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2) Interpretation
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Greetings Emmanuel,
Or are you speaking about a gift acquired over many years by careful meditation on the word and prayer and seeking an understanding such books as Isaiah and Daniel and the Psalms and the NT prophecies and the Book of Revelation? I would only claim to have progressed some distance in the second category.
Kind regards
Trevor
"Her"?? only females??? Are you asking whether a person has received the Holy Spirit gift by direct infusion, in order to interpret Scripture or translating a statement from someone who claims they are speaking in tongues? I have not met any true claims, but witnessed some false. On one occasion a young lady claimed she was interpreting her Pastor's speaking in tongues, but I rejected her testimony as the pastor immediately after spoke some wrong doctrine, and I therefore considered the Holy Spirit was not actually present. The Pastor also tried to heal two people but failed.
Or are you speaking about a gift acquired over many years by careful meditation on the word and prayer and seeking an understanding such books as Isaiah and Daniel and the Psalms and the NT prophecies and the Book of Revelation? I would only claim to have progressed some distance in the second category.
Kind regards
Trevor
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The gift of interpretation? Of tongues, you mean? If so, doesn't someone have to speak in tongues first? And how would any of us know if the one doing the interpreting is doing so accurately and under the power of the Holy Spirit? I would never trust the interpretation of anyone whose life was a closed book to me.
Interpretation only comes by the Holy Spirit that teaches us all things we need to know. A carnal interpretation is enmity against the Spirit.
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In 1974 while in a Pentecostal church in Augsburg Germany we were helping 3 Muslims whose visas had run out get back to Cyprus. They stayed at the fellowship center for about 4 months. Our church met in the evenings at the military chapel. One guy began speaking in tongues. When I looked at him the only way I can explain how he looked was he had a glow around him. After he spoke the interpretation came. I didn't think anything about it until after the service. The three Muslims said that the man spoke in their native language of Greek, and I know the speaker did not know Greek. The were amazed that the English interpretation was identical to what was spoken in Greek. I also know the interpreter did not know Greek. (One of the Muslims Moham, spoke English fairly well, the other two, not so much) I remember their names, Moham, Sassi, and Kumar.
In my view this indicates that for 'tongues' to be true there must be some verification that what was spoken was in fact the same message as what was interpreted.
In 1974 while in a Pentecostal church in Augsburg Germany we were helping 3 Muslims whose visas had run out get back to Cyprus. They stayed at the fellowship center for about 4 months. Our church met in the evenings at the military chapel. One guy began speaking in tongues. When I looked at him the only way I can explain how he looked was he had a glow around him. After he spoke the interpretation came. I didn't think anything about it until after the service. The three Muslims said that the man spoke in their native language of Greek, and I know the speaker did not know Greek. The were amazed that the English interpretation was identical to what was spoken in Greek. I also know the interpreter did not know Greek. (One of the Muslims Moham, spoke English fairly well, the other two, not so much) I remember their names, Moham, Sassi, and Kumar.
In my view this indicates that for 'tongues' to be true there must be some verification that what was spoken was in fact the same message as what was interpreted.
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