Interpreting Tongues

Mark 16: 17 And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.

Signs speak direction and confirmation.  When I don’t know they give knowledge. When I think I know, they give affirmation.

The ONLY purpose for signs following believers is to ILLUSTRATE what the gospel is to unbelievers, and CONFIRM the gospel to believers.

Tell THEM what the presence of God is. Confirm to US that the Presence is with us.

Over the last 2000 years Christians have divided into different sects (denominations) and with those separations some of them have forgotten or even denied that some of the signs actually follow believers.  There is only one scripture in the New Testament that alludes that signs will end and it comes from

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