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[/FONT]Christians professing that they speak in tongues, when the tongue is not coming from the right Spirit, but miracles and signs follow them as they speak in that tongue, can be just as dangerous as a false prophet doing miraculous before the people.
When I was doing research work in various State Hospitals, and other mental facilities, I analyzed Christians in these institutions speaking in tongues under great psychotic episodes, in the same way I had heard Christians speaking in tongues in a church gathering.
It will be crucial therefore to discern the times we are in prophetically. Even as Jesus said, When ye see a cloud rise out of the west, straightway ye say, There cometh a shower; and so it is. And when ye see the south wind blow, ye say, There will be heat; and it cometh to pass. Ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that ye do not discern this time? Yea, and why even of yourselves judge ye not what is right? Luke 12:54-57.
Apostle Paul wrote some extremely interesting prophecies about the latter days/the end times. And in one of those prophecies, it says this, Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron. 1st Timothy 4:1-2. We are currently under that prophecy. And because of this prophetic mantle that has covered the world, and a majority of her Christians, we must, by the gift of God, which discerns spirits, identify where the spirit of that tongue is coming from. Is it being uttered by the Holy Spirit? Or is it coming from those seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils? This would explain, if only in part, why certain Christians when they hear other Christians speaking in tongues, get a bad discernment, and dont believe that the tongue they are speaking in, is of the Holy Spirit. For it could be very well that the Holy Spirit is speaking to that Christian, saying, This tongue, language, is not of me. This language, tongue, is of seducing spirits, and that of devils. With that said, another prophecy was this, Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. 2nd Timothy 3:12-13. There are just some people that hear the language, and or tongue, of deception, and/or of devils, and of those seducing spirits, and know that it is not of the Lord. This gift of God is the mercy of the Lord forewarning them. [And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. Romans 13:11.]
God said that his people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Hosea 4:6. And yet another prophecy, which brings knowledge, is that there would be a time in which a falling away would need to take place before the coming of the Lord. 2nd Thessalonians Chapter 2. We are also prophetically under that falling away of Gods truth that saves us through Jesus Christ.
As these end time prophecies are before us, Christ says, Take heed lest any man deceive you: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. Mark 13:5-6. When a person claims they are the Body of Christ, and that Christ is speaking through them, or that they come in the name of the Lord, they are inspiring to the above Scripture. And then we must also remember that Jesus Christ told us that there would be false prophets coming to us in sheeps clothing, but inwardly were ravening wolves. Matthew 7:15-20.
But for those that are truly of Christ, saved, living in these end times of pure darkness, are comforted by these words of the Lord, But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation. For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him. Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do. 1st Thessalonians 5:1-11.
I am about to give you some Scripture on the true doctrine on how one is to truly operate in the speaking of tongues when the church is gathered together (if indeed the church is speaking in a tongue that is coming from the truthful Spirit of God.) And those that speak in tongues, disorderly, not obeying what the apostle wrote, are to be brought under godly questioning and examination; because the apostle wrote those commandments of the Lord, by the Holy Spirit. The same Holy Spirit they supposedly say they are speaking in tongues by. And the holy apostle so commands, saying:
Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy. For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth him; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries. But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort. He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church. I would that ye all spake with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied: for greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying. Now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine? And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped? For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle? So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air. There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without signification. Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me. Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church.
Wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret. For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful. 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. Else when thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupieth the room of the unlearned say Amen at thy giving of thanks, seeing he understandeth not what thou sayest? For thou verily givest thanks well, but the other is not edified. I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all: Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue. Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men. In the law it is written, WITH MEN OF OTHER TONGUES AND OTHER LIPS WILL I SPEAK UNTO THIS PEOPLE; AND YET FOR ALL THAT WILL THEY NOT HEAR ME, saith the Lord. 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. If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in those that are unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad? But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believeth not, or one unlearned, he is convinced of all, he is judged of all: And thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest; and so falling down on his face he will worship God, and report that God is in you of a truth.
How is it then, brethren? when ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying. If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret. But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God. Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the other judge. If any thing be revealed to another that sitteth by, let the first hold his peace. For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted. And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets. For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints. Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law. And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church. What? came the word of God out from you? or came it unto you only? If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord. But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant. Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues. Let all things be done decently and in order. 1st Corinthians 14:1-40.
-And he said, Hear thou therefore the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left. And the LORD said, Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead? And one said on this manner, and another said on that manner. And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, I will persuade him. And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so. Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil concerning thee. 1st Kings 22:19-23.
