Is There a Connection Between an Acorn and an Oak Tree?

In the old testament, you find analogye. The conquest of the promised land not only takes centuries where it should have taken one or two generations,. But judges is sort of like describing the history of the ancient church of israel in a way that only you do retrospectively. It seems to me that as the church is expanding, its principal point is not to become universally recognized as a top down hierarchy. And so when you read first samuel, you see, ok, now there's a monarch, but it's saul, who's a typical gentile king and he exalts himself over the priesthood of samuel. Then you find a man after god's own heart in