IT IS FINISHED

When Jesus spoke the words, “It is finished” he was announcing the completion of the most stupendous undertaking the universe has ever seen, witnessed by the angels of God - Yehovah from above. Those words expressed the perfect demonstration of God’s – Yehovah’s love for mankind. It is the shout of the conqueror over the battle won!

In all this, what a disclosure of love comes forth! He loved me, a wretch like me, a repentant, pardoned sinner says, “he loved me and gave himself as a sin-offering sacrifice, for me.” This love of the Messiah Jesus is the love of the man, the son of God – Jesus, showing forth the lover of the eternal God – Yehovah who is revealed in him and through him. He now sits at the right hand of his God and Father Yehovah, who has made him lord over all His creation and Messiah. Angels, authorities, and powers are being made subject to him.

He has saved us from the bondage of sin and introduced us to the glorious liberty as the children of God – Yehovah. Because of his sin-offering sin that reconciled mankind to his God and Father Yehovah we upon repentance, give up being independent beings and becoming totally dependent on serving God – Yehovah and His uniquely begotten son Jesus. When we are baptized, we die to self and rise in newness of life as new creations in the lord Messiah Jesus. We become the righteousness of God – Yehovah in him and are grafted into the Israel of God and by the spirit of adoption placed as sons/daughters of God in His household.

Not only that, but we will at the resurrection become co-rulers with the lord Messiah over the nations during the 1,000-year rule when God – Yehovah sends the lord Jesus down to take his place on the throne of David at Zion.

With all these truths set forth before people, why would anyone not want to have a place of service in the 1000-year rule of the lord Messiah Jesus and do so as new creations in him? For people to want to make that decision they need to hear the message of the good news of the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus. That is where we who obey the lord Jesus do what he has commissioned us to do, which is to preach, publish and spread the message of the kingdom of God to the nations. Then people will have the decision to either choose life or choose death. It is God’s – Yehovah‘s desire that all men/women be saved, but He knows that most people will reject His message of salvation to their eventual destruction in the Lake of Fire at the White Throne Judgement.