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“I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert” (Psalm 102:6).
Although written in the Old Testament, this is the Lord Jesus speaking about Himself. He compares Himself to two birds, but both of them were unclean birds for the Israelites (Lev. 11:17-18). Why would the Lord Jesus be compared to an unclean bird?
It was because He was “made sin,” for it tells us in 2 Corinthians 5:21, “He (God the Father) hath made Him (the Lord Jesus) to be sin for us, who knew no sin.” Even though He had never sinned, when the Lord Jesus bore our sins in the three hours of darkness, God had to punish Him as if He were the sinner. If you know the Lord Jesus as your Savior, your sins were laid on Him there, and so He is compared to an unclean bird. He bore that judgment all alone, for no one else could bear that awful punishment for sin. How thankful we should be for what He has done for us!
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