When someone writes a will, they make promises about the future, but while they're alive the will does nothing. The daughter can hold the document, know exactly what's been promised, and receive nothing. A will is a promise waiting on a death. The writer uses that ordinary reality to explain the cross. Jesus is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance. And an inheritance is not a wage earned but a legacy received, given because someone named you and someone died. His death even reached backward, redeeming the transgressions committed under the first covenant, sins the old system could only defer. A will takes effect only through death. The cross was not the tragedy. It was the mechanism that released the inheritance. And unlike any ordinary will, the one who died rose again, and stays, to share it.

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