Your Bible probably says sons of Israel in Deuteronomy 32. Israel was not born for another two generations.

The Qumran copy of that verse runs a thousand years older than the text every modern translation was built from, and it reads sons of God, while the Septuagint that Jesus read has angels of God. Leah Steele Barnett opens the July Supernatural Bible Session on that discrepancy and builds the divine council worldview out of three passages, Genesis 11, Deuteronomy 32 and Psalm 82. The thread runs from the tower at Babel, where God says let us go down, through the seventy nations counted in Genesis 10, to the moment God divides those nations among the sons of God and keeps Jacob as his own portion. Abraham gets called in the very next chapter.

Malaine Lea Butler and Jenny Embrey carry the deliverance side of it: principalities assigned over territories, why bloodline work traces back to Babel, how spiritual beings meant to point the nations toward Yahweh acquired power through worship instead, and where the shedim of Deuteronomy 32:17 come from. The session closes on four places heaven answers Psalm 82, Jesus quoting it in the temple in John 10, the seventy sent out in Luke 10, the scattered languages gathering at Pentecost in Acts 2, and the song of Moses sung again in Revelation 15. The Melchizedek scroll from Qumran, the long ending of Deuteronomy 32:43 that Hebrews 1:6 quotes, and the question of whether a demon can drive out a demon all get their turn. Nimrod gets his own session in August.

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Featured Scripture

Deuteronomy 32:8-9

"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. But the LORD's portion is his people, Jacob his allotted heritage." (ESV)

"When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when he divided up humankind, he set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the heavenly assembly. For the LORD's allotment is his people, Jacob his special possession." (NET)

Application: This is the keystone. Genesis 10 lists the nations scattered at Babel and the tradition counts seventy of them, and these two verses say God divided those nations according to the number of the sons of God and kept Jacob as his own portion. Most English Bibles read sons of Israel here because they follow the Masoretic text, a Hebrew tradition copied by scribes in the medieval period, and Israel was not born for another two generations after Babel. The Qumran copy of Deuteronomy is a thousand years older and reads sons of God, and the Septuagint, translated by Jewish scholars two centuries before Christ, has angels of God. Read that way, God calls Abraham in the chapter immediately after the nations are handed away, and the timing is the point. Everything the session covers about territorial spirits, principalities over regions and the great commission runs back through these two verses.

Timestamps

0:00:00 - The July Supernatural Bible Session
0:03:15 - How translation choices shaped your Bible
0:15:19 - Genesis 11:1-9, the tower at Babel
0:20:41 - The divine council as a father and sons
0:22:39 - Genesis 18, 1 Kings 22 and Moses on Sinai
0:28:30 - The table of nations and the number 70
0:31:20 - Deuteronomy 32:8-9 in ESV and NET
0:33:00 - Sons of God or sons of Israel
0:35:29 - Masoretic, Septuagint, Dead Sea Scrolls
0:41:42 - The 70 nations divided among the sons
0:45:52 - Principalities, territories and bloodlines
0:53:22 - Shedim, the demons of Deuteronomy32:17
1:00:25 - Psalm 82 and the Melchizedek scroll
1:11:25 - Can demons drive out demons?
1:31:41 - Four places heaven answers Psalm 82
1:38:41 - Prayer for wisdom, healing and discernment

Scriptures for Further Study

Genesis 1:26 - Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.

Genesis 3:22 - Behold, the man has become like one of us, to know good and evil.

Genesis 10 - The table of nations, listing the descendants of Noah's sons, counted in the tradition as seventy.

Genesis 11:1-9 - The whole earth has one language, the city and tower are built, and the LORD confuses their speech and scatters them.

Genesis 12:1-3 - The LORD calls Abram out of his country and promises to make of him a great nation.

Genesis 14:18-20 - Melchizedek, king of Salem and priest of the most high God, brings bread and wine and blesses Abram.

Genesis 18:16-33 - Abraham intercedes with the LORD over the righteous in Sodom.

Genesis 46:27 - All the souls of the house of Jacob that came into Egypt were threescore and ten.

Exodus 12:38 - A mixed multitude went up out of Egypt with the children of Israel.

Deuteronomy 4:19-20 - The host of heaven is described as allotted to all the nations under heaven.

Deuteronomy 32:17 - They sacrificed unto devils, not to God, to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up.

Deuteronomy 32:43 - Rejoice with him, O heavens, and bow down to him, all gods, for he avenges the blood of his children.

1 Kings 22:19-22 - The LORD asks the host of heaven who will entice Ahab, and a spirit volunteers to be a lying spirit in the mouths of his prophets.

Psalm 82 - God stands in the divine council and judges among the gods, who are told that they shall die like men.

Psalm 106:37 - They sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils.

Matthew 24:24 - False christs and false prophets shall arise and show great signs and wonders.

Luke 10:1-18 - Jesus appoints and sends out the seventy, who return saying the demons are subject to them, and he answers that he beheld Satan fall as lightning.

Luke 15:11-32 - The father receives the returning son and clothes him in the best robe.

John 10:34 - Jesus answers, is it not written in your law, I said, ye are gods.

Acts 2:5-6 - Devout men out of every nation under heaven each hear the disciples speak in his own language.

Romans 8:19 - The creation waits for the manifestation of the sons of God.

1 Corinthians 10:20 - The things the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and Paul warns against fellowship with devils.

Hebrews 1:6 - And again, when he bringeth in the firstborn into the world, he saith, let all the angels of God worship him.

Revelation 15:3-4 - They sing the song of Moses and the song of the Lamb, declaring that all nations shall come and worship.

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