19. Wasn’t God satisfied and appeased by the suffering of His Son?
Good grief. Just the opposite! This vicious manhandling of His Son, the royal heir and Prince of Peace, pained the Father’s heart profoundly; so when 40 years more of undiminished graciousness had gone the way of diminishing returns, the score was reluctantly evened. He simply surrendered that bellicose generation to their own vindictive devices; internecine bloodshed and carnage finished the job. But God was well pleased by His Son’s deportment in the face of barbaric brutality. Jesus’ faithful obedience to all his Father’s directives, even to the bitter end, profoundly satisfied God. The fact that our Master stayed resolutely in character, gracious and true to his agelong pledge, was all that his Father could have hoped for.
The Premial Atonement 