The prophet's handbook

example of prophetic authority transferred and at work. As a matter of fact, whenever Moses was instructed by God about inaugurating anyone, he was told to do so by taking the authority that was upon himself in the form of the spirit, and place it upon the inaugurated one. Here is the spiritual significance behind the laying on of hands in ceremonial promotions and appointments. The goal of the act is the impartation of the spiritual properties of the promoter through the act of delegation. Once completed, the act is seen by heaven to transfer or transmit agency authority on the one touched. That impartation invests a person with the power of the office into which he or she steps. Agency authority extends to setting and enforcing laws and mandating prescribed behaviors. This consists of permitting and prohibiting certain acts perceived by the delegated representative as harmful, detrimental, or nullifying to his or her principal’s best interests. Agency guardianship extends to the agent’s assurance of the institution’s perpetuity. Thus, the agency as the delegated command authority is to sway and influence its realms, territories, and regions to the advantage of the commissioning principal. The Agency Principal An agency is not legitimate without the head person who ordained its existence. That head person supplies the agency’s authority. The name for such a person, we have said, is a principal. A principal is a chief or head who empowers the agent and agency to act and speak on his or her behalf. As a principal, he or she initiates and governs the delegate charged with carrying on business and administrating its vision in its name. This is particularly applicable when more than tasks and assignments are involved in the sending. Usually agency commissions carry with them the connotation of authorizing satellite (replicas) of the principal’s headquarters in the distant location. The principal is first in the line of power in a delegated arrangement. As such, he or she is the ranking authority who inspires, authorizes, and endorses the agency and all that it discharges. Moses’ inauguration of Joshua to succeed him exemplified this type of delegation in action, as did Yahweh’s empowering and dispatch of Moses with a transference of His power delegated like authority to Joshua at the direct command of the Lord, who may be seen as the sending principal of Israel. (See Numbers 27:23.) When the Lord inducts and dispatches His prophets, He does so as a principal and makes the prophets, indeed all His ministers, functionaries representing Him in the world. For a heightened respect of the prophetic and all the ministries of