Tongues were a sign of God's curse, not of God's blessing. Tongues signified a coming invasion, and conveyed an ominous message of rebellion, judgment, and ...

3. Speaking in tongues was a supernatural, God-given ability (Mark 16:17-18; Acts 2:4) which is reasonable only if tongues were real languages.

Tongues pointed to the fact that God was doing something new and different! No longer would God's witness be a nation (Isaiah 43:10-12), but God's witnesses ...

Tongues Fulfilled at Pentecost (Acts 2) [PDF File] · Tongues Fulfilled at Caesarea (Acts 10) [PDF File] · Tongues Fulfilled at Ephesus (Acts 19) [PDF File].

The principle is this: It is possible to exercise a spiritual gift apart from love. If it were possible, one could even speak in angelic tongues apart from love ...

The Biblical gift of tongues was the supernatural ability to speak in a foreign language which the speaker had never learned. An unsaved person would not have ...

Tongues are listed in this third category of gifts. Thus the gift of tongues is grouped together with the gift of interpretation. The two go together. The one ...

The gift of tongues was not ecstatic utterances; it was words. Tongues-speaking was not nonsense syllables or foolish gibberish; it was words! Words must ...

The gift of tongues served its God-given purpose in the early days of the Church and then ceased no later than 70 AD.

Paul did not forbid the Corinthians to speak with tongues (verse 39) but he did forbid any tongues-speaking contrary to the rules which he set forth.