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Samson is a type of Jesus. This is evident throughout his life: for example, his birth is announced to Samson’s mother by an angel.

I’m particularly interested in how Samson serves as a type of Jesus in his death:

Now the temple was full of men and women. All the lords of the Philistines were there—about three thousand men and women on the roof watching while Samson performed. Then Samson called to the Yahweh, saying, “O Lord Yahweh, remember me, I pray! Strengthen me, I pray, just this once, O God, that I may with one blow take vengeance on the Philistines for my two eyes!” And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars which supported the temple, and he braced himself against them, one on his right and the other on his left. Then Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines!” And he pushed with all his might, and the temple fell on the lords and all the people who were in it. So the dead that he killed at his death were more than he had killed in his life. (Judges 16:27-30)

There are a few things we can take from this in application to Jesus’s death. First, Jesus’s death is the performance of a kind of vengeance against the old creation, against the sin that it produced, and against death itself.

Second, the fruit of Jesus’s death is equally the death of three thousand men and women. They were destroyed in the sense that they were brought into Jesus’s kingdom:

Then Peter said to them, “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call.”

And with many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, “Be saved from this perverse generation.” Then those who gladly received his word were baptized; and that day about three thousand souls were added to them. (Acts 2:38-41)