Description: What is speaking with tongues that is also called glossolalia and ecstatic tongues but is referred to in scripture as the gift of tongues?
Revelation 13:13-14 “He performs great signs, so that he even makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men. And he deceives those who dwell on the earth by those signs which he was granted to do in the sight of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who was wounded by the sword and lived.”
The phenomenon of speaking in tongues that is seen in the Christian churches today is relatively new. It did not start to enter into some churches until the early 1900’s. This raises the question. If what we are seeing today is the genuine gift of the Holy Spirit that empowered the disciples at Pentecost, allowing them to go into all nations and preach the gospel in the native tongue of those they came across, why was it absent from the church for over 1800 years? Is it that God only gives His people gifts
Throughout the Bible it is seen that God always empowered His people to do what it is that He wanted them to do. He directed them with His Holy Spirit and then gave to them whatever gift was necessary to get done what needed to be achieved. This being the case it is easy to see why God saw it necessary to give the gift of tongues to the early Church. How else would uneducated men have been able to effectively spread the gospel? This all makes perfect sense. The question is then, for what reason would the gi