MM>Help me understand your message a little better.  You advocate that:
MM>1.  The tongues spoken in Acts 2 were Hebrew and the Holy Ghost translate 

  >them into others' languages?
Yes.  As those words entered their ears, the Spirit of YaHshua did open  
their understanding to the Hebrew tongue, as if it were their own  language.  
Hebrew had not been commonly spoken for centuries.  Only a  few of the 
"intellectuals" of those days knew, at least, how to read  it.  The Apostle 
Paul was one of them.  The commoners, such as the  Galileans, did not know 
the sacred language.  They spoke in Aramaic, a  language simular to Hebrew, 
yet different in many ways.
MM>2.  That speaking in tongues as practiced in the Pentecostal movement is
  >of the devil?
There are many sincere believers, who unwittingly practice a deceptive  type 
of tongues.  I was one of them.  I saw the harm of this deception.  It almost 
destroyed me.  People speaking in tongues (to prophecy) had  me going to 
Nome, Alaska, where I was to be martyred for Jesus.  My  ministry was to save 
countless thousands.  It was said that I was His  "seed".  In tongues it was 
told how perfectly I performed the works of  the Almighty.  Then, after I 
quit my job, said goodbye to my family,  and packed up all my earthly 
processions preparing to leave out, I was  brought into the church so as to 
be prayed over.  One of the same  "prophetesses" who had been directing this 
for a year, spoke another  prophecy (so-called), stating that it was all only 
a test.  And, that I  had passed it marvelously.  I had suffered greatly 
because of all this.  I believed that I was going to die!  I said goodbye to 
my family  believing that I would never see them again.  They were confused 
by the  whole thing.  I WAS JUST A KID!  I had to go away to collect myself.  
 When I returned, I had nowhere to live.  I stayed in a small 22 ft.  
pull-along camper behind the church until I could figure out what was  going 
on.  I was scarred.  Within a few short months, I was being  accused of 
trying to take over the church.  I was told that I was not  of the Almighty.  
I was asked to leave.
How can one go from being the Saviours perfect child (their words) to  not of 
God the next?  I was ordained by them "a full fledge minister" 7  months 
after I went to the alter.  Great pressure was placed upon me to  perform.  
All this was done because of the speaking in tongues, and due  to false 
prophecies.  I don't blame the ones who prophesied.  They were  taught that 
they were obeying the Spirit.  Yet, they themselves 
doubted.
So, Does the Almighty use tongues to edify, or destroy?  Does His words   go 
forth, then return to Him void?  Is He not Wisdom, as opposed to  
foolishness?  You may think that I have based my whole disapproval of  the 
tongues movement on this bad experience in my life.  But I have  seen it time 
and time again in various tongue speaking denominations.   It took me nearly 
20 years to get over the hurt of that deception, and  I am still suffering 
because of it.  My life will never be the same,  because for years, I hoped 
that the prophecies (theirs) would come to  fruitation.  I have no career, or 
family because of it.  I was told in prophecy utilizing the deceptive tongues 
movement, that I was not to  marry.  How trustful I was!  This movement 
controlled me.  It possessed  me!  But I thank my Saviour, YaHshua the 
MessYaH, that He had mercy  upon me and brought me out, so that I could think 
freely and clearly.
MM>Let me tell you where I'm coming from.  I am Holiness, Pentecostal
  >(Trinitarian).  I have never been involved in the Charismatic movement,
  >itself.  We prefer the older-fashioned ways.
I was Holiness, Pentecostal (Oneness).  I have seen it all!  I was also  
involved in the older-fashioned ways.
MM>I will state that I believe there ARE imitations in some churches.  For
  >every real thing, there is an imitation--even where salvation is
  >concerned.
MM>Yet, there ARE genuine, Holy Ghost-filled people in the Charismatic and
  >Pentecostal churches.  There IS a reality in the baptism of the Holy
  >Ghost, as evidenced in speaking in tongues.
There are Spirit filled people who do not speak in the none edifying  
tongues.  People who really know the love and wisdom that is of our  Saviour. 
 In John 20:22 it reads:
    "And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto
     them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost."
I did not here them jabbering in unintelligible tongues.  Please don't  say 
that they didn't, at that time, receive the Holy Ghost.  They  received the 
Holy Ghost many times throughout their ministry.  Whenever  YaHshua need to 
do a specific work in them, the Holy Ghost fell upon  them again.  People 
tell me that they got the Holy Ghost 39 years ago.   I want to know what they 
got today.
    "And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of 
     Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with 
     the Holy Ghost:  And she spake out with a loud voice, and said,
     Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy 
     womb.  And whence is this to me, that the mother of my Sovereign
     should come to me?  For, lo, as soon as the voice of thy 
     salutation sounded in mine ears, the babe leaped in my womb 
     for joy.  And blessed is she that believed: for there shall 
     be a performance of those things which were told her from YaHVaH." 
     (Luke 1:41-45.) 
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