Tongues

This blog looks at possible symbolic meaning for New Testament passages dealing with tongues. Then an update on shop work including a reprint of Joseph's robe. Then some back story for a recent Tucker interview that goes into the role of central banking in most headlines. Then some followup to Francis and finally a busy headline review.

Modern Practice

Before diving into what the text says about tongues, I need to review the modern practice of the "gift of tongues" sometimes called "speaking in tongues" and sometimes called a "prayer language." It is a component of the modern Pentecostal movement that is generally dated to around 1904 and located in southwestern Missouri and southeastern Kansas.

It could be easily argued that movement eventually settled in at Tulsa, OK, and now has several anchor ministries there including Rhema and ORU.

It was an offshoot from this midwest movement that took root near Los Angeles starting in 1906. That offshoot became known as the more famous Azusa Street Revival.

Azusa Street Revival

The link here is to the Wikipedia article for that revival. If this is new to you, I would recommend reviewing the history. One particular thread of this history is to remember there was still racial segregation in the USA and this was a mixed race event which caused many people much trouble with the movement.

I once heard a preacher explain the impacts of that revival even now. He had done missions work in South Korea. He explained that this 1906 revival was actually going on world wide. Those media types in Los Angeles were just better promoters. I would later confirm that through many prayer drives. Most cities in the USA have church buildings with corner stones dated from 1905 to about 1915. These were mostly planted because of that revival.

That revival had different names in different places. That preacher's point of observation was that most revival movements die out after some number of years, often forming denominations. The Assemblies of God denomination being the best example with roots back to Azusa.

Only in South Korea did this revival never really die out. This may be in part because the fear of invasion has kept the South Koreans in prayer. Mountain top prayer caves in South Korea have been in operation since the time of Azusa.

In any case, denominations and movements formed after that 1904 event have included some sort of tongues practice. This includes the Assemblies of God, Four Square, Word of Faith and others. Some intentionally have no denominational structure to prevent levers of control over individual churches.

My observation is that young people raised in some of these modern denominations tend to learn how to fake the gift of tongues. This because of social pressure to fit in. While at the same time, tongues does seem to mark general prophetic gifts, especially like words of knowledge and healing.

The question, as it has been for 120+ years, is what does the text say about these practices? Is the text speaking about this modern lived history? Or is the text speaking about something else?

Our Current Interest

This question is spawned by Ryan's current work across the New Testament. Generally speaking, he is restoring most of that text.

Ryan is restoring passages whenever a passage has some sort of literal or symbolic interpretation that matches what we currently know about the exhibits. Sometimes this also means he is restoring passages that deal with the base text and ciphers. So last week's blog on milk and honey is an example of a phrase with a known symbolic meaning, but in particular a way to describe the base text and the expected ciphers to that base text.

Ryan is being forgiving of this, so anything that might be remotely working this way is getting restored. This so that everyone following this project can think about what is going on with these passages.

Ryan's current work is revealing some hard to see but amazing things. Our biggest problem is trying not to use the normal interpretations of passages which we learned from our specific church history. Sometimes, that history is blocking us from seeing what is going on. As these texts get restored, they are going to cause others a similar problem. So I need to work through an example so you can get a feel for the problem.

So for this week, let me start with the passages that have been used ever since Azusa to explain what happened at Azusa. This is a good example where our modern understanding messes with our ability to see what the text might be explaining.

1 Corinthians 12:7+

The link here is into 1 Corinthians 12 which deals with Spiritual Gifts. The passage itself appears to have had some editing, but the core idea that Joshua has given gifts to his people. This idea remains sound.

Before reading this, let me suggest that this passage has both a regular layer 3 or literal interpretation, and also a layer 5 symbolic meaning. We will review it again below once the symbolic framework is introduced.

Here is the complete quote, "But the revelation of the spirit is given to every man as a help to him, for to one is given by the spirit the word of wisdom, to another the word of knowledge by the same spirit, to another belief by the same spirit, to another gifts of healing by the same spirit, to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discernment of spirits, to another different tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. But all of these gifts are worked by 1 and the same spirit, distributed to everyone as he pleases."

Tongues, of course, is 1 of those listed gifts.

A Different Literal Meaning

Ryan keyed me into the likely meaning of tongues in this list. This was a clue I had never heard before. Think about the first use of tongues, Genesis 10:20, where tongues means different national languages.

The gift of tongues may be the ability to translate. 2 forms are given in this list, 1) to translate to another language and 2) from another language. Something like this is needed when doing any sort of evangelism. It is not just a Pentecostal idea.

This is also something needed when managing translations of the text. It is a specialized skill. The planet wide modern world exists mostly because of Christian missionaries who have been translating the Bible into the 8000 or so natural languages spoken around the world.

There is an exhibit to this point in the Museum of the Bible in DC. That room was mostly empty, but I spent time there because it was so fascinating. Much of the world's languages are still not covered by vernacular language translations of the Bible. Literacy is an important foundation for the rest of civilization, literacy was brought by missionaries.

So the first step in this discovery process was to disconnect from a strict Pentecostal view of this passage. But, there was more that was needed to see how the entire passage could be understood symbolically.

Gifts of Prophecy and Tongues

So tongues gets a much longer passage later in the book. The link here is to 1 Corinthians 14. The opening of this chapter begins with vocabulary that would be familiar to anyone with some history attending Pentecostal style churches.

Paul goes on to explain that tongues means the ability to communicate with other people. So the idea that the gift of tongues of chapter 12 means just that is supported by this passage.

But finally, by 1 Corinthians 14:18 Paul finally says that in the assembly, tongues should NOT be used. This is very much UNLIKE the history of Azusa.

This is a subtle but perhaps very important point. The inspired language unlocks additional volumes in ways that translations cannot. So Paul does not want to see assemblies meeting and using vernacular language translations. He wants to see them using what we call the Paleo language. Only in that language can the entire set of exhibits be fully understood.

So far, this is a better literal, layer 3 interpretation. Does it unlock an possible layer 5, symbolic interpretation? Yes.

Symbolic Meaning

Given what I have just described, it may be that both of these chapters are giving spiritual gifts that are themselves keyed into the additional volumes, the ciphered texts.

So the term "spirit" may be pointing at the ciphered texts in some concrete way that escapes us, especially given our Pentecostal history. Let me try and explain.

Only the text in the inspired form creates those additional volumes. The Fig Tree is the center of that work. The spirit, or wind, in the top branches of the Fig Tree, is what creates those volumes. Those volumes then do a bunch of things, as explained by Paul.

So not only does our church history mess up reading the term "tongues," it may also be messing up reading the term "spirit."

Spiritual Gifts

Let me quote again the basic list of spiritual gifts. For each I suggest how these might tie to spirit driven ciphered texts in some important way.

12:7: But the revelation of the spirit is given to every man as a help to him. So the spirit or wind, or "harp in a tree" creates the additional volumes generally, which are given as a help to everyone.

12:8a: for to one is given by the spirit the word of wisdom. So some additional volumes contain wisdom. (Not to one person, but to an example additional volume.)

12:8b to another the word of knowledge by the same spirit. So some additional volumes contain knowledge. (Though in English wisdom and knowledge are mostly synonyms, probably not in Paleo.)

12:9a to another belief by the same spirit. So the additional volumes, and the process that reveals them, is a basis for belief.

12:9b to another gifts of healing by the same spirit. So especially mental healing comes from these volumes. (I will return to this in a future blog.)

12:10a to another the working of miracles. So in some fashion, still unclear, the additional volumes create miracles. Think Naaman being told to dip in the Jordan. A miracle worked through directions to carry out some task.

12:10b to another prophecy. So additional volumes, when using the crown's timeline, predict future events in the world.

12:10c to another discernment of spirits. So to explain the various actors in the world, like Jebusites, and their motives.

12:10d to another different tongues. This is now self referential. So even the history of different peoples is in the additional volumes.

12:10e to another the interpretation of tongues. So the reason for the different histories of different peoples is explained.

Other Passages

Most Christians that are reading this have some sense of what the New Testament generally says. There is some sort of feedback loop between the text, general practice, and our understanding of what it says. So we read it based on the Christian heritage we know. Modern translators are also in this loop, tightening up the text to match modern understanding and practice.

But the editors were covering up a different understanding. There was a different loop that was running at places like Megiddo. Their internal feedback loop was built mostly on the same stories we read today, but using a frame of reference we know almost nothing about. We are only now starting to understand. A good starting point are the exhibits and the stories that go with each.

In the last blog I explained how milk and honey are symbols for the base text and for the additional volumes. Isaiah 7:15 is using butter and honey for the same meaning. The base text and additional volumes are important, and discussed using symbolic language in many places. These stories about tongues in 1 Corinthians appears to be one of those places.

It Gets Stranger

But what would it mean if bread and wine were also symbolic for these same 2 items? Bread for the base text and wine for the additional volumes? Wine saturates bread just like the additional volumes are within the base text.

Suddenly communion would not be about a blood sacrifice, but something else, perhaps something subtly similar to what we know.

Remember, bread and wine are themselves symbolic for Joshua's body and blood. So those too would become symbolic for the same thing. Body is the base text, blood is the life carried within, so the additional volumes.

But the symbolic meanings from these items get strange because they intersect the Acts 15 rules of additions. Sacrifice, as a concept, is an addition. So somewhere we cross a line where Acts 15 says not to go. So most of what we know from our christian history is fine, but some interpretive step is not.

So Ryan's problem is using a Bible study to estimate what text is likely inspired, and what is not. Ananias looks to have pushed the inspired text in some subtle way so as to hide some other, similar, system of meaning.

This is a very hard problem.

We will return to more examples in future blogs.

Shop Work

Software load and calibration was done on v7. v8, which had already been running some parts, was partially recalibrated again. Both of these printers are now running parts. Current parts on those printers are the last few bits for a filament feeder for Voron #7 and LED strips for #8 and #9.

Filament feeder assembly has begun, but is pending a few reprints. Assembly of Voron #9 should begin next week. When #9 is done the shop will have 7 running printers, 3 of them with large format beds.

The rest of the print farm is running a very much updated version of Joseph's robe. For those who may have seen photos on Telegram, it was previously built as a quilt, with colored quilt squares. This next version changes the use of color on the front of the robe.

In this revision the robe is mostly white, in keeping with a white robe as the primary color. The letters themselves are printed in relief in the various vowel colors. Using ancient materials and methods these would have been embroidered with colored thread for letters onto a white woven linen base cloth. Enough parts are already printed to think the effect is going to be rather dramatic.

This eliminates lingering issues with color blind users. This also fixes the cubit size and will reprint the back to match the current design for these wall exhibits. Similar coloring tricks will be applied to other wall exhibits.

As I noted previously in the blog, my main laptop had a serious hardware failure late last year. I have been using a very much older laptop for the past few months, but cannot do 3d design work on that laptop. So, I have also been using the shop computer, which has monitors mounted to an Ikea table sold normally as a tall bar table. Of course there is also a high bar style chair for that table.

I have had back trouble recently and cannot sit at that computer all day. A new laptop was finally ordered this past week. It should get here by the time this blog goes out on Friday. Configuring it will take a few days, but it should make my personal work flow much better in various ways.

Catherine Austin Fitts on Tucker

The link here is to a Youtube video of a recent interview by Tucker Carlson of Catherine Austin Fitts. She was a high level banker being trained for a job like the head of the Federal Reserve bank, or perhaps US Treasurer. She was working for the US government and found strange patterns of mortgage related fraud. Shortening her long story, in the end, "they" went to lawfare against her. This was the same pattern as Alex Jones... And even Trump himself. Lawfare is a favorite tool of bankers because they create money out of nothing. Only through her strong faith did she survive, as she explains to Tucker in the interview.

I recommend this video to anyone who is not generally familiar with her testimony. She is in some sense a modern hero of the faith.

Fitts identifies 2 categories of villains in the world today. Those are 1) Central Bankers, in all forms. This because they took over the natural right of the USA to create its own currency and have now taken over the natural right of the USA to manage its own accounting system. Her other villain is 2) the Defense Industry, especially the main defense contractors who work for the Pentagon. This is the place in the US Government where $21 Trillion went missing last time she counted.

She does not say so, but this is what is more formally called the "donor class" who controls Trump or the "Israel lobby" who controls Congress. Biblically I would say these are the modern heirs of the Jebusite kings from the last 3 chapters of Judges, themselves heirs to Pharaoh. Going farther back, to Babel and then ultimately the Serpent in the garden.

Her detailed, first hand, experience with these villains makes her a very important witness to how the world really works. In this Tucker interview she only touches on the heart of evil embodied in the central bankers.

Beware Comments on Musk

The only caution I would add for this video is that she has not tracked Elon Musk, and loops him in with the other major US defense contractors.

For Musk this is a good example of how bad company corrupts his generally good character. Musk's defense against similar accusations is how he prices rocket launches. Space X is way below his defense contractor competitors because he is not also laundering money as part of his bids. He does not take cost plus contracts.

A Few More Key Points

Fitts also explain that there is a known $21T hole in the US Federal ledger. She has written long reports about this. Somewhere out through the Pentagon, someone siphoned off just about as much money as the entire US debt.

She will explain they seem to have been interested in space colonization. This from long before Musk came along. She does not explain why. Let me do that here.

Creating money out of thin air triggers unbearable inflation unless the number of people in the coverage area of the bank's cartel goes up by a population rate matched to their money creation rate. This is why Nixon was taken to China. The Chinese came under the banker's umbrella, if not politically, at least financially. The Chinese bought bonds instead of taking payment in gold for western purchases of Chinese goods.

Via the same logic, the bankers need to reconquer Russia, both for Russia's natural wealth and to enslave the public of Russia with debt.

But there has always been a physical limit on bankers, that is the size of earth itself. Their game ends once the limits of earth are reached. Unless, of course, space is opened to colonization. Then that last limit on their money creation is finally breached.

No Debt Jubilee

Fitts had working visibility into the inner workings of central banks. This is a very rare testimony. Let me suggest this is the heart of evil on earth because only those banks have access to money without limit. They have never respected the rule of a Debt Jubilee, when all debts were to be canceled every 50 years. (The vaults had to be cleared.) Those bankers are the main source of power for the Israel Lobby as it operates in various forms around the world. They have done this since the days when Jerusalem was known as Jebus.

Bank of International Settlements

But then there is Fitts' testimony about the Bank of International Settlements. She identifies that particular group of central bankers as the top of the pyramid of much of the evil in the world.

Her testimony is how they operate with sovereign immunity, meaning that group of bankers are above all other earthly law. The BIS is located in Basil, Switzerland. I have previously written about it. This is perhaps the most important international organization for the tribe of Levi.

Lost Tribe of Levi

The link here is to the Bible Tribes website, and specifically the section for the Lost Tribe of Levi.

On the left of that page you will find an index to a few other articles, one of them is for the BIS -- The Bank of International Settlements. It is a short article, there wasn't much to say about it 20+ years ago. It pretends to be a clearing house for international funds flows.

So this Zionist organization has an expression in the tribe of Levi. Curious to consider. Perhaps every tribe has an expression? The tithe collecting function of bankers is like that of a high priest. We normally call it interest payment. Pharaoh would call it fractional reserve slavery.

Possible Prophetic Headlines

We are currently watching for the story of Gideon from Judges 7. This involves the Midianites, so likely modern Saudi Arabia. The Saudi foreign minister has been noted as traveling to Iran and Trump is apparently still planning a foreign trip to visit the Saudis later in May. That trip may be the expected headline, but there are certainly many other possible matches.

There are details in that Gideon prophetic story that may be showing up in headlines already. 2 such examples caught my attention this week.

Explosions In Iran

The link here is to a Zero Hedge article summarizing explosions in and around Iran's main sea port. Blasts took place on Saturday, April 26, 2025. This may be part of Netanyahu's planned war against Iran. Like any good false flag, this would be to cause the Iranians to appear to shoot first.

Without giving a specific link, both US President Trump, and Secretary of Defense Hegseth, came out on social media verbally attacking Iran. Planned meetings for working towards an agreement were canceled. Trump's Zionist tendencies have returned. War with Iran is now back to Israel's plan of having the USA do Israel's dirty work.

Fires In Israel

The link here is to an RT post on X dealing with 29 active fires in Israel. These have been going on for several days. This might be natural, but there are no fires active in the Palestinian areas.

The issue with these fires is that Gideon's story involves pitchers and torches. The widespread speculation is that these are arson fires in defense of Gaza against genocide. So these are torched fields, and thus a possible prophetic match. There is an actual torched field prophetic story further up the timeline, so this headline, though interesting, is not the best match.

Criticisms of Francis

Last week's blog dealt with the death of Pope Francis. We are currently waiting to see who replaces him. Some are hoping for an Italian as Francis was the 3rd of 3 Popes not from Italy. We will see here soon who emerges as the next Pope.

The link here is to a transcript of an interview with Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò which was recorded, but never broadcast, that details the long list of problems with Pope Francis. Nothing in this interview was particularly new to anyone who tracked Francis in the first couple years when he took over as Pope starting in 2013.

But when I saw this article I realized we probably have readers here who have not been tracking this history long enough, or who are maybe not old enough, to be generally familiar with Francis. His selection was part of a wide wave of political appointments across the western world where ultimately the modern Jebusites were taking over western politics. The article will fill you in if you think Francis was just a normal pope. As the article explains, not only was Francis not normal, neither were a cohort of related politicians who were selected at about the same time.

Francis' Burial Location

The link here is to a Youtube video by Allan Barton explaining in detail the location where Pope Francis is buried. This video is under 12 minutes long, and is generally interesting if you've never been to Rome. Of particular note is an icon, so a painting, of Mary and Jesus, that is located in a chapel very near Francis' final resting place.

This video caught my attention because it touches on the issue of possible real artifacts from the first century. The video explains the known history of that painting, and how it is very old, having been repainted several times.

The trim on that painting is very similar to some of the patterns on the Megiddo Mosaic floor. That pattern, though, is common to the era, not only to that floor, so only a memory peg and not really evidence of anything.

But, this does suggest another question. Could some real artifacts, like this, have escaped into what is now the Catholic Church? A curious question to ponder.

India Pakistan

India and Pakistan remain at the edge of a nuclear war. India is generally allied with the west, especially the USA and Israel. Pakistan is most importantly aligned with China. The link here is to a Zero Hedge article that discusses the risk of nuclear war between these countries. As this blog goes out, the 2 countries remain at risk of war.

Power Out in Spain/Portugal

April 28, 2025, there was a major power outage in Spain and Portugal. The link here is to a Zero Hedge article with a summary. Only 6 days before, the country had celebrated running only on renewable energy, including solar and wind.

The problem with these energy sources is they do not involve large rotating masses within their generating system. Those masses provide inertia which regulates the electrical frequency of the grid and powers stray events like the sparks when trees hit power lines.

Tesla's grid scale batteries provide synthetic inertia. Looks like Spain needs to give Musk a call. In any case this is an example where modern political religion wins over technical prowess.

Because the prophetic story of Gideon that is currently open involves torches at night, and because Spain just lost their torches at night, this is a curious headline.

Empty Ports?

There has been many rumors of US Ports, especially west coast ports, that they are empty, or nearly empty. The video linked here is on Youtube by Sam Mercogliano. His channel is "What's Going on With Shipping?" This video moderates those rumors some, but also gives some concrete data with expected trouble especially in the middle of this year.

There was a surge inbound to the USA to avoid the tariffs. Also, last year was a particularly busy year. So various current statistics show a situation worse than it really is.

Most transpacific shippers run similarly to city bus routes, with a procession of ships that leave listed ports every few days. Like a city bus route, once all the seats for containers are taken, the remaining containers wait on the dock for the next ship. Of course most of this is scheduled, with reserved seating.

Those shippers are generally reducing their regular sailings, which increases cargo dwell times, but they are not abandoning these routes.

I would add a personal note. As I gear up for the reprint of Joseph's robe I have been seeing Amazon playing pricing games with filament from China. Joseph's robe is mostly white, so I don't need some expensive American made version of white. I do need enough spools of exactly the same white filament to finish the whole job. So 10 to 12 spools of the same white filament. Otherwise I get die lot issues on the front of the final exhibit.

Amazon appears to be raising prices on items in short supply in order to shift buying to other brands. They are offering coupons to discount prices but which also then limit the purchase count to only 1 copy.

They are also actively hiding items in short supply from product search results. For a real example, the heat set inserts that I have been using no longer even appear in my purchase history, a different product, at a wrong size, not the size as I originally purchased, are being substituted in the history. The actual product itself still remains available but can be found only after considerable searching.

In any case, by using pricing, coupons, and search results games, Amazon looks to be stretching out their depleting inventory. This is in part why it was important to get a new laptop ordered now.

Housing Market

60 Markets Crashing

The top link here is to a Youtube video by Real Estate Mindset that deals both with a 23,000 person layoff by Intel as well as generally how this sort of job market churn is impacting the US Housing market. Intel is in many ways a failed company, so they are in the extreme. Political religion took over Intel from their historical core engineering excellence.

The second link here is to another Youtube video, this by Sachs Reality, that gives statistics on how 60 US housing markets are now declining. They expect 100 markets to be in decline here soon. These 2 videos are intended for future reference. We are likely headed into a severe recession and these may be hints as to what is to come.

Thailand Building Collapse

In a previous blog I linked to a video about the collapse of a 30 story building during the recent large quake. The link here is a followup to that story. The building that collapsed was at such a distance from the epicenter, 800 miles, that nothing should have happened. Even buildings very much closer to that quake survived. Those that did fall down at least remained mostly whole. Turns out, that collapsed building likely failed because of faulty Chinese steal, from a factory previously shut down for faulty rebar product.

More Later,

Phil