God is God. At the beginning of time, at the end of time, and right now, He is who He is. He can be, has been, and will be jealous, angry, and wrathful. But none of that is unjustified or out of spite. I imagine His preference is to simply love His obedient children. What changes is us, not Him.
I've heard from some fellow Christians that they believe that, with the New Covenant - with Jesus - God is now nothing more than a soft and squishy God. They seem to believe that the God of the Old Testament is no more, and some new happy, never-angry God has taken His place. But this is simply not so.
If we as a people, as individuals, turn against God, put other gods before him, reject him... He is jealous. He is angry, with white hot fury and wrath.
Here's the difference: with faith in Jesus, our Savior becomes our "mediator" between the holy God pictured in the Old Testament and the sinful people God loves.
The God of the Old and New Testament is one and the same: unchanging, fully loving AND fully just. He must be. We are simply shielded from the wrath and jealousy that stems from OUR SIN against Him.
THAT is amazing grace. That is unfailing love.
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