Wikipedia summarizes Pentecost: “Pentecost is a Christian holiday which takes place on the 49th day after Easter. It commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles of Jesus, Mary, and other followers of the Christ, while they were in Jerusalem celebrating the Feast of Weeks, as described in the Acts of the Apostles.” Google summarizes further: “In the New Testament, specifically in the Book of Acts, Pentecost marks the day when the Holy Spirit descended upon the early followers of Jesus, empowering them to preach the gospel to people from various nations and languages. This event is considered the birth of the Christian Church. … In Acts chapter 2, the Holy Spirit is dramatically poured out on the gathered disciples in Jerusalem, marked by the sound of a rushing wind and tongues of fire resting on each of them. The disciples began speaking in other languages, enabling them to communicate the gospel to people from diverse backgrounds. … The Holy Spirit’s arrival equips the disciples for the mission Jesus had given them: to be his witnesses to the ends of the earth.” We learned in an earlier GetWisdom LIVE on the Mysteries of the Crucifixion that perhaps the biggest reason for Christ to provoke and then endure his tribulation was to establish a narrative so compelling that it would go viral and spread rapidly by word of mouth in a time and era where communication was primitive at best. To ensure that it even had a chance, it appears it was deemed necessary to go above and beyond and equip a number of Christ’s followers with the “gift of tongues” in order that listeners could hear their sermons in their native language. Can Creator comment on why this incredible level of divine intervention was actually necessary, given the communication limitations of the time, and how it all fits within the Divine Rules of Engagement?

The account of the Scriptures is an accurate overview of the further transformation of the disciples to be better equipped for continuing the ministry of Jesus Christ in preaching divine truth to others. As you describe, in those days, this was without modern means of translation of speech from one language to another, let alone a system of education of the citizenry to become multilingual or at least better equipped to pursue learning another language if it is advantageous. The deeper story and significance here is that the account in the Bible of the Tower of Babel bringing about a multitude of tongues, making it difficult or impossible for people to communicate with one another, was a quite purposeful intrusion by interlopers into your world. It was part of the strategy of divide and conquer enabling division of humanity into manageable groups of more limited numbers and, by controlling how they communicate, provide a barrier to understanding, and this serves to keep such groups isolated from one another. There is quite extensive mind control manipulation to program people in ways to discourage their interaction, curiosity, and interest, as well as even willingness to have some kind of involvement or interchange because seeds of doubt and mistrust are sown. This makes people very on their guard with strangers, especially those who are visibly foreign, because they are speaking another tongue. That serves the interlopers, not the human beings themselves because people, for the most part, are similar in being divine creations and members of the human family despite differing appearances, accoutrements, and regional customs introducing variability. So the biblical description of speaking in tongues by the disciples was the imparting of an ability to translate the thoughts into a foreign language that would be understandable to foreigners. So it was a special gift, for a special reason, in order to capitalize on the movement initiated by Jesus Christ and his life mission to create a group of followers who would spread his teachings after he was gone. The fact people of faith to this day engage in speaking of tongues, when devoid of personal knowledge or training in a foreign language, shows this is a capability of the divine to impart when it is appropriate and a person is ready to exhibit a kind of miracle. The fact that rules of engagement prevent any human from being truly beyond question in their divinity means this will be more of a random occurrence and not something that could be demonstrated on a stage, on command, again and again and again to a large audience. That is why there are preachers who will speak in tongues in a kind of gibberish of their mind's own devising, but that is their own creation, in response to their inner faith and desires, and not our divine gifting.