justbyfaith
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The scriptures you quote, and aren't they wonderful, tell of the love of Jesus.
As you will know from your work on the Trinity, Jesus is Lord of Lords and King of Kings and God with us.
The gentleness of Jesus is a far cry from the violence and murder of the Old Testament, even in defiance of the Ten commandments, where every one of the commandments was routinely broken. So what was the difference? Jesus is LORD of LORDS and the word LORD appears frequently in the Old Testament. The difference is this, the Lord of the Old Testament was Melchizedek the king of Salem, but now Jesus is a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
The rule of Melchizedek, the Lord of Moses, the one who commanded all the dreadful violence, ended with the resurrection of Jesus who conquered death and hell. The physical evidence of this was the destruction of the Temple in AD 70. Now the Jews, and all of us have a new LORD, His name is Jesus, and we all need to turn to him. Those who do not, are left wandering in the wilderness, and if they do not turn to Jesus and accept Him as their LORD and Saviour and follow him all the days of their life, then they are condemned to eternal death.
May God bless.
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I think that Jesus claimed to be the voice in the burning bush (Exodus 3:14) in John 8:58. He broke normal grammatical usage to make a claim. Now, whoever owned that voice, "became Jesus Christ" later. Actually, He was Jesus Christ all along; but He incarnated as the Son in Luke 1:35, Matthew 1:18-20, and John 1:14.