The world map above of countries estimates that there are a large number of them. According to the UN, totally 206. There are many more peoples, tribes, families and languages. Humanity's population exceeded 8 billion on November 15, 2022! The saved of the New Scriptures will be from all families, languages, nations and tribes! Revelation 5:9
Are there already too many people in the world?
Not at all! The world could still hold well over 10 times the number of people. If the arms industry were to be stopped completely and we started to cultivate and protect the land, lakes, rivers, seas and atmosphere, there would be no shortage of food, but we would live in an abundant world.
However, this wonderful dream will only come true when the Prince of Peace himself, Sar-Shalom: Adonai Yeshua, gets the rulership on earth. Then the youngest will die at the age of 100 and people's ages will be like trees, i.e. several hundreds of years. At the end of that 1000-year Kingdom, according to my estimate, there will be a good 100 billion people living on earth, and they will not starve or experience any other lack.
When will the 1000 year Kingdom begin?
Before that, many upheavals occur on earth, such as earthquakes, several wars, famines and deadly infectious diseases. In recent years, their number has increased, and because many big cities have been stupidly built at or too close to the junctions of continental plates, in river estuaries and near the seashore, that's why earthquakes, tsunamis and heavy rains have become the fate for many thousands people.
We Christians and other believers in Adonai Yeshua are called to help the victims of those disasters as much as we can. Our practical work of mercy also opens the hearts of many to receive the good news of Adonai Yeshua, and our prayer in the anointing of the Holy Spirit enhances the triumph of the gospel throughout the world. Evangelism is really in a hurry now, because the amount of need is very great!
We are about to enter a time of great tribulation that will last 3.5 years and the 3.5 years after that would be an unprecedentedly difficult time of great wrath, which has been shortened somewhat because otherwise all people would be destroyed from the face of the earth. Some of the prophets of the Tanakh (eg Joel and Zechariah), the apostle John in the Book of Revelation and the apostle Peter in his epistle have pointed to such an era when the kind of destruction that can be caused by nuclear weapons will take place. We are living in that kind of time right now!
Let us compete in our life of sanctification and always be filled with the Holy Spirit, so that the spirit of this evil world does not get hold of us in any way! Let us also beware of false Messiahs and false prophets who perform great signs and wonders, but teach contrary to the Bible. If we do not carefully study what the Bible teaches us about the signs of our Savior's coming, we too can be led astray from the truth! That's why I read the Bible and pray with various kinds of tongues every day!
When that slightly less than 7-year period of great tribulation and wrath ends, Adonai Yeshua will arrive on earth and establish the 1000-year Kingdom, which will be a time of deep peace and abundance among all nations. Nations will then forge their swords into plowshares and spears into pruning-hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, Neither shall they learn war any more.
I bring out of my treasure new and old things
Adonai Yeshua taught his disciples in Matt. 13:52 as follows:
>>He said to them, “Therefore, every scribe who has been made a disciple in the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a householder, who brings out of his treasure new and old things.”<<
I am a modern "scribe" because I know the Holy Scriptures of the Bible quite well, because I have studied them for more than 50 years and read through the entire Bible 46 times in several languages and language versions and the NT separately even more often, as well as most of the Apogrypha books many times.
What is 'new' can be found under the previous heading 'Are there already too many people in the world?'
>>When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, When he separated the children of men, He set the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the children of Israel.<<
When that slightly less than 7-year period of great tribulation and wrath ends, Adonai Yeshua will arrive on earth and establish the 1000-year Kingdom, which will be a time of deep peace and abundance among all nations. Nations will then forge their swords into plowshares and spears into pruning-hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, Neither shall they learn war any more.
Then Yehowah will be one and his Name will be one. The whole earth will then be filled with the knowledge of Yehowah, as the waters cover the sea.
Ah, what a wonderful era it will be!
Ah, what a wonderful era it will be!
I bring out of my treasure new and old things
Adonai Yeshua taught his disciples in Matt. 13:52 as follows:
>>He said to them, “Therefore, every scribe who has been made a disciple in the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a householder, who brings out of his treasure new and old things.”<<
I am a modern "scribe" because I know the Holy Scriptures of the Bible quite well, because I have studied them for more than 50 years and read through the entire Bible 46 times in several languages and language versions and the NT separately even more often, as well as most of the Apogrypha books many times.
What is 'new' can be found under the previous heading 'Are there already too many people in the world?'
What is 'old' and I am bringing up now, concerns a probable later mistranslation in the Tanakh. The passage is the following Deut. 32:8. It reads as follows in almost all Bible translations:
>>When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, When he separated the children of men, He set the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the children of Israel.<<
I ended up thinking that how on earth does the number of Israelis affect, for example, the borders between the nations living in the Far East and the American continents? That wouldn't be logical. Then I decided to research what the world's oldest entire Bible, the Septuagint translated from Hebrew into Greek around 200 BC, says about the words in the verse and I made a discovery! Before I quote it, it is good to state who made the Septuagint translation and from what Scriptures?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septuagint
Two quotes from that:
"According to tradition, Ptolemy II Philadelphus (the Greek Pharaoh of Egypt) sent seventy-two Jewish translators—six from each of the Twelve Tribes of Israel—from Jerusalem to Alexandria to translate the Tanakh from Biblical Hebrew into Koine Greek, for inclusion in his library.[23]
This narrative is found in the pseudepigraphic Letter of Aristeas to his brother Philocrates,[24] and is repeated by Philo of Alexandria, Josephus (in Antiquities of the Jews),[25] and by later sources (including Augustine of Hippo).[26]"
Another quote from the same article:
"It is also found in the Tractate Megillah of the Babylonian Talmud:
King Ptolemy once gathered 72 Elders. He placed them in 72 chambers, each of them in a separate one, without revealing to them why they were summoned. He entered each one's room and said: "Write for me the Torah of Moshe, your teacher". God put it in the heart of each one to translate identically as all the others did.[6]"
Verse Deut. 32:8 according to the Septuagint:
>>‹8› ὅτε διεµέριζεν ὁ ὕψιστος ἔθνη, ὡς διέσπειρεν υἱοὺς Αδαµ, ἔστησεν ὅρια ἐθνῶν κατὰ ἀριθµὸν ἀγγέλων θεοῦ,<<
It is translated like this:
>>8 When the Most High divided the nations, as he dispersed the sons of Adam, he set the boundaries of the nations according to the number of God's angels,<<
After researching the subject further, I came to the conclusion that the verse mentioned 'according to the number of God's angels' fits better in the context of the text, considering the numerous nations of the Far East and the American continents.
In the Tanakh, 'angels' and 'sons of Elohim' are sometimes confused, although they are two separately created groups of heavenly living beings. The sons of Elohim are higher than the angels in the hierarchy, which is evident from Job chapters 1-2 and Psalm 82, from which verses 1, 6-7:
>>1 God presides in the great assembly. He judges among the gods.
...6 I said, “You are gods, All of you are sons of the Most High.
7 Nevertheless you shall die like men, And fall like one of the rulers.”<<
Angels are unable to have sexual intercourse with the daughters of Adam's descendants and have flesh and blood offspring with them, but the so-called 'The sons of Elohim' can, as is evident from Genesis 6:4. Their offspring died because they were defiled by sin through the female offspring of fallen humans.
According to that verse, it is a fact that the sons of Elohim have indeed had sexual intercourse with the females of the fallen Adamic race. Therefore, it may be that even above the angelic princes who are the rulers of all the nations, there is a certain number of those sons of Elohim, and that it is according to their number that the borders of the nations were originally defined(?) Is it really so, only Yehowah and the respective representatives of the spiritual powers know that.
It is also logical to think that angelic princes are assigned to different nations and that above those angelic princes they are ruled by those of Elohim's sons, who have fallen into sin, always strive to spread their territories, i.e. take over additional territories from other nations.
Thus, the ultimate executors of all nations' wars are the different levels of spirit beings ruling the nations in the expanses of the sky, but still always within the limits of the Most High's permission and even unknowingly fulfilling his will, acting as if as his whip.
Addendum to studies 3 April 2023
The oldest text of Deutoronium is discovered in 1952 in a cave at Qumran, near the Dead Sea, it preserves the oldest existing copy of the Ten Commandments.
The Dead Sea scrolls are very fragmented here but the Hebrew for “sons of the Elohim” is very clear. According to that in Deut. 32:8 is about the Sons of Elohim.
https://christianpublishinghouse.co/2019/11/04/ottc-deuteronomy-328-was-it-the-sons-of-israel-or-the-sons-of-god-or-the-angels-of-god/
Strongest Argument for the Rendering “Sons of Elohim”
The context of the passage refers to Genesis 10-11 when Elohim divided or separated humankind. We note that Israel is missing from the Table of Nations. Therefore, how can Elohim have set the boundaries for the peoples (pagan nations) according to the number of the sons of Israel (בני ישראל), when they were not even in existence at that time? One textual principle is that the harder reading is preferred.
Strongest Argument for the Rendering “Sons of Elohim”
The context of the passage refers to Genesis 10-11 when Elohim divided or separated humankind. We note that Israel is missing from the Table of Nations. Therefore, how can Elohim have set the boundaries for the peoples (pagan nations) according to the number of the sons of Israel (בני ישראל), when they were not even in existence at that time? One textual principle is that the harder reading is preferred.
https://christianpublishinghouse.co/2019/11/04/ottc-deuteronomy-328-was-it-the-sons-of-israel-or-the-sons-of-god-or-the-angels-of-god/
The following warning is therefore very appropriate
Deut. 4:19 (Warning to Israel and those chosen for salvation from the Gentiles)
>>and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the host of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Yehowah your Elohim has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.<<
The hosts of the sky also include spiritual powers such as angels and the sons of Elohim.
Songs suitable for the topic:
In Your Presence, O God
Because of Who you Are
