What are the two parallel lines of prophecy in the Old Testament?
The Old Testament contains two parallel lines of prophecy: the coming of a King and a Kingdom, and the coming of a suffering Savior. These run together through the Old Testament, addressing both the covenant promise of government through a king and the necessary solution to the sin problem.
Les explains that all the way up through the Old Testament there are two parallel lines of prophecy: the coming of a King and a Kingdom, and the coming of a suffering Savior. This connects to the Abrahamic covenant, where out of Abraham would come a nation of people, placed in a geographical area of land. God would one day come and set up the government in the person of the King, but He would also have to be their Redeemer, because there had to be a solution to the sin problem. The Jews of Jesus' day wanted the King and the Kingdom and wanted the Romans thrown out, but they did not want to deal with the sin problem, because it got too close to home.