Why didn't the world end at that moment?
Seriously? Are you being serious? Is that all you have?
I thought you were far better than this, Arthur. Okay, I'll type this nice and slow so you can understand it: Christ's once and final salvific sacrifice on the cross was completed.
And, actually, there was an ending that occurred...the Temple Veil was rent...Christ became our intercessor and mediator (not his mom)...the old sacrificial system was no longer needed.
And since Christ himself said that it was finished, why does the Roman Catholic Church strive to make him a liar?
Hoss
Do you have a religion, Hoss?
On the cross, Christ said, “It is finished.”
He was not speaking of His sacrifice.
He was speaking of His Passover meal, because He spoke it immediately after receiving the wine/gall on the reed.
All Passover meals Christ or any Jew ever attended had four cups of wine - yet Christ left abruptly after the third cup and immediately went to the Garden of Gethsemane to begin His Passion.
He did not drink the Fourth Cup until He drank the wine on the Cross.
He did not die immediately after saying it is finished because it was His Passover meal that was finished, which ended His Old Covenant and began His New Covenant.
Incidentally His Sacrifice began with the institution of the Eucharist on the night before and wasn’t fully completed until His Resurrection.
For the Greater Glory of God