The Slaughter of the holy innocents

This painting was also presented to us during the week 1 lecture. Initial thoughts of this image were of slight confusion. All I can see is soldiers taking the lives of babies despite the desperate attempts from their mothers. Some are wrestling with the soldiers, and others are already morning over their dead babies.
I had to do some further research in order to find out what it was really about, and found...
"The Holy Innocents are the children executed at Herod's order in Matthew 2:16-18 (cached). Some images of the Holy Innocents depict the slaughter alone (example), but often Herod is prominently featured giving the order, as at left. Indeed, one panel in Burgos puts him in the center, occupying a good half of the image. The Golden Legend's account also spends a good deal less time on the innocents than on Herod, his family, and his subsequent troubles."

From reading this vital piece of information, "The Holy Innocents" made a lot more sense to me, because being a Christian myself I read the context of this biblical story, which reads:
(Matthew 2:13-18)13 And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him. 14 When he arose, he took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt: 15 And was there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son. 16 Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently enquired of the wise men. 17 Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying,
18 In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.

This is the story of baby Jesus escaping death, because of his earthly father Joseph's obedience to a word from God, instructing him to flee to Egypt. King Herod knew of Jesus' power and wanted him killed, so to ensure this ordered all baby boys aged 2 and under to be killed who were in bethlehem. The bible as many prophecies that have yet to come to pass and many others that have come to pass especially regarding Jesus Christ. verse 18 shows us a prophecy fulfilled about great mourning for mothers morning for their children - which is portrayed in the image.
To relate this to games, there are themes that come to my mind

1. A theme of escape. (Baby Jesus escaping death). The game Abes Oddysee comes to mind, this is because the objective of the game is to escape death and rescue others of his kind.
   
2. Knowing the end from the beginning (the prophecy of Prophet Jeremiah). The Star Wars series comes to mind, as we experienced the movies at the end of the story, then many years later experienced the beginning of the whole story with the films and also the game series. So when playing the game simulation of the movie, we already knew the ending of the story from the beginning.