X2M.131 Power Anointer of God’s Temple △
Power in PH11 is not brute force but Spirit-force. Pattern (130) sketched the menorah’s architecture; Power is the oil that burns, the current that flows, the anointing that makes the temple shine. Zechariah sees it clearly: “Not by strength and not by power, but by my Spirit” (Zech 4:6, NET)¹ — the paradox where true power is revealed in Spirit, not in human might.
The menorah vision shows supply without strain: two olive trees pouring oil directly into the golden lamps, a self-sustaining system of divine empowerment.² Power here is not extraction but overflow. Hopkins’ line comes alive: *“Christ plays in ten thousand places, lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his.”*³ Power manifests in ordinary faces, in vessels kindled by Spirit-fire.
The Branch prophecies confirm this paradox. The one despised and held in contempt becomes the righteous Sprout who executes justice (Jer 33:15).⁴ Meanness and Majesty, Exile and Exodus, Sorrow and Song⁵ — all meet in the Anointed One. His humiliation becomes the channel for exaltation, His weakness the vessel of Spirit-power.
Deuteronomy’s song (32:9–14) recalls how the Lord sustained Israel with honey from the rock and oil from stone — images of impossible provision, nourishment drawn from barrenness.⁶ So too the Branch: arising from the stump of Jesse, clothed with the Spirit, anointed with oil that flows from hidden reservoirs.
In Trinitarian mystery, this Power is not secondary but generative. The Spirit is the “Power of the Most High” who overshadowed Mary, fathering the incarnate Son (Luke 1:35).⁷ Kline rightly observes that the Spirit’s anointing of Jesus constitutes His messianic sonship — baptism, transfiguration, and cross all framed by Glory-Spirit descent.⁸ In this way, Power is the very economy of triune life breaking into history, where Spirit fathers the Son and the Son pours out the Spirit.
Thus, X2M.131 Power is both menorah and messiah, oil and branch, temple and Christ. It is the runtime of anointing where weakness is converted into flame, where the despised sprout becomes the radiant Branch, where the courts of God are lit not by human design but by Spirit-sustained fire.
And this runtime overlays with TR15 Occiduous: pruning releases power. Just as a tree sheds leaves to channel life into fruit, so the Spirit pares away strength and wisdom of man to reveal the luminous energy of God.
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Footnotes
¹ Zechariah 4:6 (NET).
² Zechariah 4:1–3, on olive trees and lampstands.
³ Gerard Manley Hopkins, As Kingfishers Catch Fire.
⁴ Jeremiah 33:15; cf. Isa 11:1; Zech 3:8; 6:12.
⁵ G. Campbell Morgan, summary of Branch prophecies.
⁶ Deuteronomy 32:9–14 (NET).
⁷ Luke 1:35, on the Spirit as “Power of the Most High.”
⁸ Meredith G. Kline, God, Heaven and Har Magedon (Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2006), 14–15.
