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The Powers of the Age to Come

ahweh is at this time preparing His sons to walk in the powers of the coming age. What
Yis experienced in this age is but a “taste.” God has given men tokens of the power and
authority of the coming age.

Hebrews 6:5
And have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come...

This power was observed in Moses whom God appointed to be “as god to Pharaoh.”

Exodus 7:1
Then Yahweh said to Moses, "See, I make you as God to Pharaoh, and your brother
Aaron shall be your prophet.”

Moses had an experience beyond any other man of his age. He was given the privilege
of wielding the powers of the age to come. Moses took the staff in his hand, and with it
wielded the power of God. Moses turned the waters of the Nile into blood. He smote the
earth and the dust became gnats. He raised his staff and frogs came up upon all Egypt. He
struck the land with plagues of locusts and destroying insects. He called out to Yahweh and
great hail with fire and lightning came down upon the land of Egypt. At the word of Moses
darkness fell upon the land, a darkness so deep it could be felt, and no man dared to move
from his place for three days.
At the command of Moses miraculous events transpired until Moses and the God he
served were held in high esteem by all the people. This power continued throughout the
journey in the wilderness. Moses stretched out his staff and the waters of the Red Sea
parted. Moses prayed and the Lord sent quail. He struck the rock in the desert and water
flowed forth.
Why did God choose this man to wield the powers of the age to come? Moses had been
prepared for this task.

Numbers 12:3
Now the man Moses was very humble, more than any man who was on the face of
the earth.

In order for you and I to be entrusted with the powers of the age to come, we too must
be perfected in humility. This humility was not something that Moses was born with. It had
to be fashioned in him. Moses in his youth was not the humble man he would later become.
Stephen speaks of the young Moses in this way:

Acts 7:22-25
And Moses was educated in all the learning of the Egyptians, and he was a man of
power in words and deeds. But when he was approaching the age of forty, it entered
his mind to visit his brethren, the sons of Israel. And when he saw one of them being
treated unjustly, he defended him and took vengeance for the oppressed by striking
down the Egyptian. And he supposed that his brethren understood that God was