You need to check out the Book of Enoch. It really fleshes out both the Old and New Testament.
Once you realize the "people" who were killed by the Great Flood were actually genetic abominations and that YHWH waited until only 8 genetically pure humans were left on the planet before sending said Flood, you'll possibly understand exactly how patient He really is.
Nehemiah 9:13-17
13 Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments:
14 And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses thy servant:
15 And gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and promisedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them.
16 But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments,
17 And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage:but thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not.
You need to check out the Book of Enoch. It really fleshes out both the Old and New Testament.
Once you realize the "people" who were killed by the Great Flood were actually genetic abominations and that YHWH waited until only 8 genetically pure humans were left on the planet before sending said Flood, you'll possibly understand exactly how patient He really is.
Nehemiah 9:13-17
13 Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments:
14 And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses thy servant:
15 And gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and promisedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them.
16 But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments,
17 And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not.