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Tongues of Men and Angels
"Though I speak with the tongues of men and angels and have not love I am nothing." 1 Cor. 13:1
Several years ago I wrote a screenplay on World War 2 (It has not been produced yet) WW 2 is my favorite era in history. The script is about the Ardenne Forest which is where the Battle of the Bulge took place. The movie opens with a great song from the past sung by Bing Crosby. “You have to accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative, and throw out Mr. in between.” I love that song!
When it comes to the consciousness that radiates from the wheel within the wheel we have to accept first that there is an outer consciousness (the outer wheel) and an inner consciousness (the inner wheel) If you haven’t read previous the blog on the wheels within the wheels then go back and read that first before proceeding.
The task of faith set before us is the ongoing choosing of accentuating the inner wheel consciousness, and de-accentuating the outer wheel consciousness. You have to accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative, and learn not to hover between two burdens; throw out Mr. in between. How do we do that?
I think it is amazing that the Apostle Paul would write about languages in 1 Corinthians in the context of both men and angels. The issues of how we talk has a great deal to do with the setting of our consciousness.
If we speak negatively we are set ourselves on lower wheel consciousness. If we set our conversation in heaven we set ourselves on higher wheel consciousness. Do you ever listen to how people talk? You can tell by a person’s conversation if they are progressing by how they accentuate either the positive or the negative. Is there conversation in heaven or earth? Have they set themselves on the things above or the things below?
But the issue concerning tongues is most interesting in that tongues has been given a bad rap over the past several decades. I think it is interesting that Paul spoke in tongues and that he called them tongues of angels. In many denominations the church is anathema to tongues and even goes so far as calling them satanic, yet Paul testified that he spoke in tongues, and tongues of angels, and he said he spoke in tongues more than everyone.
Mainline Christendom calls tongues today counterfeits to that which men had in the first century, before the Bible was formed into canon. But how would they be able to know this, as fact, if they had never heard an angelic tongue that men spoke from the first century. How could they possibly know? Only by their interpretation of the bible.
But are we being robbed of a very important gift by their interpretive miscalculation? There must be something to it. But the modernists say that tongues were done away with when the Bible came in. They call the Bible the perfect. ' 'When the perfect comes in, " they say, "the partial will be done away with." But the Word itself says the Spirit is truth.
So, let’s have the fullness of the Spirit, and all that Paul and the first century church had. We desperately need the experience of the Holy Spirit beyond the dogma and teachings of men from the pulpit. But why should we fear their supposed counterfeit, as the misguided warn us to be fearful of.
If we truly trust our heavenly Father that he will not give us a snake when we ask Him for a fish we should not fear. It goes on in Corinthians to say, that a man who speaks in tongues edifies himself and that it is better to speak prophecy then to speak in tongues. The reason is that if you were to speak in a tongue in public no one would understand what you were saying, but if a word is spoken in a prophetic capacity the hearer would grasp what you are saying. So when it comes to those who are in earshot it is better that they hear something that helps them for loves sake. So then speaking in unknown tongue is discouraged in public unless there is one who can interpret. But what about when you are not in earshot of others? Is it wrong to speak in tongues, and if not then what would be the purpose when you are by yourself?
Here is the problem with modern interpretations when they forbid tongues speaking. They say when a man speaks in an unknown tongue (tongues of angels) he only edifies himself. They make is sound as though it is selfish to speak in tongues, because it only edifies oneself. But what they do not understand is that there is a lower self (outer wheel) and a higher self (the wheel with in the wheel) When a man speaks in tongues he is edifying his higher self or his inner wheel; Christ within.
The church world does not understand the two selves. They have not yet come to understand Ezekiel’s wheel within the wheel. The language of angels or tongues is a bridge to the edification of the higher self or Christ within us; the inner wheel within.
We must all understand that our tendancy is to gravitate to a lower self consciouness. This is an inevitable dynamic and consequence while we live out our eathly lives, hence the need to accentuate the higher self ( inner wheel) by the exercising of speaking in the language of angels; the tongues of angels. This is our true language, and a repressentation of who we truly are. Let us all transcend by exercising ( by faith) the angelic languages that edify our self; our higher self.
But if we do not, as yet, speak in tongues how do we learn this? The book of Acts chapter two, tells us that the gift of tongues follows the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit Baptism is not water Baptism. They are much different.
The evidence of the Holy Spirit Baptism is the release of the gift of angelic tongues. If you think as a Christian you have obtained the Baptism of the Holy Spirit without the speaking in tongues you are missing out.
Earnestly pray to the Father for the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, for Jesus promised that the Father would send him, in my name, to all those that ask. But you must earnestly seek in the name of Jesus. John 14:25-26 and John 16:7
The evidence that you have received the fullness of the Spirit is the gift of angelic tongues. If we want to accentuate the positive (the higher self or inner wheel within the outer wheel) we must learn to speak in tongues as the great Apostle Paul, who spoke in tongues more than us all. It is the gift of angelic language, and a pathway for the enlarging of Christ within us.
Ken-the Kingdom of Heaven is within
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