Job 33:14 For God does speak - now one way, now another - …
Acts 2:4 All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.
The gift of tongues was the gift which was unique to the advent of the Holy Spirit, in baptism by Jesus Christ. Previously, as the Holy Spirit came on men/women of God in power, there was more recorded for us that they spoke in tongues, or if they prophesied like Saul (king). It is not recorded that they spoke in different languages (tongues).
There were great remedies such as Samson slaying the Philistines with a jaw bone. However there has never been recorded that the gift of tongues came with the Holy Spirit. It was to be the unique gift that signaled the beginning of a new era – the new had come because even the speech had been changed. What is recorded for us is that in Acts 2, 10 and 19, as the Lord baptized, prophecy and praises were uttered alongside the tongues. In Acts 2, those who had the utterance were given the interpretation so that they might be witnesses of the beginning of the era.
As the era draws to an end, what does the gift of tongues of the Holy Spirit mean for us (especially for His elect) and the Holy Spirit at this stage? The gift was given that we might utter mysteries for God in languages no one else could understand and in so doing, edify ourselves for growth (1 Cor 14:1-10). It was a means for the Holy Spirit to pray for us when …We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God's will. (Ro 8:26-27)
And all of that, the Holy Spirit has done. So powerful is this gift, that the infiltration of our ranks spent centuries persecuting and eliminating from our ranks those who could speak in tongues. They do this by making up lies like ‘tongues are from the devil’ and misusing Paul’s advice to the Corinthian church about speaking in tongues. Despite all that, we are now almost 2000 years later, at the end of the era when the Holy Spirit was the one who supervised the work of God on earth, and at the eve of His departure. The gift of tongues which came first will be the last and will now reveal a new dimension in its use and not so new.
Those who have matured, understand that through the gift of tongues, the Holy Spirit can pray through us, repeating what He had heard of which is spoken in heaven by the Son and agreed by the Father. This is so that what has been agreed to in heaven can be loosed on earth through agreement to on earth by those of us who know to say “amen Holy Spirit”.
Now as the silence in heaven continues and the Holy Spirit speaks on His own through prophecy and through tongues, the gift of tongues is now being used by the Giver of the gift, of His own accord and mind, to reveal to us His heart. And to His elect, the Holy Spirit will grant interpretations of His prayers in His gift of tongues, for it is written “To man belong the plans of the heart, but from the LORD comes the reply of the tongue.” (Pro 16:1)
So now, the Holy Spirit who has dwelt with man on earth for 2000 years will give reply to the plans of men’s hearts, hearts that are wicked beyond understanding, and express His reply in His tongue from His heart with one full agreement.
Now men will be witness to what the Holy Spirit think of the plans of the hearts of those who have not listened to Jesus. And the church will witness what the Holy Spirit think of her plans and those who have not listened to the Holy Spirit as Jesus commanded. For it is written “The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit.” (Pro 18:21)
The tongue of the Holy Spirit will truly unleash life – life abundantly for those who will listen to Jesus. But to those who will not listen, life will be withheld and where there is no life, there is death. Those who love the tongues of the Holy Spirit will eat the fruit of the tongues of the Holy Spirit. That is, we who love to be the speakers of His tongues, the listeners of His tongues and the amen of His tongues, will eat of the fruits of the Holy Spirit – love, joy, peace, goodness, kindness, gentleness, faithfulness, perseverance, patience, truth, righteousness and praise. Fruit that will sustain like the fruit of Eden was to sustain Adam and Eve.
Had Adam and Eve ate only the fruit permitted them, they would not have had to toil as they did. Likewise, if we love only the tongue of the Holy Spirit, then we will eat only of the fruits of the Holy Spirit. For the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Wisdom and it is written:
…the tongue of the wise brings healing. (Pro 12:18)
The tongue that brings healing is a tree of life… (Pro 15:4)
The tongue of the wise commends knowledge… (Pro 15:2)
In the days of distress that are coming, unequaled since the foundations of the earth, the fruits of the Holy Spirit (love, joy, peace, goodness, kindness, gentleness, faithfulness, perseverance, patience, truth, righteousness and praise) are essential for our survival. They are what we will live on, spiritually and if our spirits remain strong, then our flesh will be sustained. For Jesus Himself have told us, “The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing…” (Jn 6:63)
So likewise, when the Holy Spirit leaves, He will not leave us without provision. But He will, like the master who went on a journey, leave us with provision to feed the other servants at the right time.
Mt 24:45 Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom the master has put in charge of the servants in his household to give them their food at the proper time?
All the provision for life comes from the fruit of the tree of life and in this case, it will be by the tongue of the Wise One – the Spirit of Wisdom. So all who loves His tongue, will eat His fruit which gives life, life abundantly, to see through the days of distress, unequalled since the world began.
Mt 24:21 For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now--and never to be equaled again.
If it is unequalled, then the distress would exceed the day of banishment of Adam and Eve from the Garden. A day when men and women found themselves cut off from their usual source of food. A distress that would exceed when the windows of heaven and the springs of the deep burst open to wipe out all life on earth. Men and women everywhere found no shelter in what they were used to. Only something as strange and irrelevant as the Ark of Noah gave shelter and sustenance for those who were in it.
Distress unequaled – on a personal and global sense, to give you a glimpse of what is to come. No one, the church is hoping to be raptured. God did not rapture Noah but gave him a way to escape through the distress. So likewise, those who love the tongue of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Life, will receive life and those who hate His tongue or ignore His tongue, will embrace death. For even those who survived the deluge, all perished, as the waters covered the earth for 150 days. They perished because they had no food that could sustain them 6 months, even if they found vegetation to cling on to. Likewise, those who do not love the tongue of the Spirit of Wisdom, will have no food to go through this time, whose distress exceeds that of the flood of Noah globally.
This is because …a lying tongue lasts only a moment (Pro 12:19). The tongues of all the lying spirits who claim to be gods but are not God. The fruit of their tongues, their teaching and religion, will not last long enough to sustain them through the distress. Those who do not have the word of truth in them to give them truthful lips, will not endure, for truthful lips endure forever… (Pro 12:19). Those who do not have the power in their hands to part the Red Sea will not escape. And those who do not have the power to hold back the storm will be drowned by the storm of the Lord. But if the power of the Lord is hidden in His hand and the Word of God is in His heart, for He has meditated on it day and night. The sea will part for the Lord’s elect and the storm will cease at their utterance.
That is why we have been given this half hour of heaven’s time for us to come, not to believe in the tongue of the Holy Spirit but to know it.
It is written, without faith it is impossible to please God… (Heb 11:6). But without knowledge (I say to you), it is impossible to love God and to worship Him without making an idol of Him.
Jesus came, He who is perfect in knowledge of God, and He responded to all who had faith, any faith in Him. For it pleases God to respond to all who has faith in Him. So perfect knowledge responded to imperfect faith, and we were healed.
But when God chooses His elect, be it the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, it is God who is displaying faith in His choice. Just as when God choose Job as His champion – God knew and had perfect faith that Job would not fail Him. And as imperfect as Job’s knowledge of God was, Job freely confessed to this.
Job 42:1-5 Then Job replied to the LORD : "I know that you can do all things; no plan of yours can be thwarted. You asked, 'Who is this that obscures my counsel without knowledge?' Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know. "You said, 'Listen now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you shall answer me.' My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you.
Yet Job accomplished all that God elected him for. Job withstood the devil and the persuasions of religious men. He spoke what he knew and kept faith.
Likewise, now as the Holy Spirit makes known to the devil His elect, like God made known Job to the devil, we need only to speak what we know of Him and His Word, however imperfectly. And He who has perfect faith will love those who have imperfect knowledge. And this time He will …let the world know that He sent Jesus and have loved us even as He have loved Jesus. (Jn 17:23)
If perfect knowledge responding to imperfect faith produced healings of the blind, the lame, the issue of blood and the driving out of demons, what will perfect faith, responding to imperfect knowledge do? And even greater still. If we can say amen with all our heart, mind and soul, like the armour bearer of Jonathan did, to the Holy Spirit as He unleashes His tongues, without understanding or interpretation, then we have unleashed perfect faith in response to perfect knowledge, for the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Knowledge and He is perfect.
So then, eat up and stock up. Bring into the ark … every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them. (Gen 6:21) Agree at all times with the Holy Spirit, with thanksgiving, with all requests and intercession, even as He who has been silent now speaks His response to the plans of the hearts of men and manifests the heart of God’s plans.
Amen Holy Spirit.
He who has an ear, hear what the Holy Spirit is saying to the church.
