Question: "What did Jesus mean when He said, 'It is finished'?"

Answer: Of the last sayings of Christ on the cross, none is more important or more poignant than, “It is finished.” Found only in the Gospel of John, the Greek word translated “it is finished” is tetelestai, an accounting term that means “paid in full.” When Jesus uttered those words, He was declaring the debt owed to His Father was wiped away completely and forever. Not that Jesus wiped away any debt that He owed to the Father; rather, Jesus eliminated the debt owed by mankind—the debt of sin.

Just prior to His arrest by the Romans, Jesus prayed His last public prayer, asking the Father to glorify Him, just as Jesus had glorified the Father on earth, having “finished the work you have given me to do” (John 17:4). The work Jesus was sent to do was to “seek and save that which is lost” (Luke 19:10), to provide atonement for the sins of all who would ever believe in Him (Romans 3:23-25), and to reconcile sinful men to a holy God. “All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation” (2 Corinthians 5:18-19). None other but God in the flesh could accomplish such a task.

Also completed was the fulfillment of all Old Testament prophecies, symbols, and foreshadowings of the coming Messiah. From Genesis to Malachi, there are over 300 specific prophecies detailing the coming of the Anointed One, all fulfilled by Jesus. From the “seed” who would crush the serpent’s head (Genesis 3:15), to the Suffering Servant of Isaiah 53, to the prediction of the “messenger” of the Lord (John the Baptist) who would “prepare the way” for the Messiah, all prophecies of Jesus’ life, ministry, and death were fulfilled and finished at the cross.

Although the redemption of mankind is the most important finished task, many other things were finished at the cross. The sufferings Jesus endured while on the earth, and especially in His last hours, were at last over. God’s will for Jesus was accomplished in His perfect obedience to the Father (John 5:30; 6:38). Most importantly, the power of sin and Satan was finished. No longer would mankind have to suffer the “flaming arrows of the evil one” (Ephesians 6:16). By raising the “shield of faith” in the One who completed the work of redemption and salvation, we can, by faith, live as new creations in Christ. Jesus’ finished work on the cross was the beginning of new life for all who were once “dead in trespasses and sins” but who are now made “alive with Christ” (Ephesians 2:1, 5).

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adewaletb2:


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Go to this thread for your answer.

https://www.nairaland.com/1547882/where-did-cain-get-wife

adewaletb2:
Please also explain this.

Stop asking useless questions.

Cain didn't dwell among the people of NOD.

He was the founder of NOD.

Genesis 4:16 And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod , on the east of Eden.

The land of NOD didn't have any name or inhabitants before Cain came there.

Genesis 13:3 says that Abraham “went on his journey from the South as far as Bethel.” This place actually did not wear the name Bethel until years later when Jacob gave it that name in Genesis 28:19.

You will make a lot mistakes if you continue reading the bible the way you do.

Though many of us misconstrue this phrase to mean all mankind's woes, sicknesses and diseases are finished, Jesus was actually implying the END of ALL the Levitical ordinances and myriads of laws. He also meant the segregation between the Jews and Gentiles was ENDED.

Tallesty1:
Stop asking useless questions.

Cain didn't dwell among the people of NOD.

He was the founder of NOD.

Genesis 4:16 And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod , on the east of Eden.

The land of NOD didn't have any name or inhabitants before Cain came there.

Genesis 13:3 says that Abraham “went on his journey from the South as far as Bethel.” This place actually did not wear the name Bethel until years later when Jacob gave it that name in Genesis 28:19.

You will make a lot mistakes if you continue reading the bible the way you do.

Thanks for the reply sir stay blessed

dein77:


Though many of us misconstrue this phrase to mean all mankind's woes, sicknesses and diseases are finished, Jesus was actually implying the END of ALL the Levitical ordinances and myriads of laws. He also meant the segregation between the Jews and Gentiles was ENDED.

It meant much more than the end of all sacrificial laws.

Nice question, however not new. the bible teaches us of the creation and not of the creator. the pope of the roman catholic sometimes this week openly agreed to the "evolution theory". and i was like the devil is gradually openning up on the truth but he mixed it with confusion in order to deceive the original people. there are two types of religious teachings/doctrine, the public doctrine and the secret doctrine. the public doctrine is for everybody to keep them in perpertual slavery and poverty or servitude. while the secret doctrine is for those classified for the 33rd degree freemasons or the upper helms of the illuminati. In this 33rd degree, they are made to declare that "there is no god besides ALLAH". thus they are called moslem sons regardless of their race. check the picture of a 33rd freemason, their caps must have the crescent, the star and a sword above it. the sword on it is for the whiteman or caucasian because they are not born a freemason, they were or are made one. On the contrary, the blackman/original asiatic black man is born a freemason, but today lost all knowledge of self, nevertheless he still is a freemason.

on your original question. the idea of the pope agreeing to evolution is a long kept secret from the original man. GOD is a MAN! and since GOD was self created from the belly or egg of the universe. since he appeared forth from the blackness of the universe (triple darkness), He is a Blackman. There was nothing, nobody, no timing before this MAN(GOD), Time began after he struck. immidiately he began to study himself and is suroundings, his feelings was that of loneliness, in his studies of self, he discovered something in Himself, the X chromosomes. out of the same universal eggs he came forth from, He created WOMAN (A man with a womb to raise children, "womb-man". after which they went to war with darkness, the result of that war is what you see in the sky at night (stars), the Blackman and blackwoman created the heavens and the earth, they created black other beings from the dust, what does this mean from the dust? it means from the minerals of the earth formed from the universe. thus i have carbon, nitrogen oxygen,hydrogen, argon, name it in me and you a blackman. as GOD was created out of the blackness of the universe, so are we created from the darkness of our mothers' wombs, and the plants' seeds buried in the earth for a peroid of time before it grows. so the blackman and woman lived and they lived on they began to rebel against the originator (GOD/ALLAH, the creator of heavens and the earth), that originator died physical, but his knowledge, wisdom and understandings and spirit lived on with his children whom will in turn be GOD/ALLAH, they are the supreme MAN/GOD, we the blackman are Gods but not supreme but a direct descendant of the originator.

we had been for trillions of years, until 6000 years ago out of our rebellion against the will of GOD, we (one of us) created the devil (the caucasian), that is white means he is completely made and grafted out of touch from the blackness of the original asiatic blackman, this was our fall as black people. thus read Gen 1:26. it says "let US make man in OUR or image and likeness, and we give him dominion and power over all things..." for a period of time, expired in 1914. after we made them, we went to sleep, but before we did sleep, the made something down for us to be remembered that we will be back, those are the pyramids. not all of us slept. GOD did not sleep, but when he permits, he permits, so he permits their rule for 6000 years which is over, this time is for them to repent and importantly for the blackman to ressurect from the sound of the trumpet.
so you know know where cain must have went to marry etc.

does this sound like rubbish to you? well i might not have arranged it well in writing, and this knowledge came from GOD himself through his messenger elijah Muhammad. and this is the trumpet. i am a muslim and i am also a christian of the teachings of the original Jesus that was killed 2014 years ago.

adewaletb2:
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What did Jesus mean when He said, 'It is finished'?