God struck down sinners and Jesus forgave them and gave them a second chance...it’s like a split personality I’m trying to grasp
Jesus is not more forgiving than God,for the forgiveness He gave is from God,and Jesus is God manifest in the flesh so when He forgave it was from Him being God,and the Pharisees said who can forgive sins but God alone.
God has always been loving,and caring,towards people,even in the Old Testament,where He told the Jews to treat the stranger as one of their own,because they was a stranger in Egypt,and said He winked at the ways of the Gentiles but now commands all people everywhere to repent,and said feed and clothe your enemies,and said to love people,and help them with their needs.
The Bible says herein is the love of God,not that we loved Him,but that He loved us first.
And God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son,the man Christ Jesus,that whosoever believes in Him,that He is God manifest in the flesh,has eternal life,which God laid down His life for us,His physical life,and purchased the Church with His own blood.
God showed a lot of mercy in the Old Testament towards the Jews and Gentiles,in which He caused Babylon to flourish so much that king Nebuchadnezzar said that the God of Israel is a God of gods,and a Lord of kings,and that He is the greatest God of the gods,and that he praised him,and honored him,and proclaimed throughout his kingdom to acknowledge the God of Israel and if anyone said anything amiss against Him they would be cut in pieces,and their house made a dunghill,and said that God rules in the heaven,and on earth,and believed that until he died.
God was merciful,and forgiving,in the Old Testament,and He claims that,but He would judge right on earth those that would try to pervert Israel from the truth,or go against her in war,as long as Israel did abide in the truth,and even when she went astray God would give her an allotted amount of time to get back in the truth,and then if they did not they were punished,but this was to keep Israel in the truth for Jesus was to come through Israel which He gives salvation,and would always restore Israel as He will in the future after they have borne their shame for their sins and iniquities against Him.
God had to protect Israel from being led astray,and from being wiped out by her enemies,because of salvation,which Jesus said salvation is of the Jews,and Jesus came from Israel.
God left the Gentile nations alone unless they went against Israel,or if they perverted people too much from the truth,and God's ways,and were cruel towards other people.
God puts down a thousand to save ten thousand,and God would cause Gentile nations,and kingdoms to fall,if they were perverting too much people by their kingdom,or being cruel towards people,and would give the kingdom to another.
If God did not intercede in the Old Testament and judge right on earth,it would of been a lot worse in people being perverted from the truth,and Israel would of been wiped out,or scattered and very few with no hope of ever becoming a nation again,and more people would of been hurt physically.
God is not cruel,people are cruel,and if a boy was walking with his dad in the park and a man ran up on him to stab him,and the father put him down,would the son say,dad you are cruel,or would he say thank you dad for saving my life.
God judging on earth in the Old Testament caused more people to acknowledge Him,and the truth,and less people being physically hurt,and Babylon the greatest Gentile kingdom would of never proclaimed throughout their kingdom to acknowledge the God of Israel,but king Nebuchadnezzar's son took the throne and blew it,and they lost the revelation of God,and He gave the kingdom to the Medes and Persians.
Jesus is God,which the Bible says that Jesus dwells in the light that no person can approach unto,and no person has ever seen Jesus,and no person will ever see Jesus,but He showed us a visible manifestation of Himself.
Jesus is God,and God is as forgiving in the Old Testament,as in the New Testament,and we know that God will judge all people,whether on earth,and the afterlife in the Old,or in the afterlife in the New,which Jesus is the judge and said that the wicked will not be able to dwell with Him.
People have a misconception of God that He is a war monger in the Old Testament,but it is not true,for He was a saver of lives physically,and being in the truth.
If God did not intercede in the Old Testament and judge on earth would there be salvation for Israel would of probably been wiped out,so God had to protect her from her enemies,and protect the Gentiles,and Jews,from cruel Gentile nations,and kingdoms,that perverted His truth spreading out too far and being cruel.