Good news, God wants us to know Him, and to know what He wants.

God said exactly what He meant.  He didn't want us to know something, and then He told us something else, or vailed it so we couldn't understand it.  That is what revelation means, He revealed it to us, not concealed it, or encoded it.

God even promised us that He would preserved His word to us forever, in Psalms 12:6-7 The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.  - Psalms 100:5 For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.  - 1 Peter 1:25 But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.  - Psalms 119:152 Concerning thy testimonies, I have known of old that thou hast founded them for ever.  - Psalms 119:160 Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.

Since most of the Bible was to and about Israel, and Israel temporarily fell from God's favor by murdering their Messiah, Jesus Christ, and committing the unforgivable sin of blaspheming the Holy Ghost, God later revealed instructions to Paul for all men to be saved by faith on Christ, that He died for our sins.  That means that our sins, though worthy of condemnation, have already been condemned and died for by Jesus Christ.

It would be scary if God was trying to hide from us what He wants, but God wants us to know Him 

Once we truly believe all that the Bible says, in context, considering to whom each part was written, and once we stop bending the Bible to match what we always thought it said, then we can rest in the fact that it is God "Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth." -1 Timothy 2:4.  And then we can confidently look in the part of the Bible where Christ revealed His latest instructions to all people, in Paul's episles, Romans through Philemon.  That is the only place where we find God telling us how we can be saved from God's wrath, through the gospel, instead of through Israel.  

Only there do we find that it is only "...to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness (Rom.4:5).  We also find what it is that we are to believe, instead of working, to be saved.  Its at the end of that same chapter, but also in 1 Corinthians 15:1-4 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:

Ephesians 2:8-9 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.

Mike McGlathery