From Eliyahu

Hello friends,

OK. There are a lot of problems on the earth. But, is humanity itself THE problem? That is to say, is humanity bad, like some sort of disease of the earth, killing the earth and everything else it touches?

In the 1999 sci-fi movie, the Matrix, an intelligent computer program named Agent Smith describes humanity this way:

"You [humans] move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed, and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You are a plague."  

As shocking as it is, the idea of humanity as a virus did not originate with the Matrix. The idea has been around for decades, and has popped up in TV shows, like The Twilight Zone as early as the 1950s, and in books, such as the 1981 William Burroughs novel Cities of the Red Night, as one example. The famous scientist, environmentalist, and futurist who spearheaded the scientific study of global warming, James Lovelock, has continued to portray man as a disease in the 21st century. Not surprising, since James Lovelock is said to be the originator of the Gaia Hypothesis, that views the earth as a living organism, and man as a sort of bacteria upon it.

This idea comes across in the many books on Gaia that Lovelock has written, especially in his 2009 book, The Vanishing Face of Gaia.  In their review of that book The Guardian said this:

...the concept of Gaia has slowly gained popularity over the decades and is now grudgingly accepted by many biologists and physicists as a true vision of our planet, a place that has been kept in decent ecological nick by the behaviour and variety of its many lifeforms. Unfortunately, Gaia is in trouble today, says Lovelock. It is infected by a virus called Homo sapiens. Humans are destroying ecosystems, killing off species in their thousands and destabilising climates. "We became the Earth's infection a long and uncertain time ago, but it was not until about 200 years ago that the Industrial Revolution began: then the infection of the Earth became irreversible," he says. [bolding is mine]

As this quote affirms, the scientific establishment has been moving in the Gaia model for decades. Make that centuries if we start counting with Malthus. I would add, that this modern Gaia movement of the scientific establishment has followed the leftist/globalist political agenda in that outlook. The close connection with the "global warming" narrative well illustrates the point. In other words, the Gaia Hypothesis asserts that the earth is sick and that the "virus" causing the illness is unenlightened humanity. In that view, it logically follows that the only way to save the earth is to kill off the "virus!" That is, to depopulate the earth. This explains the anti-children policies of the globalists, including promotion of "LGBTQ" and "transgender" relations and "same-sex marriage" that do not produce children. Add to that the war on traditional marriage and families, vaccines laced with mercury and other deadly substances, the globalist abortion programs that murder millions of unborn humans, aerosol spraying of toxins, and a host of other globalist programs - all aimed at one outcome - to depopulate the earth.    

So, who is targeted for death? Is it the super-wealthy elite and those who support them? Or is it the millions of "un-evolved" humans who are seen as adding nothing to, or even holding back the globalist agenda? With the elite spending billions on the development of AI and autonomous robots that they believe will be able to do everything better than humans, making humans obsolete, it really isn't that hard to see where this satanic Gaia mindset is going to take us, in the not-too-distant future. If you have any doubts about that, I recommend that you read the book of Revelation.

So, what is the truth? Is there some sort of virus at work here? There is such a virus, but it is not humanity. It is the virus of sin, especially as manifested through the elite few who are ruling the world. When we realize that about 30 people are hording as much wealth as the poorest half of the world's population it becomes clear that the real problem is not too many people - the real problem is the selfish hording of massive wealth by the elite few. The myth of "overpopulation" has long been used by the super-wealthy elite as a distraction from the real problem, their insatiable greed and hording of the earth's resources. Since their lust to own everything knows no bounds, their massive over-consumption will always outstrip population growth, no matter how many or few the population becomes.

The fact is, our Creator gave dominion of the earth to mankind, for the benefit of us all. Man has authority over the earth - not the other way around. Further, the earth is filled with power to produce all we need, enough for everyone, no matter what the size of the population. Earth was created to be a paradise for man. However, early on the hostile spirit being we know as the devil rebelled against the Creator and misled mankind into bondage to sin, and to him. Today the devil and the other spirit rebels with him are the unseen rulers of the world, having rested dominion of the earth away from man. They are the virus, along with those elite few who serve them, to whom they give dominion. This is why the ruling elite spew hatred against their fellow-man and even plot to destroy him. In this they are reflecting the hatred of mankind of their unseen masters.

Now, we have arrived at the end of the age when all of this evil must be dealt with, or humanity will be ruined forever. But what could possibly overturn them and their massive control of the earth?

Only the amazing authority of the Son of Man.

Y'shua the Messiah has that authority, and He is not afraid to use it, as we learn in the book of Mark. Join us at tonight's Tsiyon meeting to see the only hope of the world in action. That's tonight, at 8 PM CST at Tsiyon.Net.

Shalom,

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The world’s eight richest billionaires control the same wealth between them as the poorest half of the globe’s population, according to a charity warning of an ever-increasing and dangerous concentration of wealth.

In a report published to coincide with the start of the week-long World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Oxfam said it was “beyond grotesque” that a handful of rich men headed by the Microsoft founder Bill Gates are worth $426bn (£350bn), equivalent to the wealth of 3.6 billion people.

The development charity called for a new economic model to reverse an inequality trend that it said helped to explain Brexit and Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election.

Oxfam blamed rising inequality on aggressive wage restraint, tax dodging and the squeezing of producers by companies, adding that businesses were too focused on delivering ever-higher returns to wealthy owners and top executives.

The World Economic Forum (WEF) said last week that rising inequality and social polarisation posed two of the biggest risks to the global economy in 2017 and could result in the rolling back of globalisation.

Oxfam said the world’s poorest 50% owned the same in assets as the $426bn owned by a group headed by Gates, Amancio Ortega, the founder of the Spanish fashion chain Zara, and Warren Buffett, the renowned investor and chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway.

The others are Carlos Slim Helú: the Mexican telecoms tycoon and owner of conglomerate Grupo Carso; Jeff Bezos: the founder of Amazon; Mark Zuckerberg: the founder of Facebook; Larry Ellison, chief executive of US tech firm Oracle; and Michael Bloomberg; a former mayor of New York and founder and owner of the Bloomberg news and financial information service.

Last year, Oxfam said the world’s 62 richest billionaires were as wealthy as half the world’s population. However, the number has dropped to eight in 2017 because new information shows that poverty in China and India is worse than previously thought, making the bottom 50% even worse off and widening the gap between rich and poor.

With members of the forum due to arrive on Monday in Switzerland, where guests will range from the Chinese president Xi Jinping, to pop star Shakira, the WEF released its own inclusive growth and development report in which it said median income had fallen by an average of 2.4% between 2008 and 2013 across 26 advanced nations.

Norway, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Iceland and Denmark filled the top five places in the WEF’s inclusive development index, with Britain 21st and the US 23rd. The body that organises the Davos event said rising inequality was not an “iron law of capitalism”, but a matter of making the right policy choices.

The WEF report found that 51% of the 103 countries for which data was available saw their inclusive development index scores decline over the past five years, “attesting to the legitimacy of public concern and the challenge facing policymakers regarding the difficulty of translating economic growth into broad social progress”.

Basing its research on the Forbes rich list and data provided by investment bank Credit Suisse, Oxfam said the vast majority of people in the bottom half of the world’s population were facing a daily struggle to survive, with 70% of them living in low-income countries.

It was four years since the WEF had first identified inequality as a threat to social stability, but that the gap between rich and poor has continued to widen, Oxfam added.

“From Brexit to the success of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, a worrying rise in racism and the widespread disillusionment with mainstream politics, there are increasing signs that more and more people in rich countries are no longer willing to tolerate the status quo,” the report said.

The charity said new information had shown that poor people in China and India owned even fewer assets than previously thought, making the wealth gap more pronounced than it thought a year ago, when it announced that 62 billionaires owned the same wealth as the poorest half of the global population.

Mark Goldring, chief executive of Oxfam GB, said: “This year’s snapshot of inequality is clearer, more accurate and more shocking than ever before. It is beyond grotesque that a group of men who could easily fit in a single golf buggy own more than the poorest half of humanity.

Eight men own more than 3.6 billion people do: our economics is broken