Did the Old Testament already teach that Israel would bring light to the Gentiles?

Les explains that this was not something new, because the Old Testament was full of it: Israel was to be a light of the Gentiles, and Israel's Messiah was to be the light, but only through Israel. The first indication in Acts that God would bring Gentiles into the picture comes when Saul is saved on Gentile ground and told he will be sent to the Gentiles. Yet because Israel had seven years of constantly rejecting Peter and the eleven and their appeal, God sets the nation aside. Shortly afterward, Roman armies destroyed the temple and Jerusalem, and the Jewish people went into dispersion until the modern return and 1948 statehood. Les emphasizes no prophecy is directed to the church.