After Babel, God disinherited the nations of the World to the sons of God;
Deuteronomy 32:8–9 (ESV):
When the Most High [El-yon] gave to the nations their inheritance,
when he divided mankind,
he fixed the borders of the peoples
according to the number of the sons of God [Bene Elohim].
But YHWH’s portion is his people,
Jacob his allotted heritage.
These sons of God rebelled against the Most High due to their treatment of mankind and consequently judged;
Psalm 82:1 (ESV):
God [Elohim] has taken his place in the divine council;
in the midst of the gods [Elohim] he holds judgment
Psalm 82:6–7 (ESV):
I said, “You are gods [Elohim],
sons of the Most High [Bene El-yon], all of you;
nevertheless, like men you shall die,
and fall like any prince.”
This is all part of the second incursion from rebellious sons of God; this time their judgement was that they will now die like men.
So how I hear you ask, how is this related to Pentecost? Well, each nation ruled by these sons of God had a different language. It was part of the aftermath of the Tower of Babel. In fact, YHWH initiated this;
Genesis 11:9 (ESV):
YHWH confused the language of all the earth. And from there YHWH dispersed them over the face of all the earth.
When the Holy Spirit came at Pentecost like fire, the gift of speaking in tongues was given to those present;
Acts 2:2–4 (ESV):
…a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.
After this they each started speaking languages of all the nations, and the crowd of people there were also from those nations!
Acts 2:5–6 (ESV):
Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven. And at this sound the multitude came together, and they were bewildered, because each one was hearing them speak in his own language.
This allowed them to spread the good news of Jesus Christ; that He is now bringing together all the once disinherited nations back into the family of God!
Acts 2:11 (ESV):
…we hear them telling in our own tongues the mighty works of God.
