Joseph,

Thank you very much for taking the time to respond, and in such great detail.

I had never heard or read it presented the way that you did.

That was a very different and intriguing explanation, to be sure.

Yes, it is amazing that the cross had also been the plan, even before the creation began:

Revelation 13:8b  whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

I Peter 1:19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:

  20 Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,