Third, a text can focus on a particular historical event or episode. First Samuel 22:1–2 and other historical texts use this manner of presentation. Each event in history is unique, but, as we have said, it also belongs to an overarching plan for history, and that history finds its climax in Christ. So these texts point to Christ. But they do so in a different manner than prophecy and wisdom books and Psalms. Altogether, we have three main ways in which an Old Testament text can speak about time: