The UN's division of the world into nearly 200 nations is certainly not in harmony with the Biblical listing of 70 nations.
However it is the spiritual thrones and dominions that rule over these nations that are in many ways the true cause of the wars and geopolitical developments we have historically seen and see today.
From one of BTH's articles on the Biblical Nations:
Here we see a list of the descendants of Noah's sons, which not coincidentally totals to 70:
The idea that the nations were distributed to a group of powerful spirit beings who became their "gods" was quite well known and widely accepted in the ancient world. This view is also found in the Bible:
DEUTERONOMY 32:7 Remember the days of old; consider the years of many generations; ask your father, and he will show you, your elders, and they will tell you. 8 When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance,
when He divided mankind, He fixed the borders of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God. 9 But the LORD's portion is His people, Jacob His allotted heritage. (ESV)
Most English translations follow the Hebrew
Masoretic Text of verse 8, which substitutes "sons of Israel" for "sons of God." However, the 3rd-century BCE Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures known as the
Septuagint (LXX) contradicts the
Masoretic Text:
DEUTERONOMY 32:7 Remember the days of old, consider the years for past ages: ask thy father, and he shall relate to thee, thine elders, and they shall tell thee. 8 When the Most High divided the nations, when He separated the sons of Adam,
He set the bounds of the nations according to the number of the angels of God. 9 And His people Jacob became the portion of the Lord, Israel was the line of His inheritance. (Brenton's LXX)
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