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In half the days: Christ died young

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24I say, “My God, do not take me away in the middle of my days,

Your years are throughout all generations.

– Psalm 102:24

23But You, God, will bring them down to the pit of destruction;

Men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days.

But I will trust in You.

– Psalm 55:23
(NASB® © 2020)

He was cut off from the land of the living. Isaiah 53:8

Psalm 102 is one of the so-called Messianic Psalms. In this psalm we see something of the feelings of Christ, who was “the wretched” here on earth (v. 1). In verse 24 of this wonderful psalm we read the lament: “I said: My God, do not take me away in half my days!” The Lord Jesus felt deeply that He was to die as a young man.

Once again, the Psalms speak of the “half of the days”. In Psalm 55: “And you, God, will cast them down into the pit of destruction; the men of blood and deceit will not bring their days to half” (v. 23). The men who shed the blood of others do not bring their years to half because God judges them. They remain far from the 70 years that Moses mentioned as the average age (Ps 90:10).

The Christ of God had to experience what God especially intended for men of violence and lies! Jesus died at the age of about 33. The years of the life of one who had only done good and spoken only the truth were cut short. He was prepared to take this upon Himself because He wanted to avert judgment from us. Blessed be He for giving His blood for us!

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