Speaking In Tongues According to The Protestant Faith the Biblical Typology

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I found this very interesting and want to share to see what everyone thinks. In the New Testament the meaning of the Old testament becomes clear. The method used to connect the two "Testaments" is commonly called "typology". It has been defined as the establishment of historical connexions between certain events, persons or things in the Old testament and similar evants, persons or things in the New Testament. I.E. Jesus wondering in the Desert for 40 days with Israel in the Desert for 40 years. The Story of the Tower of Babel may serve as an illustration (Genesis 11:1-9). The Parallel to this story in the New Testament is the Story of Pentecost (Acts 2:1-13). For the Protestant Faith, these two stories compliment and Interpret each other and Jesus is the center for both. The Story of the Tower of Babel tells how man's disobedience and alienation from God ended in the disruption of human society and the inability of Men to understand each other. It told that if man is seperated from God, in revolt against God, he is also seperated from his neighbor and at odds with his neighbor. Peace and understanding among men depends upon thier relationship to God. But while the Old Testament tells this story negativly, describing the misunderstanding and disruption cause by disobedience and revolt against God, the New Testament tells the other side of the same problem. In the story of Pentecost we learn that people who came from different nationalities, people whose language differed so that they could not understand each other, came to understand each other through the power of the Holy Spirit. Once they were unitied with God, the disruption of the Tower of Babel was reversed. Language no longer seperated the crowd that was present at Pentecost. They could all understand the Apostle's preaching. They each felt themselves addressed in their own tongues, in their own languages. If this is true and it seems to this has revelance to the Phenomonon of Speaking in tongues. there are 2 types of speaking in tongues classified as: Xenoglossy, which is defined as Speaking in a natural language that was previously unknown to the speaker. Glossolalia, which is defined as speaking speach like syllables, often as part of a religious Practice. it is a material Phenomenon which has Physical and Psychological patterns that can be described. but not of a known living or dead language previously identified. and which if any or both is Biblically supported. and which of these is commonly practiced in modern churches.