Is it true that Metatron has told a channeler that he and many other spiritual leaders who have been protecting the planet and the population have been instructed to stop trying to preserve life anymore? It has been decided by Source that the best timeline in the long run is for a deep cleansing of the planet that will reduce the population by a third?

This is true. He was speaking with Metatron. These were quite harsh pronouncements for that is his particular role here, to reach the ones who are open to these messages and stir them to action. This is analogous to the harsh channelings coming from the Pleiadians via Barbara Marciniak. There is no sugar-coating because this is what it takes now to get people's attention. Everyone has been so lulled into passiveness, thinking the divine realm will do everything, that their self-enlightenment is leading them upward and it is inevitable that the Ascension will pull them along and take them on up to the glories of heaven and a heavenly light-being existence. All are false notions in the near term. So while harsh and categorical, the message serves the purpose to provide a shot across the bow to spur people on, to find better answers for what they do, to raise more questions about who is authentic and who might not be, and what one might need to do to be in the category of the saved versus the ones who will perish. This indeed is the ultimate fate of all. It is only a question of when and what they may witness during their life until that eventuality. No one wants to go through times of discord let alone ghastly horror. The world has shown plenty of both scenarios. The immediate path of the planet is towards the latter. This need not happen, as we have said again and again, but that is for those who are engaged to help keep them going. You are already motivated. You have turned that corner yourself willingly, in always having an accurate ear in knowing there is much that is wrong with things—even the working of the spiritual community itself. This we have shown you was accurate hearing, so that you do not need to be dislodged from complacency with dire pronouncements but many others do. That is what is served by this kind of message. There needs to be a counter-opposing force among the spiritual workers. This is why Metatron is coming forward in this way to shake things up, and that will lead to some useful outcomes. Those who are lulled into complacency who find the message distasteful and read it as being a false messenger would not have responded to any other source with this message either, and they may well be beyond reach at this point. Most people are still asleep and would never come across a channeling, let alone this particular one, given the vast majority focused on sweetness and light. This is being done for tactical reasons. It is not the full picture, but that is purposeful, as we indicated.