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shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost. This is the ‘tongue’ spoken on Pentecost day documented in Acts 2, when everyone present understood in their own language, in their own dialect from where they were born. Peter would quote the prophet Joel in Acts 2: Read All. Acts 2:16 But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel; Acts 2:17 ‘And it shall come to pass in the last days,’ saith God, ‘I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: Acts 2:18 And on My servants and on My handmaidens I will pour out in those days of My Spirit; and they shall prophesy: This is not the ‘unknown tongue’ Paul talked about in I Cor. 14, for Paul makes it very clear that an ‘unknown tongue’ is only understood by God and one given the gift of interpretation. (By the way, the word ‘unknown’ is not there in the original manuscripts, for it is Strong’s no. 9999, which means an inserted word. There is no such thing as an ‘unknown tongue’ that only a few can understand in God’s Word. Therefore, the word ‘tongue’ in the Gospel deals with the idea of languages and that is exactly what the Apostles were speaking there on Pentecost Day).
This ‘tongue’ spoken of by Peter and Joel is the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on that day when God’s elect are delivered up to the synagogues of Satan, giving a ‘testimony’ for God.
This is the evidence of the presence of the Holy Spirit with God speaking through His elect, not man speaking. Everyone that hears this ‘tongue’ will hear in their own language over the whole world, and many shall wake out of their spiritual slumber and worship the One True Lord.
Never heard this? Let’s turn to Revelation 2:8 to document that Satan has his Church system that teaches The Word. Rev.2:8 And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; ‘These things saith the First and the Last, Which was dead, and is alive; Rev.2:9 I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty (but thou art rich), and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan. Only two of the seven Churches in Revelation taught who these false ones of the ‘synagogue of Satan’ were; Smyrna and Philadelphia. These false teachers who called themselves Jews, had crept into the Church and were perverting God’s Word, and ‘seducing’ God’s people with lies and traditions of men (they are not of our brother of the tribe Judah, but call themselves such because they live in Judea, yet have a foreign heritage. Do a study in Judges, Ezra and Nehemiah to find out why.) Don’t kid yourself about this being past history; it’s still happening today. The difference when Satan appears on earth is that there will be a worldwide Church system that he will head, directly from the Temple in Jerusalem. II Thess. 2: Read All |