Consider this:

King David of Israel:

• Was born in Bethlehem
• Was considered too little and too young to fight with the big boys and instead was assigned to shepherd his father’s sheep.
• By the power of God, and against all odds, rescued the nation from an unstoppable threat (Goliath – cool name, huh?).
• Became the best king Israel ever had.

Jesus

• Was born in Bethlehem – a town considered too small to play any important role in the affairs of the nation.
• Came as a tiny, homeless, poor baby – a descendant of King David.
• Became a Shepherd for His Father’s flock.
• By the power of God, and against all odds, saved His people from an unstoppable threat (Satan).
• Will be revealed to be the King of Kings forever.

You might think this was mashed together by revisionists, after the fact, to make Jesus seem more important.  In truth, the synchronicity of those two men was mysteriously designed by God as an object lesson for His people and was explained by the prophet, Micah, 700 years in advance of Jesus’ birth!

But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah,
who are too little to be among the clans of Judah,
from you shall come forth for me
one who is to be ruler in Israel,
whose coming forth is from of old,
from ancient days.
Therefore he shall give them up until the time
when she who is in labor has given birth;
then the rest of his brothers shall return
to the people of Israel.
And he shall stand and shepherd his flock in the strength of the Lord,
in the majesty of the name of the Lord his God.
And they shall dwell secure, for now he shall be great
to the ends of the earth.
And he shall be their peace.  (Micah 5:1-5)