An interesting perspective from a friend on another site:
“Types and Shadows
In Christian theology, there is a concept of “type” or “shadow”. A type is a real historical event (or person) that, in the course of unfolding, prophesies a future event (or person). For example, Moses is a type of Jesus Christ. He is sent by God to the Israelites in bondage (a type/shadow of humanity, enslaved in this fallen world), he frees them from Pharaoh by the power of God (a type of Jesus’s atoning work in death and resurrection), then leads them out of Egypt into the promised land. The wandering of the Jews in the wilderness is a type of the wandering of the church in the church Age, as well as the wandering of the individual believer as he or she awaits glorification (whether by physical death or by rapture).
The purpose of types and shadows is to demonstrate the power of God. God does not merely “tell” what he’s going to do, he shows it. And he does not merely send prophets to act it out in pantomime (though sometimes he does that, too). Rather, he causes real people to live out real lives, and those lives trace out in prophetic form the future events which God will bring about. He does it this way because this is completely counterfeit-proof. No one but God has the power to arrange events in this way. God can not only foretell the future, but foretell it using real people and events — no one else can...
...It is extremely grievous to the soul to have this Beijing Biden clown parading on stage when well over half the American public either knows or strongly suspects he is an outright fraud and “took office” by blatantly stealing an election (or, rather, having it stolen on his behalf). Could this be a type/shadow of a coming clown/fraud who will parade around in the place of God?
It is prophesied that the Dragon is going to sweep a third of the stars with his tail — a clear reference that a third of heaven will fall with Lucifer. Could the USG be fracturing from within? Could this be the beginning of a third falling away? Could this falling away be a pre-enactment to illustrate to the world what is coming? Will Trump head a third-party and destroy the Republicans? Could this be a foreshadowing of a coming destruction of the children of Satan who are hiding in clerical robes, by the Lamb and his hosts?...”
I can’t wait for the part where the rightful ruler (Trump) ousts the usurper.
I believe your words of Biblical types and shadows hold much truth in our time. My personal faith is one in which God is still very active in our time. I do hold the view that we will see deliverance from the deep state lucifarian agenda as a major work of God. In this, I have no doubt that His work will be clearly seen in types and shadows coming forth here and now.