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So, are you saying that all those unbelievers on the Day of Pentecost who heard the wonderful works of God spoken in their own regional dialects were activating the gift of interpretation? How can that be when the gift of interpretation of tongues is for those in the body of Christ? Also, interpretation of tongues is not direct translation. This is why a tongues utterance can have more than one interpretation in a fellowship service.
I think that you are committed to your premise that God can't use the gift of tongues to cause a person to speak a world language which a native speaker of the language can understand, and that you are trying to fit the Scripture into it. My view is from what I see from the whole of the Scriptures and the real-life experiences of believers. It is that real-life experiences of believers speaking world languages understood by speakers of the languages doesn't fit into your preconceived premise and so you are quite willing to adapt Scripture and accuse those who testify that they have understood the language when someone has spoken in tongues, of lying.
I think that many are reluctant to enter into the prophetic ministry because of the hijacking of the Charismatic movement by the false prophets and teachers of churches like the Glory of Zion church. People watch Youtube videos of popular "prophets" and hear prophecies that basically say nothing. These modern Youtube prophecies are nothing like the prophecies I used to hear when I was a member of a Pentecostal church in the 1970s. Those prophecies made sense. I remember the prophecy that was said over my wife and I at our wedding, about the North wind of adversity was going to flow to us followed by the healing South wind. It was fulfilled six years later when my wife became deeply depressed and our marriage broke down, and after a number of years, I was able to rebuild my life and was remarried to a much more supportive marriage which resulted in 30 years of happiness and hopefully quite a number of years in the future.
The problem is that most churches that are allied to the NAR movement which we view on Youtube don't manifest the true gift of tongues, so I wouldn't expect any miracle of speaking an understandable language happening in them. The Pentecostal movement is nothing like it was in the first half of the 20th Century. By the time I got into it in 1966, it was mostly motivational talk about the gifts but no real demonstration of them.
What I am saying is that in the current environment where the teaching about and practice of tongues, true tongues have been pushed into the background and what we see on Youtube is the counterfeit. This has so muddied the waters that ordinary people can no longer distinguish between what is real and what is false. This is why many genuine Pentecostal churches have tended away from tongues and interpretation for fear of appearing like the false Youtube ones. So in the light of what once was the lunatic fringe becoming now the mainstream face of the Charismatic our discussion about whether tongues are human languages or angelic is basically pointless, because the false tongues of the hijacked mainstream would never consist of human understandable languages, and that your view of them being angelic is also in doubt. I am coming to believe that the languages I see on Youtube is neither human nor angelic, but plain kookubananatown gibberish.
I will let the OP decide whether my comments are appropriate in his thread or not.
