august on Nostr: This doesn't make sense in the full context of the New Testament. The "nations" ...

This doesn't make sense in the full context of the New Testament. The "nations" clearly exist in Revelations. Some level of governance is legitimized by Jesus and later by Paul. I think you are reading the bible under the influence of ideology, but ideology has consistently failed to provide us decent results. If the nations are worshiping God in the new heaven and earth, clearly there's no intent to destroy them- at least not all of them. There's probably a Sodom or two, but overall we can't pretend nations are not generally a part of God's plan.