“At a later time, moreover, Jeremiah thundered forth the message that God was about to impose His covenant curse on Israel even more forcefully…. ‘Behold, I am bringing upon you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, says the Lord. It is an enduring nation; it is an ancient nation; a nation whose language you do not know. Nor can you understand what they say.’ Jer. 5:15….
“When the time came for God’s final rejection of Israel as a nation — due to her rejection of His last Word, in the person of His own Son — we should be very surprised if Israel had not been forced to listen to God addressing her in alien tongues once again! The speaking in unlearned tongues during the apostolic age was, then, a signal of God’s alienation from the Jewish nation and its replacement by the Gentiles.
