The God Culture: The Replica Temple at Qumran

The doctrines of Timothy Jay Schwab who is the God Culture are not only appallingly heretical but downright unhistorical. Tim teaches that not only was the temple defiled by the Hasmoneans who usurped the priesthood and that the true temple priests fled to Qumran but he also teaches that those priests took the true temple worship with them including sacrifices. He says this very clearly and in no uncertain terms in an interview with Zen Garcia. 

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1:07:45 So, they call it the Dead Sea Scrolls. The reality is it's the Bethabara Scrolls. They are found in Bethabara and this was a community where the temple priests lived and continued the temple rituals, the temple sacrifices, all of that continued in this community. Just read their writings and it's very clear they were all about the law they were all about Covenant. They were all about keeping the Commandments and teaching it.

In a comment on one his videos Tim goes much further and claims the fleeing temple priests apparently built a replica of the temple in the wilderness of Qumran also known as Bethabara.

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@scordova98: Okay all of this is great but I still am left with the question I've never been able to answer if the temple was desecrated at 165 BC why does Zechariah John's father offer incense at it?

@TheGodCulture: You assume he was in Jerusalem. The text does not say that. He may well have been in Qumran instead. That was a replica of the Temple and the legitimate Temple Priests were ONLY there. Otherwise, you do not know the pressures of that day with the Pharisees and he may well have been forced if in Jerusalem. The point is you don't know and you have no question because you can't ask one when you only make an assumption that may be wrong. If he was in Jerusalem, you just don't know so why assume the worst? That is no way to view scripture and your hypothetical in which you don't know the circumstances has no bearing on the Temple being desecrated as it was period. That is not up for debate especially not on such a non-point which you have none. Yah Bless.

It is quite possible Tim may mean that the community itself "was a replica of the temple" but that would not make sense if they were offering sacrifices and doing other rituals which required a physical temple. And Tim has said very clearly that the Qumran Community was engaged in such worship. 

The Gospel of Luke is very clear that Zacharias, John the Baptist's father, offered up incense in the temple which was a physical building. Tim says no such verses exist in the New Testament.

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@sglc27 Thank you for this. I have a question. Zechariah John the baptist father still serve in the temple as priest before he is born right? So is the Pharisees reigning in the temple already that time of Zechariah or not yet? Because Zechariah is the priest that time right they still doing the old testament priestly orders? Because the romans are ruling already in Israel right? I am kind of confuse by the timeline. I’ m new in learning this.

@TheGodCulture Yes, since 165 BC, the Pharisee Sanhedrin controlled the worship system and the Temple. They were the government as well before the Romans as the Hasmonean Dynasty. All the same Samaritan imposter paradigm. John's father and the other Priestly Courses still served on their rotations about 2 weeks per year and in the Feasts. However, this could have been done in Bethabara instead of the Temple. There is no mention of the Priestly Courses in the Temple in the New Testament which is rather odd. Yah Bless.

Tim couldn't be more wrong. In Luke chapter one we read the following verses. 

5 There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth.

8 And it came to pass, that while he executed the priest's office before God in the order of his course,

9 According to the custom of the priest's office, his lot was to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord.

10 And the whole multitude of the people were praying without at the time of incense.

11 And there appeared unto him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of incense.

21 And the people waited for Zacharias, and marvelled that he tarried so long in the temple.

22 And when he came out, he could not speak unto them: and they perceived that he had seen a vision in the temple: for he beckoned unto them, and remained speechless.

Zacharias goes INTO the temple while the people wait OUTSIDE. He offers up incense on the altar of incense and encounters "an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of incense." The people wonder why he tarries "SO LONG IN THE TEMPLE." Then he comes OUT of the temple. Very clearly Zacharias was inside a building known as the temple. The ONLY temple recorded in the scriptures is the one in Jerusalem. Ergo Zacharias offered up incense in the temple at Jerusalem. 

Yet Tim says we cannot possibly know Zacharias was in Jerusalem.

You assume he was in Jerusalem. The text does not say that.

True the text does not say he was in Jerusalem but it does not need to because there is only ONE temple and it is in Jerusalem. It's like reading a book about someone visiting the Empire State Building. Does the author really need to tell you that the action takes place in New York City? 

But Tim says Zacharias could have been in Qumran.

He may well have been in Qumran instead. That was a replica of the Temple and the legitimate Temple Priests were ONLY there. 

Well, the text certainly does not say or give any hint that he was in Qumran. If he was in Qumran then there would have had to been "a replica of the Temple" as Tim says. The text is clear that Zacharias went in and out of a building. Has there been any discovery of the ruins of a temple at Qumran? No and Tim offers no proof for his baseless claim except to mention baptistries. 

13:12 I mean well look first of all what you see what we're doing here is systematically we're going through the Qumran find, what they call the Dead Sea Scrolls inappropriately, because 99.9% is all in Qumran, it's one Community. They had a, a basically, a temple that they built there. Wasn't the temple but it, it was structured like it with lots of water etc.

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Finally, Tim says something mind blowing. He insinuates even if Zacharias was in Jerusalem he might have been forced to offer up incense in the temple against his will!

Otherwise, you do not know the pressures of that day with the Pharisees and he may well have been forced if in Jerusalem. The point is you don't know and you have no question because you can't ask one when you only make an assumption that may be wrong. If he was in Jerusalem, you just don't know so why assume the worst?

Amazing. How exactly would the Pharisees force Zacharias to offer up incense in the temple? The text never even hints at such a thing. Tim is adding his own spin to the text. Now a story that is straightforward has become something else entirely. The sinister element of Zacharias being forced into the temple by the Pharisees is absolutely unprovable and ridiculous in light of the fact there is only one temple ever mentioned in scripture and it was located in Jerusalem. 

Furthermore the Qumran Community said in their own writings that they did not engage in animal sacrifices or any other temple rituals in the wilderness.

The second issue has to do with the sect’s attitude towards the Temple and Temple sacrifice. While some Essenes, notwithstanding their vow of total fidelity to the Law of Moses, rejected the validity of the Sanctuary and refused to participate (temporarily) in its rites (cf. Philo, Omnis probus 75; Josephus, Antiquities XVIII, 19), they evaded the theological dilemma in which this stand might have placed them by contending that until the rededication of the Temple, the only true worship of God was to be offered in their establishment. The Council of the Community was to be the ‘Most Holy Dwelling for Aaron’ where, ‘without the flesh of holocausts and the fat of sacrifice‘, a ‘sweet fragrance’ was to be sent up to God, and where prayer was to serve ‘as an acceptable fragrance of righteousness’ (IQS VIII, 8-9; IX, 4-5). The Community itself was to be the sacrifice offered to God in atonement for Israel’s sins (IQS VIII, 4-5; 4Q265 fr. 7 ii).

The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls, Gaza Vermes, pg. 83

The Community Rule says:

In the Council of the Community there shall be twelve men and three Priests, perfectly versed in all that is revealed of the Law, whose works shall be truth, righteousness, justice, loving-kindness and humility. They shall preserve the faith in the Land with steadfastness and meekness and shall atone for sin by the practice of justice and by suffering the sorrows of affliction.

Vermes, pg. 108-109 

When these become members of the Community in Israel according to all these rules, they shall establish the spirit of holiness according to everlasting truth. They shall atone for guilty rebellion and for sins of unfaithfulness, that they may obtain loving-kindness for the Land without the flesh of holocausts and the fat of sacrifice. And prayer rightly offered shall be as an acceptable fragrance of righteousness, and perfection of way as a delectable free-will offering.

Vermes, pg 110

Prayer was offered up "as an acceptable fragrance of righteousness." That means they did not make an incense offering. That means Zachariah could not have been performing the ritual of offering up incense in the temple in the wilderness of Qumran!

This claim that there was a replica temple in the wilderness of Qumran and that Zacharias might have offered up incense there is totally without merit and not founded upon anything except Tim's imagination. The claim that Zacharias might have been forced by the Pharisees to offer up incense in the temple at Jerusalem is also bankrupt of any foundation except Tim's delusions. These claims are more proof that Timothy Jay Schwab of The God Culture is totally ignorant and has no idea what he is talking about. 

The God Culture: Exclusive Interview With The God Culture

Recently my lovely assistant sat down with Timothy Jay Schwab of The God Culture for an in-depth interview. What follows is the transcript.

Exclusive Interview With The God Culture

Tonight we have a very special guest, Timothy Jay Schwab of The God Culture. We will be diving deep into his doctrines.  Get ready because this interview will blow you away. 

How are you tonight Mr. Schwab?

0:29 Doing Great.

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That's good to hear. So, you are an American who moved to the Philippines not too long ago. Tell us about what it meant for you to relocate to the Philippines. 

2:11:00 You know, I have been here in the Philippines now for about eight years. Even becoming a  citizen and you can call me Petros. Nah, keep calling me the same thing. But you know I fell in love with this country a long time ago first with a beautiful woman who changed my life and just observing the culture of her and her mother and the way the Philippine people operate as opposed to the average American way....wow! I mean this has just been amazing.

But I had no idea where that would lead. You know, we moved here to the Philippines we weren't exactly sure what we were going to do. Right? I mean it was a big move. As an American I can't just go down the street and get a job too easy. So what do I do right? I'm not going to work in a rice field so uh but you know Yahuah has given us a vision and he's provided every step of the way. 

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You say you became a Philippine citizen does that mean you gave up your American citizenship? Are you no longer an American citizen?

49:37 You know when it comes down to it America came in as conquerors. That's how they approached the Philippines. They could've just given the Philippines their freedom if they were to spread democracy. We came in here to spread democracy. See, America's a great place, except for that's not what they did. They sent their military in and they crushed the Philippines, killing in some estimates as many as 2 million Filipinos. That's a conqueror. They had their boot on your neck. That's how they operate and they can try to paint it whatever way they want. I am an American but I know the truth and I'm going to tell the truth. I am ashamed at what my country did and I am proud to be a Filipino

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We all know that you did not move to the Philippines to work in a rice field. Instead you ended up working on a video series and then you published a number of books. Tell us about the vision for the Philippines that God has given you. 

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.

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Tell us more about what you mean by "restoring the law." Is it not true Jesus Christ came to free us from the law by fulfilling it? Certainly there is no temple in Israel.

22:08 Obviously there is no temple in Israel today so no actual need to go there although certainly visit that's fine. But we don't need that anymore. In fact watch our Solomon's Gold series and you will find His Holy of Holies on earth has always been put permanently in the Garden of Eden which we locate in the Philippines. And the one in Israel was very temporary of course. Thus everyone should really travel to  the Philippines for these feasts. How about that? Something to think about. And this is why we say that the Philippines is where they will reinstate these feasts in full especially.

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But if there is no temple how can one keep the feasts in full since they are to be kept in the place God designated which is at the temple? And what about not knowing the correct dates on which God says to keep them? Is that not a problem? Can one really keep the feasts if they are not being kept in the right place at the right time?

1:09:59 But no one has these dates a hundred percent that we can verify including us, uh, so don't beat people up over oh well you do it this day oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, don't do that. The point, keep the feast.

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You said that the Holy of Holies is in the Garden of Eden which is in the Philippines. Where in the Philippines is the Garden of Eden located?

34:36 So, there you go. The Garden of Eden is just below the Philippines under the Sulu Sea.

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The Garden of Eden is under the Sulu Sea? That sounds inaccessible and uninhabitable.

29:07 So there you go. New revelation. Elijah just as Enoch was also taken into the Garden of Eden where the two of them remain.  Wonder what they're doing? Well, they are priests. They're just as a temple priest in the Holy of Holies because they are in the permanent Holy of Holies of Yahuah. Now, we know Enoch was sacrificing even burnt offerings according to the book of Jubilees we covered so essentially they took the place of Adam who was a priest in the garden. He was keeping the garden. It is clear this is the case and these two continue to live and serve Yahuah there. They remain holy and will to the end.

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Wow! Enoch and Elijah are sacrificing burnt offerings in The Garden of Eden underneath the Sulu Sea below the Philippines? Does that mean there are animals living in the Garden of Eden? Can we enter the garden and visit Enoch and Elijah? 

27:39 You and I, however, can't enter but it will be open to us again in the end on the day of judgment. 

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Aside from being the location of the Holy of Holies on earth what is it that makes the Philippines so special in the last days?

2:13:51  Because Jesus, Yahusha, said Himself that the Philippines will rise in the last days and stand against the New World Order, the one world government. The Philippines! Can you imagine that? Start. Because it's coming soon. His prophecies never return unto him void. 

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It seems rather exciting to imagine that the Philippines will be rising up to fight against the New World Order. Tell us more about that. 

1:31:53 The Two Witnesses are coming and they will stand in the strongest of ways and we do believe that will be the first three and a half years of the tribulation when many will rise all over the world against the corruption. But the two lands which will lead this charge will be Kurdistan and Philippines according to the words of Yahusah Himself. And the Two Witnesses will come from there as well.  

In other words other governments around the earth will be preparing for the rise of their Messiah.  They already are.  The Beast or the anti-christ, the anti-Messiah to some, also known as the Mahdi in Islam, Maitreya in the New Age mythos, and the Jewish Messiah to come as well who is not Yahusha who they reject even still, who already came.  

But these two lands, Kurdistan, Philippines, will rise against that final generation and condemn it in Messiah's words. That means they will lead a charge to repentance all over the world. Though two of them, perhaps prophets, maybe even small groups, will go to Jerusalem and prophesy for 1260 days. We believe we are already beginning to see the stage set for this as these two lands especially are lost tribes areas as is Central Africa.

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When do you think this final generation will arrive? Is it our generation or is there still more time?

51:41 So, 2120 for the tribulation start and 2127 for Messiah's return. These are ballparks. We're not saying exacts, we're not saying it's exactly and we don't know. Look, this isn't trigonometry or calculus we could be off a decade, we could be off a year, we could be off certain months, we could be not considering something. We're not saying any of that, all right? This isn't an exact science. We don't care for it to be because we don't get to know the day or the hour. But here's what we do know. We know it's time to prepare. We know when the season is and we have about a century folks.

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Let's go back to your comment about "restoring the law." Is it not true Jesus Christ came to free us from the law by fulfilling it?  

30:18  He came to fulfill the covenant which is certainly for us indeed. This was His purpose but has He done this yet? Didn't He do that on the cross already and in His resurrection? Well let's see what He says about that. 

"Think not that I am come to destroy the law," that's the law of Moses, "or the prophets," that's the Old Testament, the writings of the prophets. "I am not come to destroy," destroy what? The law of Moses nor the Old Testament.  "But to fulfill," fulfill what? The law of Moses and the prophecies of the prophets, the Old Testament. And then He tells when all will be fulfilled and he does not use His resurrection as the timestamp at all.  "For verily I say unto you till heaven and earth pass one jot or one tittle," Hebrew letters basically, "shall in nowise pass from the law till all be fulfilled."   

Now when does heaven and earth pass away? When all is fulfilled. Did it pass away at His resurrection. No. It's still there. Revelation 21 says that heaven and earth pass away at the time of the final judgment basically. Look around. Has earth passed away yet? If someone tells you it ever did they don't know scripture because the first heaven and earth are still here.  

And the second one does not take place until that time of the end according to scripture essentially at the final judgement. But also this passage tells us when the law is fulfilled. All is fulfilled when? When heaven and earth pass away.  Why, by the way?  Because heaven and earth are the witnesses to the law in scripture. Keep reading though. 

"Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments and shall teach men so he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven." Why would He say this knowing He was about to go to the cross if He were about to fulfill the law?

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So, you are saying Christ did not fulfill the law? Did he not say it is finished while on the cross?

33:12 There's only one day of judgment and that's when all souls are judged. All of them. Billions. Uh, Messiah's greatest work is to come. Uh, the cross was wonderful and very significant no doubt but he did not complete his work on the cross and no scripture actually says he does. That comes out of our pulpits but actually his greatest works are to come.

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So, you are saying Christ did not fulfill the law or complete His work, and we must still keep the law?  Is that right?

20:05 For us to not keep his law, uh-oh here it comes, is also to not love Him. As if we love Him what do we do? John 15, keep my commandments. Even in revelation what are they found doing at the very end the end times remnant? Keeping His commandments, His law.  Do we love him? This is a covenant folks and it is  the way it works. See that's they way he defines this. It's a covenant relationship. This is intimacy wth the Creator.  He loves you that much. He wants to be intimate with you in relationship. Are we in relationship with Him or not?

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18:52 Relationship with Him is the requirement of salvation and for getting our prayers answered.

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You are equating and reducing our relationship with God to keeping the law. What about righteousness by faith apart from the law? Romans 3:21-22 says, "But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe."

19:30 So this is another example that we aren't to just have faith in Yahusha. That’s not enough. That’s not it.  No, no, no, no. We are to keep His commandments.

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40:11 The law is what redeems us.

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The law is what redeems us? But in Galatians 3:13 Paul says, "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law." Paul also tells us Abraham was not justified by keeping the law but by his faith. Romans 4:3 says "Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness." That means he was righteous apart from the law.

16:44 Abraham kept the law and the sabbath. And so did Isaac and Jacob.  I mean how can they be called righteous if there was no law by which they could be judged as righteous? The very notion is ridiculous from the start.

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It seems that you are saying a man is not saved by faith but by keeping the law. 

11:39 Abiding is doing something, by the way. It's not sitting back and doing nothing. Abiding is something that you physically have to do in relationship with Him which is never defined in all of scripture as saying a shallow prayer and checking a box on a decision card. 

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If abiding in Christ is dependent upon our works and not the faithfulness of Jesus Christ who promised in John 10 I will give you eternal life and no man can pluck you out of my hand how can we ever have any assurance of  our salvation? 

27:46 People ask at times how do we know we are saved? Well, are you keeping the sabbath? That is the sign of one who is saved and in relationship with Him. Sorry, we tell the truth here. 

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So, keeping the Sabbath indicates we are saved?

22:35 One person commented drawing the conclusion that we teach sabbath is salvation and that, we want to call out right now, is absolutely ridiculous. Wrong. We never said that. We said knowing Him in a true relationship is and always has been, even in the Old Testament, salvation.

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A moment ago you said keeping the sabbath is "the sign of one who is saved."  But now you are saying the opposite and that keeping the sabbath is not indicative of salvation. How do you reconcile this contradiction? Can a person lose their salvation if they do not keep the sabbath and the rest of the Mosaic law?

59:10  For if God spared not the natural branches, the Israelites, take heed lest he also spare not thee. Wait I thought you couldn't lose your salvation. Hmmm.

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8:20 There is no such thing as "once saved always saved" because you said a prayer. Forget it, it's not Scripture. Salvation is always in Scripture according to Paul, especially, a lifestyle. Again read Matthew 7, read John 15 the whole chapters and you will find Messiah defines salvation not Paul and Paul agrees with his definition and he has to. Most especially to Paul who just said so in this passage multiple times as he tells us that we should do good works, that we should walk, that we should have relationship. We're talking about action words here, we're talking about us having to do something. He's also saying to keep the law. That's doing something.   

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Where does Jesus Christ fit in all of this? What need do we have of Him if our salvation depends on keeping the law? Isn't Jesus Christ the core of the entire Bible? 

45:00  The Sabbath and the feasts are the core of the biblical calendar and of the entire bible.

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10:39 Again, is there salvation through the law? No. One is not saved by keeping the law.  That is Pharisee doctrine, not what Paul says. Paul is clear there is only salvation through Yahushah Hamashiach. 

It may sound confusing but it's actually very simple. It has become confusing because Pharisees have gotten their hands in it and mixed it up.  We receive Him in making a decision to make Him our Lord. I mean a real decision not just saying a prayer and in fact a prayer is not even required. However we are saved if we continue in that relationship and this where the law comes in because if you claim Messiah is your lord you cannot serve the law of sin and death any longer. If you serve the law of sin and death He is not your Lord. Sorry but He's not. He can't be. You cannot serve two masters, right? He said that. And there is no reconciling the two opposite laws as somehow the same. 

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Tim, you say that we are not saved by keeping the law but earlier you said that our relationship to God is defined by keeping the law which is the same thing as saying we are saved by keeping the law. You even said the law is what redeems us. Do you not see this as a contradiction? Isn't it true that while you are saying we must keep the law you are living in open sin by being  married to a twice divorced woman which is something Jesus condemned when he said "whosoever shall marry her that is divorced commiteth adultery?" How do you reconcile the contradiction between your doctrine of salvation by keeping the law and your living in open adultery?

35:46 Just so you know I am divorced and remarried myself. At the time I was ministering, leading worship and helps ministry, at a mega church in Florida in which that group of pastors assessed my situation and shows it was lawful and they married my Filipino wife and I in their Chapel with her full endorsement, many of those pastors even in attendance but their full support. We continue to be vetted and by many since and this woman is the largest blessing of my life. This is a blogger somehow who employ such distasteful, disgusting and demonic, poets who actually said my wife, my wonderful wife, should be put away.

How dare he. He better hope I am able to follow the commandments if I ever meet him, that's for sure.

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Let's move on to another topic. Do you believe in the Trinity? That God is three persons, the Father, Son, and Spirit, in one divine nature? 

1:00:44 Then espousing some doctrine of men like Trinity which is a word that never even appears in scripture once. That's why you don't see any videos from us on that. We could care less about the doctrines of men. 

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Yes, the word Trinity is not in the Bible but certainly the concept is right? 

36:22 Moses wrote Genesis and he wrote Elohim in the beginning because the Elohim he refers to is two, the Father and the Son. 

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What about the Holy Spirit? Isn't He also God?

1:27:47 Yahusha said Moses wrote of me. Hello? He did so in Genesis and Jubilees first and actually if we went back even further uh, when it says "In the beginning Elohim said", right, Elohim created the heavens and the earth, well, that word Elohim is there, not God, by the way. It's Elohim in Hebrew and it's plural. It's two. It's the Father and the Son. Some throw in the Holy Spirit uh, we can't find any Scriptures where the Holy Spirit is a creator, but whatever. 

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You say that the Holy Spirit is not God but everything He does, everything attributed to Him, indicates he is God. In Ephesians 2:22 Paul says we "are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit." Surely that would mean the Spirit of God is divine? 

13:08 There's no mention in Jubilees of the Holy Spirit specifically. Uh, Moses doesn't separate him out there, uh, and that may be telling, uh, but we're, we're not sure on that though we'll keep researching. Uh, he mentions all the spirits that serve before Him, uh, which are indisputably angels. Uh, whether the Holy Spirit is included in that we don't know. Uh, that's a topic for another series requiring a lot of research we're not going to touch yet but we will eventually. We'd like to get to that, anyway. We know He was there though and that the Angels weren't yet, uh, at that point on Genesis 1:2. Uh, so if if He was created per se He would have been created before, uh, the Angels not at the same time and certainly not lumped in with them. So, not sure that, that that's the case and He very well may be. Uh, yes he's the Eternal Holy Spirit but Eternal, uh, the angels are Eternal, man is eternal so that doesn't mean that He existed prior to being created if he was a creation like other Spirits. There's just no mention of Him as existing prior and the word Eternal does not denote no beginning, again. So, there's no scripture that really says, okay, and that may actually tell us much.

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You heard it here folks. The Holy Spirit, the very spirit of God who dwells within us and seals our redemption, is a creation.

Tim, tell us what future projects you are working on.

2:30:58 But we're working on a textbook. A real textbook. A four year course that will teach, especially Filipinos but people all over the world, the foundation of the Bible which includes the Philippines. Because it includes the Garden of Eden which is here. You don't get a more significant land than that of the Garden of Eden, the very land of creation itself. So, we're working on that project right now and we hope to get that out in time. 

https://www.facebook.com/sabbathbc.congregation/videos/848713996196488

A real textbook? Does that mean your books and videos will be taught in the classroom?

1:01:35 Of course we we understand there's a lot of professors out there whose jobs are at stake if they took a stand for this. But do you know there are some that are teaching this in classrooms? I won't expose them but there's one who asked us for Solomon's Treasure and we sent them copies for their classrooms. There's another one that's using the videos and they're actually showing Solomon's Gold Series in the college classroom.

Is Philippines Ophir? Recent News. Live in Davao. Message to Congress.

Thanks for taking the time to talk with us Tim. I am sure the audience has learned quite a lot from what you have to say about the Philippines and the Bible.

1:41:40 I want to thank you for having us on. 

The Mystery of Solomon's Gold - The God Culture Channel and Zen Garcia

And there you have it folks. That was Timothy Jay Schwab of The God Culture. A man who believes Filipinos will fight the anti-christ, faith in Christ is not enough to save a person, one can lose their salvation, and the Holy Spirit, the very spirit of God himself who dwells within all believers, is a creature. Is that what you believe too? Good night everybody and see you next time. 

The God Culture: Youtube Mix and Other Ignorance

The God Culture is incredibly stupid. Whoever is running that show is just plain dumb as a bag of rocks.  We know that from their false history about the Philippines and their fake deep research which amounts to quoting Wikipedia and various blogs. But their ignorance shines through in other places as well like in the comment section of their Youtube channel.

See over in the right hand column there is a section titled "Mix - The God Culture?"

The God Culture is so stupid that they think the mix is another channel that has stolen their videos! They have even put a notice in their comments to beware of it.

AND BEWARE... BEWARE... "MIX - THE GOD CULTURE " CHANNEL BEWARE.. BEWARE... THIS NOT OUR CHANNEL!!

Beware....BEWARE!!!  You have to laugh at that quadruple beware as if the mix is so scary you should avoid it like the plague. 

So what is this mix? Is it another channel?  No! It's an auto-generated playlist of The God Culture's own videos created by Youtube based on the videos you have watched. 

A YouTube Mix is a nonstop playlist tailored to you.

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9011078?hl=en 

https://thenextweb.com/google/2013/04/22/youtube-experimenting-on-new-video-discovery-feature-called-youtube-mix/

YouTube is experimenting with a new feature designed to help users better discover videos and channels on its site. Called “YouTube Mix”, it’s an auto-generated playlist that will display suggested videos based on what you’re reading. 

While the video service already has suggested videos displayed in the right-hand sidebar of each page, YouTube Mix offers users the ability to watch 50 videos continuously that it thinks they’ll be interested in. No additional work needed to click through each video one by one to watch it.

That article is from 2013 so the Youtube Mix is no longer an experiment. It is a part of the Youtube algorithm. Mix - The God Culture IS their channel! It's hilarious how oblivious The God Culture is to this feature so much so that they issue a quadruple warning to beware of their own channel.

It's just another reason to laugh at this ridiculous group. Listen to their videos and you will hear such paranoia thinking that Youtube is censoring them because some subscribers do not receive notifications about new uploads. 

Let's remember the paradigm in which we live as this platform supports and props up agitation and it suppresses the truth. Don't believe me? Then why do our over 80,000 subscribers, when we release a video, many of them never receive a notification? We know this because we are subscribers in at least five email boxes and they're not being notified. Simple as that. Especially during this time of lockdown? Why? Because they have tightened the rules and they just plain stop it before it goes out. But no matter we're not going to stop and they will not stop us.

https://youtu.be/AN4ArvfMR4w?t=255

They are certainly not alone with this problem and it probably has more to do with The God Culture's settings than Google attempting to censor them. Frankly Tim is neither brave enough nor smart enough to produce videos that those in power would want to suppress. Timothy Jay Schwab is no Alex Linder, Kevin MacDonald, Andrew Anglin, or Alex Jones and The God Culture is not 8chan. Each of those men, as well as 8chan, have been censored across the internet in some form or other. The God Culture literally teaches nothing but lies and this only furthers the agenda of the NWO who want to keep everyone dumbed down and in the dark. People who spout lies are fine with them. Nobody is out to get them because they don't pose a threat to those in power. It just goes to show how much of a martyr complex Timothy Jay Schwab and The God Culture have.

This martyr complex is fundamental to the nature of schismatic groups like The God Culture, the Mormons, JWs, the Protestant Reformed Church, and the like. These small groups always pit themselves against the world. In a time of ignorance their group has been given the light of revelation and now stands all alone on the side of truth while the rest of the world has been hoodwinked by Satan. They are the remnant. They are the true Church.

The world will hate you and I if you are serving Him. He said so. If the world does not hate you may want to do some soul searching. Are you really serving Him?

https://youtu.be/EscrM4o-h4M?t=1446

The martyr complex is important to The God Culture and explains why so many Filipinos eat up their fake history. Filipinos have been colonized by two nations. Their early history has practically vanished. Their resources have been exploited. A foreign culture has been imposed upon them. They have no identity except the one foisted upon them. Some of the more savvy types, like Pedro Paterno, have balked at this declaring that Filipinos were once a proud maritime nation which even provided gold for Solomon's temple. A false yet uplifting and intricate spiritual history is concocted. These martyrs just have to wait and bide their time because one day they will Rise Up as God vindicates them. That is literally the message Timothy Jay Schwab and The God Culture are bringing to the Philippines.

Meanwhile the Philippines remains one of the most corrupt nations on the entire planet and anyone with any sense wants to be an OFW and escape these islands.

Here's another thing that The God Culture is completely ignorant about: accessing information about who owns a website.

No Tim's personal email is not available publicly until you published it you libelous fraud but you have done far worse than that and you will pay for that soon.

http://philippinefails.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-god-culture-book-of-jubilees.html?showComment=1588850866236#c3760581697376837706

All information pertaining to who owns a website including name, phone number, email, and address, are very public.

Website information for thegodculture.com

It's not secret at all.  This information did not come from the deep web and it does not require payment to access. It is plain for all to see and it is all free. Here is info for another website.

Website information for godculture.com

That The God Culture does not know how to access this information goes to show how inept they really are at researching anything. Tim defends this ineptness in his videos.

https://youtu.be/EscrM4o-h4M

16:55 -  This has not changed friends.  We deal with it the same today. We locate the ancient land of gold for instance. Ophir, Sheba, Tarshish, The Garden of Eden for that matter, ancient Havilah where Adam and Eve lived and most react as the crowd reacted because they are authentic and  genuine. They recognize the meaning.  

However a Pharisee looks at that and scoffs. "Heh! Well you could have used a better source. Why is your font so small on that screen? That one quote doesn't say that!" Though it always does say exactly what we represent by the way because it always vets, every single challenge has. "That map that shows those islands southeast of China's not really showing southeast of China. That's, well, India." Huh? No it's southeast of China. That's what the maps shows, duh. "And that map, and that map, and those directions, and those directions, and aww that font should be larger and yaw you should have quoted that differently, and..." 

I mean that's the kind of stuff that you get for going out, stepping out on a limb, and doing the research and telling people what is truth. And we prove it.  Those same people don't even bother to actually review the whole case. No. No, no. They'll watch one brief video or a few brief videos and then go and just ramble on and on and on.  And they are absolutely ignorant.  They don't even know what we prove, what we don't prove but all along they'll say "Ah see you didn't prove that." Well how will you know what we prove? You didn't even review the case. But it doesn't matter because it's not their point. They throw it all out in ignorance, haven't even reviewed the case yet they know because they know what we're going to prove because they have what basis? Absolutely none.  

"You used a font too small! Throw it out!"  Really? "You quoted a secondary source citing the original" oh which happens to be true and in representation actually match the original? Duh! I mean could you be more ridiculous? Yet we get all of this.

Bless Tim's heart.  He comes to my blog and leaves all kinds of nasty, ridiculous comments saying he is done with me and I don't deserve a response. Then he responds to me for three minutes in his video.

The gist of much of my criticism against the God Culture is that, contrary to what they claim, they have not done deep research. They literally quote from Wikipedia and other blogs using them as primary sources. The fact that they do this and don't bother to seek out primary sources proves that they are not researchers. They are quote miners. In some cases they have not even read the sources they cite such as the three they listed allegedly proving that Philippine gold jewelry was found in 1st century Egypt. If The God Culture was doing any real research they would have ordered those sources and quoted from them as I did.

They aren't doing any field work either. They are literally doing all their "research" on the internet.  They haven't gone exploring in Greece, Israel, or the Philippines to prove that the Greeks sailed here for gold. They claim that the Philippines is Ophir but offer no physical proof only circumstantial evidence based on their faulty reading of ancient maps. They claim The Garden of Eden is in the Philippines but no pictures of either it or its lone inhabitant Enoch have surfaced. They claim to have traced the journey of the lost tribes but they only do this virtually and not by actually trekking across Israel through Kurdistan and down to the Philippines showing us all the archeological proofs along the way. In short their claim to doing "deep research including history, geography, archeology, science, language, etc." is a total sham. They altered their website removing the word "deep" and replacing it with the word "discerning" but that doesn't change a thing. A discerning researcher would know that the Greeks never came to the Philippines and that the Aurea Chersonese is the Malay Peninsula and represents the limit of the Greek's geographical knowledge of the Far East.

"You quoted a secondary source citing the original." I am guessing Tim is mocking me in this instance for criticizing his use of a middle school teacher's class outline as his source for Dionysius Perigetes. 

https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED460920.pdf

He made an hour long video talking as if he were familiar with Dionysius when he had not read him at all. What a total fraud. If Tim was doing deep research as he claims he would have sought out the original source. I found an English translation of Dionysius with a few clicks of the mouse. Why couldn't he?  The fact that he did not belies any claim to doing deep research. A closer look at this source shows he most certainly took it from J.G. Cheock's research which again just shows Tim is copy/pasting from others and not engaging in anything original. 

The issue about font size is very important. Tim tells his listeners to check and see if what he is saying is true. How is anyone supposed to do that when the sources are listed in an unreadable font? That is not nit picking. If he really wanted people to check up on him he would be more forthright about his sources. That he thinks the issue of font size is ridiculous shows his utter disdain for his audience. He does not really want people to check up on him. As far as I know I am the only person who has actually taken up his challenge to test him and when I find fraud after fraud and report this he has nothing to counter with except name calling and deception as he altered three videos and even his own website!

Now Tim has even sunk to issuing veiled threats of violence against me because he did not like when I, quoting the words of Jesus Christ, called his marriage to his second wife (Tim is her third husband) adultery. He makes the false claim that I suggested he divorce her and says:

How dare he. He better hope I am able to follow the commandments if I ever meet him, that's for sure.

https://youtu.be/giLKvIPU118?t=2197

I never made such a suggestion at all nor was it to be implied. I only pointed out the hypocrisy of an active adulterer going around telling people they need to keep the law to be engrafted into Christ. True, we are all sinners but we are not all currently in an active state of adultery. How he gets out of that situation is up to him. I offered no advice nor do I offer any now.

That Tim takes the time to mock and threaten me publicly in his videos is flattering. He feels the sting of my criticism which is why he altered his videos and website. He knows I am right. It's also troubling because it shows that Tim does not take what he is doing very seriously. A serious researcher would not make the choices he does. They would not use Wikipedia as a source and they would most certainly be doing field work and not just Googling all day. The book that Tim is writing, will it be based entirely on Googling or will actual field work be included?

Tim has said previously that his Youtube videos are not scientific journals so I ought not to expect the same standards.

For instance this video deals with tons of history asnd was one of our first in our publishing on YouTube of our journey of research. The sources are not cited like a scientific journal and at that point, we didn't even know many would even watch. We did so in representing history accurately. This fraud only misrepresents.

http://philippinefails.blogspot.com/2020/03/the-god-culture-review-of-solomons-gold.html?showComment=1585353928872#c2685914059189261084 

Of course a YouTube channel is not a scientific journal but he applies such standard and yet, still fails.

http://philippinefails.blogspot.com/2020/03/god-culture-does-timothy-schwab-have.html?showComment=1584433157621#c7860336094334233399

Indeed the shoddy research in these videos would never be allowed in any reputable scientific journal. But I never once said anything about scientific journals. I only asked for clarity and honesty in using sources. Citing a source you have never read, like Farrisol or Dinoysius Perigetes, is dishonest.  It's amazing how Tim denigrates his own videos in order to excuse his sloppy, shallow, so-called "research."

I admit that he is right that I have not watched all of his videos. I did not do that at the first and I still have not done it though I have watched many of them at this point. But all? No. There really is no need. The older you get and the more steeped in scripture you are the quicker it becomes to sniff out heresy. From the beginning I knew Tim and The God Culture weren't right. Their motto, "Challenge Tradition," says it all! Their video titles scream heresy. Take the Name of God series which is obviously Sacred Namer nonsense.

The Name of God - Part 1: How To Pronounce YHWH May Surprise You

A little digging reveals that Tim was involved in the Sacred Name movement.

A perfect example is the Sacred Name Movement which we actually learned the accurate name of God but the movement just didn't stay the course as it really should lead to restoring the entire Bible and they did create a Bible but it's still based on Modern Translations just inserting names which is cool but doesn't really do much in restoring the translation which is so badly needed.

The Name of God Series 6: ORIGIN OF THE WORD JEW. NOT THE BIBLE

As I wrote before one need not scientifically investigate a turd to know it's a turd. Likewise one need not listen to all a group has to say to know whether or not they are heretics. Actually watching their videos and diving into their doctrine has confirmed my initial suspicions. At heart Tim is nothing more than an anti-trinitarian heretic. He finally belched out his blasphemy for all to smell in one of his new Sabbath Series videos.

Then espousing some doctrine of men like Trinity which is a word that never even appears in scripture once. That's why you don't see any videos from us on that. We could care less about the doctrines of men. 

https://youtu.be/EscrM4o-h4M?t=3644

While Tim does teach that the Father and the Son are both God his teaching about their relationship and equity is not exactly clear. Sometimes he sounds like a modalist and sometimes he does not. His teaching about the Holy Spirit is also lacking. From all accounts it seems as if he denies the personality of the Spirit and considers Him to be an impersonal active force of the Father. Or perhaps a force shared by the Father and the Son.

Tim does not teach what the scriptures teach and he rejects the ekklesia, the visible Body of Christ, which Jesus said He would build and the gates of hell would never overcome. Tim actually says the opposite of Christ and teaches that Satan wiped out and took over the church.

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

New Sabbath Series Trailer

He promulgates novel doctrines, such as Enoch living for the past 4000 years in the Philippines which he claims is the Garden of Eden, based on the apocryphal Book of Jubilees. His history of the Philippines and the ancient world is untruthful and ill-informed. But to hear him talk about Church history is a whole other level of ignorance. 

So get this, the Pharisee church, the false church, replaced His church in the days of Constantine especially was the complete takeover. And this is what we are told is the early church and that is false. Church history does not start in 300 AD. That is stupid. No one can say such a thing yet they do. They certainly do.

https://youtu.be/zCwDTRzkYqo?t=1344

What is Tim talking about? Why does he hate the Nicene Council so much? Next thing you know he will tell his listeners that Arius was unjustly condemned for speaking the truth and that Athanasius was the real heretic.

Who says Church history starts at 300 AD?  Nobody says that, Tim! Here are 10 volumes of church doctrine and history from before the Nicene Council. That is from about 70 AD - 315 AD.

If Tim bothered to read actual church history and doctrine he would find that the church NEVER placed importance in celebrating the sabbath like Jews. They celebrated the Lord's Day.

That is from the letter of Ignatius to the Magnesians which is in volume 1 of the series above. Ignatius was a disciple of John the Apostle! A much earlier reference is from the Teaching of the Twelve Apostles also known as the Didache. This can be found in volume 7 of the same series.

In his new sabbath series videos Tim makes the outlandish claim again and again that the church has neglected the 4th commandment. That is a lie! True the church does not celebrate the sabbath like Jews. Instead they celebrate the Lord's day, the first day of the week, the same day Christ rose from the dead. But Tim does not know any of that because he has not read church history or any of the fathers. He can't even be bothered to look and see what the modern day Catholic Catechism has to say about the matter of the sabbath.

In Christ's Passover, Sunday fulfills the spiritual truth of the Jewish sabbath and announces man's eternal rest in God. 

https://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p3s2c1a3.htm

A complete misrepresentation by Tim. Not only does he not know what the church teaches but he also does not know who are the church's teachers.

Take someone like Origen whom they call an early church father. But look into what he writes, what he says. He was a gnostic in thinking if you look at over all what he espouses. And he is even pictured, in fact, with a demon at his feet which is really odd. Don't know what that is all about. But it sure does seem like he was not a disciple.  

https://youtu.be/zCwDTRzkYqo?t=1395

Nobody calls Origen an early church father except for ignorant people like Timothy Jay Schwab. If Tim knew what the church councils teach he would know that the fifth ecumenical council condemned Origen and anathematized his teachings.  Here is the condemnation in the 11th canon:

Note that canon ten anathematizes Timothy because he denies that Jesus Christ is one of the Holy Trinity

And here are the 15 anathemas against Origen's teachings.

https://silouanthompson.net/2019/09/anathemas-against-origen/

One has to wonder, "Does God hate the Philippines?" The nation remains poor and backwards, powerful typhoons strike the nation every year killing many, crime is rampant, the government is corrupt, there has been a 50 year war against the communists, and now Timothy Jay Schwab has been sent to deceive the people with a strong delusion that the Philippines is the Garden of Eden, Ophir, Sheba, Seba, Tarshish, and Filipinos are members of the lost tribes of Israel. Not only that but Tim teaches that law is grace, the new covenant is the law and not the blood of Christ, and that to be grafted into Christ one must keep the law. He rejects the Godhead and the Gospel entirely and now spends his time in the Philippines spreading his anti-christian lies and nonsense deceiving and poisoning thousands of unsuspecting souls with videos and conferences.

What have Filipinos done to deserve a man like Timothy Jay Schwab and The God Culture?

The God Culture: Jesus Did not Finish His Work on the Cross

In an interview with Zen Garcia Timothy Jay Schwab, also known as The God Culture had a stunning revelation. Tim says Jesus did not finish His work on the cross.

Unlocking Hidden Truths with The God Culture - Zen Garcia & Tim Schwab

33:12 There's only one day of judgment and that's when all souls are judged. All of them. Billions. Uh, Messiah's greatest work is to come. Uh, the cross was wonderful and very significant no doubt but he did not complete his work on the cross and no scripture actually says he does. That comes out of our pulpits but actually his greatest works are to come.

What a lot of nonsense. Listen to how Tim snidely praises the cross by saying oh it was "wonderful and very significant no doubt" but then goes on to belittle Jesus' sacrifice by saying "he did not complete his work on the cross" and "his greatest works are to come." What greater work can there be than Jesus' sacrifice for us which defeated sin, death, and the devil and sealed our salvation and redemption for eternity? 

It is simply a lie that no scripture says His work is finished. Jesus himself said IT IS FINISHED.

John 19:30 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost

God incarnated as a man, kept and fulfilled the law, and defeated sin, hell, death, and the devil by dying on the cross. There is nothing more for him to do. He is sitting on the right hand of the Father this moment because everything has been fulfilled. To say the last judgement has not come therefore "he did not complete his work on the cross" is unbiblical and blasphemous. Take it from the mouth of Jesus Christ Himself.