Old Covenant Narrative

In these three words I see the completion of the entire Old Covenant narrative and the germination of the New Covenant reality. I see these three words pregnant with meaning and power. It is finished could have been the engraved line on our Saviours tombstone if He had need of one. Which He did not! The magnitude and the majesty of this simple but history altering stanza is staggering to say the least.

In those last words of the Lord Jesus, all of the Old Testament prophesies and all of the laws commands expired. The dormant seed of the good news now breaks forth from here and blossoms into the beautiful gospel. Even though this story is at the end of the written gospel accounts it really is the beginning of it all. With these three succinct words –it is finished– shook the very corridors of hell. The crucifixion was supposed to finish off Jesus but instead it finished the powers of hell and death. …show more content…
I discovered that in the Greek language it is just one word; finished. So if we were to read Matthew 27: accurately it would just say; “that Jesus cried with a loud voice; ‘finished!’…” And with those final words, hell just had the wind knocked out of it and as the foul air of Hades escaped and created a vacuum, sheer terror entered its domain. No other statement is equal to it