down in his father's house before he went out to do battle with the enemies of his people. See the sequence here? See the process? So in Gideon's story of his apostasy, when we see that through his impatience, and patience is something that we need to develop if we're going to be among the remnant, through his impatience, he prefigured the wandering in the wilderness of Adventism after the Great Disappointment and up to the Lateran time period. And in his impatience, he developed a symbol of a legal religion, as always is manifested by people that enter into a religion but deny the power, a Christian religion that deny the power, as the Romanists worshiped the cross but did not live the cross, as the Jews worshiped the law but did not live the law. Gideon set up an ephod and breastplate that symbolized a false consecration, a false priesthood, a legal religion. It became superstitious where the emphasis on the ceremony was more important than who the ceremony pointed forward to. In this story, Gideon symbolizes a re-erection of the altar of Baal within his own family, because this is ultimately where they were led to follow, is that Baal worship returned fully to Gideon's family in Israel. And in Adventism today, what Gideon Stirring is telling us is that the worship of self has come back to Adventism after the Millerite movement, and that before those that Gideon typifies that are going to carry the loud cry message to the world, before they can have the privilege and responsibility of carrying the final warning message to the world, they first must tear down the altar of Baal in their father's house within the Adventist church. We first must demonstrate within our church family that self has been crucified. And brothers and sisters, it's that struggle, it's those temptations and those trials that are the trials that increase as we faithfully overcome those tests and trials. They increase in severity and magnitude and develop a deeper and stronger experience allowing us, if we're faithful, to be strong enough to stand during the latter rain time period.