Who were Gentile exceptions during the time God dealt mainly with Jews?
From Genesis 12 until well into Acts, God dealt predominantly with the Jew only. The Gentile exceptions were Jonah, who went to Nineveh, Naaman the Syrian general, Rahab the harlot, and Ruth the Moabitess. These exceptions occurred while Israel remained the primary nation in God's program.
Les explains that from Genesis chapter 12, the call of Abram, all the way up until well into the book of Acts, God's dealings were predominantly Jew only. Yet Les likes to mention the exceptions: Jonah went to the city of Nineveh, Naaman the Syrian general, Rahab the harlot, and Ruth the Moabitess. These were Gentile exceptions, but for the most part God was dealing with Jew only. Les then notes that after well into Acts, Paul is called aside and God sends him far hence to the Gentiles. By Acts 28 Paul is in prison in Rome, near martyrdom and still writing prison epistles; he had already been among Gentiles for many years, yet he went first to the Jew in the synagogue, and when they rejected him, he turned to the Gentiles.