M: Tom, I'm talking about Jesus' experience. Please name the things that happened to Him between Gethsemane and Golgotha and then explain why you think it will or will not happen to the wicked at the end of time.

T: If you're talking about external things, like being betrayed, being taken to appear before Pilate and Herod, etc., these things wouldn't apply to the wicked. If you're talking about his mental suffering, there would be some things in common, due to the impact of sin upon the mind. For Jesus Christ it would have been worse because He took the sin of the world, as well as being more sensitive, because of His sinlessness.

22I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.

23Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.

24For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.

I'm trying to understand how Jesus' experience helps us understand what's involved in the punishment of the wicked at the end of time. Ellen wrote, "Christ felt the anguish which the sinner will feel when mercy shall no longer plead for the guilty race." However, I'm having a hard time seeing any similarities between Jesus and the wicked as it relates to drinking the cup of wrath and woe. I was hoping you can help me see it.

Upon Christ as our substitute and surety was laid the iniquity of us all. He was counted a transgressor, that He might redeem us from the condemnation of the law. The guilt of every descendant of Adam was pressing upon His heart. The wrath of God against sin, the terrible manifestation of His displeasure because of iniquity, filled the soul of His Son with consternation. All His life Christ had been publishing to a fallen world the good news of the Father's mercy and pardoning love. Salvation for the chief of sinners was His theme. But now with the terrible weight of guilt He bears, He cannot see the Father's reconciling face. The withdrawal of the divine countenance from the Saviour in this hour of supreme anguish pierced His heart with a sorrow that can never be fully understood by man. So great was this agony that His physical pain was hardly felt. {DA 753.1}
Satan with his fierce temptations wrung the heart of Jesus. The Saviour could not see through the portals of the tomb. Hope did not present to Him His coming forth from the grave a conqueror, or tell Him of the Father's acceptance of the sacrifice. He feared that sin was so offensive to God that Their separation was to be eternal. Christ felt the anguish which the sinner will feel when mercy shall no longer plead for the guilty race. It was the sense of sin, bringing the Father's wrath upon Him as man's substitute, that made the cup He drank so bitter, and broke the heart of the Son of God. {DA 753.2}

GC 665-666 "In the presence of the assembled inhabitants of earth and heaven the final coronation of the Son of God takes place. And now, invested with supreme majesty and power, the King of kings pronounces sentence upon the rebels against His government and executes justice upon those who have transgressed His law and oppressed His people. Says the prophet of God: "I saw a great white throne, (quotes Rev. 20:11-12).....
As soon as the books of record are opened, and the eye of Jesus looks upon the wicked, they are conscious of every sin which they have ever committed. They see just where their feet diverged from the path of purity and holiness, just how far pride and rebellion have carried them in the violation of the law of God. The seductive temptations which they encouraged by indulgence in sin, the blessings perverted, the messengers of God despised, the warnings rejected, the waves of mercy beaten back by the stubborn, unrepentant heart--all appear as if written in letters of fire. {GC 666.2}
Above the throne is revealed the cross;...the fearful events of that night of horror--the unresisting prisoner, forsaken by His best-loved disciples,...the patient Sufferer treading the path to Calvary; the Prince of heaven hanging upon the cross;.....
The whole wicked world stand arraigned at the bar of God on the charge of high treason against the government of heaven. They have none to plead their cause; they are without excuse; and the sentence of eternal death is pronounced against them....
The wicked see what they have forfeited by their life of rebellion. The far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory was despised when offered them; but how desirable it now appears. "All this," cries the lost soul, "I might have had; but I chose to put these things far from me.

Could you give me scriptural backup for what you said in your last post:

Christ felt God's wrath for sin. The wicked will feel this. Christ felt abandoned by God. The wicked will feel this. Christ felt cursed by God. The wicked will feel this.

God gives them existence for a time that they may develop their character and reveal their principles. This accomplished, they receive the results of their own choice. By a life of rebellion, Satan and all who unite with him place themselves so out of harmony with God that His very presence is to them a consuming fire. (DA 764; emphasis mine)