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From Eliyahu:

Shalom friends,

The wolves are everywhere, and the flock are prey. Where, oh where, are the righteous shepherds?

Take a look at this chart I prepared for you. It is based on recent figures from the Federal Reserve. A full half of the population of the USA share only a tiny bit of the country's wealth - around 7%. Meanwhile the top 1% of the population share more than a quarter of the country's wealth! Not only that, but this wealth disparity has been growing rapidly, causing a shrinking middle class and huge amounts of the country's wealth being sucked up by the few at the top. The system has been rigged to rob the poor and give to the rich. Since the rich largely own the politicians, there is no counter-balance in sight. A similar picture has emerged globally. The wolves are running amok, and the shepherds help themselves!

Some might look at this and say "there has always been a wealthy elite" - and that is essentially true. However, it is also true that the wealth disparity between the haves and the have-nots has never been greater, and continues to grow at a rapid pace. This, of course, is exactly how the elite have arranged things to work, but how good is this for the people?

 Many today are alarmed at the surveillance state, the loss of rights, the loss of privacy, the attack on Biblical values, and the over-all diminishing and minimizing of the common man. The real reason for all this is not terrorism, as is often parroted about. The reason is that the elite know they are ripping everybody off and they are afraid of the masses of people who may be waking up to their scam! That's why they feel the need to be watching everybody all the time, taking away their power and taking away their rights. It is akin to the farmer cutting the horns off of his cattle for his own safety.

Yes, we are just farm animals to them. They have no love for mankind, despite the high-sounding utopian dreams they spout to keep our attention off their crimes. Their greed is quickly driving the world toward a dictatorial global government designed to give them total control of "the farm," to push their production numbers totally off the charts! Global slavery is their goal. Sound like a futuristic dystopian sci-fi movie? Maybe so, but they are quickly developing the technology and the systems they need to bring their monster government into being, and we are not far off from that terrible reality. The worst part is, the thieves and robbers will succeed in lulling the masses of people into believing the monster that is being created is really a pussy-cat that will fulfill all of mankind's greatest dreams!

Their real dream is to be wolves who can feed off the flock, completely unafraid of any opposition or hindrance.

Where, oh where, are the righteous shepherds!

Look up. The Good Shepherd is looking on, and He is not happy with what He is seeing. What the thieves and robbers don't see, and surely don't understand, is that THEY are walking right into the trap that they have created. While they have no worries from the sheep, they SHOULD BE having big worries about the Shepherd! He has promised to gather His sheep into His fold, and to give those wolves what they deserve.

YHWH of Armies says, “Behold, evil will go out from nation to nation, and a great storm will be raised up from the uttermost parts of the earth.” The slain of YHWH will be at that day from one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth. They won’t be lamented. They won’t be gathered or buried. They will be dung on the surface of the ground. Wail, you shepherds, and cry. Wallow in dust, you leader of the flock; for the days of your slaughter and of your shattering have fully come, and you will fall like fine pottery. The shepherds will have no way to flee. The leader of the flock will have no escape. A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and the wailing of the leader of the flock, for YHWH destroys their pasture. The peaceful folds are brought to silence because of the fierce anger of YHWH. He has left his covert, as The Lion; for the earth has become a horror because of the fierceness of the Oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.
Jeremiah 25:32-38

The day of reckoning with the evil shepherds is rapidly approaching, when their wickedness has manifested itself to the full.

Shalom,

Eliyahu
Tsiyon.Org

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Editor's Note: In my last Newsletter of Nov 4, 2019, I began my comments with these words: "Some things are never supposed to happen, and if they do happen, they must be ignored, or even opposed, as if they didn't happen. Why? because they don't fit some pre-sold narrative of reality." At that time I did not know that those very words were being tested and tried on that very day within the scientific community. On that day eminent scientists published a paper in Nature Astronomy. Nature Astronomy is an online, peer reviewed, scientific journal. The paper is technical and beyond the scope of this newsletter to fully explain. However, the result of the data is not hard to describe. In a nut shell, the paper sets forth the best scientific data available to mankind on the shape of the universe, concluding that there is a 99% probability that the universe is spherical, not flat, as has been supposed. This is of interest to me because, as I've explained in detail in program #001 of Eliyahu ben David Bet Midrash, the Torah represents the universe as being spherical with the earth at the center. Now the best scientific information available, based upon the findings of the Planck observatory in space, agrees with the Torah Cosmology which I have presented, rather than with the standard "scientific" model of cosmology. You can be sure a major effort is already underway by the guardians of the status quo "to ignore or even oppose" this latest scientific data, even though it is based on actual observations and measurements of reality, so therefore is not mere theory. Why would the scientific establishment oppose this manifest scientific truth? In a word, God. Any data that supports Creation, as found in the Bible, simply cannot be accepted - ever - because it verifies the existence of the Creator.

What Shape Is the Universe? A New Study Suggests We’ve Got It All Wrong.

When researchers reanalyzed the gold-standard data set of the early universe, they concluded that the cosmos must be “closed,” or curled up like a ball. Most others remain unconvinced.

Abridged and reprinted from: Quanta Magazine, Nov 4, 2019, https://www.quantamagazine[dot]org/what-shape-is-the-universe-closed-or-flat-20191104

A provocative paper published today [Nov 4, 2019] in the journal Nature Astronomy argues that the universe may curve around and close in on itself like a sphere, rather than lying flat like a sheet of paper as the standard theory of cosmology predicts. The authors reanalyzed a major cosmological data set and concluded that the data favors a closed universe with 99% certainty.

The data in question — the Planck space telescope’s observations of ancient light called the cosmic microwave background (CMB) — “clearly points towards a closed model,” said Alessandro Melchiorri of Sapienza University of Rome. He co-authored the new paper with Eleonora di Valentino of the University of Manchester and Joseph Silk, principally of the University of Oxford. In their view, the discordance between the CMB data, which suggests the universe is closed, and other data pointing to flatness represents a “cosmological crisis” that calls for “drastic rethinking.”

..Whether the universe is flat — that is, whether two light beams shooting side by side through space will stay parallel forever, rather than eventually crossing and swinging back around to where they started, as in a closed universe — critically depends on the universe’s density. If all the matter and energy in the universe, including dark matter and dark energy, adds up to exactly the concentration at which the energy of the outward expansion balances the energy of the inward gravitational pull, space will extend flatly in all directions.

The leading theory of the universe’s birth, known as cosmic inflation, yields pristine flatness. And various observations since the early 2000s have shown that our universe is very nearly flat and must therefore come within a hair of this critical density — which is calculated to be about 5.7 hydrogen atoms’ worth of stuff per cubic meter of space, much of it invisible.

The Planck telescope measures the density of the universe by gauging how much the CMB light has been deflected or “gravitationally lensed” while passing through the universe over the past 13.8 billion years. The more matter these CMB photons encounter on their journey to Earth, the more lensed they get, so that their direction no longer crisply reflects their starting point in the early universe. This shows up in the data as a blurring effect, which smooths out certain peaks and dips in the spatial pattern of the light. According to the new analysis, the large amount of lensing of the CMB suggests that the universe may be about 5% denser than the critical density, averaging something like six hydrogen atoms per cubic meter instead of 5.7, so that gravity wins and the cosmos closes in on itself.

The Planck scientists noticed the larger-than-expected lensing effect years ago; the anomaly showed up most prominently in their final analysis of the full data set, released last year. If the universe is flat, cosmologists expect a curvature measurement to fall within about one “standard deviation” of zero, due to random statistical fluctuations in the data. But both the Planck team and the authors of the new paper found that the CMB data deviates by 3.4 standard deviations. Assuming that the universe is flat, this is a major fluke — about equivalent to getting heads in a coin toss 11 times in a row, which happens less than 1% of the time. The Planck team attributes the measurement to just such a fluke, or to some unaccounted-for effect that blurs the CMB light, mimicking the effect of extra matter.

Or perhaps the universe is really closed. Di Valentino and co-authors point out that a closed model resolves other anomalous findings in the CMB. For instance, researchers deduce the values of key ingredients of our universe, such as the amount of dark matter and dark energy, by measuring variations in the color of the CMB light coming from different regions of the sky. But curiously, they get different answers when they compare small regions of the sky and when they compare large regions. The authors point out that when you recalculate these values assuming a closed universe, they don’t differ.

..There are only six ..key properties that shape the universe, according to the standard theory of cosmology, which is known as ΛCDM (named for dark energy, represented by the Greek letter Λ, or lambda, and cold dark matter). With only six numbers, ΛCDM accurately describes almost all features of the cosmos. And ΛCDM does not predict any curvature; it says the universe is flat.

..The new paper effectively argues that we may need to add a seventh parameter to ΛCDM: a number that describes the curvature of the universe. For the lensing measurement, adding a seventh number improves the fit with the data.

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