Paul explains that tongues are not a devotional prayer language. He says the opposite of what those that are still demon possessed say. He says in conclusion, "tongues are for unbelievers". Not "tongues are your private prayer".
He calls it a mystery and is not edifying. What is edifying to the speaker is to preach in a tongue the foreigner can understand. When nobody understood, it was useless gibberish.
And finally, he said it was coming to a stop. Most think canon completion.
Your interpretation is so wrong of what is meant by that. Like your red reps you give me saying, "Get saved", I think you need to get off of your high horse and read the "entire" Bible and not take a verse out of context.
The key to understanding Paul's comment about tongues being a sign [of judgment] for unbelievers. Notice that there were other Jews who also heard the foreign languages but did not understand them because they were Jews resident in Jerusalem and not from the diaspora. Their response was entirely different: “Others mocking said, ‘They are full of new wine’ ” (Acts 2:13). This is key: the praises and wonderful works of God were not proclaimed in the Hebrew or Aramaic which would have been expected due to God’s previous focus on Israel and the Jews. Instead, He was using Gentile languages. In short: those skeptical Jews who were native to Jerusalem were being judged because God was not speaking in their language. These Jews thought the disciples were drunk with wine, a misunderstanding which Peter had to explain (Acts 2:15). This is very similar to the OT motive of God judging those who He had spoken to plainly: when they refused to listen, He “spoke to them” through foreigners--whose actions they could not deny as being empowered by God.
He calls it a mystery and is not edifying. What is edifying to the speaker is to preach in a tongue the foreigner can understand. When nobody understood, it was useless gibberish.
And finally, he said it was coming to a stop. Most think canon completion.
Your interpretation is so wrong of what is meant by that. Like your red reps you give me saying, "Get saved", I think you need to get off of your high horse and read the "entire" Bible and not take a verse out of context.
The key to understanding Paul's comment about tongues being a sign [of judgment] for unbelievers. Notice that there were other Jews who also heard the foreign languages but did not understand them because they were Jews resident in Jerusalem and not from the diaspora. Their response was entirely different: “Others mocking said, ‘They are full of new wine’ ” (Acts 2:13). This is key: the praises and wonderful works of God were not proclaimed in the Hebrew or Aramaic which would have been expected due to God’s previous focus on Israel and the Jews. Instead, He was using Gentile languages. In short: those skeptical Jews who were native to Jerusalem were being judged because God was not speaking in their language. These Jews thought the disciples were drunk with wine, a misunderstanding which Peter had to explain (Acts 2:15). This is very similar to the OT motive of God judging those who He had spoken to plainly: when they refused to listen, He “spoke to them” through foreigners--whose actions they could not deny as being empowered by God.
