self-worship. When we see our own nothingness, as we look to the cross and recognize our own nothingness, our unworthiness, when we have the humility of the publican, then we can be clothed with the righteousness of Christ. And brothers and sisters, this is an issue, a message in Adventism that must take place prior to the battle which is symbolizing the latter rain, loud cry time period. It must take place in the sense that those that are going to fulfill the representation of Gideon, those that are going to receive the latter rain and give the loud cry message, those that are going to be the threshing instrument in this controversy at the end, the threshing instrument in the hand of the Lord, those people will have crucified self. They will have tore down the altar of Baal in their life. And once again, this theme of those that are going to be used at this time period are those that see their own nothingness. As Gideon has said, he is the least in his father's house. As in the overflowing scourge series, those that have never sought position, they are not those that have been seeking to exalt themselves, make their own plans, lift themselves up. This is Baal worship in the context of the story of Gideon. Judges 6.33-35 Then all the Midianites and Amalekites and the children of the east were gathered together and went over and pitched in the valley of Jezreel. But the Spirit of the Lord came upon Gideon and he blew a trumpet, and Abazer was gathered after him, and he sent messengers throughout all Manasseh, who were also gathered after him. And he sent messengers unto Asher, and unto Zebulun, and unto Naphtali, and they came up to meet them. Now brothers and sisters, once again here we see this threefold enemy identified that in our first presentation we set forth based on more than two or three witnesses that this is symbolizing at the end of the world modern Babylon, the dragon, the beast, and the false prophet, the Midianites, the Amalekites, and the children of the east. And they're in the valley of Jezreel. We're going to look at this in a later study. This geographical setting in Palestine is full of history that builds upon the final battle, the battle probably most commonly known as the Battle of Armageddon.