The tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity (Js. 3.6)
On Pentacost, the result of redemption is a new tongue, a silver tongue, a tongue looking "characteristically like fire" (Wuest Expanded Translation). What an amazing plan from God, to take sinners, who have mouths of death, iniquity, poison, to redeem them, and to put the Bible in their Spirit in their hearts so that they, like the 2 witnesses in Revelation, have tongues of fire. Imagine the scene, the disturbance, the commotion, as prophecy was fulfilled by men with stammering lips, as a sign to the cultured educated men of Israel, who had just missed the boat, now hearing the wonderous works of God, from Galilee-accented, uneducated idiots (greek), in the non-sacred, "secular" heathen gentile langues, but with tongues of fire! That's not mamby pamby, that's not holding back, that's not ear tickling, men pleasing, compromising, crossless, live for now, popular, average, spirit of the age, flesh influenced, carnal, double speak, that's men with tongues of fire!
On Pentacost, the result of redemption is a new tongue, a silver tongue, a tongue looking "characteristically like fire" (Wuest Expanded Translation). What an amazing plan from God, to take sinners, who have mouths of death, iniquity, poison, to redeem them, and to put the Bible in their Spirit in their hearts so that they, like the 2 witnesses in Revelation, have tongues of fire. Imagine the scene, the disturbance, the commotion, as prophecy was fulfilled by men with stammering lips, as a sign to the cultured educated men of Israel, who had just missed the boat, now hearing the wonderous works of God, from Galilee-accented, uneducated idiots (greek), in the non-sacred, "secular" heathen gentile langues, but with tongues of fire! That's not mamby pamby, that's not holding back, that's not ear tickling, men pleasing, compromising, crossless, live for now, popular, average, spirit of the age, flesh influenced, carnal, double speak, that's men with tongues of fire!
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