The Tongue-Speaking Counterfeit Revival Invaded the Arizona Senate Chamber

“Fearful sights of a supernatural character will soon be revealed in the heavens, in token of the power of miracle-working demons” (Great Controversy, p. 624). On April 8, 2024, Arizona Senator Anthony Kern led a tongue-speaking prayer service on the Arizona Senate floor. [1] Speaking in tongues is a phenomenon that is supposed to take place in charismatic churches, not in the legislative chambers of stale governments. This act of speaking in tongues is a religious expression and happens when people who are praying, apparently to God, are in an altered state of consciousness and their normal patterns of thought and behavior are altered. The appropriateness of speaking in tongues inside of government buildings, especially when seeking to influence the outcome of the Arizona Supreme Court as it is conducting official business, is not just inappropriate but can be seen as a breach of the principles regarding the separation of church and state. You know our nation is in trouble when religious parano