7: Worshiping the Creator – It is Written – Discussions with the Author
p>Join It Is Written Sabbath School host Eric Flickinger and this quarter’s author, Mark Finley, as they provide additional insights into this week’s Sabbath School lesson
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The expression it is finished in Greek is "ΤΕΤΕΛΕΣΘΑΙ"
iT IS THE PAST PERFECT TENSE OF THE VERB ΤΕΛΕΙΩΝΩ, which means I perfect, I accomplish. It comes from the word ΤΕΛΟΣ THE OGIGINAL MEANING OF WHICH WAS PURPOSE.So what Christ cried out triumphantly on the cross is "The purpose has been completed" The same expression in the Septuagint at the end of Creation and the same expression that it is used at the end of time in Revelation.