A brand-new world map has been approved by the United Nations, making "Earth look radically different": The UN is getting rid of the Mercator map and implementing a new Equal Earth projection, reported The Sun in London yesterday.
"The widely-used Mercator map was developed by 16th century Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator.
“ 'Africa doesn’t need to be made bigger. It needs to be seen accurately.'
“ 'The United States, Russia and China take on a disproportionate visual prominence compared to Africa, Latin America or southeast Asia,' French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said in a speech.
"He added that 'distortions eventually take root in perceptions' and that 'the time has come to correct them.'
"Togo’s Foreign Minister Robert Dussey told Reuters that the unequal representation was a product of colonialism. 'A fair world begins with a fair map,' he said."
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Deuteronomy 4: [7] For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for?
They were to look at Israel and say, "Wow! They've got the Creator God running them!" Now, if Israel's the Creator God's nation, who runs all these other nations? says Richard Jordan.
[16] Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
[17] The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,
[18] The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:
He's talking to Israel and He says, "You've got me. Don't worship anybody else. Don't go out there and worship all those other gods."
[19] And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
You see what happened when God divided the nations under heaven? He literally took all these false gods and assigned them to the various nations in the earth.
So, He doesn't just confound the language and scatter them as they get together in a national entity; He literally assigns them to false gods to rule over them.
Why? They didn't want Jehovah. "You don't want me. Okay, I'll give you your own little god." He says He did it "according to the children of Israel."
There are two ways to take that passage. One, there are 12 children of Israel and in the ages to come that's how He'll divide the nations.
People say that back in Genesis there are 70 nations. If you take Brother Barlow's book in the bookstore he describes there being 70 nations in Genesis 10. I've tried to count them but never came up with 70 so I'll just tell you what people say.
But ever how many there are back there you can say, "Well, He took all those nations back there and divided them up with a god apiece."
If you go to Deuteronomy 32, because there are a lot more nations in the earth today than 70, but there are a lot more false gods and fallen religious systems.
Paul quotes this passage in Deuteronomy 32: [17] They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.
You know what, every time a new religious system shows up . . . Revelation 17: [5] And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
She generates more false religious systems, and they have all these devils that come along and teach these doctrines of devils.
Everyday your life and my life is affected by Genesis 3 and Genesis 11 and the world we live in is under the curse of man's sin and it's under the dominion of "the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience."
That spirit that works in the children of disobedience took over those children of disobedience in Genesis 11. Now, if you go back to Genesis God told you in Deuteronomy that He did what? His portion isn't among the nations; His portion is Israel. But He didn't have a nation in Genesis 11. He had to create one, so Genesis 12 begins:
[1] Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:[2] And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
[3] And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.