From the last blog, a reader asked me whether indeed the enemy doesn’t understand tongues seeing that in Acts 2, when the gift first made an appearance, men understood it. But they didn’t understand it. They rather were confused. The Bible says; “And when this sound occurred, the multitude came together, and were confused, because everyone heard them speak in his own language.” (verse 6)
Here’s where the confusion comes from: How can it be that the followers of Christ said a word, and that SAME word could be HEARD in countless languages! One said ‘girl’ in Jewish, and everyone could hear the same thing in their own language!
That’s multidimensional!
How can I speak a word in Luganda and yet in your ears you hear it in your language, and so will everyone else listening to me!
I as well I’m confused!
Notice there was no interpreter to translate the word from ‘Luganda’ to the different languages… There was a power that translated that same word automatically in everyone’s ear, and that awe caused men to repent.
The bottom line is; the men didn’t understand the tongues. The utterance availed to the followers came with a grace for each man to hear their own language!
Verse 4 says, “and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.”
Utterance means ‘a manner of speaking’, or ‘the ability to speak’. Thus the Spirit gave them a manner of speaking (or the ability to speak) A SOUND — we are not sure whether was in Jewish — that reached the ears of everyone in the language of that person!
I haven’t seen a language that has its own will! This means it can change to mean whatever it wants to mean in the ears of the recipient and yet carry the same purpose or message from God.
This makes it hard for the language to be decoded by the enemy; for the language could originally have been Hebrew, then it suddenly changed to Greek, and as the enemy tries to decode it, it metamorphoses into Aramaic. It then becomes annoying, that it just has to be left alone.
I’ve heard of testimonies where some one is praying in tongues, and a Chinese hears an instruction in mandarin. This means therefore, that the utterances are different. They are not constant. One time we might receive utterances that can be heard in an earthly language. Other times the utterance will be in only a language that God understands. Another time, the utterance will be a prayer about the perfect will of your life (Rom 8:27 … which means we are not just praying for things we want, but activating things we NEED). Another time, the utterance will be a language carrying the mysteries of Heaven — revelations no eye has seen nor ear heard, from God’s very mind, into the physical plane. Another time the Spirit is interceding for us (Rom 8:26). Another time, we are uttering a sound edifying (instructing morally) ourselves (1 Cor 14:4)
You see, the problem of plain language is that the enemy can corrupt it after understanding it. I’ll give a normal example. A pastor once prayed to get a Benz. He was specific about it. Now, out of the blue, he was gifted a totally different model of a car. It was second hand if I recall. And he’d have settled for it, yet it wasn’t his core choice. My interpretation is this: the enemy could have heard him ask for the Benz, and so found a way of getting the cheaper model to him. After all he can masquerade himself a s an angel of light… The pastor persisted howbeit, until he got the Benz he wanted.
God loves us to the detail, and I believe He gives us according to the desires of our hearts. I am thinking the enemy can make us settle for less by giving us cheaper models making us think that that was God’s choice. Think about Jacob and Rachel. Rachel was his first choice, but he received Leah as first wife. If Rachel was ignored, if Jacob didn’t insist on working hard for her, Joseph would not have been born. If Joseph wasn’t born, then Jacob and all his sons and grand children would have died of hunger because of the famine that was coming in a few year’s time!
One of the ways God has decided to deal with this corruption is by giving us this multidimensional language. So that the devil can’t understand what we are saying. That means he won’t have a chance to give us silver when we asked for gold. We won’t fall for the other sister or brother except the one meant for us. We won’t get green instead of the yellow which is just around the corner.
You see, Daniel’s answer was delayed 21 days because — I think — the enemy could have understood what he had prayed for, and so he dispatched the prince of Persia, a principality that fought to delay the answer to the prayer.
But none of that can happen if the language of the prayer is changing every second; changing into a language both known and unknown. As soon as he tries to figure it out — which he has never — the answer is already with the person who made the prayer.
A person who speaks in tongues speaks a thousand languages at the same time. Just like the utterance is multidimensional, so becomes the tongue of the person who speaks the tongues. Literally, every one who can — be it a spiritual babe — they are on a far higher level than Daniel.
Now Daniel prayed, but not in tongues. If he was indeed wiser than all astrologers and magicians and sorcerers and fortunetellers and soothsayers and he interpreted enigmas and dogmas and dreams for kings … how much more you, who prays in a multidimensional language? For this gift of the Spirit came after Jesus!
If Daniel and Ezekiel had the deepest of revelations and visions, concerning nations and the end of time, and yet they spoke not in tongues … How much more you — who speaks in tongues!
EXCEPT DEEPER FROM YOU!
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1 Corinthians 14:5a I wish you all spoke with tongues…
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