@kellyjay saidConsistently good?! In 2 Samuel 24, King David decided to take a census. The prophet Gad was sent to David to announce God’s displeasure with the taking of the census. The punishment for David’s sin: “The Lord sent a pestilence on Israel from that morning until the appointed time; and seventy thousand of the people died”
No He did not the covenant changed not God. We have gone through many changes with God, He has been consistently good and we have consistently come up short, without a law, with the Law, now grace where God received us.
So, in short, David makes a decision that does not please God, and God kills 70,000 Israelites. How could this action ever be reconciled with a God of mercy, compassion, justice, and love?