Was God surprised when Jesus was crucified?
No. The crucifixion was not an unforeseen event but stood at the center of God's determinate plan laid out before creation. In His predeterminate counsel, Israel crucified and slew Christ, yet this was always God's blueprint for the ages, including that Christ must suffer and die.
Les explains that the cross was the highlight of the eternal plan that God laid out before anything was created. In God's predeterminate counsel and understanding, Israel took and crucified and slew Christ, but God was not caught by surprise. It was all in the eternal plan of the ages that Christ must suffer; it was always in God's blueprint for the ages, and He would also be risen from the dead.