Job as a Foreshadow of Christ

This past Sunday I visited my old church, which was planted by my current church, and heard a good sermon on the sovereignty of God. It turned out to be nearly a sermon about Job. Job lost everything in spite of being blameless before God. He remained blameless in spite of his harrassing "friends". Check out this excerpt from Job 42:

After the LORD had said these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "I am angry with you and your two friends, because you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has. So now take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you, and I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. You have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has." So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite did what the LORD told them; and the LORD accepted Job's prayer.

After Job had prayed for his friends, the LORD made him prosperous again and gave him twice as much as he had before. All his brothers and sisters and everyone who had known him before came and ate with him in his house. They comforted and consoled him over all the trouble the LORD had brought upon him, and each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring.[NIV]

Wow. Intercession. Burnt offerings. Righteous saving the unrighteous. Death/resurrection (ie Job lost everything, gained it all back, and then some). This has Jesus written all over it. Cool stuff.

Here's the rest of Job 42.
Here's that sermon.