Tongues Speaking: A Sign of Blessing and a Sign of Judgment

Ecstatic speech did not begin at Pentecost. It is recorded in the Report of Wenamon around 1,100 BC, in Plato, in Virgil's Sibylline priestess and in the Greek mystery cults, and that background frames the argument: the gift given in Acts 2 was real and was something else. Working through the New Testament occurrences, the cessation question at 1 Corinthians 13:8 and Paul's correction of the abuse at 1 Corinthians 14, Sungenis reaches the conclusion that most of what passes for tongues today is psychologically induced, some of it demonically induced, and very little of it, if any, the work of the Holy Spirit. The Corinthian warning quotes Isaiah: when tongues are abused they stop being a sign of blessing and become a sign of judgment. 88 pages.