End-time Tongues
By Prophet Jacob R. Blandford
"But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts. These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit. But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life." (Jude 17-21 AV 1611)
I can prove this is an end-time prophecy about speaking in tongues. For one, Apostle Paul, the Apostle to the Gentiles, in a church age Epistle to Gentile Christians, writes about speaking in tongues in two whole chapters! 1 Corinthians 12 & 14. If you cannot apply those verses to us today, then you can’t apply any of Paul’s Epistles to us. But you can! And you should! Every verse of Paul’s writings from Romans 1:1 to Philemon 25 can be applied to us Laodicean Christians in this current dispensation of the church age of Christ’s gospel of grace. Moreover, right after 1 Cor. 12-14 you have an eschatological Chapter on the resurrection. Well, the resurrection hasn’t happened yet (with the exception of the resurrection of Christ in 33 Anno Domini): so we don’t need to get rid of Chapter 15, 14, 13, 12, or any of First Corinthians.
Now Jude is a little different. It is a “General” Epistle. And the doctrinal application is to those saved during the Tribulation period: (which by the way, will soon begin.) But there is a spiritual application to us too. Now some Baptists say the gifts of the Holy Ghost passed away with the Apostles. Well, Jude is talking about the gift of tongues right here in the context of “the last time”. Well, that’s us buddy! But, some say Jude isn’t talking about tongues, it’s just regular prayer. Nope, it’s about the gift of tongues, and I can prove it. Jude says we should be “praying in the Holy Ghost”. Paul said in 1 Cor. 14:14 when you pray in tongues, you are praying in the Spirit. And Jude says when you pray in tongues, you are “building up yourselves”. Well, that exactly what Paul said in 1 Cor. 14:4 when he said, “He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself”. In the dictionary to ‘edify’ is to ‘build’. That’s why a large ‘building’ is called an ‘edifice’.
Now I can tell just by hearing some prayers Christians pray, not all of them are “praying in the Holy Ghost”. Some are praying through their carnal (unrenewed) minds—not the mind of the Spirit of God. But when you pray in tongues, you are 100% unleashing the power of the mind of the Holy Spirit in your prayers. That’s what Apostle Paul and Apostle Jude were talking about. In Christ’s holy name I pray, Amen & Amen.
Also, in the General Epistle of Jude, just before this apostolic admonition in verses 17-21, Apostle Jude discusses the Second Advent of Christ. (Jude 14-15) So again, if we are in the end-times just before the Lord’s coming, (which we are,) then praying in tongues should be pertinent to us too—because tongues are in the context of this eschatological discourse.