In the Acts of the Apostles, Paul the Apostle draws on the prophecy of Isaiah in his preaching announcing Jesus as the Messiah . This has been related to Jesus' identification of himself with the light of the world in John's Gospel, saying; "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life." Modern usage From the commencement of the era of the national revival of the Jewish people (Tekufat ha-Tehiyah, 19th-20th century), various Jewish philosophers began to see in the national revival a chance to fulfill the prophets' vision of a "Light Unto the Nations". One example that may give an insight into the term's meaning, is the one of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook ("HaRaAYaH"), one of the chief leaders of the Religious Zionist Movement, saw in the aspiration of the people of Israel to be a "light unto the nations" a noble part of its designation. Upon his return from Thailand on a volunteer service trip with American Jewish World Service, Rabbi David Wolpe said to his congregation at Sinai Temple, "We don't sufficiently think about the fact that because the idea is that you're supposed to be an or lagoim, that is a light to the nations, that you can't do it if you never do anything among the nations. If you only have your light on at home, nobody else sees it. ... Nowhere in any Jewish scripture that I'm aware of will you see, 'Jews must only help other Jews.' It doesn't exist. Some Jews will tell you that, but Judaism doesn't tell you that." In February 2018, President Donald Trump referred to the United States as a "light to all nations" at the Christian National Prayer Breakfast. The State of Israel as a light unto the nations In his writings and speeches, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion (1886–1973) emphasized his vision of the state of Israel as a moral and social beacon to the whole world, and by that, in his view, it shall implement the vision of the prophets. The selection of the menorah as the Emblem of Israel was derived from the image of the state of Israel as a "Light Unto the Nations". Israel's vision of "Light Unto the Nations" was reflected in the words of former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in his address at the 2010 Herzliya Conference: