In the Beginning, the LORD allowed us to use a measure of discretion in our interaction with the world. I say, a measure, because, God did not, just release the new citizen of the world, for it to be overwhelmed by the other, more seasoned constituents of the earth. This provided the type of precautious staging that was accomplished in this certain, later time.
And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee. There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil. I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee. And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.
(Exodus 23:25-28)
Even as early as the Beginning, the LORD applied the following type of restraint, as for mankind’s sake.
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