The God Culture: 100 Lies About the Philippines: Lie #22: Abraham Farissol Locates the Lost Tribes of Israel in the Philippines

Welcome back to 100 Lies the God Culture Teaches About the Philippines.  Today's lie concerns Tim's claims about Abraham Farissol. Abraham Farissol was a Jew who lived during the Renaissance and wrote a book called Iggeret Orhot Olam in which he discusses the location of the Lost tribes of Israel. Tim claims he placed them in the Philippines but as we shall see that is not only a lie but Tim has never even read what Farissol wrote!

In one of his videos Tim says the following:

Clue#25: Philippines is Ophir: Magellan, Pinto, Barbosa, King of Spain, Cabot KNEW - Ophir, Tarshish

2:00 First to follow up on Columbus from our last video. We said Columbus in his margin notes and journal had initially found in his research the location of Ophir, Tarshish, the Garden of Eden, and some of the lost tribes of Israel all in the Philippines in fact. He was not the only one however in his era. 

Now, this original writing is lost to history but preserved in an 1846 book by Rev. Thomas Stackhouse.  Stackhouse records that Italian-Jewish scholar and contemporary to Columbus, Farrisol, reached the very same conclusion regarding the lost tribes. He says the lost tribes of Israel are in, for one,...THE PHILIPPINES!  Huh? Ever hear that one in your history class? Yeah. Us either. 

Gee, these Italian-Jews were searching hard for the lost tribes in the Philippines.

This same claim is also in Tim's book The Search for King Solomon's Treasure.

The Search for King Solomon's Treasure, pg 128

Take note that Tim is not citing Abraham Farissol but a Reverend Tomas Stackhouse. Stackhouse does not even cite Farissol but gives a summation of what he claims Farissol wrote:

Another Jewish author, in his description of the world, has found out very commodious habitations for the ten tribes, and in many places has given them a glorious establishment. In a country which he calls Perricha, inclosed by unknown mountains, and bounded by Assyria, he has settled some, and made them a flourishing and populous kingdom. Others he places in the desert of Chabor, which, according to him, lies upon the Indian sea, where they live, in the manner of the ancient Rechabites, without houses, sowing, or the use of wine. Nay, he enters the Indies likewise, and peoples the banks of the Ganges, the isles of Bengala, the Philippines, and several other places, with the Jews, to whom he assigns a powerful king, called Daniel, who had three other kings tributary, and dependent on him. But this is all of the same piece, a forged account to aggrandize the nation, and to make it be believed, that the sceptre is not departed from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, and that Shiloh consequently is not yet come. 

https://archive.org/details/historyofholybib00stac/page/649/mode/2up

Does Farissol locate the Desert of Chabor on the Indian Sea? No he does not. He says it is in Asia Major. This is all laid out in chapter 14 of Farissol's book Iggeret Orhot Olam of which I have found an English translation. It was published in 3 parts over the course of 3 issues of The Occident and Jewish American Advocate in 1849.

In this chapter Farissol relates the visit of a member of the lost tribes to Rome. He came to Rome from the Desert of Chabor by way of Arabia Felix, which is Yemen, Egypt, and then Israel. He locates two of the tribes in this desert and the other ten near Mecca and Jeddah. That is nowhere near the Philippines. The magazine has extensive footnotes which are worth reading. Here is part of the chapter.

This was in the two hundred and eighty-third year of the sixth millennium, when we received, through a Venetian vessel a communication from the Land of Beauty, written in the Hebrew language, informing us that a certain Jew, from the tribes of Israel, had arrived there, declaring many novel things concerning them. The details however, were not made public, until, after having crossed the sea in the two hundred and eighty-fourth year of the sixth millennium, he arrived at Venice, and thence proceeded to Rome, where he was favourably received by all those who became acquainted with the object of his journey and the nature of his mission. 

As understood from his own assertions, this Jew was from the company of the two tribes, and he farther said that he was an inhabitant of those deserts, and, like the Rechabites, dwell in tents, and that his station was in the Desert of Chabor, which is in Asia Major. Beneath them were the rest of the ten tribes, near to the deserts adjoining Mecca and Gjudda, which are adjacent to the Red Sea. They have each and all of them their chiefs and princes, and the people are as the sand of the seashore for numbers. They raise spices, pepper in particular, as also medical drugs ; and, indeed, they possess many excellent things, as we shall show hereafter. Living between these two sections of the Jewish people, however, there is a strong and mighty people who are followers of Mahomet. These, with their numerous kings, render a communication among the Jews exceedingly dangerous, and they will not permit one party to approach the other. 

Many years had they been thus widely separated, endeavouring to approach each other, but finding it impossible to do so, when they were apprised of the arrival of some Christian ships of very large and mighty proportions. They also heard, and, indeed, saw, that the Christians had in their hands certain hollow metal instruments of war designed to throw stones by means of fire, and which could destroy any fortress or village. Whereupon, the Jews of Mount Chabor, according to his statement, determined upon sending him to the great king of all the Christians, with the credentials then in  his possession, as before stated, in order to authenticate his assertions. These credentials were confirmed by the king of Portugal who then navigated the regions of the Hodiyim (or Indies), and who knew of the existence of a Jewish community there. He also wrote to the Pope, (whose glory be exalted,) that the above mentioned Jew was worthy of credit, as were also his declarations. But be this Jew what he may, and be his words true or false, it is sufficient for us, in our captivity and in our dispersions (to know), that the existence of the ten tribes was acknowledged by kings, by princes, and by many influential persons in Rome—that Ephraim existed, even then—a numerous people with their rulers; be this Jew, who came to us, who and what he may.

Since the existence of these Israelites and their kings has been thus acknowledged; we may be permitted to state, that this Jew came by the way and in the manner following : From the desert of Chabor he journeyed with a caravan, which is the usual mode of travelling in these places. This was heard from his own lips and so recorded. Passing through Arabia Felix, he arrived at the Red Sea descended into Egypt, thence journeyed to the Holy Land, where he awaited the arrival of a ship from Venice, by which he might proceed to Italy. He reached Rome, and resided there about eight months, until the reply of the king of Portugal had been received,which authenticated his mission.

The Occident and Jewish American Advocate, June 1849, pgs. 129-134

Plotted on a map his journey looks like this: 

Arabia Felix is Yemen and that is where Farissol says he started his voyage to Italy. That means the desert of Chabor covers Yemen. But Farissol also says that Mecca and Jeddah are BENEATH this Jew's location in the deserts near Mecca and Jeddah! Actually his description does not make any sense at all. This Jew lives in the desert of Chabor and the other ten lost tribes live beneath him near Mecca but he starts his journey in Arabia Felix which is South of Mecca! Perhaps Farissol does not know what he is talking about and is making it all up?

Whatever the solution to this geographical conundrum one thing is certain. Timothy Jay Schwab is dead wrong when he says that Farissol locates the lost tribes of Israel in the Philippines. If he was a real researcher he would have read Farissol's own words which relay this fact. But because he is a fraud he has relied on the words of someone else. 

The God Culture: 100 Lies About the Philippines: Lie #21: Pigafetta Saw Peacocks in the Philippines

Welcome back to 100 lies the God Culture teaches about the Philippines. Today's lie once again concerns Antonio Pigafetta's Journal. Tim says that Pigafetta saw and ate Peacocks on the island of Palawan. 

As we shall see this is another lie easily disproved by actually reading what Pigafetta wrote and paying attention to where he is during his narration. 

100 Clues #20: Philippines Is The Ancient Land of Ophir: Peacocks? - Ophir, Sheba, Tarshish 

2:23 In his journal Pigafetta records, actually twice, the presence of the Palawan peacock. Here he describes a ship from the Philippines. What? Wait. The Philippines had ships? Oh, yes. Mega ships of that day even. We'll get there too don't worry, coming soon. This ship was even ornamented with gold on the stern. Wow! Gee, maybe that was a resource there, just guessing. And on the bow a white and blue flag with a tuft of peacock feathers, yes, peacocks. Later in Palawan Pigafetta describes an elaborate dinner being prepared for the visitors with other birds and fowl and over 30 different kinds of fish. That's quite a dinner. Oh yeah, and there were they were preparing peacock for dinner as well! 

Tim has this same testimony in his book The Search for King Solomon's Treasure.

The Search for King Solomon's Treasure, pg. 108

We find references to this peacock in Pigafetta’s Journal twice.

“The next day the king of that island sent a prahu to the ships; it was very handsome, with its prow and stern ornamented with gold; on the bow fluttered a white and blue flag, with a tuft of peacock’s feathers at the top of the staff” –Pigafetta, 1521 [85]

“Afterwards there came nine men to the governor’s house, sent by the king, with as many large wooden trays, in each of which were ten or twelve china dishes, with the flesh of various animals, such as veal, capons, fowls, peacocks, and others, with various sorts of fish, so that only of flesh there were thirty or thirty-two different viands.”

–Pigafetta, 1521 [85]

The problem here is that, just as with the elephants Pigafetta saw, this happened in Borneo, not Palawan!

Notice that the ship Pigafetta describes is also Bornean and not Filipino. Pigafetta says quite clearly that it was sent by the King of Borneo himself. 

http://ia600501.us.archive.org/9/items/firstvoyageround00piga/firstvoyageround00piga.pdf

Pigafetta at no time ever records that he encountered peacocks while in Palawan but in Borneo. 

The Bornean peacock is a tiny little thing, a pheasant really. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bornean_peacock-pheasant

Likewise the Palawan peacock is also a small pheasant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palawan_peacock-pheasant

Here he is showing off his plumage:

https://ferrebeekeeper.wordpress.com/2013/12/16/the-palawan-peacock-pheasant/

Does that look like the photo in Tim's video about peacocks in the Philippines? Of course not. That is because he is using a picture of the Indian peafowl.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peafowl#

Not only does Tim lie about Pigafetta encountering peacocks in Palawan but he cannot even be bothered to use an actual photo of the Palawan Peacock-pheasant!

This is the third time we have seen Tim lie about Pigafetta's journal. The first lie was that he saw elephants, the second lie was that Pigafetta recorded Samar as being Cattigara, and now this third lie is that Pigafetta encountered peacocks in Palawan. Why does Timothy Jay Schwab continue to lie about the journal of Antonio Pigafetta?  

The God Culture: 100 Lies About the Philippines: Lie #20: The Mosaic Law Will Be Reestablished in the Philippines In the End Times

Welcome back to 100 lies the God Culture teaches about the Philippines. Today's lie concerns the end game of Timothy Jay Schwab's fake history about the Philippines. Tim teaches that because the Philippines is Ophir, Tarshish, the land of creation, etc, that means these islands play a special part in prophecy. To wit, the Mosaic Law will be reestablished in the Philippines in the end times. 

As we shall see this is not simply another lie but it is a total repudiation of the Gospel and of Jesus Christ. 

https://www.facebook.com/sabbathbc.congregation/videos/2216671111842774

21:08 This is why Yahusha said this land will restore his law. This land will rise against the final generation (kingdom?). It's why Isaiah said His law will be restored in this land. Why just the Philippines? It's not just the Philippines, it's the land of creation, the land of the Garden of Eden, the land of his Holy of Holies. His presence is here. You know, one thing you wonder and a lot of the world wonders and, I don't know, I'm sure there's studies that show somebody else somewhere, to me Filipinos are the happiest people on earth. At some point you've been conquered and raped and stolen from and all of these things in history in the last 400 years or so and yet you're still the happiest people on earth. Why? Because you are just above the Holy of Holies above Yahuah. That's why. Wow.

This scenario is described in much greater detail in the final chapter of Tim's book The Search For King Solomon's Treasure.

By 1599, Ophir, now called the Philippines christened after their Babylonian ruler, acquiesced and officially recognized the conquest of it’s inhabitants and thus, the Estate of Adam was transplanted and usurped illegally. The citizenry who was once so prosperous and blessed would now watch the Estate of Adam being eroded and used to fund the rise of the beast from the headquarters of the prince demon named Gog in Western and Central Europe (Ez. 38-39). This was foretold by the prophets and Messiah. However, this is not the end of this story but the onset of what will become the new beginning of all things to which this populace will find themselves central. The empire struck back but the jedi shall return – not the occult mind-melting form of Hollywood but the righteous priests of the East who will execute His counsel (Is. 41:1-2 and 9, Is. 46:11).

In the transition into the twenty-first century, this 400-year curse is coming to an end. Sheba who had been subdued will now rise up and judge her conquerors (Matt. 12:42) as well as Gog (Ez. 38:13). Joined by Tarshish (Ez. 38:13, Is. 60:9) and the Isles of the East in Ophir, united in purpose, this nation will usher in the return of the Lost Tribes of Israel it protects (Is. 60:9). They will see the restoration of the Estate of Adam seven-fold as the thief has been found (Prov. 6:31). It will again become a protected land (Rev. 12:15-16) who will first repent of it’s abandoning Yahuah and it’s role (Is. 41:3-5). This people will then restore the ways of Yahuah in His Sabbath (Is. 41:3-5) and the Cagayan Feasts (Chaggayah: חגיח: Feast of Yah) which first began in this region of Sebu. They will reinstate His law and commands (Is. 42:4, Is. 60:9) and return to a place of judging righteously in Him (Is. 41:1-2, Is. 46:11) and then, the Philippines will see the reinstatement of Adam’s priestly line of judges (Is. 42:4, Is. 41:1-2, Is. 46:11, Ez. 38:13, Matt. 12:42).

All of the inhabitants of these isles at the end of the earth shall sing a new song of worship (Is. 42:10). As a people, it will condemn this Babylonian sorcery publicly and openly with vigor (Matt. 12:42, Luke 11:30, Ez. 38:13). For this is the last stand where a standard will be raised which even the beast system can no longer penetrate (Rev. 12:15- 16). Together, with Nineveh (modern Kurdistan), these isles will rise up in judgment as the two witnesses sending prophets from among them to Jerusalem in the last days (Matt. 12:41-42, Rev. 11). The question is, will you be among them? Or will you stand in their way?

The Search for King Solomon's Treasure, pgs 347 - 348

As you can see there is much happening in this piece of end times fiction. But I only want to focus on the part about Filipinos reinstating the law and then sending prophets, or representatives of Adam's priestly line of judges, to Jerusalem to condemn the New World Order.

We will observe this pattern continuously in these scriptures. These isles in the East will judge the New World Order and the final generation not on Judgment Day but now. In order to become a judge one must have an adherence to the law or they have no measure by which to judge. Wait til you find out Yahuah will restore His law in this archipelago. 

The Search for King Solomon's Treasure, pg. 245

But first we must understand what Tim means by the Estate of Adam. Except for brief hints in his book The Search for King Solomon's Treasure Tim does not tell us anything about what this means. But he does have a video devoted to the subject. 

The Estate of Adam: Solomon's Gold 2i. 100 Clues#50.

:28 In delving into even further research we began to understand even better the purpose of all of this see this gold of Ophir along with all the other resources of this land really ancient Havilah representing Adam's Estate, his inheritance to his people. Yes, he inherited the entire earth but he lived, he inhabited the Philippines. When we hear things like the possible Marco's gold return, which we cannot verify any amounts especially, but listen to what is being said because it's very odd the gold will be for the world. Well, why? Friends this is from Adams's Estate the modern Philippines occupies his homeland and they are caretakers of this gold. 

The gist is that Adam and Eve were exiled from the Garden of Eden to the Philippines after they had sinned. According to Tim that makes the Philippines Adam's Estate and the current occupants, Filipinos, are caretakers of Adam's gold. That is pure fantasy not to be found in the Bible or in any extra-Biblical or apocryphal texts. We will come back to this in just a moment.  

Now let's take a look at Tim's claim that the Philippines will reinstate the law of God in the end times. By God's law Tim means the entire Mosaic Law but without sacrifices which is rather nonsensical because the law stands or falls as a whole. Now, we can know this is a huge lie because the Mosaic law will NEVER be restored in any land or nation. We know this because Jesus Christ has come and fulfilled all things. Paul tells us the purpose of the law was to lead us to Christ.

Galatians 3:23 But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.

24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

25 But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.

This is basic Christianity right here. The law brings us to Christ and now through faith in Him we are no longer under the law. We are brought under the law of faith and justified apart from the deeds of the law.

Romans 3:27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.

28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.

The law of Moses is contrasted with the dispensation of Christ being called the ministration of death and condemnation.

2 Corinthinans  3:7  But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:

8 How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?

9 For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.

Why would God ever want to restore the ministration of death and condemnation when Jesus has come, fulfilled all things, and given us the ministration of the Spirit? He would not and to think otherwise is not only ludicrous but is to blaspheme Jesus Christ and everything he did. 

So, the first thing the Philippines does is restore the Mosaic Law. Tim might bristle at that name because he teaches, per the Book of Jubilees, that Adam was given the same law in the Garden of Eden which Moses was given on Mt. Sinai. But the Bible expressly refutes this notion.

Galatians 3:17 And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.

This is another reason the Book of Jubilees is not scripture. Galatians contradicts Jubilees so clearly that any sane and truthful person cannot but admit what is so plain. The law was not given to Adam but to Moses 430 years after the promise was given to Abraham. 

Now let's talk about "Adam's priestly line of judges." The verses Tim refers to are Is. 42:4, Is. 41:1-2, Is. 46:11, Ez. 38:13, Matt. 12:42. But none of those verses, each of which has been grossly wrested from its context, say anything remotely about "Adam's priestly line of judges." In fact, the Bible never speaks of such a thing. There is now only ONE priest and He is Jesus Christ who is a priest after the order of Melchizedek and not Levi. Along with this changing of the priesthood comes a changing of the law. 

Hebrews 6:20 Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

Hebrews 7:11 If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?

12 For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.

In his book Rest: The Case for Sabbath Tim tries to get around this by stating that the Order of Melchsidec is an ancient order that mirrors the law of Moses and that this law which the Order of Melchsidec promulgated is what made Abraham righteous.

He then, continues with a section titled “The Mosaic rites” (9:1) and you well know that is the Old Testament. He calls it the “first covenant” yet he parallels the new covenant as Messiah is our High Priest now replacing the Levite order with the ancient order (not a new one) of Melchizedek to which Abraham tithed. That was not just a foreshadowing of his tithe to Jesus(Yahusha), it is a testament that Abraham had a Law to follow which is how he was judged righteous and that was under the Order of Melchizedek to which we have returned as it is not new.

The covenant is new indeed but the Law is not. It never has been. Otherwise, there would be no measure in Abraham’s day to determine his righteousness with right or Law. It is that ancient Priestly Order of Melchizedek to which we have returned in this new covenant. This largely mirrors the Law of Moses as well as that applicable from the days of Adam, Enoch and Noah and you will find this in the words of our Messiah over and over again. 

Rest: The Case for Sabbath, pg. 18

This is another area where Tim goes wrong. Abraham was never declared righteous because he kept the law but because he believed the word of God!

Genesis 15:16 And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.

Paul uses this very scripture in Romans 4 to argue that keeping the law does not make us righteous. 

Romans 4:1 What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?

2 For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereofto glory; but not before God.

3 For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, andit was counted unto him for righteousness.

4 Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned ofgrace, but of debt.

5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.

Further undoing this fiction of "Adam's priestly line of judges" is the fact that Jesus Christ is the second Adam who came to undo what the first Adam did.

Romans 5:14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.

1 Corinthians 15:22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

1 Corinthians 15:45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.

There simply is no "reinstatement of Adam's priestly line of judges." What need would there be for that? Christ has come and he has taken the place of the old Adam. In the old Adam we all die but in Christ we are made alive. Why go back to the old Adam? This is another denial of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The world does indeed stand condemned not by the Mosaic law but by the Holy Spirit. 

John 16:7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you

8 And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:

9 Of sin, because they believe not on me;

10 Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more;

11 Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.

The world stands condemned even now at this very moment as it rejects Jesus Christ. 

So, there you have it. Tim's prophecy of the Philippines amounts to this: In the end times Filipinos will reestablish the ministry of condemnation and death rejecting the ministry of the spirt and the gospel of Jesus Christ. What kind of prophecy is that? The Testimony Of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophecy and there is nothing about Jesus in this alleged prophecy of restoring the law. 

This is the Christ rejecting, blasphemous, end time scenario Tim envisions for the Philippines. I hope you can see how wrong it is on every level. The Mosaic law will not be restored anywhere by anyone at any time because Jesus Christ has come. The law leads us to Christ who has fulfilled all things. Our salvation comes not from keeping the feasts or the sabbath or any part of the law but only from faith in Christ. We are made righteous in Him apart from the deeds of the law. This idea that the Mosaic Law will be reestablished in the Philippines in the end times is another lie from Timothy Jay Schwab of The God Culture. 

The God Culture: 100 Lies About the Philippines: Lie #19 The Spanish Wanted Revenge for the Death of Magellan

Welcome back to 100 lies the God Culture teaches about the Philippines. Today's lie concerns the mission of Legazpi in the Philippines. Timothy Jay Schwab says Legazpi was out to get revenge for the natives killing of Magellan. As we shall see this is another of Tim's many lies. 

As with every single lie The God Culture vomits the truth can be found if one simply reads the documents Tim claims to have read. 

SATAN'S TRICK EXPOSED. Sto. Nino Is NOT Jesus. Prophetic Warning 5

5:15 "We stopped at an island where Magellan, Magellan's men were killed." 

Where's that? That is Mactan, not Cebu. Get that? In other words Lapu-Lapu island that's where they are in this narrative. He then writes:

"We landed our men and disposed the artillery of the ships." 

They were attacking Mactan in response to their killing Magellan before of course. 

"Which were close to the houses of the town so that the firing of the artillery from the said ships in the arquebuses on land drove the enemy away but we were unable to capture any of them."

Imagine that. 

"Because they had their fleet ready for the sea." 

Smart Filipinos they were expecting this. 

Oddly enough this fake history that the Spanish wanted revenge for the death of Magellan did not make it  into Tim's book The Search for Solomon's Treasure. You will not find it in any book anywhere because it did not happen. 

According to Tim the purpose of Legazpi sailing to Cebu, and it is Cebu not Mactan as I proved in a previous article, was to get revenge for the killing of Magellan. The natives were even expecting such an attack. Of course this is all false. Let's read what really happened. Arriving in Cebu Legazpi sent several men ashore to reassure the natives that they came in peace and friendship.

They were to assure the people that I did not come to do them any harm, but on the contrary to show them every favor, and to cultivate their friendship. Three times this announcement was made to them, with all the signs and kind words possible to win their friendship. But at length - seeing that all our good intentions were of no avail, and that all the natives had put on their wooden corselets and rope armor and had armed themselves with their lances, shields, small cutlasses, and arrows; and that many plumes and varicolored headdresses were waving; and that help of men had come in praus from the outside, so that their number must be almost two thousand warriors; and considering that now was the time for us to make a settlement and effect a colony, and that the present port and location were exactly suited to our needs, and that it was useless for us to wait any longer; and seeing that there was no hope for peace, and that they did not wish it, although we had offered it - the master-of-camp said to the natives through an interpreter: "Since you do not desire our friendship, and will not receive us peacefully, but are anxious for war, wait until we have landed; and look to it that you act as men, and defend yourselves from us, and guard your houses." 

The Indians answered boldly: "Be it so! Come on! We await you here." And thereupon they broke out into loud cries, covering themselves with their shields and brandishing their lances. Then they returned to the place whence they had set out, hurling their lances by divisions of threes at the boat, and returning again to their station, going and coming as in a game of cafias." Our men got ready and left the ships in boats; and as the boats left the ships for the shore, in accordance with the order given them, some shots were fired from the ships upon the multitude of praus anchored near a promontory, as well as at the landsmen upon shore, and upon the town. But, although they had showed so great a desire for war, when they heard the artillery and saw its effects, they abandoned their village without waiting for battle, and fled through the large, beautiful, and fertile open fields that are to be seen in this region. 

The Philippine Islands, Vol 2, pgs 212- 214

After the battle ended the Santo Niño was found by a soldier rifling through houses. A Mass was said and then Legazpi once again assured the natives that they came in friendship in the name of the King of Castille and he pardoned them for the death of Magellan. 

" After the mass and the sermon, the general went to treat with the king for friendship, telling him that we came thither for the King of Castilla, whose land this was, who had sent other people here before, and that they had been killed - as, for instance, Magallanes (and when Magallanes was mentioned, the king was much disturbed); but that he pardoned everything, on condition that you be his friends."

The Philippine Islands, Vol 2, pgs 128

That statement is an extract from documents not included in full in the Philippine Islands series but is part of a synopsis of documents which can be found in Spanish. The editors tell us:

 [The following synopsis is made from documents published in Col. doc. ined. Ultramar, tomos ii and iii, entitled De las Islas Filipinas. Concerning these documents the following interesting statements are taken from the editorial matter in tomo ii.

The Philippine Islands, Vol 2, pgs 77

The original Spanish text can be found on page 424 of Colección de documentos inéditos de ultramar.

Colección de documentos inéditos de ultramar

That means there is much more to this story than is to be found in this massive set of books known as The Philippine Islands or on shoddy websites like ancientphilippines.blogspot.com. Don't forget Tim acknowledges that blog as a major source for his fake history. 

The Lequios of Luzon: Key to Finding Ophir and Chryse. Clue #52

21:19 For a while now we have used definition for the Hebrew for this word from ancient Philippines blogspot. We, in the beginning in fact, we tried to quote local sources and you'll see in the description box we mentioned those guys. We also mentioned Bob's blog as well. It's all there. It's been there for three years. We've always, you know, given them some credit and those are worth reading because really that's where we started with the history portion. We started reading their stuff and then we started branching out from there. Yes, we verified everything that we could and if there was something that we couldn't verify such as the gold found in first century Egypt as easily we took it from numerous sources so we felt pretty good with it and went with it and turns out it's proving to be fine as a reference. So far our sources by the way check out to be very good.

Actually his sources check out to be not very good at all. Timothy Jay Schwab knows nothing of the real history of the Spanish in the Philippines because he is such a poor researcher that not only has he not read the books he cites but he has not even looked for the information that is more important such as that contained in the Spanish archives. 

The God Culture: 100 Lies About the Philippines: Lie #18 Filipinos Rejected the Santo Niño

Welcome back to 100 lies the God Culture teaches about the Philippines. Today's lie concerns the Santo Niño which Magellan gifted to the natives of Cebu. Timothy Jay Schwab says after Magellan was killed they rejected that statue. As we shall see this is another of Tim's many lies. 

This is another lie that is easily disproved if one reads the sources rather than cherrypick them for quotes. Magellan gave the King of Cebu the Santo Niño. Tim says when Magellan was killed Lapulapu took the statue as a trophy of war to Mactan and it was never worshipped.

SATAN'S TRICK EXPOSED. Sto. Nino Is NOT Jesus. Prophetic Warning 5

4:04 Now, what happened to this Santo Nino child after that? Well, they record it. Cebu didn't even keep it. It turns out according to the letter from the royal officials, that's people like Legaspi and all of the the different captains and generals and whatever titles of the Philippines, so, the Spanish royal officials that is, riding from Cebu in 1565, this is their actual letter translated into English as published in the encyclopedia series called the Philippines, uh the Philippine Islands, this is volume 2 number 55. About as credible and widely published as a history can get in fact and by the way so is Pigafetta's journal we which we used before it sits in the British Museum, the Italian Museum, and Yale University to this day. This is real history. Your textbook? Not so much. Now, let's read their actual words here. 

"We stopped at an island where Magellan, Magellan's men were killed." 

Where's that? That is Mactan, not Cebu. Get that? In other words Lapu-Lapu island that's where they are in this narrative. He then writes:

"We landed our men and disposed the artillery of the ships." 

They were attacking Mactan in response to their killing Magellan before of course. 

"Which were close to the houses of the town so that the firing of the artillery from the said ships in the arquebuses on land drove the enemy away but we were unable to capture any of them."

Imagine that. 

"Because they had their fleet ready for the sea." 

Smart Filipinos they were expecting this. 

"They abandoned their houses and we found in them nothing," hear that? "Nothing except an image of the Child Jesus and two culverins one of iron and one of bronze." Hmm. "Which can be of no service to us. It is believed that they were brought here at the time of Magellan."

This is the Santo Nino. Did you get this? The Santo Nino that Magellan brought the same one that is enshrined in the bulletproof glass paraded around on Santo Nino day as Jesus. It was not found in Cebu so Cebu shouldn't even be keeping this festival. And the other people were not worshiping it. Cebu was not worshiping it. It wasn't there. It was found with Lapu-Lapu's people on Mactan, you know the ones who rejected first and killed Magellan. It was likely given to Lapu-Lapu as a sort of trophy for his role which inspired the king of Cebu to follow and kill Barbosa and the other leaders. It was not being worshipped and what a statement. Everything was removed from these houses, got that? Everything except this Santo Nino and two other gifts that Magellan had given and not to Mactan and Lapu-Lapu, no, these are gifts Magellan gave to the king of Cebu and the Queen. The king of Cebu and his people rejected Catholicism. They did not worship this statue. Yeah there was a three week or so period but that was it. In the end they rejected and Lapu-Lapu people most certainly did not worship it.

In fact even here 40 years later they left it sitting there with just to culverins that's it nothing else. This was a statement saying this is not ours you can have it back. If they worshipped it or if it had any value they would have taken it with them. After all, the Spanish would not have even expected to find a statue among the inhabitants of Mactan of all places as they are the ones who rebelled first. Nothing in the narrative fits what we're being told.

Tim says the same thing in his book The Search for King Solomon's Treasure. 

Solomon's Gold, pg. 257

Not only was this a wholesale repudiation of Magellan, Barbosa and everything European including their religion and their King, but when the Spanish returned to Mactan forty years later in 1565, Filipinos there were not worshipping the Santo Niño idol left behind.

“We stopped at an island where Magallanes’s men were killed...”

As we have just said, they declared that not only they would not give us anything, but that they were willing to fight us. Thus we were forced to accept the challenge. We landed our men and disposed the artillery of the ships, which were close to the houses of the town, so that the firing of the artillery from the said ships and the arquebuses on land drove the enemy away; but we were unable to capture any of them, because they had their fleet ready for the sea. They abandoned their houses, and we found in them nothing except an image of the child Jesus, and two culverins, one of iron and one of bronze, which can be of no service to us; it is believed that they were brought here at the time of Magallanes.” 

–Letter from Royal Officials of Filipinas from Cubu, 1665

The inhabitants of Mactan took everything from their houses of value and fled except very minor items. All that remained from their houses was two culverins and the Santo Nino idol left by Magellan in Cebu. He did not leave this idol in Mactan. Perhaps Lapu Lapu secured it from the King of Zubu as a trophy of sort. However, there is zero evidence this statue was worshipped that entire time between 1521 and 1565 in Mactan. In fact, the people of Mactan were sending a message in leaving behind practically only this one thing. They did not worship it and stating “we think you left something when you were here last.”

This letter is in a book of other documents about the same events. It is a brief description of the Spaniards landing in Cebu and finding the Santo Niño. From the very book Tim quotes, The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803, Volume II, 1521-1569, we read the following:

The fleet set sail for Cebú, where after landing they found the village deserted. Legazpi ordered that each mess of four soldiers should take one house and the rest of the houses be destroyed. Everything was removed from the houses before any were destroyed. The general ordered that a thick set palisade of stakes be built, including therein a few wells of fresh water. "This village was built in triangular shape, with two water-fronts and one land side." The artillery was placed to defend the coast, while the Spaniards relied on the palisade for protection on the land side, until the fort could be built. Companies were sent out to scour the country for food, and "always brought back fowl, hogs, rice, and other things … and some good gold." The natives to the number of one hundred came to make peace one day. "In this town when we entered we found therein a child Jesus. A sailor named Mermeo found it. It was in a wretched little house, and was covered with a white cloth in its cradle, and its little bonnet quite in order. The tip of its nose was rubbed off somewhat, and the skin was coming off the face. The friars took it and carried it in procession on a feast day, from the house where it was found to the church that they had built."

http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/13280/pg13280.html

Mactan is RIGHT NEXT TO CEBU. It would not be surprising if these new arrivals mixed up Mactan and Cebu. In fact Legazpi makes this same conflation in this very volume.

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/13280/pg13280.html

in that part where the men of Magallanes were killed, called the island of Cubu

In fact Legazpi is even more direct in his letters about this Child Jesus being found in Cebu.

From this village of Cubu, I have despatched the ship with the father prior [Urdaneta] and my grandson, Phelipe de Zauzedo, with a long relation of the things which I boldly write here to your excellency. They will inform his majesty at length, as persons who have been eyewitnesses of all especially of what has taken place here, the state of the new settlement, and the arrangements made for everything.

And because it is worth knowing, and so that your excellency may understand that God, our Lord, has waited in this same place, and that he will be served, and that pending the beginning of the extension of his holy faith and most glorious name, he has accomplished most miraculous things in this western region, your excellency should know that on the day when we entered this village one of the soldiers went into a large and well-built house of an Indian, where he found an image of the child Jesus (whose most holy name I pray may be universally worshiped). This was kept in its cradle, all gilded, just as it was brought from España; and only the little cross which is generally placed upon the globe in his hand was lacking. This image was well kept in that house, and many flowers were found before it, no one knows for what object or purpose. The soldier bowed before it with all reverence and wonder, and brought the image to the place where the other soldiers were. I pray the holy name of this image which we have found here, to help us and to grant us victory, in order that these lost people who are ignorant of the precious and rich treasure which was in their possession, may come to a knowledge of him.

The Philippine Islands, Vol 2, pgs 214- 216

He is also wrong that the natives did not worship the Santo Niño. They admitted they did so. Antonio Morga writes the following about Legazpi's mission to the Philippines and the finding of the Santo Niño.

He continued his voyage until reaching the island of Sebu, where he anchored, induced by the convenience of a good port and by the nature of the land. At first he was received peacefully by the natives and by their chief Tupas; but later they tried to kill him and his companions, for the Spaniards having seized their provisions, the natives took up arms against the latter; but the opposite to their expectations occurred, for the Spaniards conquered and subdued them. Seeing what had happened in Sebu, the natives of other neighboring islands came peacefully before the adelantado, rendered him homage, and supplied his camp with a few provisions. The first of the Spanish settlements was made in that port, and was called the city of Sanctisimo Nombre de Jesus [Most holy name of Jesus], because a carved image of Jesus had been found in one of the houses of the natives when the Spaniards conquered the latter, which was believed to have been left there by the fleet of Magallanes. The natives held the image in great reverence, and it wrought miracles for them in times of need. The Spaniards placed it in the monastery of St. Augustine, in that city.

History of the Philippines, Antonio Morga

It is simply not true that the Santo Niño was not found in Cebu or that it was not worshipped. To this day its finding in Cebu is celebrated every year by devotees and the people continue to pray to it for miracles. Timothy Jay Schwab's claim to the contrary is another lie he teaches about the history of the Philippines.