How the story ends
My dear brother posted on How the story begins. My question is how the story ends.
Joh 19:28-30 After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst. (29) Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his mouth. (30) When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.
What is 'It'?
All things?
If it is all finished then why do we place the importance on the resurrection?
posted by Looking Upward @ 8/18/2007 05:34:00 PM
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I think this is a great question. Perhaps this is the climax of the story, and not the end.
The Greek work rendered into three English words is "teleo". That word is the same word used on public tax receipts in Jesus' day meaning, "Paid in Full". The payment for sin - the climactic "it" - was finished; redemption was complete.
So, if the payment requiring death was paid in full, then certainly the resurrection is of utmost importance. The law required death; Jesus fulfilled the law and overcame death (2 Tim. 1:10.)
But is this different than the "end of the story" already recorded in Rev. 21:6 ("It is done!")?
In that verse, the greek "ginomai" translates to, "It was finished, and remains so." (paralleled in Rev. 16:7)
What is the "it" there?
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I think that is one of the questions that Paul was answering in 1 Cor 15:12-19. Paul tells us there that if Christ did not rise from the dead then 1. Preaching is in vain 2. Faith is in vain 3. We would be liars 4. Our faith would be worthless 5. We would still be in our sins 6. We would perish 7. We would be most pitied of men.
The death/resurrection of Christ is inseperable in Scripture. Furthermore, Romans 5:10 tells us we were reconciled to through His death - but we will be saved by His life.
Interesting to know.
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