Sunday, February 11, 2024

The God Culture: What Happened to the Levites?

Timothy Jay Schwab who is The God Culture is obsessed with the Levites and the Levitical priesthood. He has an an entire project called The Levite Bible in which he is going to augment and edit the KJV with the Dead Sea Scrolls. Tim's contention is that the inhabitants of Qumran were actually exiled temple priests and not Essenes. Way out in the desert they carried on the TRUE temple practice including sacrifices because the Hasmoneans defiled the temple during the time of the Maccabees. 

According to magazine publisher and Dead Sea Scrolls non-expert Timothy Jay Schwab these Levites were in the wilderness busily preparing the way for Jesus Christ with John the Baptist as their leader. Thus all of John's disciples were Levites. That is the foundation which Tim lays down in the first video. 


What Happened to the Levite Priest? Part 1 This is a WOW!!!

40:26 So, the temple priests, the Sons of Zadook and Levites, were exiled from the temple to Qumran about 165 B.C. They were preparing the way in the wilderness for the coming Messiah, Yahusha, as John would become their leader and the embodiment of that especially. 

It should be noted that the inhabitants of Qumran called themselves Levites, Priests, and Sons of Zadok SYMBOLICALLY. 

The Priests are the converts of Israel who departed from the land of Judah, and (the Levites are) those who joined them. The sons of Zadok are the elect of Israel, the men called by name who shall stand at the end of days. Behold the exact list of their names according to their generations, and the time when they lived, and the number of their trials, and the years of their sojourn, and the exact list of their deeds...(They were the first men) of holiness whom God forgave, and who justified the righteous and condemned the wicked. And until the age is completed, according to the number of those years, all who enter after them shall do according to that interpretation of the Law in which the first (men) were instructed. According to the Covenant which God made with the forefathers, forgiving their sins, so shall He forgive their sins also. But when the age is completed, according to the number of those years, there shall be no more joining the house of Judah, but each man shall stand on his watch-tower: The wall is built, the boundary far removed(Mic. vii, II).

Complete Dead Sea Scrolls, Geza Vermes, pg 131-132

Tim has nothing to say about that particular section of the Community Rule. At least nothing truthful.  He cites this passage in the second video at about 9:20 without informing his audience of its symbolic nature.

In the second video Tim will build on this foundation to erect the claim that 6 of The Apostles were Levites. 

Were Some Disciples LEVITES? Part 2 This is a Incredible New Revelation!!! WOW!!!

Tim's proof for this claim is not well reasoned in the slightest but is based on guilt by association and etymology of names. 

Andrew and Peter were Levites because Andrew was a disciple of John the Baptist's Levite community and Peter was his brother.

8:46 Understand, and there are two examples on screen, the hierarchy of the Qumran community were the Sons of Zadok as the leaders, uh, specifically John the Baptist in his era. Uh, that was the case. Um, he, he was, he was a leader if not the leader. It appears he was the leader because it calls him Master, uh, in the prophecy. Yeah, pretty clear. And their disciples were whom? Ah! Their disciples were the Levites. So, Sons of Zadok leadership just like the temple and their disciples their followers were Levites. That's well documented in this community many times but again here are two examples on screen. Uh, so, these two disciples are Levites but what are their names? Who are they? Who are these two disciples? This is awesome. 

Now, here we go. The first one was Andrew, Peter's brother. This Andrew was a Levite from a Levite family. That's a bloodline thing which means so was Peter. Boom one two right there. Peter was a Levite y'all. Wow!

John and James were Levites because their father was named after a Levite and they too were disciples of John the Baptist's Levite community

15:16 But is that a Levite name there, uh, Zabdi? Actually it is found for Israelites, uh, basically multiple tribes. Uh, but most certainly is a Levite name as the son of Asaph the famous Levite singer David wrote about, right, that has even the the passage there, uh, in Psalms. So, this guy is likely named for a prominent Levite in fact and regardless his sons, especially John it appears, were disciples in Qumran, Bethabara, of John the Baptist thus Levites. Boom!

Matthew's other name was Levi which makes both he and his brother James Levites 

18:51 In Mark 2:14 the Publican or tax collector whom yahusha called who followed him is most certainly Matthew. there's no doubting that. Uh, everyone knows this. But here, wait, wait, uh, his name is called by his other name which is Levi. Huh. Could Levi be a Levite? And he is son of who? Oh, Alphaeus same as James. These guys were brothers. Uh pretty clear same father and Matthew's name is Levi, a Levite. Yes someone else could call their son Levi but you will find many of those in scripture were actually Levites embedded in that tribe not actually from it. Think about that. Every tribe had Levites embedded. It stands to reason both Matthew actually bearing the name Levi and Mattiyahu, gift of Yahu, uh, Yahua's name is in his, uh, very Hebrew, very biblical Priestly names, uh, and his brother James called the Lesser, uh, were Levites as well. How about that?

Tim sounds very sure about his claims but oddly enough he says they only APPEAR to be Levites.

20:00 There's six. so that is six disciples out of 12 that appear to have been Levites. Four of them we can find incredibly strong, uh, in connection and the other a little less but still strong in possibility. Add to that the Qumran, Bethabara, the community of Levites exiled Temple priests, uh, in leadership like John the Baptist and his disciples being Levites and this my friends is a home run. The Levites became part of the New Testament Ecclesia even into the apostles. How about that?

Look at how Tim says they APPEAR to have been Levites with his evidence for two of them to be "strong in possibility" and then he says it is a home run. Which one is it? Merely possible or a home run? 


But what exactly does it mean that the Apostles were Levites and the Levite community at Qumran followed Jesus Christ?  It means they became priests under Jesus who, as Hebrews says, is a priest after the Order of Melchizedek which goes back to the time of Abraham.

21:23 What does it mean their order was replaced by Yahusha Melchizedek? Uh, they didn't disappear. only as an order. the order disappeared. they continued under him operating under Melchizedek as their high priest under the New Order which was really a rest, you know restoration of the old, they became the New Testament. Generally. How about that?

36:17 Listen to this. This is important. Their priesthood has been disannulled. That's the word that Hebrew 7 uses. meaning thoroughly and completely canceled. It's gone. Does that mean the law was cancelled? Well Yahusha said no in Matthew 5:17 through 20. Why? Because the law of Melchizedek is the same as the law of Moses, see? Yahusha Yahweh wrote part with his finger. Yeah. That's pretty firm. Uh, Paul said no in Romans 7 by the way and other places. Oops. Yes Paul preached and kept the law, the Sabbath, The Feast and he tithed. All of those are there in scripture and we found them and we've shown you. 

What law? But we're no longer under Levites levitical law or the levitical order we are under the Ancient Order that's older than that. The order of Melchizedek who is MessiahIt was him in the spirit back in the day of Abraham and it's him in the flesh since 2,000 years ago.

Hear that? Timothy Jay Schwab says 

"the law of Melchizedek is the same as the law of Moses"

Yet at the same time we are not under the Levitical law but under Christ who is a priest after the order of Melchizedek. But if the law of Melchizedek is the law of Moses then there is NO DIFFERENCE between it and the Levitical law because the Levitical law IS THE LAW OF MOSES!!! 


How is Tim so stupid to miss this???


Hebrews says VERY CLEARLY:

Hebrews 7:12 For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.

Therefore the law of Melchizedek CANNOT be the law of Moses. Especially seeing as Melchizedek PREDATES MOSES!


Tim says Paul preached and kept the law but this is manifestly NOT the case as he calls the law of Moses the MINISTRATION OF DEATH in 2 Corinthians 3.

6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. 

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. 

10 For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth. 

11 For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.

Paul also compares the Law of Moses to Hagar and calls it bondage.

Galatians 4:22 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.

23 But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.

24 Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.

25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.

The main and most important thing for Tim is NOT that we have faith in Christ but that we keep the law because by the law, not faith in Christ, comes righteousness.

41:11 The Bible has never said there is no more righteousness thus no more law. That's ridiculous. Of course we're to still be righteous and you can't be right without law. It is never said there is only sin now and so no more law. That that's a really dumb way of reading fragments from Paul which the church does out of context and Paul taught and kept the law. He said is Holy, good, and just. Do we abolish the law? Paul said heaven forbid? Do we bother to read what he said?

Certainly Paul called the law holy, good, and just. But he also said the law is a schoolmaster to lead us to Christ and now Christ has come we are no longer under it. 

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.

Paul is also very clear that our righteousness comes from Jesus Christ and not by keeping the law. If that were not the case then Christ is dead in vain. 

Galatians 2:21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.

What can be said about this new two part series about the Levites? It is simply more ahistorical and unbiblical garbage. Tim contradicts himself throughout when he says the Mosaic law and the law of Melchizedek are the same yet we are not under the Levitical law because the Levitical law is the law of Moses. That makes the law of Melchizedek also the Levitical law. But the Bible is very clear that the purpose of the law of Moses was to lead us to Christ. 


Tim also says Jesus did not initiate a NEW convent but restored the Old Covenant:

operating under Melchizedek as their high priest under the New Order which was really a rest, you know restoration of the old

That is totally wrong. Christ did not come to restore the Old Covenant but to inaugurate a New Covenant. We read about it in Jeremiah. 

Christ explicitly tells the Apostles the New Covenant will be inaugurated by the shedding of His blood. 


It is rather bewildering that Tim is so blind he cannot see these things which are clearly spelled out in the New Testament. Tim is like a dog going back to his vomit as he attempts to go back to the Mosaic law. This is not a light matter. To say that one cannot be righteous without the law is to repudiate the necessity of faith in Christ and to deny Him completely. 


It does not matter how many followers Tim has or how much adulation he receives from them. The fact is Timothy Jay Schwab continues to preach a false gospel, a bizarre false history, and is leading his cult, especially Filipinos to whom his ministry is most directed, down to the fiery pit of hell. 

Saturday, February 10, 2024

The God Culture: The God Culture vs Facebook

The God Culture has been more active than ever in the past few weeks since they founded a think-tank and began publishing their books. What better way to get the information out than social media?  CIA-funded Facebook is the platform of choice for most people to get out their message. What else is there anyway? But it seems The God Culture has hit a snag. Facebook is censoring them!

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=823730291523076&id=100016583385154

What are you doing Facebook? Who do you think you are. Whoever you are inside, you better stop playing around. We are coming for you. This post is not limited in any sense. It is a simple posting for our book on sale on Amazon and how dare you attempt to censor this illegally. Keep it up. You are just giving us further documentation of you illegal actions. You are gonna sink your company. We did not limit anything, just posted you crook and you better stop it. We have not deleted it. If you cannot function as a simple site, you are gonna be out of business. What a fool you are you loser who is inside Facebook playing around.

That is God Culture founder and anti-trinitarian heretic Timothy Jay Schwab's personal Facebook page  which it seems is now a backup for the official God Culture Facebook page. Over at their official page the same accusations of censorship are being made.

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2812562029070876

Wow Facebook. You reached 34 people out of 6,600 in almost 2 hours. I guess this is becoming very difficult for you. Maybe feed the mice in wheels and get this post out there? Keep censoring Facebook and you will pay for that. Whoever you are inside, we will find you and you will be dealt with. This is illegal.

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=3262707493851703

Oh Facebook, you are really rocking the world with 48 people reached in 4 hours on a page with 6,600 friends. That must have been so difficult for you to get this out to less than 1 person per minute. I mean please don't go out of your way to notify our friends on our own page of our posts that they wanted to be notified. Of course, none of us joined Facebook to actually connect and communicate. No, we all came here to submit to the Social Nazi tell us "no post for you." Maybe stop acting like Hitler or you will fall like he did. Your censorship is filthy and you will face the music for this.

As a follow up to this comment thread The God Culture asks anyone else having problems to let them know because they are "documenting."

I can just hear 351 screams of "REEEEEEE!!!" bouncing up and down Bonifacio Street as the above comments were typed out. The sheer amount of ignorance and stupidity in those posts is only surpassed by the paranoia that fuels them. Does the person who posted this, likely Anna Zamoranos, even know that in the first example her link is broken and when you click on it you get a 404 page from Amazon?

https://www.amazon.com/.../B08M.../ref=dp-kindle-redirect?fbclid=IwAR3wmOzPz0jcO1c2RC5AUOzmM1QImLjhrqZU1ebbOLCB894_JUgyJ3yQqKg

In fact 7 out of the 17 links on that post do not lead to their book. Why post so many links in the first place when all you need is one Amazon link and they will sort it out for you? This situation is even stranger than it appears because this was posted at 11:29 on November 20, 2020. Only half an hour earlier at 10:58 the same post was made on The God Culture's official page and all the links work because they are posted in full and not partially.

https://www.facebook.com/376627072897316/photos/a.382595402300483/676351632924857/?type=3&theater

Eight minutes later at 11:37 on Tim Schwab's page the same post is made but this time with a picture added. Because there were no links to parse as a result of the picture there was no "This content isn't available right now" box. But Anna does not understand this. She probably has no idea what it means to parse a link and generate a preview.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=823732044856234&set=a.111044349458344&type=3&theater

Note: This post was just blocked from some illiterate loser inside Facebook. You better grow up and get a life because we are coming for you. Stop blocking our posts! Who do you think you are. We are allowed to post on our own site and how dare you. This is a simple post with links to Amazon. So threatening. Grow Up and stop behaving as a criminal! Censorship is illegal. 

What a total moron. The post wasn't blocked as she was able to post it. If it had been blocked there would have been a message from Facebook telling you it was blocked because it goes against their community standards. 


The link didn't parse because it was a bad link which is why a box telling her that the content is not available popped up. It is still a bad link. Does she think this lady is being blocked and censored too:

https://www.facebook.com/cherylgriveramercado/posts/2700786496842245

As for the other two allegations of censorship because not many of The God Culture's 6,600 friends are being reached, that is a problem. It is NOT censorship though. Or perhaps it depends on your perspective. Facebook does not show everything on your timeline in chronological order. What you see in your news feed is based on your past interactions in order to give you the best Facebook experience. 

https://www.facebook.com/business/news/Organic-Reach-on-Facebook

The second reason involves how News Feed works. Rather than showing people all possible content, News Feed is designed to show each person on Facebook the content that’s most relevant to them. Of the 1,500+ stories a person might see whenever they log onto Facebook, News Feed displays approximately 300. To choose which stories to show, News Feed ranks each possible story (from more to less important) by looking at thousands of factors relative to each person.

Why not just show everything — every piece of content from every friend and Page — and let people decide what they want to see?

Several other online feed platforms display all content in real time. But the real-time approach has limitations. People only have so much time to consume stories, and people often miss content that isn’t toward the top when they log on. This means they often do not see the content that’s most valuable to them.

In our tests, we’ve always found that the News Feed ranking system offers people a better, more engaging experience on Facebook. Additionally, given the amount of content in the average News Feed, using a real-time system for content would actually cause Pages’ organic reach to decrease further.

The short answer is there is too much content so Facebook curates everyone's newsfeed in order that they see what is most relevant to them based on their Facebook usage. That means if someone Likes The God Culture but does not regularly interact with their page then they won't be seeing the latest updates.

But there are tips and tricks to fix this plastered all over the internet. It is rather strange that Timothy Jay  Schwab, a man trained in marketing, does not know how to properly utilize Facebook to market his company. I guarantee he has no idea what FB Purity is and how it can force Facebook to show you things chronologically. It's not a conspiracy, it's not illegal, and it sure is not censorship. It's funny how The God Culture is always howllng about censorship when it is THEY who have tried to censor me on several occasions and still seek to shut me down. That's not stopping The God Culture from liking silly Facebook conspiracy memes posted in their comment section.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3462714627152783&set=p.3462714627152783&type=3&theater

I have indicated above that Solomon's Treasure co-author Anna Zamoranos, interesting that Tim's second wife does not use her third husband's surname on the cover of the book they claim to have co-authored, is making all these wild and hysterical accusations against Facebook and I have a good reason. That's because on her own business page she is posting the same God Culture material albeit minus the wild, and I dare say libelous, accusations of censorship.

https://www.facebook.com/annarose.z.3


Anna's name is clearly listed under the Team Members section again with no indication she is a Schwab. Why would anyone post non-relevant materials on their business page? Shouldn't she be posting real-estate listings? Though there is a pinned post from 2017 the last post about real-estate is dated February 7th, 2019. That is almost two years ago. Maybe the real-estate market isn't so hot in Tim and Anna's hometown of San Fernando, La Union?

It makes more sense when you realize that The God Culture is spamming their book info all over their social media pages. Go to Youtube and read the comment section. All their replies to responses are huge walls of text with links and other matters that are in the video description and in their first pinned comment. That is completely unnecessary and actually quite rude. It's real interesting that instead of making this book about the Philippines available in the Philippines first they chose to use Amazon which takes a few weeks to ship here.

Now all this might seem inconsequential and even like a bit of needless drama but it's actually quite relevant. You see with this book The God Culture is claiming to be amending scholarship and restoring the lost history of the Philippines. Will they be doing interviews on TV or radio or other popular media? Will the media pick up the story of their book? 

The God Culture claims to have a "profound scientific method" to prove all their claims. They actually claim that NO ONE has disproved their research.
After 4 years, no one has disproven these findings... I repeat NO ONE! Not a single Rabbi, theologian, pastor, certainly no bloggers or other channels... NO ONE!
Tim and Anna are very bold to make such claims with a straight face. I have been thinking of the Golden Chersonese of late because there are several references to it in a book I am currently reading which has nothing at all to do with the subject at hand. Incidentally there are many parallels between the methods and intent of Godfrey Higgins and Timothy Jay Schwab. Much of Tim's research rests on the identity of the Golden Chersonese and the island called Chryse. He wrongly conflates the two identifying them as the Philippines. That mistake is enough to disprove his findings and I have written at length about this very thing. 

It's not as if Tim and Anna actually care about historical realities. Tim has made it clear that they are not proving a historical case.
"Remember one thing though. We are not proving an historical case here. That is not what this is. That is not what we ever claimed it to be. We are proving a multi-disciplined position with strong pose across-the-board. The reason our foundation is incredibly strong is because we set it in scripture and that is solid rock." 
What do we see time and time again when The God Culture is confronted about their false claims but lashing out and naming calling and threats of one kind or another? Not rational discussion. That they cannot even utilize Facebook properly and freak out when they post a bad link is just icing on the paranoid cake. They are also spreading disinformation about Facebook because they do not care to look hard enough to find out what is actually happening. No one has ever accused The God Culture of being good and reliable researchers!

If you think these people who cannot even utilize Facebook properly are going to rewrite and correct the history of the Philippines then I've got some Ocean Realty in Arizona to sell you.

Monday, February 5, 2024

The God Culture: The Dead Sea Scrolls Are All About Jesus Christ

The stupidity and contradictions never stop with Timothy Jay Schwab who is The God Culture. He continues to claim The God Culture is a team but it is simply not possible that a team would continue to get EVERYTHING wrong. If it turns out there is an actual God Culture team they are the most unqualified people for the job of researching the Bible, history, linguistics, paleography, archaeology, and the Dead Sea Scrolls.

NEW!!! Yahusha's Sacrifice in the Dead Sea Scrolls 1st Century. WOW!!!

Tim and the gang, IF there is a gang, are now claiming that the crucifixion of Jesus Christ is to be found in the Dead Sea Scrolls, specifically in the Commentary on Nahum. Here is the passage in question.

[And chokes prey for its lionesses; and it fills] its caves [with prey] and its dens with victims (ii, 12a—b).

Interpreted, this concerns the furious young lion [who executes revenge] on those who seek smooth things and hangs men alive, ... formerly in Israel. Because of a man hanged alive on [the] tree, He proclaims, ‘Behold I am against [you, says the Lord of Hosts’].

https://couldbeanonymous.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/complete-scrolls.pdf

What Tim is going to do is take ahold of "Because of a man hanged alive on a tree" and say that has to be a reference to Jesus Christ because he is the ONLY man who's being hanged on a tree, or crucified, matters. He will also claim that this passage is wrongly translated because of the addition of "who executes revenge" in brackets and he will also deride paleographic dating as mere unscientific guess work. Below are the most important statements he makes trying to twist this passage into a reference to Jesus Christ. 

1:07  The whole Dead Sea scroll, uh, malfunction of what they call scholarship is really truly utter fraud. Uh, so, yeah they don't find it and we're not surprised cuz it's right there sitting on top of their nose. And what do they do? Well, first they screw up the date in a false science, uh, that guesses at a date. Yeah, that's what they do they don't actually test many times, uh, you know carbon dating. But even if they did there's still a margin of error that could take it into the next century. So it really doesn't tell you anything when you're thinking about trying to nail it down to a very, very specific era of you know 30 to 40 years. Uh, literally impossible to do so and it's okay we don't have to that's the whole thing. It's the demand for such that science doesn't even have to support it that it's just ludicrous. Stop demanding things, right? That's what we should do. Stop demanding things that man can't even date and can't even do anyway. Pretty easy

Got it? The text is undatable using proper scientific methods including carbon dating and paleography. Moreover people who demand the Dead Sea Scrolls be subject to such testing are stupid.  

4:50 However, no one can seem to think over there at the Dead Sea scroll, uh, you know Library, the Leon Levy Library, all of it. The Rockefeller funded uh disaster, uh, of interpretation. At least we have the Dead Sea Scrolls at least some of the translations are okay uh but their interpretations, these guys are idiots.

This is a particularly ignorant statement. Tim derides the scholarly interpretation of the scrolls but says the translations are OK. Only an idiot would not understand ALL translation is interpretation. Unbelievable. 

7:02 This concerns the Furious Young Lion that's singular notice. Now, it's not Yahusha and we know that he can be, uh, referred to as a lion as well in Prophecy but that's not what this is this is very clear this is a furious Young Lion who's doing some bad stuff here. So, uh, this is Pontius Pilate very obviously I mean anybody can read this even at first blush and really kind of almost see this but hopefully you will now. 

Why is it obvious that this lion is Pontius Pilate? Tim does not say. It is obvious to Tim because he has already decided that this passage is about Jesus being crucified and the man who ordered his crucifixion is Pontius Pilate. But why is this furious young lion Pilate? Tim also wants his audience to know that there is only one lion mentioned in the text and not many lions as some scholars say and who Tim never cites. Surely Tim has read this whole commentary and knows that the furious young lion is mentioned in the fragment just before the one he is interpreting.

The lion tears enough for its cubs and it chokes prey for its lionesses (ii, 12a).

[Interpreted, this] concerns the furious young lion who strikes by means of his great men, and by means of the men of his council.

Now, how is this Pilate? Tim has already said there is only one furious young lion so there has to be a strict identification between these two furious young lions. So, how is this Pilate? Tim does not say. He ignores it completely.

7:46 And notice we have brackets here as we move forward. uh now what does that mean? It means they added this part to the sentence, to the translation, it's not actually there. Now, there's nothing wrong with doing that if it's logical, reasonable, and they're not just throwing in something to basically change the whole doctrine of the passage. Oh, oops that's what they're doing in blatant fraud. Let's see. 

So, it says "who executes Revenge." So, this this Furious Young Lion executes Revenge. Okay you could say that about Pontius Pilate I, I mean you could but are you kidding? The guy washed his hands he tried not he tried to say "no." No the Pharisees twisted his arm uh he wasn't exactly the one executing Revenge other than for them but here's how it reads: uh, "who executes Revenge." Uh, what they're trying to do is set up the Pharisees as the persecuted here because those poor Pharisees, I mean, you know, they they, they were just trying to kill a man. What's wrong with that? Right? Okay. What it really should say is something more like "on behalf of." Ok? Not "who executes Revenge." Nonsense.

Wow. Now Tim is not only engaging in commentary but in translation! It should be noted that the bracketed words are not a problem for Tim. It is the word "on" following the brackets with which he takes issue. Instead of "on" Tim thinks it should read "on behalf of." Why exactly should it say "on behalf of?" Has Tim looked at the Hebrew? No. This new translation is based not on what the actual Hebrew text says but on Tim's own fancy. It is totally ludicrous.

10:50 So, who does the hanging here? The Furious Young Lion Pontius Pilate does. He's the Executioner. then it says "formerly in Israel." So, this fragment is written when after the event because it's talking about something that was formerly there and formerly happened. Duh. This text really dates itself. 

"Because of a man." Okay. One man. There's only one to which this could even refer in fact and that's Yahusha you'll see. One man. Okay. "Because of a man hanged alive on the tree he proclaims behold I am against you says Yahweh of hosts." Wow. Now, let's break this down cuz there's actually a lot there to unpack and by the end of this short video you're going to understand it and again test it for yourself. 

First notice this man as Peter and Luke affirm was hanged on a tree. We know that is scripture. that is a Biblical way to identify Yahusha. Now, it's not a cross. Uh, it's an upright stake, a single piece of Timber not two. Uh, not in any passage by the way. There's not a single passage that ever identifies an actual cross. That's an English translation of the Greek word stauros which is always a stake, a single piece of wood usually pointed on the end but not always, uh and Yahusha was attached to one of those. Uh, it's called a tree but appropriately so, uh, so, anyway. Watch our videos on the cross and the great, the Greek, uh, stake and we cover that well. 

This is clear that a singular man was hanged on a tree and well, uh, caused Yahua to react against those who executed him. That's pretty severe. That's pretty serious when he reacts. This is Yahusha and no one else. There's really no other fit to this and you'll see as we go through.

It is true that Jesus was hung on a "tree" and died but he also resurrected. If this is indeed Jesus where is the mention of His resurrection? It simply is not there. That is rather odd since the resurrection is pretty important.

20:06 Uh, that is poor and no wonder he can't, you know, figure this out and ends up leading uh to really the hiding of this incredible Revelation that's been sitting right there. Yahusha is found his crucifixion is found in the Dead Sea Scrolls written about the period that it happened, concurrently. Wow. This is amazing. When you think about it this is incredible.

This is the core of Tim's entire argument. Dead Sea Scroll Scholars are dishonest frauds who cannot connect a man dying on a tree to Jesus Christ who died on a tree. 

The amount of ignorance in this video is breathtaking. Tim wants us to believe this fragment was written shortly after Jesus was crucified based on his interpretation not of the original Hebrew but of Vermes English translation. For Tim, Vermes' commentary and bracket additions are maliciously fraudulent while his translation is acceptable even though the translation is itself an interpretation. However, as I showed above it is the translation and not the bracketed words with which Tim takes issue. If this fragment was written after the crucifixion of Jesus Christ why is there no mention of His resurrection? 

Tim is also taking this one fragment out of context. This fragment is from a whole commentary on Nahum. How does this interpretation fit in with the rest of the commentary? It is a matter of fact that this commentary mentions the names of two Greek kings. Who are they? Tim does not care as he dismisses them completely. 

18:46 "Substantial remains of a Naham commentary we retrieved from cave four. they cover parts of chapters 1 and two of the biblical book and the first 14 chapters of chapter 3. their historical significance has been discussed in chapter 3. It is worthy of note that the commentator employs not only cryptograms Kittim, Furious Young Lion, Etc." Indeed he does and that's not really that cryptic when you understand you know a lot of these things especially when they're repeated over and over in the Dead Sea Scrolls these these aren't Shockers at all. "But the actual names of two Greek Kings." Oops! Well, no not not in terms of of uh of what we're talking about not at all. Uh, Demetrius and, uh, Antiochus except for both of them are gone uh by this era that this is supposedly dated from 50 to 1 BC. Doesn't he know that? Doesn't he read his own writing? That's pretty bad. Anyway, so, the Greeks are gone and Rome is in power so forget the Greeks there that he mentions, I don't know why. 

Tim is at a loss why Vermes mentions the names of two Greek kings Demetrius and Antiochus. Is he for real? The names are in the text! That's why he mentions them. This is beyond stupid especially as Tim had no problem with Antiochus being name dropped when he used this very same fragment to "disprove" The Book of Maccabees

Take a look again at the title card for this video. "FRESH DISCOVERY!" "How did scholars HIDE this?" It's simply amazing that scholars who have devoted their entire lives to studying the Dead Sea Scrolls, ancient languages, 2nd Temple Period literature, and the culture of the time are bested again and again by a magazine publisher who admits he is not a linguist and has a degree in marketing. How is this possible? 

It's not. The real question is why is Timothy Jay Schwab such a clueless utter moron and why does anyone believe the ridiculous garbage that he spews? 

How did scholars miss that the Dead Sea Scrolls, far from being a collection of documents pertaining to a specific community complete with rules and their own unique interpretation of the Bible, is actually all about Jesus Christ? It's because they hate Jesus, of course and the Dead Sea Scrolls are all about Jesus. 

5:35 They tried to rule out 30 or so years later of course. Uh, why? Well because that would be Messiah in this text and of course that couldn't possibly be because well, they hate him. What do you expect? What are they doing? Managing the Dead Sea Scrolls which are all about Him that's the real question. Now, problem we ain't fallen for any more of this ridiculous leaven.

Now, it must be said that while Tim is very stupid his audience is even more so. The morons who listen to him will believe everything he says without doing what he says which is test all things including himself. They will hear Tim read about a man being hanged on a tree in this Nahum commentary fragment and agree that it can only be Jesus Christ who was also hanged on a tree. 

This interpretation of the Nahum Commentary is on par with Tim's linguistic method whereby a Filipino word sounds like a Hebrew word therefore it IS a Hebrew word. It is also on par with Tim's interpretation of Jesus saying "Come unto me all who are weary and I will give you rest" to mean we have to keep the Sabbath because we rest on the Sabbath therefore Jesus must have been talking about the Sabbath when he mentioned rest. It is silly and ridiculous beyond belief. It is amazing how, when you think he cannot get any stupider, Timothy Jay Schwab who is The God Culture will always surprise you with something even more stupid than before.

Thursday, February 1, 2024

The God Culture: 100 Lies About the Philippines: Lie #30: The Philippine Flag and National Anthem are Bible Prophecy

Welcome back to 100 lies The God culture teaches about the Philippines. Today's lie concerns the Philippine flag and national anthem. Timothy claims they contain biblical prophecy but as we shall see that is a lie. 


In one of his videos Tim explains the alleged biblical prophecy contained in the Philippine flag and the words of the national anthem. 

Revelation 12: The Land That Protects The Woman. Solomon's Gold Series 13D 
28:56 So let's look here at the national flag of the Philippines. Notice the symbol of the Sun. Are there other countries that have such? Certainly there are many in fact but take a look at their national anthem Lupang Hinirang or chosen land, interesting. Land of the morning. Why? Well the Sun rises in the east and has been considered the Far East as far back as history goes really. The Orient is well recorded, even Japan is also known as the Land of the Rising Sun and it sits parallel to the Philippines but it is not a Lost Tribe territory thus it does not fit this. But the Philippines is. 
Now read the next line though. Very odd. "Child of the Sun returning." Wow! The first time we saw that we thought well it must be Sun God symbology yet in lieu of these findings in Revelation 12 perhaps not.

"Never shall invaders trample thy sacred shores." Sacred shores. Funny. 

Understand this anthem is written after the Spanish had invaded in about 1898. They were invaded by the U.S. in the very next year in fact and also Japan in World War 2 so that did not come true then, right? Or did it? Actually if in fact this is a reference referring to Satan attacking as the enemy it would be accurate a minor point but we look at everything that we see here. However, is the Philippines the land of the Sun that's the symbology we're looking for. The answer yes. 

And look at the Greek word used here. The word is Helios which means Sun but also actually means East. Why? Because the Sun rises in the east you see that with Hebrew and Greek words often nothing abnormal about that. But literally one could replace the word East in the passage and it would be accurate. A woman clothed in the east. And we know it's Jacob and Jacobs descendants in the East are in the Philippines.

We looked up all the words in this passage basically in Greek but they are really translated pretty appropriately as things like clothes is pretty much clothed each time it's used or arrayed which is maybe a better word but pretty much the same thing. The anthem continues to mention the nation's radiance, again more sun language, but "thy banner dear to all hearts its Sun and stars." Alright so yes we see star symbology here too but we'll get there. 

"Oh never shall it's shining fields be dimmed by tyrants might." There have been tyrants but they have not lasted in the Philippines, Remember that. 

Again they were attacked but they have gained their independence just after World War two in fact and they remain so and even now we begin to see the prophecy of Messiah in Matthew 12:42 as Sheba, Ophir, Philippines begins to rise against corruption, against the New World Order, the Beast whichever you wish to call it which is also exactly what this land which protects the woman is really doing when you look at the passage. They are taking a stand against the dragon. In our opinion this is far too much to overlook. 

So, "land of the morning child of the Sun returning." Child of Jacob the Sun returning. Hmm. The hundred and forty-four thousand. Hmm.

And more language, "beautiful land of love, oh land of light." Now, there are three lights in Genesis that were placed in the firmament. What are they? The Sun, the Moon, and stars. Hmm. 

"In thine embraced 'tis rapture to lie." Huh. Rapture? The manchild is from the woman Israel and is birthed in heaven and raptured, the actual Greek word used there is harpazo. No every time you see that word mean in Scripture it does not mean that is the rapture doctrine. You first have to prove the rapture doctrine is scriptural and then you can start applying the word in such a way but you can't do it the other way around. This is not the rapture. It cannot be the rapture of the rapture doctrine absolutely not. So, raptured to the throne room of Yahuah think about it. 

"But it is glory ever when thou art wronged for us, thy sons to suffer and die." No doubt could be a military reference there and that's fine but it's a very interesting choice of words especially throughout the entire national anthem. 

We find these kinds of things all over the Philippine history. But the main point here is is the Philippines a land of Jacob? Yes, Lost Tribes migrated there thus it is the Sun and even uses sun symbology. It just piles on top of all of this to just confirm the Philippines is the land that clothes the woman in the Sun. So does it fit here? We believe it does.

Tim also mentions this alleged prophecy in his book The Search for King Solomon's Treasure.

One of the greatest mysteries in prophecy which has eluded scholars is Revelation 12. Most immediately migrate to astrology and there is no biblical precedence to interpret His prophecy through the paradigm of star patterns named for His adversaries. In fact, we examine every scripture that appears to classify constellations in the English and studying out the Hebrew and Greek, there is not one which even refers to a star cluster which commemorates the Watcher Fallen Angels and their Nephilim offspring. Talk about “doctrines of demons.”

Instead, with this restored geography in mind, we now understand the Philippines to be far more important than once perceived. To ignore this, would be a huge oversight. Understandably, scholars are unaware largely of this thinking thus they will never interpret this prophecy with accuracy in our opinion.

Remember, this is prophecy and we are simply attempting to examine one which no scholar has ever explained with precision. This is a future event as all of Revelation is according to John in his opening. We see dual symbology here in which the woman appears physically in Heaven but these symbols which surround her distinguish a land as well which will protect her and she will flee into it’s wilderness. This land is described asclothing the woman in the sun, the moon at it’s feet, twelve stars in it’s crown, having a wilderness or desert, likely an island or on the coastline in the ocean where a great tsunami could form and it has the great eagle. Do any of these seem familiar? We believe so.

The Philippines is known in it’s National Anthem, “Lupang Hinirang,” as the “Land of the morning” or sun. Some English translations then render “child of the sun returning.” It is well known geographically as the area in which the sun rises in the Far East just as Japan is the “Land of the Rising Sun” in almost parallel longitude to the Philippines. The Philippines would envelope this woman in the warmth of the sun.

pg. 265-266

Whether knowingly or unknowingly Tim is interpreting the Bible through Freemasonic symbology! The flag of the Philippines was designed by Emilio Aguinaldo and is replete with masonic symbols.

The Hong Kong designed flag that Aguinaldo brought with him from his exile on board the US dispatch boat McCullock, and which became the official flag of the first Philippine Republic, consisted of two horizontal stripes, blue on top and red below. It had a white equilateral triangle at the hoist that is smaller than that in our flag today. Within the triangle, at its center, a mythological sun was depicted with eyebrows, eyes, nose and mouth in black, bearing eight rays without any minor ray for each, and three five-pointed stars, one at each angle of the triangle. All these devices were in gold or yellow colour.
Among the more credible assertions relied upon to establish the tie between masonry and the flag are the following:
In October 1899, Ambrocio Flores, Grand Master of the Gran Consejo Regional and at that time a general in the army of Aguinaldo, wrote letters to the Grand Lodges in the United States appealing to them to employ their influence to help the fledgling Philippine Republic. In these letters he compared the Philippine flag to the masonic banner saying, "...this national flag resembles closely our masonic banner starting from its triangular quarter to the prominent central position of its resplendent sun surrounded in its triangular position by three 5-pointed stars. Even in its three coloured background, it is the spitting image of our Venerable Institution’s banner so that when you see it in any part of the world, waving with honor amidst the flags of other nations and acknowledged by these nations, let us hope that with this flag, and through it, our common parent, Freemasonry will likewise be so honored."
In his beautiful Grand Oration pronounced in 1928, historian Teodoro M. Kalaw, Sr., uttered these words: "And the triangle appearing on the Philippine flag, the loftiest symbolism of the struggles of the Filipino people, was put there, according to President Aguinaldo, as an homage to Freemasonry."
https://freemasonry.bcy.ca/symbolism/philippine_flag.html
The original flag designed by Freemason Aguinaldo had a sun with a face on it inside a white triangle and the design was a tribute to the lodge to which he belonged! In fact the entire independence movement was freemasonic in origin and spirit. Even the national anthem came about due to the Freemasons. From The Cabletow, the official magazine of Philippine Freemasonry:

https://grandlodge.ph/sites/default/files/cabletow/Cabletow2005-1.pdf
The untold story of our National Anthem is that the music and the lyrics came into being because of the inspiration and prompting of Freemasons.

Rafael Palma, who became Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of the Philippines in 1920, wrote how the lyrics of the National Anthem came about, thus:

“During the leisure hours allowed by the daily and especially at night after the day’s work, the members of the staff of La Independencia, seeking to amuse themselves and to be relieved from their physical weariness, used to assemble together and sing or play on musical instruments. Their souls afflicted by the military situation, which was growing worse every day, needed spiritual elation, and they found it in singing war tunes and martial songs which made them forget the bitterness of a sad reality....

“It was in one of those occasions that Jose Palma saw the necessity of writing a poem for the words of the Marcha Nacional Filipina. Although this march was known since the beginning of the revolution and was hummed by everybody, it had not yet then any words accompanying it. To suit its music, he wrote a poem Filipinas, which was published for the first time in the issue of the first anniversary of La Independencia on Sept. 3, 1899. the spirit of his verses glowed with an optimistic faith in the future because (then) it was the general belief that it would be impossible for the American forces to dominate the entire archipelago.”

The music and the lyrics of our National Anthem no doubt came about when our forebears fought for their freedom and independence, but its patriotic message transcends their time. Patriotism is in the heart of the nationalists who love their country.

The involvement of Freemasons in the development of our National Anthem is more than a coincidence. The message is clear: Freemasons love Freedom. and the National Anthem bears the imprint of their devotion.

The fact is the Philippine National Anthem is thoroughly steeped in Freemasonry. It is absolutely not a bible based prophecy.

Unbelievably Tim is basing his interpretation of Revelation 12 on symbols rooted in and originating from Philippine Freemasonry! Is he really this dumb? Yes, he is. Timothy Jay Schwab is interpreting Bible prophecy through the lyrics of the Freemasonic Philippine national anthem which is irrational, insane, and is simply another lie The God Culture teaches about the Philippines. 

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