Dave Hunt's newsletters from June 2004 and July 2004 where both eye openers to me, and they both helped me to better understand the penalty for sin after T.A. McMahon had discussed it a bit in the May 2004 newsletter. This was later made even more clear to me after I heard Dave discuss it in a radio segment from December 2004 titled "How Could Jesus Suffer Eternal Death?" I began to see that Hebrews:2:9But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.
See All... had to be speaking of more than just physical death since the Bible also tells us Jesus' SOUL was made an offering for sin (Isaiah:53:10Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
See All...) when it was "poured out...unto death" (Isaiah:53:12Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
See All...). The Lord used Dave to show me that I had been missing the most significant suffering that Jesus endured on the cross - the spiritual suffering.