The God Culture: Jewish Fables

What do you get when you romanticize and fetishize a people overlooking their inherent qualities and ignoring their actual state of being? You get the myth of the noble savage. In the Philippines no one is more guilty of holding to that myth than Timothy Jay Schwab of the God Culture and Kyle Jennerman of Becoming Filipino. Those two men are like peas in a pod. While they inhabit different ends of the ideological spectrum both treat Filipinos the same way. To Tim and Kyle Filipinos as they are cease to exist and instead become the idealized fantasies they wish for them to be.  Let's take a look.

First up, the God Culture. From the 100 Clues Series, Clue#25: Philippines is Ophir: Magellan, Pinto, Barbosa, King of Spain, Cabot KNEW - Ophir, Tarshish. 

https://youtu.be/NGz-gWv46K4

The majority of this video is a justification of Magellan's falsification of Barbosa's book as if that is evidence that Magellan was prescient and knew the location and identification of the Philippines as Ophir and Tarshish. That does not concern us here. It is the first few minutes which are important. Tim quotes an Anglican churchman quoting a Jew who allegedly located some of the lost tribes in the Philippines.

Starting at 2:00

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

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

Gee, these Italian-Jews were searching hard for the lost tribes in the Philippines. And why? Well just look at what Columbus did to what he thought were the lost tribes of Israel in Haiti. He enslaved them and took their gold and resources. That's pleasant. And Magellan was headed in the same direction until of course he lost his head that is.  

The Spanish continued to repeat the same pattern. Columbus is cited to acquire this gold for the rebuilding of Jerusalem. Yet the funny thing is if he believed these were lost tribes, knowing the prophecy that they are to return to Jerusalem would they not be a brother to a fellow Jew? It makes one wonder if Columbus and his brand of Jew were even Hebrews in the first place. Hmm. We'll leave that one for another time.   

If Tim had actually read the source he is quoting he would have saved much time and effort because he would have ended up chucking it into the garbage and not giving it another look. By this point it should be no surprise that Tim does not thoroughly read his sources, gleans from them whatever supports his thesis while tossing the rest, and that he manipulates them rather shamelessly to make them say what he wants them to say. Sometimes he disdains the need for sources entirely! In the video for Clue #53 he makes this incredible statement at 18:00:

Thomas Suarez's book just to glean something that is actually common knowledge and doesn't require a source even. Talk about a non-issue!  

https://youtu.be/ffA5sWIdXI4?t=1075

Talk about fallacious reasoning! Who knew the the locations of Chryse and Argyre and the Turin map, all things he "gleans" from Suarez, are just plain old common knowledge like how rubbing Vicks on your feet will cure everything?  Is it any wonder that one cannot reason with this guy when in pursuit of his thesis he chucks all reason to the curb?

The section of this book Tim quotes from actually starts on page 648 and is titled, "Of the Transportation of the Ten Tribes and Their Return." After briefly discussing the dispersion of the Ten Tribes Stackhouse writes:

Such, with very small exception, has been the case of this unhappy people, ever since the time of the Assyrian captivity; and yet, such is their pride and arrogance, that instead of owning the truth, they have devised fables of their living all along in great prosperity and grandeur in some unknown land, as a national and united body, in an independent state, and under monarchies or republics of their own. So, that before we begin to inquire into the real places of their transportation, and some other circumstances thereunto belonging, it may not be amiss to examine a little the merit of these pretensions, and what foundation they have for such mighty boasts. 

It is the pretension of the Jews to locate their lost brethren as living in the nether parts of the world in prosperity and grandeur.  Before discussing where the tribes have been located he mentions the oft quoted passage from 2 Esdras 13:40-45 which it would not be amiss to quote here:

40 Those are the ten tribes, which were carried away prisoners out of their own land in the time of Osea the king, whom Salmanasar the king of Assyria led away captive, and he carried them over the waters, and so came they into another land.  

41 But they took this counsel among themselves, that they would leave the multitude of the heathen, and go forth into a further country, where never mankind dwelt,  

42 That they might there keep their statutes, which they never kept in their own land.  

43 And they entered into Euphrates by the narrow places of the river.  

44 For the most High then shewed signs for them, and held still the flood, till they were passed over.  

45 For through that country there was a great way to go, namely, of a year and a half: and the same region is called Arsareth. 

https://biblia.com/bible/kjvapoc/2-esdras/13/40-45

These are the key verses which serve as a prooftext for any number of lost tribes theories, Tim's included.  Rev. Stackhouse is less enthusiastic about the entire book of 2 Esdras than Tim.

In short, this counterfeit Esdras, who seems to have been a Christian, and to have lived about the end of the first, or the beginning of the second century, is not only so inconsistent in his account of this, and several other transactions, but so fond of uncertain traditions, and so romantic and fabulous about the divine inspiration which he boasts of, that there is no credit to be given to what he says, a concerning the retreat of the ten tribes into an unknown land.

It is not only Esdras whom Stackhosue accuses of being fond of the romantic and fabulous. He also accuses Farissol, a man whom Timothy thinks is telling the absolute truth, of spouting fantastic nonsense and forgeries.

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

Stackhouse then describes other alleged locations of the lost tribes such as in the New World among the American Indians, rejects them all, and concludes:

Thus we have endeavoured to find out the situation of the ten tribes of Israel, and yet can meet with nothing, but either the fabulous accounts of the Talmudists, or the uncertain conjectures of modern critics; let us now have recourse to the Scriptures, and know what the information is that they can supply us with, in this our inquiry. 

Rev. Stackhouse dismisses the writings of Farissol and the rest of the Jews concerning the lost tribes out of hand as nothing but "the fabulous accounts of the Talmudists." On Farissol's Wikipedia page there is a link to the book "Chapters on Jewish Literature."  

Chapters on Jewish Literature

Chapter 20 of this book is titled "Traveller's Tales" and is all about the fabulous tales of Jews and how they located the lost tribes in sundry places throughout the world during their travels. Farissol is mentioned in this chapter very briefly. The point here is to say that the writings of Farissol and his fellow Jews, including Columbus, are nothing but fantastic falsehoods. The dreams of a dispossessed people longing to regain their former glory. The Jews have placed the lost tribes in every nook and cranny of the world, the Philippines included. But no one believes any of their fevered fantasies just like no one believes in the legends of Prester John, El Dorado, Sir John Mandeville, Chryse and Argyre, or the Fountain of Youth. Except perhaps Tim and the God Culture.

Contrary to what Tim claims in his video Farissol's book is not lost to history. In fact here is the Latin/Hebrew edition on Google Books.

Abraham Farissol

This Renaissance-era tome is referenced in the 2013 book "The Ten Lost Tribes: A World History" by Zvi Ben-Dor Benite. A PDF of that book can be downloaded from this link. The "Philippines" does not appear in its pages despite the author discussing where Farissol, Columbus, and other writers locate the lost tribes. He writes the following on page 133:

Farissol’s actual treatment of the ten tribes is rather disappointing, despite the fact that they appear as a distinct item in the title page of the Igeret and although he dedicates a whole chapter to David. Farissol does not have much new to report and, by his own admission, resorts to the familiar Talmudic “India.” The big change is that he includes the tribes for the first time within a real charted geography.

On page 180:

In Farissol’s Igeret (which he cites), the ten tribes are in the old southern location somewhere between Arabia and India. 

"Somewhere between Arabia and India." Not the Philippines. Either Benite is not telling us everything Farissol wrote about the locations of the lost tribes or Stackhouse is reading Farissol wrong. Either way Tim has not read Farissol and should not be citing him. That he does so is more evidence of the poor research which permeates his videos. No serious researcher would use hearsay as evidence for his claims yet this is what Tim does by quoting Farissol. He bases many of his assertions that the Israelites made their way to the Philippines in this video and in others on one paragraph in Stackhouse's book which is not even a quotation from Farissol but is only a brief summation of what he allegedly wrote. I challenge Tim with all his Hebraic linguistic skills to translate Farissol into English so we can read what he actually wrote about the lost tribes being located in the Philippines.

What's really interesting to note here is that Tim presents Stackhouse as an authority.

A vicar of the Church of England no less. Yeah, we'll keep an eye on this guy too as he quotes a Pharisee trying to figure out the markers but there is something to this once again and his interpretation is not necessarily off it's actually pretty good so we wish to share it.

https://youtu.be/xv3QPH4UGOI?t=2382

But he declines to tell his listeners about Stackhouse's negative remarks concerning Farissol and all the other Jews who attempted to locate the lost tribes. With this partial quote it appears as if Stackhouse is presenting Farissol in a positive light when just the opposite is true. He completely misrepresents the good Rev. Thomas Stackhouse. As with all the other sources Tim uses they are only authoritative insofar as they further his agenda. He "gleans" what he will and tosses out the rest as chaff. It is simply more deception and intellectual dishonesty on Tim's part. He can be found using this source in the same way in the following videos:

Where Did the Lost Tribes of Israel Go? Part 2C: Ophir, Philippines? THE HISTORY Continued

Lost Tribes Series Part 2G: The Landing of the 2nd Exodus In Ophir, Philippines

In those two videos he takes Stackhouse's account of Farissol's work and put's it to a historical test resulting in some of the silliest linguistic gymnastics like in the following slide:

https://youtu.be/xv3QPH4UGOI?t=2558

Farissol allegedly located some of the tribes in a place called Perricha. Tim shows just what a cunning linguist he is by telling us that Perricha sounds like Pharisee which sounds like Persia which means Kurdistan! Tah-dah! The Kurds are also part of the lost tribes. It must be heard to be believed and I encourage all to click the link beneath the slide.

What Timothy Schwab is doing by referring to Farissol as a genuine historical source is perpetuating Jewish fables.  Why did Thomas Stackhouse dismiss Farissol and other Jews locations of the lost tribes as "the fabulous accounts of the Talmudists" but Timothy Jay Schwab embrace him? Why are Jewish fables which the Apostle Paul said to reject (Titus 1:4, 1 Tim 1:4) exalted to the status of Gospel truth for Tim? Because Tim is at heart a Judaizer. He takes his Christianity scattered, smothered, and covered with Judaism and he encourages others to do the same. Timothy Jay Schwab's message is not simply that Filipinos are members of the lost tribes but that they must also worship God in a Jewish manner. They can begin to do this by keeping the Sabbath and the Biblical feasts. Look at this comment from one of Tim's videos about the Feasts of YHWH.

https://youtu.be/IfDwuaXYnTc

Worshipping on the Sabbath and lighting a shabbat candle gets an, "Awesome!! Yah Bless," from Tim. But far more than Saturday worship is on Tim's mind. He envisions the Philippines as being of vital importance to all of humanity in learning the correct manner of worshipping God.

Starting at 22:08 in the video "Feasts of YHWH: Spring Feasts in New Testament? Part 1A."

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

If that is not fetishizing and romanticizing Filipinos and the Philippines then I don't know what is. Not only are Filipinos members of the lost tribes but the Holy of Holies is right here in the Philippines in the Garden of Eden and everyone should travel here to keep the feasts. The Philippines is not only the home of God's people, it is the home of God Himself! 

How much more ludicrous can this guy get? In an earlier post I wondered if Tim might be an actual heretic and here he is being an actual heretic, a Judaizer! Telling people to keep the feasts, which Jesus fulfilled, despite admitting to not even knowing the proper calendrical calculations. (Feasts of YHWH 1A). Telling people to return to the schoolmaster which was supposed to lead us to Christ. Telling people that they are both children of the bondwoman and the free. (Galatians 3-4) Telling people that there has been no changing of the law even though there has been a change of the priesthood. (Hebrews 7:12) He is so Judaized that he can not even bring himself to use the names Jesus, God, or Lord but resorts to using his own Hebrew configurations of Yahua and Yahusha. Listen at 7:52 of Feasts of YHWH 1A where he reads from Matthew and corrects the name of Jesus with the fake name of Yahusha. Better still go watch his Name of God video series and hear just how Judaized the man really is as he tells us all what the REAL names of God and Jesus are.

Watching Tim's Feasts of YHWH videos is quite painful. It is painfully obvious he does not understand basic Christianity or Church History. When he speaks about Easter Tim makes the outlandish and easily disprovable accusation that Constantine entered into a conspiracy with the Bishops to censor and cover up the truth of Passover. Since he rejects what was decreed at Nicea concerning Easter it is almost certain that he also rejects the faith which was promulgated at Nicea and enshrined in the Nicean Creed. Does Tim believe in the Trinity or not?

 Let's hear in their own words why the Bishops rejected the Jewish Passover:

When the question relative to the sacred festival of Easter arose, it was universally thought that it would be convenient that all should keep the feast on one day; for what could be more beautiful and more desirable, than to see this festival, through which we receive the hope of immortality, celebrated by all with one accord, and in the same manner? It was declared to be particularly unworthy for this, the holiest of all festivals, to follow the custom of the Jews, who had soiled their hands with the most fearful of crimes, and whose minds were blinded. In rejecting their custom, we may transmit to our descendants the legitimate mode of celebrating Easter, which we have observed from the time of the Saviour's Passion to the present day [according to the day of the week]. We ought not, therefore, to have anything in common with the Jews, for the Saviour has shown us another way; our worship follows a more legitimate and more convenient course (the order of the days of the week); and consequently, in unanimously adopting this mode, we desire, dearest brethren, to separate ourselves from the detestable company of the Jews, for it is truly shameful for us to hear them boast that without their direction we could not keep this feast. How can they be in the right, they who, after the death of the Saviour, have no longer been led by reason but by wild violence, as their delusion may urge them? They do not possess the truth in this Easter question; for, in their blindness and repugnance to all improvements, they frequently celebrate two passovers in the same year. We could not imitate those who are openly in error. How, then, could we follow these Jews, who are most certainly blinded by error? for to celebrate the passover twice in one year is totally inadmissible.

http://www.futuresgood.com/council_of_nicea.html

The Bishops of Nicea set the date of Easter the way they did in the name of unity and to separate themselves from the Jews. Tim on the other hand wants to be a Jew. He even wants to discover lost Jews. As of this writing he has made almost two hundred videos just to prove Filipinos are members of the lost tribes of Israel.  Tim has swallowed the Talmudic fables of Farissol, Columbus, and others to the point that he proclaims the Philippines as being the Garden of Eden wherein resides the Holy of Holies! Never mind that man will NEVER RETURN to the Garden of Eden. (Genesis 3:23-24) Never mind that the Holy of Holies is not on earth but in heaven where Christ entered in to obtain eternal redemption for us. (Hebrews 9) Never mind that all Tim believes about the Philippines and Filipinos is "a farrago of nonsense that is contravened by a multitude of eyewitness accounts, inconvenient facts, and simple common sense." Never mind any of that. Filipinos are Israelites. Farissol says so. Columbus says so. Magellan says so. Timothy Jay Schwab says so. End. Of. Story.

It should come as no surprise that Tim would utilize one of Kyle Jennerman's videos in his own video series. After all these two are practically cut from the same cloth. Here is Kyle "Kulas" Jennerman starring in Clue #14.

https://youtu.be/2wOr9SHludQ

If you look closely you can see in TINY FONT at the bottom of the title cards for each of the God Culture's videos a copyright notice telling the viewer:

Re-uploading this video to Youtube in part to whole is prohibited.

Did Tim receive Kyle Jennerman's permission to use his video about Romblon? Or is Tim doing to Kyle exactly what he prohibits others from doing to him? He did place a notice in the bottom corner  of this video while Kyle was on screen saying:

Editorial use only 

As if that excuses him from cribbing Kyle's entire video minus 30 seconds.  The original can be viewed here.

See also how Tim places Kyle's information in TINY FONT in the bottom right corner which blends into the background sometimes and is partially obscured by the God Culture logo? That is all the mention Kyle gets. Not once does Tim bother to thank Kyle or mention him either in the video or in the description or any of the links he posted in the comment section. How rude is that? To use this man's video to further his agenda and barely acknowledge him!

To make matters worse this video is monetized!

That means Tim and the God Culture are making money, however little, off Kyle's video! And they can't even give him a proper shout-out!? Incredible!

Kyle is very different from Tim because Kyle actually wants to become a Filipino. Now that may be a little hyperbolic but not really. I don't think it's a schtick either.  My take is that Kyle hates himself. He has grown up in Canada being bombarded by all the propaganda telling him that the White Man is the bane of all existence, the root of all evil and he has taken that to heart.  He is alienated from himself and his culture which the media has constantly told him is the worst thing on Earth. You see Kyle, just like Tim, has also believed in Jewish fables. During his travels he ends up in the Philippines and he falls in love with Filipinos and Filipino culture which he sees as more innocent, more pure, and thus morally superior to his own people and culture. Filipinos love "Kulas" and he loves them.  He loves them so much that he wants to be one of them even going so far as to excuse their glaring faults, like a penchant for violence, as stereotypes.

Remember that time in May 2017 when Kyle whined on Facebook about how his parents could not visit him in Mindanao because the Canadian government issued a notice to avoid all travel to that island?

https://philippinefails.blogspot.com/2017/05/canadian-blogger-dismisses-terrorism-in.html

I believe that the first step is changing perception here in the Philippines... because from personal experience that word has a lot of negative stereotyping and generalizing attached to it here locally and spread by local people. If we can all start spreading positive education about this part of the Philippines, I believe it can help fight back at these incredibly difficult advisories

And then do you remember how after writing all that the Marawi siege happened and Mindanao was placed under martial law only two weeks later? Some stereotype, huh! Just goes to show how boneheaded Kyle is and that despite having lived here for so long he knew nothing about the people of Mindanao. Has he learned anything in the past 3 years? Probably not.

Tim has also moved to the Philippines. No more Mr. Florida. Now he is Mr. Somehwere North of Manila. Even though both Tim and Kyle live in this nation they really don't live here.  They live in a Philippines of their own making populated by Filipinos created in their own image. For Tim they are God's chosen people, Israelites, who are asleep to their true origin and ultimate destiny and need to be awakened so they can Rise Up. For Kyle they are noble savages untainted by the stain of modern civilization, always smiling and full of love for strangers. Of course there is much to be said for the theory that we each live in a Philippines, nay a world, of our own perceptions.

The God Culture: The Search for King Solomon's Treasure Sourcebook Review

In this article I want to take a look at some of the odd stuff in The God Culture's sourcebook which accompanies "The Search for King Solomon's Treasure." One would think this book would be rather straightforward. It's purpose is to show their sources. Now one does not have to scour the internet for PDF's or run to the library.  Instead you just look up the source in the sourcebook and see their proof. Most entries have a link to the source. But with all things concerning The God Culture there is more than meets the eye. If this group were Transformers they would be Decepticons. 

Follow Our Research In Detail In Our

SOURCEBOOK

Over 400 Sources That Prove

The Philippines Is Ophir & the Garden of Eden

In Addition to the Bible and Extra-Biblical Books

As I wrote above the premise is very straightforward. Timothy Jay Schwab is laying all his cards on the table for everyone to see. With this hand he has finally and indisputably proven the Philippines is Ophir and the Garden of Eden. No one can disprove him. 

Everyone should at least be mindful this is a very credible case with full support which is why no one has been able to disprove it.

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=713073682585985&id=376627072897316

But hold on a minute there's some writing on these cards! Tim has turned a Jack into a King. The King has turned into an Ace! What's going on here? What I'm saying is Tim adds his own little commentaries to some of these sources so that now they don't contradict him. Let's look at a few of these instances.

page 20

NOTE: Perfect example of British manipulations to this narrative: This Periplus quoted by Suarez is deceptively incomplete omitting important directions. We do not use Suarez in his misrepresentation of part of the directions to Chryse provided by the Periplus of the Erythaean Sea which we instead quote directly. We use his misrepresentation of Mela as an example of such. He totally misrepresented this by removing parts of the 2nd half of the directions which indicate it is the island beyond China and to the Southeast of China in the sea. That cannot be Malaysia but only the Philippines fits. He does so to force the Malay Peninsula into the equation which requires deliberate British fraud. See Next Page for Mela's actual words translated and the following page for the actual Periplus with full directions you will not find with this author. How any author could offer the Periplus and leave out the portion within "After this region under the very north, the sea outside ending in a land called This." [China] can only be fraud. Let's be clear. 

There is a blogger attempting to capitalize on this fraud by further advancing it and additional fraud of such also ignoring the actual Periplus wording and going right to authors like this who are clearly deceiving and not attempting to represent the truth. 

Suarez then misinterprets Mela above who located Chryse and Argyre as islands in the South China Sea not the Malay Peninsula, misrepresents the Periplus completely and then, goes on to claim Pliny the Elder and geographer was confused about whether Chryse was an island or a Peninsula thus it must be a Peninsula yet Pliny calls it an island every time. He seizes on directions where Pliny involves 3 rivers in China, a bay and the "Promontory of Chryse." Again, Pliny was a geographer. He knew the difference between an isle and a peninsula. He also knew the word promontory refers to a rocky point and islands can have promontories just as much as peninsulas. Yes the word can be a peninsula but not when the same author calls it an island many times and a promontory only this once which is also a description found on an island. That's deception not scholarship. However, he fraudulently deals with such and concludes Pliny must have meant peninsula. To make such assumption requires one to believe Pliny did not know the difference and was confused yet his writings are very clear and he was a geographer. This is propaganda. 

In this commentary Timothy is calling Thomas Suarez, the author of Early Mapping of Southeast Asia, a fraud and a propagandist. He even takes time to mention me! I think he is referring to my article, The God Culture: Finding Chryse: Don't Follow Biased Paradigms. Why is the man who wrote the authoritative book on early maps of Southeast Asia a fraud? Tim says it's because he omits the 2nd half of the directions to Chryse. Here is the full text.

63.   After these, the course turns toward the east again, and sailing with the ocean to the right and the shore remaining beyond to the left, Ganges comes into view, and near it the very last land toward the east, Chryse. There is a river near it called the Ganges, and it rises and falls in the same way as the Nile. On its bank is a market-town which has the same name as the river, Ganges. Through this place are brought malabathrum and Gangetic spikenard and pearls, and muslins of the finest sorts, which are called Gangetic. It is said that there are gold-mines near these places, and there is a gold coin which is called caltis. And just opposite this river there is an island in the ocean, the last part of the inhabited world toward the east, under the rising sun itself; it is called Chryse; and it has the best tortoise-shell of all the places on the Erythraean Sea.

64.   After this region under the very north, the sea outside ending in a land called This, there is a very great inland city called Thinae [i.e. China], from which raw silk and silk yarn and silk cloth are brought on foot through Bactria to Barygaza, and are also exported to Damirica [=Limyrike] by way of the river Ganges. But the land of This is not easy of access; few men come from there, and seldom. The country lies under the Lesser Bear [Ursa Minor], and is said to border on the farthest parts of Pontus and the Caspian Sea, next to which lies Lake Maeotis; all of which empty into the ocean.

https://depts.washington.edu/silkroad/texts/periplus/periplus.html 

Paragraph 63 describes the land of Chryse. Paragraph 64 says "after this region" is China. Understand the directions are moving eastward. From Chryse we go east to China. Is China to the east of the Philippines? No. So Tim is wrong in his interpretation of this text. He is also wrong about Suarez. He does not ignore paragraph 64 as Tim alleges. Here is what Suarez writes.

Early Mapping of Southeast Asia

Chryse most likely represented Malaya, while Argyre was probably Burma, perhaps Arakan. Both are seen as islands in the world map after Mela (fig. 9), Chryse being the island off the east Asian coast, and Argyre the island at the Ganges delta next to Taprobana. On the twelfth-century 'Turin' world map (figs. 30 & 31), they appear as a single island in the easternmost ocean sea, the right-hand isle of the two immediately above Adam and Eve (the left-hand isle is simply designated insula, and thus may have been intended for either Chryse or Argyre). 

Mention of Chryse is also made in the Periplus of the Erythrean Sea, which describes Chryse as "the last part of the inhabited world toward the east, under the rising sun itself, " a land from which comes "the best tortoise-shell of all the places on the Erythrean Sea." The work's anonymous author then described the land of This (China) and city of Thinae, from which raw silk, silk yarn, and silk cloth, acquired through silent barter, were brought overland to India. Isidorus Hispalensis (Isidore of Seville, ca. 560-636 A.D.), in his Etymologiae, one of the most popular cosmographies of the Middle Ages, also placed the lands of Chryse and Argyre in the southeastern extreme of the world, along with Taprobana and Tyle (Tile, an island near India).

Suarez says Chryse is mentioned in the Periplus of the Erythean Sea. After that place is described Suarez says the author moves on to describe China. Again we are going east and China is not east of the Philippines. Tim does not agree wth Suarez so he calls him a fraud and misrepresents his book.

I'm not going to bother to refute him on Mela and Pliny. The fact that Pliny, Mela, and everyone else has different directions and descriptions for Chryse as being both an island and a peninsula should alert Tim to the fact that  Greeks were unfamiliar with this region and never sailed there for gold. 

There are two places in the sourcebook where Tim mentions the Rothschilds. The first one is located on page 35.

This search tells us that there is a huge paragraph on page 35. But there isn't. Instead the text is hidden!

Why does Tim have hidden text in his sourcebook? Doesn't he want his readers to be informed about everything he has to say? If you look at the coding it hardly seems unintentional especially considering the hidden text he has on all his other webpages. As far as I can gather the text reads as follows:

’s have funded the suppression of Ophir since the 1600s when they paid Purchas to commit their   …   propaganda. The Malay Peninsula was never an island and no sailor nor cartographer in those days could possibly confuse the two unless they operate in a   …   completely broken paradigm such as Ptolemy regarding the Far East in which he had no clue. In fact, mariners would largely hug the coasts thus they would   …   follow India through Burma to Malaysia noticing Malaysia to be a peninsula. It is impossible for them to mistake based on their practices. These maps are   …   our interpretation based on this mindset. We are using a modern map but notice we are blacking out the Malay Peninsula and Indochina to the left just as   …   most of these maps do even the ones we already covered on the previous pages. When you follow these directions from The Periplus of the Erythaean Sea,   …   Pomponius Mela, Dionysius the Tourist and others, this becomes evident as they all tie and lead to the same place in the correct paradigm. Additionally,   …   the maps we selected actually represent their written directions which we covered. All of them call Chryse an island and none of them accidentally meant   …   a peninsula just as Pliny the Elder calls it an island and never a peninsula. Dionysius even adds in an incredibly fixed marker regardless identifying Chryse   …   directly under the Tropic of Cancer. This made us realize that is exactly what The Periplus was describing as “under the very north” as the North begins   …   at Cancer. No one can move that and Malaysia is not even a remote fit as there are 2 countries North of it between such line yet the Philippines is directly   …   under Cancer which is inline with South China and Taiwan. Malaysia is also on top of the Equator and could never to associated with accuracy with the   …   Tropic of Cancer. Review these in detail, compare with the previous maps and any others you can find, and prove it out. We believe you will find this to   …   be accurate. As you complete this chapter, you will find this thinking fully confirmed on the next pages as the Portuguese found Chryse and Argyre and   …   documented it with a government-commissioned map.   …   20 continued...

That paragraph should start with "Rothschild's" but if you look at the coding you see that Rothschild is separated from the text by a mark tag <mark>. How can that be unintentional?

The second instance where the Rothschilds are mentioned is on page 128.

page 128

NOTE: Dr. Craig did not wish to make a case for the Philippines as Ophir as he references Former Prime Minister Paterno did. Such is understandable. However, if he had actually truly researched the Biblical passages as we have, especially knowing the abundant history which he certainly did, such connection would become incredibly obvious. Does he quote Sir Douglas properly? Yes. See below. These are all native products of the Philippines and Ophir brought to China. See Testing All the Resources of Ophir. Though Douglas does not state Philippines by name nor could he as the Rothschilds would have his head, the products match and the deduction accurate especially in lieu of all the other evidence in context. Ophir/Philippines was trading across the ocean by ship as early as 990 B.C.  

In this note Tim calls Sir Robert Douglas a pawn of the Rothschilds who could not mention the Philippines or they would "have his head!!"

What evidence does Timothy have that Sir Douglas was working for the Rothschilds? What evidence does he have that the Rothschilds were actively suppressing historical information about the Philippines trading with China millennia ago? He does not say. Tim claims Douglas is covering up the Philippines' role in early shipping to China by not naming them. But Sir Douglas does not name any of the eight nations alleged to have been trading with China during that period. Here is the text.

During the Shang dynasty (1766-1154 B.C.) we learn from the native records that' travellers from the neighbourhood of Canton came bringing fish-skin cases, sharp swords and shields. These men wore their hair short, we are told, and their bodies were tattooed. Other companies arrived bringing pearls, tortoise-shells, elephants’ teeth, peacocks' feathers, birds and small dogs. 

At the beginning of the next dynasty — the Chou (B.C.1122-255) — intercourse had been established with eight foreign nations; and it was at Canton that the merchants of these states exchanged their goods for the products of Cathay. 

Europe and the Far East, 1506-1912, pgs 1-2

That text says nothing about the Philippines or any other nation. To make it fit his purposes Tim resorts to quoting Dr. Austin Craig who says that those are products of the Philippines. Thus the Philippine-China connection is established, right? Wrong! Tim does not quote Dr. Craig in full and thus misrepresents him.

The British Museum's oriental scholar (Douglas: Europe and the Far East, Cambridge, 1904) states that by the beginning of the Chou dynasty (B. C. 1122-255) intercourse had been established at Canton with eight foreign nations. Duties as early as 990 B. C. were levied, and among the imports were birds, pearls and tortoise shell, products of the Philippines, but the origin of these has not been investigated. "Reliable history,"' says Dr. Pott (A Sketch of Chinese History, Shanghai, 1908), "does not extend further back than the middle of the Chou dynasty (B. C. 722). 

After the time of the Chou dynasty we come to more solid ground, for at the beginning of the Han dynasty (B. C. 206) the custom originated of employing Court chroniclers to write a daily account of governmental proceedings. These diaries were kept secret and stored away in iron chests until the dynasty they chronicled had passed away; then they were opened and published, and so form the basis of our knowledge of the events that had transpired while the dynasty was in existence." 

Philippine history, however, has attracted only incidental interest in the translating of these voluminous chronicles so that while the first three mentions hereafter to be cited are well within the reliable history period they have not been verified and are valuable only as suggesting more definitely where to investigate.  

A thousand years of Philippine history before the coming of the Spaniards, pgs. 1-2

On page 137 of "The Search for King Solomon's Treasure" Tim write this:

In his original work "Europe and the Far East", 1506-1912," Sir Douglas, whom Dr. Austin Craig is citing, notes this trade took place in Canton in 990 B.C. thus Filipinos and others travelled there. Dr. Craig (1914) concluded that these products originated in the Philippines.

Tim could not be further from the truth. Dr. Craig says the history of China is unreliable beyond 722 B.C. and "solid ground" to determine history does not occur until around 200 B.C. when records began to be kept. Furthermore while Dr. Craig does admit those are Philippine products he says unambiguously that the origin of those products has not been investigated. He absolutely does not conclude they originated in the Philippines. This passage in "The Search for King Solomon's Treasure" is a blatant lie.

Tim has twisted Dr. Craig's words and he has smeared Sir Robert Douglas as being an agent of the Rothschilds.  That's neither the work of a scholar or an honest man. That's the work of a propagandist. To quote Tim, "That's deception not scholarship." Tim does not know how to play the game right. He does not know when to hold 'em or when to fold 'em. He should just walk away from the table. He should not have entered the game in the first place. He is no scholar. He is the fraud here.

There is more commentary like this throughout the book but let's look at the strangest thing of all about this sourcebook: there are missing sources! Sources 161, 184, 190, 209, 225, 229, 230, 272, 277, 278, 290, 327-334, 342-346, 357-360, 363, 375, 385, 391, 413, 415, 416  are all missing from the Sourcebook! I cannot show all of these so I will show the most egregious case.  

The Search for King Solomon's Treasure Sourcebook

There is a leap here from 326 to 335. Why did Tim OMIT these sources from his Sourcebook? It does not make sense. That is a real problem because this authoritative sourcebook is supposed to prove his case beyond all doubt. Some of these sources do not even show up in the main text of his book. 

Even though 209 is not listed in the bibliography of the sourcebook it is in fact on page 212. 346 is found on page 183 despite not being in the bibliography. 346 is a little confusing because it is the same reference as 179.

1. "History of Batnagas." Batangas Provincial Information Office. Province of Batangas. 2. Strong's Concordance "Ba'ah" #H1158, "Tan" #H8565, and "Gan" #H1588. Blue Letter Bible.

Source 298 is in the sourcebook and in the bibliography of "The Search for King Solomon's Treasure" but is not in the main text. Like 179 and 346 it is a reference to "Gan" #H1588. That means Tim has three sources with the same reference. Why is that?

Several sources appear to not show up in the book "The Search for King Solomon's Treasure" except for in the bibliography. These are: 161, 184, 190, 225, 229, 230, 277, 278, 298, 327-334, 342, 344, 357-360, 375, 413, 415. That is 26 sources unaccounted for. I noted in my review of "The Search for King Solomon's Treasure" that source 28 does not show up in the text of the book but only in the bibliography. That could have been a simple oversight but what are we to make of 26 other sources being left out of the book? What are we to make of all the sources missing from the sourcebook?   

Some of these omissions could possibly be explained by the fact that they are duplicates. For instance 229 and 216 have the same reference to "pealim.com #6051." Source 216 actually has two references the second being to "pealim.com #5053." It is not clear why this reference to #6051 is repeated for 229.  

Sources 161 and 166 refer to the same book but a different page. 166 makes it into the sourcebook and main text while 161 does not.

Sources 230 and 217 are exactly the same. They both refer to "Strong's Concordance #4327 Biblehub.com." 

34 and 357 are basically the same as they refer to the same book and chapter of The Antiquites of the Jews. However 357 has two additional references to a Wikipedia article about the Kabul River and to "Old Iranian Online" which is a glossary of old Iranian words. Curiously Tim does not include this in his sourcebook though he clearly discusses these matters on page 52 of "The Search for King Solomon's Treasure."

The Search for King Solomon's Treasure, pg 52

Josephus is only dealing with Mesha in this rendering not Sephar and he is narrowing down the area very specifically based on references that we can connect even today in modern history. I)ohir and family lived initially in the bort', region of what we would identify today as Iran and Afghanistan. The Cophen River is acknowledged as the modern Kabul River in Afghanistan. Notice then Joseph. connects this with "and" meaning this is at border legion. The second region is "part of Aria adjoining Is it." Aria is very easy to identify Arya is the Old Persian name of what we call Iran today and its etymology still originates in Aryan. Therefore, Josephus is locating Mesha on the border of Iran and Afghanistan. Meshad, Iran accordingly materializes to be positioned on the Northeastern border or Iran right next to Afghanistan exactly where he placed it

What we have here is a bizarre instance where Tim did not attribute his sources in the text but did include them in his bibliography yet kept them out of the sourcebook. That is a huge oversight and certainly requires emendation for any future editions of this book.

Sources 22 and 344 refer to the same book. But source 22 actually refers to 3 sources not just one. In fact a few of Tim's sources have more than one reference attributed such as 346 with 2, 367 with 3, and 10 which has 4. This makes for a lot of clutter and overlap.

One of the sources left out of the sourcebook is 385. It is in the book. Here is the passage.

In fact, it was not until 1599, until the Philippines legally recognised the Spanish sovereignty over the Philippines. [385]

"The Search for King Solomon's Treasure," page 262

The source is listed as 

Villarroel 2009, pp. 93–133

What exactly is this source? What is Villarroel 2009? If you Google that citation you will find out that it comes from Wikipedia. That means Tim did not read this source, has no idea what it says, but simply lifted the citation from Wikipedia. It's no wonder he excises it from his sourcebook. He cannot prove to his readers anything from it. How sad and pathetic for Tim to lift a citation as proof for his case even though he has no idea what it says because he never read it. But that is his method and we have seen this before in the 100 Clues review where he lifts three citations for proof that there was Filipino gold jewelry found in first century Egypt.

Source 345 is a strange case because there is no source number 345. Not in "The Search for King Solomon's Treasure" and not in the sourcebook. Tim skips from 344 to 346. 

Again, is that an oversight or is it intentional? 

Source 144 appears to not be in the bibliography but it is there. You just have to look closely.

Why is source 144 not in the margin?  That is incredibly sloppy.

Let's end this critique with one more anomaly. Tim has 417 sources listed in the bibliography of  "The Search for King Solomon's Treasure." But in the sourcebook he has 419 sources listed. Where do these two extra sources come from? 

The Search For King Solomon's Treasure

The Search for King Solomon's Treasure Sourcebook

Again, is this a mere oversight or was it intentional? 

Source 418 is actually included in the book on page 201 and in the sourcebook on page 209.

The Search for King Solomon's Treasure, pg. 201

Sinai. Hebrew: סיני‎: Modern Sinait [418] Near Laoag where the Lost Tribes of Israel may have landed in the desert, we oddly find three symbols of a second exodus. Today the name has been changed adding a "t" on the end but on this 1775 map, the area, the river and an island North are all labeled Sinai. Unto itself this is perhaps coincidence. However; with all the overwhelming such references in the Philippines, this is certainly a Hebrew word. Vigan, originally Bi-Gan, is also a Hebrew possibility meaning come and go in the Garden. 

Exactly how a map drawn up by a Frenchman in 1775 has anything to do with the Lost Tribes and residual Hebrew is left unexplained by Tim. It is not clear at all why Jean-Baptiste d'Après de Mannevillette, the man who made this map, labelled three places "Sinai" but it is rash to jump to Tim's conclusions. With no actual proof as to why three places are named Sinai Tim's explanation is ad hoc. In fact Wikipedia offers a totally different account of why there is a place named Sinait in Illocos Sur which totally contradicts Tim.

Small battles were daily occurrence so that in the year 1535, when the locality was organized and established as a “Pueblo” Salcedo named the new community as “SIN-NAIT”, a word in the local tongue which means “CONTEST”. 

In the year 1575, the natives fully realized the hardships of pronouncing the term “SIN-NAIT” and to go away with the trouble, Salcedo declared that one of the letter “N” be dropped. Since then, this Municipality has been called “SINAIT”.

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

Is it true? I don't know and that's not the point. The point is there are alternate explanations for all the place-names in the Philippines rather than ancient residual Hebrew. And by the way the map Tim uses is actually from 1810 and not 1775. The link he gives for this source tells us that. A small detail but important nonetheless as accuracy is crucial.

What can we conclude from this? If this were all a mere oversight then we can conclude that Tim is a very sloppy editor. He claims to have 30 years of experience in the publishing industry and his self-published books are the fruit of all those years. It's hard to imagine that a man with so much experience in publishing could be such a sloppy editor. It is also equally hard to imagine that these are mere oversights. There are too many anomalies. What accounts for all the missing sources? Why are there 417 sources in the main book but 419 sources in the sourcebook? Why are there sources in the bibliography of "The Search for King Solomon's Treasure" missing from the main text? Why are there duplicate sources? Why is 345 completely missing?

Lest Timothy Jay Schwab and Anna shriek out that I am nit-picking let me remind them of their own words.

Everyone should at least be mindful this is a very credible case with full support which is why no one has been able to disprove it.

They are very proud of this sourcebook and declare it proves all their claims. Why is it so sloppy? Their listeners and readers deserve an answer.