Finished and rest

“Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.”

This verse connects three aspects of God’s work permanently: very good, finished and rest. God doesn’t ever do anything that is less than very good. He doesn’t consider anything until it is finished and when the work is finished then there is rest. God doesn’t rest because He is tired, He rests because He is finished and there is nothing left to do. To imagine that the Gap Theory has any truth and then see that God rests because He has finished a very good work is to imagine that God is content with something that is less than very good.

There is another issue that every Christian should immediately consider when they read the word “finished” and that is the Lord’s cry from the cross: “When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.” (John 19: 30) and the words from His prayer “I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.” (John 17: 4) If we compare spiritual things with spiritual (1 Cor 2: 13) things then we can rejoice that the work that Christ finished on the cross is very good and leads to eternal rest, which is equivalent to everlasting life.

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(The view expressed in this blog are my own and should not be taken as inspired in any way.)