The Trail · Step 10 · It Is Finished
It Is Finished
Every page you have walked was pointing at one finished moment. What changes if it really is finished?
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The apostles did not invent a new religion. They saw where the trail led. When Jesus of Nazareth came, every shadow found its body in one place.
Passover — fulfilled. He is the Lamb of God; His blood covers those who are "in" Him. The two goats — fulfilled. He is both the goat that dies and the goat that carries sin away. The veil — torn. When He breathed His last, the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom — not from the bottom up, not by human hand. God tore it. The barrier is removed. Access is open.
"When Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, 'It is finished,' and He bowed His head and gave up His spirit." — John 19:30
The word is tetelestai — a word from the marketplace meaning paid in full. Every altar from the morning, every lamb that ever bled, every word the prophets said, was a finger pointing to this one moment. And now it collapses into this: the Lamb is slain, the curtain is torn, the law is fulfilled. The trail has reached its hilltop.
"These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ." — Colossians 2:17
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It is finished — the Lamb is slain. It is finished — the curtain's torn. Every shadow has its body, every promise has its yes. Every debt I ever carried, on the cross was laid. Tetelestai. It is paid.
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It Is Finished
- Tetelestai — paid in full. What debt am I still trying to pay that He already settled?
- Every altar, every lamb, every prophet's word collapsed into this one moment. Have I let the whole trail land on the cross — or am I still walking it as if it were unfinished?