Daily Bread

Acts 2: 26 - "Therefore, did my heart rejoice and my tongue rejoiced greatly; moreover also my flesh shall rest in expectation".

In the Hebrew Text of the Old Testament the word used for "tongue" is 'kavod' which means "glory." Yet in the Septuagint 'kavod' is translated by the word 'glossa' which means "tongue." Peter's declaration leads us to believe that the usage of tongue for glory purposefully brings to the front the utterance of the Spirit that was poured out through the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. Certainly the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and fire is the manifestation of the glory of God and, therefore, the divine utterances are a manifestation of the glory of God. If fact, the manifestation of tongues is a proclamation of the glory and true riches of God that we have received from Him. This may also reveal that those who translated the Septuagint understood that divine utterance is the result of the glory of God being poured out upon both the Messiah and His people.

Blessings,
Pastor Mark Spitsbergen
www.abidingplace.org