What possible reason could every astronomer, government, space corp, and every other person involved with knowing what shape the earth is lie about it being round?
Almost all of them are deceived on this point and sincerely believe it is round. They serve the conspiracy, but they are not initiated into it. Only a very limited number of people are actually initiated. For your information, that is the way in which any conspiracy worth its salt actually functions.
The method of a conspiracy and the motivation for a conspiracy are different.
As reguards motivation,
I believe that anti-flat earth doctrine is merely one aspect of a larger conspiracy led by Satan to deceive man in order to destroy him by provoking him in some way to disbelieve God. The reason is that Satan is envious at the prospect of others spending eternity in the light of God while he himself spends it burning in the fire of God. Misery loves company. This demonic conspiracy does make use of multi-generational secret societies in the realm of humans
In this case, anything obvious and easily observable about the creation is suggested to be other than it simply appears or explained in a way which hides the simple logic of its created reality. In this respect, sphericism is akin to evolutionary theory. The replacement of Euclidean logic (which depends exclusively upon observale facts) with Baconian reasoning which legitimizes vanity, and any extraneous theorizing is encouraged. The ultimate purpose of this as far the devil's objectives are concerned is to lead men away from important truths. Baconian scientific propaganda generally blackens tradition (certain traditions to be more specific) or anything which may put all the various facts in order and logically lead men higher to a search for God. Much of what passes as modern science is the effect of various occult stratagems based upon demonic doctrines such as the Baconian "scientific" method. These occult methods ultimately delude and deaden the mind and are hyped as modern science and respectable which plays towards Satan's objective of deceiving men.
A good litmus test to see if any conspiracy theory is feasible is to compare it's thesis with actual factual trends and patterns. With that in mind, Arthur Koestler wrote a classic history of modern science appropriately entitled 'The Sleepwalkers' which shreds many of the myths of modern so-called science, and shows how it deadens men's minds.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sleepwalkers
With reguards to cartography, modern maps are drawn to conceal characteristics such as the Garden of Eden in the far east, or the mountains mentioned by Isaiah (chapter 14) in the far north of which earlier generations were aware. For example, Gerhard Mercator knew of the arctic mountain and included it in his charts, but it was excluded from later maps and this very real physical mountain which exists much further north than the so-called north pole was not given any mention by Peary, Cook, or the sailors of the USS NAUTILUS.
Mercator Arctic Chart Depicting Northern Mountains
http://www.helmink.com/Antique_Map_Mercator_North_Pole_2/
Meh. I've wondered how Angels, which are said to have no free will (a trait only given to Man), were able to rebel.
But since Satan would have to directly interfere with Man, God would know Satan is manipulating Man and he should put a stop to it. I mean, what can a single human do against the second most powerful being in creation?
As for the maps...
Ummm...
Those maps aren't very accurate.
Here's one that shows those 4 "areas" as well as the whole world.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/Mercator_World_Map.jpgI'm not even sure I can identify them all to be honest. Everything is out of proportion, edges aren't defined, and the entire west coast of North America is bigger than it should be.
Hell, the whole nation of Pygmei seems to come from nowhere.
Greenland is very small as well. It should be much bigger.
If I could read old Dutch (or whatever language it's in) I might have a better understanding of what those land masses are said to be. Do you know what they are or what those words on the map mean?