Talmidim BeHar
Talmidim BeHar
Luke 23:39-Acts 2:13
Events of the crucifixion, continued.
Luk 23:39 One of the criminals who was hanged insulted him, saying, “If you are the Messiah, save yourself and us!”
Luk 23:40 But the other answered, and rebuking him said, “Don’t you even fear Elohim, seeing you are under the same condemnation?
Luk 23:41 And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward for our deeds, but this man has done nothing wrong.”
Luk 23:42 He said to Yeshua, “Adonai, remember me when you come into your Kingdom.”
Luk 23:43 Yeshua said to him, “Assuredly, I tell you today, you will be with me in Paradise.”
There is no punctionation or spaces between words in ancient Greek or ancient Hebrew. All punctuation you see in your text was added by translators. The proper punction of the above sentence is not “I tell you, today you will be…” It is, “I tell you today, you will be…” The difference is theology, not grammar, as the translators insert their pre-conceived ideas into the text they are translating. It is an occupational hazard, to say the least. In this case, adding the punctuation in the wrong place is done purposefully to promote the idea that people go to heaven immediately when they die. That idea is not supported by the Tanakh nor by any text of the NT. We are promised resurrection – a real resurrection from a real death.
Luke, continued:
Luk 23:44 It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour.
From about noon until about 3pm on Nisan 14th, Passover, which was a Thursday the year Yeshua was crucified.
Luke, continued:
Luk 23:45 The sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was torn in two.
Elohim symbolically tears the hem of his garment.
Luke, continued:
Luk 23:46 Yeshua, crying with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” Having said this, he breathed his last.
A real death, not symbolic, not “just the body” dying but a true and complete total death, which is the only kind of death that can atone for our sins and pay the very real death penalty that we owe.
Luke, continued:
Luk 23:47 When the centurion saw what was done, he glorified Elohim, saying, “Certainly this was a righteous man.”
Luk 23:48 All the multitudes that came together to see this, when they saw the things that were done, returned home beating their breasts.
Luk 23:49 All his acquaintances, and the women who followed with him from the Galil, stood at a distance, watching these things.
Luk 23:50 Behold, a man named Yosef, who was a member of the council, a good and righteous man
Luk 23:51 (he had not consented to their counsel and deed), from Ramatayim, a city of the Judeans, who was also waiting for the Kingdom of Elohim:
Luk 23:52 this man went to Pilate, and asked for Yeshua’s body.
It is, of course, patently false to say “the Jews” were responsible for the crucifixion of Yeshua as if all Jews had the same beliefs, practices, and theology. There is no such thing as “Judaism” as a monolithic institution in the 1st century CE, nor is there now. There were and are many sects of Judaism and Jews of many sects were believers in Yeshua.
Luke, continued:
Luk 23:53 He took it down, and wrapped it in a linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb that was cut in stone, where no one had ever been laid.
Luk 23:54 It was the day of the Preparation, and the Shabbat was drawing near.
The “sabbath” they were expecting here is the first convocation of Unleavened Bread, an appointed time that had sabbath restrictions on work. The “preparation” date is still Nisan 14th, Passover, which some sects still to this day conflate with Nisan 15th, Unleavened Bread. Not all sects did so – but Luke’s apparently does. Those sects which conflate the two considered Nisan 14th, which as we know is not a sabbath, a day to prepare for Unleavened Bread. They slaughter their passover lambs at the sunset ending Nisan 14th, and cook them roasted on a fire for several hours, then eat the Passover lamb after dark, on Nisan 15th, which does not fit with the commandments of Leviticus, the Exodus chronology, nor the fact that Yeshua had His Passover seder with His talmidim the evening beginning Nisan 14th, in this case Wednesday evening after dark. To this day the Orthodox Rabbinate commands everyone to eat the passover lamb after sunset on the 15th, when it is no longer Passover. This is incorrect and should not be practiced by Torah True Believers. The Passover Lamb must be eaten “between the evenings” which means it must be eaten on Nisan 14th, not on Unleavened Bread when it is Nisan 15th. At that point it is no longer Passover, and the seder is not valid. We see this clearly in Elohim’s explanation of Pesach Kattan.
Num 9:10 “Say to the children of Yisra’el, ‘If any man of you or of your generations is unclean by reason of a dead body, or is on a journey far away, he shall still keep the Pesach to YHWH.Num 9:11 In the second month, on the fourteenth day at evening they shall keep it; they shall eat it with matzah and bitter herbs.
“And the evening and the morning were the first day…” Evening is the beginning of a day on Elohim’s calendar. So “evening” refers to the sunset beginning Nisan 14th (or for Pesach Kattah, Iyar 14th.)
Num 9:12 They shall leave none of it until the morning, nor break a bone of it. According to all the statute of the Pesach they shall keep it. Num 9:13 But the man who is clean, and is not on a journey, and fails to keep the Pesach, that soul shall be cut off from his people. Because he didn’t offer the offering of YHWH in its appointed season, that man shall bear his sin. Num 9:14 If a foreigner lives among you, and desires to keep the Pesach to YHWH; according to the statute of the Pesach, and according to its ordinance, so shall he do. You shall have one statute, both for the foreigner, and for him who is born in the land.’” Num 9:15 On the day that the tabernacle was raised up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, even the Tent of the Testimony: and at evening it was over the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until morning.
Passover is so important to Elohim that He allows this “make up test.” If you did it wrong before, I urge you to do it on the 14th of the second month. And again, these instructions tells us a lot about the regular Passover: Notice there is no commandment to make up the week of Unleavened Bread. You only make up Passover itself, on the 14th day of the second month, not the 15th day. They are clearly separate observances.
Luke, continued:
Luk 23:55 The women, who had come with him out of the Galil, followed after, and saw the tomb, and how his body was laid.
Luk 23:56 They returned, and prepared spices and ointments. And on the Shabbaths they rested according to the mitzvah.
…και2532 CONJ το3588 T-ASN μεν3303 PRT σαββατον4521 N-ASN ησυχασαν2270 V-AAI-3P κατα2596 PREP την3588 T-ASF εντολην1785 N-ASF
G4521 σάββατον sabbaton sab’-bat-on
Of Hebrew origin [H7676]; the Sabbath (that is, Shabbath), or day of weekly repose from secular avocations (also the observance or institution itself); by extension a se’nnight, that is, the interval between two Sabbaths; likewise the plural in all the above applications: – sabbath (day), week.
There were two sabbaths back to back the year Yeshua died on the stake. The first was Nisan 15th, the First Convocation of Unleavened Bread, which was from sundown Thursday night until sundown on Friday. The regular weekly Sabbath followed, from sundown Friday night until sundown Saturday evening. So Yeshua rose on the third day, which would have been Nisan 17th that year, the first day of the week following Passover – in other words, the Feast of Firstfruits. Firstfruits, the first day of the counting of the Omer, is not a Sabbath and has nothing to do with the regular weekly Sabbath. The fact that Yeshua rose on the Feast of Firstfruits certainly has no bearing or authority to change the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday.
Luke, continued:
Luk 24:1 But after the Sabbaths, at early dawn, they and some others came to the tomb, bringing the spices which they had prepared.
Your translation may say “on the first day of the week,” but that is absolutely false. The Greek says:
Luk 24:1 τη3588 T-DSF δε1161 CONJ μια1520 A-DSF των3588 T-GPN σαββατων4521 N-GPN
“…mia ton sabbaton…” the correct translation is “after the sabbaths.”
On Thursday, the afternoon of Nisan 14th, the farmers would have been bundling their firstfruit sheaves and marking firstfruits of other crops with ribbons so that they could easily identify them in the predawn light of Sunday morning. Since Friday was Unleavened Bread Day One and Saturday was the regular weekly sabbath that year, Thursday afternoon was their last opportunity (since Passover itself is not a sabbath). It was the same time that Yeshua was being bundled in his graveclothes, to be the Firstfruits of the Dead on Sunday morning.
Luke, continued:
Luk 24:2 They found the stone rolled away from the tomb.
Luk 24:3 They entered in, and didn’t find Adonai Yeshua’s body.
Luk 24:4 It happened, while they were greatly perplexed about this, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling clothing.
These were the Two Witnesses, whose “job” is to be witnesses for the prosecution at a later date. It is commonly thought that the Two Witnesses are Moses and Elijah, but Moses is dead and buried and like everyone else except Yeshua (who alone is ascended to immortality) Moshe has not yet received his resurrection. The only two human beings who have been taken to heaven as mortal are Enoch and Elijah, one pre-flood witness and one post-flood witness. They will die their mortal deaths at the midpoint of the Tribulation. Their job here would have been to inspect the Firstfruit offering at the last minute to make sure it was “without blemish” and fit to be offered at the Heavenly Temple. The farmers would have making the same inspections of their offerings in the predawn moments, also, before presenting their offerings at the earthly Temple.
Luke, continued:
Luk 24:5 Becoming terrified, they bowed their faces down to the earth. They said to them, “Why do you seek the living among the dead?
Luk 24:6 He isn’t here, but is risen. Remember what he told you when he was still in the Galil,
Luk 24:7 saying that the Son of Man must be delivered up into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again?”
As many times as they were told this by Yeshua Himself, it’s hard to see how they didn’t get it. But they didn’t.
Luke, continued:
Luk 24:8 They remembered his words,
Luk 24:9 returned from the tomb, and told all these things to the Eleven, and to all the rest.
Luk 24:10 Now they were Miriam from Magdala, Yochanah, and Miriam the mother of Ya`akov. The other women with them told these things to the emissaries.
Luk 24:11 These words seemed to them to be nonsense, and they didn’t believe them.
Luk 24:12 But Kefa got up and ran to the tomb. Stooping and looking in, he saw the strips of linen lying by themselves, and he departed to his home, wondering what had happened.
The testimony of women is not usually admissible in a Jewish Court, even to this day. It is not a written Torah commandment. I don’t believe Yeshua meant for that tradition to stand, but the apostles seems a little slow sometimes.
Luke, continued:
Luk 24:13 Behold, two of them were going that very day to a village named Ammaus, which was sixty stadia from Yerushalayim.
Luk 24:14 They talked with each other about all of these things which had happened.
Luk 24:15 It happened, while they talked and questioned together, that Yeshua himself came near, and went with them.
Luk 24:16 But their eyes were kept from recognizing him.
Luk 24:17 He said to them, “What are you talking about as you walk, and are sad?”
Luk 24:18 One of them, named Klofah, answered him, “Are you the only stranger in Yerushalayim who doesn’t know the things which have happened there in these days?”
Luk 24:19 He said to them, “What things?” They said to him, “The things concerning Yeshua, the Natzri, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before Elohim and all the people;
Luk 24:20 and how the chief Kohanim and our rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him.
Luk 24:21 But we were hoping that it was he who would redeem Yisra’el. Yes, and besides all this, it is now the third day since these things happened.
Clearly, we see here that Yeshua was in the tomb three nights (Thursday night, Friday night, and Saturday night) and Sunday was the third day (Friday and Saturday being the first two). In Hebraic thought, this is not a contradiction. The first day of sitting Shiva begins after the funeral, even if the funeral is late in the afternoon – part of the day counts as day one. In counting the days of Niddah, a woman counts as day one the day she first begins bleeding, even if it is late in the afternoon – part of the day counts as day one. In this case, Yeshua walked with the two men sometime in the midday hours after he had presented himself that morning at the Heavenly Temple and had been accepted as the Firstfruits Offering. It was the third day since he had been laid in the tomb at erev Unleavened Bread.
Luke, continued:
Luk 24:22 Also, certain women of our company amazed us, having arrived early at the tomb;
Luk 24:23 and when they didn’t find his body, they came saying that they had also seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive.
Even they didn’t get it, though they obviously knew all the pertinent facts about Yeshua’s ministry and were apparently followers! Also like many others, the men going to Emmaus thought that “shining men” must be angels. They did not understand about the Two Witnesses, either.
Luke, continued:
Luk 24:24 Some of us went to the tomb, and found it just like the women had said, but they didn’t see him.”
Luk 24:25 He said to them, “Foolish men, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!
Luk 24:26 Didn’t the Messiah have to suffer these things and to enter into his glory?”
Luk 24:27 Beginning from Moshe and from all the prophets, he explained to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.
Everything we need to know about salvation and Yeshua’s teachings are in the Tanakh. It is certainly not “done away with” – it is the word, all of it, of Yeshua HaMashiach, as YHWH Incarnate. Every word of it is binding and eternal.
Luke, continued:
Luk 24:28 They drew near to the village, where they were going, and he acted like he would go further.
Luk 24:29 They urged him, saying, “Stay with us, for it is almost evening, and the day is almost over.” He went in to stay with them.
It must have been getting on to evening, late in the afternoon on Sunday Nisan 17th, the Feast of Firstfruits.
Luke, continued:
Luk 24:30 It happened, that when he had sat down at the table with them, he took the bread and gave thanks. Breaking it, he gave to them.
Luk 24:31 Their eyes were opened, and they recognized him, and he vanished out of their sight.
Luk 24:32 They said one to another, “Weren’t our hearts burning within us, while he spoke to us along the way, and while he opened the Scriptures to us?“
In order to be open, you have to be willing to learn, and willing to set aside pre-conceived ideas and old teachings. You have to be willing to look at the NT from the Hebrew point of view.
Luke, continued:
Luk 24:33 They rose up that very hour, returned to Yerushalayim, and found the eleven gathered together, and those who were with them,
Luk 24:34 saying, “Adonai is risen indeed, and has appeared to Shim`on!”
Luk 24:35 They related the things that happened along the way, and how he was recognized by them in the breaking of the bread.
Luk 24:36 As they said these things, Yeshua himself stood among them, and said to them, “Shalom be to you.”
Luk 24:37 But they were terrified and filled with fear, and supposed that they had seen a spirit.
Still the products of Hellenistic culture, they reverted immediately back to their sectarian and pagan teachings when they should have known better – it’s not like resurrection was something they had never heard of. We often have the same first reactions – based on the pagan and Torahless teachings of our youth. But we can and should re-educate ourselves.
Luke, continued:
Luk 24:38 He said to them, “Why are you troubled? Why do doubts arise in your hearts?
Luk 24:39 See my hands and my feet, that it is truly me. Touch me and see, for a spirit doesn’t have flesh and bones, as you see that I have.”
Luk 24:40 When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet.
Luk 24:41 While they still didn’t believe for joy, and wondered, he said to them, “Do you have anything here to eat?”
Luk 24:42 They gave him a piece of a broiled fish and some honeycomb.
Luk 24:43 He took them, and ate in front of them.
Luk 24:44 He said to them, “This is what I told you, while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the Torah of Moshe, the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled.”
The Spring Feasts have had their true fulfillment. And more is yet to be fulfilled – the Fall Feasts.
Luke, continued:
Luk 24:45 Then he opened their minds, that they might understand the Scriptures.
Luk 24:46 He said to them, “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Messiah to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day,
Luk 24:47 and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Yerushalayim.
Luk 24:48 You are witnesses of these things.
There is no extant text which says these things directly. Such a book would not have been preserved by the Rabbinate because it would lend too much credence to the Messianic Jewish sect. And if the book was too clear about Torah observance being expected of Believers in Messiah, the early Roman Church would also have suppressed it. No doubt this text will be made available to us by Yeshua in the Kingdom, but as of this writing, we do not have any copy.
Luke, continued:
Luk 24:49 Behold, I send forth the promise of my Father on you. But wait in the city of Yerushalayim until you are clothed with power from on high.”
Luk 24:50 He led them out as far as Beit-Anyah, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them.
Luk 24:51 It happened, while he blessed them, that he withdrew from them, and was carried up into heaven.
Luk 24:52 They worshiped him, and returned to Yerushalayim with great joy,
Luk 24:53 and were continually in the temple, praising and blessing Elohim. Amein.
There in Heaven he acts as our High Priest and legal advocate in the face of hasatan’s relentless accusations against us. The time is soon coming, however, when the Fall Feasts will begin to be fulfilled, when He will take up His role as King of Kings, YHWH Incarnate, here on Earth..
The Book of Acts:
Act 1:1 The first book I wrote, Theophilus, concerned all that Yeshua began both to do and to teach,
Act 1:2 until the day in which he was received up, after he had given mitzvah through the Holy Spirit to the emissaries whom he had chosen.
Act 1:3 To these he also showed himself alive after he suffered, by many proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days, and speaking about Elohim’s Kingdom.
“Ascention Day” is the 40th day of the Counting of the Omer, ten days prior to Shavu’ot. It does not happen on the same day every year, but must be calculated according to the sighting of the new moon of Nisan and the counting of the Omer which begins the Sunday following Passover.
Luke, continued:
Act 1:4 Being assembled together with them, he charged them, “Don’t depart from Yerushalayim, but wait for the promise of the Father, which you heard from me.
Act 1:5 For Yochanan indeed immersed in water, but you will be immersed in the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”
Act 1:6 Therefore, when they had come together, they asked him, “Adonai, are you now restoring the kingdom to Yisra’el?“
One track minds!
Acts, continued:
Act 1:7 He said to them, “It isn’t for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within His own authority.
Be we are commanded to watch for the signs and wait attentively. We are “not in darkness, that the Day should take us unawares.”
Acts, continued:
Act 1:8 But you will receive power when the Ruach HaKodesh has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Yerushalayim, in all Yehudah and Shomron, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”
Act 1:9 When he had said these things, as they were looking, he was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their sight.
Act 1:10 While they were looking steadfastly into the sky as he went, behold, two men stood by them in white clothing,
The Two Witnesses, again.
Acts, continued:
Act 1:11 who also said, “You men of the Galil, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Yeshua, who was received up from you into the sky will come back in the same way as you saw him going into the sky.”
This probably refers to the Parousia, Yom Teruah, when we meet Adonai “in the air” and are taken to the “many mansions” of the Bridal Chamber. As we see in the parable of the 10 virgins, Yeshua comes as a Groom to call His Bride, not as a commander of armies. Later, when He comes here to earth in the second advent, Yom Kippur, when He will be riding a great white stallion and leading the Armies of Heaven and His Bride to fight hasatan and set up the kingdom.
Rev 19:11 I saw the heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it is called Faithful and True. In righteousness he judges and makes war. Rev 19:12 His eyes are a flame of fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has names written and a name written which no one knows but he himself. Rev 19:13 He is clothed in a garment sprinkled with blood. His name is called “The Word of Elohim.” Rev 19:14 The armies which are in heaven followed him on white horses, clothed in white, pure, fine linen. Rev 19:15 Out of his mouth proceeds a sharp, double-edged sword, that with it he should strike the nations. He will rule them with an iron rod. He treads the winepress of the fierceness of the wrath of Elohim, the Almighty. Rev 19:16 He has on his garment and on his thigh a name written, “KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.” Rev 19:17 I saw an angel standing in the sun. He cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in the sky, “Come! Be gathered together to the great supper of Elohim, Rev 19:18 that you may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and slave, and small and great.”
Acts, continued:
Act 1:12 Then they returned to Yerushalayim from the mountain called Olivet, which is near Yerushalayim, a Sabbath day’s journey away.
A “sabbath day’s journey” is the distance one is allowed to travel on the Sabbath, only a few miles from your home or synagogue. Obviously, since beasts of burden were also required to observe the Sabbath according to Elohim’s commandments, it would have been a reasonable walking distance – say, an hour or two at most.
Acts, continued:
Act 1:13 When they had come in, they went up into the upper room, where they were staying; that is Kefa, Yochanan, Ya`akov, Andrew, Philip, T’oma, Bar-Talmai, Mattityahu, Ya`akov Ben-Chalfai, Shim`on the Zealot, and Yehudah the son of Ya`akov.
Act 1:14 All these with one accord continued steadfastly in prayer and supplication, along with the women, and Miriam the mother of Yeshua, and with his brothers.
Act 1:15 In these days, Kefa stood up in the midst of the talmidim (and the number of names was about one hundred twenty), and said,
Act 1:16 “Brothers, it was necessary that this Scripture should be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Yehudah, who was guide to those who took Yeshua.
Act 1:17 For he was numbered with us, and received his portion in this ministry.
Act 1:18 Now this man obtained a field with the reward for his wickedness, and falling headlong, his body burst open, and all his intestines gushed out.
Act 1:19 It became known to everyone who lived in Yerushalayim that in their language that field was called ‘Chakal-Dama,’ that is, ‘The field of blood.’
Act 1:20 For it is written in the book of Tehillim, ‘Let his habitation be made desolate. Let no one dwell therein;’ and, ‘Let another take his office.’
Psa 109:1 <<For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.>> El of my praise, don’t remain silent, Psa 109:2 for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue. Psa 109:3 They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause. Psa 109:4 In return for my love, they are my adversaries; but I am in prayer. Psa 109:5 They have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love. Psa 109:6 Set a wicked man over him. Let an adversary stand at his right hand. Psa 109:7 When he is judged, let him come forth guilty. Let his prayer be turned into sin. Psa 109:8 Let his days be few. Let another take his office…
Acts, continued:
Act 1:21 “Of the men therefore who have accompanied us all the time that Adonai Yeshua went in and out among us,
Act 1:22 beginning from the immersion of Yochanan, to the day that he was received up from us, of these one must become a witness with us of his resurrection.”
Act 1:23 They put forward two, Yosef called Bar-Sabba, who was surnamed Justus, and Mattityah.
Act 1:24 They prayed, and said, “You, Adonai, who know the hearts of all men, show which one of these two you have chosen
Act 1:25 to take part in this ministry and office of emissary from which Yehudah fell away, that he might go to his own place.”
Act 1:26 They drew lots for them, and the lot fell on Mattityah, and he was numbered with the eleven emissaries.
It seems frivolous to us, but the Urim and Thummin of the Cohen HaGadol worked basically the same way. Since Elohim controls everything, it reveals His will as well as any other type of “oracle.”
Acts, continued:
Act 2:1 Now when the day of Shavu`ot had come, they were all with one accord in one place.
Shavu’ot is itself an appointed time that is a Sabbath. It is the 50th day of the Counting of the Omer, and always falls on the first day of the week, as we have seen in Leviticus.
Acts, continued:
Act 2:2 Suddenly there came from the sky a sound like the rushing of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.
Act 2:3 Tongues like fire appeared and were distributed to them, and one sat on each of them.
Act 2:4 They were all filled with the Ruach HaKodesh, and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak.
Act 2:5 Now there were dwelling in Yerushalayim Jews, devout men, from every nation under the sky.
Act 2:6 When this sound was heard, the multitude came together, and were bewildered, because everyone heard them speaking in his own language.
Act 2:7 They were all amazed and marveled, saying to one another, “Behold, aren’t all these who speak from the Galil?
Act 2:8 How do we hear, everyone in our own native language?
Act 2:9 Parthians, Madai, Elamites, and people from Aram-Naharayim, Yehudah, Cappadocia, Pontus, Asia,
Act 2:10 Phrygia, Pamphylia, Egypt, the parts of Libya around Cyrene, visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes,
Act 2:11 Cretans and Arabians: we hear them speaking in our languages the mighty works of Elohim!“
We have covered this before, but it’s worth saying again here that the “gift of tongues” is a gift whose purpose is to be useful in preaching and teaching to people of other nations who don’t speak your language. An interpreter is required to be present when tongues are spoken (per Shaul). Babbling incoherently and/or falling over in the floor in an “ecstacy” is not what is happening here, nor should it be what happens when the real gift of tongues appears in your congregation.
Acts, continued:
Act 2:12 They were all amazed, and were perplexed, saying one to another, “What does this mean?”
Act 2:13 Others, mocking, said, “They are filled with new wine.”
Secular minds can always find a way to explain away a miracle.
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