Yeah…. so it is one of those prophecies that has multiple (both immediate and future fulfillment), kind of like Isaiah 28 had to do with both the invaders coming in to Israel during Isaiah’s day, and the future fulfillment on the day of Pentecost?
“For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people. To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.”
By the way, years ago, when I told pastor E—, at the Assembly of God church, that Isaiah 28:11-12 was a prophecy of speaking in tongues and the “rest” of the new birth – he told me I was wrong and that that verse was talking about invaders coming into Canaan’s land, whom the people of Israel would not be able to understand, and that after that, the land would have rest.
I told him that I agreed with that part, but it was also a dual fulfillment because Paul quoted the same verse in 1 Cor.14:20-22 and said it had to do with tongues today.
He said, maybe so, but you still don’t need to speak in tongues to be saved. What could I say. :/ That’s how those discussions went.
Gary
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Yes, that prophecy had a double fulfillment, it was so great.
Your former pastor’s response sounds like what that Christian minister said about me on his web site, the man who accused me in the local newspaper of teaching that a person has to live in North Carolina to be saved. On his web site, he ridiculed me for saying that Proverbs 8 was the Son of God speaking through the prophet. I mean, how much more of the Son of God could it be?
Tell you what, if a person rejects the truth about the new birth, there is no telling what they will think, say, or do next.
Whew. God have mercy … on him and on us all. Every one of us are fools without Him.
jdc