THE SEVEN SPIRITS OF GOD Part XI THE SPIRIT OF MIGHT ...

God desires to grant them authority that all things might come under
their dominion.
This matter is even more evident in the New Testament, for it is in
the Person of Jesus Christ, the last Adam, the Son of God, that all God’s
purpose in man is summed up. When Jesus began His ministry as the
Son of God He declared: “Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at
hand” (Mat. 4:17). What the Lord meant was that before this it was the
kingdom of earth, the kingdom of the earth man, the carnal mind, that
held sway; but now it would be the kingdom of heaven, the kingdom of
God, coming upon this earth to reign. Peter witnessed of Jesus’ ministry:
“How God anointed and consecrated Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy
Spirit and with strength and ability and power; how He went about doing
good and curing all that were harassed and oppressed by the power of
the devil, for GOD was with Him” (Acts 10:38, Amplified Bible). Jesus
reigned, even in the days of His flesh. He said: “If I cast out devils by
the Spirit of God, then the KINGDOM (reign) OF GOD is come unto
you” (Mat. 12:28).
Every aspect of the dominion delivered to Adam was demonstrated
in Jesus in His sojourn upon earth. He manifested control over the
animal kingdom, the beasts, the birds, the fish; over the human family,
the rich, the poor, the learned and the unlearned; over the elements of
nature, the sea, the wind and the rain; over the vegetable kingdom, the
trees and plants; and over the spirit realm that was related to man, the
angels, the devils, Satan himself, and the human mind itself.
Furthermore, He “taught as one HAVING AUTHORITY, and not as the
scribes” (Mat. 7:29).
Jesus came as the Pattern Son, as the model manifestation of what
the kingdom is, how the kingdom operates, and how the kingdom shall
subdue all things upon earth. Into just such dominion as this, a company
of God’s sons are destined to rise. Intermittent demonstrations of it are
already being beheld in the lives of some; however, the fullness of the
new dominion is yet to be realized in “due time.” In the Old Testament,
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