All the patriarchs of scripture were pleasing unto God, all for various reasons! Just as He offered His own Son to be tortured and martyred, so too keeping faith and God's will unto death also pleases Him! Esther was pleasing to the king more than all others! So why do any balk at the notion of God prioritizing and setting first Spirit, then soul and lastly body! We have always endured indiscriminate suffering, and every generation has offered up it's Marty'rs! Israel the apple of His eye, has physically suffered many hardships and has Tribulation appointed unto them! Even His judgements are appointed to those that do not believe! While we are spared His judgements! With new glorified bodies in the waiting, old bodies die and are planted awaiting new life! TR Still living under the promise of death given Adam and Eve! Indeed, death touches all except the Bride of the final generation! TR
