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Questions 114 (COD Page 549)
Are there two, are–are there two different types of Bible tongues? Is there a difference in tongues spoken in private prayer, and in the church where interpretation is required? On the Day of Pentecost the tongues were understood by man of different nations; but in First Corinthians 14:2, unknown tongues spoke unto God, not unto man. First Corinthians 13:1 indicates to such man...(C-o-r, I guess that’s Corinthians 13, what’s...)...to such man and the others of angels.
239 Oh, yes. See? Well, it...Now, brother, ever who you are, you–you’ve answered yourself here. See? See:
Are there two different tongues? (There’s many different tongues. See?) Are there two different tongues in the Bible, two different tongues?
240 On the Day of Pentecost every nation under Heaven was there with tongues. See? All right.
And is there difference between the tongues spoken in private prayer and in the churches where interpretation is required? Yes.
241 Paul spoke over here also in the Corinthians where you was asking here, and he said, “There are tongues of angels and there is tongues of man.” Now, tongues of angels is when a man’s praying to him–to him and God, alone. But when he’s speaking a–a language, it’s to be interpreted in the church, for edification of the church. “He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifies himself; but he that speaks...he that prophesies edifies the church.” So he said, “I’d rather speak five words with understanding than ten thousand in an unknown tongue, except, unless there be interpretation.” Then it’s–it’s spoken then by prophecy which is edifying. See what I mean?
242 Now, the...Now, there’s two different tongues, men andnangels. See? And Paul said, “Though I speak with tonguesnof men and angels,” see, both men and angels, both of thosentongues, the one that cannot...
243 Now, that’s where the Pentecostal people, tongues-evidence
people that say, told me, he said, “Now, Brother Branham,you’re all mixed up.”
244 Said, I said, “Well, if you get it according to Acts 2:4, then everybody heard you speak in the language that they were born in.”
“Oh!” he said. And “No! No!” he said.
I said, “Sure. Yes, sir.”
245 Said, “Now, Brother Branham, you’re all mixed up.”nSaid, “You’re talking about the...” Said, “There’s tonguesnof ‘angels.’ That’s the Holy Spirit angel that comes down andnnspeaks through you.”
246 Now, it sounds good, see, it sounds like it could be a lot ofntruth, but it ain’t all the Truth. When Satan told Eve, “surelynyou’ll not die,” that was a...he told her a lot of truth, but thatnwasn’t Truth. See?
247 Now, said, “‘Men and angels,’ and the angel he wasnspeaking of was...”
248 Now, let’s look how it won’t jive with Scripture. See?nNow, it won’t “cooperate,” I mean to say. Pardon me, Indidn’t mean to say “jive” with Scriptures. I mean “cooperate”nwith Scriptures, or “follow, coordinate” with Scriptures is the best word.
249 “Now, the man speaking with angels’ tongues,” he says, “that’s the tongues of the Holy Ghost that” he said, “now, when you, we, they received the Holy Ghost.”
I said, “Did...When, where’d you receive It at?”
250 Well, he told me exactly the spot, the minute and the hour. I don’t doubt but what he did. See? I have no...I’m not his judge. See? He said, “That’s where I spoke it.” He knowed exactly the place. Said, “Something happened to me.”
251 I said, “I believe it. See? But still that wasn’t the evidence of the Holy Ghost to you, son.”
“Oh, yes!” Said, “That, that was it!”
And, “No.”
He said, “Now, look, I want to tell you something, brother.”
252 I said, “Did the people in your audience, that church there in Indianapolis where you said you received It, did those people hear you speak in English telling them of the resurrection and the power of God and everything?”
He said, “Why, no! I spoke in–in unknown tongues.”
253 I said, “You never got it according to Acts 2:4, ’cause every...wasn’t one word unknown. ‘We hear every man in our own language.”
254 “Oh,” he said, “Brother Branham, I see where you’re confused.” He said, “You see,” he said, “there is tongues that’s tongues of angels, when you receive the Holy Ghost,” said, “then you speak in tongues and nobody has to interpret that, that’s–that’s the Holy Ghost speaking. See? But then you have a gift of tongues, and that’s to be interpretation.”
255 I said, “Then you’ve got the cart before the horse. On the Day of Pentecost they got the cart before the horse. Before they got the Holy Ghost, unknown tongues, they spoke in tongues that was understood.” See? So really it...
256 There is two different tongues. Tongues of angels, that’s the man in private prayer out yonder somewhere speaking to God, speaking to God in angelic tongues. I could just call you a case right now, but I haven’t got time. You remember when the woman come to the auditorium there, in where Doctor Alexander Dowie’s from, Zion. Remember me down there? And Billy come after me down there to get me to go to the meeting, and I said, “Billy, go on back.” And I... He said, “What you crying about? Somebody been here?”
257 I said, “No, sir. You go on back, tell Brother Baxter to preach tonight.”
258 And I got down on the floor and I said, “Lord, what’s the matter with me?”
259 And all of a sudden I heard Somebody at the door, speaking in other languages. I thought...It was German. I thought, “Well, that fellow’s come up to get him a...” I stopped, you know, praying, I listened at him standing there like this. And I thought, “Well, how will that guy ever understand that?” Cause I knowed the man that run that motel, about five miles out of the city, you know. I had to get out there (so many people around), a small town. I said, “Well, that’s strange. Uh.” And I said, “There...Well, boy, did you ever hear a...what...That guy don’t even get his breath, hardly.” See, I was thinking that, hard as he was speaking! Well, I said, “Well, that, why, it was me!” So I just kept real still, see, didn’t say any...just kept real still. After a while He got through speaking, and, when It did, it felt like I could run through a troop and leap over a wall.
260 And I went out and Billy was going out the gate and I hollered at him, “Wait a minute!”
261 He come back, he had been drinking a soda pop. And he said, “Daddy, what’s the matter?”
262 I said, “Wait just a minute, just a minute, I’m going with you.”
263 I started washing my face real quick. He said, “What’s the matter?” He knows better than to talk to me, going to the meeting. He said, “What’s the matter?”
264 I said, “Nothing, nothing, nothing, not at all. Just go ahead to the meeting.”
265 We went on to the meeting, Brother Baxter was sitting there playing, “Nothing between my soul and the Saviour.” He come in, he said, “Whew! Thought you wasn’t coming!” I said, “Sh.” Went on up and just started preaching.
266 When I got through, about time I got through preaching, well, boy, somebody like to took the back of the building, back there in that big auditorium. Run an extension mike back there, and there was a woman back there just walking up and down that aisle, shouting hard as she could shout.
267 Come to find out, she had TB, and had left Twin Cities, Saint Paul, the ambulance wouldn’t bring her because they was afraid she would burst her lungs. The doctor said, “Anything, her lungs was like honeycombs,” said, “if they ever broke she’d be dead. That’d be all.” And some saints took an old ’38 Chevrolet car, and took the back seat and fixed it up, put her in there and was on the road over. And they hit a little bump or something another down there, and she started hemorrhaging, and she just started spurting the blood right out, and she...it was going through her nose and everything like that. She got weaker and weaker, and finally...She didn’t want to die in the car, she told them to stop and put her on a grass plat.
268 They picked her out. And they was all standing over her, praying, and all of a sudden she said something struck her and up she got. And away she went, shouting down that road, as hard as she could. Here she was at church, just walking up and down those aisle.
269 I said, “Sister, what time was that?” Just exactly the same time the Holy Spirit was speaking through me. What was it? Gifts.
270 What’s that–that old opossum laying up there at the gate to be prayed for? An ignorant animal, not even a soul, don’t know right from wrong; see, hasn’t got a soul, (got a spirit), no soul to it.
271 What was it? The Holy Spirit making intercessions. God sent a gift to the earth, and the Holy Spirit just couldn’t wait any longer so He just come took me over and begin to speak back Himself like that, back Hisself, making intercessions Himself. And as we checked the time, at the very same minute that she...they put her out on a plat like that, they wanted to see...Cause they knowed she was dying, they’d have to say what time she died. It was that very minute that the Holy Spirit fell upon me up there and begin to make intercessions, utterance, words, can’t understand them, see, like that, giving utterance. That’s the Holy Spirit speaking.
272 I didn’t have to know that. See, I didn’t. That was her... maybe her angel. We’re going to get to that in a few minutes, see, that come over there and gave that message, you see.
273 Now–now, that’s–that’s right. There’s two different tongues, one of them’s to be...
274 Is there a question? All right, trying to know what God is saying, you see. Now, I’d–I’d say, Brother Stricker, in that, in regards to that, try to not to think about that, see. Just let the Spirit does the speaking Itself. Don’t try to understand it, see, ’cause just yield yourself farther to the Spirit. See? Cause you’re trying to–to–to say, “Hey, what are you saying?” See? “Hey, you talking to me? Huh?” You see, he’s...see, he’s trying.