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“TONGUES
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“Dear
Heavenly Father, I believe you can give me understanding on this topic
of
tongues. I know that you are not the author of confusion and there is a
simple
and clear explanation. I desire the truth and understanding with all my
heart. I
want the truth, all of the truth, nothing but the truth, at any cost. I
am
willing to put aside all views, positions, pre-conceived ideas and
thoughts on
this topic and see what you will show me with the plain English text of
the
King James Bible. These things I ask in and through the Lord Jesus
Christ.
Amen.”
What was
Pentecost?
Pentecost
was an entirely Jewish event, both in the old and new
testaments, and had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with
the church,
except for the fact, that the two loaves represent the two
classes of
sinful people, represented by the leaven, Jews and Gentiles, that were
to form
the present day church in Christ. Unbeknown to Israel, they were
rehearsing the
future event of Gentiles having access to God their Father. Ye shall
bring
out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals:
they shall
be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the
firstfruits
unto the LORD. (Leviticus 23:17)
A sign of
judgment
Because
the nation of Israel had rejected Jesus Christ as the Messiah,
the 17 tongues of Pentecost were a sign to these unbelieving Jews, that
God was
no longer to be their ‘exclusive possession’. God would no longer speak
to
them, as he always had, through their prophets and exclusively in
Hebrew.
Pentecost
was a sign for Israel that God was now temporarily putting
them aside, and speaking to other nations in their own languages, that
is, in
their own mother tongues. These
tongues
were the 17
languages
as follows: 1.
Parthians 2. Medes
3. Elamites 4. Mesopotamia 5. Judaea 6. Cappadocia 7. Pontus 8. Asia 9.
Phrygia
10. Pamphylia 11. Egypt 12.
Furthermore,
from their Old Testament experiences,
they were alarmed as they knew when Gentile languages ‘entered’ their
lives,
hard times were approaching, and in this case, it would be the
destruction of
Jerusalem. Pentecost’s
tongues were not a blessing to the Jew, but a warning
that they were under
severe judgment from God for their rejection of Christ. The Jews
were God’s
own chosen people, and whenever God spoke to them by their prophets, it
was in
their own Hebrew language. For the Jews to hear a Gentile language
being used
by God, they realized they were under judgement (Deuteronomy 28:49-50).
For
example, we read of the Babylonian tongues (Jeremiah 5:15
There
are two classes of tongues
Two classes
are
mentioned in the King James Bible – known and unknown tongues
Class 1 -
Known
tongues
These
were 17 proper languages that
were known by those present, Jews,
at Pentecost and up to AD70 as “…every
man heard them speak in his own language.” (Acts 2:6)
Class 2 -
Unknown
tongues
These
also were the 17 proper
languages that were simply not known
by anyone present at an assembly or gathering.
Not
being able to be understood, God forbids them to be spoken at an
assembly or
gathering
Paul
says “If you want to speak in your unknown tongue, go home and speak to
the
Lord if you must.”
But
Paul says you will not be speaking in God’s holy Spirit, but in your
own
spirit. Furthermore, you will be speaking in mysteries.
We read “For
he that speaketh in an unknown tongue (a proper
language of the 17 at Pentecost but not
known by anyone present) speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no
man
understandeth him; howbeit in the spirit (this is
the human spirit with a small “s” and not
God’s Spirit with
a
capital “S”) he
speaketh mysteries.” (1Cor
14:2).
Where is
the early
Acts church in all this?
Nowhere to
be seen! Zilch! Nothing! Absent! Not
there! It’s all about Israel!
So why has
the church
taken on a counterfeit form of tongues?
Simple.
It’s called REPLACEMENT THEOLOGY (RT) with its bunch of sounds
made up
by stringing a series of sounds together like “boorabasha caldean
doonagooram
moorabundi”. In essence, RT seeks to replace Israel at every
opportunity and
steal what God has meant for Israel.
The
following Table helps to explain:
|
|
Proper
languages |
|
Class #1 Tongues – known
One of the 17 languages Found in 1 Cor 14 |
Yes |
|
Class #2 Tongues – unknown
But one of the 17 languages Found in 1 Cor 14 |
Yes |
|
Today’s bunch of sounds Not found in 1 Cor 14
The Church’s Replacement Theology
in action pretending to be Israel |
No |
Reading 1 Corinthians chapter 14 we see that only tongues
and unknown
tongues are mentioned.
1 Corinthians 14:2 For he
that speaketh in an unknown
tongue (#2)
1 Corinthians 14:4 He that
speaketh in an unknown
tongue (#2)
1 Corinthians 14:5 I would
that ye all spake with tongues (#1)
but rather that ye prophesied: for greater is he that
prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, (#1)
1 Corinthians 14:6 Now,
brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues (#1)
1 Corinthians 14:11
Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice (#2)
1 Corinthians 14:13 Wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue (#2)
1 Corinthians 14:14 For if
I pray in an unknown
tongue (#2)
1 Corinthians 14:18 I thank
my God, I speak with tongues (#1)
1 Corinthians 14:19 Yet in
the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding (#1),
that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in
an unknown tongue (#2).
1 Corinthians 14:22
Wherefore tongues (#1)
1 Corinthians 14:23 If
therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and all
speak with tongues (#1)
1 Corinthians 14:26 How is
it then, brethren? when ye come together, every one of you hath a
psalm, hath a
doctrine, hath a tongue (#1)
1 Corinthians 14:27 If any
man speak in an unknown
tongue (#2) .. and so on… the
rest you can work out for yourself.
The basic
thing is this, that tongues, known or
unknown, must be one of the 17 Pentecost languages. The bunch of sounds
of
replacement theology can’t be found. Today’s attempts at imitating the
17
languages are not mentioned.
The use of
tongues
Paul
corrects the misuse of them in 1 Cor 14 (AD 57) such that one year
later, when
he writes Romans around AD 57-58, tongues are even not mentioned as
being one
of the gifts. Why? They had dropped off in their use. The gift was not
important anymore.
1.
Tongues
were the 17 proper known languages given
supernaturally by God to the apostles to speak to unbelieving
Jews (1Cor
15:2) at Pentecost. “Wherefore tongues are for a sign,
not to them that believe, but to them that believe not: but prophesying
serveth not for them that believe
not,
but for them
which believe.” (1 Cor 14:22). Therefore,
the tongues
that were spoken as a sign
to
unbelievers, were to be a language that unbelievers could understand.
2.
Unbelieving
Jews, that is the Christ rejectors,
had to be present.
3.
The
apostles never used tongues as a
prayer language to God.
4.
The
17 Pentecost languages were given by God to the apostles
with no learning needed.
5.
Tongues
were never for Christians. Why? There
weren’t any Christians at Pentecost (Acts 11:26)
Today’s
utterances
What
produces the euphoric effect for today’s ‘tongue speaker’, has to do
with the Broca’s
area of the brain, which deals with logical and rational thought.
It is
similar to Transcendental Meditation (TM) which sends the
speaker into a
trance. TM has the user say the name of a Hindu god hundreds of times,
so that the
mind goes into a shutdown. The same effect can be got by just repeating
a word,
say, “donkey”. So by endlessly repeating a series of sounds like
“ardamar
goshunda booree umba”, the modern day “tongue” speaker achieves the
same
effect.
Broca’s
area of the brain is affected and words become meaningless and a sense
of well
being takes over. It’s like a glass of dirty water in which the
sediment falls
to the bottom and leaves clear water above. A half hour session of TM
reinvigorates and clears the mind.
Of
course the real danger, with today’s utterances, is that in shutting
down the
mind, a user gives Satan access. This is a sin and directly works
against God’s
purposes in giving us a sound mind (2Tim 1:7). The ‘windows’ of the
mind are
left open through which devils climb with the effects ranging from not
wanting
to study the Bible, to lack of praying, to personal and family tragedy
and so
on. Satan can demand a trade off. We must remember that Satan can
masquerade as
an angel of light (2Cor 11:14).
The
writer of this article speaks from experience as having been in this
deception
of Charismatic and Pentecostal lies for many years.
What
is praying in the Spirit?
The
modern day user of counterfeit tongues say they pray in the Spirit (Eph
6:18).
Do they?
No
they don’t. When praying to God, it is to be with understanding as Paul
says What
is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will
pray with the understanding also: I will sing with
the spirit, and I will sing with the
understanding also. 1 Corinthians 14:15. Today’s
utterances are not praying in the Spirit – but merely making
mysterious noises to God with the human spirit.
What about
when Paul says that he
speaks in the ‘tongues of angels’ (1Cor 13:1)?
Paul is not saying that he does –
he is just
saying “though
(or
if I could) I speak in the tongues of angels”
Furthermore, Paul can’t speak in
the
tongues of angels as he isn’t an angel himself.
What about when it says “…but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. ” Romans 8:26
It
is the Holy Spirit that makes groanings not a man’s
spirit. They can’t be uttered by any man.
The
‘tongues’ spoken today are a fraud, a lie and are a pretence. Unfortunately,
they are used by some to sound spiritual, and put
pressure on ‘non-tongue’ speakers, by making out they are more
spiritual or have a spiritual gift. Tongues users today are trying to
be
sincere, but they are sincerely wrong.
Unless you
are speaking in one of the
17 languages at Pentecost, with Christ rejecting Jews present, and
speaking before
the book of Romans was written, you are being misled. The only
purpose for tongues at
Pentecost, was to disturb and warn unbelieving Christ rejecting Jews,
and to
bring them to salvation.
* Tongues
were meant to be spoken to warn, and be
understood, by unbelieving Jews.
*
Prophecy, not tongues, is for believers.
* Speaking
in unknown tongues is to speak with the
human spirit and not God’s Spirit.
*
At Pentecost tongues were from God to speak to men, and not the other
way
around.
*
At Pentecost tongues were never for prayer.
*
We are
never told to garble to God or others with
meaningless utterances.
A STORY:
A man
comes home from working and his adoring
wife rushes up and says “Boora bunga shunga”.
He says
“What!?”
She says
“I’m just telling you how much I
adore you and love you.”
Dear
Reader, which would you prefer? God is
the same. He doesn’t want counterfeits either.
Most
importantly in all this, God hates
Replacement Theology in any way, shape or form, in that the church
would seek
to rob, counterfeit or intrude in anyway, what God had and will have
for
Israel.
Like
myself in coming out of this deception, I
had questions such as “But what about …”. I understand perfectly where
you are.
If I can help in any way, please contact me.
**** ****
Harley Hitchcock
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www.
AustralianBibleMinistries
.com
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