This Sunday we celebrate the gift of the Holy Spirit as told in Acts 2:1-11,
When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them ability.
Now there were devout Jews from every nation under heaven living in Jerusalem. And at this sound the crowd gathered and was bewildered, because each one heard them speaking in the native language of each. Amazed and astonished, they asked, ‘Are not all these who are speaking Galileans? And how is it that we hear, each of us, in our own native language? Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabs—in our own languages we hear them speaking about God’s deeds of power.’
That's one way to learn a foreign language.
This first century version of Babbel.com did not come cheap. For most, it would cost them their lives.
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Good point on the cost.
ReplyDeleteWe have relatives who are present-day Pentecostals. When they "speak in tongues," they don't actually speak another language that someone can understand, unlike the Apostles, who preached to the gathered foreigners in Jerusalem.
When they speak in tongues, do they have a translator?
DeleteThe "reclaiming" of the nations was the reversal of the Tower of Babel, thank the Lord!
ReplyDeletePerhaps the Babbel software should have been called "Pentecost", but the "cost" part would have been bad for business.
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