Acts 2 was a miracle! If you had 120 people all speaking at the same time different languages, would you BE able to understand them? No! This was a miracle. 1 Co 14 explains tongues. Which is not how you are here.
It says the following...
1. Tongues are unknown to man, but known to God
2. Tongues are languages of men and ANGELS
3. The Spirit of God is praying through us when speaking in tongues
4. Paul spoke in tongues more than anyone else
5. Paul desired everyone to speak in tongues!
6. But even more to prophesy!
7. Paul COMMANDS believers to prophesy! Above ANY other gift. Even the natural ones.
8. Paul COMMANDS that we should not forbid to speak in tongues.
9. Tongues is for unbelievers because they CAN'T understand it! Not because they can.
10. Prophesy is for BELIEVERS! Because they CAN understand it.
11. Tongues should be done in order, but first of all it should be done.
12. Glossolalia does NOT mean known languages it means literally, tongues/languages talking.
I have a video of a polish girl who doesn't know English who speaks in English tongues, but that doesn't mean all tongues are supposed to be known. In fact, Scriptures says they won't be known. (1 Co 14:21In the Law it is written, "BY MEN OF STRANGE TONGUES AND BY THE LIPS OF STRANGERS I WILL SPEAK TO THIS PEOPLE, AND EVEN SO THEY WILL NOT LISTEN TO ME," says the Lord. 22So then tongues are for a sign, not to those who believe but to unbelievers; but prophecy is for a sign, not to unbelievers but to those who believe.) Notice it says STRANGE tongues, not KNOWN tongues.
And people complain that tongues are "strange" they are supposed to be! God confounds the wise!
And in case you still don't think Acts 2 was a miracle itself. Not the complete understanding of tongues, look at verse 1 Co 14:23 which is RIGHT after the Scripture I quoted...
23Therefore if the whole church assembles together and all speak in tongues, and ungifted men or unbelievers enter, will they not say that you are mad?
If Acts 2 was the complete understanding of tongues this Scripture wouldn't make sense. Notice it says "ungifted" or "unbelievers" these people CAN'T understand what you are saying in tongues because YOU ARE SPEAKING TO GOD! Why would they think you were mad if they could understand it? That's not what happened in Acts 2 is it!
So you can clearly see that tongues is an unknown tongue not a known tongue. Let me know if you need more Scriptures or if this explains it clearly enough.
C.
It says the following...
1. Tongues are unknown to man, but known to God
2. Tongues are languages of men and ANGELS
3. The Spirit of God is praying through us when speaking in tongues
4. Paul spoke in tongues more than anyone else
5. Paul desired everyone to speak in tongues!
6. But even more to prophesy!
7. Paul COMMANDS believers to prophesy! Above ANY other gift. Even the natural ones.
8. Paul COMMANDS that we should not forbid to speak in tongues.
9. Tongues is for unbelievers because they CAN'T understand it! Not because they can.
10. Prophesy is for BELIEVERS! Because they CAN understand it.
11. Tongues should be done in order, but first of all it should be done.
12. Glossolalia does NOT mean known languages it means literally, tongues/languages talking.
I have a video of a polish girl who doesn't know English who speaks in English tongues, but that doesn't mean all tongues are supposed to be known. In fact, Scriptures says they won't be known. (1 Co 14:21In the Law it is written, "BY MEN OF STRANGE TONGUES AND BY THE LIPS OF STRANGERS I WILL SPEAK TO THIS PEOPLE, AND EVEN SO THEY WILL NOT LISTEN TO ME," says the Lord. 22So then tongues are for a sign, not to those who believe but to unbelievers; but prophecy is for a sign, not to unbelievers but to those who believe.) Notice it says STRANGE tongues, not KNOWN tongues.
And people complain that tongues are "strange" they are supposed to be! God confounds the wise!
And in case you still don't think Acts 2 was a miracle itself. Not the complete understanding of tongues, look at verse 1 Co 14:23 which is RIGHT after the Scripture I quoted...
23Therefore if the whole church assembles together and all speak in tongues, and ungifted men or unbelievers enter, will they not say that you are mad?
If Acts 2 was the complete understanding of tongues this Scripture wouldn't make sense. Notice it says "ungifted" or "unbelievers" these people CAN'T understand what you are saying in tongues because YOU ARE SPEAKING TO GOD! Why would they think you were mad if they could understand it? That's not what happened in Acts 2 is it!
So you can clearly see that tongues is an unknown tongue not a known tongue. Let me know if you need more Scriptures or if this explains it clearly enough.
C.
How the true cloven tongue came upon the Apostles was a sign for them. The Scripture is not specific that the people present saw it come upon the Apostles.
Acts 2:3-4
3 And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.
4 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
KJV
The speakers there were Christ's Apostles. The "other tongues" was about other languages, which means the cloven (divided, going out in many directions) tongue they spoke was understood by all present that were listening, even in their own dialects of their language of birth.
I sincerely suggest you go back into God's Word and study the matter as it is actually written, and taking it back to the manuscript level also.
In Act 2, there is no such phrase as "unknown tongue" written there. Only the words for languages is there, even the word for dialect, which means the slang one speaks from a certain region of a language (like English compared between America and Britain).
Acts 2:8-11
8 And how hear we every man in our own tongue (dialektos), wherein we were born?
9 Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia,
10 Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes,
11 Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.
KJV
In 1 Cor.14, the phrase "unknown tongue" is a mistranslation by the KJV translators. The word "unknown" is NOT in the manuscripts. They added the word "unknown". What is there, is the same Greek meaning as per the Acts 2 example, glossa, which is about known languages of the world that people speak.
I'm surprised that very little has been said about the one tongue that all nations once spoke prior to the tower of Babel event. That is what The Holy Spirit was manifesting on that day. Per Zech.3:9, God revealed He will return to all peoples this one language that all used to speak, so that we all may call upon Him to serve Him with one consent.
Therefore, if for example a preacher that speaks only English goes to a foreign nation, to a congregation that does not speak or understand English, and that one preaches The Gospel, and if those foreign peoples understand in their own languages, even the dialects of their languages, then THAT... is an example of the cloven tongue that the Apostles spoke on Pentecost. I have had witnesses of this very thing happening with missionaries in nations outside the West. So like Apostle Paul said, the cloven tongue is a sign for the UNBELIEVER, not the believer (1 Cor.14:22).
Acts 2:3-4
3 And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.
4 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
KJV
The speakers there were Christ's Apostles. The "other tongues" was about other languages, which means the cloven (divided, going out in many directions) tongue they spoke was understood by all present that were listening, even in their own dialects of their language of birth.
I sincerely suggest you go back into God's Word and study the matter as it is actually written, and taking it back to the manuscript level also.
In Act 2, there is no such phrase as "unknown tongue" written there. Only the words for languages is there, even the word for dialect, which means the slang one speaks from a certain region of a language (like English compared between America and Britain).
Acts 2:8-11
8 And how hear we every man in our own tongue (dialektos), wherein we were born?
9 Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia,
10 Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes,
11 Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.
KJV
In 1 Cor.14, the phrase "unknown tongue" is a mistranslation by the KJV translators. The word "unknown" is NOT in the manuscripts. They added the word "unknown". What is there, is the same Greek meaning as per the Acts 2 example, glossa, which is about known languages of the world that people speak.
I'm surprised that very little has been said about the one tongue that all nations once spoke prior to the tower of Babel event. That is what The Holy Spirit was manifesting on that day. Per Zech.3:9, God revealed He will return to all peoples this one language that all used to speak, so that we all may call upon Him to serve Him with one consent.
Therefore, if for example a preacher that speaks only English goes to a foreign nation, to a congregation that does not speak or understand English, and that one preaches The Gospel, and if those foreign peoples understand in their own languages, even the dialects of their languages, then THAT... is an example of the cloven tongue that the Apostles spoke on Pentecost. I have had witnesses of this very thing happening with missionaries in nations outside the West. So like Apostle Paul said, the cloven tongue is a sign for the UNBELIEVER, not the believer (1 Cor.14:22).