Opening the Gates of Heaven Perry Stone

language understood the message. Therefore there was no need for an interpretation, because each hearer recognized the language. The manifestations of “different kinds of tongues” (1 Cor. 12:10) indicate different types of prayer languages— many are human languages that are unlearned by the speaker but inspired by the Holy Spirit. There are numerous faith-building stories where a believer prayed for a person from another nation and spoke in the language of the foreign person. To the Spirit-baptized believer, the language is an “unknown tongue,” but the person hearing the speaker understands the language and can translate word for word what was being said. One of the most dramatic personal illustrations of this occurred in Israel. I was studying the prophetic implications of Islam in the last days and asked my Arab friend Esam to find a knowledgeable Muslim I cold interview concerning Islamic predictions for the last days. He found a man who asked me to meet him at an Arab hotel on the Mount of Olives. After arriving, three Arab men were in a small lobby, and Esam served as my interpreter. After an hour, the call for prayer from the mosque was heard coming from the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. My interpreter said, “They said they must go pray.” I replied, “I am going to pray too.” He said, “You can’t go with them because you are not a Muslim.”