Well, I mean, even just thinking about the arc of scripture is important for us to remember

the protection of the line of the Messiah is a grace from God. So even as we're thinking about what happened in the Old

Testament, which I don't think that God is exclusively like wrathful. There's a lot of love there.

Aicence, mercy.

Exactly, forbearance, you know, so just as an initial foray into this discussion,

if we think about what the Lord is doing in that way, the line of the Messiah I think that already

sets us up on a trajectory towards being more open to the fact that there is

several facets of God that are being seen in the Old Testament. I have to say if you think that the God of the Old

Testament is wrathful and the God of the New Testament we see in Jesus Christ is merciful,

if you just see it that way. Can I say this? You haven't read the Bible very carefully.

Yeah, exactly. That's the basic thing is you need to go back and just read the Bible from Genesis to

revelation and you find a generous kind, yes just and righteous, but generous and kind

and all that he puts up with. They break the covenant. He said if you do this and you will live,

fail to keep it and you will die. And yet he puts up with so much covenant breaking

until finally they are just covenant

breakers they're cut off but even then he promises the new covenant that's the

God who comes to us in Jesus Christ the one of whom that new covenant spoke, and guess what?

He talks about hell and the wrath to come more than any figure in the modern church.

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