Coronavirus Lockdown: Mass Grave Site, Test Kits Expire, and More!

More news about how the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines is being handled by the public and the government.

It's par for the course for this rotten and corrupt government to blame the continuing pandemic on the people but that is how it is.

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1153862

Adherence to safety protocols and vaccination are key elements to the success of the government's Covid-19 pandemic responses, National Task Force (NTF) Against Covid-19 chief implementer Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. said on Friday.

The vaccine czar repeated anew his appeal to strictly observe minimum health protocols as the threat of Covid-19 and emerging variants persists.

"(As we see, most of our hospitals are in full capacity, so let's have discipline This pandemic will only be resolved if we work together. At the same time, if our citizens will be responsible)," he said in a media interview during the arrival of the private sector-procured 661,200 AstraZeneca doses at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal 1 in Pasay City.

Galvez said it's not yet time to be complacent "because the new Covid-19 variants like Delta are highly transmissible”.

"The participation of the people will be the core of our response so we encourage you to continue adhering to health and safety measures," he said.

Galvez also urged the public to get vaccinated. 

"(Most of the infected patients in the hospitals are in critical condition because most of them are unvaccinated and most of the intubated patients are unvaccinated)," he said.

Given that the virus has an over 90% recovery rate one must wonder what are the statistics of those who have been infected and hospitalized? Are they fat? Old? Have any disease at all? It is comorbidities that exacerbate the effects of the virus. Putting people in a perpetual state of fear over an imaginary "deadly pandemic" is not good for the public health. Right now there have been 2.4 million infections with 37,000 dead which means only 1.5% of those infected have died while only .03% of the total population has died from the virus. It's all a big joke but it isn't funny at all.

The Philippines has received millions of doses of vaccines. Only 10,000 of those have spoiled due to temperature problems.

https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2021/09/20/2128360/doh-10000-doses-wasted-due-temperature-excursion

Some 10,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been wasted primarily due to “temperature excursion,” the Department of Health (DOH) said yesterday.

According to DOH Undersecretary and National Vaccine Operation Center head Myrna Cabotaje, some 10,000 jabs have already been registered as “wastage.”

Cabotaje said the “biggest wastage” was incurred in a storage facility at a major vaccination site in Filinvest, Muntinlupa City.

The temperature in the facility changed reportedly due to mishandling by the local government unit and vaccine safety officers. This resulted in temperature excursion.

She noted in a radio interview that vaccine wastage also took place when some vials were dropped and were found to have no labels.

The wastage includes the vaccines that were damaged during a fire incident in South Cotabato, and jabs that were spoiled after being left in a freezer that was unplugged in North Cotabato.

Cabotaje said that while 10,000 doses is “small” compared to the more than 40 million doses already administered, it is still regrettable that there is vaccine wastage.

“It’s too bad. That’s why for every incident, we study the reasons so we can avoid it from happening again. We want to avoid any wastage,” she maintained.

10,000 today but who knows how many doses will be wasted due to negligence in the days to come. Not only vaccines have gone wasted but so have testing kits.

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1492026/covid-test-kits-expire-amid-low-testing-last-year

Information emerging from the Senate blue ribbon committee investigation of COVID spending by the Procurement Service of the Department of Budget and Management (PS-DBM) and Department of Health (DOH) said at least P550 million worth of testing kits had expired last year without being used.

A committee member, Sen. Francis Pangilinan, presented documents showing that Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corp.—a foreign-owned firm now at the center of the ongoing Senate investigation of P8.7 billion in contracts for COVID supplies—delivered 4,800 kits on May 2, 2020 and 3,200 on May 4, 2020.

Citing documents, Pangilinan said inspection reports would show that the test kits were manufactured on April 5, 2020 and had an expiry date of Oct. 5, 2020—a shelf life of just six months.

It was much shorter than what the DOH had required—24 to 36 months, which had been confirmed by Health Secretary Francisco Duque III but explained by him as benchmarks set prior to the pandemic.

Presented during the blue ribbon committee hearing was a letter by Assistant Health Secretary Nelson Santiago addressed to then PS-DBM chief Christopher Lloyd Lao dated Dec. 7, 2020 which confirmed that 7,925 test kits had expired without being used.

These would have been good for at least 371,794 COVID tests last year.

According to the DOH data tracker, weekly testing nationwide from May 2020—when the COVID test kits were reportedly delivered—to October 2020—before the kits expired—was between 59,000 and 260,000.

For comparison, weekly testing in 2021 from August 30 to Sept. 5 was 574,980 and 566,281 from Sept. 6 to 12.

And who is to blame for the low testing rate? The people or the government?

So far roughly 38,000 people have died from the virus. This fact has not stopped Davao from preparing a mass grave site for COVID-19 victims.

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1154049

As the cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) continue to rise here, Mayor Sara Z. Duterte bared Monday that the city has already prepared a mass burial site at the Tagakpan Public Cemetery in Tugbok District.

In a radio interview, she reiterated that in March last year, during the early days of the pandemic, they already prepared the site for those who have succumbed to the infection.

“We are ready since last year and we already announced it also. It is expected that if there is a surge, there will be numerous deaths and our hospitals will be overwhelmed,” Duterte said.

About 160 lots are available at the cemetery and each lot can accommodate up to six corpses or 960 corpses in total.

On the other hand, she also said the city’s crematorium could process about four cadavers per day.

Since April last year, Mayor Sara said the number of cremations has reached 2,101.

“We have 22 cadavers who are still scheduled for cremation. Our crematorium is always fully booked because of the surge. If there is a surge, many will get sick (and die),” she said.

Why does Davao City need a mass grave site when it has the highest recovery rate in the region?

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1149798

The Davao Region has so far recorded 48,271 patients who have recovered from the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) since the pandemic struck in March last year, representing a recovery rate of 84.5 percent of the total 57,135 confirmed cases.

An 84.5% recovery rate. And Sara Duterte is talking about building a mass grave site? It's just fearmongering propaganda.

Will there soon be a nationwide vaccine mandate in the Philippines? Perhaps.

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1154905

The Congress would need to pass a law requiring Filipinos to get fully vaccinated against the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), Malacañang said on Tuesday. 

 

Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque made this remark after President Rodrigo R. Duterte broached the idea of using the government’s police power to compel citizens to get their jabs.

 

“(As long as there is a law, we can implement that so let’s put it into the proper context),” he said in a Palace press briefing.

 

Asked to clarify if Duterte’s new pronouncement meant he was urging the legislative branch to pass a law compelling the public to get vaccinated, he responded in the affirmative.

 

“Yes, of course. That’s the jurisdiction of Congress but the President can always certify an administration bill for such a law,” he added.

 

Roque said several countries have turned to vaccine mandates to increase vaccination rates.

 

 "(The state really has the power to use police power to promote the good of the majority. But when it comes to the vaccine, let us wait, because we need a policy first),” he said.

 

Roque also reiterated Duterte’s statement asking government workers who refused to get vaccinated to leave public service.

 

“(I guess the President will start requiring mandatory vaccination among those working in government. But) this is without prejudice po to Congress passing a law,” he said.

What would the penalties for breaking such a law be? Jail time? Fines? The government is looking to administer booster shots to some sectors just in time for the 2022 elections.

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1154469

The government is mulling to start the administration of Covid-19 booster shots to priority sectors before the May 2022 national and local elections.

Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr., chief implementer of the National Task Force (NTF) against Covid-19, said part of the government's second phase of vaccine procurement is to acquire reformulated booster jabs for use of those vulnerable sectors -- primarily the healthcare workers.

"(We are also planning to finish the inoculation of at least 90 percent by February or before the elections)," Galvez reported to President Rodrigo Duterte during prerecorded Talk to the People on Wednesday night.

The government is now readying the procurement of the next-generation vaccine boosters which will extend the efficacy of the Covid-19 jabs to fight emerging coronavirus variants.

"(Before the elections, at least those who should be given booster shots, will get their booster shots. Everyone should be protected before the elections)," Galvez said.

Those booster shots will probably be very necessary to prevent breakthrough infections. Former Health Secretary Janette Garin says the DOH is lying about breakthrough infections.

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=tl&tl=en&u=https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/09/29/21/garin-doh-data-sa-breakthrough-covid-cases-big-lie

The former Health Secretary and now Iloilo 1st District Rep. Janette Garin that the Department of Health lied in providing data on breakthough infections of COVID-19 in the country. 

In the plenary debates of the House of Representatives on the DOH budget on Tuesday, Garin asserted that the number of breakthrough infections is higher when looking at the situation in hospitals than the data released by the department. 

“The data is still being collected by the DOH, so it is not complete. The summary that we have based on the available data that we have, there are a total of 242 cases that were reported as breakthrough infections, 87% of which are mild, and asymptomatic while 10% are hospitalized and 2% are dead, ”he replied. by Quezon City 5th district Rep. Duke Frasco, was the sponsor of the DOH budget when Garin requested DOH data. 

Garin replied: "I am telling you that is a big lie."  

“(Only) 242 cases? Eh at San Joaquin Hospital alone, they already have 60 cases. In our district hospital, we have probably 50 cases and we know for a fact that in PGH, the breakthrough infections will not be less than 50. So 242 is impossible. ” 

He said he was not saying that the vaccines against COVID-19 available to the government are no longer effective but that the DOH should be transparent in its data so that local officials can respond to the infection situation in their areas. 

“I do hope that the DOH will have it in their conscience to be transparent to our people. Because 242. This is a war, and our decisions are based on the transparency that you are showing, ”said Garin. 

“I am not saying that we failed. I am saying we need to recalibrate information because we owe it to our people to be transparent. ” 

Frasco replied that the DOH does not yet hold the total number of breakthrough infections because it is still gathering additional data. 

Garin, on the other hand, believes that the concept of "herd immunity" is no longer true when counting those vaccinated with COVID-19. 

This is due to the more contagious Delta variant that is already infiltrating the protection of vaccines. 

“There is no herd immunity to talk about at this point in time because of the waning immunity and the inadequate protection of the currently recommended primary series. This is not the fault of government and this is not the fault of the Department of Health. This is science that should be explained to our frontliners and decision-makers, ”he said. 

Garin stressed that the DOH must admit that the country seems to be "back to zero" when it comes to herd immunity in order to take the right steps in the midst of the pandemic. 

“I think the answer is no. We are not back to zero with respect to herd immunity. The purpose of the vaccination program is to reduce the transmission of the coronavirus, and it is shown that if a person is vaccinated, they have less of the viral load, and that will help in terms of transmission, ”Frasco defended.

If there is anything the pandemic has taught us it's that the DOH is not very transparent whether with finances or hard data. After all, they recommend face shields even though they don't provide a bit of protection from the virus.

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Insurgency: A Boney Ritual

The end of Duterte's term as President is imminent. That means the troops need to speed up their operations to meet the June 2022 deadline to defeat the insurgency. 

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1154229

Troops under the Philippine Army’s 3rd Infantry (Spearhead) Division (3ID) on Tuesday were told to serve the people using the development programs of the national government but to also be aggressive in the battlefront to be able to put an end to the insurgency.

“Go where the enemies are by establishing forward operating bases, increase intelligence efforts to improve operational efficiency and instill the culture of discipline among yourselves. Take all these into account in serving the people of Central and Western Visayas because these will give us the edge to win,” he said. "Focus on (the) main task, be mindful of (the) deadline set by the President, which is to defeat insurgency by June 2022."

During the change of command ceremony, Maj. Gen. Benedict Arevalo assumed as acting commander of the 3ID, replacing Brig. Gen. Noel Baluyan.

In his message, Arevalo said while they would continue to win the hearts and minds of people through their civil-military activities, they would be feared by their enemies through relentless, aggressive, and offensive operations.

“We should not be coward or down-hearted because of the comments of our enemy and the friends and supporters of our enemy. We will continue to negate the lies and deception that our enemy is trying to propagate in our provinces, especially in the far-flung barangays,” he said.

Arevalo also raised the importance of their commanders to continue engaging stakeholders, local government units, national government agencies, civil society organizations, academe, and different sectors to sustain their operational momentum and accomplishments.

He also urged the people of Western and Central Visayas to support the armed forces.

“It might be difficult but with the trend nationwide, the CPP-NPA actually is collapsing but has not yet collapsed. Hopefully, if we can sustain it, we can really see the time that they are not capable of engaging us in frontal combat operations. With our relentless operations, I’m sure that we will be able to neutralize the threat they are posing not only to us but also to our countrymen,” he said.

So, the plan is to win the hearts and mind of the people through development programs and to instill fear in the CPP-NPA "through relentless, aggressive, and offensive operations." Operations this week resulted in the death of several NPA fighters.

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1154303

Army soldiers on Wednesday found five bodies of suspected New People’s Army (NPA) rebels, who were believed killed in a gunfight on Tuesday, during the clearing operations in Barangay Dungeg, Sta. Teresita, Cagayan.

Army Maj. Jekyll Dulawan, 5th Infantry Division (5ID) spokesperson, said aside from the bodies, the soldiers also found and recovered three high-powered firearms, three anti-personnel mines, five handheld radios, four mobile phones, assorted medical supplies and equipment, anti-government documents and personal belongings.

He recalled that soldiers uncovered a rebel hideout where anti-personnel mines were manufactured by the NPA-Komiteng Rehiyon-Cagayan Valley after Tuesday's firefight.

The Army did not suffer any casualties in the firefight against some 40 communist rebels.

“The accurate information provided by the locals and the timely, precise and well-coordinated actions of the ground troops and the Philippine Air Force led to this decisive engagement against the NPAs without any casualties on the government forces and the civilians,” Dulawan told the Philippine News Agency in a phone interview.

The Army engaged 40 NPA fighters and only 5 died. That is 12.5% dead. Is that an acceptable kill rate? Six more NPA fighters died in two other clashes with government troops.

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1490965/ph-army-says-6-rebels-dead-in-agusan-norte-bukidnon-clashes

Six suspected communist rebels were killed in separate clashes with the military in Bukidnon and Agusan del Norte provinces, the military said.

In the first clash, five suspected members of New People’s Army were killed in Malaybalay City, Bukidnon around 6:46 a.m. on Monday (Sept. 20), the Army’s 4th Infantry Division said.

Eleven high-powered firearms were found at the clash site. No casualties were recorded on the government side.

Another communist rebel was killed in a clash with policemen and soldiers in Butuan City, Agusan del Norte on the same day.

No word on how many total NPA fighters were engaged in each encounter. 

The AFP has their way of dealing with the NPA and so does the Manobo tribe.

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1154003

Leaders of indigenous peoples (IP) communities in Surigao del Sur gathered Sunday afternoon for a ritual called “boney”, a ceremony intended to impose penalties on fellow tribe members who committed offenses.

Different IP Mandatory Representatives (IPMRs) in the province want Bayan Muna party-list Representative Eufemia Cullamat punished for the insults and transgressions she committed against the Manobo tribe where she belongs.

Datu Rico Maca, the IPMR of San Miguel town, said 50 tribal leaders from different towns expressed their outrage against Cullamat and wanted to make her accountable for her wrongdoings against the tribe.

“A number of tribal leaders wanted to show up and join the boney but we limited the attendance due to the strict health protocols in the province,” Maca told the Philippine News Agency (PNA) on Sunday night.

He emphasized that Cullamat committed three major offenses against the tribe -- misrepresentation, lack of concern for the IP youth and children, and dishonor against the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP).

Cullamat is no longer allowed to enter and step into the ancestral domains of the Manobo tribe in Surigao del Sur, Maca said.

“She is not a recognized leader of the Manobo tribe in Surigao del Sur. She does not represent us. For years, Cullamat has been advocating the doctrines and advancing the cause of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), the National Democratic Front (NDF), and the New People’s Army (NPA),” Maca said.

No word on what the "boney" ritual entails but from the picture it looks like they might have sacrificed a pig.

Another way the insurgency is being fought is through good old fashioned censorship. Last week the AFP and PNP showed up at Kalinga State University and confiscate materials related to the insurgency. The librarian got so sacred that she gave up the material and then got rid of some of what they left behind. She said she reservations about it but did it anyway to protect the students. This censorship of university libraries is now spreading. First in Isabela.

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1491609/another-university-removes-ndfp-books-from-library

After the Kalinga State University (KSU), the Isabela State University (ISU) has become the second public school in the Philippines to purge books authored by or related to the communist movement in the country supposedly to “protect” the youth and students from insurgent ideology.

ISU president Ricmar Aquino said he had directed the ISU’s main campus in Echague town and 10 other campuses in the province to pull out of their libraries handbooks from the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) and books by Jose Maria Sison, the self-exiled founding chair of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP).

“ISU supports the government’s ‘whole-of-nation’ approach to [communist insurgency]. As an academic institution, ISU has its mandate to protect the Filipino youth and ensure their future by providing them quality and relevant education,” Aquino told the Inquirer by phone on Tuesday.

The ISU library pulled out 23 NDFP handbooks and works by Sison, including “Building People’s Power,” “Defeating Revisionism & Opportunism,” “Crisis Generates Resistance,” “Building Strength through Struggle” and “Continuing the Struggle for Liberation.”

The move came three weeks after KSU in nearby Tabuk City removed several reference materials on the aborted peace negotiations between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the NDFP.

Aquino said the books were turned over on Monday to Dennis Godfrey Gammad, regional director of the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency (Nica). The agency directs, coordinates and integrates all national intelligence activities.

He said the books would be brought to the Nica office for safekeeping.

Col. Leandro Abeleda, deputy commander of the Army’s 501st Infantry Brigade (IB), witnessed the turnover at the ISU library.

According to Aquino, the decision to ban these books from the ISU libraries is part of its commitment to “protect the university and its students from the harm that the communists might inflict.”

“Our students should not be exposed to anything that will destroy their future,” Aquino added.

In a statement, Brig. Gen. Danilo Benavides, commander of the 501st IB, said withdrawing the NDFP books from the ISU “will save our youth” from being recruited by the CPP, its armed wing, the New People’s Army (NPA), and the NDFP.

“The action of the officials and leadership of the ISU indicates that they are against the CPP-NPA-NDF ideologies and want to safeguard the institution from communist infiltration,” Benavides said.

He said the move would help put an end to the communist insurgency in the region, one of the goals of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict.

Gammad praised the university’s move, saying that “libraries play a fundamental role in society.”

“The books you read become part of you. Therefore, commitment and accountabilities lie in every page you read,” Gammad said during the turnover.

The second university to pull out "subversive materials" is Aklan State University.

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1154646

The Aklan State University (ASU) in the municipality of Banga made history as the first higher education institution in the Visayas to turn over subversive documents and textbooks to the government.

The reading materials were mostly donated to the ASU and have been in its library since 2012, before the term of current president, Dr. Emily Arangote, who was appointed last year. 

“The APPO (Aklan Police Provincial Office), with the full support of RTF-ELCAC 6 (Regional Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict 6 [Western Visayas]) reached out to ASU for them to turn over also books that are not mentally healthy for students,” task force spokesperson, Prosecutor Flosemer Chris Gonzales, said during the dialogue and turnover ceremony held at the university cafeteria on Friday.

The books and documents, which are now under the custody of the APPO - Provincial Investigation and Detection Management Unit, include one authored by Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founder Jose Ma. Sison titled Foundation for Resuming the Philippine Revolution.

In exchange, Gonzales donated a book from the RTF-ELCAC-6, The War Within.

He noted that turning over the books to the government is not a restriction of academic freedom.

“Academic freedom is always subject to control and supervision by the state when the welfare of the people or overriding public welfare calls for it. We are at war with terrorism and of course, our university officials exercising sound discretion and good judgment can always decide for the welfare of their students,” Gonzales said in his message.

In an interview on Saturday, APPO spokesperson, Staff Sgt. Ma. Jane Vega, said even if Aklan has been declared insurgency-free in December 2011, there are still sightings of insurgents as neighboring Antique and Capiz provinces are still infiltrated.

Vega said APPO Director, Col. Ramir Perlito Perlas, pursued the turnover so students would not be influenced by the communist ideologies.

“We are very active in our campaign. Col. Perlas pursued this initiative because he does not want to see atrocities that are happening in other provinces to happen here,” she said.

Vega also encouraged other schools in the province to “not hesitate to surrender” similar materials to the police.

This is just stupid. Everything about it is stupid. The authorities are justifying this 1984 tactic by saying they are protecting students. "The books you read become a part of you," says one moron Ricmar Aquino who is actually president of Isabela State University. Now that is true and not true. While certain books have stuck with me for years I have also read a lot of books that have not become a part of me  So, what other books are they going to pull to protect students? How about the Koran? They do know that the Philippines is at war with Islamic militants right? 

The situation with Akaln State University is even worse. They say they are turning "over also books that are not mentally healthy for students." What does that even mean and who can define such a thing in the first place. Again, what about the Koran? What about any Islamic material on the shelves of the library? Waht makes pulling books from Aklan State University is that it has been declared insurgency free for a decade!

To top it all off in exchange for getting rid of NDFP propaganda the state donated their own propaganda, The War Within. I have no idea what this book is. A Google search brings up too many hits to be able to narrow it down.

This is not the last we will see of Filipino universities banning books. Not with the police telling schools they should "not hesitate to surrender" so-called subversive reading material. It appears books have become the newest enemy in the insurgency. But will they receive any benefits upon being surrendered to the military or police?

The God Culture: Timothy Jay Schwab Says Jesus Christ Will Return in 2127

Has Timothy Jay Schwab of the God Culture not learned anything from the fiasco of Harold Camping or other men who would dare set a date of any kind for the return of Jesus Christ? No, he has not. 

For the past few weeks Tim has been giving his interpretation of the prophecies in in the book of 2nd Esdras. He has been delineating what certain symbols mean and which animal is which wicked empire or nation. It's all bunkum. 2nd Esdras is not scripture. It is a book written after the fall of the Jerusalem in 70 AD. Based on that book and the prophecies in Daniel, Tim has deduced a specific year for the return of Jesus Christ. It's 2127.

DANIEL'S 2300 DAYS. Count To The End? Part 2. Answers In 2nd Esdras 11

51:41 So, 2120 for the tribulation start and 2127 for Messiah's return. These are ballparks. We're not saying exacts, we're not saying it's exactly and we don't know. Look, this isn't trigonometry or calculus we could be off a decade, we could be off a year, we could be off certain months, we could be not considering something. We're not saying any of that, all right? This isn't an exact science. We don't care for it to be because we don't get to know the day or the hour. But here's what we do know. We know it's time to prepare. We know when the season is and we have about a century folks.

"Approximate only." LOL!! He even has the gall to write in the description of this video:

However, this is not intended to set a date nor are we prophets. This is research and it leads to an era we can know with certainty. It is time to know.

Despite all the precise and minute calculations Tim makes this video is not intended to set an exact date for the return of Jesus Christ. Yet, here we have an exact date of 2127. Oh, excuse me, an exact YEAR. Because, as Tim admits, "we don't get to know the day or hour." What's the difference between prognosticating dates and years when it comes to calculating the return of Jesus? Not much. The principle remains the same. 

Retired NASA engineer Edgar C. Whisenant thought the rapture would occur in 1988. What he had to say about predicting the return of Jesus Christ is rather similar to what Timothy says.

https://www.scribd.com/doc/14080011/88-Reasons-Why-The-Rapture-Will-Be-in-1988

It is evident that in the minds of most Christians today, Matt. 24:36 is believed to prohibit anyone from being able to see the day of our Lord's return approaching. Matt. 24:36 states that “No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.” In looking at this statement, you can easily see that it is impossible to know the exact day and hour of the Lord Jesus' return. 

If Jesus arrived at one particular instant of time, there are 24 times zones around the world, and each time zone has multitude of Christians in it. How are you going to identify that particular instant in each time zone on earth? Also, there are always two days existing on earth at the same time; only at the exact second that the earth passes through the international date line does only one day exist on all the earth. All other times, there are two days existing on earth at any one moment; one day is coming and the other day is going. So you can see the problem in trying to tell all the Christians covering the earth at any one instant of time the exact day or hour of our Lord's return. 

However, this does not preclude or prevent the faithful from knowing the year, the month, and the week of the Lord's return. 

Like Tim, Edgar Whisenant says we cannot "know the exact day and hour of the Lord Jesus' return." However, we can know the year. So. he gave 1988 for his prediction of when the rapture would occur. Likewise, Tim denies we can know the exact day but he thinks we can know the year so he gives 2127 as the date when Jesus returns. It's quite pointless for Tim to deny the exactitude of his forecast when he has spent almost 12 hours, really much more than that because all his videos tie into this calculation, scrupulously and in detail going over what he considers to be the prophetic timeline. What sense does it make to meticulously reconcile the calendars, do all the math, give a precise year, and then say "I don't know," "this is not exact," and "I don't care for it to be exact?" It is insulting to the intelligence of his audience to say he does not care if his "research" is exact.

It is also an extreme display of cowardice for Tim to give a precise year for the Second Coming and then backtrack by saying it's only approximate. Could it be his conscience working on him that causes him waffle so? Truly it has been said "conscience does make cowards of us all."  If Jesus Christ does not return in 2127 then all of Tim's work is for nothing. 

Every date setter, every year setter, every man who has looked into the scriptures to scry and calculate the time of Christ's return has been shown to be a fool. Funny that Tim sets the date 106 years into the future and says it "approximate only." What a wide window of deniability for him to say he didn't mean for his date setting to be accurate if it does not come to pass. He will be dead by then anyway and won't have to face any criticism or backlash.

Let me show you just how inept Tim is at making "approximate only" calculations. In the Gospel of Luke we are told that Jesus began His ministry at ABOUT the age of thirty. 

Luke 3:23 And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, 

According to Tim's calculations Jesus was born in 9 BC which means he was 36 when he began to minister and 39 when he was crucified.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpYFD-7BuuM&lc=UgzpQlGWQHZkDNx48Xd4AaABAg

benyamin ben qohelet If he died in 31 ad and he was born in 10 BC that would make him 41 years old he died at thirty-three so you have a logical fallacy

The God Culture Third, you do not count the year 0 AD/BC in counting. It goes from 1 BC to 1 AD which we also cover so you obviously comment without really watching. So your number with the wrong starting year is 40 years not 41 and if you start from the actual year we prove, 9 BC not 10 BC, that makes him 39 at death and resurrection and 36 when he started his first year. That matches Luke's ballpark of "ABOUT 30" when He started His ministry. Luke never says He was 30 and would have known the age as He knew the birth year. So why does he use that ballpark? About 30 is the time Levitical priest enters the ministry and he is clearly making reference to this not giving an exact date as he does other times.

As ever, Tim's comments are entirely wrong. The age a Levite entered the priesthood was not ABOUT 30 but exactly at the age of 30.

Numbest 4:3 From thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all that enter into the host, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation.

30 From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old shalt thou number them, every one that entereth into the service, to do the work of the tabernacle of the congregation

39 From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that entereth into the service, for the work in the tabernacle of the congregation,

There is nothing in those verses concerting approximation. The scripture is clear that Levite priests served from 30 years old to 50 years old. Likewise 36 is not about 30. 36 is closer to 40. Does Tim not know about rounding up? Did he not take elementary math when he was in 1st grade?? 

https://www.factmonster.com/math-science/mathematics/rounding-numbers-rules-examples-for-fractions-sums

Here's the general rule for rounding:

• If the number you are rounding is followed by 5, 6, 7, 8, or 9, round the number up. Example: 38 rounded to the nearest ten is 40
• If the number you are rounding is followed by 0, 1, 2, 3, or 4, round the number down. Example: 33 rounded to the nearest ten is 30

Not only does Timothy Jay Schwab kick against the pricks and defy the doctrines of the Holy Spirit inspired Church but he also defies the accepted conventions and rules of mathematics! A man who is 36 is not about 30 just like a man who is 16 is not about 10. The idea is absurd. His math is woefully wrong. But don't take my word for it.

If Jesus was around thirty years old in AD 27—29, and we know that His birth occurred before 4 BC, that would put His birth, at the earliest, around 6 BC—any earlier would make Him between 35 and 40 years old in Luke 3:23, at which point He could no longer be considered "about thirty." Despite the inability of scholars to pinpoint exact dates, it is reasonable from these facts to conclude that Jesus was born between 6 and 4 BC, during the last few years of the reign of Herod the Great. 

https://www.blogos.org/organicfruit/when-Jesus-born.php

Not only does Tim give an estimated year of the Second Coming but he also wants to produce a video giving a blow-by-blow timeframe of what happens afterwards!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJhHkYky60Y&lc=UgyYC6LQov9cZGDKFJN4AaABAg

RUTHANN JOHNSON How long will it take for Earth and heaven to be remade

The God Culture Good question. It appears the Trumpet sounds on the Feast of Trumpets, Judgment Day is about 10 days later and 5 days later believers are receiving their new bodies according to the Feast schedule. One could say the battle occurs with Messiah and his army vs. the world essentially for 10 days roughly and then, He judges and replenishes with eternal fire for 5 days essentially. That's just a quick answer but in time, we hope to produce a video on that. Yah Bless.

Gee, I can't wait for the video where Tim breaks down what happens on the day of judgement and afterwards day by day and hour by hour. All estimated and approximate of course.

In this article I will not be analyzing Tim's computations regarding 2nd Esdras or when Jesus was born. That is beyond the scope here and not the purpose. Besides, 2nd Esdras is not even scripture so it is not worth pouring over. He might as well be trying to decipher the quatrains of Nostradamus or a secret message on the back of a Lucky Charms cereal box with his magic decoder ring. His series on Revelation 12 is an altogether different matter since it involves both scripture and the Philippines. I already dismantled that nonsense in 3 articles starting here. 

What I want to point out is that Timothy Jay Schwab has now been officially enrolled on the list of disgraced end-times teachers whose prophecies, predictions, and research has not come to pass. This includes Harold Camping, David Koresh, Charles Manson, John Hagee, William Miller, Brother Stair, Hal Lindsey, Johnathan Cahn, Charles Russell, Joachim of Fiore, Montanus, Thomas Muntzer, and the Zwickau Prophets. None of those men came up with their predictions out of thin air. The fact is men have always thought the end is near and have always based this supposition on calculations derived from scripture. They had precedence from scripture for their prognostications. From Tim's own words he admits he fits in with the above crowd of false prophets.

The God Culture Can you imagine living during WW2's height in the middle of Japan or Germany or any of the areas being bombed heavily? It would appear the end was already near. men have always thought so but now we have precedence in scripture we can understand and we can know. Yah Bless.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8YrJmtnIw8&lc=Ugzhs5wSRqxbTiIouQh4AaABAg.9SWHaY-jgZZ9SWV-xB4Lrk 

Of all the men listed above Tim is more like William Miller than any of them. That's because Miller, much like Tim, attempted to work out the true Biblical calendar and timeline. Based on his calculations Jesus was to return within the timeframe of 1843-1844.  Miller's prediction failed spectacularly and out of his movement was born the Seventh Day Adventist church which Tim apparently has nothing bad to say about despite Ellen G. White being a notorious false prophetess.

Another deleted comment from Tim's Youtube Channel

William Miller did not have the luxury of producing videos explaining his system but he did draw a detailed chart of his timeline.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Miller_(preacher)

Basing his calculations principally on Daniel 8:14: "Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed", Miller assumed that the cleansing of the sanctuary represented the Earth's purification by fire at Christ's Second Coming. Then, using the interpretive principle of the "day-year principle", Miller (and others) interpreted a day in prophecy to read not as a 24-hour period, but rather as a calendar year. Further, Miller became convinced that the 2,300 day period started in 457 BC with the decree to rebuild Jerusalem by Artaxerxes I of Persia. Simple calculation then revealed that this period would end in 1843. Miller records, "I was thus brought... to the solemn conclusion, that in about twenty-five years from that time 1818 all the affairs of our present state would be wound up."

Although Miller was convinced of his calculations by 1818, he continued to study privately until 1823 to ensure the correctness of his interpretation. In September 1822, Miller formally stated his conclusions in a twenty-point document, including article 15: "I believe that the second coming of Jesus Christ is near, even at the door, even within twenty-one years,--on or before 1843." Miller did not, however, begin his public lecturing until the first Sunday in August 1831 in the town of Dresden.

In 1832 Miller submitted a series of sixteen articles to the Vermont Telegraph, a Baptist newspaper. The Telegraph published the first of these on May 15, and Miller writes of the public's response: "I began to be flooded with letters of inquiry respecting my views; and visitors flocked to converse with me on the subject." In 1834, unable to personally comply with many of the urgent requests for information and the invitations to travel and preach that he received, Miller published a synopsis of his teachings in a 64-page tract with the lengthy title: Evidence from Scripture and History of the Second Coming of Christ, about the Year 1844: Exhibited in a Course of Lectures.

That is Timothy Jay Schwab's EXACT METHODOLOGY. Miller published his views in articles, Tim publishes his views in videos. Miller engaged in public lectures, Tim toured the Philippines giving public lectures. Miller was flooded with inquiries from those who read his articles, Tim has 117,000 subscribers on Youtube and gets hundreds of comments on every video. Miller's teaching eventually went international, Tim's videos reach people in every country. Miller never set an exact date just a year, Tim says we cannot know the exact date but sets an exact year. There are many more similarities between William Miller and his movement, Millerism, and Timothy Jay Schwab and his movement, The God Culture, that cannot be enumerated here. The only substantial difference between William Miller and Timothy Jay Schwab in regards to their prophetical interpretation is that Tim begins Daniel's 2,300 days (years) not at the decree to rebuild the temple in 457 BC but when wicked priests allegedly defiled the temple in 165 BC.

DANIEL'S 2300 DAYS. Count To The End? Part 2. Answers In 2nd Esdras 11

There is not enough space here to do justice to Tim's timeline or his calculations which really span the length of all his videos. It is sufficient to note that everything he is doing is exactly the same as what William Miller did 177 years ago. Miller was wrong and undoubtedly Tim will be proven wrong too, though we shall never get to witness that failure since we will all be dead by 2127. Truly there is nothing new under the sun.

Despite all the "Biblical" material Tim has produced and continues to produce the man is simply ignorant of the Bible. In attempting to figure out the timeline of Christ's return Tim resorts to using the unscriptural Book of Enoch. Enoch says a generation is 100 years. 

HOW MUCH TIME IS LEFT? It's Time To Know. Answers In 2nd Esdras 9

This prompted one viewer to ask a question. In a now deleted comment one commenter asked if we should just ignore what Moses had to say about the length of a generation.

Brett Hamm  Quick question. Do we just ignore or throw out Psalm 90 verse 10 where Moses describes a generation as 70 to 80 years? Please explain. Thanks. 

The God Culture First Moses did not write Psalm so stop pretending you can even read and comprehend. Why would you ever throw out Moses or suggest to do so? How stupid. That is the language of a fool and clearly you cannot read because David, who wrote Psalm never says that Enoch's generation Is 70-80 years. That is incredibly illiterate. David says In his day people live 70-80, years. What does that have to do with a generation before the Flood? Don't come in here especially first comment with such uneducated illiterate ridicule or you will be muted. Learn how to think or you will look stupid as you do.

This guy asked a question and Tim, being the scurrilous pedagogue he is, shut him down calling him illiterate, uneducated, and stupid. Furthermore, Tim claimed that Moses didn't write Psalm 90. That is simply not true.

The fact is David did not write all the Psalms. Some are by Asaph, some are by Heman, others are by Ethan, some are anonymous, and Psalm 90 is by Moses. If Tim responds that David wrote Psalm 90 under the name of Moses then his whole scheme for accepting Jubilees as the work of Moses and 1st and 2nd Esdras as the work of Ezra falls to pieces. To paraphrase Tim, this is either a Psalm of Moses or it is a lie. 

Everything about Timothy Jay Schwab and The God Culture is laughable and worthy of ridicule. They don't know the scriptures, they ape false prophets from the past, and now there is this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJhHkYky60Y&lc=Ugz2Z-8d9HyNL9Yf7-54AaABAg

Sidonz Do you know where I can get a copy of the 2021 and 2022 calendar? Thanks for your thought provoking presentations.Blessings in Yahuah's Name.

The God Culture file:///Users/macbook/Downloads/Zadok%20Way%20Calendar%202021-2022%20(1).pdf Yah Bless.

A commenter asks where she can get a copy of a calendar. Tim, thinking he was posting a link, actually posted the file path from his MacBook!  This is not a fluke as he did it in a another comment here and on his Facebook page. 

Allow me to wrap this up with one final observation.

Preoccupation with attempting to figure out when Christ will return ignores the reality that Jesus Christ is here now and very present. He is with and in His Church and His people living in us and making his abode with us. It ignores the fact of Christ's own words that his Kingdom is not of this world. That it is spiritual and that his Church is this Kingdom on earth. It ignores that Christ lives and reigns in Heaven and is in control of all all things on earth. All the kingdoms of the earth are His. Attempting to figure out the day or year of Christ's return is a faithless and Christless endeavour. Note that waiting for His return and looking for His return are not the same as calculating when He shall return.

Closely aligned with predicting when Christ will return is millennialism. There is a reason chiliasm was condemned by the Church. It is because millennialism has always been and will always be the doctrine of heretics. It has long been the domain of heretics to look for a temporal 1,000 year reign of Jesus Christ in which there will be peace on earth when all the while Jesus Christ has been endued with power from on high and has been reigning since he ascended into Heaven. There is no end to His Kingdom which begins with the Church he built and which the gates of hell shall not prevail against.

Chiliastic views in antiquity were spread chiefly among heretics. The Second Ecumenical Council in 381 AD., condemning the heretic Apollinarius, condemned his teaching about the thousand-year Kingdom of Christ. To put a stop to further attempts at introducing this teaching, the Fathers of the Council inserted into the Creed the words about Christ: "His Kingdom shall have no end." In other words, when Christ's reign begins there will be no interruptions in His eternal Kingdom. In more recent times, chiliastic views were resurrected in some Protestant sects. As has been indicated, in this teaching there are proposed two future resurrections and two judgments: one for the righteous and later another for sinners; and there are two future comings of the Savior. There is a purely earthly reign of Christ with the righteous ones as a definite historical epoch. Formally, this teaching is based on an incorrect understanding of the expression first resurrection, while inwardly its cause is rooted in many contemporary sectarians' loss of faith in eternal life and in the blessedness of the righteous in Heaven, with whom they have no communion in prayer. Another cause is to be found in utopian dreams hidden behind religious ideas and inserted into the mysterious images of the book of Revelation.

https://www.orthodoxphotos.com/readings/end/chiliasm.shtml

Tim is such an heretic who looks for a literal and temporal 1,000 year reign of Jesus Christ on the earth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pgM7MS2ICY&lc=Ugxmw2Cpu0DcOJ8443R4AaABAg

Alana Bunch Timmothy, where is the second witness on the 1000 year rein? Thought this was symbolic OR already happened after the Messiah when here in the flesh?

The God Culture Think that thru... You can figure this out... Start with questions... How exactly were the Apostles being martyred a fit to the the 1,000-year reign? How is it that the Early Ekklesia was also being martyred still during the 1,000-year reign? Where does scripture say there will be murder during the 1,000-year reign? How can anyone think the Catholic Church came from the 1,000-year reign representing the opposite of scripture? How were there wars and conquests during the 1,000-year reign? Why is there sin during the supposed 1,000-year reign? Where did the Lost Tribes return during that 1,000-year reign? Where was the Beast just before that 1,000-year reign? If satan, has now been bound, why is the world mostly sin? Where is the Day of Judgment in that 1,000-year reign? Why is the world mostly sin again after that supposed 1,000-year reign? Why are men still dying after that supposed 1,000-year reign? Where exactly is the New Jerusalem come down from Heaven? Where is the Tree of Life we are supposed to be eating and why are you not eating from it? How did we miss all those incredibly massive events of epic proportion? Why did all the fish not die? Was the Bible wrong? Nothing in scripture fits that thinking. Now, do your research. Where is your second witness to any of this and why are you asking us to do your research for you which you clearly have not done? It's time to mature.

Tim does not see things are they really are spiritually but only as his eyes see temporally. I am not going to contradict him on every point in his comment. I would instead direct everyone to Book 20 of St. Augustine's City of God for a massive corrective of Tim's complete misunderstanding of the millennium.

If Timothy Jay Schwab of the The God Culture had nothing to do with the Philippines I would have ignored him long before now. It was obvious from the first article I wrote about him that he was a heretic. Because he has shown no remorse for his errors and has developed his system to such a height and continues to mislead so many people he deserves to go the same way the heresiarch Arius went.

As he approached the place called Constantine's Forum, where the column of porphyry is erected, a terror arising from the remorse of conscience seized Arius, and with the terror a violent relaxation of the bowels: he therefore enquired whether there was a convenient place near, and being directed to the back of Constantine's Forum, he hastened there. Soon after a faintness came over him, and together with the evacuations his bowels protruded, followed by a copious hemorrhage, and the descent of the smaller intestines: moreover portions of his spleen and liver were brought off in the effusion of blood, so that he almost immediately died.

Socrates, Church History, 1:38

But since his whole prophetic scheme and mission revolves around this nation and since the subject of this blog is the Philippines I cannot ignore him completely.