Insurgency: Relentless Ops

Last year the U.S. DoD ended its Operation Pacific Eagle counterterrorism project with the Philippines. Despite assisting the AFP for nearly two decades, starting with Operation Enduring Freedom which ran from 2002 -2015, the assessment from the DoD was bleak.

https://www.stripes.com/news/pacific/report-multiyear-counterterror-operation-has-failed-to-dislodge-extremists-from-philippines-1.641543

Islamic extremists remain a stubborn problem in the Philippines despite a multiyear U.S. military effort to combat the threat, according to a recent report to Congress. 

Operation Pacific Eagle — Philippines, an overseas contingency operation led by U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, has been ongoing since Sept. 1, 2017. Three years later, there are still 300-500 Islamic State-affiliated fighters in the Southeast Asian nation, according to the latest assessment by Defense Department acting inspector general Sean O’Donnell. 

“There has been little change in the capabilities, size, financing, and operations of [the Islamic State in East Asia],” O’Donnell wrote in the most recent report on the operation, which covers April 1 through June 30. 

The failure to make progress eliminating the militant group comes despite the U.S. budgeting $72.3 million for the operation in the current fiscal year, according to the report. It cost more than $100 million in each of the previous two years, Voice of America reported Aug. 12. 

“In general, efforts to reduce extremism in the Philippines do not appear to have made a substantial difference since the launch of [Operation Pacific Eagle],” he wrote. 

A previous counterterrorism effort, Operation Enduring Freedom–Philippines, ran from 2002-2015. But in May 2017 a force of about 1,000 Islamic State militants seized the southern city of Marawi on the island of Mindanao, the center of Islamic culture in the Philippines. 

A Philippines expert at the University of Hawaii said the inspector general’s assessment of counterterrorism efforts in the country sounds disingenuous. 

“If you compare how much the U.S. has spent in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Philippine share is a pittance,” Patricio Abinales told Stars and Stripes via email Friday. 

Islamic terrorism will remain an endemic problem in the Philippines given the fact that the U.S. offers only technical support to local forces and the difficulty of policing the border and limiting military corruption, he said. 

The erratic policy of pro-China Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte toward the U.S. military doesn’t help, Abinales said.

That assessment from "a Philippines expert at the University of Hawaii" is rather strange. The Philippines kicked the US military out of the country when they closed down Subic Naval base in 1992. The Philippines does not want anything more form the U.S. than technical support. If American troops landed and started fighting the communists and Muslims the people would not cheer. As it is the DND feels the need to keep much of what the U.S. does secret.

Anyone, even an expert, who blames the Philippines' terrorism problem on the lack of support from the USA had better check again. The USA offers billions in support of all kinds from training to hardware. The real problem is the incompetence of the AFP. They ignore intel, falsify reports, and do not learn lessons from previous encounters. All of that is detailed in the book "The Battle of Marawi" which I would urge everyone to read. It is not the job of the U.S. military to fight the AFP's battles even though they remain an important partner in the fight.

https://ipdefenseforum.com/2021/02/philippines-works-with-u-s-to-counter-terror-threats/

The U.S. has mounted a sustained campaign to help the Philippines counter terror threats. It donated U.S. $18 million worth of precision-guided munitions to the Philippines in November 2020. The Philippines is also looking to acquire five Lockheed Martin C-130J aircraft to improve its transport capabilities. 

The modernization effort comes in response to domestic terrorism concerns as well as encroachments on Philippine territory by the People’s Republic of China. 

“The Philippines is by far the top military assistance recipient of the U.S. in the Indo-Pacific,” said Don McLain Gill, an international affairs researcher based in the Philippines. “This comes at a time when China is increasing its assertiveness in Southeast Asia, thus adding to ongoing traditional and nontraditional border and internal threats.”

It is wrong to compare Afghanistan and Iraq with the Philippines. The Philippines is relatively stable with a handful of insurgents causing trouble here and there. Granted it has been going on for 50 years but the fight belongs to the AFP. And they do fight.

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1134445

Government forces in Caraga Region and parts of Northern Mindanao have killed eight communist rebels and seized 18 firearms in armed encounters in the last two months of the year, the Army’s 402 Infantry Brigade (402Bde) said Monday.

In a statement, 402Bde said government forces also seized three improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and dismantled 12 communist New People’s Army (NPA) hideouts in January, February, and early part of the month.

“We will show the NPA the futility of their armed struggle. If they will not heed our call to voluntary surrender and lay down their firearms, we will use all available resources to stop their atrocities for wanton disregard of human rights,” Brig. Gen. Maurito L. Licudine, 402Bde commander, was quoted as saying.

He is saying they will kill the NPA if they do not surrender.  And why wouldn't they surrender? The government is offering chic packages. But some don't so the AFP fires away.

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1134732

Eight suspected members of the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army (CPP-NPA) died while several weapons were seized in a three-hour firefight with government troops in Barangay Trinidad in Guihulngan City, Negros Oriental on Tuesday afternoon.

A media release from Pancito said 62nd Infantry Battalion soldiers encountered more or less 40 combined armed members of the Sentro de Grabidad (SDG) Platoon and the Sandatahang Yunit Pampropaganda (SYP) of the Central Negros 1, Komiteng Rehiyon Negros, Cebu, Bohol, Siquijor (KR-NCBS) in Sitio Agit of Barangay Trinidad.

The soldiers were responding to reports of a “threatened populace” due to the presence of the armed men, the media release said.

A gun battle ensued and lasted for about three hours that resulted in the death of the eight members, whose bodies were recovered later.

Seized from the site of the clash were six M-16 rifles, two M14 rifles, one M4 rifle, one M60 machine gun, one KG-9 sub-machine gun, two improvised explosive devices and paraphernalia, six M14 magazines with ammunition, two backpacks, and “subversive documents”.

Pancito said while there is no clear evidence yet that the NPA will be launching attacks in the wake of its upcoming anniversary on March 29, the merger of the two platoons signals “they are up to something”.

“We don’t know yet but whether it is for the anniversary or not, our directive to our units is to conduct relentless pursuit operations so that they cannot have the upper hand,” he said in mixed Cebuano and English.

"Relentless pursuit operations." That is what the AFP said led to the rescue of several Indonesian fisherman.

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1134702

Relentless military operations in Sulu played a role in the successful rescue of four kidnapped Indonesians as their efforts forced the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) to move out of their comfort zones and mass bases, said Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Chief-of-Staff, Lt. Gen. Cirilito Sobejana, Monday.

“The kidnap victims have been held captive by the ASG for more than a year and through the AFP’s relentless efforts, the ASG who were based in Sulu, were driven out of their comfort zones and mass base, which eventually led to the successful rescue operation last week in Tawi-Tawi,” Sobejana said.

Perhaps the most relentless ops recently have been against the BIFF.

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1134553

Government forces killed 14 combatants of the lawless Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters while 25 others were wounded in six days of running gun battle with military troops in Maguindanao, the Army here said Tuesday.

Lt. Col. John Paul Baldomar, the 6th Infantry Division (6ID) spokesperson, said the skirmishes that started on March 18 also resulted in the wounding of three military personnel.

“Their comrades immediately buried the slain BIFF combatants according to Islamic rites,” Baldomar said, adding that villagers in the affected areas of the so-called SPMS box pinpointed the burial sites of the slain extremists.

The SPMS box is a military term for Shariff Aguak, Pagatin (Datu Saudi), Mamasapano, and Datu Salibo, where the BIFF mainly operates.

Skirmishes between government forces and the BIFF erupted after villagers reported the presence of some 30 terrorists in Barangay Kitango, Datu Saudi Ampatuan, at 10 a.m. on March 18.

He said the soldiers managed to thwart on the same day a plot by the BIFF to assault a Joint Peace and Security Team (JPST) outpost in the village.

A JPST outpost is manned by composite teams from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), the Army, and police deployed to function as peacekeeping forces in six government acknowledged MILF camps in Central Mindanao.

14 of 30 BIFF members killed in clashes was just the beginning. 

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1135063

Four more members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) were killed in separate clashes in Maguindanao, the military here said Saturday.

Maj. Gen. Juvymax Uy, commander of the Army’s 6th Infantry Division, said with the four latest BIFF fatalities, the number of terrorists killed has risen to 20 since intermittent clashes with government troops began on March 18.

Uy said the battle-tested members of the 1st Scout Ranger Battalion (1SRB) clashed with about 40 BIFF gunmen in Barangay Saniag, Ampatuan, Maguindanao on Friday.

“The villagers alerted the Army about the presence of the terrorists in their community,” he told reporters here in an interview.

 A report by Lt. Col. Raymond Rapi, 1SRB commanding officer, said the clash site, which had several foxholes, served as an advance command post leading to a BIFF bomb-making hideout in the interiors of the village.

In the same report, Rapi said his men found three improvised explosive devices (IEDs) ready for disposal and bomb-making components, mobile phones, and personal items in the hideout located some 500 meters away from the BIFF command post.

4 out of 40 BIFF men slain and several IEDs recovered. The BIFF are still very active and out to cause trouble. They are especially known for using IEDs and blowing up their intended targets. 

Despite the U.S. DoD's bleak assessment about the threat of terrorism not changing notwithstanding massive counterterrorism operations, the AFP is well at work fighting the NPA and the Muslim insurgents. Of course it is a long, slow war of attrition.

The God Culture: Will the Feasts of the Lord be Reinstated in the Philippines?

Timothy Jay Schwab of The God Culture is a man with many heretical and anti-Christian doctrines. One of those doctrines is that we must keep the Feasts of the Lord.  There are seven Feasts and we are obligated to keep them all even in this day and age despite these Feasts finding "their fullest redemptive reality in the messianic work of Jesus Christ." It would appear that Tim does not believe that these Feasts or the law point to Christ and that they find their fulfillment in Him. Now, I do not want to get into a theological discussion because that is not the subject of this blog. However The God Culture teaches that the Philippines is the Garden of Eden, is the location of the Holy of Holies on earth, and that the Philippines is where these Feasts will be reinstated in full in the last days. So discussing this topic is quite in line with the subject of this blog which is the Philippines.

https://youtu.be/IfDwuaXYnTc

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.

It's an interesting doctrine that Tim has not really spent much time on apart from 2 videos which don't go into depth at all about the Feasts and how to keep them. Incidentally he admits he does not have the right calendar and so he does not know when to properly keep the Feasts.

https://www.facebook.com/376627072897316/photos/a.382595402300483/533518283874860/?type=3&theater

Let's be clear, no one has truly reconciled the Hebrew calendar of the Bible with our modern Roman one that we have found and this is not a "Jewish" holiday but a Biblical day which was not only kept by Hebrews but by Gentiles even in the time of Moses. This is a task we began a while ago and hoped to complete prior to this season but our research is just not ready on that yet. However, these are the dates we keep for the Feasts and we are sharing with you. There are many other interpretations out there. The point for all of us is keep the feasts even if you prefer a different calendar as Paul and Luke especially admonished rather than pagan replacements that are rebuked by scripture even.  

Would God really want Tim and the gang to be teaching that the point of keeping the Feasts is not the date but to simply keep the Feasts?  Why not keep Passover on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox if that is my interpretation? No. God appointed a specific time and place for each Feast. If the Feast is not kept on the right day that is false worship. If it is not kept the right way then that too is false worship.

Let's pretend that Tim has somehow figured out the correct calendrical calculations to celebrate the Feasts.  What would that look like? Remember Tim says these Feasts will be fully reinstated in the Philippines at some point in the future. I am going to go through each Feast and lay out how the Bible says we are to celebrate them. The Feasts are Passover, Unleavened Bread, Firstfruits, Harvest, Trumpets, the Day of Atonement, and Tabernacles.

1. Passover

2. Unleavened Bread

Passover and Unleavened bread go together.  They each commemorate the night that Israel was delivered from Egypt. The directions to keep this feast is found in Deuteronomy 16.

1 Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the Lord thy God: for in the month of Abib the Lord thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night. 

2 Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover unto the Lord thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the Lord shall choose to place his name there. 

3 Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life. 

4 And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy coast seven days; neither shall there any thing of the flesh, which thou sacrificedst the first day at even, remain all night until the morning. 

5 Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which the Lord thy God giveth thee: 

6 But at the place which the Lord thy God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt. 

7 And thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose: and thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents. 

8 Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the Lord thy God: thou shalt do no work therein.

To keep the Feast of Passover one must sacrifice a lamb at sunset. Numbers 9:3 tells us this is to be on on the 14th day of the month. This sacrifice must also be done in a specific place that the Lord has chosen.

For the Feast of unleavened bread one is required to eat unleavened bread for a whole week. That means flat bread which has been made without leven or yeast.

3. Firstfruits or Weeks

We find the correct observance of Firstrfuits in several places.

Leviticus 23:10-14

10 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest: 

11 And he shall wave the sheaf before the Lord, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it. 

12 And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf an he lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering unto the Lord. 

13 And the meat offering thereof shall be two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire unto the Lord for a sweet savour: and the drink offering thereof shall be of wine, the fourth part of an hin. 

14 And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

Deuteronomy 6:10-12

10 And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the Lord thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give unto the Lord thy God, according as the Lord thy God hath blessed thee: 

11 And thou shalt rejoice before the Lord thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the Lord thy God hath chosen to place his name there.

12 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes.

Numbers 28:26-30

26 Also in the day of the firstfruits, when ye bring a new meat offering unto the Lord, after your weeks be out, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work: 

27 But ye shall offer the burnt offering for a sweet savour unto the Lord; two young bullocks, one ram, seven lambs of the first year; 

28 And their meat offering of flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals unto one bullock, two tenth deals unto one ram,

29 A several tenth deal unto one lamb, throughout the seven lambs; 

30 And one kid of the goats, to make an atonement for you.

The Feast of Fristfruits is to be celebrated in the place which the Lord has chosen to put his name. It requires the wave offering of a sheaf from the new harvest and the sacrifice of two bullocks, one ram, seven lambs, and one kid goat to make an atonement. There is also to be a meat and a drink offering.

4. Harvest or Pentecost

This Feast takes place at the end of the Feast of Weeks and fifty days from the Passover.

Leviticus 23:15-21

15 And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete: 

16 Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the Lord. 

17 Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals; they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the Lord. 

18 And ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and one young bullock, and two rams: they shall be for a burnt offering unto the Lord, with their meat offering, and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of sweet savour unto the Lord. 

19 Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin offering, and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace offerings. 

20 And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits for a wave offering before the Lord, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the Lord for the priest. 

21 And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.

On Pentecost we are to offer up a wave offering of two loaves of bread and then sacrifice seven lambs, one bullock, and two rams.  Additionally we are to sacrifice one kid goat for a sin offering and two lambs for a peace offering. This is to be a statue "for ever." That means the way this sacrifice is to be celebrated cannot and shall not be changed.

5. Trumpets

Leviticus 23:23-25

23 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,  

24 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation.  

25 Ye shall do no servile work therein: but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord.

An offering made by fire means another animal sacrifice.

6. The Day of Atonement

Ten days after the Feast of Trumpets is the Day of Atonement. No need to leave that high holy day out since as Tim likes to remind us that the Feasts and holidays and the entire Mosaic law is to be observed "forever throughout our generations." Again from Leviticus 23:

26 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 

27 Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord. 

28 And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the Lord your God. 

29 For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people. 

30 And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people. 

31 Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. 

32 It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.

The specifics of this atonement are to be found in the whole of Leviticus 16. 

3 Thus shall Aaron come into the holy place: with a young bullock for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering. 

7 And he shall take the two goats, and present them before the Lord at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. 

8 And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the Lord, and the other lot for the scapegoat.

13 And he shall put the incense upon the fire before the Lord, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is upon the testimony, that he die not: 

14 And he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it with his finger upon the mercy seat eastward; and before the mercy seat shall he sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times. 

15 Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood within the vail, and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat: 

29 And this shall be a statute for ever unto you: that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourneth among you: 

30 For on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you, to cleanse you, that ye may be clean from all your sins before the Lord. 

31 It shall be a sabbath of rest unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls, by a statute for ever.

The Day of Atonement requires many sacrifices as well as the two goats, one of which will be set free to wander in the wilderness. This is a "statue for ever." Remember Tim says that the law being FOREVER means Christ has not fulfilled the law so that it is now done away with.  We are still commanded to keep the law and that means the sacrifices of Passover, Frisfruits, Trumpets, and the Day of Atonement.

Five days after the Day of Atonement is the Feast of tabernacles or booths. 

7. Tabernacles

Agin from Leviticus 23 we read:

34 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the Lord. 

35 On the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein. 

36 Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord: on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord: it is a solemn assembly; and ye shall do no servile work therein.

Not only are burnt offerings to be made but the people are required to make and dwell in tabernacles or booths or tents. This must be done for seven days.

39 Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the Lord seven days: on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath. 

40 And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the Lord your God seven days. 

41 And ye shall keep it a feast unto the Lord seven days in the year. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations: ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month. 

42 Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths: 

43 That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

Again this is a "statute for ever."

Last but not least let's include the weekly Sabbath which Tim says must be kept forever. Contrary to what most believe it is not a day of doing nothing. God commands certain things to be done on the sabbath.

Numbers 28 details the daily sacrifices that are to be offered every morning and evening. Moses then tells what sacrifices are to be offered every Sabbath.

3 And thou shalt say unto them, This is the offering made by fire which ye shall offer unto the Lord; two lambs of the first year without spot day by day, for a continual burnt offering. 

4 The one lamb shalt thou offer in the morning, and the other lamb shalt thou offer at even; 

5 And a tenth part of an ephah of flour for a meat offering, mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil. 

6 It is a continual burnt offering, which was ordained in mount Sinai for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the Lord. 

7 And the drink offering thereof shall be the fourth part of an hin for the one lamb: in the holy place shalt thou cause the strong wine to be poured unto the Lord for a drink offering. 

8 And the other lamb shalt thou offer at even: as the meat offering of the morning, and as the drink offering thereof, thou shalt offer it, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord.

9 And on the sabbath day two lambs of the first year without spot, and two tenth deals of flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, and the drink offering thereof: 

10 This is the burnt offering of every sabbath, beside the continual burnt offering, and his drink offering.

Two lambs are to be offered up as a burnt offering every Sabbath day as well as a meat offering. That is in addition to the daily sacrifices of one lamb in the morning and evening.

Is the picture becoming clearer? Tim says the Feasts will be fully reinstated in the Philippines at some point in the future. Properly celebrating these Feasts requires the sacrifice of various animals. That would mean a new Ark of the Covenant since the Ark and its mercy seat are required to celebrate the Day of Atonement which the High Priest sprinkles with blood. Additionally there would need to be some place where the Lord has put His name as that is the only place where the Feasts can be celebrated. Because all the Feasts including the weekly Sabbath require sacrifices there will also need to be a reinstatement of the Levitical priesthood. Only the Levites can be priests and perform the sacrifices required by the Feasts. The Day of Atonement requires a High Priest and only someone in the line of Aaron can hold that position. 

A new Ark, a new place where the Lord has put His name, and a reinstatement of the Levitical priesthood including the line of Aaron for the High Priest. That is what Tim is saying the future holds for the Philippines. Since many sacrifices took place inside the Holy of Holies in the temple and since that temple is no longer standing it is imperative that Tim locates a new Holy of Holies so that the proper sacrifices can be made. He has done this.

According to the Book of Jubilees, which Tim considers to be scripture, the Holy of Holies is the Garden of Eden. It is in the Philippines.

Solomon's Gold Series - Part 12E: Garden of Eden, Mount of the East Found: Ophir, Philippines

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

Tubbataha Reef

Hebrew: Tub: טוּב: good things

Hebrew: ba: בָּא: in the

Hebrew: ta: תָּא :chamber

Hebrew: ha: הא: The

Our interpretation: The Good Things in the Chamber

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

"The Search for King Solomon's Treasure," pg. 310-312

However, according to Tim the Garden of Eden is beneath the Sulu Sea. So that location is no good. You cannot sacrifice there. 

This article has gone on long enough. What I really want to drive at here is that despite Timothy Jay Schwab of the God Culture telling us we must keep the law including keeping the Feasts he is really telling us to break the law by keeping the Feasts in a manner not prescribed by the law.

Many wonder about the accurate dates for the Feasts as do we. This is a massive project and though we have a calendar available on www.thegodculture.com, we are uncertain of it's true accuracy in reconciling the real Hebrew calendar which is nowhere near the Jewish calendar which claims to be Hebrew and is not. We show Passover on the 27th with Unleavened Bread beginning the 28th. Some are celebrating the 26th and others, other days as many are trying to figure out this reconcile today. In time, we will all know this again. The important thing is to celebrate this Passover Season in your homes rather than Easter which is not a Biblical Feast in any sense.

We would encourage everyone to just stick to the Word on this and keep it simple. For Unleavened Bread, just don't eat leaven (yeast) for 7 days. For Passover, have a meal and there is no specific diet as we do not sacrifice lambs anymore and that was what was eaten. You do not need to serve lamb though a neat thing if you can. 

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Here Tim admits he does not know the proper dates for the Feasts. He also says you don't have to sacrifice a lamb or even eat a lamb on the Passover but if you do serve lamb than that is "a neat thing!" He also says just have a meal. That is not how the Lord commands the Passover to be celebrated. A lamb is to be sacrificed and eaten! It is not "neat" it is mandatory. Imagine being a Christian and eating a lamb on Passover and thinking that in doing so you are offering up acceptable worship to God. How horrendous a thing that would be as such an act would be a total repudiation of Jesus Christ who is our Passover lamb. Yet Timothy Jay Schwab has no problem with such an outrageous and anti-Christian act of sacrilege. He thinks such blasphemy is "a neat thing."

Tim's reliance on the Book of Jubilees also gives him the strange doctrine that the Passover is actually tied to Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac. The scripture contradicts that notion many times by tying ALL OF THE FEASTS to the exodus from Egypt.

Isaac's Sacrifice: The Calendar That Drove Messiah's Sacrifice. Answers In Jubilees: Part 7

Tim also tells his followers to break the Sabbath at the same time he tells them to keep it.

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Understood and we all must face this in some form at some point. We hear from many who have to work Saturday and they have no choice. If you choose to do so because you must, remember what the day is and keep meditating on Him that day regardless. You can remain in the right attitude regardless and do the best you can. Ultimately, there is debate about the beginning time and day right now which will resolve in the coming age. Perhaps you can still set aside a full day in time another way. In the meantime, pray that He will provide a job that fits His schedule. Yah Bless.

This lady asks for solid advice about how to keep the Sabbath since she has to work on that day. Tim says set aside another day perhaps. An astute commenter notes that Tim has instructed this woman to disobey the commandant of God concerning the Sabbath. It's amazing he did not delete that comment since he is fond of muting and banning any dissenting opinions especially those that expose him for the fraud and hypocrite he truly is.

In another place he contradicts the law by saying we don't have to sacrifice anymore on the Sabbath.

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1:04:37 No, you do not have to offer an animal sacrifice. Messiah did that for us but he did not replace the Sabbath. Never, ever does any scripture say that.

If the scripture never abrogates the Sabbath then it never abrogates the rules for keeping the Sabbath. Those rules include offering two lambs in addition to the daily morning and evening sacrifices. Here Tim hypocritically tells us to keep the Sabbath and break it at the same time.

He also hypocritically teaches here that Jesus Christ fulfilled the animal sacrifices of the Sabbath and that sacrifices are done away with. Elsewhere and throughout his teachings he is adamant that the law has not passed away! It remains in full force and we are bound to keep it. These two teachings do not jibe. Either Christ fulfilled the law and it is done away with or he did not. There is no partial fulfillment.

The clearest rebuke against Tim's doctrine of keeping the Feasts is found in Colossians 2:16-17.

16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: 

17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.

The dietary laws, holydays, new moons, and sabbath days (Feasts as well as the Sabbath) are all shadows of things to come. What was to come? Christ. The body is of Christ. Pretty simple. Now listen to Tim mangle this verse.

Colossians 2. What Did Paul Say? Not What We Are Told.

24:25:  Have you ever thought about if something is a shadow of things to come then that didn't mean it already passed away because those things didn't come yet?

It's hard to believe that a man who went to seminary, is an ordained Reverend, and has over 30 years experience in the Christian ministry does not understand that Jesus Christ has indeed come. The law is the shadow and Jesus is the reality or the body as this verse says. Tim is literally telling his listeners to look to the shadow, the law and the Feasts, and not the body, The Lord Jesus Christ. His continual directing people away from Christ and to the law, he teaches the law is what redeems us, is what makes Timothy Jay Schwab an anti-Christ.

Let's bring this to a close. Tim is very particular about keeping the law. He teaches that keeping the law and not the work of the Holy Spirit is what engrafts us into Christ. He also teaches that we must keep the Feasts. The day does not matter just so long as we keep them. But he never says exactly what it means to keep the Feasts and how we are to do so. The Bible gives us exact instructions on how and when to keep them. Tim says we can ignore those instructions.

Tim also says that the law and Feasts will be reinstated in the Philippines in whole. But this is impossible. Without an Ark of the Covenant and a temple or a tabernacle or any place where the Lord has put his name there is none of the infrastructure required to do the proper sacrifices. Likewise without a Levitical priesthood there is no one who can lawfully perform the sacrifices.  

The solution to this mess is to accept Jesus Christ as the fulfillment of the law in toto. The law is a schoolmaster which leads us to Christ. We do not go back to the law. Tim's teaching of the Philippines restoring the law in full in the last days as a way to condemn the New World Order is based on the lie that we are bound to keep the law. We are not bound to keep the law. But we are bound to believe on Jesus Christ who kept the law for us. Both the law and the Feasts find "their fullest redemptive reality in the messianic work of Jesus Christ."