The Holy Spirit through Luke, then told us what those languages were by listing them, which basically precludes that which is being uttered by most charismatics as being the gift of tongues the the Holy Spirit poured out on the day of Pentecost.
Well, all men spoke the same language before the Tower of Babel, and Pentecost just reversed things in a show of God’s power.
The Lord can do whatever He wants with our speech.
Look at how He made it so Zechariah couldn’t talk:
The angel said to him, “I am Gabriel. I stand in the presence of God, and I have been sent to speak to you and to tell you this good news. And now you will be silent and not able to speak until the day this happens, because you did not believe my words, which will come true at their appointed time.”
GBU
Anyway, getting back to the raison d’être for this thread...
When I attended a NAR charismatic church over a decade ago, a friend of mine stayed behind to get prayer by some of the women who (I’d just begun to realize) were Revelation’s Jezebels (those who call themselves prophetesses, etc., but will not repent of teaching the so called deep things of Satan etc.)
He called me up later that day.
He said he was suddenly having problems speaking and hearing, like he couldn’t talk.
It confused me because he was clearly talking to me on his phone, and he could hear me, but he said it was like he couldn’t hear well and his speech was slightly impaired.
In those days, on Sundays after church, if I didn’t go out I would invariably have to lie down and take a nap. But these were not normal naps. (It would happen after the mid week meeting too, where some of us would get supernaturally sleepy.) So my friend calls and tells me this weird thing about not being able to hear or speak. And I was supernaturally drowsy after that church service. I prayed with him for a moment on the phone and told him I’d call him when he got home. Then I fell into one of those drop dead naps.
In the nap I had a dream. In the dream the Spirit spoke to me and said “****** has received a “deaf and dumb” spirit after being prayed for by the women”
I woke up and called him and told him what I heard. We prayed together against this thing, and it left. But the Lord showed us the evil counterfeits at work that day.
One thing I have learned about these NAR infected churches, the pull of their (false) personal prophecy over people is so strong, that even though a person knows the prophecies are lies, it is difficult to sever ties with people you’ve known forever. The only way to really get out is to understand that these are supernatural counterfeits and familiar spirits at work. If you don’t understand this and you don’t have a discernment of spirits about what is going on, it is almost impossible to be set free.
Another thing I’ve noted is that this “Jezebelic spirit” is sent to destroy faith. It is a mocking, subtle spitting demon, hiding within these NAR churches. You cannot let it prophesy over you, or submit to it, it takes evil pleasure in watching you grovel and submit to its counterfeit authority.
And the manner in which it twists the Word to convince you it is of God! It is only by grace and favor of the Lord that I was able to see it and try to “snatch some from the fire” of the NAR along with me. GBU MM
P.S. Just remembered another friend from that same church had a similar “hearing” problem that nearly cost her her job. Later.