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The account which mentions 'tongues of fire' is found at Acts 2:1-4, which describes the first Pentecost after Jesus' death. It says: "When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place.
Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting.
They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them.
All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them."(NIV)
The account says that these SEEMED to be 'fire'
('like as of fire' (KJV)(ASV),
so this was not literal flames above each head, but symbolic visions to SHOW the fulfillment of the prophecy found at Joel 2:28 / Acts 2:17.
Before Jesus was killed, he promised that, when he'd died faithful to God and been raised to heaven by God(Acts 3:15/1 Corinthians 6:14), he'd present the value of his sacrifice to his father (Hebrews 9:24 -having given his earthly life as a ransom sacrifice for our sins (Ephesians 1:7/Matthew 20:28 /Romans 4:25). Then, when his sacrifice had been accepted by God, Jesus would POUR OUT a 'helper' (the holy spirit) to strengthen and support his remaining followers on earth, as Acts 2:14-47 says, in part : "...
exalted to the right hand of God, he has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out what you now see and hear."
To assist in the preaching work, the ability to speak in foreign tongues (languages) was granted his disciples (illustrated by visions of 'tongues 'as if of' fire' ) for a time, so they would have the ability to preach about God's Kingdom to NEW people from MANY areas, who spoke very different languages formerly unreachable. Many of these people were already gathered in Jerusalem to celebrate Pentecost at the temple, but God's spirit was no longer with the Jewish nation or at the Temple. The demonstration of the spirit came to that small group of 120 Christians in the upper room, with the 'sound of strong wind' and this 'gift of tongues'. They could now start to "make disciples of people of ALL the nations..." as commanded(Matthew 28:19+20/Matthew 24:24).
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Looks that way, eh. Why is this in a religious section?
