25. Didn’t the wrath of God fall on Christ at the Cross?
Never happened. Scripture is completely silent concerning the notion of the Cross being an event that reveals God’s anger against sin. Much rather, it exposed the fury of the Adversary—the wrath of the great Dragon, the ancient Serpent, Satan himself—against God’s Son and ironically tricked him into daring to fatally assault God’s Chosen and Anointed One to deprive him of his rightful due as Israel’s true king. For sure, Jesus tasted the bitter cup of that affliction for our sakes, but his lips never touched the cup of God’s wrath. God never for one moment harbored anything but fatherly favor and graciousness toward His beloved Son. To allege otherwise, in any sense, is to impute an ill-befitting taint of schizophrenic disorder or split-personality to the Creator. He no more felt or expressed acute (much less, chronic!) indignation against Jesus than He did against even his flawed predecessors, Noah or Abraham, Joseph or Job, Moses or David, Jeremiah or Daniel, et al. In spite of getting grievously abused, Messiah was in the gracious hands of God, start to finish. Get a grip! Hold that thought.
The Premial Atonement 