The Holy Spirit says things and causes things to be said but shows these things are from Him to the doubtful by the sign of causing one person to say it in a mysterious language they do not know then causing another who does not know the language to understand it anyway. Words He gives this way include words like these (given in a church in Kingswood near Bristol, UK in the mid nineties):
"Consider the trees how they bud and put out leaves. They do this by the authority and power of the name of The Lord Jesus."
Now compare this to words from thousands of years ago by a great prophet and it is clear that this same Holy Spirit was inspiring the prophet (purporting to be written by the prophet 'Enoch' also known as Enmendurana, seventh king of Sumer, around 2500 BC):
"Consider how the trees, when they put forth their green leaves, become covered, and produce fruit; understanding everything, and knowing that He who lives for ever does all these things for you: That the works at the beginning of every existing year, that all his works, are subservient to him, and invariable; yet as God has appointed, so are all things brought to pass."
"Consider the trees how they bud and put out leaves. They do this by the authority and power of the name of The Lord Jesus."
Now compare this to words from thousands of years ago by a great prophet and it is clear that this same Holy Spirit was inspiring the prophet (purporting to be written by the prophet 'Enoch' also known as Enmendurana, seventh king of Sumer, around 2500 BC):
"Consider how the trees, when they put forth their green leaves, become covered, and produce fruit; understanding everything, and knowing that He who lives for ever does all these things for you: That the works at the beginning of every existing year, that all his works, are subservient to him, and invariable; yet as God has appointed, so are all things brought to pass."
The way I came to know this was quite extraordinary because I sat in the church in the nineties and heard those words in tongues spoken by a leader there I had never met before and the words were interpreted and spoken in English by him minutes later but the words in tongues had alteady become English words by the Spirit within my mind as I heard them. This was before I ever saw the words in the prophesy of Enoch so when I saw such similar words in a copy in a bookshop (SPCK in Park Street, Bristol, UK in the mid nineties) I knew they were from the same spirit as inspired them in the church assembly.
