Something I’ve been confused about, it seems Jesus is here to save us from God?
He came to show what citizenry in the kingdom of Heaven is supposed to look like. His teachings guide us away from ignorance. That
is the salvation.
He said, "If you follow my teachings, then you will be my disciples; you will know the truth and the truth will set you free." He said that he only speaks what he hears from God, and that it is his teachings which will judge us. See, the ten commandments isn't what God wanted.
After leading the people out of Egypt, Moses was up on the mountain for at least 40 days. That's where he gets the first set of two stone tablets carved by God himself. This was it. God was going to take command of his people and lead them as an example to the world. Only, the people screwed up. While Moses was away, they built an idol like the Egyptians made and started partying. God warns Moses that this is happening and when he comes down to find God had been right, he destroys the tablets.
The record says that these tablets were carved on both sides and the writing was particularly note worthy as being "the writing of God". Not the language of God. The writing. This was probably some kind of smooth, machined writing. You can fit a lot of text on a piece of stone with machine engraving. The fact that these tablets were noted as being written on both sides indicates God had a lot to say But, the list of ten commands Moses brought down would not need two tablets written front and back.
Moses' commands could be summed up in 10 points and read much like the list of rules you'd expect to see on a kindergarten wall; respect the teacher, don't take other kid's stuff, keep your hands to yourself, don't tell lies, etc...
God's first two tablets were quite different from the second pair that Moses carved. It's almost like God had some good thing for them, and just as he was about to give it to them, they screwed up and showed that they didn't actually deserve it. In fact, God was about to kill the lot of them, but Moses begged for their lives and agreed to take responsibility for them as their leader. That's why he made the second set of stones. Yes, God was still the boss, but he had to act through Moses. At one point, God tried to be the one to speak the new commands, but the people straight up begged not to hear it, arguing they wanted to hear it from Moses instead. He just couldn't reach the people.
A little later he was so disgusted with their rebellion that he told Moses to take them and go to the promised land while he (God) remained back, because if he
were to go with them, he'd surely destroy them quickly. In other words, he couldn't be around them for even 5 minutes without wanting to kill them. Over the millennia the people had their moments of obedience and glory, but for the most part it was the stubborn, stiff-necked stuff God had to deal with.
That's not what God wanted, right from way back in Moses' day. But, he put up with it. He tolerated. He rebuked. He corrected. He punished and rewarded. He tried everything to show that no matter what it is, when we humans try to do it our own way, we just screw it up. He spent thousands of years allowing us to prove that. We
need his guidance to get it right.
That is what Jesus does. He gives us that guidance. He is the wisdom that saves us from ignorance. He is the way it should have been all along had we humans only been willing to patiently wait, and do it God's way.