What is Israel's role in God's plan according to Les?
Israel serves as God's vehicle to bring the knowledge of their God to all the nations of the world. God promised Abraham a nation from his own loins would survive and declare His name. The Abrahamic covenant established them as a nation in a land, with the promised Messiah to come as their King.
Les explains that Israel's role is to be the vehicle through which the knowledge of their God reaches all the other nations of the world. He points to Rabbi Shlomo Riskin's article, which said Abraham was promised that a nation from his own loins would, against all odds, survive and declare the name of the one God to the world. Les says this is exactly what he has always taught. He ties this to the whole scope of bringing Israel on the scene: God gave them the Abrahamic covenant, would make them a nation, put them in a geographical area of land, and one day come Himself in the person of the Messiah to be their King. Much of the Old Testament, including the Abrahamic covenant's 'I will' promises, is written in the future tense.