He surely does seem angry in the OT and mellow in the NT. I mean to have all the firstborn killed is just wrong and cruel.Yeah, it’s easy to misunderstand God as mean or unrighteous when reading the OT, but that’s a result of not understanding the context and the gravity of sin. The more we understand the context and realise how fallen we are, the more we start to see God’s love, grace, and long-suffering.
God always calls us to repentance and faith, and the God of the OT is the same God that is Jesus. So to rightly understand the OT, we should understand it through the NT, just as we understand the NT through the OT. It’s not as if God is angry in the OT and all mellow in the NT. God is the same forever — He is good, holy, merciful, and righteous.
He was returned to god. And god willed it to be so it must be done and is justified
As Rachel said, Pharaoh had already had most of the sons of Israel killed by drowning in the river. That's generations of children without fathers, women without husbands, grieving parents. These wicked Egyptians had been given many years and even 9 previous plagues, to repent, and they did not. That God did not wipe them all out entirely for this and the years they had enslaved His people, but instead, simply gave them a little taste of their own medicine, seems merciful to me.
