As a result of the tower of Babel (Genesis 11) the nations were given to lesser gods, to be ruled over and controlled. Deuteronomy 32 makes this a little more clear and the teachings of Michael Heiser, using the book of Enoch and other literature make it super clear if you are humble enough to sit under his teaching on these matters.
The Supreme God, God Most High, chose a childless couple from the Middle East to be the well spring of His work among the peoples of the earth. Abram and Sarai were reluctantly obedient and had a lot of "fits and starts" along the way, with lying and laughing, but eventually, Almighty God, The Lord of the Angel Armies, confirmed a covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and clearly stated that He was going to bring a ruler from one of the sons of Jacob, Judah, a strange choice considering Joseph is the star of the last part of Genesis, but God has His ways that are always higher than our ways.
The Bible only recognizes Jew and Gentile as the two existing ethnic groups, but the gentiles got handed over to the 70 (or 72 in the Septuagint) other Elohim the lesser gods warned against in the 1st commandment, You shall have no other gods before ME!
So if you look with spiritual eyes at the nations you can see, lust, greed, power, hatred, poverty, pride, etc. ruling and reigning over each of the gentile nations.
Here is where it turns to heresy, if you begin to believe that your nation and your leaders are going to lead the way to the Kingdom of God, you have chosen to follow a false god. God is bringing the kingdom of God through Israel, ethnic Israel, that people that land and gentiles are being given the incredible grace-filled opportunity to join that commonwealth and come under Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and be one with the chosen people of God. There is no Kingdom outside of that, that will last, period, end of story.
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