It’s the same with a “type.” That’s what Bible scholars call a person, thing, or event in the Old Testament that’s a symbolic picture of Jesus and foreshadows him. King David is a type for Jesus—a shadow of the ultimate Shepherd King. The Passover lamb is also a type—prefiguring the Innocent One who died to save us. Types are fun to think about, and God arranged biblical events so as to provide many of them.
