What if God had picked the Babylonians as his "chosen people" instead of the Jews?

If God had chosen the Babylonians as his chosen people rather than the Jews, then the Bible as we know it would have different cultural significance, although the core narrative of the holy book wouldn’t change. The creation story onward would be centered on the development of Babylonian civilization in relation to their dealings with God rather than on the development of Hebrew civilization in relation to their dealings with God. Furthermore, if the Babylonians had been chosen by God as “his” people, then God would have raised up Babylonian patriarchs, prophets, judges, and kings to exact his will on earth in the exact same manner as he did with the Children of Israel. Furthermore, God would establish a Babylonian kingdom and he would divinely inspire Babylonian prophets to write laws and commandments of which the kingdom would be expected to obey. The Babylonians would not have had to fight many battles to establish this kingdom, because the Babylonians had already established a civilization in Babylon as early as 1894 B.C.

God, in order to spiritually claim Babylon as his chosen nation, would engage in measures to “set aside” the Babylonian people as his “children” and take the nation of Babylon in its entirety as his “bride.” The measures that God would take to ensure that his plan for the Babylonians would come to fruition, would include, among other things, the implementation of precise laws concerning diet, marriage, law and order, personal conduct, religious ordinances, the ordination of kings, priests, and prophets, and the atonement of sins. God would proceed to hold the Babylonian people to these laws, rewarding them as they kept the laws, and punishing them as they break the laws. The Babylonian Bible would chronicle the plight of the Babylonian people up to and including the birth of God’s son, a Messiah, who being a Babylonian national, would have the name “Eashoa Msheekhah,” an Aramaic variation of “Anointed Savior.” This Messiah, his life, his mission, and his death, would have to have been prophesied by ancient prophets first, so as to glorify God and show God’s divine providence in relation to all earthly matters.

It should be noted that the prime reason that God would call any ancient people as his own people is to ensure that he would have a nation of people that is familiar with him so his son can have a religiously and culturally fertile birthplace. The entire plight the of the Babylonian people from the founding of Babylonia to the birth of God’s son would be to this end. The son of God would be conceived by a Babylonian maiden so as to demonstrate God’s true parentage of his Messiah. In his adult years, Eashoa would preach the “pure” and “ultimate” gospel of God to the Babylonian people by inspiration of his Father in Heaven. Eashoa would save those that accepted the gospel from being eternally damned, and he would designate those that rejected his gospel as “sons and daughters of perdition.” Eventually, Eashoa Msheekhah would call Babylonian disciples as his companions and fellow ministers of the gospel so as to help Eashoa establish God’s new covenant with mankind on the earth.

The progress of the Babylonians from this point going forward is left to speculation. The conditions of the Babylonians at this time would be dependent on their continual obedience to God. If the Babylonians were faithful, then they would gladly accept the Messiah’s words and Babylonia would be a continually prosperous kingdom; and if they were not, then Babylonia at this time would be a nation handed over by God to foreign powers who would rule over Babylonia. In the latter scenario, the Messiah would be directed by God as to how he is to proceed with regard to his earthly assignment. Also in the latter scenario, Msheekhah would call his disciples as apostles, and would instruct them to preach his gospel to all of the nations on earth should he die before his time. In any case, the Messiah would ultimately be called by God to preach of the eternal and divine kingdom to the Babylonians, and his life and his ministry would follow prophetic narratives from his birth to his death irrespective of the political conditions that prevailed in Babylonia during his lifetime.