In the Bahasa Malaysia language we have proverbs or "peribahasa" that have great learning. One of them is, "Sedikit-sedikit lama-lama jadi bukit". Literally translated, little by little and eventually a hill". Never underestimate anything that has small beginnings or the small steps taken. With patience and peverence it will result in success. God had a great plan for the people of Israel. They were to displace peoples that rejected their creator God. Deuteronomy 7:1, When the Lord your God brings you into the land which you go to possess, and has cast out many nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than you. They were going to do the unimaginable. It was not going to be easy. 7 nations that have established cities, walls, fighting men, and other resources. The people of Israel were no match for them. But God's promise...