If you are looking for a type of Christ - for someone who shows us a picture of Jesus - Samson is a rather odd choice. Samson was as flawed a judge as ever judged Israel!
And yet his birth narrative has strong parallels to the birth of Jesus. Samson is the one who will begin to save his people from the Philistines, just like Jesus is the one who will save his people from their sins.
If you think about it, the parallel works very well. Samson – the flawed judge – begins to save his people, and only begins to save them from their physical foes; Jesus – the perfect king – saves his people entirely, and he save us from all his and our enemies.
God seems to enjoy using partial pictures! No one in the OT ever prefigured Christ fully. There were lots of partial types and shadows. For that matter, since the incarnation, no one ever pictures Christ fully either! And yet, our God uses us! The same God who used the deeply flawed Samson to point us to Jesus, will use you and me to point the nations to his Son.
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