Speaking in Tongues
The manifestation of your gift, holy spirit!
(Clothed with Power from on High)
Through time, the Body of the Christ lost certain key revelations revealed in our Father’s Word: 1.) Justification on the principle of faith, which was rediscovered by Martin Luther in the 1510’s. 2.) The great sacred secret was rediscovered by E. W. Bullinger in the 1890’s. 3.) I Corinthians 14, which deals with speaking in tongues and prophesying (the manifestation of the holy spirit) was believed and acted upon by Edward Irving’s congregation in Scotland, in 1830. Yahweh’s spirit, also known as the ‘spirit of Yahweh,’ was poured out on prophets, kings, priests, judges and others in the Old Covenant. Yahoshua also poured out the free gift of holy spirit on the day of Pentecost (Acts 2:33, 38). The manifestation of this gift entails nine operations: tongues, tongues with interpretation, prophesy, word of knowledge, word of wisdom, discerning of spirits, faith, energizing of powers, and healings (I Cor. 12: 7-10). People have mistakenly called these, ‘the gifts of the Spirit.’ We will see that the nine operations listed above are not ‘gifts’ but are manifestations of a gift; the gift being the spirit of Yahweh also known as spirit and holy spirit. In the scriptures, spirit is synonymous with power; “but ye shall receive power when the holy spirit cometh upon you…” (Acts 1:8). If the Church is not manifesting power it is because it is not manifesting the spirit! All Christians (people who confess and believe Romans 10:9) have received the gift of spirit and are commanded by our Father to manifest or operate the nine operations of the gift, in order that the Body of the Christ be edified. By manifesting our gift of spirit, power is released thereby glorifying our Father and our Lord. Speaking in tongues was the evidence or proof that people received the gift of spirit in Acts chapter two and chapter ten.
The Hebrew word, ‘ruah,’ also spelled as, ‘ruwach,’ means wind and or breath. Ruah is related to the vowel root ‘ruh,’ which means, ‘to breathe.’ The basic idea of ruah is ‘air in motion,’ which denotes ‘power,’ that signifies ‘activity and life.’ Also ruah has an association with the invisible as illustrated by the invisible wind and man’s breath. We can not see the breath or the wind but we can witness their manifestations of power as by watching a ship sail or a man blowing out a candle. Ruah is translated, ‘spirit’ over 50% of the time in the Old Testament. The word spirit comes from the Latin word, ‘spirare,’ meaning ‘to breath’ from which we have the words: exspirare (expire) to breathe out; conspirare (conspire) to breathe together; inspirare (inspire) to breathe in; perspirare (perspire) to breathe through; respirare (respire) to breathe back; transpirare (transpire) to breathe across or over; adspirare (aspire) to breathe towards or upon. We err if we hear the word spirit, a translation of ruah or pneuma and do not immediately associate it with the breath of Yahweh or air in motion. The Greek word pneuma, in the New Testament, is in the majority of the time translated, ‘spirit.’ Pneuma or spirit is synonymous with breath or air in motion. We derive our words, pneumatic, as in air powered tools and pneumonia, as an inflammation of the lungs, from pneuma. Our word, ‘spirit,’ as used in the Christian Church, has devolved from its original meaning, which is, “breathing, breath, air, etc., related to spirare to breathe” to, ‘Spirit,’ “the third person of the triune God, the Holy Spirit, coequal, coeternal with the Father and the Son.” The Bible translators have created a new meaning and entity by capitalizing, at their own discretion, the word, ‘Spirit,’ which is supposed to represent the word ruah. (See the article, “Spirit and Soul.”)
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