Angelina said:
Tongues are mostly spoken within the Church. Where there are tongues, there are also interpreters. Some tongues may indeed be false however, God has also given various believers the gift of discernment. This gift is able to define whether one is speaking in a tongue from the Lord or whether they are not. There is a prompting, an unction, a sense of alertness from the Holy Spirit that tells us when a tongue is not from God.
Any one who joins this forum, as an unknown and professes to be a prophet, will be heavily moderated. I would like to also point out that there are no "noted prophets" on this forum so your idea about "a true prophet" denouncing what was said would not come to pass.
Btw: I do not believe that anyone here is trying to silence the gift of tongues or the gift of prophecy. There is a major difference between the gift of prophecy and the office of a prophet....If you call yourself a prophet then you are saying that you hold the office of a prophet. The forum leadership will not allow strangers to this forum who profess to be prophets to have a free reign with it's members....just a reminder. :)
"Tongues are mostly spoken within the Church. Where there are tongues, there are also interpreters. Some tongues may indeed be false however, God has also given various believers the gift of discernment. This gift is able to define whether one is speaking in a tongue from the Lord or whether they are not. There is a prompting, an unction, a sense of alertness from the Holy Spirit that tells us when a tongue is not from God."
I was quite puzzled to read Rick Joyner, who I'm totally opposed to, he wrote that the true gift of discernment was probably the gift that was given to the least number of people. I've seen that that plays out every single day as being true. In my opinion, tongues are abused far far more often than they are true. Look at the prophecies and compare. How many false prophets are there for every one true prophet... 20? 100? Same with tongues. I have the gift of discernment and most of it plain gives me chills. It's rife with such enormous fraud I don't know why people take it as seriously as they once did.
"Prophet"
There might be prophets here who don't identify that way. Do you know that's for the better? Biblical prophets did not walk around advertising themselves.. that was the operating procedure of false prophets, always. In the church though, if someone gave a false prophetic word, then someone else would stand up after him to denounce what was said, but only a few would know what happened. When Jeremiah or the other prophets encountered large crowds, like I said they didn't advertise themselves and there were only a few in every crowd that understood the magnitude of what was happening.
Pay attention to the chapters before and after the story about Hananiah. Jeremiah's ministry is enormously attacked in that period and he finally warns the people to desert the land and flee into Egypt. He's being accused of being a traitor to his nation. Nevertheless, the king of Babylon prances in and slaughters untold thousands and takes thousands more into captivity. The vast majority, if you study the mid-section of Jeremiah, thought the guy was off his rocker and his word wasn't worth the paper it was printed on, as it were. Do you know, probably 3% had any idea that they were standing before a man whose name would be remembered until the end of time, one of the greatest prophets ever, who is likely to be seated as one of the 24 elders? And that 97% listened instead to the prophet who spoke peace, and Hananiah saying, The LORD says likewise shall I break the yoke of the king of Babylon.
