I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth. —Isa. 49:6.

Jesus restricted his preaching to the Jews and Samaritans that these first might have the Kingdom opportunity extended to them. So here again we see the need of the servant class, if Jehovah's Servant is to be a 'light to the Gentiles' and His 'salvation unto the end of the earth.' The Chief Servant would have to use his followers as his ambassadors and send them to the Gentiles, if light and salvation were to come to such uncircumcised nations. This he began to do when he sent Peter to the Italian centurion Cornelius to preach the good news about Jehovah and his Christ. That Isaiah's prophecy here includes in a secondary way the servant class under their Head Jesus is stated under inspiration. The apostle Paul and his companion Barnabas applied it this way when they quoted it at Acts 13:47. There is no question about it. This part of Isaiah's prophecy applies also to the remnant since 1919. W 12/15