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The gift of tongues was a miraculous enabling to speak the gospel message to sinners when their native language was unknown to the soul-winner. It was an intelligible communication to the hearer in his own language.  It was not a mystical utterance of a new revelation from God, or prayer to Him. These tongues and sign gifts ceased upon the death of the apostles.

5. THE DEVIL OR SATAN

Satan is the unholy god of this age and the ruler of all powers of darkness. He is the chief enemy of God and mankind. He is consumed with pride and envy. He rebelled against his created office as anointed cherub to praise and glorify God. He is now an entirely evil and malicious being, powerful but limited and subject to Almighty God's sovereign purposes. He is assisted in his evil works by a multitude of fallen angels called demons. 

Satan seeks to bind unbelievers with deceit and destroy them with sin. He is the author of all false cults, anti-Christian groups, new age and ecumenical unity circles. He seeks to undermine the preaching of the gospel with doubts and attacks on the truth of God's Holy Word. He seeks to destroy and mock God's creations and institutions, especially the family unit and the local church.