Hold on, doesn the Bible say that tongues will cease?
Yes, in a passage about how God’s love will endure for ever, Paul the Apostle contrasts this with other matters. He says that God’s love will never cease “but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.” (1 Corinthians 13:8) While God’s love will endure for ever, there are other manifestations that serve a purpose for a particular time. We live in that time spoken of by Jesus as the time when it is better that He go away that the Holy Spirit come (John 16:7). Prophecies have not yet “failed” (ceased), there are many yet to be fulfilled. Complete knowledge is not yet with us: Paul the apostle said we still see through a glass darkly (an indistinct reflection of reality), but then (when Jesus returns), face to face. Neither has tongues yet ceased. Between the time of Jesus coming the first time and the return of Jesus again to this earth to bring about a perfect situation, we are in the period
