The God Culture: Did the 3 Magi in the Gospel Come From the Philippines?

Did the three wisemen or magi in the Gospel account of Matthew sail all the way from the Philippines to visit baby Jesus? Timothy Jay Schwab of the God Culture says so. Let's take a closer look at the evidence Tim offers. Then we will take a look at scripture and see what it has to say. Tim has a few videos on this subject but we will be concentrating on his book Solomon's Gold which he claims is a monumental case no one can dispute.

The Search for King Solomon's Treasure pg. 229

Psalm 72:10-15 KJV

The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents: the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts. Yea, all kings shall fall down before him: all nations shall serve him. For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper. He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of the needy. He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight. And he shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba: prayer also shall be made for him continually; and daily shall he be praised.

This is King David’s prophetic prayer of his coming lineage but he is far more detailed than given credit if one simply reads the passage. When you read this chapter in the Catholic Bible, it begins with brackets boxing in a false paradigm from the start reading “[Of Solomon].” We take major issue with such thinking as it is proven wrong multiple times in context easily. King Solomon never had all kings nor all nations serve him. Only the Kings of Arabia paid him tribute (1 Kings 10:15) not the whole world in any sense even the known world of his day. Solomon could not “save the souls” of the needy nor could he “redeem their soul,” those are Messianic qualities reserved exclusively for the Son of Yahuah God. Prayer is not being made for Solomon continually as he’s dead but Messiah and only Messiah is praised daily not Solomon. In other words, there is absolutely nothing about the passage which identifies Solomon. This is Jesus(Yahusha).

Where do these kings originate who will bring Messiah gifts after His birth? Tarshish, the isles (Ophir, isles of the East), Sheba and Seba. Seba has a derivative in Hebrew in Saba or Sabah now in Malaysia but formerly part of the Philippines or really, Sheba. By definition, Seba is assimilated as a territory, in this context, by Sheba. We now know where these lands are as all of them identify the modern Philippines. Ophir is Luzon, Sheba is Visayas with Seba as it’s territory or Sabah, and Tarshish is Mindanao. It was the Land of Creation named Elda, rebranded Havilah after Havah’s curse of childbirth and after the Flood, the land of gold. They brought gold, frankincense and myrrh just as the Queen of Sheba brought the same when she gave to the Temple project and these are the ancient elements used in Adam’s very first sacrifice which is why they matter specifically.

pg. 230-231

Tim's thesis is that the Philippines is Tarshish, Sheba, and Seba. Therefore the kings in Psalm 72 came from the Philippines. But because the Psalm is a prophecy of Jesus Christ that means this is a prophecy of the three wisemen in Matthew 2 who brought gold, frankincense, and myrrh to the young Jesus. According to this Psalm there were actually six kings who visited Jesus and not the traditional three.

This passage also addresses the number of Wise Kings, yes kings, who came after Messiah’s birth. With the list provided in David’s prophecy in Psalm 72, we know that there were more than three kings however. There were at least six kings total. So, why would Hopkins narrow that down to three in his song? Actually, this fits the precedent established in scripture as ancient Ophir was divided into three territories just as it is today – Ophir as Luzon, Sheba as Visayas with Seba/Sabah and thirdly, Tarshish as Mindanao.

pg. 239-240

Because these visitors were from the Philippines that means they brought back knowledge of Jesus Christ and thus Filipinos knew about Him before the arrival of the Spaniards.

Certainly, the lines sounded good as Magellan explained Jesus because the ancient Ophirian well- knew it was their ancestors who brought Messiah gifts after His birth. However, follow this through logically a little further and you will realize the Philippines already knew Jesus(Yahusha) long before the Roman Catholics or really, Holy Roman Empire came.

p. 242

That the magi came from the Philippines also explains why the focus of the Christmas season in the Philippines is not a tree but a star.

In fact, has anyone ever wondered why the Philippines has the longest Christmas celebration on earth at over three months? That, too, predates Catholicism as we already established Ophirians knew Jesus(Yahusha) personally and directly from the time He was two years of age as the Kings brought Him offerings. When one looks at the actual birthdate of Messiah which we prove to be the Feast of Shavuot/Pentecost known as the Day of Covenant Renewal in basically early June, you will notice a pattern here. That is the culmination of the Spring Feasts of the Bible which begin in the first Hebrew month with the Passover season and end in the Feast of Shavuot, the birth of Messiah. Though they are celebrating the wrong time of year thanks to Catholicism, Filipinos appear to continue this tradition of a three-month celebration ending with the Birth of Messiah when their ancestors observed the sign in the sky of the Star of Bethlehem. 

This is also why we believe this practice is likely rooted in the Spring Feast celebration of three months. Further support for this comes from the parol, a giant five-pointed star, which is the center of the Filipino celebration and not the Christmas Tree which Jeremiah 10 rebukes as pagan along with it’s six or eight-pointed star of Remphan. It would be no surprise the land of the Wise Kings would have the longest celebration of Messiah’s birth even commemorating the three kings in the very end.

This celebration may have been Catholicized over the years but it is not Catholic in origin and actually appears to have truly Biblical ancient roots. 

pg. 242-243

There is absolutely no evidence that Filipinos were celebrating a 4 month long celebration at the end of the year to honor the birth of Jesus Christ before the Spanish arrived. Notice that Tim makes that claim but offers no proof. Likewise the tradition of the parol does not pre-date the Spanish.

The word paról is the modern Filipino spelling of the original Spanish name farol, meaning "lantern". In the native languages, parol and lanterns in general are also known as paritaan.

The tradition of the parol dates back to the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines. It is a local adaptation of the Hispanic tradition of carrying small light sources (like torches, candles, or braziers) during the nine-day Christmas Novena procession leading up to the midnight mass (called Simbang Gabi in the Philippines).

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

All of this is dependent on Tim's interpretation of Psalm 72. Right away we can see that Tim has a wrong analysis of this Psalm. First of all the heading on the Psalm, For Solomon, is not an addition by the Catholic Church. It is an original part of the Psalm which is found even in the Septuagint. This is indeed a prayer by David for his son Solomon. It is also a prophecy of Christ. Solomon is a type of Christ. In fact the Catholic Church does teach that this Psalm is a prophecy of the 3 wise men.

It is unnecessary here to remark how foolishly this passage has been wrested in the Church of Rome. They chant this verse as referring to the philosophers or wise men who came to worship Christ; as if, indeed, it were in their power of philosophers to make kings all upon a sudden; and in addition to this, to change the quarters of the world, to make of the east the south or the west.

https://www.studylight.org/commentary/psalms/72-10.html#verse-cal

Writing in the mid-1500's Calvin tells us that the Church of Rome taught the same thing Tim is teaching. The one exception being that no mention of the Philippines is made. Calvin says they, along with Tim, are wrong because Tarshish, Sheba, and Seba are not to the East which is where the three wisemen came from. 

If it could be proven definitively that Tarshish is not the Philippines then Timothy Jay Schwab's system will come crashing down. Tim offers a lot of proofs that Tarshish is to the East and is identified as the same as Ophir.

The Search for King Solomon's Treasure pg. 118

2 Chronicles 9:21 KJV

For the king’s ships (Solomon’s) went to Tarshish (Ophir) with the servants of Huram (Hiram King of Tyre) EVERY 3 YEARS, once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, silver, Ivory and apes and peacocks.

Solomon’s navy traversed far to reach these precious isles of gold – Ophir. One of the other names for this same region of Ophir is Tarshish which is fully and indisputably equated with Ophir in many passages. Is this because the writers of Kings and Chronicles disagree with each other? Not at all for they are the same place generally. In addition to 2 Chronicles 9, there are several scriptures which identify Tarshish especially the ships of Tarshish and they equate it to Ophir. The ships of Tarshish go to Ophir for gold and Tarshish for silver but both in the same area.

pg. 118

It is factually wrong that Ophir and Tarshish are equated as being the same region. Let's compare two passages which seem to make that equation.

1 Kings 22:48 KJV

Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they went not; for the ships were broken at Eziongeber.

2 Chronicles 20:36 KJV

And he joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish: and they made the ships in Eziongeber.

p. 118-119

The same story is being told in both chapters. But they are each radically different. Before we analyze these verses let's see what the scripture has to say about the location of Tarshish. The book of Jonah establishes that the route to Tarshish lay west of Israel. Here is what Tim has to say about that.

One of the first objections we hear from Pastors and scholars is that Jonah travelled West to go to Tarshish. However, they are lacking the full context of the time. The Red Sea port was broken by Yahuah just before Jonah’s time in the days of King Jehoshaphat who attempted to replicate Solomon’s trip to Ophir. No such trip occurred and with the port destroyed by Yahuah, there was only one route left for the Ships of Tarshish to return to Ophir from Israel – through the Mediterranean Sea. A much longer journey indeed, they were there and not Eziongeber none-the-less according to Jonah.

1 Kings 22:48 KJV

Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they went not; for the ships were broken at Eziongeber.

Psalm 48:7 KJV

Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.

Now with proper context we can read the story of Jonah and understand it. Jonah is very direct in supporting that Tarshish is in the East ultimately certainly not in Spain nor Britain which do not fit Tarshish on many levels. Tarshish is in the same place as Ophir, a 3-year round trip journey from the Red Sea to the East and they would both have to prove they are Ophir as well. Notice how deliberate Jonah is in this account. It will make one realize just how brilliantly the Bible is written in fact and how foolish man’s attempts at interpretation can be at times.

Jonah 1:1-3 KJV

Now the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me. But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord.

It is true Joppa is on the West Coast of Israel on the Mediterranean Sea and Jonah boarded a ship there which was headed to the Biblical Tarshish. However, since when does the Bible ever disagree with itself? We have found never. All such supposed contradictions are from those who are challenged in their understanding so let us not blame that on the Bible. They are all easily explained. This is one of those cases. Was Jonah seeking the most efficient route here? Was he a merchant? No. Jonah was running from Yahuah and he wanted to go as far as possible. So, he chose a ship heading to the Far East. Notice, he is going to a physical Tarshish as well and also remember, there is no Red Sea Port option in this era as it was destroyed. 

pg. 119-121

Tim's solution is that the port in Eziongeber was destroyed therefore the only route east was to sail from Joppa. Now, this presupposes that this ship was going to circumnavigate Africa to get to the Philippines. But that is impossible because there is no record of anyone ever making that trip. Ancient maps don't show a Southern Africa. There is one and only one account of such a voyage. It is recorded by Herodotus and they went the other way from east to west. I wrote to Frank Romer, whose translation of Pomponius Mela Tim uses, and asked him whether there was any proof that the Greeks circumnavigated Africa to trade in the east. Here is his response:

As to your question 2: I know of no such evidence on this question either. The earliest info about the circumnavigation of Africa indicates that the Egyptians under Necho II did it from East to West, but that’s it, with no indication that any kind of trade followed. There is no evidence, material or literary, known to me that the Greeks themselves circumnavigated Africa and traded directly with the Philippines.

https://philippinefails.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-god-culture-scholars-speak.html 

There simply is no record of anyone, let alone Filipinos in their balangays, circumnavigating Africa to trade with Tyre. 

This is a lie

Both Isaiah and Ezekiel tell us that Tarshish traded with Tyre.

Isaiah 23:1 The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Chittim it is revealed to them. 

Ezekiel 27: 1 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, 

2 Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus;

3 And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea, which art a merchant of the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of perfect beauty.

12 Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs

Since no one was circumnavigating Africa to trade with Greece and Israel it means Tarshish must be located within the Mediterranean Basin. Now we can properly analyze 1 Kings 22:48 and 2 Chronicles 20:36. As I mentioned they both tell the same story but the details are different. Here are two commentaries which offer clarity on the matter.

To make ships to go to Tarshish.—In 1Kings 22:48-49, we read: “Jehoshaphat made ships (i.e., a fleet) of Tarshish, to go to Ophir for gold; and it went not; for the ships were broken (i.e., wrecked) in Ezion-geber. Then said Ahaziah the son of Ahab unto Jehoshaphat, Let my servants go with thy servants in the ships; and Jehoshaphat consented not.” There is no mention of a previous alliance and partnership in the ship-building with Ahaziah. Moreover, the expression of our text, “ships to go to Tarshish,” appears to be an erroneous paraphrase of “ships of Tarshish,” or “Tarshish-men,” as we might say; a phrase which really means, vessels built for long sea-voyages. According to Kings, the ships were built “to go to Ophir for gold;” in other words, to renew Solomon’s traffic with India from the port on the Red Sea.

To go to Tarshish. This clause, even if the text is not corrupt, yet cannot mean what it seems to say; but in the word "to go" (Hebrew, לָלֶכֶת) must mean, of the sort that were wont to go to Tarshish, i.e. that were used for the Tarshish trade. We are guided to some such explanation by 1 Kings 22:48, where it is said the ships were "ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir" (1 Kings 10:22; 2 Chronicles 8:18). That the ships could not be to go to Tarshish is plain from the fact of the place, Ezion-geber (2 Chronicles 8:17, 18; 1 Kings 9:26), on the Red Sea, where they were built.

https://biblehub.com/commentaries/2_chronicles/20-36.htm

I am under no delusion that the above comments will satisfy Tim. However if we take into account that Jonah was fleeing to Tarshish from the west coast of Israel, that Tarshish traded with Tyre, and the fact that there is absolutely no record of any robust trade route which circumnavigated Africa then it becomes clear that the two solutions are likely correct. Ships of Tarshish, meaning a type or class of vessel, were being built to go to Ophir not that ships were being built in the South to go to Tarshish in the East. Thus Tarshish and Ophir are not the same place.

The other two places mentioned in Psalm 72 and which Tim claims are the Philippines are Sheba and Seba. According to Tim Sheba is Cebu and Seba is Sabah. However, this is wrong. According to the Septuagint the proper designation of these places is Arabia and Saba.

The kings of Tharsis, and the isles, shall bring presents: the kings of the Arabians and Saba shall offer gifts.

https://biblehub.com/sep/psalms/72.htm

This is pretty much an agreed upon thing. It is only Tim who breaks the consensus and says Sheba and Seba, as well as Tarshish, are the Philippines. The fact that he thinks the Septuagint is a fraud is of no consequence because it was found at Qumran and it is the only text which preserves Cainan in Genesis 11.

The Septuagint is Egyptian, uh, frauds. They were not temple priests. There were no temple priests in Egypt at that time.

Answers in First Enoch Part 10: Bible History of the Garden of Eden. Affirming Enoch's Geography

Everything about that statement is simply wrong. The Septuagint was found amongst the Dead Sea Scrolls and represents an older form of the Hebrew text.

The discovery among the scrolls of Hebrew biblical texts that agreed closely with the Septuagint Greek also changed the way scholars viewed that translation. Certain books of the Old Testament, notably Jeremiah and 1 Samuel, had long been known to have some significant differences from the Hebrew Masoretic Text. Many suspected the Septuagint translators as being responsible for these differences. The Scrolls clarified, however, that the Septuagint translators had, for the most part, translated the Hebrew in front of them straightforwardly. The more significant differences between portions of the Septuagint and the Masoretic Text were due to differences in different Hebrew editions of the biblical books, not the activity of the translators.  

https://stpaulcenter.com/the-dead-sea-scrolls/

The Septuagint is also cited in the New Testament. Therefore calling it a fraud means the Gospels and letters of Paul are fraudulent.

I know Tim will bring up the fact that the Spanish were looking for Tarshish in East Asia. But so what? Just because they were looking for it there and just because Magellan thought he found it in the Philippines does not make it so. Our guide here is the scriptures and not the treasure hunting schemes of the Spaniards. 

What would natives of Sheba be called? The answer is Sabeans. We encounter this nomenclature twice in the KJV.

Isaiah 45:14 Thus saith the LORD, The labour of Egypt, and merchandise of Ethiopia and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over unto thee, and they shall be thine: they shall come after thee; in chains they shall come over, and they shall fall down unto thee, they shall make supplication unto thee, saying, Surely God is in thee; and there is none else, there is no God.

Job 1:15 And the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

The Sabeans stole Job's livestock and they are described as being men of stature and are mentioned along with Egypt and Ethiopia. Are Filipinos men of stature? No they are generally short. Did Filipinos sail to wherever Job lived and raid his animals? Of course not.

Seba is mentioned with Egypt and Ethiopia, and must therefore have been a southern people. In Isaiah 45:14 we meet with the gentilic form, (csebha'im) (Sabaeim), rendered "Sabaeans," who are described as "men of stature" (i.e. tall), and were to come over to Cyrus in chains, and acknowledge that God was in him-their merchandise, and that of the Ethiopians, and the labor of Egypt, were to be his.

https://bibleatlas.org/seba.htm

It turns out the word Sabeans in Isaiah and Job is the same word as Sheba in Psalm 72.

https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/h7614/kjv/wlc/0-1/

A nation in southern Arabia? No kidding! Sheba is not in the Philippines. This pretty much seals the deal. And guess what? In Solomon's Gold Timothy Jay Schwab never investigates the meaning of H7614!

The absence of this word from his book shows he is not doing deep research. He had an agenda. He watched videos that claimed the Philippines is Ophir and then he decided those videos were not good enough so he wanted to strengthen the case. That is what he said in an interview.

Well you know the amazing thing was is my wife is Filipina and we travel to the Philippines rather often and being here I was looking into different channels on Youtube I believe is where I saw this first.  There was a video "Philippines is Ophir" and I thought wow I know what Ophir is and but I've never seen anybody prove the location of Ophir. So I look at it and of course it's like most videos. It's a good video, it's a great claim but you leave the video thinking, maybe. And we're at a point, because we're a research group it's not just me, and we're at a point in our lives where we want to prove things.  We want to see things proven out completely. And that's what we set out to do. 

https://philippinefails.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-god-culture-biography-of-timothy.html 

"That's what we set out to do." That is not how a researcher works. A real researcher lets the data shape his conclusions and not the other way around. What we see time and time again is how Tim twists everything to fit his preconceived notions. Now, I know Tim will bluster against this article and his fans, if they read it, won't care, but the fact is the Bible never locates Tarshish, Sheba, or Seba to the Far East in the Philippines. They are close at hand to Israel. 

The God Culture: You Do Not Live in a Third World Country

Ashamed American and Proud Filipino Timothy Jay Schwab of The God Culture has a profound message for his fellow kababayans. You do not live in a third world country.

10:53 Because He's gonna pour out His Spirit on all flesh. And we're gonna see prophecies and we're gonna see visions and dreams and we're gonna see people being moved and in this nation as the identity of the Philippines is restored we will see that more than in anywhere else on earth. Now, how do I know that? It all goes back to what I'm about to teach you. It all goes back to your identity. Who are you and what is this land?

You do not live in a third world country. I'm sorry, they can try to misdefine it all they want. They have more resources in this nation than practically any place on earth. In fact in all resources on earth the Philippines, the little Philippines, ranks number five in overall resources on all of the earth.    

https://www.facebook.com/sabbathbc.congregation/videos/460905962381641

So, let me get this straight. The Philippines is not a third world country because the nation has a lot of resources? And what are these resources? Untapped mineral reserves? There's gold in the earth and that makes the Philippines precious and its people special? The very notion is ridiculous.

First of all the term third world comes from the Cold War. It is not a derogatory term.

The term "Third World" arose during the Cold War to define countries that remained non-aligned with either NATO or the Warsaw Pact.

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

So, Tim is dead wrong. The Philippines is indeed a third world nation in respect of that definition.

Second of all the term third world country has come to mean a developing nation.

A developing country is a sovereign state with a less developed industrial base and a low Human Development Index (HDI) relative to other countries.

Developing countries tend to have some characteristics in common often due to their histories or geographies. For example, with regards to health risks, they commonly have: low levels of access to safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene; energy poverty; high levels of pollution (e.g. air pollution, indoor air pollution, water pollution); high proportion of people with tropical and infectious diseases (neglected tropical diseases); a high number of road traffic accidents; and generally poor infrastructure. Often, there is also widespread poverty, high crime rates, low education levels, inadequate access to family planning services, many informal settlements, corruption at all government levels, and political instability. 

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

Could there be a better description of the Philippines than the foregoing paragraph? Going by this definition Timothy Jay Schwab is, as always, wrong. The Philippines is certainly a third world country. Would a first world country be celebrating the fact no one is crapping outside?

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1171111

The Department of Health (DOH) has recognized the town of Bobon, Northern Samar for achieving Zero Open Defecation (ZOD) status.

The DOH announced on Thursday that the town met the criteria based on validation by a team from the regional office, local government units, and the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (Unicef).

“This is to encourage more municipalities in the region to vie for this very noble and effective strategy to promote environmental sanitation and a healthy Eastern Visayas,” said DOH regional information officer Jelyn Lopez Malibago in a Facebook post.

Bobon is the second town in Northern Samar to earn such status. Last year, Mapanas was declared the first town in the province to achieve the status by the regional validation team. 

Mapanas received PHP200,000 from the provincial government for accomplishing the elimination of open defecation, improved and safe sanitation practices in the town.

The Provincial Board earlier allowed the granting of incentives to towns in Northern Samar that achieved ZOD status as declared by the Department of Health (DOH).

Under the ZOD campaign, the DOH is pushing that each house should have a basic toilet facility by 2025 to achieve universal health care.

As of 2019, only 11 percent of villages nationwide (4,625 out of 42,045) are certified ZOD, where people have abandoned the practice of open defecation, according to DOH, and families have learned to use a toilet and wash their hands after use.

Only 11% of the villages in the Philippines have achieved zero outside defecation? What's wrong with these people? Don't they know the Philippines is full of resources and that their true identity is that they are the Lost Tribes of Israel? Why don't they act like it?

You know what's a more important resource than gold? Food! In the Philippines that means rice. Sadly the Philippines does not produce enough rice to feed the nation so they are, along with China, the world's number one importer of rice.

https://business.inquirer.net/290438/ph-still-worlds-biggest-rice-importer

The Philippines is expected to remain the world’s biggest rice importer this year even with a slowdown in importation due to excessive supply and improved local production.

In a report published this week, the United States Department of Agriculture-Foreign Agricultural Services projected the country’s rice imports to reach 2.5 million metric tons (MT) by year-end—lower by 13.8 percent from last year, but still the highest globally.

China, with a population of 1.4 billion, is expected to remain the second biggest rice importer in the world with 2.3 million MT of imported rice.

The Philippines became the world’s biggest rice importer last year with a record 2.9 million MT after the government removed importation limits.

Despite being an agricultural country and with the Department of Agriculture (DA) devoting a bulk of its budget to improve local production, the Philippines’ rice imports have nearly quadrupled in the last three years.

The rice problem continues to grow and there is no end in sight to importing the nation's staple food. I have written at length about the rice problems elsewhere. But why can't the rice farmers realize that the Philippines has lots of resources and that their true identity is that they are the Lost Tribes of Israel? Surely once the know that then domestic rice production will soar, right?

But let's go back to the untapped mineral resources that, according to Kuya Timothy Jay Schwab, make the Philippines not a third world country. Why do they remain untapped after thousands of years?

https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/business/article/2074698/whats-stopping-philippines-mining-its-riches

When mining investors talk of the Philippines, they often boast of its wealth of untapped mineral reserves. But as one political controversy after another rocks the industry, miners are beginning to worry that’s all they will ever be: untapped.

In one fell swoop, the Philippines Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) shut down more than half of all operating mines last month. According to Secretary Gina Lopez, its audit found “serious environmental violations” in 23 of the country’s 41 mines. The department also cancelled contracts for 75 mining projects still in their exploration stages. The projects are located in watersheds; Lopez said they never should have been approved to begin with.

The country has been marred by many mining disasters, from toxic leaks to mudslides, land-grabbing to smuggling. For many Filipinos, it’s refreshing to see a strong figure standing up against the miners.

The last few years have been difficult for the Philippine mining industry. In 2012, the government decided to overhaul the entire mining tax system, placing a moratorium on all new investment until a new tax law was passed. Five years on, there has been little progress and the moratorium still stands.

“Quite obviously, no foreign investor is going to risk putting money in the Philippines at this point,” Wallace said. “Mining companies are used to dealing with high-risk countries. But there is a limit to what they will take. And where the government can capriciously implement bans and closures… they’re not going to take that chance.”

Mining has a marginal contribution to the Philippine economy. It accounted for just 0.6 per cent of the gross domestic product (GDP) and 0.6 per cent of total employment in 2015. But the numbers can be read both ways. The country is getting little out of the mineral reserves it has at hand.

The answer is the government. The Philippines sits on a treasure trove of resources and government regulations are keeping them from being mined.

https://www.bworldonline.com/the-mining-industry-can-save-the-economy/

Our cache of minerals amounts to well over a trillion US dollars, according to the Chamber of Mines. Our estimated levels of metallic and non-metallic minerals was at 7 billion metric tons and 50 billion metric tons, respectively, as per the last comprehensive audit conducted in 1994.

Gold deposits in the Philippines are among the largest in the world with reserves estimated at 101.6 million metric tons. Iron ore reserves are at 298 million metric tons. Among non-metallic minerals, limestone reserves are approximately 19.5 billion tons while marble reserves are at 14.5 billion tons. The Philippines leads the world in chromite resources too.

Despite our enormous mineral resources, the contribution of the mining industry to the economy remains minuscule. As of last year, the share of the mining output to GDP was a mere .06%. It contributed only 1.2% to national tax collection, and comprised only 6.3% of exports. In terms of jobs, it employed less than .04% of the workforce. In contrast, the mining sector in Indonesia accounts for 21% of exports and 7% of GDP.

The reason for the underwhelming performance is the moratorium imposed on new mining permits back in 2012 and the ban on open pit mining in 2017.

I am not going to sit here and type a long article listing everything that is wrong with the Philippines. From thousands of people dying every year due to diarrhea because they don't have access to clean water to fires razing the homes of hundreds of people because they are stacked on top of each other to government corruption I have written about it all on this blog. Documenting the facts about the Philippines no one wants to accept is what this blog is all about. 

If you come to this nation like Kuya Timothy Jay Schwab with blinders on your eyes or your head shoved into a place so that you cannot see what is happening then you're gonna have a bad time. You will be living in a world of lies and you will be, like Tim, telling those lies to others. Sure there's good things about this nation. Boracay is beautiful and there are a lot of untapped resources in the earth. But not everybody lives in Boracay. Many people live in shacks with corrugated tin roofs without proper access to clean running water or electricity. The untapped resources of this nation aren't helping them. Even if those resources were dug out of the earth they would not be helping those people. It's past time for Timothy Jay Schwab to stop lying to Filipinos about who they are and about the reality of this nation. 

The God Culture: Timothy Jay Schwab Uses a Baby Name Dictionary to Interpret The Book of Jubilees and Claims Noah Mentions Fairbanks, Alaska

The fact that Timothy Jay Schwab really believes Noah referred to Fairbanks, Alaska in the 2nd Temple Jewish text The Book of Jubilees is astounding in it's magnitude of ignorance. Words fail to describe this absolutely ridiculous and outrageous claim. Of all the things Tim says which prove that he is a total fraud who thinks he knows what he is talking about but actually does not, and there are many things he says which prove that, this claim takes the cake. It is the rancid cream at the top of Timothy's rotten crop. It deserves an article all of it's own.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXK1Z8ZZCCk

The first mention of this claim is in his video Flood Series - Part 4: Noah Divides All of Earth: Ham & Japheth from the Book of Jubilees.

32:37: And it extends until it approaches the west of Fara. Here we go again we are on the west coast of Europe. Now we are heading west further. This means across the ocean to the western side of Fara, whatever that is. Again, there is no historical reference to Fara that we can find necessarily, however the word of Fara means beautiful lovely, pleasant, fair and what's to the west of Europe? North America. America, America the beautiful. Coincidence? Maybe. However let's look at this one other way. Here's a thought. There is a place on the western side of North America called Fairbanks Alaska. Beautiful home of the Northern Lights. Again, we are theorizing on this one. But wouldn't it make sense that some place in Alaska would fit this best as the other territories are already solidified? So we're not really stretching to say that.

There is a lot happening in this little paragraph. Tim is discussing the word "Fara" which appears in Jubilees 8:27. Jubilees was composed in Hebrew, translated into Greek, translated into Ethiopic, and then translated into English.  There is no complete Greek or Hebrew text existent. It only exists in full in the Ethiopic. Tim is using the English translation and he says that "Fara" means beautiful. The slide shows the source for that definition is thinkbabynames.com

What does Fara mean?

Fara as a name for girls. The meaning of the name Fara is "lovely, pleasant". Fara is a version of Farrah (Middle English, Arabic): from the English word "fair".

http://www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/0/Fara

He connects this word, which means beautiful, to America because of the song "America the Beautiful." Then he says "Fara" just might be FAIRBANKS, ALASKA as it is home of the beautiful Northern Lights. 

What does the song "America the Beautiful" have to do with the Book of Jubilees?

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

Katharine Lee Bates wrote the words to that song. Was she an unwitting tool of prophecy? Tim does not elaborate but I wish he had because it would have been interesting to hear his mangled explanation.

So, to recap Tim is studying an ancient book written in Hebrew, translated into Ethiopic and then into English, and in order to find out what the obscure word "Fara" means he consults Thinkbabynames.com where he finds the English name "Fara" which means beautiful and then he says it might mean America or Fairbanks, Alaska! That is insane. In order to get to the deep meaning of a word from a 2nd century B.C. Jewish writing he consults a modern day baby name dictionary that gives him the definition of a similar sounding word that is not Hebrew at all and he applies it to modern day Fairbanks, Alaska.

Is this the deep and profound research that Timothy Jay Schwab and The God Culture claim to be doing? Consulting a modern day baby name dictionary to ascertain the meaning of an obscure word in an ancient Hebrew text? Who does that? Not a real researcher. No serious researcher would consult a baby name dictionary to interpret an ancient text. And he has the gall to lash out at scholars who have actually studied Jubilees all their lives and call them ignorant! In this same video he says:

12:04 Yes we read scholars. We find it useful from time to time but many times we read and we really question how they could arrive at such decisions.

They come to their decisions because they have studied the texts, the languages, the religious beliefs, and the culture, all the things necessary to know to put Jubilees in the right context or paradigm. That's how they come to their decisions. How does Tim come to his decisions? What prompted him to interpret the Book of Jubilees by using a baby name dictionary? Who in their right mind would do something so completely and utterly asinine and absurd?

This video was published on July 18, 2017. Three years later Tim published his annotated version of Jubilees. This claim about Fairbanks, Alaska is still part of his system but he has tweaked it. Apparently he realized the absolute stupidity of consulting a baby name dictionary to interpret an ancient text so he gets rid of that source entirely.

On his map on page 86 of Jubilees we read the following.

We do not have a clear track on Fara in history but the directions are extremely clear it is in this region. Especially since Shem is Asia. Fara in Old Norse means “Passage.” That could fit the Bering Strait. The process of elimination says so.

Now "Fara" does not mean beautiful. It's Old Norse for "passage." Tim gives no source for this etymology but it can be found at Wiktionary. It is just as dumb to think that a text originally written in Hebrew used a singular Old Norse term as it is to interpret Jubilees by a baby name dictionary. Why would the Hebrew author of Jubilees, whom Tim claims is Moses, employ an Old Norse word in one and only one instance in his text? Where and when did Moses learn Old Norse? Just how old is this Old Norse word? As usual Timothy does not offer any explanation.

You can see Fairbanks, Alaska is on the map as well as the Fairweather Range. That is because Tim, despite saying that "Fara" is Old Norse, means passage, and could refer to the Bering Strait, still thinks it refers to Fairbanks, Alaska or some similar sounding place like the Fairweather Range or the Farallon Islands. That's what he says in his note to Jubilees 8:27.

Based on the orientation, this crosses the Atlantic to the West Coast of N. America. Likely. Fairbanks, Alaska or Farallon Islands off of San Fran. The 5 great islands affirms this as 4 of them are in N. Canada

On page 259 of the book he makes the same assertion. "Fara" is Fairbanks, Alaska.

In Japheth’s territory, he crosses the Atlantic into the Americas as he is in Gadir and heads into the Ocean to the West. There is no other way to interpret that. The five great islands also give this away as in the Northern Hemisphere of his territory, 5 of the 10 largest islands exist there. However, four of them are in Canada thus North America is invoked. This is why we believe Fara is Fairbanks, Alaska or similar in the area.

What happened to the Old Norse? What about the Bering Strait? Tim makes the wild and unfounded claim that "Fara" in this context is Old Norse, does not give any proof, doesn't give any reason, just leaves it there on the map with absolutely no discussion, and then abandons that interpretation completely in his notes.

Then he contradicts himself by saying that "Fara" is Fairbanks, Alaska! Why? There is nothing Old Norse about Fairbanks, Alaska. The modern town of Fairbanks, Alaska was founded in 1901. How would Noah know anything about Fairbanks, Alaska? Again, Tim offers no rationale for his conclusion and one is left to guess. My guess is that it is due to the phonetic similarity of "Fara" with Fairbanks, Fairweather, and Farralon. 

Tim attempts to both deny and explain all this away in his new video "What Territory Belongs to JAPHETH? Answers In Jubilees: Part 4." In this video he annotates the above map from The Book of Jubilees and has a few words to say about Fairbanks, Alaska.

He starts off this video by telling everyone that he has already mapped out the lands of Shem and Ham. Therefore every reference left when distributing Japheth's portion must fit within that blue territory on the map.

4:09 We will operate with this in mind because we know already this is Japheth's territory by default so to not look for those references within his territory already established his record would really just be willing ignorance which is something we do not want to be known for.

It's a tautology to say that every marker in Japheth's territory is Japheth's territory. What Tim really means is that despite him writing very clearly that Fara means Fairbanks, Alaska  he really did not mean that in a definitive way. Before continuing let's go over the progression here.

1. In his first video, which he has now deleted, he says Fara meaning Fairbanks, Alaska is only a theory.

2. In his map in The Book of Jubilees he has Fairbanks, Alaska as one of many possible interpretations of the word Fara along with the Fairweather Range and the Farallon Islands. Let's not forget that he has a question mark there so it's really Fairbanks, Alaska?

3.In his note to Jubilees 8:27 he says Fara is likely Fairbanks, Alaska.  The word likely and the question mark will be important for his discussion in the new video.

4. He ends his annotated Book of Jubilees by affirming that Fara is Fairbanks, Alaska or something similar perhaps.

In all of those instances Tim is hitting hard for Fairbanks, Alaska above any other interpretation. It is very hard to miss that. For him to deny that is to deny what is plain as day and to gaslight his readers and listeners.

 Back to the video.

8:17 We even place a note on the map, we'll show you, that we are not certain of the connection to Fairbanks, Alaska and there are question marks.

Not certain? What a lie. In his annotated Book of Jubilees he is rather certain that there is a connection to Fairbanks, Alaska in some way, shape, or form . Maybe he is reserving judgment but he says it's LIKELY. That is at least one degree of certainty.  Now he says "we are not certain of the connection to Fairbanks, Alaska" which is why there is a question mark next to it.

18:17 Fara also means passage in Old Norse fitting of the Bearing Strait the passage between the two continents essentially. As well, uh, I mean that's pretty self-explanatory that very well could be because well, Noah, because Noah mentions Alaska that'd be a pretty dumb thing to say, that's not what we say. But somewhere there is an ancient reference on the West Coast of North America to this Fara. That's what it is. Another ancient testament that Jubilees could not have been written by a Pharisee nor in the age of 150 B.C. in fact because these are very ancient directions, far more ancient.

Now the Old Norse angle has been revived. He says it means passage and that it is fitting of the Bearing Strait. But he does not say why. Instead he stumbles over his words and says it's just self-explanatory. I am sure he would deny it but he is once again asserting that Old Norse is in the text. If it is not in the text then his explanation of Fara as being Old Norse is entirely superfluous. 

He finishes by saying Fara is an ancient reference to the West Coast of North America! No matter how you slice it whatever Tim thinks Fara means it HAS TO MEAN a particular place on the West Coast of North America. That is what he says. That includes, possibly, Fairbanks Alaska! But how would Noah know that? Fairbanks was not even founded until 1901. It is not ancient at all.

Here is what Tim wants us to believe. After the flood Noah knew the geography of the entire earth. He used this knowledge to divide the earth among his three sons. Now, this ancient Fred MacMurray gives a portion of the earth to Japheth which consists of Europe and most of North America. In delineating the borders he uses an ancient place name, Fara, to designate the West Coast of North America. Where did this place name originate? Who was living on the West Coast in the time of Noah or before? Tim does not say. But this all falls apart because elsewhere Tim is very clear that Noah got his geography from Enoch. Enoch lived BEFORE THE FLOOD! After the flood it was a different world as Tim says the oceans were formed by the flood. Enoch's geography would be useless in the new world. So where does Noah actually get his geographical information, especially the place name Fara? Tim does not say and I still think he has not considered this objection, Enoch's antediluvian geographical knowledge vs the postdiluvian word of Noah, which completely obliterates his interpretation of Noah's division.

Despite telling us that Fara is an Old Norse word meaning passage and thus a fitting designation for the Bearing Strait just a few sentences later he again changes his tune.

19:36 The Farralon Islands off the coast of San Francisco are right on the 37the parallel even with Gadir, Spain. This offers likely the best tie for the word Fara. However we leave it with question marks because we have again, read the note, no definitive track. What we do know is Japheth's territory includes most of North America as it must.

Now he says the Farallon Islands are likely the best fit for Fara. Does he not know that Farallon is Spanish?

The Farallon Islands, or Farallones (from the Spanish farallón meaning "pillar" or "sea cliff"), are a group of islands and sea stacks in the Gulf of the Farallones, off the coast of San Francisco, California, United States. The islands are also sometimes referred to by mariners as the Devil's Teeth Islands, in reference to the many treacherous underwater shoals in their vicinity. 

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

Devil's Teeth!? Perhaps Tim would have second thoughts about the Farallon Islands if he knew that factoid. The point here is that whether it's Fairbanks, Alaska or somewhere else Tim is interpreting Fara based upon modern place-names on the West Coast of North America despite acknowledging that it is an ANCIENT REFERENCE. That is the problem.  

Even more problematic is that he admits "we have again, read the note, no definitive track." That means he is just guessing. So everything from America the Beautiful to Old Norse to Fairbanks, Alaska is just stuff he is pulling out of his hat. The fact that he would even consider Fairbanks, Alaska as being Fara is completely laughable and enough to dismiss him outright as a fraud and a hack who has no idea what he is talking about. His interpretation of Jubilees is indeed rubbish!

Let's hear one last word from this video.

25:08 There you have it this is confirmation that Noah indisputably does refer to Alaska.

After enumerating the large islands in Canada and denying that Noah referred to Fairbanks, Alaska Tim now flips the script and says Noah INDISPUTABLY refers to Alaska. Just not, indisputably, Fairbanks, Alaska. But likely.

This is all too stupid. The Book of Jubilees does not refer to Fairbanks, Alaska.  Any one who thinks it does is a clueless hack and has no idea what Jubilees actually teaches. Tim has no idea what he is talking about when it comes to the word "Fara." Remember, this guy is passing himself off as an expert on Philippine and Biblical history who has engaged in deep research on both of those subjects. He even has a forthcoming book about ancient Philippine history.

Ancient

Philippine

History

Gilded in Gold

A Reconstruction of pre-colonial History and Geogprahy from the Beginning

Just imagine what kind of nonsense will be in that book. Tim is very wrong about Philippine history and I will have more about that later. But right here we see his shoddy method at work. It's less than that. It's not even a method. There is no deep research here. It's akin to throwing mud at the wall to see what will stick. Words cannot describe the profound ignorance Tim displays by using a baby name dictionary to interpret Jubilees. This man has zero credibility.

Close on the heels of the absurdities laid out above is Tim's claim that Bengali slang is in the text of Jubilees. It may not be the second worst claim he has made but it's certainly up there. Let's take a brief look.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXK1Z8ZZCCk

18:00 "And it extends toward the west to the sea of 'Atel.' Okay, where are we again? We're in the western edge of Sumatra basically. So to head west what is the sea you run into immediately? It's the Indian Ocean, right? Okay. So we cannot find a reference to the Indian Ocean as the Atel sea. Just can't find it anywhere. It is an ancient reference thus further proving that this book was written long before 200 to 100 BC. So do we head off around the world at this point and try to find something that sounds similar? Why? The word Atel which sounds like the very popular Indian name Patel is actually Bengali meaning a satirical term for intellectual. So it makes perfect sense that the Indian Ocean would have been referred and referenced in more ancient times as Atel sea. More so it is the sea to the west of Sumatra and we do not believe Noah would miss such a large body of water and skip to where some scholars say to the Atlantic.

"The word Atel...is actually Bengali meaning a satirical term for intellectual. So it makes perfect sense that the Indian Ocean would have been referred and referenced in more ancient times as Atel sea."  What he is saying here is that It makes sense that the Indian Ocean used to be referred to in more ancient times as the Atel Sea because Atel is a Bengali word. But why does that make sense exactly? He does not say. He gives no etymology for Atel except to say it's a Bengali word without explaining why it is a Bengali word within the context of Jubilees. He makes the connection to the Indian Ocean without giving an explanation as to why he does so. 

Keep in mind that Tim  also says that he cannot find any reference to the Indian Ocean as the Atel sea. He is once again contradicting himself. If he cannot find such a reference then he cannot know that the Indian Ocean was ever referred to as the Atel Sea. This fact significantly undermines his claim that the Indian Ocean is the Atel Sea.

Furthermore it simply makes no etymological sense that because Atel is Bengali that it makes perfect sense as the name for the Indian Ocean. The definition of this word is very important to figuring out where Noah is mapping. If it is the Atlantic as all the experts say then Tim is 100% wrong in his mapping. But Tim is insistent that it is a perfect linguistic match in Bengali. He makes this connection  twice in his annotated Book of Jubilees.

...sea of ’Atêl as the Indian Ocean which is Bengali in origin thus the Indian Ocean and definitively by the directions...

Book of Jubilees, Timothy Jay Schwab, pg 28

Book of Jubilees, Timothy Jay Schwab, pg. 85

Atel is a "satirical term for intellectual" in Bengali. It is the Indian Ocean LINGUISTICALLY and in the directions.

Tim could not be any clearer. The linguistic connection between "Atel" and "Indian Ocean" is very important to his case. It is not peripheral or secondary. It is germane. When you put it all together the conclusion is inescapable: Noah was using a Bengali slang word to identify the Indian Ocean. If he wasn't then the connection is superfluous. 

Now, as with Fara, Tim is attempting to sweep all this under the table by denying that linguistic connection.

What Territory Belongs to HAM? Answers In Jubilees: Part 3

18:47 ...claiming we say that Noah spoke Bengali essentially. Well we don't 

20:30 The fact that Atel is Bengali is a bonus which connection we do not require but it is neat that it is there and we are researchers who ask such questions to affirm things we already know. We do not say this is the Indian Ocean because Atel is Bengali. That's stupid. We say it is the Indian ocean because that is the sea to the west of Indonesia where we were in the directions. That's it. And it's nice to know that it comes back full circle and ties that Atel is in fact a word in Bengali. Wow!

That is all a jumbled lie. Tim now says that he does not identify the Indian Ocean as Atel because it is a Bengali word but only because of the directions. The fact is he says both. But now he downplays the Bengali connection by saying it is merely "neat." Why is it neat?  Why is it important to make this connection if it's not actually important? 

In Tim's introduction to the Book of Jubilees he writes that the word Atel is Bengali in origin. In this video he contradicts himself by denying that Noah was speaking Bengali or using a Bengali word. But if that is so then the connection between Atel being a Bengali word and the identity of the Indian Ocean is irrelevant. Either Noah used a Bengali word and there is a Bengali word in the text or there is not. If Noah was not using a Bengali word and there is no Bengali word in the text then Tim's exegesis which employs a Bengali word is impertinent and paralogical.

Funnily enough in this tirade Tim reveals his ethos as a researcher: "...we are researchers who ask such questions to affirm things we already know." Researchers do not ask questions to affirm what they already know. They ask questions to find out the truth of a matter. If Tim is doing research to affirm what he already knows that is called confirmation bias. Again Tim shows us all he is not a real researcher engaged in honest research. He is a parviscient fraud and a hack who used a baby name dictionary to interpret the book of Jubilees and who says he is only looking to affirm what he already knows.

While he is denying the essential linguistic connection between Atel and Bengali with the identification of the Indian Ocean is he aware of what's on the map in his video just underneath Australia?

Atel is a "satirical term for intellectual" in Bengali. It is the Indian Ocean LINGUISTICALLY and in the directions.

His very own map contradicts everything he is saying. Folks, you cannot make up this kind of stupidity. 

Tim has now deleted the videos referred to in this article. 

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLru2qbCMGOi7FQ7HiGJcODyJEoBP7-0Md

As you can see Flood Series videos 3 and 4 are now missing from this play list. Tim has replaced them with his Answers in Jubilees videos. He says he is simply updating maps but what he is really doing is deleting evidence of his past false teachings. I downloaded a copy for posterity and thankfully a God Culture fan has uploaded it on his channel. If you want to watch go to this link. 

Concerning the deleting of these videos Tim posted the following on Facebook:

Just letting everyone know as we updated and freshened our graphics with new high resolution, professional-quality maps (oh no, you are not allowed to do that are you?) and more detail for Noah's Division matching our recent publishing of The Book of Jubilees: The Torah Calendar where we invested in incredible maps, you will find in place of Parts 3&4 of the Flood Series in the playlist, new videos of Shem's Division just released as well as Ham's from the latest Answers In Jubilees and Japheth's is already there too but will go live next week. When we update such maps, we don't leave the old ones which serve no purpose for idiots to ridicule who can't even read a map in the first place

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=733353473891339&id=376627072897316

It's simply more deception from The God Culture. They are not merely updating maps. With the deletion of these videos they get rid of teachings as well as discussion in the comments and they reduce their view count. The new map isn't even accurate like the old one is. The new map is a cartoon while the old map was a projection of the earth as it is onto a flat surface. There was a lot of information in that video besides simply mapping out Noah's division to Ham and Japheth. Now Timothy has deleted all of that. 

These new videos are also now labelled as part of 3 different series: Answers in Jubilees, The Flood Series, and 100 Clues. That makes for jumbled playlists and a lot of clutter and overlap. In fact several old videos have now been rebranded to be part of the 100 Clues series. It's more than a little lazy for Tim to retroactively add videos to a series he has basically abandoned, 100 Clues. It is also very disorganized as now several videos are on several different playlists.

It is also a great disservice to his audience. Just read this comment from a new viewer who is looking for Flood Series videos 3 and 4 which Tim mentions in his other videos but has now deleted.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrqCzFOnUmg&lc=Ugw8Ip8ezUyGSAZ_tVx4AaABAg

I would like to thank you for these videos that are meticulously compiled complete with the relevant supporting evidences. These are excellent videos. However I like to make a suggestion to make the viewing of such videos more meaningful. For someone new to this videos, it would be good if you could provide a road map of where to start and proceed. For example, I started with the Revelation series as I happened to chanced upon one of them while doing a video search. It then led me to the Solomon Gold series. Somewhere in the Solomon Gold series it was suggested we see for videos 1 and 2 of the Flood Series which I did. As I proceeded on with the Solomon Gold series, I was asked to see videos 3 and 4 of Flood Series. I did find 3B but could not find 3A as I assumed there should be one. Anyways, my suggestion is that is it possible to provide a road map to all your videos as a guide to which videos should be watched first and how they are logically sequenced? You have hundreds of videos and I would love to go through them. A road map to the logical sequence to view this would be great ... Just a suggestion :)

This guy was watching Tim's videos and following his recommendations to watch certain other videos. But now two of those videos have been deleted leaving this guy wondering what's happening. This is a prime example of why Tim should not have deleted his videos. 

It's not that one cannot grow in their understanding and abandon false teachings. However that is not what Timothy is actually doing. The importance of this video is that it shows Tim had no idea and still has no idea what he is talking about when it comes to the Book of Jubilees. For goodness sake he used a baby name dictionary to interpret that ancient text! And he dares to call me a fool?

P.S.  I am not going to rewrite any of the above but I want to clarify that Timothy has now undeleted the videos for Flood Series 3 and 4. The thing is though they are currently UNLISTED which means you cannot search for them and you won't see them in his list of videos.

Since the videos are unlisted they are unsearchable and invisible which makes them as good as deleted. Perhaps he will rectify this situation in the future.