Monday, October 13, 2008

John 19:30

“. . . Jesus said, “Teleo.” With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.”

From the “birth” of man to this very moment, never has a word been used so correctly to end a story, than the one spoken by our Lord as He bowed His head and breathed His last.

No death has ever been so necessary and yet so undeserved as it was the day the God-Man gave up His spirit atop the rock known as Golgatha (Place of the Skull).

For with that death it was and still is, teleo. And for the glory of God as proof to all, of what had come to pass, “. . . the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook and the rocks split. The tombs broke open and the bodies of many holy people who had died were raised to life.”

The need for blood had been fulfilled.
A final reckoning had been made.
And sin had and still has lost all its power.
For the authority of God has been given to man.

And still the story goes on, for although it is finished there is no end to the one who said it. For death itself could not conquer Him, so that the day is coming where He will appear once more to this fleeting world, clothed in white, with a cape dipped in blood, and the armies of El Shadi riding behind Him.

Teleo, teleo, teleo. . .

Teleo –(roughly translated as the complete and utter finishing of something, finished, or “It is finished”).