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Jesus seems to function as a servant to God the Father more than anything else. If the Angel of the Lord is interpreted as being the pre-incarnate Christ, he certainly also seems to have also taken a far harder edge in his pre-incarnate appearances.
If we were to cherrypick portions of the Bible in the same manner that many Christians do, we might very well use this verse to claim that Jesus was never intended to forgive or pardon transgressions. That verse could certainly be exaggerated as much as they exaggerate other portions of the Bible.
Exodus 23:20-23 said:Behold, I send an Angel before you to keep you in the way and to bring you into the place which I have prepared. Beware of Him and obey His voice; do not provoke Him, for He will not pardon your transgressions; for My name is in Him. But if you indeed obey His voice and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries. For My Angel will go before you and bring you in to the Amorites and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites and the Hivites and the Jebusites; and I will cut them off.
If we were to cherrypick portions of the Bible in the same manner that many Christians do, we might very well use this verse to claim that Jesus was never intended to forgive or pardon transgressions. That verse could certainly be exaggerated as much as they exaggerate other portions of the Bible.