Beginning of the End - Ellen G. White

that was coming in the morning, but the Lord told him to go down to
the camp of the Midianites--he would hear something there for his
encouragement.
Waiting in the darkness and silence, he heard a soldier telling a
dream to his companion: "To my surprise, a loaf of barley bread
tumbled into the camp of Midian; it came to a tent and struck it so
that it fell and overturned, and the tent collapsed." The other soldier
answered in words that stirred the heart of that unseen listener: "This
is nothing else but the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of
Israel! Into his hand God has delivered Midian and the whole
camp."
Gideon recognized the voice of God speaking through those
Midianite strangers. Returning to the few men under his command,
he said, "Arise, for the Lord has delivered the camp of Midian into
your hand."
God's Simple Battle Plan
Through God's direction a plan of attack was suggested. The
three hundred men were divided into three companies. Every man
was given a trumpet and a torch that was concealed in a clay pitcher.
The men were stationed so that they would approach the Midianite
camp from different directions. In the dead of night, at a signal from
Gideon's war horn, the three companies blew their trumpets. Then,
breaking their pitchers and waving the blazing torches, they rushed
toward the enemy with the terrible war cry, "The sword of the Lord
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