The God Culture: Stuff the God Culture Writes, "The Search For King Solomon's Treasure"

Timothy Jay Schwab's new book "The Search For King Solomon's Treasure" is such "a farrago of nonsense that is contravened by a multitude of eyewitness accounts, inconvenient facts, and simple common sense," that I was not able to cover it all in my initial review. This time around I want to take a look at some of the outright absurdities in Tim's book. Things that simply do not belong but which make up "The Monumental Case For the Philippines No One Can Disprove." Each page is a head scratching, "Did he really write that?," moment. 

Let's start off with something that Tim did not write. From the Foreward by "Dr." Butch Belgica:

The accepted scientific way of determining the land of creation is biodiversity. Southeast Asia, as declared by science journals and hundreds of scientists, is the world center of biodiversity - marine, mammals, plants and animals - with the Philippines as the epicenter in all. 

p. 10

A word about The God Culture calling this a Foreward instead of a foreword. They claim that its a double entendre and the reason they use it can be found on page 9 of the book.

FYI - Someone asked why we chose the word Foreward with an A rather than the traditional Foreword with an O. Read Page 9 of Solomon's Treasure and we explain why Foreward is far more appropriate for our book as we employ a double entendre and it is intentional and on all our books that way. Yah Bless.

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=698485840711436&id=376627072897316

There is nothing on page 9 to explain this word choice. As for it being a double entendre, I fail to see what is "socially awkward, sexually suggestive, or offensive" here. The correct word for this type of speech would be a pun.  (Note: TGC has altered both Solomon's Treasure and their version of the Book of Jubilees to explain what they mean by foreward. You can read that at this link on page 9.)

The claim Belgica makes about biodiversity determining the land of creation shows up later in the book on page 64 where Tim writes the following:

Mankind and animals rebooted during the Flood and are no firm scientific measure to determine the origin of species.  However, marine life was not wiped out by the deluge as such. Therefore, we have a credible measure by which to allocate the root of life in region. If we can locate the most bio-diverse population on earth, we would have actually found the Land of Creation scientifically. In the past twenty or so years, marine biologists have now determined that this center of life, without even actually realizing what they have found, is he measure of the origin of species. Sorry Charlie, Darwin that is.

p.64-65

I hope my readers are astute enough to see what is wrong with these claims. For one thing they contradict each other. Belgica says biodiversity in toto can determine the land of creation. Tim says only marine biodiversity can determine the land of creation because everything else was wiped out by the flood. Though Tim does write about mammal diversity further on page 66 where he quotes a press release from Chicago's Field Museum.

Where is the world's greatest concentration of unique species of mammals? A team of American and Filipino authors have concluded it is Luzon Island, in the Philippines.

This PRESS RELEASE goes on to reference a scientific study which Tim neglects to reference. Imagine writing a book that is supposed to be "The Monumental Case For the Philippines No One Can Disprove" and instead of analyzing a scientific paper you are satisfied with quoting from a press release as your source. "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't." The method is to be as shallow as possible and we shall see it crop up several times in this book as Tim prefers to quote newspaper articles about studies rather than analyze any of the scientific studies to which they refer.

Neither Belgica nor Tim explains how locating the center of biodiversity can scientifically lead us to the land of creation. They just assume it. They don't quote any scientists or offer any reasonable proof why the most biodiverse land is the land of creation. The Earth is a large planet and it could be that God created different animals in different lands and not all in one place. How does Tim explain the unique biodiversity of Australia or the Amazon rainforest?

Noah's flood actually destroys Tim's thesis about marine biodiversity. Tim correctly notes that the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were opened during the flood. But if that is the case then all life in the sea would have been dispersed. If underground geysers were spouting up then they would spread abroad all they touch. Post-Flood there would be no center of marine biodiversity. This is especially the case since Tim teaches there was no ocean before the flood. More on this below. 

First let's look a little closer at what Tim's three sources say this diversity consists. These are all found on page 65.

 Source one is from http://oneocean.org/flash/philippine_biodiversity.html.

The Philippines forms an ocean region that has long been recognized as the world’s center of marine biodiversity. With the Malay archipelago, Papua New Guinea and Australia, the country forms the ‘Coral Triangle,’ so-called because of the abundance of its coral reef life. Some 400-500 species in 90 genera of reef-forming corals are believed to exist in this region. Sulu-Sulawesi Sea, a 900,000-square-kilometer marine eco-region that lies at the apex of the Coral Triangle (70% in the Philippines, 20% Indonesia, 10% Malaysia), is home to some 2,500 species of fish.

A 2005 report (Carpenter 2005) suggests that the Philippines is not only part of the center but is, in fact, the epicenter of marine biodiversity, with the richest concentration of marine life on the entire planet.

That 2005 report is actually a little difficult to find but it can be read here: 

The center of the center of marine shore fish biodiversity: The Philippine Islands

Analysis of distribution data for 2983 species reveals a pattern of richness on a finer scale and identifies a peak of marine biodiversity in the central Philippine Islands and a secondary peak between peninsular Malaysia and Sumatra. This pattern is repeated in diverse habitat and higher taxa classes, most rigorously for marine shore fishes, supporting geohistorical hypotheses as the most general unifying explanations.

Why is this report not the source Timothy uses? Because it does not fit his thesis. The title of this report is: "The center of the center of marine shore fish biodiversity: The Philippine Islands." The focus of this study is not marine life in general but shore fish in particular! The other marine life which composes this diversity is mostly corals which form their habitat. But how exactly does this diversity prove that the Philippines is the land of creation? Tim does not say. He simply assumes it.

The next source is literally a Google search!!!

NOTE: This is an old search on Google from 4 years ago. CNN has since purged his report and link but we have it captured. Notice, it is also widely report by the Philippine Star, Manila Times, etc, Our route is taken from the CNN report but all are similar. We are keeping the one from our original video in which his was very widely circulated and quoted from CNN as you can see on this page.

If there is anything that can convict Timothy Jay Schwab of being a shameless fraud it has to be this. First of all this source is a Google search and not the actual article so he doesn't have it captured as he claims he has and if he does he should have used that instead of this malarkey. Second of all this CNN report is actually an ireport! The url is: http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOCS-783629. CNN retired this feature in 2015. Ireports were akin to Wikipedia and thus unreliable. Anyone could report on anything. I do not have this article so I cannot read their sources but neither can Timothy. Third of all this is a GOOGLE SEARCH!!! It does not prove a thing. A fine source for Tim's "Monumental Case For The Philippines No One Can Disprove."

His third source is from a newspaper and is of no account.

Some 100 scientists have declared the Philippines as the world’s "center of marine biodiversity" — not the Great Reef Barrier off east Australia — because of its vast species of marine and coastal resources, according to the World Bank. 

https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2006/06/08/340635/100-scientists-declare-rp-world146s-145center-marine-biodiversity146

That is sufficiently vague enough for Tim to prove his point and is not worth commenting on. Why not link to the World Bank study and explain exactly why the Philippines is the center of marine biodiversity? Why not tell us all more about this biodiversity and how it proves that the Philippines is the land of creation? Why is Tim content with newspapers and secondhand reports? Since Tim does not bother to link it I will not bother to search it out. 

Let's return to the first source. In that source the marine biodiversity is located in the Sulu Sea. But Tim does not believe there was a Sulu Sea when God created the Earth! He teaches that the oceans and seas were formed as a result of the flood. 

....after the Flood with the new World Ocean formed...

pg. 54

Prior to the Flood, the water system of the Earth was described as five mega-rivers with fountains of the great deep within. There is no mention of a world ocean....

pg. 269 

...no ocean and a lot more land.

pg. 271 

The implications of this teaching are obviously quite ridiculous. There would be no large bodies of water for the great whales to swim in. Imagine blue whales swimming in a river, even a mega-river. What is a mega-river anyway? Tim offers no precise explanation as to what they are or how they would function. 

By the way those mega-rivers are now known to us as ocean trenches according to Tim. How does Tim know this? He doesn't. He quotes again from an article about a study and jumps to the conclusion that these trenches must have been rivers before the Flood buried them.

“If you drained all the water away, it would look exactly like a river system with bends and meanders, except there are no trees along the banks...”

– Dan Parsons, PhD, Sedimentologist, University of Hull, UK to BBC News (studies undersea rivers)

pg. 254-255 of the Sourcebook

Tim's source for the above quote is an interesting article at the BBC from which Tim draws unwarranted conclusions and assumptions which he cannot prove. Has he studied these trenches with underwater excavations? Of course not. It also references a study Tim neglects. But that is par for the course.

If there was no Sulu Sea then that means God did not create all marine life or an abundance of marine life in those waters. Instead where the Sulu Sea is now was the Garden of Eden. According to Tim the Garden of Eden is actually at the very bottom of the Sulu Sea. Tim thinks this scientifically proves the Philippines is the center of marine biodiversity.

As we covered before, the Carpenter Report, CNN, World Bank, and many others now record the Sulu Sea specifically the Verde island passage from Mindoro to Batangas as "The Center of the Center of Marine Biodiversity on Earth" and as we established, that indicates the origin of life on Earth not old bones of humans nor animals. Therefore, this even proves out scientifically as that is just above the Garden of Eden which is enclosed within the Earth. Somewhere to the East is an entrance and we do not claim to have found the entrance nor do we wish to attempt to enter. We believe we even find support in the Hebrew name if a large underwater reef famous for diving in the center of the Sulu Sea in fact just above the Garden.

Tubbataha Reef

Hebrew: Tub: טוּב: good things

Hebrew: ba: בָּא: in the

Hebrew: ta: תָּא :chamber

Hebrew: ha: הא: The

Our interpretation: The Good Things in the Chamber

To what chamber might this be referring? Perhaps the enclosed Garden of Eden just below. If this is coincidence, calculate the odds of such impossibility.

pg. 310-312

What nerve to claim he has covered the Carpenter report when that is not the case at all as I showed above. He does not even cite it! 

If the Garden of Eden is BELOW the Sulu Sea then that means God did not create the Sulu Sea during the seven days of creation. Therefore there will have to be an alternate explanation as to why there is so much diversity in the region. It cannot be because God created it so because the Sulu Sea did not begin to exist until AFTER the flood according to Tim's cosmology. Has Tim not thought this through? 

According to Wikipedia Tubbataha means:

The word tubbataha is a combination of two Sama-Bajau words: tubba and taha, which together means "a long reef exposed at low tide". 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tubbataha_Reef#Etymology

This is a good point to segue into Tim's use of Wikipedia. Tim cites Wikipedia authoritatively in this book.  

This further affirms the claim that the Philippines was mining gold in 1000 B.C. as...Wikipedia and others stake.

pg. 43

But on page 99 he shows why Wikipedia is not a reliable source:

...someone has now changed that Wikipedia article...

Wikipedia even tells us that it is not reliable as a primary source because it can be changed at any time!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_not_a_reliable_source

We advise special caution when using Wikipedia as a source for research projects. Normal academic usage of Wikipedia and other encyclopedias is for getting the general facts of a problem and to gather keywords, references and bibliographical pointers, but not as a source in itself. Remember that Wikipedia is a wiki. Anyone in the world can edit an article, deleting accurate information or adding false information, which the reader may not recognize.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_Wikipedia

Tim would be wise to learn this lesson but as it stands Wikipedia is part of his "Monumental Case For the Philippines No One Can Disprove." All it takes is a few edits and his case is disproven.

The Garden of Eden is not the only thing the flood buried beneath the newly formed World Ocean. Lemuria and Atlantis were also buried in the deluge.

Many recall the fabled Lemuria. It is no sunken continent that disappeared into the sea. It was inundated and overcome by the new World Ocean as was Atlantis. If one desired to discover a treasure trove of prehistoric archaeology, they would need to penetrate into the Flood sediment there on the bottom and entire large societies would emerge. However, man has no such capabilities in this age. Is it not odd that the Flood buried this and Atlantis to such degrees that we cannot even locate them today?

pg. 277

It is quite fitting that Tim writes about the existence of those fictional places in a book that is full of fictions about the Philippines. Apparently Tim is unaware that Plato invented Atlantis to illustrate his philosophical ideas and Lemuria was postulated in the 19th century by a zoologist to explain why  lemur fossils appeared in disparate places. Hence the name Lemuria. Any embellished accounts of Lemuria that Tim has read have most likely come from Theosophists such as Helena Blavatsky who made Lemuria a central part of her occult teachings. This passage is tainted with occult, new-age quackery.

Speaking of occult, new-age quackery Zechariah Sitchin's work forms part of Tim's "Monumental Case For the Philippines No One Can Disprove." He is the author of the famous Earth Chronicles series of books where he writes about ancient aliens visiting the earth and creating man. 

However, in the Book of Enki, the Nephilim also built an ark which landed on Turkey on their Mount of Salvation now called Ararat or near there. That's not Noah.

pg. 319

Is this some kind of joke? Is Tim for real?  Is he actually interpreting the Bible narrative of the flood through the Book of Enki which is about aliens who came to earth to mine for gold and genetically engineered mankind to be their slaves!!?

Some 445,000 years ago, astronauts from another planet came to Earth in search of gold. Splashing down in one of Earth's seas, they waded ashore and established Eridu, "Home in the Faraway." In time the initial settlement expanded to a full-fledged Mission Earth-with a Mission Control Center, a spaceport, mining operations, and even a way station on Mars. Short of manpower, the astronauts employed genetic engineering to fashion Primitive Workers-Homo sapiens. The Deluge that catastrophically swept over the Earth required a fresh start; the astronauts became gods, granting Mankind civilization, teaching it to worship. Then, about four thousand years ago, all that had been achieved unraveled in a nuclear calamity, brought about by the visitors to Earth in the course of their own rivalries and wars.

What's next?  Will he discourse on Niburu and Planet X and how man was created by alien gods? All of that is in the Lost Book of Enki. This false and occult information makes it into the authoritative sourcebook on page 267 and is a solid part of his case.

Mt. Ararat in Turkey has the wrong name, in the wrong direction, 12,000' too short, is not mountains but is the site where the Nephilim claim to have landed when they survived.

At this point Tim has gone totally off the deep end into esoteric texts that have no basis as being true. It's no wonder he is not satisfied with using the Bible alone to prove his case because the Bible contradicts him on multiple points especially concerning the flood and the law. 

https://www.ophirinstitute.com/sources

Strangely the Book of Enki is not listed as an official extra-biblical source.

Guess what else forms part of Tim's "Monumental Case For The Philippines No One Can Disprove." A rant against Oprah Winfrey!

pg. 57

We know media mogul, Oprah, would like to disparage Yahuah because He supposedly told Adam where the gold was which is complete ignorance as He never had to tell Adam where the gold was because Adam was created in the Land of Gold. It is the marker resource in identifying this region which is preserved to this day. Let us not pretend Oprah, as a billionaire is not serving Mammon (god of money) herself thus this  was a very hypocritical statement from her.

What is he talking about? Why is this in the book? What does this have to do with anything!? I tried to look this up and I think it has to do with her review of John Steinbeck's book East of Eden but I just don't know and since Tim does not tell us I'm not going to bother to search further.

Parts of Tim's book are devoted to revealing the Philippines in prophecy. In fact revealing the Philippines' place in prophecy is actually the whole point of his book and videos. Did you know the fact that because no one in the Philippines trusts anyone else resulting in everyone's house being enclosed behind a wall to prevent thieves from barging in identifies the Philippines in the book of Ezekiel?

Ezekiel 38:13 KJV 

Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?

Some focus on the young lions in this passage.  The word כְּפִיר: kephiyr is also defined "village (as covered by walls)" which the Philippines has walls or concrete especially fences everywhere. It is one of the first icons once notices when they visit there.

pg. 77

Commenting elsewhere on this verse Tim writes:

Again, this is where some attempt to force Britain into this when it is interpreted "young lions." However the word in Hebrew is also defined as "a village covered by walls." Anyone visiting the Philippines quickly notices the entire nation is a walled village. Most properties are fenced in with large concrete walls or the like.

This is a further fit to the rest of Isaiah's prophecies about the Philippines in context as Ezekiel knew as well the significance of this land.

pg. 251

Isaiah and Ezekiel were prophets to the nation of Israel. If we are to believe what Tim writes then these prophets were prophesying to the Israelites about a land and people they had no knowledge of and which would only figure in during the end times thousands of years in the future. It's not that the Israelites had no knowledge of Sheba, Dedan, and Tarshish. Of course they knew those lands. But the Philippines lay far out of sight on the other side of the world. 

Tim is adamant that the island of Cebu is actually Sheba.

Now that we know who is not the Queen of Sheba is there a way to pinpoint where she originated? We believe this can be accomplished by using the Hebrew language in her island for Sheba is in fact Cebu.

pg. 84

Following this paragraph is a long disputation using Hebrew words to ferret out the hidden meaning of Cebu. Tim says it is derived from the words "shebu" and "sebu." Take note that linguistics is Tim's method to uncover Bible mysteries. Not archaeology or exploration. Instead of going to Cebu to hunt for the remains of such a splendid kingdom as Sheba must have been he sits in his computer chair and constructs fake etymologies based on similarity of sounds. Cebu originates from a Cebuano word meaning trade.

The name "Cebu" came from the old Cebuano word sibu or sibo ("trade"), a shortened form of sinibuayng hingpit ("the place for trading"). It was originally applied to the harbors of the town of Sugbu, the ancient name for Cebu City. Sugbu or Sugbo, in turn, was derived from the Old Cebuano term for "scorched earth" or "great fire"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cebu_City#Etymology

Identifying the island of Cebu as the kingdom of Sheba is very problematic for Tim because when he maps out the Greek's alleged knowledge of the Philippines he points to only two mythical islands, Chryse and Argyre, as being Luzon and Mindanao respectively. But here he is telling us that the Queen of Sheba lived on Cebu island and that the Israelites were aware of this.

Ophir had a brother named Sheba had a descended ruling his region in 970 B.C. who was visited by Solomon's navy in her land of Sheba...

pg. 78-79

If Solomon's navy actually landed in Cebu and the Greeks inherited the shipping routes of those Phoenician sailors as Tim claims they did then why is there no island corresponding to Cebu in any Greek description of the world? Are we to believe the Greeks knew about Luzon and Mindanao but forgot about Cebu? It makes no sense whatsoever. It is more evidence against Tim's erroneous postulations about the identity of the Philippines.

The identity of Cebu as Sheba plays a large part in Tim's interpretation of Matthew 12:42 and is key to understanding what he believes about the role of Filipinos in the end times.

Matthew 12:42 KJV (Parallel in Luke 11:30) 

The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.

The Queen of the South still remains a designation of Cebu and Iloilo to this day and she will rise up. This means Messiah knew she would be put down for a season. She will judge this generation which is the final generation as in the passage, He defines this era where people will be seven more times demon possessed. Who came to hear the wisdom of Solomon? The Queen of Sheba. This is the Philippines which ascends to a position on the world amphitheater . It ill have a say in the judgement of the world and it's hierarchy. this is significant. We believe we are already beginning to witness the grass roots moment which will lead to this fulfillment. Ezekiel confirms the timing as Sheba, Tarshish and DDN, Philippines will rise up early in the narrative not at the end.

pg. 252

Tim interprets this passage to be a prophecy that the Philippines, personified as the Queen of the South, will rise up in the end times, reestablish God's law, and condemn the New World Order.

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

pg. 245

That is really all nonsense. The problem with all this is to be found in the preceding verse of Matthew. It seems Tim has completely overlooked Matthew 12:41.

Matthew 12:41 

The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.

If Tim is going to be consistent then the nation of Iraq, which is where Nineveh is located, will also rise up and condemn the New World Order by restoring God's law. Of course that's not going to happen. Neither is the Philippines going to restore God's law for the law is a schoolmaster to lead us to Christ and Christ has come. The law is no more. That is the message of both Hebrews and Galatians. Tim's message that Filipinos will restore God's law is fundamentally anti-Christian.

The simple message of Matthew 12 is that those people who demanded a sign from Jesus are condemned for not believing the miracles and signs already given. It is Jesus who is greater than Jonah and Solomon yet those wicked men refused to believe on Him without a sign to their liking while Jonah and Solomon were believed on even without signs. Therefore at the judgement day the Queen of Sheba and the Ninevites will rise up and condemn those wicked people for their unbelief. Why would Jesus, in the midst of condemning those people, give a prophecy about the Philippines in the end times? He wouldn't and he doesn't.

In Tim's hand easy to understand Bible passages like that of Matthew 12 become complex and familiar stories like that of Jonah become strange and unfamiliar. We all know the Bible says God prepared a great fish to swallow Jonah but Tim thinks it was actually Leviathan.

Jonah 1:17 KJV

Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

We know in Sunday school we are told this was a whale. However, it says simply great fish. Whatever it was Jonah survived in it's belly for three days and nights. We have no hesitation in positing on a thought on this however. Science has proven a man could not likely survive in a whale's stomach and it leaves scholars with no answer.  So consider this as a theory on this side note. This would have to be a sea creature with the capacity for Jonah to breath while inside it's inners and large enough to support a man. This stumps the best of scholars if they are honest about it. Our theory is this may have been, and we cannot prove this, Leviathan, the great sea creature recorded in the Book of Job as living at the bottom of the sea but also breathing fire. This requires oxygen within his apparatus and he was massive in size thus it would make sense that Yahuah sent Leviathan to swallow Jonah. Again, we cannot prove that as we have yet to see Leviathan but it does make sense.

pg. 121

You got to give it to Timothy, that is some interesting out of the box thinking. Very creative. In one fell swoop he concocts a fantastical scenario he claims he cannot prove and he does away with the miraculous nature of the whole event by trying to get all scientific. When has science "proven a man could not likely survive in a whale's stomach" and why would it even matter? Apply that kind of thinking to the resurrection and you will soon become an atheist.

As we saw above in Matthew 12:41 Jonah is a type, a prefiguring, of Jesus Christ. As Jonah was in the belly of the whale so Christ was in the heart of the earth. Jonah entered the belly of the whale, and Christ does use the Greek word for whale or great fish, after God, in His wrath, sent a storm. Leave it to Tim to take the miracle out of that part of Jonah's story as well.

If Jonah was only headed to Spain or Britain, then he would have been swallowed in the Mediterranean Sea which is certainly not known for the severe tempests over the ocean like this.

pg. 123

It's hard to believe that Tim has missed the miraculous nature of the story of Jonah but there it is in his book. The fact is God sent a strong storm and as soon as Jonah was tossed overboard the storm immediately ceased. He was then swallowed, according to the Hebrew and Greek, by a great fish or whale and not the fire breathing serpent Leviathan. He survived in the belly of that fish for three days and then was vomited onto the shore. His survival was due solely to God's providence and direction of the entire event. There is nothing natural about the story of Jonah. It is all miraculous and it is all a prefiguring of the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ according to Matthew 12.

Another familiar Bible story that Tim flips upside down is the story of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Remember Adam and Eve were forbidden to eat from that tree or else they would die. It seems Tim thinks this prohibition was because the fruit was actually poisonous. The fruit was not an apple or a fig but lanzones.

After quoting from the Book of Enoch which describes the fruit of the Tree of Wisdom Tim writes:

Lanzones appears to be the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in Enoch's description as it is a perfect fit in every way. Could there be such a history that Lanzones could be poison?

Lanzones originates in the Tagalog word Lason for "poison to morals or mind." This is perfectly fitting an very similar to the Hebrew "Lashon" which denotes essentially a poison tongue in some applications and even a golden wedge or bar in others tying to Ophir and Havilah. To the right, you will notice insets of the Carob and Lanzones Trees. Notice the leaves and branches revery similar as Enoch recorded. The Lanzones fruit certainly appears as grapes growing on a tree as described.

Can we really say this? Well, we were not there but in reading Enoch's very obvious reference this does match. However, we are not the first to say so as Philippines legend concurs. It was purged of such poison but one must ask how this can possibly end up matching the Book of Enoch

pg. 316

pg.317

He then quotes a Filipino legend about lanzones and writes the following conclusion:

According to this oral legend passed through generations in Laguna, Lanzones was once known to be poison. Where might a legend like that derive? The Book of Enoch yet again? An angel removed the poison and the tree was good to eat after that. Of course, this is a legend and there is no need to verify the story as much as we realize, legends like this usually have some sort of basis in ancient events many times. In this case, this happens to match what Enoch was describing in the Book of Enoch. Thus, we believe there is a connection.

pg. 318

The portion Tim quotes from Enoch says nothing about the fruit being poisonous. He pulls that assumption out of the air and then digs into a local Filipino legend about lanzones once being poisonous. They are only safe to eat now because an angel removed the poison. Just as he did with Jonah Tim excises the supernatural elements in the story of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. The tree is no longer a unique tree but the humble lanzones tree. The reason God forbade Adam and Eve to eat from it was because it was poisonous. But somewhere down the line the poison was removed and now we can all partake of the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil during the summer when the fruit is harvested and sold at the market.

There are many other absurdities in this book but let's look at one more that has to do with Tim personally.  Twice in this book he claims he is part Native American.

Though our leader who is of mixed Native American and European descent.......

pg. 18

Some of this author's ancestors were Native American Indians who were all but wiped from the face of the Earth when they rebranded them as "savages."

pg. 252

Why would information about Tim's genetic make-up be in a book which is "The Monumental Case For the Philippines No One Can Disprove?" It does not make any sense until you get to page 343.

In history, red skin is considered that of Native American Indian or the Filipino.

When have Filipinos ever been called Red Skins? Let's cut to the chase. Does Tim's face betray any Native American ancestry? How about his brother's face or his grandmother's face?

Those are all white people! If Tim has any Native American blood coursing through his veins it is an insignificant amount just like Senator Elizabeth Warren. 

The reason Tim stresses his Native American ancestry is because he wants his Filipino readers to think he is just like them. He has red skin, Filipinos have red skin, therefore they are the same. Except Tim is MORE EQUAL than Filipinos because Native Americans "were all but wiped from the face of the Earth!" Tim hails from a tribe of people who have been oppressed on a scale that outweighs anything that ever happened during the Spanish and American occupations of the Philippines.

What we have here is a guy who loathes the fact that he is a White American man and is latching on to anything that can transform him into a persecuted minority. It might be the ultimate case of going native as Tim is attempting to paint himself as being not only genetically identical to Filipinos with red skin but also being a member of a people group that has been more oppressed than them. But it has nothing to do with the Philippines being Ophir so who cares? Why is it in the book??

The God Culture: The Scholars Speak

Timothy Jay Schwab of the God Culture hates scholars. At least that is what he says in all his videos and writes in his books. Time and again Tim will harangue the scholars who operate in a false paradigm sitting in willing ignorance denying the truth that he has unveiled by reading their books. That's right. Tim uses the works of scholars to flesh out his claims. For this reason I wrote to several scholars whose material he uses and asked them what they thought of Tim's conclusions. Do I even need to reveal their answers? I know Tim won't care a hill of beans for what's about to follow but anyone with half a brain who is really interested in truth and not just confirming their own opinions would do well to carefully read what these men have to say.

First up is Professor Adrian Horridge. Before I came along to fact check Timothy he had never heard of Professor Adrian Horridge. Instead he had quoted him secondhand from former Supreme Court Justice Carpio who utilized a quote from Horridge to prove that the Philippines has domain over the South China Sea or West Philippine Sea. Here is what he writes in his book about Horridge's research.

"Theories that Austronesian rigs were derived from those of the Indian Ocean, or even from Egupt, are mistaken because the Austronesions had left Mainland Asia long before contacts spread eastwards.” -Professor Adrian Horridge

We had one question the "belief" of Adrian Horridge yet his "belief" is clear here and Justice Carpio was accurate in his rendering of such.

Here is what Carpio wrote and it is to be found on page 136 of "The Search for King Solomon's Treasure."

Professor Adrian Horridge believes that by 200 BCE, Austronesian sailors were regularly carrying cloves and cinnamon to India and Sri Lanka, and perhaps even as far as the coast of Africa in sailboats with outriggers. -Supreme Court Justice Antonio T. Carpio

It should be noted that Carpio is using Horridge to prove that the WPS historically belongs to the Philippines.

It was I who questioned what Horridge meant in this paper because he uses the word "perhaps" in suggesting that Austronesians  were sailing to India and Africa by 200 B.C.

Annual trade between China and India through the Malacca Straits had opened by about 200 BC. Perhaps by that time Austronesian sailors were regularly carrying cloves and cinnamon to India and Sri Lanka, and perhaps even as far as the coast of Africa in boats with outriggers.

https://philippinefails.blogspot.com/2020/03/god-culture-does-timothy-schwab-have.html

Perhaps is not a definite "is." Also it was apparent that Tim was drawing conclusions from Horridge's paper that were not supported by the text. Most notably he wrote that Filipinos were sailing balangay's directly to Egypt to engage in trade. Horridge writes nothing of the sort and uses the broad term Austronesians and not the specific term Filipinos. Who can clear up this mess better than Adrian Horridge himself?

I sent Professor Horridge a PDF file of pages 135-137 of Timothy Jay Schwab's book "The Search for King Solomon's Treasure where Tim quotes Horridge as proof that Filipinos sailed to Egypt for trade in 200 B.C.  His response is as follows:

Dear David, 

The Austronesians were certainly carrying cargoes with outrigger boats as far as the Red Sea, and the coast of Africa near Zanzibar, and they colonized Madagascar before 200BC,

Traces of cinnamon can be found in Egyptian Mummies from  2000 BC,

The trade hugged the coasts of India and Persia, then via Basra and Palmyra. 

The Romans imported the laxative Cassia from the Malabar coast of India etc, etc.

and there is no shortage of evidence about pepper, ginger etc..

However, the argument has no strength because there were others besides the Philippino Austronesians, who perhaps went no further than the Malacca Straits.

From the 8th to 11th centuries the Empire of Sri Vijaya ruled Sumatra and Malaysia

and their ships dominated the trade through the south China Sea as far as China,

and they carried the seaborne trade for the Chinese, who called them the 'kun lun'.

They were followed, until about the 14th century, by the maritime empire of the Chams, 

also Austronesians, who were  based at Hue upon the coast of present Vietnam.

They travelled as far as Japan and India.

The arguments based on this history are all rubbish.

The seas were free for all until coastal limits of about 12 miles were set, with  maritime laws that were recognized internationally.

Later, limits were set at 200 miles in some places, but it was always recognized that international shipping could pass freely  except in times of war.

Actually, all fishing should be banned in the huge area where 6 nations compete, so that the fish stocks can recover.

The question is not "Where can the fishermen go"

There are too many fishermen and the fish are overfished.

Thank you

Adrian Horridge

Two things to note here. Professor Horridge says that Austronesians were "certainly" sailing to Africa by 200 B.C. That means I was wrong that Horridge was merely speculating. But there is nothing wrong with being cautious rather than jumping to unwarranted conclusions. The conclusions that Tim and Carpio makes based on his paper Horridge calls "rubbish" and of "no strength" because there were others Austronesians besides Filipinos sailing afar. Professor Horridge also notes that not all Austronesians made it past the Malacca Straits.

Next up is Professor Frank Romer whose translation of Pomponious Mela Tim uses. He does not outright call the man a fraud and a propagandist but from the notes where those who do not teach Tim's doctrine are called such it is clear he does think Romer is in fact a fraud and propagandist.

I have written elsewhere how Timothy completely misinterprets Mela and contradicts the notes Romer makes to the text. My email to Romer was pretty straightforward. I asked two questions.

1. What do you think of the claim that the islands of Chryse and Argyre are actually the Philippines being Luzon and Mindanao respectively? Is this a viable identification?

2. Is there any evidence that the Greeks cirucmnaviagted Africa to trade with the Philippines or Chryse or whatever Chryse may be?

Here is his response.

As to your question 1: As you will know Chryse and Argyre are problematic in the ancient record, and you could write an article about them if you wanted to do so. I looked at the text in the picture, which you sent previously, but which is very unclear, and I managed to make out some of it. I think it very unlikely that Chryse and Argyre are Luzon and Mindinao for some of the reasons given at the bottom of the page you sent. In addition, I know of no evidence that suggests otherwise. You may already know that Ptolemy puts Argyre as the capital of Java and sees Chryse as the Golden Peninsula of Malaysia.

 

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

 

I hope this helps.

 

Best wishes,

Frank Romer

Let's deal with the second answer first.  According to this man who is a professor of ancient history there is no evidence that the Greeks circumnavigated Africa to trade with the Philippines. Now Tim will likely latch on the the words "known to me"as if Romer is just ignorant of evidence he does not know about. But Tim never provides any evidence to prove that the Greeks sailed around Africa to trade with the Philippines or vice versa. He simply makes deductive claims based on zero actual evidence "material or literary." In fact when I asked for further information about this claim Tim was dismissive and refused to provide anything which could substantiate his claim.

As for the first question, Romer says it is unlikely that "Chryse and Argyre are Luzon and Mindanao for some of the reasons given at the bottom of the page you sent." I do not know what he means because the page I sent is the page above where Timothy makes mincemeat out of Mela and calls anyone who does not follow him a propagandist.

I did know that Ptolemy idneitifes Chryse as the Malaysian Peninsula but I did not know that he places Argyre as the capital of Java. But here it is on an older map.

https://www.raremaps.com/gallery/detail/59685op/southeast-asia-fries

Lest Tim object by saying that is Argentea and not Argyre I challenge him to prove, from the Geography, that Ptolemy did not put Argyre as the capitol of Java or that he did not refer to Chryse as the Malaysian Peninsula. Remember, nu-uh is not an answer.

Third of all is noted Jubilees scholar James VanderKam. Aside from listing VanderKam's commentary as a source of note in his edition of Jubilees there is no indication that Tim actually cites VanderKam in his videos or books. I wrote to him asking his opinion concerning Tim's map of Noah' s division of the earth.

 

Here is his response:

Mr. Roxas,

My research into the map section of Jubilees gives me no reason for thinking that Ham's territory stretched as far as this commentary claims.  His territory is in Africa.

Best wishes,

Jim VanderKam

It's not as detailed an analysis as I would have liked but it gets straight to the point. Tim is wrong about Ham's allotment of Australia and South America. We can infer from that terse statement that if VanderKam read Tim's annotated Book of Jubilees he would find much fault.

Now, these are only the opinions of three scholars. I would have like to have had more expert testimony but it was not to be. Many of the people Tim cites are long dead and a few others whom he does not cite but are experts in the things Tim writes about, such as the Dead Sea scrolls, did not respond. I am omitting the testimony of Professor Fabrizio Lelli who is an expert on Abraham Farrisol who Tim claims places the lost tribes in the Philippines. You can read that at this link. 

As I wrote in the introduction Tim is not going to care what these people say. He has leveled so much vituperative invective in the pages of his book that it makes for hard reading. Who wants to read every other sentence, "We are right, scholars are wrong, and they are also lying frauds and propagandists?" But Tim actually does care what these men and other experts have to say. In fact he writes the following:

It is time for this to be taken seriously by those in authority, those in academia and those in the church.

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=690346041525416&id=376627072897316

It's totally disingenuous for Tim to lambast men who have devoted their life to a particular field or even book such as Jubilees and then say that those men should take him seriously. What Tim should really do is send copies of his books to VanderKam, Romer, and other experts in the field. Jose Eleazar Bersales is an archeologist in the Philippines. Why not send him a copy? He teaches at the University of San Carlos in Cebu. Here is his information page. Hopefully in the future we can read a review of Tim's book by an expert in ancient history, Philippine history, or second temple Judaism and the Dead Sea scrolls. 

The God Culture: Past and Future Projects

Timothy Jay Schwab of The God Culture is a busy man. He has a lot of projects on the way. Let's take a look at some of them.

https://uspto.report/copyright/search/author/schwab+timothy+jay

This is a listing from the United States Patent and Trademark Office. On it we find several projects copyrighted by Tim. It is a varied list with both texts and musical compositions being copyrighted. Some of these date back to the early 90's and shed light on the Christian rock n' roll band Tim used to be in. The list is not in any order so I will examine each item chronologically.

1. God's Bus 1990

This is a cassette tape with two other songs, Call of the Lord and When It's Cold. The music is by Richard Scott Schilling and the lyrics by Timothy Jay Schwab. A Google search pulls up nothing for this cassette. It appears that Richard Scott Schilling released an instrumental album in 2001 titled Earth, Sky, Sea. At least that is the only musician named Richard Scott Schilling on Youtube.  It sounds like something one would hear on Hearts of Space. Interesting fact, Christian band Cademon's Call had a song titled Bus Driver. Were they influenced by Tim? I like Cademon's Call, especially Suicidal Stones and Center Aisle. They are leagues better than Petra ever was.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAdyZdkv9ag&lc=UgwdeGqQEBluOzdou-14AaABAg

john lumus  hmm....... Thumb nail looks remarkably like PETRA™ Come And Join Us, 1977 album cover ~ 

The God Culture  Dude! there's a band i haven't in a long time Petra was awesome! Yah Bless 

2.  Nomad collection 2 1990

This is also a cassette tape with music by Schilling and lyrics by Schwab. It also features Nomad collection 1. Was Nomad the name of Tim's Christian rock band?

3.  Welcome Home 1991

Another cassette tape but this time with music and words by Timothy Jay Schwab.

4. Out of the Shadows/Nomad 1993

A cassette with lyric sheet. Music and words by Timothy Jay Schwab.

5. I Give it to You 2010

This is just one song. Timothy Jay Schwab is listed as the copyright claimant but there are several other authors. They are Caleb Clemens, Amy Martin, Pat Donahue, and Dustin short. They are credited with the music while Timothy is credited with the lyrics.

Those are all the projects Tim copyrighted before The God Culture was created. Now we will enter into familiar territory.

6. Ophir, Philippines Coffee Table Project 2020

This is, of course, Tim's huge coffee table book.

This is basically the same book as The Search for King Solomon's Treasure except it has pretty pictures of the Philippines. From the previews I have seen it looks rather nice. Tim's marketing and publishing talents have been put to use skillfully in the production of this book. Such is his forte. He is an adman and marketer above all else.

7. The Search for King Solomon's Treasure Lost Isles of Gold and the Garden of Eden 2020

Again, another book we all know. You can read my review here.

8. Ophir:The Lost Isles of Gold: The Return to the Garden of Eden 2020

This is not a book. This is a dramatic work and music; or choreography. I am betting it is a film script for a documentary. Even though Tim has created hundreds of videos about this subject it would not be out of the realm of possibility that he would whittle it all down into a presentable 2 hour feature. Of course, if he chroeographed a dance about Ophir that would be pretty awesome.

9. The Philippine Gold. Isles of Ophir, Sheba and Tarshish Rediscovered. 2020

This is a text which means it is probably a book. The title is similar to another book The God Culture has claimed they are working on.

Ancient

Philippine

History

Gilded in Gold

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

Perhaps it is the same book but the title has been changed. While there is a cover for "Ancient Philippine History" there is no copyright listed for such a work.

10. Sheba Unveiled 2020

The description says this is a movie script. Isn't that exciting? Now, Tim could have called this project anything but he called it Sheba Unveiled. He also talks a lot about Lemuria and Atlantis. He really believes they both existed. Lemuria and Atlantis play a huge role in theosophy. Could it be that the title is influenced by Helena Blavatsky's Isis unveiled?

As Tim would say, I can't prove this but it makes sense.

11. The Book of Jubilees. The Torah Calendar 2020

Another book that is familiar to readers of this blog. You can read my review here.

12. Zubu: The Real Story of Lapu Lapu 2020

Like Sheba Unveiled this is likely a movie script. Unless it's a dance. Tim has already given us his uneducated and illiterate opinion about the "real story" of LapuLapu. He says that this chieftain stole the Sto. Niño from Cebu and rejected the yoke of the Spanish. He thus killed Magellan in an act of defiance against colonialism. None of that is true. LapuLapu had no problem with submitting to the King of Spain. 

It was the demand of Magellan for him to accept the leadership of a fellow native chief, Humabon, which provoked the Mactan chieftain to anger. Primary sources claimed that the reason which prompted Magellan to explode in anger was Lapu-lapu’s alleged refusal to kiss the hand of Humabon as an acknowledgement of his subordination. Another member of the expedition who made his testimony upon their return in Spain, Fernando de Bustamante, barber-surgeon of the Victoria, in agreement with the other testimonies, also recalled that the natives of Mactan were actually willing to accept Spanish sovereignty but were not disposed to accept Humabon as their overlord: “...those of Mactan wished to obey the king of Castile but the said Ferdinand Magellan told them to kiss the hand of the king of Zebu and those do not wish to kiss the hand of the king of Zebu.” 

https://philippinefails.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-god-culture-lapu-lapu-did-not.html 

He also did not steal the Sto. Niño which was found in Cebu and not Mactan when the Spanish arrived in 1565. The natives worshipped it because it worked miracles for them.

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

History of the Philippines, Antonio Morga

Given that Tim has royally mangled this story it will be interesting to see what kind of movie he will make about LapuLapu. Remember this man is not a historian. He has a degree in business management and advertising. He is an adman.

13. 2nd Esdras: The Hidden Book of Prophecy 2021

You can read my two-part review for 2nd Esdras here and here.

14. REST:The Case for Sabbath 2021

This is Tim's newest book. Though, as of this writing, he has not officially released it you can buy it on Amazon. Soon it will be available for free at restcase.org. I have already written a critique of the Foreward by Retired Army Colonel Bien Casis. I have a hunch that this book will be very important and serve as a manifesto of sorts for The God Culture. Surely it will be Tim's most definitive theological statement and will show us all just where he stands on several issues not just the Sabbath. 

There are some interesting things on this list. It appears there are two movies in the works. The fact that there is no entry for Enoch is also very telling. It means that, even though Tim says he is working on it, it's just not ready yet. Perhaps it will be soon. None of the instructional editions of Solomon's Treasure appear on this list despite being touted as "coming soon" for almost a year now.

Strangely enough none of these copyrighted works list Tim's second wife, Anna Zamoranos, as an author. Yet, she is listed as co-author on the cover of all his books. Why is this? Perhaps because she is not really a co-author. After all, Anna, like her third husband Tim, has no training as a historian or a researcher or a linguist. She is a licensed real-estate agent. What could she possibly contribute to a project that alleges to be doing "deep research including history, geography, archeology, science, language, etc?" Her skill set does not qualify her for the job.

But there is something even more fascinating here. All of Timothy's copyrights dated from 2020, after he moved to the Philippines, list an address and phone number for Angie Myers in Boca Raton, Fl. Some of these entires even list that his domicile is in the USA. 

https://uspto.report/copyright/31717232

But Tim has not lived in Florida since at least 2019. So, why is he registering everything to Angie Myers in Boca Raton, Florida? Who is this lady?

Born in the Philippines but raised in Boca Raton, Angie Myers is a photographer who worked for Timothy Jay Schwab's now defunct magazine The Shore Life. She even photographed the cover of the premier issue.

http://www.angiemyers.com/blog/2013/3/5/the-shore-life-premier-issue

There is even a picture of Tim in this particular article.

It sure looks like Tim anyway. And why would't he be at the photoshoot for the front cover of the inaugural issue of his new magazine?

Angie also sells CBD products. This includes a topical cream and buds you can smoke or bake into edibles.

Happy national CBD day! This plant has literally changed my life and my health. For anyone with anxiety, pain or sleepless nights - this hemp derived CBD is what you need! You can use it as a topical, edible or smoke it. Zero traceable THC and non psychoactive. A common misconception is that it is weed (that stuff that gets you high). It’s a totally different plant and it’s 100% federally legal.  

https://www.facebook.com/AngieMyersFoto/posts/10218738706770635

Why is this lady being used as Tim's American address? He does not live there. He has not resided in the USA so for at least two years. So, wouldn't listing his domicile as being in Florida be fraud? Remember, this is a guy who says "the law is what redeems us." One would think he would always want to be on the straight and narrow. Apparently not!

The God Culture: Is The Fish A Christian Symbol?

Magazine publisher, revisionist historian, noted liar, and iconoclast Timothy Jay Schwab who is The God Culture has a new video questioning whether or not the fish is a Christian Symbol.

The Fish: Is It A Symbol of the Bible or the Occult?

Now, very obviously the fish IS a Christian symbol. One can read the writings of the Church Fathers where it is mentioned or view inscriptions on Christian burial sites in the Roman catacombs and see that is the case. C.R. Morey has a series of articles on the subject.

But with Tim one cannot present that hard evidence because he will not accept it. His thesis is that ANYONE who did not worship on the Sabbath, keep the Mosaic Law, or used symbols of any kind are not part of the true Church.

2:42 Many early church Fathers were definitively occultists and impostors, those who crept in unawares. Watch After the Apostles and we show you what they say and even thier admission that what they were practicing was against the Bible practice. That's what they say whether they realise it or not. They represent a different religion from the Bible and they always have.

15:54 And let me get this straight. The Church generally thinks its ok to use this nephilim symbol of worship in our worship? Are you kidding? 

18:42  I mean who would even care, you know, we use a fish symbol or not? Well, why use it when it's the occult? That's the problem. Just don't . Pretty easy not to use it. Not real hard. Uh, they cite legends from the infiltraters, the impostors, those who crept in unawares, watch After the Apostles, who claim this is, well, included with a Latin acrostic of course identifying Yahuhsha. How stupid.

27:09 This was never their symbol but the fake Church from its inception who profaned everything in worship they possibly can.  

There is no point in referring to the Early Church to defend the fish symbol because Tim will not accept the evidence. According to him the Early Church is fake and not the church at all.

Tim goes on to discuss an article from Christianity Today which mentions Tertullian who compares Christians to fish because of baptism. 

19:58 But worst this incredibly inept article tries to claim water baptism. Oh fish! Right? Wait a minute. What, what? Are they just ridiculous or what? John the Baptist baptized in fresh water springs. Oops! Watch our Original Canon Series. So, no fish. Stupid. 

What does John the Baptist have to do with what Tertullian says? Absolutely nothing. Here is the full quote from Tertullian. 

Happy is our sacrament of water, in that, by washing away the sins of our early blindness, we are set free and admitted into eternal life! A treatise on this matter will not be superfluous; instructing not only such as are just becoming formed (in the faith), but them who, content with having simply believed, without full examination of the grounds of the traditions, carry (in mind), through ignorance, an untried though probable faith. The consequence is, that a viper of the Cainite heresy, lately conversant in this quarter, has carried away a great number with her most venomous doctrine, making it her first aim to destroy baptism. Which is quite in accordance with nature; for vipers and asps and basilisks themselves generally do affect arid and waterless places. But we, little fishes, after the example of our ΙΧΘΥΣ  Jesus Christ, are born in water, nor have we safety in any other way than by permanently abiding in water; so that most monstrous creature, who had no right to teach even sound doctrine,  knew full well how to kill the little fishes, by taking them away from the water!

https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0321.htm

Tertullian was writing about the sacrament of baptism in response to a false cult that had done away with the practice. Tim does know that Christians are required to be baptised right? Or is water baptism another symbol of the false church?

 As for the ICTHYS acrostic Tim calls it a "a nice little story for a nephilim."

21:22 See, he should have, we all should, it appears he or his time made up this fabricated acrostic which is a lie of no value unless you're a nephilim. It's a nice little story for a nephilim. No thank you. 

In his condemnation of the fish symbol Tim says something quite odd.

19:39 We discuss the 5,000 being fed which, well they also got bread, you know? Where's the bread in that image? Oh, Duh! Not there. 

Where is the bread symbol? Is Tim unaware bread forms half the sacrament of the Eucharist? It's amazing this guy claims to have been a Bible teacher for 30 years and he has no idea about the bread of the Eucharist. 

As with all of Tim's videos this is simply unhistoric garbage. His thesis lies less on the fish being a pagan symbol and more on his assertion the Devil infiltrated the Church and turned it into the Synagogue of Satan contrary to the promise of Jesus that He would build His Church and the gates of hell would not prevail against it. 

Tim's ridiculous method is on full view in this illiterate video. First, he condemns all symbols as elements of evil appropriated by the Church. He never shows us where the Church confesses to co-opting these symbols or where pagans complain of this practice. Instead he engages in false equivalency. "The pagans used crosses therefore the Christian cross is a pagan symbol." Is he aware of the dying and rising God all throughout mythology? With Tim's method that makes the story of Jesus just another pagan myth. 

Secondly, rather than investigate the origin and history of the fish symbol AS USED BY CHRISTIANS, Tim goes for the low hanging fruit of a popular magazine article. I would say it is poor research skills except Tim is not interested in doing any actual research on the topic. From the beginning he has already decided all symbols are evil and the early Church which used symbols was a false impostor Church. It is impossible to reason with Timothy Jay Schwab who is The God Culture because he is stubbornly and willingly ignorant.

The God Culture: Take Up Your Fence

Timothy Jay Schwab who is The God Culture has once again taken up his anti-cross video series to give us more "proof" that Jesus was not crucified on a t-shaped cross but staked on a vertical pole. This time Tim says Jesus did not tell His followers to "take up their cross" but rather to "take up their fence."

"Take Up His FENCE And Follow Me..." in UNDER 20 MINUTES

Tim's proof for his claim is twofold.

The first proof is Jesus says "take up your cross" much too early in His ministry for his followers to understand cross as an implement of torture.

1:04 Yahusha for us to said, you know, for us to take up our cross and follow him, right? Actually wrong. He never said that. This is written in Greek which is the word stauros or upright stake or fence post and not cross and it actually then makes sense. As cross it makes no sense whatsoever because it's long before Messiah's execution. Long before. It's ridiculous.

The second proof, built upon the first, is that His followers would have to have been familiar with what Jesus is talking about and since it cannot be the cross it must be a fence since no one owned a cross but everyone owned a fence.

9:44 You have the same problem in Matthew 16:24, Mark 8:34, and Mark 10:21 these are way too early to invoke the use of a cross. Most people had fences back then and they understood what he meant. No one owned crosses. Duh. 

Your boundary of your property was set largely by a fence not a cross. If you're selling your property and following him selling all your possessions and following him you're breaking down your fence, you're, you, you know, you're coming out, uh and that's what it's all about. You're coming out and you're giving everything to him and has nothing to do with a cross. This is very obvious 

Again a whole lot of problematic uses here if it was cross. Luke 9:23 still 14 chapters too early to invoke a cross for execution. Nonsense. No one would have even understood and he wasn't being cryptic. This is a Salvation topic folks. He didn't project such definition for understanding at a later date. He was teaching a principle he wanted understood then and there and it was. Now, remove your fence, remove your boundaries and follow me.

What is Tim's source that "most people had fences back then?" He does not say. He is likely making it up.

All this means the passage about taking up one's cross is not about self-sacrifice but about "giving all you have" and living outside of your fence. 

3:56 The passage is really about giving all you have to Him. Uh, in one case the Rich Young Ruler which we covered He says this as well there. Uh, and he's telling him go sell all you possess and that includes your land. Then take up your fence, your boundary, your fence post and follow me. Have no boundaries. Have no borders. Come out of your yard and your comfort zone and follow me. This is incredible now this passage makes sense. Take up your cross? Hm. Nonsense.

The first proof is easily dismantled by looking at John 6 where Jesus says we must eat his body and drink his blood. 

51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.

52 The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat?

53 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.

54 Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.

55 For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.

56 He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.

What can Christ possibly mean here by eating his body and drinking his blood except for the Eucharist? 

Matthew 26:26 And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.

27 And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it;

28 For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.

John 6 is long before the Last Supper yet here we see Jesus Christ talking of the very sacrament He would inaugurate during the Last Supper. It should be noted that when the crowd heard Him say they must eat His body and drink His blood many of them stopped following Him because the saying was too hard.

60 Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it?

61 When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Doth this offend you?

62 What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before?

63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

64 But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him.

65 And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father.

66 From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

This is important because Jesus Christ is not clear about everything he says. He told the Apostles that He spoke in parables not to make his teaching easily understandable but to hide it from the masses to whom it was not given to understand. Tim is dead wrong when he says Jesus never spoke cryptically. 

Matthew 13:10 And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?

11 He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.

12 For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.

13 Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.

14 And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:

15 For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with theireyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

There is no problem with Jesus speaking to His disciples of a future event in a cryptic manner especially when He promised to send the Holy Spirit to bring these things to their remembrance.

John 14:26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

The second proof is easily done away with by the testimony of ancient writers who testify that criminals did in fact carry their cross to the scene of execution. 

The first testimony is from Dionysius of Halicarnassus who writes the following in book seven of his Roman Antiquities. 

A Roman citizen of no obscure station, having ordered one of his slaves to be put to death, delivered him to his fellow-slaves to be led away, and in order that his punishment might be witnessed by all, directed them to drag him through the Forum and every other conspicuous part of the city as they whipped him, and that he should go ahead of the procession which the Romans were at that time conducting in honour of the god.​  

The men ordered to lead the slave to his punishment, having stretched out both his arms and fastened them to a piece of wood which extended across his breast and shoulders as far as his wrists, followed him, tearing his naked body with whips.

https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Dionysius_of_Halicarnassus/7C*.html

The second testimony is from Plutarch who writes the following in his Moralia in Book 8 section 9. 

And as every malefactor about to pay the penalty of his crime in his person bears his cross, so vice fabricates for itself each of its own torments, being the terrible author of its own misery in life, wherein in addition to shame it has frequent fears and fierce passions and endless remorse and anxiety.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/23639/23639-h/23639-h.htm#Page_331a

It is simply a fact that criminals carried their cross to the place of execution. There is no doubt the people would be familiar with that grisly sight and understand exactly what Jesus meant by carrying your cross. It is not a fence. That is preposterous.  

Finally, and what really undoes all of this nonsense, is the Greek word for fence is not stauros.  It is phragmos.

https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/g5418/kjv/tr/0-1/

If Jesus wanted people to "take up their fence" he would not have used a word with two meanings but a word with one meaning. While stauros can mean a fence post it also means a cross as an implement of torture. However, phragmos means fence with no ambiguity. Didn't Tim say Jesus did not speak cryptically and wanted everyone to know what he was saying? 

As Tim would say, BOOM!

This third video is simply more unhistorical and unbiblical garbage from Timothy Jay Schwab. But Tim does not care that he is in error or that I continue to point out his errors. In the comment section of this video he left the following tirade calling me a "demon blogger" and once more threatening me with legal prosecution for exposing his lies. 

Anyone attempting debate without watching all 3 of these, will be muted. We know by your comment you have not watched so don't play the fool trolls and demonic blogger. Let's be clear. When we say demonic, we refer to the intellectual rapist who can't even read a sentence and never makes points except how poorly he is able to read and he is even worse of a listener. The idiot even takes positions against himself in a stream and no one can be more of a failure as the perhaps 2 views he gets proves. Talk about the definition of insanity... demonic indeed. And the eBook he downloaded free, he lied and told Amazon the pages fell out when he opened it yet he did not order from Amazon who does not send such poor quality nor do they ever not accept a return in that case but not this idiot... The eBook pages fell out on his screen. In the words of Bugs Bunny: "what a maroon." He'll now likely write a blog about how one is supposed to spell moron in which he'll also tell us that Bugs Bunny didn't actually say it and is not the origin as if that would ever even matter... because he has the understanding of a toddler only foaming out of the mouth like a demon indeed. He has committed many infractions in cyber libel, gross negligence, fake news, misrepresentations consistently, harassed  family including minors, and in time, he will be prosecuted for his illegal acts. He tries to comment here under a different usernames each time in complete insanity thinking we will ever allow his dull nonsense here on our channel. Even when caught and muted he gets more views than months on his pathetic platforms no one wants to view. When caught, he doubles down and turns dumb into dumber and then, dumberer... Perhaps there is a movie about him. We will never tolerate such illiterate ignorance here. Yah Bless.

Will Timothy Jay Schwab who is The God Culture ever own up to his misrepresentations and outright lies? Will he ever deal with the hard evidence I present in all these articles that he is wrong? Likely not but that will not stop this blog from continuing to expose him for all to see.