The God Culture: Exposing The Lies in Our Bibles

Timothy Jay Schwab who is The God Culture has released a series of videos about the New Moon festival of the Bible. Let's see what Tim has to say about the matter. 

New MOON or New MONTH? Part 1. Exposing the Lies in Our Bibles!

The gist of these videos is that every time "New Moon" appears it is is a mistranslation.

6:39 The fact is all 21 of these verses these uses are mistranslated. All.

But it's more than a mere mistranslation. It is a deliberate and evil fraud.

3:07 This is one of the biggest frauds of our age. They change the Bible. Someone, and we all know who, inserted their Babylonian lunar calendar into the Bible in modern texts and it's not there in the Hebrew or Greek. It's just not

33:44 It's not an honest mistake. This is evil really. Because what they're doing is they're transposing false Doctrine into the Bible.

The fraud runs so deep that even Bible dictionaries and concordances have been compromised. 

35:00 What they're doing is, uh, changing the Bible through definitions, through concordances, and through, through Bible translation and that's what they've done. We are in a strong delusion but we can see through this and correct it.

If all Bible translations, dictionaries, and concordances are corrupt just how exactly are we supposed to see though this "strong delusion" and correct it? On what basis can we trust anything Tim says when he admits the very documents he uses, those same Bible translations, dictionaries, and concordances, are corrupt? Is he endowed with some kind of Holy X-ray vision to see through these alleged lies? Of course not.  According to Tim it's because he has done all the research! In the second part of this series he says:

45:21 These will Enlighten as they are well researched and no one can actually debate these things. They try but not successfully when they do

What Is the New MONTH Festival? Never Moon!

Research is Tim's key word. He says he was taught by the Messianic movement how to keep the sabbath but it turned out they were wrong. He found this out by doing research.

15:17 Again, we started our Sabbath series. We told people how we kept the Sabbath honestly and accurately to what we did and what we what we were taught. Problem is we were taught wrong. Uh, the Messianic, uh, movement, uh, is is lying to us telling us we're on a lunar calendar. So, we told everybody we start Sabbath, uh, at sundown Friday. Well guess what? Then we tested it and as we tested it the research leads where the research leads. That is how you get to the truth.

What Is the New MONTH Festival? Never Moon!

But how does he know the conclusions he draws from his research are correct? Surely every sectarian has done their research and it has led them to wherever they are. What Tim is asking, demanding in fact, from his audience is that they trust his OPINIONS. It is Tim by himself outside the Holy Spirit led Body of Christ, the Church, who has come to the REAL truth, the truth THEY are HIDING from everyone by corrupting the very texts Tim is using in his research to prove they are corrupt. 

For Tim all one has to do is read enough and one can come to the truth. Except he has admitted the very texts he is using are corrupt and we are in a strong delusion. If Tim is in a strong delusion how can he alone see through it? What is his epistemic basis for that claim? He gives none because he has none. 

All the scholars who have devoted themselves to reading and studying ancient texts and languages have come to different conclusions than Tim yet he calls them ignorant and illiterate. How can Tim and the scholars reach different conclusions when they have the same method?

That is a huge problem for which he offers no way out. Timothy Jay Schwab has no justified epistemic foundation for what he is teaching except for his own research, i.e. his own opinions which he derives from books he claims are corrupt. Upon closer inspection his opinions are always wrong as I have documented in every single article I have written about The God Culture. 

For example Psalm 81:3 mentions the New Moon.

Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.

According to Tim this is actually referring to the Feast of Trumpets. After all, the Feast of Trumpets is the ONLY feast on which a trumpet is blown on the first of the month.

38:29 So, what Feast do we blow Trumpets on the first of the month? Is this really hard? Why can't Scholars just get stuff like this straight? Well, the new month, hm, it's called Yom Teruah. It's the Feast of Trumpets which falls on Ethanim 1 the first day of the new month, duh. And what do? We do we blow trumpets, taada!!! This isn't really hard folks there you go new moon out. This is new month.

That is totally wrong because Numbers 10:10 says:

Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial before your God: I am the LORD your God.

Tim is wrong that the Feast of Trumpets is the only feast on which a trumpet is blown on the first of the month. The Mosaic Law says a trumpet must be blown at the beginning of every month. Here we see how Tim's research which no one can debate fails radically. Funny that Tim does not mention this verse at all in his entire series about the New Moon and the New Month festival. 

The very first video in this series shows that Tim cannot justify anything he is saying as he has admitted the very Bible translations, dictionaries, and concordances he uses are corrupt and he is in the midst of a strong delusion. On what basis can he say the texts he uses are corrupt but he can see through their corruptions? He cannot. It is pure hubris to say we are in a strong delusion yet he alone can see through it because he has studied corrupted texts. 

The second part of this series examines the other verses Tim neglected and tells us the exact purpose of the New Month festival. 

What Is the New MONTH Festival? Never Moon!

This video says we are to still keep the New Moon feast which is actually the New Month feast. It is not a feast day and is in fact a relaxed get together with no specifics give on how to keep it. Tim calls it an "additional tradition."

19:43 Now it's, uh, just a dinner as, uh, we can see in scripture, uh, not a lot of specifics and the reason is is they're not needed. It's just a gathering uh a time of worship that's all.

26:26 No it's, it's not a feast day, uh, it's not included as a one of the seven biblical feasts. It's not a Sabbath, it's not one of the 52 sabbaths. This is additional, uh, tradition in the Bible.

Additional tradition in the Bible?  No, it's part of the Mosaic Law which is binding on the nation of Israel. It is not a tradition Moses made up. Tim is also wrong about the lack of specifics because Numbers tells us how to keep it. It includes blowing a trumpet. 

Tim also claims the ascension of Jesus also affirms the New Month feast so we must keep it. 

34:25 He resurrected on the weekly Sabbath and then he affirmed the new month Festival in his Ascension after 40 days on the first day of the new month the third month.

Except the Bible never says or hints at such a thing. 

But even if it did Tim says he does not have a true calendar. In fact the calendar in the very translation of Jubilees he published is filled with errors!

11:24 Now, this is an ancient tradition. This is the Bible tradition and Bible calendar and it matters. It matters because this is Torah. That's why Jubilees, when we published it, uh, we call it the Book of Jubilees the Torah Calendar because Jubilees keeps the Torah calendar. Is it perfect? Well, you know what, uh, it, it was preserved in the Ethiopic, translated then into English. Did R H Charles do a great job? Yes absolutely. Was he perfect? No, no of course not. There are mistakes in there, uh, in translation that if you looked at the original Hebrew, which we don't necessarily have in each passage that's part of the the challenge there, when you're looking at those things, and of course if we didn't have the the ancient Hebrew we didn't go back and change it because we didn't have the Precedence to overturn it even though we we know that it's not it but we'll teach that.

Tim also says he has no idea when or how to keep the New Month festival because he is not God!

1:40 So, hodesh is never New Moon. It is new month and this is a new month Festival which we see established here in the plural really. Um, the question will remain, and we do not have a complete answer for everything, sorry we're not God, okay? Um, we do our best. But here's what we're seeing. I mean there's a new month Festival in scripture it's there many times, you're going to see this video, uh, and the question is when do we observe it? Uh, it's not a Biblical feast in, in, on the par with this Seven Feasts, uh, it's not a Sabbath and in fact it's not a Sabbath in practice even, uh, in Scripture that we're seeing so far, uh, but it's simply you know a, a get together, a meal, a gathering of course which you focus on scripture. They would sacrifice but we don't do that anymore as far as animal sacrifices but you can still do your spice offering, your drink offering those kinds of things.

Despite admitting he does not know when or how to keep the New Month Festival Tim says he has begun keeping it anyway. 

39:45 Frankly we had not kept these until just recently. so, there you go folks. We, we were not keeping the new month Festival. We now are trying to restore this. We haven't taught it before because the research was pending. We don't mention it in our books because we hadn't researched it yet in detail. Now we have. Now we're just having a dinner with spice offerings, drink offerings, and of course we teach and spend time in fellowship and in the word.

How does Tim know he is right? Because scripture interprets scripture. 

4:30 Scripture defines scripture on this. Again precedent already established in the last video.

So, Tim admits he does not even know when to properly keep the new month festival yet says he is keeping it, calls the scripture corrupt and yet says scripture interprets Scripture! But that is all incoherent nonsense. If the scripture is corrupt and the tools available to a layman like Tim to interpret it are corrupt then it cannot interpret itself correctly on the matter nor can Tim interpret it correctly. 

According to Tim it is no big deal whether or not he has the right calendar because the intent of the heart is what matters. 

23:02 Heart intent, heart intent is always paramount.

Of course the Bible never says such a thing. The law is very clear that the feasts must be kept on the right day and in the right manner and to not do so is an offense to God. In fact the law is above one's "heart intent" as we we see in the story of Uzzah.

2 Samuel 6:6 And when they came to Nachon's threshingfloor, Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen shook it.

7 And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God.

Uzzah's "heart intent" to save the Ark from falling was no match for God's law which says only the Levites were to handle the Ark. 

Tim claims there will be five videos in this series but it has been over a month since the second video was published and no more parts have been forthcoming. But no matter because these videos are enough to demonstrate that Timothy Jay Schwab is absolutely mad and his entire logical system is fallacious.

He says we are in a time of strong delusion as all Bible translations, dictionaries, and concordances are corrupt. Then he claims he can see past that corruption and give a correct interpretation concerning the New Moon Festival. But this is not possible if ALL THE TEXTS HE IS USING ARE CORRUPT! He has shot himself in the foot and given himself no justified epistemic ground on which to stand for anything that follows after that statement. 

Tim's doctrine of Bible Preservation should be noted here. He claims that translations, which he says are corrupt, do not actually matter because God has preserved His Word on the Heavenly Tablets in Heaven.

20:17 This is the best track possible because scripture was kept in Heaven first and that Heavenly Tablet was shared with Moses on Mount Sinai which keeps that in perfect condition even better than what we call the Bible passed down. Everybody worries about how this or that is translated but understand, you know, Yahuah said he would preserve his word he meant in Heaven it's perfect.

Biblical Tithe Series: Part 7: The History of the Law of Tithing

According to Tim God has not preserved His word perfectly on earth but only in Heaven! What good is that for us who are not in Heaven but on Earth? It is a denial of God's sovereignty and an admission that no one, Tim included, can ever know what God's word says for sure because it is only perfectly kept in Heaven. 

Furthermore he admits he does not know when or how to keep the New Moon Festival because "we're not God" and then proceeds to speak for 50 minutes on how to keep the New Moon Festival! He also admits the calendar he published in Jubilees is corrupt and he does not have the right calendar but keeping the New Month festival on the correct date does not matter only "heart intent" matters. 

There is no longer any reason for anyone to ever again listen to Tim speak of Bible matters because he admits the texts and interpretive apparatuses he is using are corrupt. If they are corrupt then he will only be able to give corrupt teachings. Not only that but Tim claims God has preserved His Word not on Earth but only in Heaven which means no one on Earth can ever hope to know the Word of God. This is the fruit of leaving the Church and spitting on all the faithful Christian scholars who have devoted their lives to studying and explaining the Hebrew and Greek texts. The sum of it is Timothy Jay Schwab, by declaring Bible translations, dictionaries, and concordances to be corrupt, has admitted he has no idea what the Bible actually teaches nor will he ever know what it teaches.

The God Culture: Tracts

There's a lot of things Timothy Jay Schwab who is The God Culture does not tell his listening audience. For instance he has not told his audience that he will be hosting a show with Zen Garcia once a month. Instead he only sends a notification AFTER the show has ended which means no one can watch live unless they know about it beforehand. Tim will be on with Zen every third Thursday of the month. Check out Zen's calendar if you want to listen. 

Tim has also not told his audience that he has tracts available to hand out on the street.

Those are the tracts available at the moment. But not available online or anywhere else except from Timothy Jay Schwab himself. That is what Koki Cruz says.

Praises Yahuah for printing of another 7,500 Tracts. It’s Worth investing for eternal dividends. Thanks to all those who participated in the distibution of the 15,000 Tracts in Tugegarao and Penablanca, Cagayan Valley, in Tabuk City of Kalinga, Davao, Makati, Quezon City and distributed by Sabbath Believers Congelation in Baguio City. Thanks also for my partner The God Culture - Original  Founder Bro Timothy Schwab and Sis Anna, for your labor of love for preparing the tracts which we discussed when we were in Bacolod.

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1117283496162704

According to her Facebook reel these tracts cost a whopping 90,000 pesos!!!

That's a lot of money to spend in order to spread lies to her fellow kababayns. 

Just look at these people smiling as they prepare to lie to the Filipino public about what the Philippines is and what the Bible teaches. You can bet they have swallowed Tim's falsehoods without bothering to test him to see if what he says is true. 

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=6853267768050241&set=pcb.6853275758049442

It appears these tracts are being handed out with pens.

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=6853270928049925&set=pcb.6853275758049442

Now, why are they handing out pens along with the tracts? Is there something inside which requires a pen such as a quiz? It is too bad there are no pictures of the contents of these little booklets. However, anyone familiar with this blog and with The God Culture knows exactly what is in them. 

The first tract is undoubtedly about how the Philippines is Ophir, Tarshish, and Sheba and The Garden of Eden is underneath the Sulu sea. The second tract is about Tim's ridiculous configuration of the name of God from YHWH to Yahuah. The third is all about not doing any work on Saturday. 

The cover of the last one is so egregious because there is a citation of Matthew 11:28. Jesus said come unto ME for rest. He did not say do no work on Saturday for rest. Our rest is found through faith in Christ not in doing no work on Saturday. It's simply a ridiculous lie Tim has repeated ad nauseam in his books and videos. He is literally turning Filipinos away from the saving rest of Jesus Christ. The tract may be titled "In God We Rest" but that is not what Tim actually believes or teaches when he says we must keep the seventh day sabbath.

Likewise the cover of the second book about the name of God is pretty awful.   

The Father • The Son • His People

With the lack of mention of the Holy Spirit that is a subtle denial of the Trinity. Tim is on record declaring that the Holy Spirit is not God and positing that He may actually be a creature. 

So, if you are at the mall watch out! You just might get God Culture'd by a group of smiling children handing out one of Timothy Jay Schwab's tracts and a pen. Leave the tract, take the pen.

The God Culture: 100 Lies About the Philippines: Lie #17: Filipinos Are Described as Big, Bearded White Men

Welcome back to 100 lies The God Culture teaches about the Philippines. Once more the subject is the Lequios Islands. Timothy Jay Schwab claims that the Lequios Islands is the Philippines and that in an old Spanish document they are described as big, bearded white men. As we shall see it is another lie.

In Solomon's gold Part 6 Tim says:

Solomon's Gold Series - Part 6: Little Known History of Ophir. Philippines History

9:12 According to Colleccion General de Documentos Relativos Islas Filipinas, you might need to correct our Spanish there, document number 98 the Lucoes were big, bearded, and white men. They were only interested in gold and silver when trading at Ophir. General Legazpi wrote, "the ships of the Lucoes were always laden with gold and silver," thus targets of the Spanish. 

These are big, bearded white men the Phoenicians. In other words Hiram King of Tyre which was part of Phoenicia whom King Solomon hired to sail to Ophir to get gold and other resources. So if these distinctive looking men came to your land, might you remember them? Yep? Might you name an island after them and their trade? Perhaps. They are the Lucoes in which Luzon is named because that was the capital of Ophir where the Lucoes lived and traded. Yet another tie to the story of Solomon, the Queen of Sheba, Ophir, and Tarshish. .Imagine that.

In his book The Search for King Solomon's Treasure Tim says the same thing.

Solomon's Treasure, pg. 163

Collecion General de Documentos Relativos a las Islas Filipinas, Document #98 mentions the Lequios were “big, bearded, and white men.” They traded “gold and silver.” 

This appears to throw a wrench into this entire narrative in history perhaps. How could Filipinos be big, bearded, white men? That is not a description of the Japanese either. This is an ancient residual reference to Solomon’s navy of which the Spanish have all but wiped so much history that would likely confirm this even further. However, we have enough to prove this thoroughly and that will suffice.

The problem is that such a description is never given in the document to which Tim is referring. Here is a translation of that section which is at the end of the document. 

In front of this said China and its lands are many islands to the sea and beyond these islands is a very large land that They say that it is terra firme, other islands where three or four junks of white people, who are very large and very rich, came to Malac every year. They bring a lot of gold in rods and silver and silk and a lot of very good wheat and very beautiful porcelain and other merchandise and they carry a lot of pepper and all the other things that the Chinese sayings carry to those who are called lequios, those from Malac say that they are better people than older merchants and richer and more dressed and honored than the Chinese whose people until now We have no news because they never came to Malac after the Portuguese went there.

Collecion Documento 98 pg. 137-138

Not a word about beards. The Spanish word "barba" does not show up in the text. Why is that? According to Chinese sources it's because the Lequios plucked out their beards. They also are described as having deep eyes and long noses. Filipinos do not have long noses. They are also said to observe no hierarchy which is unlike Philippine society which is ruled by elders.

"The country of Liuqiu is situated amidst islands in the sea, in a location that should be east of Jian'an County, to which one may arrive with five days' travel by water. The land has many caves. Its king's clan name is Huansi, and his given name is Keladou; it is not known how many generations have passed since he and his have come to possess the country. The people of that land call him Kelaoyang, and for his wife, [they] say Duobatu. His place of residence they call Boluotan Grotto, with threefold moats and fences; the perimeter has flowing water, trees and briars as barriers. As for the domicile of the king, it is sixteen rooms large, and engraved with carvings of birds and beasts. There are many Doulou trees, which resemble the orange but with foliage that is dense. The country has four or five chiefs, who unite several villages under their rule; the villages have [their own] little kings."

"The people have deep eyes and long noses, seeming to be rather akin to the Hu, and also having petty cleverness. There is no observance of hierarchy of ruler and minister nor the rite of prostrating oneself with one's palms pressed together. Fathers and children sleep together in the same bed. The men pluck out their whiskers and beards, and any place on their bodies where they happen to have hair, they will also remove it. The adult women use ink to tattoo their hands in the design of insects and serpents. As for marriage, they use wine, delicacies, pearls and shells to arrange a betrothal; if a man and a woman have found pleasure in each other, then they get married."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liuqiu_(medieval)

This designation of the country of Liuqiu is where the word Lequios originates. It is a place amidst islands to the east of China. The description here is of the Ryukyu Islands and Formosa not the Philippines. The Philippines is not even in front of China it is to the southeast of China. 

The fact is Tim did not even bother to read this document. His source for this false information is ancientphilippines.blogspot.com.

http://ancientphilippines.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-lost-tribe-of-israel-is-found.html

According to Documents 98, the Lequios were big, bearded, and white men. They were only interested in gold and silver when trading at Ophir. Okinawans, Koreans, and Vietnamese people are not big nor are they white. Their beards are just small goatees and could not satisfy the word "bearded". Therefore they were not the Lequios. So who could the Lequios be but the remnants of Hebrews and Phoenicians who have made some enclaves along the Southeast Asian shores?

If you pay attention to Tim's videos you will see that Tim lifts a huge amount of his so-called research directly from ancientphilippines.blogspot.com He is on record admitting this. 

The Lequios of Luzon: Key to Finding Ophir and Chryse. Clue #52

21:19 For a while now we have used definition for the Hebrew for this word from ancient Philippines blogspot. We, in the beginning in fact, we tried to quote local sources and you'll see in the description box we mentioned those guys. We also mentioned Bob's blog as well. It's all there. It's been there for three years. We've always, you know, given them some credit and those are worth reading because really that's where we started with the history portion. We started reading their stuff and then we started branching out from there. Yes, we verified everything that we could and if there was something that we couldn't verify such as the gold found in first century Egypt as easily we took it from numerous sources so we felt pretty good with it and went with it and turns out it's proving to be fine as a reference. So far our sources by the way check out to be very good.

That admission is absolutely amazing. Tim started his journey by quoting "local sources!?" What does that even mean? A Philippine blog? Why not start with proven academic sources? Because Tim hates academia. Then he says he tried to verify most of what he read online but if he couldn't verify it he went with it anyway because multiple sources said the same thing! That is not a proper method for doing historical research at all and shows what a total fool this man is. All the errors from those sources he never verified have ended up in his book. Errors such as Documento 98 describing the Lequios as big, bearded, white men. 

But let's investigate this Spanish document a little further. Not only are the Lequios people described as being white but so are the Chinese.

The visitors of this land of China are men of good stature and white and well disposed and also the women have very small eyes

pg. 136

Are the Chinese actually Phoenicians? Of course not. Document 98 follows the exact same route as in Duarte Barbosa's book. He describes the Chinese in the same way.

The inhabitants of this land me great merchants they are white men, and well built. Both men and women have small eyes, in their beards they have three or four hairs and no more, as a sign of gentility, and the smaller their eyes are the more repute they have as well-bred men.

Duarte Barbosa, Vol. 2, pg. 213

He also describes the people of Solor, which is the Sulu archipelago as being almost white. 

And passing these Maluquo Islands northwards towards China there is another very large island well furnished with food which they call Solor. Its inhabitants are almost white, Heathen with good figures.

Duarte Barbosa, Vol. 2, pg. 206

He even describes the inhabitants of Celebes as being white. 

Having passed the said Isles of Maluco certain other islands are found towards the west, whence come at times certain white folk, bare from the waist up, yet they have garments woven from something like straw, wherewith they cover their private parts. They speak a tongue of their own. Their boats are badly built, and therein they come to take loads of cloves in these islands, also copper, Cambaya cloths and tin, and they take thither for sale very long and broad one-edged swords and other ironwork, and a good quantity of gold. These folk are eaters of human flesh, and if the King of Maluco wishes to put to death any person condemned by law they beg for him to be delivered to them to eat as if they were asking for a pig. These islands, from which these and suchlike people come, are called Celebe. 

Duarte Barbosa, Vol. 2, pg. 204

Are these people also Phoenicians? Of course not. The point is that the color of these people's skin means absolutely nothing. There are light skinned and dark skinned inhabitants in East Asia and in the Islands of South East Asia. That is no proof they are descendants of King Solomon's navy. 

As for Document #98 Tim is not telling the truth. At no time does it describe the Lequios people as bearded. But he does not know this because he did not even seek to verify the contents of the document. He is on record saying he took ancientPhilippines.blogspot.com and other "local sources" at face value. That is no way to do history. But it is the way to propagate lies.

The God Culture: What Happened to the Levites?

Timothy Jay Schwab who is The God Culture is obsessed with the Levites and the Levitical priesthood. He has an an entire project called The Levite Bible in which he is going to augment and edit the KJV with the Dead Sea Scrolls. Tim's contention is that the inhabitants of Qumran were actually exiled temple priests and not Essenes. Way out in the desert they carried on the TRUE temple practice including sacrifices because the Hasmoneans defiled the temple during the time of the Maccabees. 

According to magazine publisher and Dead Sea Scrolls non-expert Timothy Jay Schwab these Levites were in the wilderness busily preparing the way for Jesus Christ with John the Baptist as their leader. Thus all of John's disciples were Levites. That is the foundation which Tim lays down in the first video. 

What Happened to the Levite Priest? Part 1 This is a WOW!!!

40:26 So, the temple priests, the Sons of Zadook and Levites, were exiled from the temple to Qumran about 165 B.C. They were preparing the way in the wilderness for the coming Messiah, Yahusha, as John would become their leader and the embodiment of that especially. 

It should be noted that the inhabitants of Qumran called themselves Levites, Priests, and Sons of Zadok SYMBOLICALLY. 

The Priests are the converts of Israel who departed from the land of Judah, and (the Levites are) those who joined them. The sons of Zadok are the elect of Israel, the men called by name who shall stand at the end of days. Behold the exact list of their names according to their generations, and the time when they lived, and the number of their trials, and the years of their sojourn, and the exact list of their deeds...(They were the first men) of holiness whom God forgave, and who justified the righteous and condemned the wicked. And until the age is completed, according to the number of those years, all who enter after them shall do according to that interpretation of the Law in which the first (men) were instructed. According to the Covenant which God made with the forefathers, forgiving their sins, so shall He forgive their sins also. But when the age is completed, according to the number of those years, there shall be no more joining the house of Judah, but each man shall stand on his watch-tower: The wall is built, the boundary far removed(Mic. vii, II).

Complete Dead Sea Scrolls, Geza Vermes, pg 131-132

Tim has nothing to say about that particular section of the Community Rule. At least nothing truthful.  He cites this passage in the second video at about 9:20 without informing his audience of its symbolic nature.

In the second video Tim will build on this foundation to erect the claim that 6 of The Apostles were Levites. 

Were Some Disciples LEVITES? Part 2 This is a Incredible New Revelation!!! WOW!!!

Tim's proof for this claim is not well reasoned in the slightest but is based on guilt by association and etymology of names. 

Andrew and Peter were Levites because Andrew was a disciple of John the Baptist's Levite community and Peter was his brother.

8:46 Understand, and there are two examples on screen, the hierarchy of the Qumran community were the Sons of Zadok as the leaders, uh, specifically John the Baptist in his era. Uh, that was the case. Um, he, he was, he was a leader if not the leader. It appears he was the leader because it calls him Master, uh, in the prophecy. Yeah, pretty clear. And their disciples were whom? Ah! Their disciples were the Levites. So, Sons of Zadok leadership just like the temple and their disciples their followers were Levites. That's well documented in this community many times but again here are two examples on screen. Uh, so, these two disciples are Levites but what are their names? Who are they? Who are these two disciples? This is awesome. 

Now, here we go. The first one was Andrew, Peter's brother. This Andrew was a Levite from a Levite family. That's a bloodline thing which means so was Peter. Boom one two right there. Peter was a Levite y'all. Wow!

John and James were Levites because their father was named after a Levite and they too were disciples of John the Baptist's Levite community

15:16 But is that a Levite name there, uh, Zabdi? Actually it is found for Israelites, uh, basically multiple tribes. Uh, but most certainly is a Levite name as the son of Asaph the famous Levite singer David wrote about, right, that has even the the passage there, uh, in Psalms. So, this guy is likely named for a prominent Levite in fact and regardless his sons, especially John it appears, were disciples in Qumran, Bethabara, of John the Baptist thus Levites. Boom!

Matthew's other name was Levi which makes both he and his brother James Levites 

18:51 In Mark 2:14 the Publican or tax collector whom yahusha called who followed him is most certainly Matthew. there's no doubting that. Uh, everyone knows this. But here, wait, wait, uh, his name is called by his other name which is Levi. Huh. Could Levi be a Levite? And he is son of who? Oh, Alphaeus same as James. These guys were brothers. Uh pretty clear same father and Matthew's name is Levi, a Levite. Yes someone else could call their son Levi but you will find many of those in scripture were actually Levites embedded in that tribe not actually from it. Think about that. Every tribe had Levites embedded. It stands to reason both Matthew actually bearing the name Levi and Mattiyahu, gift of Yahu, uh, Yahua's name is in his, uh, very Hebrew, very biblical Priestly names, uh, and his brother James called the Lesser, uh, were Levites as well. How about that?

Tim sounds very sure about his claims but oddly enough he says they only APPEAR to be Levites.

20:00 There's six. so that is six disciples out of 12 that appear to have been Levites. Four of them we can find incredibly strong, uh, in connection and the other a little less but still strong in possibility. Add to that the Qumran, Bethabara, the community of Levites exiled Temple priests, uh, in leadership like John the Baptist and his disciples being Levites and this my friends is a home run. The Levites became part of the New Testament Ecclesia even into the apostles. How about that?

Look at how Tim says they APPEAR to have been Levites with his evidence for two of them to be "strong in possibility" and then he says it is a home run. Which one is it? Merely possible or a home run? 

But what exactly does it mean that the Apostles were Levites and the Levite community at Qumran followed Jesus Christ?  It means they became priests under Jesus who, as Hebrews says, is a priest after the Order of Melchizedek which goes back to the time of Abraham.

21:23 What does it mean their order was replaced by Yahusha Melchizedek? Uh, they didn't disappear. only as an order. the order disappeared. they continued under him operating under Melchizedek as their high priest under the New Order which was really a rest, you know restoration of the old, they became the New Testament. Generally. How about that?

36:17 Listen to this. This is important. Their priesthood has been disannulled. That's the word that Hebrew 7 uses. meaning thoroughly and completely canceled. It's gone. Does that mean the law was cancelled? Well Yahusha said no in Matthew 5:17 through 20. Why? Because the law of Melchizedek is the same as the law of Moses, see? Yahusha Yahweh wrote part with his finger. Yeah. That's pretty firm. Uh, Paul said no in Romans 7 by the way and other places. Oops. Yes Paul preached and kept the law, the Sabbath, The Feast and he tithed. All of those are there in scripture and we found them and we've shown you. 

What law? But we're no longer under Levites levitical law or the levitical order we are under the Ancient Order that's older than that. The order of Melchizedek who is Messiah. It was him in the spirit back in the day of Abraham and it's him in the flesh since 2,000 years ago.

Hear that? Timothy Jay Schwab says 

"the law of Melchizedek is the same as the law of Moses"

Yet at the same time we are not under the Levitical law but under Christ who is a priest after the order of Melchizedek. But if the law of Melchizedek is the law of Moses then there is NO DIFFERENCE between it and the Levitical law because the Levitical law IS THE LAW OF MOSES!!! 

How is Tim so stupid to miss this???

Hebrews says VERY CLEARLY:

Hebrews 7:12 For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.

Therefore the law of Melchizedek CANNOT be the law of Moses. Especially seeing as Melchizedek PREDATES MOSES!

Tim says Paul preached and kept the law but this is manifestly NOT the case as he calls the law of Moses the MINISTRATION OF DEATH in 2 Corinthians 3.

6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. 

7 But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away: 

8 How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious? 

9 For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. 

10 For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth. 

11 For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.

Paul also compares the Law of Moses to Hagar and calls it bondage.

Galatians 4:22 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.

23 But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.

24 Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.

25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.

The main and most important thing for Tim is NOT that we have faith in Christ but that we keep the law because by the law, not faith in Christ, comes righteousness.

41:11 The Bible has never said there is no more righteousness thus no more law. That's ridiculous. Of course we're to still be righteous and you can't be right without law. It is never said there is only sin now and so no more law. That that's a really dumb way of reading fragments from Paul which the church does out of context and Paul taught and kept the law. He said is Holy, good, and just. Do we abolish the law? Paul said heaven forbid? Do we bother to read what he said?

Certainly Paul called the law holy, good, and just. But he also said the law is a schoolmaster to lead us to Christ and now Christ has come we are no longer under it. 

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.

Paul is also very clear that our righteousness comes from Jesus Christ and not by keeping the law. If that were not the case then Christ is dead in vain. 

Galatians 2:21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.

What can be said about this new two part series about the Levites? It is simply more ahistorical and unbiblical garbage. Tim contradicts himself throughout when he says the Mosaic law and the law of Melchizedek are the same yet we are not under the Levitical law because the Levitical law is the law of Moses. That makes the law of Melchizedek also the Levitical law. But the Bible is very clear that the purpose of the law of Moses was to lead us to Christ. 

Tim also says Jesus did not initiate a NEW convent but restored the Old Covenant:

operating under Melchizedek as their high priest under the New Order which was really a rest, you know restoration of the old

That is totally wrong. Christ did not come to restore the Old Covenant but to inaugurate a New Covenant. We read about it in Jeremiah. 

Christ explicitly tells the Apostles the New Covenant will be inaugurated by the shedding of His blood. 

It is rather bewildering that Tim is so blind he cannot see these things which are clearly spelled out in the New Testament. Tim is like a dog going back to his vomit as he attempts to go back to the Mosaic law. This is not a light matter. To say that one cannot be righteous without the law is to repudiate the necessity of faith in Christ and to deny Him completely. 

It does not matter how many followers Tim has or how much adulation he receives from them. The fact is Timothy Jay Schwab continues to preach a false gospel, a bizarre false history, and is leading his cult, especially Filipinos to whom his ministry is most directed, down to the fiery pit of hell. 

The God Culture: Eclipses Occur When The Sun Gets In Front Of The Moon

Timothy Jay Schwab who is The God Culture has a completely wrong explanation for eclipses. Tim says lunar eclipses are caused when the sun gets in front of the moon. He gets his wrong information not from observing the moon and the sun but from the pseudepigraphal book of Enoch. Let's listen in.

The Error of the Moon for Days, Weeks, Months and Years. Part 2. Answers In First Enoch Part 44 

31:13 This movement of the moon is very hard to chart, uh, and we're not going to do it but it's not necessary in order to understand. Once again the opportunity for eclipses arises as the moon turns back and recedes behind the sun. This would cause an eclipse uh in a certain area of the world at certain times, uh, of, you know, certain moments. Uh, both lunar and solar eclipses are explained by this dynamic as the moon could be in front at some times and the sun could be in front at some times, uh, from a certain perspective. Remember they are the same size according to Enoch we'll show you those scriptures in a second, well in a few minutes. Another time the sun in front of the moon. So, in both cases you got an eclipse. If the perspective catches them in the same exact position at that moment, which is what would have to happen, it's what we call a full eclipse, right or otherwise it's partial. Pretty easy to understand.

Eclipses do not debunk Enoch. Uh, actually, they debunk modern scientism who actually has a very poor explanation for this dynamic. Enoch accounts for them and very well and very scientifically.

First of all the sun NEVER gets in front of the moon. NEVER. That has never happened and it will never happen because the sun is stationary sitting at the center of the solar system which the earth and moon orbit. Enoch does not say in chapter 74 that the moon recedes BEHIND the sun. It does not even make sense to say "the moon turns back and recedes behind the sun" because for that to happen the moon would have to be moving TOWARDS the sun and thus it would not be receding. This is an addition inserted by Tim. Verse 6 does say the moon "recedes from the sun" which means the moon moves AWAY from the sun, not BEHIND it. A prior slide shows this verse.

25:06

Again, he is making the text say what it does not say. This is a common tactic for Timothy Jay Schwab which I have documented in his usage of the Perpiplus of the Erythean Sea and his usage of Thomas Suarez. When the facts don't fit Tim has a penchant for making them up. It's completely dishonest.

Second of all SOLAR eclipses occur when the moon passes in front of the sun while LUNAR eclipses occur when the earth passes between the sun and the moon. During a lunar eclipse the shadow of the earth is cast on the surface of the moon. Those are facts. What Tim is saying is not fact but unscientific garbage. 

Tim will next go on to "prove" his theory that Enoch charts out the course of eclipses by showing us a chart computing solar eclipses for the next ten years. Admittedly, within Tim's Enochian Sun and Moon schema it sounds plausible that the sun and moon moving through portals with the moon moving backwards until the twain meet could provide the explanation for solar eclipses. But it is quite telling that Tim has NOTHING to say about lunar eclipses.  Here is a chart from the same website as his solar eclipse chart. 

https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/list.html?starty=2020

How does Enoch explain that there are less lunar eclipses than there are solar eclipses? If Enoch accounts for there being 2-5 solar eclipses per year, a number Tim gives at around 26:31, how does he account for there being years without lunar eclipses? Tim does not say. He does not say a single word about lunar eclipses in this video. Neither Tim nor Enoch offer an explanation for lunar eclipses except to say:

Uh, both lunar and solar eclipses are explained by this dynamic as the moon could be in front at some times and the sun could be in front at some times, uh, from a certain perspective.

That is totally ridiculous as the sun NEVER gets in front of the moon. That has never been observed any where or any time.  Tim doubles down on this nonsense in the comment section.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58rrHPFc7Ek&lc=UgwPOBXO-hP1AtZtjO94AaABAg

This commenter wants to know how lunar eclipses happen and instead of explaining how the moon goes dark during a lunar eclipse Tim repeats his talking points and then when pressed stops responding. That's because he has NO answer to the question of how lunar eclipses occur.

This is the kind of nonsense one gets when they latch on to non-scriptural books like Enoch. Timothy Jay Schwab who is The God Culture has no idea how eclipses occur.

The God Culture: There is No Italian Mafia

Timothy Jay Schwab who is the God Culture has some interesting ideas about the Italian Mafia. He says they do not exist because they were all Italian Jews. 

58:05 Now, these made the lowest of their society, no not the poor even lower, the lowest are the criminals. They made them their priests. What, a criminal priesthood? And they became known as Pharisees. This is why you see uh for instance the Jewish Mafia, no there is no Italian mafia because most of them were Italian Jews that's just fact. It is a Jewish Paradigm that doesn't mean that all Mafia is but the the top and the origin of it comes from that Paradigm. Uh, they were also the Pirates of the Caribbean the Pirates of, uh, the Barbary Coast they were Jews that's the way they operate. Uh, the the fact is, uh, they touted and some of the Jewish authors will even, you know, talk about how wonderful it is that the Pirates were Jewish yet, um, uh, no not really. It proves that, uh, especially those at the top, again the average Jew wasn't a pirate, the average Jew isn't even a part of that Paradigm and they're attending their synagogues thinking they're doing the right thing not knowing any of this either just like you and I didn't for the longest time.

But those calling themselves Jews are from this criminal element in ancient times. The priesthood is what they became but they were not and that's why they operate like criminals even when they have the priesthood. That's why they hunt and kill uh imprison and kill uh you know their enemies, what they view as their enemies uh from Yahusha his Apostles uh other disciples after that we've covered after the apostles, uh, a series of a few videos that really brings that out in the time after the apostles, uh, in where the actual true Ecclesia was still keeping the Sabbath on Saturday, they were still keeping the feasts of the Bible and they were rebuking the Catholic Church for trying to change it. Now, you even see the talmud taking a mafia approach really to religion uh in fact desiring to deceive the Goyim in the most racist uh implication we've ever seen I think. Branding non-jews is a lesser species of sort uh that's strictly evil there's no other way to read that. Whenever any religion does that including Islam it is so ridiculous and don't ever tell me that that comes from anything that would remotely resemble Yahuah.

Oops! Josephus Reveals 1st Century Babylonian Pharisee Calendar. The Event That Changed the Calendar

This comment is totally unbelievable. There most certainly IS an Italian mafia which originated in Sicily. 

The Sicilian Mafia or Cosa Nostra (Italian: Sicilian: "our thing"), also referred to as simply Mafia, is a criminal society originating on the island of Sicily and dates back to the mid-19th century. It is an association of gangs which sell their protection and arbitration services under a common brand. The Mafia's core activities are protection racketeering, the arbitration of disputes between criminals, and the organizing and oversight of illegal agreements and transactions.

The basic group is known as a "family", "clan", or cosca. Each family claims sovereignty over a territory, usually a town, village or neighborhood (borgata) of a larger city, in which it operates its rackets. Its members call themselves "men of honor", although the public often refers to them as mafiosi. By the 20th century, wide-scale emigration from Sicily led to the formation of mafiosi style gangs in Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States and South America. These diaspora-based outfits replicated the traditions and methods of their Sicilian ancestors to varying extents.

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

And there is also a Jewish mafia which operated in the USA.

Jewish-American organized crime initially emerged within the American Jewish community during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In media and popular culture, it has variously been referred to as the Jewish Mob, the Jewish Mafia, the Kosher Mob, the Kosher Mafia, the Yiddish Connection, and Kosher Nostra  or Undzer Shtik.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish-American_organized_crime

It is simply unhistorical nonsense to claim that the Sicilian mafia was run by and originates from Italian Jews. 

As for Jews being "the Pirates of the Caribbean", that too is nonsense. While Jews did engage in piracy Caribbean Pirates were not largely Jewish. Piracy in the Caribbean was mostly irregular European warfare with French, English, and Dutch privateers (pirates supported by the state) raiding Spanish ships in a bid to weaken their empire. Piracy in the Caribbean has a long complicated history and to say the Jews were "the Pirates of the Caribbean" is stupid and wrong. 

But this is Timothy Jay Schwab who is The God Culture we are talking about here. Everything he says about history boils down to "it's the Jews and the nephilim" which is quite stupid and wrong.