Thirsting Souls Bible Teaching

(1Co 13:8) “Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.”  After the rejection of Christ resulting in His crucifixion and resurrection, the Lord gave the Jewish nation a period of grace to repent: (1Co_14:21) “In the law it is written [OT Scripture], With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord. (22)  Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not:”  It was not something meant to be used during a church meeting, but to speak to a lost Jew in whatever language was common to him. It is safe to say that period of grace ceased at the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD.