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they are both mentioned because believe requires repentance and the holy spirit comes to you think of Jesus here he always believed but the holy spirit did not come on him til he was baptised.Yes it applies to everyone but in those days there was no large church body the command to go forth and preach the Word was given to them but as the church body grew it was the command to the entire body of the chruchTongues here is the same word we have discussed before in means the natural languages of men they had not known before So they could preach the Gospel around the World as commanded it did not spread the Word if one preached in Greek to a spannish audiencethey needed to speak the language of the peoples they were speaking to 1 Cor. this is the same thing. The command is preach the gospel around the World. And yeah I have to agree with you here the poison could very well be sybolic for lies of Satan. But it could also be literalto the power of healing and laying on of hands I say this because it implies one can choose to drink a deadly thing why would a believer choose to drink in the poison of Satan/or deadly things? And I completly agree with you on the snake being symbolic
[1] I was baptised in the Holy Ghost before I was baptised in water. So were the believers in Acts 10.Tongue were and are divers, If you was to read 1 Corinthians 12: 10. & v 28. you will see that.There are different ways in which we can speak in tongues.[1] Different langueges. Acts 2: 4--12.[2]Mysteries. [ That no man will understand] 1 Cor 14: 2.[3] Tongues that will edify you. 1 Cor 14: 4.[4] Our prayer language. 1 Cor 14: 14-15.[5] A tongue in which there will be an interpretation. 1Cor 12:10 & v 30. 1 Cor 14:26-28.But please notice that no tongue was given for preaching or teaching God's message. In Acts 2. they were not preaching or teaching, they were speaking the wonderful works of God.In fact 1 Cor 14: 21. say's, They will not understnd.Altough I believe one can. teach or preach in another language if God wanted. I would never limmit God.I know one man spoke in tongues to a German man, and the German heard it in the German language, and the German got saved.