ABSTRACT
The promise of the Father is the Baptism of the Holy Ghost with the signs following, as on the Day of Pentecost in Jerusalem, in Caesarea, and Ephesus, and evidently also at Samaria. It means being filled with the Holy Ghost. When the Midianites and the Amalekites and the children of the east gathered themselves together against the people of Israel, God selected Gideon, the "least in his father's house", and his "family poor in Manas-seh", to hurl them headlong out of the country. The Spirit of the Lord came upon Gideon, and he blew a trumpet. And at the sound of that trumpet blast thousands of his people arose in arms. But God proved that He was not dependent on them; with the Spirit-filled Gideon and a handful of men, merely armed with trumpets, empty pitchers and lamps, he defeated and discomfited all the hosts of the enemy.
