Day 59
Yahweh...

Shalom... "It Is Finished!"

So Gideon built an altar to the Lord there and called it Yahweh Shalom.
Judges 6:24 (Holman Christian Standard Bible)

The last words of our Master on Calvary are usually translated, "It is Finished." That is a fair enough attempt yet leaves something missing somehow.

Christ of course spoke Aramaic... or a variant of Hebrew if you will... and the last words of Christ spoken on Calvary were not "words" at all... He spoke one word... Shalom... meaning... completed.

There really is not an English word to compare or carry the richness and power of the Hebrew... Shalom.

For Christ on Calvary the utterance carried the completion of Yahweh's wrath... the penalty paid in full... Christ's mission on earth accomplished... the law fulfilled... redemption's price is paid... to get some idea of the power of this single word cried out by our Messiah.

Shalom.

xtnyoda, shalomed