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[[File:tongues.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Jesus says there will be a phenomena of speaking in languages not previously known by the speaker or at least what he says is heard by others in their own native language. We call that event speaking in tongues. But there is undoubtedly many people claiming to do this but are not. They are either influenced by evil and not the Holy Spirit or their own imagination. They are under a [[strong delusion]].<Br>Any one professing that " Tongues is the only outward sign of one’s salvation" is under a [[strong delusion]] and has need of [[repent]]ance. ]]
== New tongues ==

: "And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new [[tongues]]; 18  They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover." [[Mark 16]]:17 

== What meaneth this? ==

: "4 And they were all filled with the [[Holy Ghost]], and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. 5 And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven. 6  Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language. 7  And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans? 8  And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born? 9  Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia, 10  Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes, 11  Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our [[tongues]] the wonderful works of God. 12  And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, saying one to another, What meaneth this?" [[Acts 2]]

They ask "how hear we every man in our own tongue"? Did the miracle extend so that men heard the same speaker as if he was speaking in their own language? 

Is an essential to this seeming miraculous event that it was "devout men" hearing these words in their own language?

=== Gibberish ===

Others heard these words as gibberish of a drunkard.

: "Others mocking said, These men are full of new wine." [[Acts 2]]:13 

How do you know that someone is speaking in [[tongues]] are really speaking by the [[Holy Spirit]] and not just speaking gibberish or speaking evil for if [[Satan]] can appear as an angel of light he may also speak in tongues?

: "And when Paul had laid [his] hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied." [[Acts 19]]:6 

These 12 men of Acts 19 were baptized and went into the [[synagogue]] and preached the [[Kingdom of God]]. At the point of [[Baptism]] they were [[put out]] of the synagogue and [[corban]] system set up by [[Herod]] and the [[Pharisees]] and became part of the  temple of [[Christ]] made of [[lively stones]] without hands and the [[Corban of Christ]]. Their synagogue began to follow the more "excellent way" "[[the way]]" of Christ. Paul makes it clear in 1 Corinthians 13 that 'Though anyone speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity' they have got nothing.

We see an emphasis on what is said with these these new tongues. 

Are they leading the people to "shed blood" in the [[cities of blood]] prophesied of old?

If the people are [[bite|biting one another]] in [[covetous practices]] will they not be devoured one of another?

[[Covet]]ing the wages of unrighteousness of the world is the way to ''Destruction and misery'' and certainly not the ''way of peace''.

The [[Pharisees]] were called whited sepulchres<Ref>Matthew 23:27  Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead [men’s] bones, and of all uncleanness.</Ref> because they were [[hypocrite]]s professing the way of God but ''making the word of God to none effect with their [[covetous practices]] through their [[Corban]].''

: "Their throat [is] an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps [is] under their lips: 14  Whose mouth [is] full of cursing and bitterness: 15  Their feet [are] swift to shed blood:
16  Destruction and misery [are] in their ways:
17  And the way of peace have they not known:
18  There is no fear of God before their eyes.: [[Romans 3]]:13 

Paul end Chapter 12 makes it clear we cannot [[covet]] our neighbors' goods or even should we covet speaking in [[tongues]]  "But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way." [[1 Corinthians 12]]:31

That more ''more excellent way'' is '''[[The Way]]''' of Christ which many who say they speak in tongues are not following. [[The Way]] of Christ and the [[The Way]] of the [[early Church]] was not the way of [[Apostasy]] we see so common in the [[modern Church]] with or without the claimed speaking in tongues.

The Pharisees instituted the unrighteous [[mammon]] with the help of the ruler [[Herod]]. Modern rulers have followed the ways of [[Cain]], [[Nimrod]], [[Pharaoh]], [[FDR]] and the people have had a great appetite for their [[dainties]] and [[benefits]] and gone back into the [[bondage of Egypt]] to sit in [[darkness]] again. 

Read Paul and listen what he says is the true evidence of a believer. It is clearly not speaking in tongues even if it is of the Spirit or your own imagination.

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