I believe, as others do, that the place Jesus told his newly born again disciples to go and wait for the POWER gift from the Holy Spirit was the '
house of God' or the TEMPLE in Jerusalem. And I believe they were all 120 gathered at Solomon's Portico.
Read the below Strong's Greek definitions and then apply that understanding to the verse above.
"
sound" = 2279
echos:
a loud or confused noise, i.e. roar; fig. a rumor
"
wind" = 4157
pnoe: respiration, a breeze
So, does '
wind' meet the
echos definition of the "
sound" that was first HEARD...."
a loud confused noise"? I personally don't believe it does. We all know what '
wind' sounds like.
I think the divided tongue of fire on their heads represented the two tongues each of the 120 born again disciples of Jesus spoke. The first tongue was the heavenly one from their own holy born again spirits. And it was them speaking in those prayer languages (that "
no man understands", because they aren't earthly languages). But they certainly did fit the definition of "
echos"/
"a loud confused noise" in verse 2.
In verse 6, we have to deal with the "
sound" that was heard in the whole temple. And it was all coming from Solomon's Portico and those 120 tongue talking and (gibberish sounding) charismatic Christians.
5456
phone: a tone (
articulate, bestial or artificial); by impl. an address (for any purpose), saying or
language
Those Jews who were so MENTAL and not SPIRITUAL, thought they sounded like they were DRUNK....or might they have even said "BABBLING".
Yes, and AMEN.
Not sure I agree here. When you say "everyone present", just exactly who are you thinking of?
@Sel@h