Sunday, April 14, 2024

The God Culture: The Ignorance of Timothy Jay Schwab

The God Culture is back! Where did Tim and the Gang go? He says they were doing stuff and that we can expect his book to be published real soon. That sounds great. But not everything he says sounds great. Most of what he says sounds like a dying alley cat blowing a rusty trombone in a garbage can.



Timothy thinks he is very clever. After almost a two-month-long hiatus from Youtube he posted not only a video but also several very long block quotes in the comment section of this blog. They all started off with a witty remark about Scrabble which he illustrated with this photo:


"Duh" is indeed worth seven points in Scrabble, 21 if you use a triple word score tile, but Timothy messes up the joke with this illustration by removing the points from each letter! If it is only in Scrabble that words are worth points what is Tim's point by showing us pointless Scrabble tiles? This is a picture Tim either borrowed or bought from elsewhere. It can be found at this link. He says this phrase in his latest video about the Lord's Day and he posted it in the comment section of several posts on this blog.
“One who is well-versed in ignorance knows much of nothing.” Timothy said that. Only in Scrabble does the word Duh have value. Yet, this blog can be translated very quickly by those who are truly educated as duh, duh, duh, duh, duh.
http://philippinefails.blogspot.com/2020/06/the-god-culture-law-is-what-redeems-us.html?showComment=1597470714275#c9103402615296056741
The joke doesn't even make sense because "duh" is an exclamation which means "obviously." If my blog can be translated by the truly educated as duh, duh, duh, duh, duh then that means the truly educated know what I write about Tim and his ridiculously heretical group is obvious, obvious, obvious, obvious, obvious!

Tim is attempting to use the word "duh" in a pejorative way derisively mocking me as being ignorant. That makes the joke fall even flatter because in that case it is Tim and not myself who is employing this word which has no points outside of Scrabble. No points for you, Tim!

What is wrong with ignorance? Tim revels in ignorance. Timothy is profoundly ignorant in matters of history, theology, and science. He literally believes the earth is flat! It is only a man like him, who professes to have unraveled hidden mysteries and proclaims in video after video that he knows more than either the Church, theologians, scholars, or scientists who is truly ignorant. In his newest video about the Lord's Day he says the following:

https://youtu.be/DUoXknu9cno
12:30  Sorry Pope whomever you are. A sign of unbelief according to the Bible so maybe you ought to try reading it. 
16:37  It's right there in scripture many times over. Scholars just aren't looking at this because they accept things in a paradigm and that paradigm needs to be tested. That's supposed to be their job 
19:55 So why doesn't the Catholic Church and the Protestants today who just haven't done the research on the topic even follow such sinking sand doctrines? Well they just don't do their research at all. 
29:03  A little word to such scholars who are screwing up the Bible and misleading many: Yeah we have an attitude. We are very angry, righteously angry with such manipulators who can't do their research. One who is well versed in ignorance knows much of nothing. Duh! Only in Scrabble the board game does that word have value. Yet that is their doctrines. Put that in a mission statement.
Tim is right and the Church is wrong. That is the tone of every single one of his videos. The Church has gotten everything wrong for the past 2,000 years. Bible scholars and historians are stupid while Tim is wise and intelligent. No one has done any actual research into the issues of the sabbath or grace vs. the law except for Tim. For 2,000 years the whole church has been too dumb to understand the Apostle Paul except for Timothy Jay Schwab. Everyone else has been following a false paradigm.

Tim thinks all things can be known if one only studies hard enough. What a fool. Tim is not content with mystery. He is not satisfied with sincerely saying, "I don't know." When he does say, "I don't know," it is always qualified with a maybe or perhaps and is never sincere. That is the height of ignorance and the road to folly. Better to take Socrates for our model when it comes to being ignorant.
This awareness of one’s own absence of knowledge is what is known as Socratic ignorance, and it is arguably the thing for which Socrates is most famous.  Socratic ignorance is sometimes called simple ignorance, to be distinguished from the double ignorance of the citizens with whom Socrates spoke.  Simple ignorance is being aware of one’s own ignorance, whereas double ignorance is not being aware of one’s ignorance while thinking that one knows.  In showing many influential figures in Athens that they did not know what they thought they did, Socrates came to be despised in many circles.
https://iep.utm.edu/socrates/#SSH2bi
Tim is guilty of double ignorance. In every single one of his videos he spews forth falsehood after falsehood declaring that each lie is the truth. Whether it is the lie that the ancient Greeks sailed to the Philippines or the lie that Filipinos traded directly with and sailed to Egypt or the lie that Negroes, Kurds, and Filipinos are Israelites or the lie that for 4,000 years Enoch has been living in the Garden of Eden at the bottom of the Sulu Sea just off the coast of Palawan Tim continually vomits forth falsehoods masquerading as truth and proudly struts like a vain cock crowing that he alone has solved all these historical mysteries while the scholars, theologians, and historians remain in the dark.

However all the "research" he has done does not amount to much except fraud. Tim manipulates or misrepresents his sources. Many times he has not even read them. The bulk of his research consists in copy/pasting from Wikipedia and from other blogs. He has done absolutely zero archeological research, which is absolutely essential to verify his claims, and he says to hold him to such a standard is evil! His modus operandi is to take the work of other credible people and fashion it to fit his uncredible narrative of the Philippines being Ophir and Filipinos being Israelites. Tim then spits on those whose research he has exploited and cherry-picked claiming they are Rothschild or Jesuit propagandists because they come to conclusions opposite that of himself! When he claims:
"If you have not watched our videos, we source our slides and lay out our positions in a very deep method."
http://philippinefails.blogspot.com/2020/06/the-god-culture-law-is-what-redeems-us.html?showComment=1597470714275#c9103402615296056741 
you know it's a terrible joke. I have proven all of this in several blog posts which resulted in Tim editing his videos to hide his deceit which resulted in even more deception!

Tim is proud of the fact that he is not part of any church organization or denomination. He says so at the beginning of each video. He revels in the fact that no one can pin him down or box him in. You know what else can't be pinned down? A writhing, squirmy, venomous snake. And that is what Tim is.

Just take a look at these instances representative of Tim's linguistic methods.

https://youtu.be/9wXS-ckrm0U
11:39 Benham likely indetifies that on the other side of the Pison river to the right to the land of the Garden of Eden is in fact Ham's territory......By the way if you are listening Rosette, Rosette Delacroix has a Youtube channel in which she discusses that some mountains might actually be ancient giant trees. We don't know but it certainly makes sense. What does the shape of the Benham Rise look like to you? Perhaps a tree stump? Maybe? We'll leave that for Rosette but interesting indeed. 
What a load of absolute malarkey! Benham Rise was named after Admiral Andrew Ellicot Kennedy Benham. The surname Benham is English and not Hebrew. Benham is completely unrelated to the Hebrew language. It means:
English: habitational name from a place in Berkshire named with the Old English personal name Benna + Old English hamm ‘river meadow’. 
https://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=benham
To be fair this is a viewer observation and apparently not a Timothy Jay Schwab original but he is legitimizing this kind of ignorant linguistic interpretation by including it in his video. In Tim's videos he advocates the principle that if a Filipino word has any phonetic resemblance to a Hebrew word then it is by default a Hebrew word and proof that Filipinos are indeed Israelites. The most egregious example is where he breaks down the name Bathala attempting to prove it is of Hebrew origin and  declares that the pagan deity Bathala is the Hebrew God YHWH!


https://youtu.be/7pmGkSWsIbo
38:08 Of course some will say, "Nuh-uh" just as they did with Maharlika yet no one has actually proven that that is not HebrewNor will they be able to prove that this is not Hebrew especially not with stretched etymologies that don't even fit no matter how much they stretch and they aren't even the same letters.  This is exact. Wow!
What a profoundly ignorant argument. Tim says that because no one has proven him wrong that means he is right. He has shifted the burden of proof from himself to his audience and expects his detractors to prove a negative! Tim does not have to prove he is right, you have to prove he is wrong.

You will hear him employ this argument in many of his videos. "We have proven that the Philippines is the Garden of Eden, etc and in three years no one has been able to prove us wrong." Fittingly for Tim that is called the argument from ignorance and is one of the many logical fallacies Tim commits on a regular basis.
Argument from ignorance (from Latinargumentum ad ignorantiam), also known as appeal to ignorance (in which ignorance represents "a lack of contrary evidence"), is a fallacy in informal logicIt asserts that a proposition is true because it has not yet been proven false or a proposition is false because it has not yet been proven true. This represents a type of false dichotomy in that it excludes the possibility that there may have been an insufficient investigation to prove that the proposition is either true or false. It also does not allow for the possibility that the answer is unknowable, only knowable in the future, or neither completely true nor completely false. In debates, appeals to ignorance are sometimes used in an attempt to shift the burden of proof.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_ignorance
In other words:


This is what you get when you reject philosophy and call it a creation of the Nephilim. You get illogical arguments and devilish casuistry that would make any Jesuit beam with joy.

By the way Benham Rise has a new name courtesy of Duterte.
https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/05/22/17/duterte-renames-benham-rise-to-philippine-rise
“All departments, subdivisions, agencies, and instrumentalities of the government shall henceforth use and employ the name ‘Philippine Rise’ in all official documents in referring to the undersea feature,” the EO reads.
Duterte just blew The God Culture's argument right out of the waters! There is a name for Tim's linguistic method. It's called apophenia.
Apophenia (/æpˈfniə/) is the tendency to mistakenly perceive connections and meaning between unrelated things. The term (German: Apophänie) was coined by psychiatrist Klaus Conradin his 1958 publication on the beginning stages of schizophrenia. He defined it as "unmotivated seeing of connections [accompanied by] a specific feeling of abnormal meaningfulness". He described the early stages of delusional thought as self-referential, over-interpretations of actual sensory perceptions, as opposed to hallucinations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia
There are really only three choices about Tim. He is either very ignorant and ill-informed or he is rather well informed but malevolently chooses to withhold information from his audience. The third choice is that God has sent Tim a lying spirit to deceive him just as he did to Ahab. Take his new video about The Lord's Day for example.

Tim does not tell his audience about the entire early church keeping the Lord's Day to celebrate the resurrection as well as keeping the sabbath. He does not discuss the relationship between the Gentile Church and the Jewish Synagogue. He does not discuss why the church gradually stopped observing the sabbath as the Church and Synagogue drifted further apart. He does not address later Church synods which wrote canons forbidding any mixing with the Jews or observances of Jewish practices, i.e. the Mosaic Levitical law. He fails to discuss the last few verses of Acts where the Jews reject Christ and Paul says the Gentiles will not reject this salvation (Acts 28:28.) Does Tim know anything of that? Does he know the difference between the Church and the Synagogue? From his videos it is apparent he knows only the high points of Church History such as Constantine, Nicea I, and whatever he can pull from Wikipedia to justify his legalistic heresy of "the law is what redeems us."

Tim takes a rather complex historical subject and thinks he has stripped it down to the bare essentials which is the Bible says keep the seventh day sabbath so do it. He deceitfully frames the question wrong and asks for proof that he knows cannot be produced. The question isn't whether the sabbath has been changed but rather why do Christians worship on the first day of the week and not the seventh. Because he rejects proper Bible exegesis he misses the mark and comes up with a wrong interpretation of not only Hebrews but of the entire Bible. For Tim Jesus is not our sabbath in whom we rest from all our works. No, no, no! There are no shadows or types which must be fulfilled according to Tim. 
Yada Yadda: The law of Moshe is a type. A shadow. The antitype or the fulfillment is what the Messiah revealed to the disciples and to the people in general.  
The God Culture: We agree on the Pharisees indeed. But Type, antitype? That's scholar babble and certainly not Bible language
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08ZD_IwDkuU&lc=Ugy8Ijt0W8_5MC0sXqN4AaABAg
In his new video about the Lord's Day Tim even goes so far as to interpret a prophecy of Christ as being not a prophecy of Christ.

https://youtu.be/DUoXknu9cno?t=1212
20:13  Here's the Catechism of the Catholic Church according to the.....Vatican. That's still Catholic right? It separates the sabbath and the Lord's Day into two separate sections but leaves them together. No one can really do that by the way. Now it begins this section on the Lord's Day with Psalm 118 which we actually quoted early on in this video before.  
So the Catholic Church agrees David is talking about the Sabbath there by the way. But did David live in Messiah's time? N-n-n-no. He lived a thousand years prior. So what was the Sabbath to David? I mean to use that scripture here is completely illiterate. Saturday!  Not Sunday! So right there they're leading off with a scripture that says the Lord's Day is Saturday! It's right there. They're not even reading the scripture under their nose. Now no one can debate that.  
Here is the context of Psalm 118:
Psalm 118:19 Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, and I will praise the Lord: 
20 This gate of the Lord, into which the righteous shall enter. 
21 I will praise thee: for thou hast heard me, and art become my salvation. 
22 The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner. 
23 This is the Lord's doing; it is marvellous in our eyes. 
24 This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. 
25 Save now, I beseech thee, O Lord: O Lord, I beseech thee, send now prosperity. 
26 Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the Lord: we have blessed you out of the house of the Lord.
Imagine how much one has to hate Jesus Christ and despise his work on the cross and His resurrection in order to twist those passages to be anything less than a prophecy of the Messiah. Yet that is exactly what Tim has done to this passage. Like an atheist he mocks the prophetical meaning of these words by saying, "David lived a thousand years before Christ," not even realizing that David did not write this Psalm! What utter ignorance and impious blasphemy spews forth from this vile, foul-mouthed basilisk! Asaph aptly described this wretched creature:
Psalm 50:19 Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
Psalm 118 is a Messianic Psalm. It is a prophecy of Jesus Christ. Jesus Himself declares this fact in the Gospels. The Catholic Church is not admitting that the Sabbath is the Lord's Day by quoting Psalm 118:24. Tim is transposing his blasphemous interpretation onto the Catholics! That is more of his faulty logic and argumentation. 

The Catholics are also not admitting that the Sabbath has been changed. They are declaring that Christ fulfilled the Sabbath by rising on the first day of the week. Perhaps Tim should have read the whole section on the Lord's Day which explains all of that. But Tim does not discuss the prophetic nature of the text or its implications in the Church and history. Instead he derisively dismisses it and proceeds at great length to attempt to prove that Jesus rose on Saturday and not early Sunday morning before sunrise. For Tim there is no prophecy of Christ in this verse. Types are scholar babble and not Bible language after all. 

If Tim really believed what he was teaching he would say even less about Jesus Christ than he already does because according to him "the law is what redeems us!" Though he would say otherwise in Tim's system there is absolutely no need for the grace and mercy of Jesus Christ. This man thinks he is restoring the truth and tearing down "false paradigms" and "doctrines of men" when in fact he is urging Filipinos to keep the law in all its rigor thus regressing to the spiritual childhood and bondage from which Jesus came to free us.
Galatians 3:23 But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. 
24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 
25 But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. 
26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
Before I bring this display of Tim's ignorance to a close I want to leave you with his latest rant against Youtube and Google. Did you know Tim is a dangerous guy because he has restored the Philippines to its rightful place in Bible prophecy?
33:22 But it goes through their filter because it's very dangerous to teach people to keep the Sabbath and to restore His ways dontcha know? That is the ultimate threat to them, oh indeed, as well as restoring the Philippines as Ophir and it's rightful place especially in prophecy. Ooo! Not something ol' Gog the Prince Demon wants to hear because they will condemn him and his ways. 
Well enjoy your reign Google and Youtube because you will not continue to get away with this much longer especially not in the Philippines. In the meantime we are not stopping but forging forward on even more platforms and with more girth than ever. They will all have to face Yahuah in time and their own customers as well who will turn on them because no one wants their brand of censorship. It is not only illegal it is highly unethical and very evil.
Curiously Tim fails to tell us which law Google is breaking when they censor anyone. That's because such a law does not exist. It's impossible to take Tim's claims seriously that Facebook and Google continue to censor him when all his social media accounts are still active, The God Culture is still in search results, and his videos remain monetized.

How much income are you earning through the Youtube partner program, Tim?


https://youtu.be/0o7IILG0qbA

As I have said before if Facebook and Google were really trying to censor Tim and the Gang they would do it. They would deplatform him just like they did Alex Jones and a host of other people more credible than the incredibly ignorant Timothy Jay Schwab.

Saturday, April 13, 2024

The God Culture: Stuff The God Culture Says

The God Culture is allegedly a group of researchers who have done little to no research outside of surfing the internet and are most definitely not ministers even though they run a teaching ministry. They are in no way affiliated with anyone whatsoever, no siree Bob! Which means they are not even affiliated with The God Culture which is a group of researchers not affiliated with anyone whatsoever, no siree Bob! They are all alone in this cold and absurd universe, which they claim does not exist anyway, detached from all humanity. Maybe it's because he is not grounded in reality which is why Timothy Jay Schwab says so much stupid stuff about the Philippines, Filipinos, and the Bible.



Let's start with a real zinger. According to Timothy Schwab and The God Culture the universe does not exist!
30:30  Now the word universe is not even actually a Bible word or concept. Think about that. Yahuah is never referred to in scripture as the Lord of the universe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-H4dBijkqfM
The context here is Tim is talking about the God of the Jews whom they claim is the God of the universe. Tim says this is the Ein Sof and goes on to give an erroneous and ridiculous interpretation of the word and concept claiming that it is a hybrid of Hebrew (Ein meaning eye) and Greek (Sof meaning wisdom). He does not elaborate on what he means by there is no concept in scripture of the universe. It simply means the totality of all which exists.
universe (n.) 
1580s, "the whole world, cosmos, the totality of existing things," from Old French univers (12c.), from Latin universum "all things, everybody, all people, the whole world," noun use of neuter of adjective universus "all together, all in one, whole, entire, relating to all," literally "turned into one," from unus"one" (from PIE root *oi-no- "one, unique") + versus, past participle of vertere "to turn, turn back, be turned; convert, transform, translate; be changed" (from PIE root *wer- (2) "to turn, bend").
https://www.etymonline.com/word/universe
How could anyone deny the existence of the universe? To deny it's existence is to admit it's existence because you could not not deny the existence of anything unless you exist and to exist is to be part of the totality of all existing things which is the universe! It is madness!

The concept of the universe is clearly a Bible concept.
Acts 17:24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;
Tim says Ein Sof is Kabbalah and he goes on to rant against the Essenes who he accuses of being Kabbalists. He even links them to the Nazis! 
34:45  Wait till we take you to what is termed the Essene find in Ein Gedi. Yes Ein Gedi 25 miles south of Qumran, not in Qumran where not one piece of Essene archeology has ever been found. But in Ein Gedi, this will blow your mind because it is so abundant and the symbology is right there even the middle of their synagogue.  They have the eye of the peacock, the symbol of the Nazis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-H4dBijkqfM
The symbol of the Nazis?? No. It was the Nazis who appropriated a symbol used around the world for millennia, the swastika!  "How the world loved the swastika - until Hitler stole it"


The swastika at Ein Gedi

Then there is his tone as if the Nazis were the most evil group to have ever existed. Tim tells us again and again to challenge tradition. And he thinks the Nazis were evil? Has he researched the degeneracy of the Weimar Republic, the burdensomeness of the Treaty of Versailles, the Haavara Agreement, the nature of the camps, the contradictory testimony and outright lies of holocaust survivors, the wooden doors on the alleged gas chambers, the fact that the math of the holocaust (6 million cremated between 1941-1945) does not add up, or the real origin of the number 6 million? Has Tim even considered why in Europe it is illegal to question what actually happened in Nazi Germany? Nah, he has not invested any time in researching the holocaust or the Nazis. He is more of a normie swallowing the mainstream line than he realizes.

Tim does not like the Nazis or the Essenes but he is sympathetic to racist Black Hebrew Israelites.
22:52 Yet there is some truth in the foundation of the Black Hebrew Movement from the beginning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRRSXdZj-54
Really Tim? A black supremacist group who calls the white man, that's you Tim, the devil has some truth in their foundations?



A group that wrongly interprets Revelation 1:14-15 to make Jesus an angry old negro with a white afro and red eyes has some truth in their foundations?


Does Tim know anything about the Black Hebrews? How about Yahweh Ben Yahweh, Robert Roizer, the Brotherhood, the links to the Nation of Islam and their doctrine of Yakub the mad scientist, and the demonization of whites and jews to the point of calling them devils and actually murdering them? Only a complete fool who knows nothing about this group or the Bible would say they have any truth in their rotten foundation. No wonder Tim is sympathetic to them!

What's stupider: angry negro Jesus or Tim's Nephilim doctrine?
1:47 Wth the feet of iron mixed with clay suggests it's still the Roman empire but mixed with the miry clay which Daniel explains himself is a mixture of "their" see with the see of men. Again that means "their" seed is not that of men nor are they men. They are Nephilim and this final empire is being led by such not men.  We're talking about the true power by the way not figure head presidents. royalty, etc. who do have bloodlines that lead back to such but we're not going to go there in this video.  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-nAf2cIvVU
Does Duterte have a bloodline that leads back to the Nephilim? Tim does know he was married to a Jewess right? If you listen long enough you will hear Tim has nothing good to say about the Jews and even links them to the Nephilim.

Duterte and his Jewess wife Elizabeth Zimmerman

The Nephilim are angel/human hybrids. The giants mentioned in Genesis 6 in fact. It's certainly not a new doctrine but Tim takes it a step further. He believes that some Nephilim survived the flood and continue to this day. He believes they are not human, that they are pure evil in fact. But the doctrine of a pure evil fighting against the good is the Zoroastrian, occult, teaching that Tim rails against! There is no metaphysical or physical substance called evil because that would mean God would have had to create it since all things are created by God. 

Tim's doctrine actually sounds more akin to the reptilian doctrine of David Icke. It is certainly not biblical and the fact that Tim makes all the bad guys of the Bible and history out to be Nephilim is beyond silly. 
32:47 The greatest sin of Sodom was their desire to lure angels into mating with their children to bring about the return of the Nephilim. How appropriate. No, that passage is not about homosexuality though that certainly was a trademark of Sodom. It was about strange flesh and they were addressing angel and human intercourse not homosexuality necessarily. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRRSXdZj-54
How does a human woo an angel? How does a man seduce an angel to mate with his children? How does one even contact an angel to ask them out on a date? Furthermore do angels have sexual reproductive systems? Are there male and female angels in heaven at this moment being married and given in marriage and procreating little baby angels? The very notion is absurd and anti-scriptural.
Matthew 22:29 Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God. 
30 For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.
For a thorough rebuttal of Tim's stupid interpretation of strange flesh as meaning angel flesh (as if angels have flesh!) see the follwing links:

https://www.gotquestions.org/strange-flesh.html

https://www.apologeticspress.org/apcontent.aspx?category=7&article=1428

Let's end on a silly note here.
33:01 If you've been to Florida you'll see there's a lot of Jews there that even have a kosher kitchen that they keep separate from their other kitchen. Of course the question is why would they need a second kitchen if they were truly kosher? It doesn't quite do anything but anyway that's fine whatever
https://youtu.be/zCwDTRzkYqo?t=1981
I knew the answer to this question before I heard Tim ask it and I find it hard to believe that he would not know the answer seeing as his "wife" was a realtor in South Florida which is home to many Jews. The reason why Jews have two kitchens is so they don't mix their milk and meat and other food stuffs.

https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/4639764/jewish/What-Is-a-Kosher-Kitchen.htm
A kosher kitchen is a kitchen in which food is prepared according to the Jewish kosher dietary laws. Some basic elements of the kosher kitchen:  
Meat and dairy are kept strictly separate.  
Only kosher ingredients are used.  
Any traces of non-kosher have been purged from the kitchen utensils and surfaces before they can be used. 
In a commercial setting, careful watch is maintained to ensure that everything remains kosher.
You and Tim can read more at the link. The Jews keep the law in all its rigor and that is why they have a kosher kitchen. Is it really so hard for Tim to take the time to find out the facts before making snide comments as he always does? He should know these things since he teaches it is the law which redeems us.

Friday, April 12, 2024

The God Culture: The Ophir Institute

After a three month hiatus from publishing new videos on Youtube (the last one was August 15th with the ones published since being merely Tagalog translations of old videos) The God Culture has returned in a big way. This time Timothy Jay Schwab has removed his kid gloves, put on his big boy pants and dinner jacket, and has taken his group in a very, very surprising direction. No longer is The God Culture merely a Youtube channel teaching revisionist history of the "We Wuz Kangz" variety with a Filipino twist. No longer is Timothy Jay Schwab merely a heretic and blasphemer who denies that faith in Christ is enough to save us and says that the Trinity is a "doctrine of men" that he couldn't care less about. Now Timothy Jay Schwab has become the founder of a think tank he calls The Ophir Institute.

https://www.ophirinstitute.com

What is the Ophir Institute all about? Instead of an "about" section this website has a "bio" section. Click that and you will read the following:

https://www.ophirinstitute.com/bio

The Ophir Institute is a think tank in the Philippines that has focused on the mystery of the pre-colonial history of our country. When the Spanish arrived, they recorded a literate people who were found reading and writing but what? Where did these writings go? What did they say? How significant they must have been if they needed to be destroyed or at least suppressed. This people is cataloged numerous times in history with more wealth than any other nation in Asia or really, on Earth. We have reviewed the demands to produce an admission from the Jesuits of their guilt in erasing this history but that is a false expectation creating a paradigm of ignorance we will not placate. The Philippines is ancient Ophir and the Garden of Eden and its significance is far greater than we are taught. It is time everyone knows the truth.

Therefore, the Ophir Institute has proudly partnered with author, researcher, singer, former minister, and successful publisher Timothy Schwab and his wife, Anna Zamoranos-Schwab, a Filipina, who lead a team of researchers who tackled this topic. They published their findings on YouTube first with over 10 million views and now, even deeper research is available in book and eBook form. As of recent, this list of publishings includes, The Search for King Solomon's Treasure, INSTRUCTIONAL EDITION: The Search for King Solomon's Treasure, Ophir Philippines Coffee Table Book, and The Book of Jubilees: The Torah Calendar.

 

Though we are a group, these authors' writings largely resemble the core of our mission to educate Filipinos about our lost history.

It is rather odd that instead of getting an about page which details the aims and goals of the Ophir Institute we get a brief biography of Timothy Jay Schwab and The God Culture's research. It is absolutely incorrect for this bio to say that the Ophir Institute has "partnered" with the Schwabs because on Tim's updated bio on The God Culture's website it is explicitly stated that he and his wife founded this organization.

https://www.thegodculture.com/our-founder

Timothy Jay Schwab, with his Filipina wife Anna, is the author of the books The Search for King Solomon's Treasure: The Lost Isles of Gold and the Garden of Eden, Instruction Edition: The Search for King Solomon's Treasure, and Ophir Philippines Coffee Table Book, all supported by a 300-page SOURCEBOOK of very credible sources no one can disprove. They have founded the Ophir Institute in the Philippines to restore this knowledge. Also, Timothy and Anna are Curators for The Book of Jubilees: The Torah Calendar founding The Levite Bible which is a project working to restore Dead Sea Scrolls understanding. This is over 1,400 pages of content and they have produced over 250 YouTube teaching videos as well while conducting over 30 conferences since May 2019 with as many as over 5,500 in attendance. They are the founders of The God Culture Research Team working to restore especially biblical geography and history operating internationally but based in the Philippines.

Why the deception? Why write here that Tim and Anna FOUDNED the Ophir Institute and on the Ophir Institute's page write that they are merely partners? It's sad that they changed this bio. Now no one will know that Tim toured in a Christian rock band and put on puppet shows for the kids or that he is an ordained Reverend!

At the age of 12, Timothy received a calling to minister to others. He began in a puppet ministry that travelled and they advanced into dramas and teachings. He, then, began leading worship at the age 14 while also teaching Sunday School. By 17 years old, Timothy toured as lead singer and President of a Christian Rock Group as an evangelist for five years. In the meantime, he completed seminary courses through his non-denominational faith and was ordained as a Reverend.

https://web.archive.org/web/20200804120634/https://www.thegodculture.com/our-founder

Now that's a bio! The current bio is strangely rambling and defensive and tells us little about the Schwabs expect that they were lawfully married and if you doubt that because Jesus said don't marry a divorced woman then you are a fraud. That is of course a snide attack on the biography I wrote about Tim wherein I disclosed that he is Anna's third husband and she his second wife.

Another strange thing about this bio is that it is, with a few variations, the same bio on the Ophir Institute's page, the Levite Bible's page, and on Tim's own page Timothyschwab.com. Why is that? If the Ophir Institute is a think tank then why is the bio all about Timothy and Anna Schwab? What it boils down to is the Ophir Institute is an entity created by Timothy Schwab to publish all of his God Culture books and related materials.  At least the e-book version of Solomon's Treasure is published by the Ophir Institute.

https://www.amazon.com/Search-King-SOLOMONS-TREASURE-Solomons-ebook/dp/B08M6FNFH9/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

The paperback lists God Culture, The as the publisher.

https://www.amazon.com/Search-King-SOLOMONS-TREASURE-Garden/dp/0578634228/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

If the Ophir Institute was not created to publish Tim's books then perhaps it really is a think tank but that is too horrifying and bizarre a thought to bear. Is Tim or his cohorts really going to write policy papers and draft legislation based on his God Culture research?

A think tank, or policy institute, is a research institute that performs research and advocacy concerning topics such as social policy, political strategy, economics, military, technology, and culture. Most think tanks are non-governmental organizations, but some are semi-autonomous agencies within government or are associated with particular political parties or businesses. Think-tank funding often includes a combination of millionaire donations and individual contributions, with many also accepting government grants.

Think tanks publish articles, studies or even draft legislation on particular matters of policy or society. This information is then readily used by governments, businesses, media organizations, social movements or other interest groups as part of their goals. Think tanks range from those associated with highly academic or scholarly activities to those that are overtly ideological and pushing for particular policy, with widely differing quality of research among them. Later generations of think tanks have tended to be more ideologically-oriented.

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

Imagine the God Culture accepting grants from the government via their front group the Ophir Institute. I have questioned Tim's visa status before as he is doing religious work in the country but this a whole new level. As part of a think tank he would be meddling in Philippine politics which is forbidden for a foreigner to do. Australian nun Patricia Fox was deported for her meddling in Philippine politics by speaking at rallies. How much more a foreigner who founded a think tank?

Of course unlike Patricia Fox Tim has Duterte's ear as he is friends with Dr. Grepor Butch Belgica whom Duterte appointed as the Presidential Advisor for Religious Affairs. Belgica also wrote the forward to Tim's new book "Solomon's Treasure." He is also friends with Sofronio Dulay who is the Grand Patriarch of the Principalia Hereditary Council of the Philippines. Dulay has indicated that he is in favor of an inevitable world government.

World government's objective is to save the world, save humanity. Don't ask who is behind me, who is orchestrating me. They are irrelevant!

Sofronio Dulay is also a Roman Catholic. Timothy has said he has been respectful to the Catholic Church by not doing an exposé video on them.

Now we've been very respectful not to do a video which really breaks down the dogma in the Catholic Church and comparing it to Mithraism. You would find it is an exact match.  

As Tim would say, "Hmmmmm."

Another new venture launched by Timothy is The Levite Bible.

https://www.levitebible.com

In researching the available Dead Sea Scrolls, we have found the market lacking in high-quality publishing. In order to remedy this, we have formed a team with some members of The God Culture and others who are dedicated to the restoration and understanding of these scriptures. It is our intent to publish these in Bible format, curating the margin notes and providing additional research in order to explain the purpose of these publications, their historical track in use as scripture and we have no issue testing them as scripture. When they pass the test which few scholars have ever bothered to conduct adequately, it is time to take these far more seriously. Enough of dismissing scholars and pastors who know very little of these books yet claim to be experts and many have not studied them in the slightest. Enough control paradigms leading us all back to the Dark Ages. 

Again more deception. The bio on The God Culture's website says that Tim and Anna FOUNDED The Levite Bible group while here it appears that The Levite Bible is completely separate from The God Culture saying that they have formed a team with some of the members of TGC.

This group is going to publish second temple Jewish writings and other apocrypha with their own marginal notes. The Book of Jubilees has already been published online. Ironically enough they are using a translation which was made decades BEFORE the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Strictly speaking The Book of Jubilees is not a book that was hidden away in the caves of Qumran just waiting to be rediscovered. It is a book used by the Ethiopian church and rejected by everyone else.

https://www.paperturn-view.com/the-god-culture/the-book-of-jubilees-the-torah-calendar-ebook?pid=MTI123254&v=1.1

Suffice to say this is far from a scholarly work though it pretends to be one with all its notes, maps and other apparatus. It is filled with pictures like the following:

 
Noah added a curse on anyone stealing their brother's property. That includes all empires, bankers, and churchws! Japheth was never given the right to conquer others. Colonialism and conquest have always been forbidden. Israel was taking it's land back from Canaan and the Nephilim who stole it.
So what is Tim's opinion on the massive third world immigration from Africa and Asia to Europe and North America? Is that stealing? Then there is this picture:

Lot, the nephew of Abraham from whom Israel descends, is a...negro? A Hamite? I thought the family of Abraham all descended from Shem. 

If you want to know about the meaning of Jubilees it would be to better trust yourself to a man who has spent his whole life studying it along with the rest of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

https://b-ok.asia/book/3679705/1ccb48

Jubilees--so called because of its concern with marking forty-nine-year periods (or "jubilees") in Israel's history--is an ancient rewriting of Genesis and the first part of Exodus from the point of view of an anonymous second-century BCE Jewish author. Its distinctive perspective--as well as its apparent popularity at Qumran--make it particularly important for any reconstruction of early Judaism. James C. VanderKam, the world's foremost authority on Jubilees, offers a new translation based on his own critical editions of all the available textual evidence, including the Hebrew fragments preserved at Qumran (which he first published in Discoveries in the Judean Desert, vol. 13), as well as the first full running commentary on the book in the English language. Jubilees approaches the book as a rewriting of scripture but also as a literary work in its own right. The commentary explains the text and the teachings of the author with comprehensive coverage of the modern scholarship devoted to them. The introduction sets the book in its second-century BCE context, traces its sources in the Bible and in other early Jewish texts, and describes its influence on Jewish and Christian writers.

I have also written at length about Tim's misconceptions concerning the Book of Jubilees, such as Mosaic authorship, as well as the Dead Sea Scrolls and the formation of the Biblical canon.

The future seems pretty bright for The God Culture. Timothy has two new organizations and several books on the way including a coffee table book and instructional versions of Solomon's Treasure. However there is one more book, a smaller 40 page booklet, that Timothy has produced which will not be available to the general public. It is a report on my blog.

https://www.lumendatabase.org/notices/21181371

40-page PDF report available... Illegally attacks a ministry, The God Culture in multiple infractions for almost a year including cyber libel, copyright infringement, fake news, racism, hate speech, discrimination. fraud, and misrepresentation harassment. 40-page PDF report available. cc_Karl Daniel E. Buban, Belgica, Aranas, Alim, Dela Cruz, and Associates.

Notice that the law firm has Belgica listed as a partner.  That would be Jeremiah Belgica who is also the son of Grepo Belgica who is good friends with Timothy. Both Belgicas also work for the government. Funny how Timothy, a white guy from Florida, has all these high level connections in the Philippines. It really raises questions about the sources of funding for all his new ventures.

It will be interesting to see what direction the God Culture takes as they produce more materials and possibly more groups. They are not going anywhere. Tim's Filipino-centric message is enough to tickle any Filipino's ears and entice them into his web of deceit. But make no mistake. No matter how many shiny websites Timothy builds, no matter how many slick videos he produces or meticulous books he publishes, no matter how much lipstick this pig puts on his kisser he is still a pig. This heretical piggy is an anti-trinitarian and is on record saying faith in Jesus Christ is not enough to save a man.

So this is another example that we aren't to just have faith in Yahusha. That’s not enough. That’s not it.  No, no, no, no. We are to keep His commandments.
Sabbath Series: Part 5: The End Times Sabbath at 19:30
The law written by the very finger of Yahuah Himself.  The law is what redeems us.

"The law is what redeems us." No wonder Tim founded a group called "The Levite Bible." Timothy rejects the priesthood of Melchizedek of which order Jesus Christ is made a priest for ever and would rather turn back to the Levitical priesthood which the book of Hebrews tells us has passed away and with it the Levitical law.

Thursday, April 11, 2024

The God Culture: "Solomon's Treasure" Book Cover Review

The God Culture is writing a book which will distill all their videos about the Philippines into one handy, portable source. Timothy Jay Schwab claims he has been working on this book for a few months now but it has yet to be published. However Tim is ready to go as soon as the book is finished. He has posted all the information on Google Books. The title is "The Search for King Solomon's Treasure: The Lost Isles of Gold & the Garden of Eden."



Tim has a cover and even two ISBN numbers registered for this book.

https://books.google.com.ph/books/about/The_Search_for_King_Solomon_s_Treasure_L.html?id=mHE4zQEACAAJ&redir_esc=y
You are about to embark on the most monumental journey of all archaeological discoveries. The mother load that would make the likes of Indiana Jones salivate. The true land of gold in all of history which leads to the location of the Garden of Eden and Land of Creation identifying the Rivers from Eden en route. Though founded in the Bible which is the origin of this saga, examine the history, archaeology, geography, science, linguistics, etc. which all converge to reveal what the world knew and somehow misplaced about a century ago. This is a mystery no longer and now, you will know the whereabouts of the lost isles of gold...
"The most monumental journey of all archaeological discoveries?" Has Tim been doing archeological research in the Philippines since he moved here? Did he discover the Palace of the Queen of Sheba or any of Solomon's mines or any physical evidence proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Philippines is Ophir, Tarshish, Sheba, Seba, Havilah, and The Garden of Eden? Will there be pictures of The Garden of Eden which Tim claims lies beneath the Sulu Sea? Or will it just be more of the same fraudulent nonsense as is in his videos?

The publisher is listed as God Culture. What does that mean? Is The God Culture now a publishing company? The ISBN numbers lead nowhere


Obviously it is impossible to do a book review because there is no book yet. What we can do is a book cover review. Believe it or not the cover reveals quite a lot.

This is the same font used in The God Culture's videos.


https://youtu.be/7vDhLkHrrLc

It looks like Scotch tape font. The font shows a continuity between the book and the videos. Whatever is in the videos will be in the book. Perhaps a little tweaking and maybe even some new stuff. But I think overall the book will follow the video series quite faithfully.

The front cover is from a stock photo on Shutterstock.
Does Tim have an account with Shutterstock? Has he used other photos from Shutterstock in his videos? This photo aptly illustrates the title: Solomon's Treasure. However many books about Solomon and his gold have the word "mines" in the title.


https://comicvine.gamespot.com/uncle-scrooge-108-the-mines-of-king-solomon/4000-13734/

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2166/2166-h/2166-h.htm

Haggard's book is certainly the most famous of all the books about King Solomon's Mines. A real adventure story with Allan Quatermain set in Africa and not the Philippines. Why would Timothy choose the word "treasure" instead of "mines" or "gold" for the title of his book? His video series is titled "Solomon's Gold." And why isn't the word "king" in the same font size as "Solomon's Gold?" King should be right next to Solomon since that is his title and office. "The Search for King: Solomon's Treasure" does not sound right yet that is how the title reads. Maybe Tim will correct this major flub before the book goes to publication.

Leaning against the treasure chest is what appears to be a map. Or maybe it's an ancient book or two stone tablets. One page reads:
ophir
sheba
tarshish
land of adam & eve
garden of eden
rivers from eden
land of creation 
no longer enigmas
The other page has a map of the Philippines. That's because he claims the Philippines is all the places listed on the opposite page. Enigma solved!

There are two blurbs on the cover.
"The monumental case for the Philippines no one can disprove."
"No one can disprove?" Sure. Let's put this book in the hands of real archeologists, historians, linguists, and geologists and hear what they have to say. If the case is "monumental" I will except the evidence to be "monumental." Again I ask has Timothy been doing archeological research here in the Philippines to prove his case? Or will he be quoting the same materials and making the same faulty arguments as in his videos?

The second blurb is:
"History, geography, and prophecy restored."
When was any of that lost? Tim just released a new video where he says:
6:50 Now over three years the extent of challenges to our finding Ophir consists of either attempting to debate with side notes that aren't even points within the case. Come on. Raising scriptures that don't even apply or misreading them. Ignoring the restoration of history which, by the way, leads to the restoration of prophecy. But, and we hear this every now and then, because it is not the single topic of salvation which this view dismisses almost all the rest of scripture. That's ignorance. Don't be one of those who ignores Isaiah and Malachi especially as Yahuah God warned his people perish for lack from knowledge. There is none of the Bible that we should not be studying and understanding. 
https://youtu.be/0CP4RVtXUFo?t=410
If a true understanding of history leads to a true understanding of prophecy then by no means has Timothy restored prophecy because he has concocted a fake history of not just the Philippines but also the Kurds and Sub-Saharan Hamitic negroes who he claims are Semitic Israelites from the tribe of Judah! He claims that all three of those people groups are Israelites!


A Kurd, Filipino, and American slave. Do these people look like the are from the same genetic group?

His most recent video is all about how Philippine Independence Day, June 12th, 1898, is seven days after Pentecost according to the Hebrew calendar. That is despite him telling us elsewhere he does not even know the real calendar!! Tim makes a big deal of these dates but does he realize that the Philippine Independence movement was run and led by Masons? 
It is quite interesting to note that despite the Masonic roots of the Philippine struggle for independence, the leaders were all Masons and the first constitutional program, written by Apollinaro Mabini, was dismissed as being too steeped in the principles of Freemasonry, they did not succeed while the revolutions in America and France, which were also led by Masons and steeped in the fraternal doctrines of Freemasonry, did succeed.
https://philippinefails.blogspot.com/2018/06/june-12th-as-independence-day-is-lie.html
Is Tim telling us that God honors the declaration of Philippine independence which is rooted in Freemasonry? His point is actually quite dumb and ignorant because as even he acknowledges Philippine independence did not come until 1946. Tim has zero understanding of how the Philippines became independent or why the date was moved from July 4 to June 12 in 1962. It was moved because President Macapagal got mad when the US Congress refused to send a payment of $73 million. 


https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP79-00927A004000060004-0.pdf

Eventually the US Congress worked it all out and sent the payment but now the Philippines is stuck celebrating a lie every single year.  The same lie Tim attempts to infuse with a spiritual meaning! Read my article "A Brief and True History of the Philippines' Road to Independence" to learn the true story of how the Philippines became independent.

Tim also lies about the Greeks sailing to the Philippines for gold and misinterprets maps and directions to Chryse which is the Golden Peninsula aka the Malay Peninsula. Tim does not even have a correct understanding of the Earth because he thinks it is flat and motionless! He does not even believe the universe exists.
30:30  Now the word universe is not even actually a Bible word or concept. Think about that. Yahuah is never referred to in scripture as the Lord of the universe.
Timothy Jay Schwab does not understand the nature of reality yet he wants us to believe he has restored history? What a joke! He does not understand history in the slightest.

He also fails to understand that all the prophecies in the Bible do indeed revolve around the salvation of God's people through Jesus Christ. Tim lacks a throughly Christocentric view of the scriptures. Jesus Christ is the subject of the Bible. He is the great theme of the entire book. As Jesus Himself said:
John 5:39 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
Such a view does not dismiss almost all of the Bible. Such a view is the teaching of Jesus Christ Himself.

The forward to Tim's book is written by Dr. Grepor "Butch" Belgica.

https://greporbutchbelgica.com/pages/about-butch
He earned a Masters Degree in Divinity (1989) and his Doctorate in Ministry (1991) from Friends International Christian University, Merced, California, USA.
Belgica's story is too long to reprint here. Basically when he was a young man he killed a guy, spent time in prison, found Jesus, and turned his life around. He was even Speaker of the House at one point! What concerns us here is his doctorate. Timothy refers to him as Dr. Belgica on the cover of his book but does he possess a bona fide Phd.? Did the man write a doctoral dissertation?

The first clue that he did not is that there is no mention of his BA. Everybody knows you get your bachelors, then your masters, then your doctorate. The second clue is that the school he got these degrees from is an unaccredited diploma mill.


https://web.archive.org/web/20080629051823/http://www.ficu.edu/accreditation.htm

Show me his doctoral dissertation and then I will change my opinion that his degrees are fake. Belgica has a new job these days working for the Duterte administration.
Appointed by President Rodrigo Duterte as Presidential Adviser for Religious Affairs under the Office of the President.
Pretty interesting that Tim knows all these powerfully connected people isn't it? All he did was make some Youtube videos about a subject Filipinos have been researching for years. Pedro Paterno came on the scene 100 years ago saying the Philippines was Ophir and everyone has forgotten him. In fact he was ridiculed during his lifetime. But Tim, a foreigner, is lauded and fêted! And much of his information is lifted directly from Filipino bloggers.

Now for the one part of this cover that reveals so much. That is the author.


Timothy Schwab
What!?? Here is what I wrote a few months ago:
What we don't know is who is on this alleged team of researchers. What are their qualifications? They say they will be publishing a book soon. Who will be the credited author? Tim? The God Culture? If it is "The God Culture" who will get authorial credit? Will Tim then introduce us to his team of researchers?
https://philippinefails.blogspot.com/2020/03/the-god-culture-team-of-researchers.html
If The God Culture is a a research team then why is Tim getting all the credit? This lends further support to the notion that there is no team of researchers called The God Culture. It's only Tim and Anna. If there was ever a time to reveal the names and expertise of this supposed team it would be in this book. Tim is writing a book involving many scientific disciplines, claims he has a team of researchers familiar with those disciplines, and yet only Timothy Schwab gets authorial credit? It does not make any sense. Perhaps he will rectify all that before finally going to print. 

I cannot wait for this book to be published. It looks like it will be big, glossy, and colorful with many pictures. It will be fun to see what exactly is inside. I predict Tim will use my own research which is the English translation of Dionysius Periegetes and the three sources cited to claim Philippine gold was found in 1st century Egypt.  That would be Legeza, Peralta, and Villegas. Tim did not know about any of those resources until I used them in my rebuttals to him. 

I will certainly be buying this book (if it is for sale) and I will certainly be reviewing it here. Let's hope it is published soon.

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