BLESSINGS IN TRIBULATION AND DENIAL

My Dear Precious Child,
    The last lectures by Jesus Christ were pertinent to the disciples and other followers of Jesus having My blessings in their lives on earth.   About some truths He spoke in parables and about others He spoke truth frankly.  He knew His destiny after having discussed it at length with Me.  After much prayer He yielded to the events which He knew were to follow, the accusations, the betrayal by Judas, the crucifixion, His trip to hell for the sins of the world, His battle with the devil over His recovery of the authority to heaven and earth, His re-entry into the world, the 40 days spent with His disciples again, His ascension into My heaven to sit down with Me, and His sending My Holy Spirit into the earth to live inside of people when they would become the temple of My Spirit which was the beginning of My last and new covenant with people. 
    Jesus went, along with His disciples, to a place in a garden which Judas knew about.  Judas took charge of a band of Jewish soldiers and guards of the high priests and the Pharisees, the religious and political leaders.  They came into the area where Jesus rested armed with lanterns, torches and weapons.  Of course, Jesus knew what was soon to befall Him, so He asked the armed men whom they were seeking.  They answered saying Jesus of Nazareth, to which He answered that He was the person they were seeking.  At His saying whom He was, all of the armed men fell backwards to the ground.  Again Jesus asked them whom they were seeking and they said Jesus of Nazareth. (John 18:1-9)  He told them that He was the One for whom they were looking, so that the prophesy would be fulfilled that not one was lost, not even one.
     Peter, who operated by His human emotions, drew a sword and cut off the right ear of the high priest's servant.  Jesus told Peter to put his sword back in its sheath because He must drink the cup which I had given to Him.  So the troops and their captain of the Jews seized Jesus and bound Him and took Him before the high priest of that year.  Peter and another disciple followed Jesus.  The other disciple knew the high priest so he was able to follow Jesus into the court of the palace of the high priest.  Peter was standing outside the door and was brought inside by a maid who asked Peter if He was not one of the disciples of Jesus.  Peter answered that He was not. 
    The servants and the guards were standing in front of a fire they had built because it was cold.  Peter was standing alongside of them, too.  The servant of the high priest questioned Jesus and His disciples about His teachings to which Jesus answered that He had never taught anything secretly, but He had always taught openly.  He told the high priest to ask the people who heard Him teach what they had heard, to which one of the attendants struck Jesus for speaking so curtly to the high priest.   Jesus replied that if He had spoken anything wrong, to let Him know, but if He had only spoken what was right, why did the person strike Him?  Annas sent Jesus Christ to the high priest.  Peter, who was standing by warming himself, was asked again if he was a disciples of Jesus; to which he replied, "No, I'm not."  One of the high priest's servants told Peter that he had seen Peter in the garden with Jesus.  Again Peter denied it and immediately a rooster crowed, as prophesied earlier by Jesus. (John 18:16-27)  
    Everything that had been prophesied by the old covenant prophets and also by Jesus Christ was being fulfilled, per My design.  The denial of Jesus three times by Peter was fulfilled, just as was prophesied.
    My orchestration of the plan that Jesus die for the sins of the whole world was facilitated by the religious and political leaders, those being the high priests, the priests, the elders of the temple, the Pharisees, the Sadducees and the scribes, those being the lawyers.  The very people who harassed, abused, questioned and persecuted Jesus Christ continued until He was unjustly killed.  Later Paul wrote that "He who made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin, so that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him."   (II Corinthians 5:21)   It is far from being just on His part because of what He suffered.  But it was My justice so that you might be forgiven.
    Your Father of Forgiveness