Revelation 5:9
"...for Thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by Thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;"
The LORD has His people throughout the world. Even though, in the Old Testament, the focus was upon the nation of Israel, yet we know in reading Paul's letter to the Romans, that not all who were of the nation of Israel were chosen in Christ, "For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:" (Romans 9:6).
But there is a Spiritual Israel scattered throughout the world. They are those for whom Christ would come and pay their sin debt and save, "...O God of our Salvation; Who art the Confidence of all the ends of the earth," (Psalm 65:5) He is the Confidence of all His elect regardless of where He determined to place them in this world.
"And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the world." (1 John 4:14) Christ is the Savior of the world, but that doesn't mean that He came to save everybody in the world, but that He is THE Savior of His people throughout the world.
So, the LORD has a people that He has redeemed from every tribe, nation and tongue. We dare not think that His elect are primarily white Caucasians. I hear people, even today, distressed because of what they call the 'browning' or the 'yellowing' of the United States. What it shows, I think, is our sin nature, our own pompous attitude about our skin color as Caucasians, especially when you consider that the majority of the world isn't white! And it's not just Caucasians. All people are ethnic idolaters. They tend to think well of themselves and their ethnic race as if it's better than another. But when it comes to this matter of Salvation, we know that, in Christ, there is neither Jew nor Greek, neither bond nor free, and that sinners whom the LORD came to redeem are from every tribe, nation and tongue!
"Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but CHRIST IS ALL, and in all." (Colossians 3:11)
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