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Elijah674
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One poster on another site posts up this below & I come back with my understanding of this Bible verse which is Bible Study that hardly ever is discussed.
Elijah here: (slightly altered)
You close out with..
'All the Glory to God for His marvelous plan of redemption..Jesus said 'It is finished!'.
Me again: It does appear that you are well matured. Yet, when you apply Christ's Words IT IS FINISHED as do most of the Rev. 17:1-5 ones, you still do not know what Christ meant, asI see it!
He was & IS the centerpiece of the Plan of the Rev. 14:6 Eternal Gospel. We perhaps agree to that? (Immortal in all eternal directions) And Christ/God's creation is not & never will be having such immortality! except on CONDITIONAL Obedience. We will even eat of the Tree of Life for this purpose. Nah. 1:9 has all of the saved MATURED of man, who will never sin again. The reminders of sin will only be the nailprints & the scare in Christ's side for what sin cost for our salvation.
What is and was FINISHED was the loss of Cain's domain to satan and Christs victory 'as man' (second Adam) over satan. In the OT Christ/God was limited in worldwide space to do his work from just one location. This was one reason why a Sanctuary was built as an exact pattern of heavens so the lost earth ones would be 'drawn' to Him by the manny blessings that they would see! Christ's miracles were no less than after He departed, except they were not omnipresent. Now THAT was FINISHED!
It was this FINISH of satans domain that was meant + the huge cost of the Godhead in Christ's DEATH!
And when this [part of the plan only] was Finished and then when Christ LEFT EARTH & then [SENT] the Holy Spirit back as before the sin of Adam, [AGAIN] in fullness to [UPHOLD CHRIST OMNIPRESENT] was also meant.(whole earth/wise & not just with limited space) Christ stated that [HE] would not testify of [Himself], but would uplife ME. (Christ)
OK: Now, what you claim as FINISHED is not man's OSAS part! The Vail of the Seperating of the Holy Place into the MOST HOLY PLACE has CHRIST [[[FINISHING HIS HIGH PRIESTLY WORK]]]! It is NOT OVER YET!!! (note Rev. 11:18-19!)
And Christian's (real ones) still are making daily strides & need a daily working High Priest. And it will not be FINISHED for them until His Work there is FINISHED! (As in) Dan. 12:1-2 (and this is close to this time! see Matt. 24:21)
And FINISHED as in Rev. 22:11-14! AND verse 12 HAS CHRIST BRINGING HIS REWARD WITH HIM! That of Eternal life or Eternal death. And it still is not ALL OVER & FINISHED as most imply, for the saints WILL HAVE A PART IN JUDGING ALL OF THE WORLDS LOST. (1 Cor. 6:2-3)
When Christ comes evil will then be forever divided. This is the start of the 1000 years. The wicked still are not Judged as to their EXECUTIONAL SECOND DEATH. They will have their resurection at the End of this 1000 year Judgement scene to die as they had been judged as such. (Luke 12:47-48 ) And will then be boltted out of Existance! Obad. 1:16, Mal. 4:1-4.
And make NO MISTAKE, THIS ALSO IS BY TRUE AGAPE GRACE in its FINISHED FULLNESS!
Even though Inspiration calls it God's strange act. (In eternity it only happens once) And each one had & has been given the LOVING STRIVING OF THE HOLY GHOST UPON THEM & there was just NO MORE that God could do! So the FINISHED END with them comes for these ones who are inpossible to save by their own free choice! See Heb. 6:1-6.
--Elijah
PS: I do not do this often, but you do seem much closer to maturity than most on here. Yet, for both of us, Rom. 8:14 of being 'LED' is finding Hosea 4:6 'Rejected Knowledge ones Rejected' & Rev. 18:4 + the 666 FINISHED Testing for us.. as [[NOT BEING FINISHED AS OF YET!]]