How should we regard people who claim to work miracles and to speak “in tongues” today?

The Bible provides a test for such people in Deuteronomy 13:1-3. By this test it does not matter if their miracles are genuine or not, the issue is – do they speak correctly about God or not? If not then, as Deuteronomy 13:3 says, God may have sent them to test you.

Comparing the teachings of such people with Bible it appears that they are false teachers who do not work by the power of God. Sometimes they are deliberate deceivers, though more often they are themselves deceived. They are like the false prophets and magicians who claimed to be able to work miracles in the days of Moses, the Lord Jesus and the apostles.

Medical investigators repeatedly show that the ‘healings’ of most healers are small scale and temporary, if not outright deception. Likewise linguists can show by analysis of tapes that the ‘tongues’ are no language, just repeated gibberish in the native language of the speaker. And if they are real, where are the miracles that the apostles could do with the Holy Spirit gifts such as raising the dead?