What is implied about a nation needing its own homeland?
Scripture implies that a nation of people cannot function or operate properly unless they are located in their own geographical area, a homeland. The Abrahamic covenant's promise of a great nation therefore carries with it the necessary implication of a specific territory for that nation to inhabit and operate within.
Les explains that in Genesis 12, God made a special covenant with Abram out of Ur of the Chaldees, who was a Syrian—not a Jew, since the Jews were still unknown. God sovereignly instituted a new race or nation, Israel, and promised Abram a great nation. Les points out that implied in that promise is the necessity of a homeland: a nation of people cannot function and operate unless they are in their own geographical area.
Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee: