In Isaiah, chapter forty-two, verse six, “I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles.” The Messiah’s mission would include bringing the covenant of salvation to both the Gentiles and His own people. The new covenant would be established by His death, as in Jeremiah thirty-one, verses thirty-one to thirty-four, Hebrews eight, verse six through thirteen, and Hebrews nine, verse fifteen.
The term “Gentile” is used to describe non-Jewish people or nations. The distinction between Jews and Gentiles is significant in the New Testament, especially in the context of the early Christian community. Therefore, believers today who follow after Christ who are not Jewish are Gentiles. Whatever side you represent, righteousness is of God, and only those who embrace and live it shall be saved. A light of the Gentiles is the theme topic, and ‘Light’ is the emblem of knowledge, instruction in which the Messiah is often called ‘light,’ and the ‘light of the world.’ However, the believer is to continue to follow that light that will eventually lead them.
The work of redemption brings back man to the obedience he owes to God as his Maker. Christ is the light of the world. And by His grace, He opens the understandings Satan has blinded, and sets at liberty from the bondage of sin. The Lord has supported His church. And now He makes new promises, which shall as certainly be fulfilled as the old ones were. When the Gentiles are brought into the church, He is glorified in them and by them. Let us give to God those things which are His, taking heed that we do not serve the creature more than the Creator.