint was produced in the 3rd century BC and is still in use by the Eastern Churches. It represents the oldest canon of scripture and not the Dead Sea Scrolls which were hidden 300 years later in the caves of Qumran. It would do well for Tim to study more on the formation of the canon and stop making absurd claims which have no historical merit whatsoever.

I recommend "The Biblical Canon" by Lee Martin McDonald.

One of the real values of this book is that it has lists of canon in the appendix as well as a list of citations and allusions to various apocryphal books, including Jubilees, in the New Testament. Tim should take note that just because a book is cited or alluded to does not mean that the book was ever considered canon. That includes Enoch which Jude does cite.

While he's at it Tim should read up on the councils so he knows what the church has taught and why. His constant bashing of Nicea as a conspiracy to cover up the truth and The God Culture's teaching that the synagogue of Satan took over the early church is completely ignorant and blasphemous as Christ said He would build his church and the gates of hell would not overcome it.

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

The synagogue of satan was installed and their doctrines as what we call the early church today but the true early church was wiped out. 

New Sabbath Series Trailer

Karl Josef von Hefele has written the definitive "History of the Councils of the Church."

If that's too much to handle then he should read Leo Davis' book on the seven ecumenical councils.

The five color coded books in the background are Jaroslav Pelikan's "The Christian Tradition" which is his magisterial history of Christian doctrine from the early church until Vatican II. Tim should read that series as well. The point is he needs to learn more about the history of the church and her doctrines because he is sorely lacking in that knowledge and continues to make wild and unhistorical claims as if he is some big-brained super genius who has been awakened to truths which have been intentionally suppressed.

An actual picture of Tim thinking he knows more than scholars

It would also do Tim well, and all who desire to elevate Jubilees to the status of inspired scripture, to consider why neither the Jews nor the Christians included it in their canons of scripture. Was it intentionally suppressed because it contains information "They" don't want the people to know about? No it's because the contents are not in line with the rest of scripture. The Book of Jubilees was never on anyone's list of scripture before it was allegedly suppressed by the authorities. Guided by the Holy Spirit the church was able to discern what was and was not scripture.

The Book of Jubilees, like the Gospel of Thomas, NEVER MADE THE CUT! It was NEVER on anyone's list of canonical books Christian or Jewish. Tim fails to understand that because he knows NOTHING about the formation of the canon. The Book of Jubilees contains stories and doctrines that are at odds with the Torah, Psalms, and Prophets. It is pseudepigrapha propaganda written by a 2nd century BC scribe using Moses' name to lend it weight and authority. It is not now nor has it been nor will it ever be scripture. And Enoch has not been living in the Philippines for the past four thousand years!  That is an incredibly stupid teaching which Tim bases on The Book of Jubilees.

It is best to leave the fanciful Book of Jubilees in the darkness of the caves of Qumran from whence it came.

The God Culture: The Earth is Flat But We Aren't Flat-Earthers or Christians

Timothy Jay Schwab of The God Culture is working his way through the book of 1 Enoch in a 52 week series. Like Jubilees he is not going straight through the text but is jumping around. The seventh video in the series covers 1 Enoch 26. This video is very important because in it Tim finally discusses the cosmology of the earth.

Answers in First Enoch Part 7: Enoch's Middle of the Earth. Exiting Inner Earth

1:17 This video is so important though because we're going to discuss the cosmology of the earth. It's time. There is no reading and understanding the whole of scripture for that matter, but especially Enoch and Jubilees, without understanding that Enoch, Noah, Moses and all the prophets and all the apostles wrote from a perspective of the earth being the center of, what we call the solar system, but of our system. In essence the sun running a circuit around it as well as the moon kind of like the yin and yang in imagery. Right? If you can picture that.

What is the cosmology of the earth and our solar system? According to Enoch the earth is flat, the sun is powered by the wind and moves through portals, and the moon tags along with it. Also there are no planets because the Bible, and especially Enoch who was taken into the heavens to see the cosmos, never mentions any. 

It will not be my intention in this article to prove the rotundity of the earth or the distance of the sun or the fact that there are indeed planets. Instead I am going to tear apart Tim's faulty reasoning and straight out lies. Note that for Tim the established heliocentric cosmology is a religion that must be taken on faith.

5:57 Observance tells us the same. we know this with our eyes but we're told to ignore our eyes our scientific observation and accept their spinning ball in faith which is never something they've ever proven. You've never seen the earth move but you see the sun moon and stars move daily. Only in Babylonian style or mystery basically Babylon religion does the sun become the center of the solar system. Yes, they're even carvings on the walls uh in Babylon and Syria that demonstrate that with the nine planets, a solar system. That's their religion that's a religious view it's not science no one has ever seen such.

Why would Tim excoriate anyone for taking anything on faith? Tim's entire project is taken on faith. He never saw the kingdom of Ophir with his eyes or found any evidence of such a kingdom in the Philippines. He never saw Enoch write the book of Enoch yet he claims Enoch is the author. For Tim to bash a view that must be taken on faith is hypocritical. 

If the facts that the earth is round and the sun is 93 million miles away were taken on faith it is not an empty faith. It is a faith based on observation, math, and science. The same goes for Tim's project. His faith that the Garden of Eden is buried beneath the floor of the Sulu Sea is based on his reading of Jubilees. 

Tim continues by telling us that Enoch, after traveling through the inside of the earth, popped out at the North Pole which is the center of the world.  This in itself is totally wrong. Enoch does not visit the interior of the earth. Tim is completely mangling Enoch 17-26 to make it appear like Enoch was taking a guided tour of the bowels of the earth. It's just not true. Enoch visits several places and at no point are we told he entered the interior of the earth.

This longer section of the Enoch saga consists of a series of journeys of the patriarch, accompanied by his angelus interpres, which are a remarkable blend of geographical and botanical fact, based possibly on actual travels in the east (Milik suggests that the author may have been a traveller involved in the trade in aromatics), combined with mythological and apocalyptic fantasy. The result is the second of the most famous of the Enoch traditions the forerunner if not the prototype of Dante's Paradise and Inferno the seer's revelations, in the course of his terrestrial and extra-terrestrial journeys, of the secrets of the heavenly realms and of the nether world, of Hades or Sheol and of Paradise. 

Matthew Black, The Book of Enoch p.15

That means everything in this video and in the previous videos are all wrong. There is a visit to Sheol which Enoch sees inside a mountain in chapter 24 but there is no visit to the interior of the earth. This flub makes him give totally zany interpretations. Like in 24:1 where Enoch says he saw "a mountain range of fire which burnt day and night."

These are the Mountains of Fire Noah used on the surface as Shem's SE border in Indonesia. Gunung Gunung Api in Javanese. Enoch views them here from within the Earth.

Get it? Enoch is describing volcanoes as seen from the interior of the Earth. That is stupid and does not convey the proper meaning of the text which is that Enoch saw a mountain range on fire.

According to Tim's interpretation of Enoch there is a huge mountain at the North Pole. Now obviously there is no mountain at the North Pole. But that's because Enoch is describing the world before the flood and now that mountain is submerged. However, the legend of a mountain being at the North Pole survives in a map from 1595.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4e/Mercator_north_pole_1595.jpg

13:51 Now, this is fascinating. Enoch is in the North Pole and we're going to use the 1595 Mercator map of the arctic which actually matches. Now, this is based on legend, legend passed down from well, likely, what it looks like to us before the flood by enoch in fact as this fits his description but nothing in what we see today when we go to the north pole. it's just not, it doesn't look like this anymore. And don't forget to those same scientists claim the north pole moves around even so no one can find it of course that's their point I guess because that'd be the only dumb reason to say such a stupid thing. Uh, the poll moves every year or whatever really I mean these aren't scientists. That is unscientific Enoch sees this and there I saw a holy mountain. Wow! Okay so, a holy mountain and we're at the North Pole hmm. 

What is that? Now, you can see the mountain in the center on the screen on Mercator's map. Uh, he's not exact here of course and he's going by, again, ancient legend really. No one saw this after the flood because the North pole no longer looks like this. This was the North Pole before the flood, in Enoch's description before the flood. It's covered with water and ice now so, totally different.

Tim will go on to claim that this mountain is Mt. Zion.

15:40 There are only three holy mountains on Earth especially before the flood. There is Mount Sinai but we all know that's in Saudi Arabia and that's firm so that's ruled out. We aren't there. In fact Enoch will go there next so it cannot be that at all. Then there is the Mount of the East which is in the Garden of Eden in the far east. We are not in the far east yet either because, again, Enoch will go there in a series of directions to the east that's where he'll end up and then he'll go to the edges of the earth really so that can't be it either. Thus logically there's only one left. The only holy mountain is Mount Zion. I know you've heard of the Mount Zion in Israel a mountain named in the days of David actually it appears not Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses nope. David. Not even Joshua. David. That's a long time after so that is because it's named after the heavenly Mount Zion in the North Pole the actual holy mountain. And we'll show you. Again, this is well affirmed in scripture and especially Jubilees but this has to be the holy mountain and it is in the North Pole. There you go.

Not only is this the true original Mt. Zion but this is where Jesus will return.

1:02:22 Yahusha does not come down in Jerusalem Israel but in the North Pole

1:03:42 This is messiah's return mount Zion the one in the end is the one in the north pole not the one in israel

Now, all of that is complete rubbish. The short version why the North Pole is Mt Zion is that in the Book of Jubilees Noah is dividing the earth and he calls Mt. Zion the navel of the earth in 8:19. Because Noah was using Enoch's pre-flood geography to divide the earth Noah knew Mt. Zion was at the North Pole. But in Enoch there is never a mention of Mt. Zion. R.H. Charles' note on the text says this is indeed Mt. Zion but the one in Israel. Saying that the true Mt. Zion is a submerged mountain at the North Pole renders Jubilees 8:19 unintelligible. There is only one Mt. Zion in all of scripture and it's in Israel. This is more proof that Jubilees was written in the 3rd or 2nd century before Christ. I have previously written about this anachronism.

Tim claims this map is based on the book of Enoch which was passed down as a legend. 

19:23 So basically what we see here is Mercator in 1595 it seems, it sure does appear, that he was essentially mapping the legend found in Enoch. Uh, sure they will be, you know, there'll be a claim that, uh, he got it from a sailor and I believe, he, I believe, that is the claim but we're not even going to go back and cover that. 

Why would anybody claim Mercator drew his map based on the tales of a sailor when the fact is he got it from a book that is no longer existent titled Inventio Fortuna?

Inventio Fortunata (also Inventio Fortunate, Inventio Fortunat or Inventio Fortunatae), "Fortunate, or fortune-making, discovery", is a lost book, probably dating from the 14th century, containing a description of the North Pole as a magnetic island (the Rupes Nigra) surrounded by a giant whirlpool and four continents. No direct extracts from the document have been discovered, but its influence on the Western idea of the geography of the Arctic region persisted for several centuries.

The concept of the pole as a magnetic mountain goes back at least to Roman times, but the author of Inventio Fortunata added other features to the picture as well as measurements. Whether or not the Inventio is the source of the medieval concept of the North Pole as a magnetic mountain surrounded by a circular continent divided by four powerful rivers, maps as early as Martin Behaim's 1492 globe depict the region in this way. 

Gerardus Mercator's world map of 1569 reflects his reading of Cnoyen's Itinerarium. It also features a marginal note alluding to the Franciscan's "discovery", but not to the book itself, which he never saw: 

"we have taken [the Arctic geography] from the Itinerium of Jacobus Cnoyen of the Hague, who makes some citations from the Gesta of Arthur of Britain; however, the greater and most important part he learned from a certain priest at the court of the king of Norway in 1364. He was descended in the fifth generation from those whom Arthur had sent to inhabit these lands, and he related that in the year 1360 a certain Minorite, an Englishman from Oxford, a mathematician, went to those islands; and leaving them, advanced still farther by magic arts and mapped out all and measured them by an astrolabe in practically the subjoined figure, as we have learned from Jacobus. The four canals there pictured he said flow with such current to the inner whirlpool, that if vessels once enter they cannot be driven back by wind."

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

The mountain at the center of the Arctic is not a mountain. It is a magnetic rock island.

The Rupes Nigra ("Black Rock"), a phantom island, is believed to be a 33-mile-wide black rock (Mercator actually describes the rock's circumference as 33 "French" miles) located at the Magnetic North Pole or at the North Pole itself. It purportedly explains why all compasses point to this location. The idea comes from a lost work titled Inventio Fortunata, and the island features on maps from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, including those of Gerardus Mercator and his successors. Mercator describes the island in a 1577 letter to John Dee:

In the midst of the four countries is a Whirl-pool, into which there empty these four indrawing Seas which divide the North. And the water rushes round and descends into the Earth just as if one were pouring it through a filter funnel. It is four degrees wide on every side of the Pole, that is to say eight degrees altogether. Except that right under the Pole there lies a bare Rock in the midst of the Sea. Its circumference is almost 33 French miles, and it is all of magnetic Stone [Jacobus Cnoyen] years ago.

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

Not only does Tim not understand this map but he does not want to understand it. Instead he wishes to twist it to fit his narrative. If Tim had taken the time to actually research this map he would know all the above facts about it. This is just more of his scurrilous and unscrupulous method of twisting whatever he comes across to fit his view.

For a good part of this video Tim pulls up several maps to show that the ancient view of the earth is that it is flat and the North Pole is the center of the earth. You mean to tell me that men who drew maps of the earth on flat surfaces drew them...flat!? I am shocked I tell ya, shocked! The last map he discusses is one drawn by Orlando Ferugson in 1893. Ferguson claims the Bible does not support the idea that the earth is a globe spinning through space and that his map is an accurate representation of what the Bible teaches.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/13/Orlando-Ferguson-flat-earth-map_edit.jpg

Aside from the globe Earth Ferugson also disbelieved in the existence of other planets. Tim agrees wholeheartedly. 

44:20 He notes there are no planets in the bible and that is accurate. He's right. That's true. Not a single other planet is ever mentioned in scripture. It's not there nor is it in Enoch not once and he saw everything. So what does it mean that it's absent? Hmmm.

29:30 No one has ever proven that Jupiter is actually a planet. Just because they show us a representation of an animation of what they think it might possibly look like if they actually could see it and they can't.

If the Bible doesn't mention something then apparently it doesn't exist. So long algebra, auto mechanics, the periodic table, DNA, computers, and Timothy Jay Schwab. You don't exist because the Bible does not mention you. Does Tim even know what a planet is? It's Greek for wandering star (I can just hear him screaming that means Nephilim according to Jude). You can see them travel an irregular path across the sky with the naked eye. 

The five classical planets of the Solar System, being visible to the naked eye, have been known since ancient times and have had a significant impact on mythology, religious cosmology, and ancient astronomy. In ancient times, astronomers noted how certain lights moved across the sky, as opposed to the "fixed stars", which maintained a constant relative position in the sky. Ancient Greeks called these lights πλάνητες ἀστέρες (planētes asteres, "wandering stars") or simply πλανῆται (planētai, "wanderers"), from which today's word "planet" was derived.

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

You can also use a telescope to view the planets and verify that Juipter is indeed a huge gaseous planet. You can see the rings of Saturn through a telescope with your own eyes just like Galileo did. There are no such thing as planets and Jupiter has never been proven to be a planet are about the most ignorant things Tim says in this video. Here are a few other things Tim says that are just as ignorant.

37:30. We would notice the speed of the earth. 

1:08:50 The god they call gravity 

1:11:00 There are no pictures of the Earth from space. 

1:12:54 Have you ever seen a satellite pass between the moon and earth because they, they, they do supposedly, They're, they're not beyond the moon right so they're in between so shouldn't we cease when we observe some kind of movement there especially and especially with a telescope yet no one has it's another lie

1:15:40 If the sun is 93 million miles away how does it set in front of clouds?

All of that is is easily answered. We don't notice the speed of the earth because of relativity. Same as when you are driving a car you don't feel the speed because you are actually stationary while the car is moving.  Also the speed of the earth's rotation is constant. Gravity is a force not a god and it is what keeps everything on the earth. There are many pictures of earth from space. Satellites pass between the moon and Earth all the time. Watch them do it here. The sun appearing behind clouds is an optical illusion caused at sunset by thin clouds being obscured by bright rays. 

The long and short of it is that in this video Timothy Jay Schwab promotes the flat earth. According to him it's not only what the Bible teaches but it best explains what we observe. However, despite believing and teaching that the earth is flat Tim says he is no flat earther.

1:20:00 No, we are not flat earthers just as we do not call ourselves the very negative term in the bible of Christian. No thank you.

Tim is definitely right that he is no Christian. He is a heretic who has long since left the Body of Christ, the Church. But when it comes to being a flat earther, he may choose to not use that term but that is exactly what he is. I mean he actually says Antarctica is an ice wall keeping the ocean from spilling out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM7E0aWPk1A&lc=UgxUGb6ovXZZTxaixRp4AaABAg

Tradewind: If earth is flat..there should be barriers at d ends, so the water wouldnt spill

The God Culture: It's called Antarctica and the firmament. Yah Bless.

It should be noted that at no time in this video does Tim say bluntly, "The Earth is flat." That is a very sneaky thing to do because throughout this video he teaches the earth is flat! 

The God Culture: Timothy Jay Schwab's Use of Zechariah Sitchin to Interpret the Bible

Timothy Jay Schwab of The God Culture has finally done it. He has produced a video that is so over the top in its looniness and outrageousness that he is losing followers at break neck speed. Joke lang! He did make an outrageous and looney video but his viewers still love him because they are gullible fools who do not do what Tim tells them to do which is to "test all things," including him. But that should be no surprise as Filipinos are easily swayed into believing all manner of falsehoods. 

So what is this new video? It's an interpretation of the Biblical flood and the archaeological findings of Ron Wyatt through the lens of Zechariah Sitchin's fictitious "The Lost Book of Enki."

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

The title and subtitle tell us what the content of this video will be.

Oops! Did Ron Wyatt Find the Nephilim Ark?

The Book of Enki says "Yes." And the Bible says that's not Noah!

Many of my readers might not know who Ron Wyatt is or what the Book of Enki is so here is a brief summary. Ron Waytt was an archeologist who claimed to have found Noah's Ark in Turkey, the Ark of the Covenant, Golgotha (the place where Jesus was crucified) and many other Biblical artifacts. Whether he was a fraud as many claim or whether he was correct is not exactly pertinent here. In this video Tim assumes Ron Wyatt did find an ark, just not Noah's Ark. Instead he found the Nephilim Ark.

The Nephilim are allegedly the offspring of Angels and human females which are mentioned in Genesis 6 as giants. According to Tim, God actually caused the flood not because of mankind's wickedness but because of the wickedness of the Nephilim. According to Tim when the Bible says that God "saw the wickedness of man and that it was great," that is a reference to the Nephilim and not to genetically pure humans. Only Noah and his family had pure human DNA. This is why Noah was chosen to be saved in the ark. Tim actually lays all that out in his first Flood Series video which can be watched here. 

Tim goes on to explain that God would destroy all living beings which had the Breath of Life. That is a very important qualifier because Tim does not believe that the Nephilim, which is basically everybody except Noah and his family, had the Breath of Life or that they were created by God. But none of that makes sense. If God's intent was to wipe out the Nephilim and to kill all which had the Breath of Life, yet the Nephilim did not have the Breath of Life and thus would not be killed, then you have too many contradictions as God's intended targets would not be killed. In fact it is the conceit of the video being reviewed here that some Nephilim actually built an ark and survived the flood which further undoes what Tim claims was God's original intent with the flood, namely to kill the Nephilim to save mankind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48-XtI0JAIs&lc=UgwcO30RC4xMroEfdiZ4AaABAg.9LCfVjFnLiq9LCt5eBWon9

Yahuah caused the Flood and He said He did and we ALWAYS say so. However, the reason was not just His waking up one day and deciding to create an adventure. He was ridding the world of the control of the Nephilim who were destroying it. The same will return in the last days and we are already seeing these signs. This is what the Bible says.

Thus, before we even begin to rip apart this new video we see Tim's doctrine makes no sense. He says God sent a flood to save mankind from the Nephilim but that the flood specifically did not kill the Nephilim because they did not have the Breath of Life and that some of them survived in their own ark. However, they would not even need an ark to survive since they did not have the Breath of Life and only those with the Breath of Life died. That would mean ALL THE NEPHILIM survived the flood. That also means God's plan for the flood failed and mankind was not saved from the Nephilim because even today there is Nephilim influence according to Tim. Speaking of the end-time government, and government in general really, Tim says it will be run by Nephilim.

8:01 -  This identifies the leaders God will use will be Nephilim, mixtures, not men and they will mix with human genes to create these leaders. Now, Nephilim have been mixing with humans all along in all of history. 

Gog of Magog Attacks 2: FRESH REVELATION: Lost Tribes Series 5B: Who is Gog?

Nephilim run the world? I thought it was the Reptilians! According to Tim God failed to wipe out the Nephilim in the flood despite their destruction being his intention. Timothy Jay Schwab's God is a failure.

That brings us to The Lost Book of Enki.

https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Book-Enki-Prophecies-Extraterrestrial/dp/1591430372

FICTION/MYTHOLOGY $24.00 

THE LOST BOOK OF ENKI 

Will the past become our future? Is humankind destined to repeat the events that occurred on another planet, far away from Earth? Zecharia Sitchin's bestselling series, The Earth Chronicles, provided humanity's side of the story—as recorded on ancient clay tablets and other Sumerian artifacts—concerning our origins at the hands of the Anunnaki, "those who from heaven to earth came." In The Lost Book of Enki, we can view this saga from a different perspective through this richly conceived autobiographical account of Lord Enki, an Anunnaki god, who tells the story of these extraterrestrials' arrival on Earth from the 12th planet, Nibiru. 

The object of their colonization: gold to replenish the dying atmosphere of their home planet. Finding this precious metal results in the Anunnaki creation of homo sapiens—the human race—to mine this important resource. In his previous works, Sitchin compiled the complete story of the Anunnaki's impact on human civilization in peacetime and in war from the fragments scattered throughout Sumerian, Akkadian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Hittite, Egyptian, Canaanite, and Hebrew sources--the "myths" of all ancient peoples in the old world as well as the new. Missing from these accounts, however, was the perspective of the Anunnaki themselves. What was life like on their own planet? What motives propelled them to settle on Earth—and what drove them from their new home? 

Convinced of the existence of a now lost book that formed the basis of ancient Sumerian texts holding the answers to these questions, the author began his search for evidence. Through exhaustive research of primary sources, he has here re-created tales as the memoirs of Enki, the leader of these first "astronauts." What takes shape is the story of a world of Mounting tensions, deep rivalries, and sophisticated scientific knowledge that is only today being confirmed. An epic tale of gods and men unfolds, challenging every assumption we hold about our cre-ation, our past, and our future. 

As the back cover tells us, The Lost Book of Enki is wholly a work of fiction compiled by Zechariah Sitchin who authored The Earth Chronicles. That series of books is about how ancient aliens landed on earth to mine gold and created man especially for the task. In this book he has "RE-CREATED TALES AS THE MEMOIRS OF ENKI." All he has done is take Sumerian myths and stitched them together into a hypothetical memoir. That's because there is no Lost Book of Enki except for this literary creation of Sitchin. Sitchin was one of the most preeminent ancient aliens theorists out there. And his writings are total garbage, especially if one is a Christian, or follower of Jesus Christ or whatever one calls themselves, as Timothy Jay Schwab claims to be. Now on to the video.

There really is no need to go point by point through this thing. Let's take a look at a few highlights which reveal it's utter absurdity.

3:30 - First let's go to The Book of Enki, The Lost Book of Enki, from Zachariah Sitchin's publishing in recent years. So, this is accepted, you know, in much of scholarship as The Book of Enki. Yes, this is not scripture at all it is absolutely occult, 100%.

This is the first lie in this video. What does Tim mean that "in much of scholarship" this book is accepted? Who accepts it? No scholar takes Zechariah Sitchin seriously. There is a whole section of criticisms on his Wikipedia entry regarding his erroneous translations, interpretations, and total lack of credentials. Michael Heiser, a man who I know Tim reads and whose theology he has appropriated, has a webpage titled, "Sitchin is Wrong." And as mentioned above, THERE IS NO LOST BOOK OF ENKI! Sitchin made it up. Tim's admission that The Lost Book of Enki is 100% occult will return to bite him later when he accuses scholars of following occult paradigms. Oops! Talk about the pot calling the kettle black!

One of Tim's viewers actually commented about how Zechariah Sitchin is unreliable and no scholar takes him seriously.

Whoever you are, you need to be stupid to think Zacharia stichin is even a scholar. he is not. He knows NO ancient languages so if you believe anything he writes, you're ignorant. No one in scholarship even acknowledges him or his "work".

Tim's response was to delete the comment. After all, as he says in his videos, it's his channel and his rules. The number one rule is questions and dissent will not be tolerated. Just goes to show how ultimately dishonest Timothy Jay Schwab really is when he tells people to "test all things" including him.

Tim begins his reading on page 221 of the ebook which is also the same page as the print book. The story of the deluge in The Lost Book of Enki really begins on page 211 where the Anunnaki decide to end their mission on earth because there is an oncoming flood. It is decided that humankind must perish but Enki defies Elil who gave this command and directs his son Ziusudra, who has a human mother, to build a boat which will save mankind as well as animal and plant life.

It was to be through Ziusudra that civilization would be preserved.

8:08 - "By you shall the seed of civilized mankind survive." Now you know they do that today. In colonialism for the past several centuries they've been telling us, "Oh well we're civilized mankind." Yeah, where did the term come from? The Nephilim. That's where that comes from. Let's call it what it is. Colonialism is evil it always has been and it is a Nephilim concept and there you have it right there, their thinking that we find in colonialism. "Civilized mankind" what a ridiculous term. Man is man. If you do not value every man as equal then you are an idiot. There's no other way to term that. And you were thinking like a Nephilim. Colonialism was wrong and it was Nephilim thinking.

Here Timothy is actually ranting AGAINST civilization. He says such a notion as "civilized mankind" is ridiculous and comes from the Nephilim. And not only that but colonialism is evil. No ifs, ands, or buts about it! Those British who colonized India and stamped out the murderous Thuggee cult? They were evil because, as Tim says, man is man. The conquistadores who put an end to human sacrifice in the Americas? Pure evil! The brave missionaries who spread the gospel to cannibals thus ending such a custom? They were evil because colonialism is evil. The Romans who built roads and aqueducts which connected Europe? Evil! Absolutely evil. Any nation that subdues another people and attempts to show them a better way to live by introducing them to advanced technology, such as the wheel which sub-Saharan Africans did not use until Europeans came, is evil no matter what, says Tim.

See how the Philippines is just like any other place? Surely Tim would have no problem living here because there is no difference!

Remember man is man. We are all equal. The Australian aborigines who had nothing to show after thousands of years were totally equal to Captain James Cook and every other British explorer who turned that desert into a fertile place to live. The naked Filipinos who met Magellan when he arrived were no different than than the genius known as Isaac Newton who showed the world how the universe operates with his laws of mechanics. No civilization is better than another. Even if they have honor killings, stonings, beheadings, eat dogs, have sex with goats, have sex with young boys, marry off their girls before they even reach puberty, bind young girl's feet, etc., etc., etc. 

The Sambia people who live in the jungles of Papua New Guinea and have their young boys fellate older men so they can drink their semen in order to become men are equal to the people who constructed the philosophic, economic, and spiritual foundations of the United States of America. There is no difference, says Tim who surely would be willing to raise his children in the fashion of the Sambia people unless he is some kind of idiot who does not think all cultures and men are equal.

This Indian man who is just getting a drink of fresh cow piss? Well, he's just like Timothy Jay Schwab. And according to Tim he would be an idiot to think anything else than that cow piss is a tasty drink and a healthy medicine because man is man and every culture is equal.

You know this is only eight minutes in and it's already a lot of blathering blatherskite and there is so much more to come that it's not worth dealing with. Let's cut to the chase. Timothy thinks the story related in The Lost Book of Enki is true. It actually happened! He mentions again that Enki was a fallen angel and his son Ziusudra was a Nephilim.

22:27 - Now again, let's be clear. Enki is a fallen angel, a watcher from before the flood. Again, they mated with human women and they had an offspring who were the Nephilim who are the origin of demons who are evil. Every imagination of their heart is evil continually. Now who is this Ziusudra or sudra however you want to pronounce it? Let's see, he is no mere mortal, oh no. He's no mere man because he's not a man. “My son,” he is this is Enki talking, "Enki to Ziusudra pointing cried out." so he's pointing to Ziusudra saying that's my son he's a Nephilim. He's not Noah he can't possibly be Noah. Noah was pure in his generations so you have to completely ignore the Bible to say that this guy is Noah.

In this passage Tim links the Nephilim to Geneis 6:5 just as he did in his Flood Series part 1. The verse reads as follows:

Genesis 6:5 “And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.” 

Tim is certain in his interpretation. It is not the wickedness of man qua man, that is genetically pure man, which is being referred to but the wickedness of the angel/human hybrids know as the Nephilim. This of course flies in the face of the context of the passage which is as follows:

Genesis 6:6 “And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.” 

Genesis 6:7 “And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.” 

Tim teaches God did not create the Nephilim and that they do not have the Breath of Life. But here God says it grieves him that he "made man" and that he will "destroy man whom I have created." Clearly Genesis 6:5-7 refers to man and not the Nephilim. 

Tim also completely ignores other verses which call man wicked.

Genesis 8:21 “And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.” 

Jeremiah 17:9 “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” 

Those verses are referring to men and not to Nephilim. That is a callback to Genesis 6:5 which is also referring to men and not Nephilim. There are many other passages about the innate wickedness of man scattered throughout the scriptures that Tim ignores to his peril. Tim foolishly denies and dismisses the doctrine known as "total depravity" in Gog and Magog Part 2 and Part 3. 

Further exacerbating this problem is that Tim says the Nephilim are "pure evil."

However, a Nephilim is pure evil period.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fztqrNHtvU&lc=Ugx7KR-fNZWV_aqoWgp4AaABAg.9NJJ06OY0jO9NJJxxSAuAI

This is wrong on so many levels. There is no such thing as "pure evil." Evil does not exist as a substance but is a privation of good. There are many kinds of evils. Evil like sin is an action, breaking the law. Evil like disease is the absence of health. Tim's doctrine of a creature being "pure evil" is Manichaeism and Zoroastrianism and in complete contrast to the scriptures. Everything that exists is good insofar as it exists and that is because God created everything that exists and he cannot and does not create evil.

As for who the Nephilim are, since Tim is using a book by Zachariah Sitchin he would do well to stay within Sitchin's frame of reference and not superimpose his views on the text. You can read Sitchin's thoughts on the Nephilim in chapter 5 of The 12th Planet.

What, then, does the term Nefilim mean? Stemming from the Semitic root NFL ("to be cast down"), it means exactly what it says: It means those who were cast down upon Earth! 

Contemporary theologians and biblical scholars have tended to avoid the troublesome verses, either by explaining them away allegorically or simply by ignoring them altogether. But Jewish writings of the time of the Second Temple did recognize in these verses the echoes of ancient traditions of "fallen angels." Some of the early scholarly works even mentioned the names of these divine beings "who fell from Heaven and were on Earth in those days": Sham-Hazzai ("shem's lookout"); Uzza ("mighty") and Uzi-El ("God's might"). 

Malbim, a noted Jewish biblical commentator of the nineteenth century, recognized these ancient roots and explained that "in ancient times the rulers of countries were the sons of the deities who arrived upon the Earth from the Heavens, and ruled the Earth, and married wives from among the daughters of Man; and their offspring included heroes and mighty ones, princes and sovereigns." These stories, Malbirn said, were of the pagan gods, "sons of the deities, who in earliest times fell down from the Heavens upon the Earth . . . that is why they called themselves Nefilim; i.e. Those Who Fell Down."

Irrespective of the theological implications, the literal and original meaning of the verses cannot be escaped: The sons of the gods who came to Earth from the heavens were the Nefilim. And the Nefilim were the People of the Shem—the People of the Rocket Ships. Henceforward, we shall call them by their biblical name. 

This definition makes Enki, as well as Ziusudra, a Nephilim. And Zitichin does not think these beings are angels but extraterrestrials! Aliens. So does Timothy Jay "Fox Mulder" Schwab believe in aliens now?

Tim concludes this video by saying:

45:16 - Thus Wyatt not only found the Nephilim ark it appears, well, but he proved it with the supplies with metal included which would be Nephilim and using the Nephilim measurement even. Good job!

If that is true then everything else about The Lost Book of Enki must also be true. It is one story. You cannot pick and choose here. It's either myth or history. It can't be both or partial. Tim thinks one part is history so the rest necessarily follows. That means the Nephilim coming to earth from another planet to mine gold and creating man to be a slave for that purpose is true. 

Some 445,000 years ago, astronauts from another planet came to Earth in search of gold.

Splashing down in one of Earth’s seas, they waded ashore and established Eridu, “Home in the Faraway.” In time the initial settlement expanded to a full-fledged Mission Earth—with a Mission Control Center, a spaceport, mining operations, and even a way station on Mars.

Short of manpower, the astronauts employed genetic engineering to fashion Primitive Workers—Homo sapiens. The Deluge that catastrophically swept over the Earth required a fresh start; the astronauts became gods, granting Mankind civilization, teaching it to worship.

Then, about four thousand years ago, all that had been achieved unraveled in a nuclear calamity, brought about by the visitors to Earth inthe course of their own rivalries and wars.

The Lost Book of Enki, Introduction

Put on a timeline it looks like this.  

The 12th Planet, Zachariah Sitchin, pg2. 410-411

But there is no way Tim believes that because he claims to believe the Bible. So why would he consult The Lost Book of Enki in order to corroborate the Bible and attempt to disprove Josephus, Berossus, Ron Wyatt, and the testimony of history that Noah landed in Turkey? It does not make any sense. Tim's alternate thesis is that Noah landed on Mt. Everest. In fact this video is a sequel to NOAH'S ARK FOUND in 2010 on Mount Ararat? Does The Bible Agree? Flood Series 5A which I already thoroughly eviscerated and exsanguinated. Click the above link to read it. That video is filled with numerous errors and outright lies which I fully exposed.

There really isn't much more to say here. The tie to the Philippines is that Tim teaches Noah made the ark out of narra wood in the Philippines. Of course this same wood is native to many countries in Southeast Asia. Also Tim does not believe there was an ocean before the flood. That means Noah was living on what we know as the ocean floor while the Philippines would have been the tops of mountains. Again Tim's cosmology does not make sense. To posit there was no ocean before the flood defies all the evidence to the contrary.

What we are seeing here is the progression of Tim as he slips further and further away from Christianity because he thinks he has discovered some new and truer revelation which restores the truth. Something which has been hidden in plain sight for millennia and only Tim has been smart enough to put together. Tim is a typical case of the Dunning-Kruger effect. First he latched onto the Dead Sea Scrolls getting it into his head that the REAL Biblical canon is to be found in them. This includes Jubilees and Enoch and excludes any book not found among the scrolls such as Esther and the Maccabees. In fact, based solely on his interpretation of a few scrolls, he calls Maccabees a fraud claiming that Antiochus Epiphanies never defiled the temple and that Hanukkah is a hoax. He offers no clue on who wrote the Maccabees and when or how it made its way into the Septuagint which predates the Qumran community by a century and is the Bible of Jesus Christ and the Apostles and the early church and is still the Bible of the Eastern Orthodox to this day. He also offers no alternate origin story for Hanukkah or the story of Anitochus Epiphanies' desecration of the temple or why the multitude accepted Maccabees and why that book is cited or alluded to in the New Testament. I have no idea what he bases his New Testament canon on because no NT book was found in the caves of Qumran. If Tim were consistent he would have no New Testament.

Then he incorporates the Dead Sea Scrolls into his systematic theology formulating a system that is at odds with what the Bible actually teaches. For example, based on Jubilees 2:2 he teaches the heretical doctrine of the pre-existence of souls or spirits as well as downplaying the role of the Holy Spirit in creation and thus denying that He is God.

8:03 The Father and Son created together. The Holy Spirit had some sort of role though not laid out other than He hovered upon the waters, but there's no detail we found yet in any passage explaining what exactly he was doing. But He was there admittedly

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

This heretical doctrine is only one more reason to reject the book of Jubilees as Scripture.

Tim even uses this system to teach false history about the Philippines. It is that system I have exposed again and again in these articles. Now Tim is actually appealing to Sumerian mythology to support his interpretation of the Bible and he is treating it as true actual history. For Tim there really was an Enki and a Ziusudra and the Nephilim really did build a boat to survive the flood.

A much more sober analysis of the Sumerian myth of Enki is to be found in James Frazer's book, "Folklore in the Old Testament."

That is a one volume abridgment but the story can be found on pages 120-125 of volume 1 of this work at archive.org. I recommend this book not because I believe the Bible to be myth but because it offers insight into parallel flood stories from around the world.  

Is Tim aware that practically every single culture has a flood story and that they all differ in significant ways? In one story only a single man and his dog survive. He then finds out the dog is actually a woman and he tricks her into revealing her form and they repopulate the earth. In several other stories a brother and sister survive and they have to repopulate the earth. What relation do these and other flood myths have to Noah or Enki's flood? What is their origin? Comparative religion is interesting but when you start treating myths as history, like Tim does with the myth of Enki, then you have gone off the deep end.