Jesus said in John 19:30 "it is finished" on the cross but in Revelation 21:6 the Lord God says "it is finished". My question is what is the work completed on the cross and what is the work completed in Revelation 21:6? How do they relate to each other if at all? Also, in Revelation 21:6 it is the Alpha & Omega and the Beginning & End that says "it is finished" but why is the First & Last not there? It seems that at this point in time the Lord God is only two instead of three because the First & Last is absent from the scene. What are your thoughts?
Joh 17:4 I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.
Joh 19:30 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.
Mat 16:24 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
Joh 4:34 Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
Joh 9:4 I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
When Jesus was on the cross, and He said, it is finished, He means that the work that He came to do as the Savior of the world was completed on earth.
Which Jesus said take up your cross and follow Him, which means do the work that God has for you to do, and the cross was Jesus' cross.
2Ti 4:6 For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.
2Ti 4:7 I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.
Like Paul finished his works on earth.
Jesus is speaking it is finished according to His works on earth, for on the cross He died and would work no more on earth, and provided salvation.
But Jesus works by His Spirit now among the saints which that work is not finished yet for salvation is still available to the world.
Rev 21:6 And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.
Jesus saying He is the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, is the same as first and the last, and it has nothing to do with 2 persons, or 3 persons.
This is only a reverence to Jesus being the beginning and the end for He is eternal, and has no beginning, and will have no end.
Concerning the saints they are not eternal from the past, but eternal for the future, so only God can be the first and last, but their eternity did not come from themselves, but from God.
Jesus' work is finished on earth, but not finished according to His Spirit, for He works among people towards salvation, and when Jesus said, it is done, He means that the wicked are put down, and the saints are with Him, and He does not work anymore in the world by His Spirit to save people.
John 19:30 It is finished, works of Jesus in the flesh on earth, Revelation 22:6 it is done, works of Jesus by His Spirit on earth.
Rev 10:5 And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven,
Rev 10:6 And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer:
Rev 10:7 But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.
Here the mystery of God is finished which the world will know God then, which the book of Revelation is the revealing of Jesus Christ to the world.
And time will be no longer for time is not a universal principle, but is a creation itself, and only applies to this creation as a measuring tool.
Rev 22:5 And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.
Before creation there was no time, and after this creation there is no time, and the sun is the measuring tool for this creation as it marks days, and there is no sun in the New Jerusalem.
There is nothing scheduled before this creation, and after this creation, but everything goes on the same, so there is no time, but there is things scheduled according to this creation so there is time.
Which some people think time is a universal principle that always applies, but it does not, and the Bible says time will be no more, so I will listen to God rather than science, and people.
Also there is no such thing as space for God is an omnipresent Spirit, so He fills all space, so there is no empty area.
People look up and say, oh look space, but no, oh look God.
They say space and time, but it is God and measuring tool for He measures time by the sun, which there was no sun before creation, and no sun after creation, so what would measure time unless you want to go 1 Mississippi, 2 Mississippi, 3 Mississippi, and so on to 86,400 seconds for a day, but what it the purpose of that when time is not needed.
