This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time. My antics, my sufferings are so small when seen in that perspective. For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God. The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed. There are no oversights, no unforeseen happenings.
Nothing just happens.
That was the object. And the means of accomplishing that objective was a death. Nor was it a chance happening. It was not the end of a worthy plan of God that didn't happen to work out. Just the opposite.