J.R. and I were in health class today. It was pre-final exam day. He had some questions on the 7 churches of Revelation.
Just before the exam on Daniel, some students asked me questions about the special resurrection mentioned in Daniel 12:2... and it happened that it was one question of the exam!

I met Ishmael who asked me some more details about Daniel 12 and its literal interpretation.

I mainly forward the questioners to my proposal posted on my website:

                                                                 yeshua.is-great.org

Today was Lindie's birthday. We went to SSD division offices in Silang. The weather was nice and we took a few pictures.

Happy Birthday dear!

The sanctuary teaches us that for six thousand years, Jesus has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows". Even yet He is "wounded for our transgressions" and "bruised for our iniquities." The sanctuary reflects the full dimension of Jesus' sin bearing love. And He will continue to suffer the pain and agony of the Cross, the rejection, until His sanctuary is cleansed.
Thus Daniel 8:14 is an announcement that the time has come to release Jesus from the pain and agony of Calvary! But the Church's sympathy and co-operation are necessary. Is the people of God interested?

"Those who think of the result of hastening or hindering the gospel think of it in relation to themselves and to the world. Few think of its relation to God. Few give thought to the suffering that sin has caused our Creator. All heaven suffered in Christ's agony; but that suffering did not begin or end with His manifestation in humanity. The cross is a revelation to our dull senses of the pain that, from its very inception, sin has brought to the heart of God. Every departure from the right, every deed of cruelty, every failure of humanity to reach His ideal, brings grief to Him, TODAY." Ellen White.

He KNEW, 4

He KNEW, before His incarnation, that he would suffer a terrible agony, even "His sweat would be as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground."
He KNEW, before His incarnation, He would die an horrible death, hanged on a tree, naked, before His people. But He came, voluntarily.

He KNEW, before His incarnation, that He would die not because of His terrible physical suffering but because the weight of the sins of the world would crush Him to death. But He came, voluntarily.

The weight of all the sins of all men. But He came, voluntarily.

The Father would be separated from Him because of the sins of the world upon Him. But He came, voluntarily.

This separation would take away all hope of resurrection and would push Him to shout:
My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
But He came, voluntarily.

He KNEW, 3

He KNEW that if He had used His divinity, even only once, the Earth would have been lost, you and me eternally lost. He KNEW this before His incarnation, but still He came, voluntarily.

He knew, before His incarnation, that He would be agonizing in the garden of Gethsemane in conflict with satanic agencies. He would endure the anguish of the betrayal, and would see His disciples forsake Him and flee. He would be taken to Annas, then to Caiaphas, and then to Pilate. From Pilate He would be sent to Herod, then sent again to Pilate. From insult to renewed insult, from mockery to mockery, twice tortured by the scourge. But He came, voluntarily.

He KNEW, before His incarnation, about the spikes in His flesh, the thorns penetrating His head
Ps 22, 69
But He came, voluntarily.

He, the King of the Universe, He would have to suffer all this, and He came, voluntarily.

Christ KNEW, 2

God the Christ knew that no child of humanity would ever be called to live a holy life amid so fierce a conflict with temptation as Himself would be.

He knew, before His incarnation, that He would not have to employ His divine power to lessen His burdens or to lighten His toil, even not a second. And He exercised in His own behalf no power that is not freely offered to us. As man, He met temptation, and overcame in the strength given Him from God. But He came, voluntarily.

And when He was a man, He KNEW He had these divine powers and He could not use them. And it made His temptations much more difficult to bear. But He came, voluntarily.