Quote:
Originally Posted by votivesoul
None of which has anything to do with speaking in tongues as the Holy Spirit gives the utterance in Holy Spirit baptism.
That form of tongue-speaking is the return of a pure language to God's people ( Zephaniah 3:9) as the fulfillment of Joel 2:28 (that is, so the people of God could once again call on the name of the LORD in a way that was pure and pleasing to God). |
Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city! She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the LORD; she drew not near to her God. Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow. Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law. The just LORD is in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame. I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passeth by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant. I said, Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt receive instruction; so their dwelling should not be cut off, howsoever I punished them: but they rose early, and corrupted all their doings. Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy. For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the LORD, to serve him with one consent.
(Zephaniah 3:1-9)
Seems the "turning to the people a pure language" is timed AFTER a gathering of the nations to receive the fiery judgment of God. This is a common theme in prophecy, that God would gather the nations together and punish them for their iniquity and their persecution of His saints. The prophet tells the reader to "wait... until the day" of this gathering of the nations for judgment. And
then God will "turn to the people a pure language". So it seems this event is to come AFTER the prophesied judgment upon all the nations, which as far as I can tell did not occur before the first Pentecost under the new covenant (
Acts 2).
Perhaps you have a different take on the passage in Zephaniah? If so , please exegete.
