The first theme seen in both the Old Testament and in the work of Jesus Christ is a ‘sacrifice whereby the action of one satisfies a debt of another.’ The first example is the way the sacrifices Aaron made on the Day of Atonement relate to the work of Jesus. After two of Aaron’s sons had died, God spoke to Moses and told him to tell Aaron that he should enter the Holy Place with a “bull from the herd for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering” (Leviticus 16:3). God continues to tell Moses about other provisions Aaron should do before entering the holy place, before finally describing a sacrifice Aaron should make with two goats. One of the goats will be used as a sin offering, while the other goat will be used as a scapegoat (‘Azazel’), …show more content…
There lives of Jesus and David have many similarities, both in who they are and specific events that occur. Some events that happen to the two of them, hundreds of years apart, are both rejected by their own people and flee, cross the Kidron valley, and weep on the mount of Olives. All these things are a way to show us that David and Jesus have a key relationship in who they are and what they do for us. They’re not just related and what they do for us happens by chance; they are both very closely related in who they are, how they react to things, and in what they do for their people.
Through Nathan, God makes a promise to David in which he says “I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom…I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son” (2 Samuel 7:12-14). Jesus Christ is clearly the one they are talking about and he clearly fulfills these